during which any changes in the After considerable period were in the direction of ing the comfort of long distance travel, the Canadian railways have again turned to speed as 'a factor in regaining the business ost to the privately owned suto-autobus. the International Limited on its run from Montreal to Toronto, <The new time of six hours for the 933
Ca, the Royal Bank of Canada and the Ontario Government. It is to be hoped that some action will be taken by these influential bodies.
Election talk is again to be heard in the Province of Quebec. Premier} Taschereau has announced that will make a tour of many of the Jeounties during the next month, and this is taken to be a sure sign that he will appeal to the people' shortly.
'Mr. Taschereau is an old camier, and he has been watching' the signs of the times with no little anxiety. He has led the Liberals many a provincial victory, and he would Like to lead them to at least one more; but the fact that the traditions' of many years were! rudely shattered last July, when Mr, Bennett won 25 seats from the Quebec bloc' of 58 Liberals in the Dominion election, is bound to give him some uneasiness. Then, too) the provincial Conservatives' have their leader Camillien Hondo, the versatile mayor of Montreal, and his! popularity throughout the province may win enough seats to overturn Mr. Taschereau.
The one thing that remains la the Premier's favour is the fact that! the times are admittedly hard, and as they have not improved since the miles meant maintaining peed] Conservatives took fic at Ottawa last fall, it will be the Conservatives; of over 70 miles an hour between!
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Now the Canadian Pacific Railway has answered the challenge by ay, has addition to the widely known Trans-Ganada Limited, which runs every summer from. "Mfontreat to Var couver in considerably less time' than the all year Imperial Limited. The new schedule calls for a six and quarter run between Montreal and Toronto instead of one of eight hours, the cutting of half an hour off the three hour run from Montreal to Ottawa and 15 minutes off the Journey from Montreal to Quebec.
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