Mr. G& CE. Usher, formerly passenger trafic manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been promoted to the new office of general passenger traffic manager, covering both railway and steamships and has been succeeded by Mr. C. B. Foster as passenger trafic manager of the railway lines. Both.men are Canadian born like Mr. E. W. Beatiy, the president of the company, and both started at the bottom of the ladder in Canadian Pacific service, rising through merit to their present high positions, Mr. Usher began as a clerk and Mr. Foster as a stenographer. Mr. Allan Cameron, who has just been appointed Oriental manager of the Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ld., is also a Canadian and started his career with the company as a clerk in the freight department in Winnipeg in 1887. For the past ten years he has been superinvendent of the lands branch of the jand and colonization department of the Canadian Pacific. He will stationed at Iongkong. chant in Wusih, Hsieh Ngan-min and his eldest son, Hsieh Hsiuhchin. The company is capitalized $1,500,000. The raw materials for cement-making—limestone and clay—are obtained very near the factory ground and the daily output of the works is 2,000 barrels per day:
At present the price of cement. is rather high, about Tls. 4 to Tls. 8 per darrd, but it will probably depreciate when the market is flooded with the products of these new works, At the same time the cheapness of cement should stimulate its consumption.
Tuar matches with red heads have been responsible for a number of suicides for some time past was announced at the meeting of the Amalgamated Association of Cigarette Shop Unions on Monday. Those present resolved to stop selling red-headed matches and ask manufacturers to cease production of them.
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