Once again a Canadian has won the prize for the best exhibit of wheat at the Chicago International Hay and Grain Show; Herman Trelle was named "wheat king" of the North American continent for the fourth time, and others from this country gained the awards for the finest oats and flax at the show.
Herman Trelle secured first place this "year with hard red" spring wheat, of the variety known ax Tee ward; he had won twice before with similar variety, while last. year his "Winning exhibit. was of "the Darum variety, A man of rather poor physique, Trelle -homesteaded Some Years back in the new northern wheat belt known as the Peace River country. There, with the able as-Sistance of his wife, he has eultivat-{ed 500 acres of a" 1,000-acre plot, fud has devoted: much time and Study to the growth of wheat, and to the improvement of the varieties best suited tothe short, ripening Of the fertile northern belt:
measure of success that has attended his efforts has had the effect of booming, the Peace iver Country, and the Row of settlers to {this region has been steadily growing.
"Six young, scientists, members of the British Tolar Year Expedition, fate now established at Fort Rae on Great Slave: Lake, where they. will taking. regular observations on meteorological conditions as. the British contebution to. the second Polar Year. The last word has come out from the party in the form of Min J. Bt, Stage," May is.c. leader of the expedi¢on, and Row the curtain of snow and fee is drawn until next spring.
Mr. Stage describes how the party reached Great Slave Lake. in mid Fume, to find that the fee had. gon fut unusually: eaely. One of the Blscor they noticed on ther Way to ore Rac was the Old. Fort where Captain Dawson and his. patty. of four Royal" Engineers "had their camp in 1882-83 for the First Pol Year expedition. "To. this Tndlans of the Island."
As the party are working strictly ling with the recommendations of the international polar year commission all the meteorological and a sociated work is done according zonal mean time, eight hours behind (Greenwich. On the other hand, the magnetic and auroral work is carried jon strictly according to Greenwich fine. The actual domestic time of the settlement is Canadian mountain time, seven hours behind Greenwich. During' the period. in which long daylight made day and night almost alike, the use. of the three times was Somewhat confusing.
Food conditions are rather di ficult in the Fort Rae territory. The members of the party had been warned "of this, "and took large quantities of tinned provisions. Offcially they are not permitted to buy from the Indians, but by inter charg. of edible animals.
the time that_the message was sent out in late September, the ty. were preparing to, face' th jong, cold winter season, The spit imvhieh, chy looked forward. was tone' of pleasant. anticipation, "The autumn session of Parliament has now been concluded at. Ottaw Jand,'the members have dispersed early Feb The only major piece of legislation that was passed during the recent session was the bill concerning the treaties arising out of the Imperial Conference, These involved a great amount discussion, which a¢ times strayed rather fa from the matter at hand, the end they "were. with no. substantial alteration.
The Premier, Mr. Bepnett, plans 0 leave shortly" for England, [details of his mission are somewhat obscure, although it is generally be-that, he will discuss with parliamentarians and industrialists problems of trade. One that is now pressing is the question of Britain's lumber imports for some weeks a delegation from British Columbia has been in England seeking to secure & market for large shipments of lumber from the Pacific Coast, and the members have just started home as a result of the The new Fort Rae is one of the coniplate breakdown of negotiations. largest Indian settlement in northern Tt is understood that. the.
Ganaa. "It is a meeting place for importers intend to order. from the British all the Indians' hunting' along. the Baltic states and possibly from Rortheast shores of the Slave and Russia, and Mr. Bennett hopes to 'Marian Lakes; during the short sumable to effect a change in these mer season as many as '800 came plans where the Cans into the settlement with the results men failed, of their winter's hunting' and trapping: Acconpinc to the Cent The British party had their instru.
Agency, the total ments and food in some 600 cases, Government the cost of transporting which Port Tae" was lconaderabe, They Year was a little over $600,000,000, found the early days in the nor!
While expenditures were as follows? full of bustle and preparation, as payment of both foreign and domestic debts, $280,000,000; _ad-they set up their instruments in th amidst of curious Indian. onlooker minist expenses, $100,000,000 and military expenses, $180,000,000, and atthe mercy of thirsty mos-Sbiained fom the omelale of the Excellent ce-operation was Hudson's "Bay Company" and the the Netherlands' " Consul-General Wim reference to a vist paid Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who last Thursday on the City Govern-were able to provide the visitors ment of Greater Shanghai in con-with living quarters. But disused nection with the arrest of two shacks had {0 be reconditioned for Netherlands subjects of Chinese housing the valuable instruments, origin who had been, arrested as One, t0 house the photogra ly Communists, it is to be pointed out Fecording magnetic instruments, was that the arrested youths were not made non-magnetic, light-proof, and naturalised Netherlands subjects hheat-insulated by building' a double-but they have always been. such. walled chamber with wood-woo! from 'They were born. in Netherlands the packing. eases in the interspace, India and have' complied with and tien fitting t with a double door all "the raments" of the and pling ture and mush laws ing upon" them the nationality of their country of fand transplanted: from one end of birth and have never gone through the settlement tothe other format. any process of naturalization. As the pilot and meteorograph Salloons: facturing hydrogen a, and. fling result of the representations made by the Netherlands Consul-General, was made to house th the youths have been released. engine generator and storage battery for the continuous lighting of the mysterious telephone call photographic instruments. Then a Special completely non-magnetic hut received by the French Police some Gays ago is linked by the "Shunpao for the the absolute magnetic obserations sas built "a substan og HUM the Kidnapping of Ate. ""Eah chant, in the International Settlement Ghing-pao, a wealthy Ningpo mex-hut vas found that could be altera slightly for use as a main meteororeecnily.. Te will be. recalled that, Jogical observatory and office, fon December 10, the. French Police By the first of July many of the eecived the mysterious call and meteorological " instruments "were istinetly heard a cty for help erected and observations begun." By followed by two pistol shots, The the first of August, when the Polar "Shunpao™ now says. that, follow-Near officially ogam, every, instru kidnapping, the Loh family ment was functioning: correctly, and "da number of letters demand the completed routine of observaing a huge sum as ransom, the tions every three hours throughout ast "letter. received " mentioning the day was instituted. The In $100,000. Following the' telephone have Teen amused spectators of all call referred to. no more. letters the activities. The balloons that are were received and the Loh family sent up daily specially interest them. are of the belief that Mfr. Loh must 'They felt quite sure that. the long ae sent the message for help from rainless period in August had some the Kidnappers' ayr, during his connection with the purpose and fate captors' abeenee, but, before he of the balloons. in the high ate could explain his predicament, the mosphere, and were rather inclined fatter Teturned and discovered him fo attribute to the visitors super at the "phone, whereupon they shot him.
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