Even before the election in Quebec, there will be a provincial election in Manitoba, The date for this has been set as July 27, and the election has been called for by the Liberal chieftain, Premier Bracken, who advised the Lieutenant-Governor to Gissolve Parliament, This was despite the fact that, in the normal, course of events, the Parliament might have carried on for another twelve months.
the Opposition has neither numerical nor strategic strength in the House, it must be assumed that the Premier chose the present time as being propitious for going to the country.
In effect, it may not prove to be 50, for there has only recently been' a change in the leadership of the provincial Conservative party, the new choice being Mr. E, F.' Willis, a vigorous young Emer Who hag had several years of political and Public experience in the Dominion House, Indeed, he may be said to have had some familiarity with public affairs from boyhood days, as his late father was the leader of the provincial Conservative party, The appointment of Mr, Willis is another indication of the tendency to choose young men political leaders, Premier Hepburn of Ontario is a young man just turned forty, while Premier Godbout of Quebec isthe youngest provincial Prime Minister in the Dominion, The battle for power will not, however, be between the Liberals and Conservatives alone, As in the elec tions held in the other Western provinees there will be strong efforts by the newer parties to gain control, The Social Credit group is reported to be feady to place a candidate in every riding, although the history of the party in Alberta will not particularly inspiring to them, Th Independent Labour group, which 1s linked up with the C.F. is also going to make a bid for power, but will Probably have more chance in the cities, No Outstanding issues Actually there are no outstanding Jasues in Manitoba to-day, and the best case that the new Conservative leader make ts for belter and cheaper Government, One cading 'Winnipeg newspapers says, "There Is Scope for criticism of the Bracken administration on this general score, og in fact there always is in the case of any government, There is scope also, perhaps, for' the exercise of greater quailles of imagination in leadership than the Government hes. shown, It will be the task of the new Conservative leader to surround himself with capable men, in whom, the people will have, confidence if they desire a change of Government, and also to demonstrate such qualities of insight and progressiveness os will, tive the party something to build on In its effort to gain public approval."
Tremendous Locomotive Thousands of spectators have examined the frst of a new series of Canadian Monireal and Toronto recently, Tt was designed and built on the principle of streamlining which Is believes by C.NR engineers to be most effective under Canadian conditions. Further than that, it is said to be the largest steam locomotive in' the Number 6400 is really Canada's first streamlined locomotive, although the tendency in recent construction has been in that direction, 'The new engine fs of tremendous size—04 ft, '7% in, in overall length—and weighs 532 tons, Her tender will carry 20 tons of coal, and 11,700 gallons of water, and she is equipped wth the latest' type of automatic stoker for firing. The disfiguring smokestack has Been eliminated, and the smoke carried back through a wide shallow tube to escape behind the cab. There is thus no interference for the view of the engineer and froma High speeds are reported within the capacity of the 6400 type, of which several will shortly be completed. 'They will be used on the important route of the International Limited, crack train of the CUR, between Montreal, Toronto and Sarnia, They should be able to pull Jong' trains, which is another advantage on this busy line, At present the train often uns in two sections, Int, Waddington Chin!
Further plans for the attack to bbe made this summer on Mount Wadington, British Columbia's dangerous and difficult giant, recently were announced, The "British Columbia Mountaineering Club, which is in charge of the expedition, has had an experienced committee working on the selection of the personnel for over {wo months, and the result of their work has just been made public. Four Canadians, three of them from British Columbia and one from Alberta, will join forces with three representatives of.the American Sierra Club to make up the party of seven that will seek to make the first complete ascent of 13,260-ft, Mount Waddington, Dobson, of Vancouver, is the leader of the expedition, He feels very keenly that the success of the party will depend almost equally on two important factors—pertect har-many and ce-ordination between the British Columbia and American members of the group and favourable weather conditions, To date the weather has been too unsettled to permit of sotting the date for starting out, but it is expected that an advance party will leave Vancouver soon with supplies to set up a base camp and one or more higher camps. Probably the climbers will follow about the middle of July, to commence at once the job of conquering the heights of treacherous rock and that stand between them and the summit, Da. J. H. Hutton, India's leading anthropologist, has left India on long eave preparatory to retirement. He expected to succeed Dr. Marrett as Professor of Anthropology at Oxford University. Dr, Hutton carried out the Indian Census of 1091,—the frst. to contain an accurate census of the aboriginal population, Tue Fourth Earl of Yarborough died on July 12, after a long mess. He had succeeded to the title in 1675 on the death of his father, A Knight of the Garter, Lord Yarborough was one of the great landed proprietors of the peerage. He Is succeeded by his second son (hie eldest was killed in the Great War) who, as Lord Conyers, the successor to his late mother's barony of Conyers, has already sat with his father in the House of Lords. It is understood that the term *Yarborough" in bridge ook its origin in 1990 from. the circumstance that the late Earl was declared to have laid 1000. to. 1 against a hand containing no card higher than a nine,
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