In Corps Orders to-day a reminder is given that -application for the Long Service Medal by members of the S. V. C. should be made to Headquarters prior to December 31, and as this so closely follows upon one of the outstanding annual events of the Corps—the presentation of prizes won at the annual rifle meeting—it will not be out of place to make a short con... ment on its value. It takes 12 years' efficiency for a volunteer to become entitled to the medial, and no doubt when a man just out from Home joins up and thinks of 12 years! parades, the possibility of! the marketing of a commodity such' as wheat that it is impossible t2) imagine anybody in the boot and crockery: to take! 'a hand in it, but when all is said and done we are not so very far off that sort of thing ourselves in these days, We fancy that some of Mr. Robert: Service's saloon-keepers fon the Alaska trail proved themselves extraordinarily efficient bankers so far as the gold seekers were Jconcerned, and, accordingly, in less complicated times an importer of doors and shoes might well venture into the wheat business without, undue apprehension as to the result. Probably the world actually owes a debt of gratitude to Messrs. Higgins & Young of Winnipeg for their first deal in the cereal, for today the total export is in the neighbourhood of four hundred Wir the exception of Offices in the Western Section of the Province, the acceptance by the Chinese Pos! Office of heavy mail and parcels for the Hunan District is resumed.
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