CANADA.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 100, 28 April 1888, Page 5

CANADA.

The number of vessels registered in Canada on March 14 is 778, or less than auy year 1875.

The British Columbia members arc urging the Ottawa Parliament to obtain a speedy settlement of the Bearing Sea dispute, as public indignation in Victoria had reached a white heat, and bloodshed is feared.

The question of the entry of Newfoundland into tho Dominion is under discussion by the Imperial authorities. Among the Newfoundlanders opinion is divided. The Admiralty has decided to commission and impair ships at She western end of the Pacific line of R.P.., on a great scale, and a naval reserve for emergencies will be located on the Pacific.

A cannibalistic woman had been discovered in the Peace River country, Winnipeg, who had killed and eaten twelve persons, members of her family and othors.

Manhood suffrage has been adopted in the Dominion. The bill pasaed into law on March 17th. .

Tho Canadian Government is CQn.te.ixi: plating the appointment of a Qotnmis--ioner to proceed to China and Japan for the purpose of developing trade between the Dominion and those countries. Representatives of Chinese houses have been in Montreal ordering for export duringl the next few months Canadian cottons and woollens, which it is found can be laid down in China'over the Canadian Pacific route on move advantageous terms than either Engly<h or Americangoodsof a similar ckss.

Canada hns put in a claim for a valuable part of the State of Michigan, U.S., on the ground that the present boundary is erro'ieon*. The doubtful territory covets valuable fishing grounds along the Sanlt rivor, pnd Ship Canal arid" at St/Clair's Flat?. Sault Ship Canal is built on Canadian territory, in tho opinion of ma.iy American engineers.

Tho Canadian Federal authorities decided on March 27th to ask Parliament in two weeks to vote.a coinpentjation of about £14,000,000 to the Canadian-Pacific Bailway for tho snrrendejc of its monopoly clause as regards Manitoba, the North-west Territory, and British Columbia. Prominent Government supporters will oppose it. The Government will submit an amendment favouring an Imperial federation, providing for the admission of products of Great Britain and all her coloniea duty free. A despatch from Ottawa, March 26th, says the resolutions declaring in favour of a separation from the Canadian federation in tho event of the resolution of unrestricted reciprocity with the United States being defeated, me under consideration by the loading men of the.maritime provinces. The Ministerialists maintain that the reciprocity resolution will be defeated.

Advices from Nova Scotia and New Foundland (April 3rd) state that the secession movement 'in the Provinco and tho nnti-confederation movement in the colony has developed unexpected strength. Tho Government has been warned, not to ririile with either agitation. Tho aim of the secessionist and nnnexatiouist members is to fofm a separate confederation of maritime provinces, bring Newfoundland into it, then go over in a body to the United State?, leaving the remaining provinces to shift, for t,hem?«lves, without a single open Atlantic port live months in tho year.