OUR CANADIAN LETTER.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15137, 28 November 1914, Page 2

OUR CANADIAN LETTER.

IFROM OUR OWN CORP.ESPOVDENT.J TORONTO. October 23. The Government is organising Canada's second Expeditionary Force, and the first instalment, consisting oi 10.000 men, is to be despatched in December. From 10,000 to 20,000 men are" to be enlisted immediately, under the s!:ix>rvi*ion of the commanding officers'of the various military divisions tIM-ou-hout the Dominion, and as soon n= rifles and other equipment arc available the Government will keen continuouplv under arms and m training a total for-* of 40,000 men. including loirr 10 000 needed for garrison and o££,st 'duty in Canada. This force will be maintained as on- as the w. lasts or so lone as tfie War Otoce wants them, r.nd a continuous stream or reinforcements will thus l>o available for service at the front. being servt lorward probably in contingents of 10.OJU fcverv ironth. As scon as advices are received from the War Office as. to the tomoosition of the secoml contingent, pending which 16.000 to 30.000 intanwy are bei'.v enlisted—and with such a ready response that already the greater part* of that number are enrolled—ar--am'cments vciil be made for enlisting :-uch cavalry. artillery, onpneers amj administrative units as tho War Office may advise . Such has lx>on the enthusiastic response of the French-Canadians \o tne call to enlist, some two thousand ot them having already gone to the front in the first continent and at lenst fom thousand having offered .for senico in tho second, that thn ordinal plan oi organising a Frcnch-Canauian rr ? m has been entirely outgrown and to plan now is to fo.m a brigade of four egiments, if possible to arrange for it, enrolling men of that race irom not v Quebec, but Easter,, and Xofthorn Ontario. .Manitoba, and otliei Provinces where the eagerness to servo the Empire has been abundantly mamf °The Government of Canada has succeeded in raisins a loan in hnglanc v. : hich will temporarily meet the special expenditures made necessary by the war n ,id relieve for tho present at east the financial embarrassment, though furt ci financing will Ijo necessary for other capital expenditures I-tohi the arrangement* made by Canada., it is evident that the financial condition of the Motherland at the present tune is satis-f-!cterv. and that she has sufhcient to meet *the needs of a long war with some to spare. The funds for the Dominion's war needs will be obtained in the first instance from the Bank or which will make advances to {he~C'anadian Government from time to time as required, for naval and military ' purposes. At a later date, when market conditions permit, a Canadian permanent funding war loan will be issued and all temporary liquidated, but this will not bo done at any time which vould conflict with any issue or issues of the Imperial Government, This will bo iradc the subject of an understanding between the. Chancellor of; the Exchequer and-the Canadian Minister-of Finaaco. , The General Conference of tlie Methodist Church, in Canada, at its quadrennial session, held in Ottawa recently, elected Rev. Samuel Dwight Chown. D.D., General Superintendent, with direction practically of the entire-,. Church's affairs, making Rev. Albert Carman D.D., General Superintendent Emeritus, still to act in an advisory capacity, and to be called on to presido at board and committee meetings and conferences; his term to be for four years, at tho saino salary as lie has been receiving. Dr. Chown's term is for eight years. They have for tho past few years been both Genera Superintendents, Dr. Chown's special work lying more in the West, with headquarters at Vancouver, while Dr. Carman's was in the East, with Toronto as his headquarters-. A proposal to elect a third' General ■Superintendent, to look after the work in the maritiifce provinces, was defeated. Xne recommendation of a-special committee to give women equal rights with men to sit on committees and boards, or.the Church, failed to carry by the requisite three-fourths vote needed to amend the Constitution, though more than twothirds favoured it;-it wi 11 no doubt carry at the next General Conference. The Methodist Church is ready to go on with the negotiations for organic union with the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches whenever these are disposed to take further steps. This was decided by the General Conference, without any discussion, a committee of sixty being appointed to continue tho negotiations and take what further action as might seem fitting to the General Conference Special Committee, even to tho calling of a Conference.. Iho Conference also decided to allow the pastoral term to remain as at present, four years, except in tho ease of special mission or institutional causes. There was quite a body of opinion, especially amongst city ministers, in favour of a removal of the time limit, in order to give pastors a better-chance of working with their congregations, as it takes nearly the full term to get acquainted with "the people in the larger charges. The motion was, however, voted down by a considerable majority. The Hon. T. Chase Casgrain. of Montreal, chairman of the Canadian section of tlie International Waterway* Commission, and Mr Pierre Edouard Blondin, of the House of Commons', have been made Cabinet Ministers, the former in place of Hon. Louis Philippe Polletier, Postmaster-General, who is retiring on tho ground of poor health, but it-is rumoured to be about to bo appointed to the Bench, and iho latter to succeed the Hon. Bruno Nantel. Minister of Inland Revenue, who goes to the Board of Railway Commissioners, .taking the place of Hon. M. E. Bernier, whose term has expired. ColoneP the Hon. John S. Hendrie. member for seven years of the Ontario Government without portfolio, and representative for Wept Hamilton' in tho Legislature for twelve years, has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, in succession to Colonel Sir John Morison Gibson, who has occupied the position fov six years. Colonel Hendrio has been chairman of fhn Railway Committee, and thus virtually acting Minister of Railways, and he has been for thirty years actively interested in military matters, especially devoting himself to promoting the efficiency of thf> artillery branch of the Canadian militia. He has for years been an enthusiastic patron of the Turf. He has displayed good 'business ability in his private pursuits, is a large manufacturer, and. fortunately for the Province, has secured an assured competency for si-5 the fir*t tenant of the now million-dollar Government House he will have to set the pace for his successors, the style of the building and the nature of its equipment making it certain that no man of moderate means can ever hope to play the host hereafter to his fellow-citizens in the Ontario Government House. The largest individual pulp mill in Canada, that of the Abitibi Pulp and Paper Company, at Ircqnois Falls, is now providing work for a thousand men and is shipping 160 ions of pulp daily to most of the. large paper makers in the United States and Canada. Two years ago the Falls roared in a ■wilderness, to-day one of the largest industrial concerns in the Dominion is in full operation. Shipments commenced Pi the end of July, and a steady production has been maintained ever since. The feverish demand for newsprint as r> direct result of the public's demands for "special editions has sent up the price 2 dollars a ton, and the paper makers are bidding for tho consisrnmer.ts from the Northern Ontario mill. From the company's million acre grant four or five hundred men nre now cutting pulpwood. floating it do-N-n the main river's tributary to the Abitibi. The limit sfro+ches from -within a few miles of the Timiskaming aiu*

\orthem Ontario Railway to the Quebec boundary, embracing nearly aU of Abitibi Lake, reaches almost to :the .town of Mathesou on the south, and to the north extends far above tho , tho wHderness- When some bridge ■have been raised along the line of tho _ T and N. 0., the water will; bo raised ■6j feet higher by dams, giving the nover. necessary to run more Seders thus increasing the capacity or the plant from l<so to ISO or 200 tons a day \t tho resent rate of consumption 60,000 cords of spruce will be.consumed a year. and when the paper mill is runnihrr 90,000 cords. Of tho finished Uduct' 230 tons will be made and shipped daily. »p pulp then I em? made. Paper will, it » calculated, 0 nrodwed ritfit in tho heart of the foS~of Northern Ontario m nine m Tno S manufacturprs of Canada, seem? bright prosnecte for business revival and expansion in the Dominion as a result of the war. have civen orderfor "Made in Canada" caroiiaisns tv , the Canadian SWt Car Advertising Co., Limited, which controls tho advert-isinc i>l the street cars of Canada and Newfoundland, appealing to almost two million readers every day Tho company has an organisation of experienced newspaper men to assist in" popularising "Made in Canada" products, and their lnrce, bright; attrartivoly-writt«n advertrsementß. stimulating manufacturors to increased pmcluetion in all lines., and tho peonlo generally to buy .{roods o T home production.'are appearing daiK in the'napers. Benefit to tho war stri"k°» lv+io'is of tho world, greatework for Canada's people, and quent proater prosperity of iT>nation and of tho Empire nrr. the repults in view. And already f *'" big ren*<li'istTnent is in nrof?ss. oxistins mare expanding, and new ones being started. — k -- I