CANADIAN POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 14530, 5 December 1910, Page 6

CANADIAN POLITICS

NAVAL CONSTRUCTION ACCELERATED. sir wilfridliay RESIGN. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. OTTAWA, December 3. As a result of the Navy debate, contracts will bo hastened for the construction of four cruisers of the Bristol class and six torpedo-boat destroyers of the River class. Oil fuel will bo used for both. The completion of the naval programme will cost £2,000,000. The 'Montreal Gazette' says that Sir Wilfrid Laurier will probably resign in the autumn, and subsequently tour Quebec, Ontario, and other provinces on the Navy question. Mr Aylesworth, Minister of Justice, explaining in Parliament tho effect of the recent Newfoundland fisheries award by The Hague tribunal, indicated that the result would aid Canada to maintain her sovereignty over Hudson Kay, which he hoped would never be questioned. lower tariff wanted, a formidabliTdeputation. OTTAWA, December 4. (Received December 5, at 8.5 a.m.) Five hundred prairip farmers, representing Western Canada, are coming here on the 16th to urge the lowering of the duties on imported agricultural necessities. The Blue Book on tha North-west Mounted Police alludes to the recent establishment by them of the Canadian Whaling Company, and hopes that Canada will undersell tho United States, which hitherto has had a monopoly of the Arctic trade.