OUR CANADIAN LETTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14579, 19 July 1909, Page 6

OUR CANADIAN LETTER

While -we arc enjoying very pleasant weather to-day, and the country is smiling iii its spring garb of living gieen, four d-rvs-ago Ontario lvas visited by a storm which in .some respects was unique. First, snow fell thickly, until the ground wan covered to a depth of from two to 12 inchas. At London the street cw system was stopprtl- thercby. Then came a' thundershowcr of unusual scveiity. lJuiklinos were damaged in some places; but, fortunately. 'th-3 growing crops were unhaime-d. The snow disappeared in a few hours, and this freakish outburst ol Nature was followed by sunshine awl summer condition.'-. On lawns which were cow-red to the depth of a foot with snow 0:1 the 29th bmvlin;,' matches wore in prcgrcH a week later: Parliament will prorogue on the lOtli instant, aftor a session of a iitlle over four moiitl». Tlieio has, during the past live :ir six weeks, been a »reat ueal of partisan bitterness, owing chielly to charges of malfeasance against the Minister of Public Works. Str.ingo to say, the-e allegations, which have not been made in direct form so that an investigation could follow in. the usual way, have had reference entirely t.> the acts of the Minister before lie entered the Ministry, and when he was serving upon a railway commission in New Brunswick. A motion of censure was dc.cated. and the case will be further heard in the courts. In the Kinrade murder case at Hamilton, the coroner's jury has brouglit in an open verdict. In a previous letter the extraordinary circumstances of this crime were indicated. Two sisters of a. wealthy family were in their lioine in it populous part of the city one afternoon hi February, l One of them was killed by eight shots from a revolver. The survivor asserted that a tramp had,done the deed; but this statement -was not accepted. After.a very long and expensive ftqucst the case is still a mystery. It has excited tremendous public interest. WOLFE'S-SCHNAPPS w the purest spirii m the world."