CANADA.

Otago Witness, Issue 1866, 26 August 1887, Page 16

CANADA.

A Canadian Pacific official says the company has contracted to carry carloads of Australian wool from Victoria (British Columbia) to Boston and other points on the Atlantic seaboard. This wool was until this season brought in vessels to American ports on the Pacific and shipped over the Northern Pacific Railroad to Boston and other points. The Canadian Knights of Labour have seceded from the body in the United States in the matter of jurisdiction, and formed a general ssemblyof the order for Canada. An order was issued [in council at Ottawa which prohibits the importation of meat and from the United States into Manitoba and British Columbia, except for breeding purposes, or in transit from one point to another. The Dominion cutter Critic seized the boats and seines ,'of the American schooners Argonaut and Colonel J. France off Prince Edward Island on July ',2s, The schooners setjsail and escaped. Dr Davison, Dominion Commissioner td run the boundary lines between Alaska and the North-west Territory, recommends Canada to establish a custom house, as the district is likely to become thickly settled on account of mineral deposits. There is at present unrestricted freedom in trade. The election in Digby county, Nova Scotia, on July 16, resulted Jin the defeat of the Commercial Union candidate and inflicted a serious blow to the incipient agitation for the annexation of Provence to the United States. Digby county does a large trade with New England, and was generally regarded as the most likely district in Canada fora Commercial Union candidate. The Dominion Government proposes to send a commissioner to Asia for the purpose of promoting the trade of Canada with China and Japan. All efforts up to the present to extend Canadian foreign trade have been utterly barren of results. There is trouble on the coast of Newfoundland between the English and French fishermen, and the warship Dacres has driven the former < from the fishing grounds they usually occupied. The Baltimore American of July 21st says ; — " Some time ago an Artists' Club of 600 members at Sydney, New South Wales, resolved to pay Mrs Cleveland the very pretty compliment of sending her an elegant painting illustrative of Australian scenery. One of the members, aMr Robert Pulling, was commissioned to go to Washington, and at once addressed a courteous note to the President explaining the object of the visit, and asking him to accept the painting i for Mrs Cleveland. The artist referred to the warm feeling his people entertained towards the United States, and expressed a hope that the bond of friendship would ever remain firmly cemented between the two countries. He waited an entire week without receiving any recognition whatever, when he finally received some very formal letters from the President declining to accept the painting. Mr Pulling was chagrined, and addressed a second letter to the President expressing his mortification that an act which was meant to show such respect and admiration should be so indifferently received, and stating that his countrymen could not help feeling the indignity that had been put upon them. This letter has never been answered, nor has Mr Pulling received any recognition whatever from White House. The picture is to be given to the Corcoran Art Gallery, of Washington, and is a representation of an impressive bit of Australian scenery.