CANADA.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 129, 21 November 1885, Page 4

CANADA.

Two causes are at work producing race trouble in Canada. In the cities, particularly Montreal and Toronto, the enforcement of the compulsory vaccination Act, and in the Dominion generally, the condemnation of Kiel to death. The French are arraying themselves against the English at every opportunity, and assaults and riots are frequent. [The Roman Catholic clergy seek in vain to impress upon their flocks the necessity of vaccination. '

The project of a railroad from Winnipeg to Hudson's Bay, for the shipment of Manitoba wheat to England, has been abandoned. A resolution of the Montreal Board of Health, calling upon the Central Board to close the churches on account of the small-pox epidemic, has raised tremendous opposition among the Catholic clergy. They absolutely refuse to comply with any order of this kind that may be issued. The number of cases of small-pox received in the Civic Hospital of Montreal up to Oct. 22nd, is 465, of which 118 have died. At a banquet given to Lord Landsdowne, Governor-General of Canada, in Victoria, 8.C., on October 12th, he said Colonial representation in the Imperial parliament is likely to be an important question at the elections next summer. It was also intimated that Esquimalt would be fortified and made the great British Arsenal of the Pacific.

Famine at Labrador. A special from Ottawa, October 3rd, says it is officially announced there that the Labrador fisheries have proved a failure, and the inhabitants are starving. The suffering of women and children beggars all description, the little ones dying in the arms of their mothers, who have no food to give them, and the cold and exposure complete the list of woes. Several ships loaded with provisions have been despatched to relieve the unfortunates. The famine extends along the entire coast.