CANADA.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 159, 3 July 1886, Page 4

CANADA.

Nova, Scotian Discontent. The Nova ScGtians are pushing the secession movement vigorously. They soem bound to break connection with the Ottawa Government. The campaign has begun, and will last until June 14. It will be almost wholly a battle to decide whether or not the majority of voters are in favour of taking the Province out of the Dominion. The fishery dispute between Canada and the United States is likely to be settled soon. It would be settled at once, if, according to the reported remark of the Under Colonial Secretary in a London dispatch of May 31, it could be done without giving giving Canada the " cold Bhoulder." The Canadian schooner Sisters, seized in retaliation, at Portland, Maine, has been released. Some uneasiness is felt at the presence of the man-ef-war Bellorophon, and also the Dido, Garnet, Emerald, and Lily, in the harbour at Halifax during the present juncture ; but the Admiralty Office, London, explains the presence of the war vessels aa neither significant nor important. They are there in the regular course of orders issued long ago. James Whelan, a Nova Scotia sailor, ■was hanged in London, May 31st, for killing the mate of a vessel on which he had shipped as an able seaman. The deed was done on the high seas.