Great Britain.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXV, Issue 4454, 17 January 1910, Page 2

Great Britain.

LoNroN, Jan. 13. While Ur Shiver, of Munich, was climbing Mt. Breethorn, Hermann Binner, his guide, a native of Zermott, fell over a precipice. Fortunately the climbers were roped together, and for two hours Dr Shiver held the guide up. When he was almost exhausted some Italian smugglers who were crossing the pass came to his assistance and Binner was rescued.

The Daily Telegraph’s New York correspondent says that there are no present indications of a renewal of the reciprocity agreement between the United States and Germany. If it lapses on February 7th there will be a bitter struggle involving a hundred million sterling worth of trade between the two countries. The chief obstacle is Germany’s declining to relax the prohibition of American cattle.

A fire at Evans’ drapery stores at Kelburn Grove, did £IOO,OOO worth of damage. The electric wire fused in a shop window filled with underclothing. Ten shops were destroyed. The stores were empty owing to early closing, and the majority of the hundred assistants were absent. There were no casualties. A Turkish note to the Powers complains that the Cretan authorities have taken an oath of allegiance to the King of Greece, and that the Cretan Chamber had decided to apply the Hellenic law to the island. The note characterises these acts as rank insubordination. Britain and Russia, in a reply, regret the Cretans’ insensate policy, By a large majority the headmasters of the Schools Conference defeated a resolution opposed to military training in schools. Mr Peterson, manager of the Cana-dian-Pacific Irrigation Colonisation Co., read a paper before the Colonial Institute on the Pacific Company’s project. He announced that the company is providing for ready-made farms for settlers eastward of Calgary with loans to settlers for further improvements.

Jan. 14. The Standard reports that a strong committee of Alberta stock-raisers have addressed the Dominion Minister for Agriculture in favor of establishing chilling plants and packing houses throughout the west, with cold storage depots at Montreal and ah open winter port, with a view of placing the meat export trade in a position equal to that of Australia and New Zealand. The committee proposed to form a company with a capital of eight million dollars, whereof the Government will be asked to guarantee 4 per cent, upon six million dollars.