OUR CANADIAN LETTER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIII, Issue XVII, 22 October 1904, Page 55

OUR CANADIAN LETTER.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) VANCOUVER, 8.C., Sept. IG. THE PACIFIC CABLE. “The ‘All-Red’ Pacific cable is not a success, or at least not. the success it should be," remarked Sir Sandford Fleming, the "father of the cable,” on his arrival here from Ottawa this week. He goes to Bamtield Creek, the Canadian end of the cable, to "ask questions” of New Zealand, as lie nut it, Sir Sandford is to be the representative of that colony at the British Cable Conference to be held in London in November. As he had a great many questions to ask the Government of New Zealand, he decided that to write to Premier Seddon would take too much time, so he rias come to the end of the cable here to ask his questions directly through the operator, and get his replies in the same “1 have tome io the Pacific Coa.it,” he went on, “to see if there is no way of immediate remedy to the non-sucecss I have spoken of. 1 want this Pacific cable, of which I am really the father, to bring to Canada, direct all the news •f Australia and New Zealand. We can deal it out to the rest of the world from here. There is no reason why’ the news should not be headed from Vancouver rather than from New York. I must confess that, at present 1 do not know what I am going to do about this •able dilemma, but I will certainly keep my eyes open while here, and when at the Cable Conference in London I shall know what to do, and I hope how to make this Pacific submarine wire a success. At present this cable is a sort of broken feather in my c.ip. but 1 think we can fix it all light. All it needs is a little extra effort and a little special attention, which it will get from me.” THE ALLAN LINE AND THE PACIFIC. There is no doubt that the Allan Steamship Company will invade the Pacific Ocean. If contemplates the establishment of lines to Australia and the Orient in connection with the Grand

Trunk Pacific Railway. Mr If. A. Allan ♦he moving spirit of the Atlantic lin» run by the company, is a director of the new trans-continental railway. He was out here this week with (he Grand I rank Pacific party which has been inspecting parts in this province previous to selecting a enast terminus. The choice lies between Port Siinp-mn. Kifamat, Tuck’s Inlet, and Bella Ce.ola. Mr Allan refused to say in so nany words (hat his company would place steamers on the Pacific, but he remarked that it would be most natural for the Grand liunk Pai-ific to desire close eomicelio.tis with a lino sympathetic w.th it. This means, of course, competition with the Canadian-Australian line’, and also with the t'.P.R. Empress line. His not likelv to eoine, however, for five years at Ilin earliest, by which lime it" is expected the new trans-cnntimntal railuav will have been finished, though its .baiter gives it two years longer miscellaneous notes. O •“ f <lle iireil l ’ n <'ll the I Ilion Co. s Manuka were responsible for a lively Labour Day incident. The first Monday in September is always a holiday in this country and is called i.alxiur Day. The Manukn’s firemen, being good union men, decided that they were entitled not to work that day. ’I lie pincers of the liner, however, pointed out that the inen were enj*aged in where Labour Day did not exist amnrg Ihe -bank holidays.' So convincing was the oHieers’ talk that 23 out of (he 27 wishers for a holiday backed water and returned to work. Ihe olh r four remained steadfast in their desire to do in ktiMMir did in this emiiitiv. These three. Dunca.il McDonald, M. Laven and Janies .IJevan. were, as a result, among the prisoners who laced the beak on the dav lollowiug the holiday. Captain Phillips preferred against the trio iiic charge of refuging to perform duty. Each man was sentenced to forfeit two days' pay or in default to put in two days’ hard labour at the city gaol. The money was forthcoming. Canadian Labour Day was rather expensive for thp.se members of the Manuka’s crew. Mr L. B. Gray, late of AucklaiHl. New Zealand, has bought a three-storey brick warehouse on Hastings-Street, the chief business thoroughfare of this «ity. He paid 22,000 dollars for it. The structure is known as the Hemlevsuu block. The same gentleman has also bought a large number of lots in North \ ancouvcr. a suburb across Burrard Inlet. Commenting on an announcement that several representative yemig Australians will soon come over to the I’nited States to receive their education, the San ‘Cali'’ says: ”li is fitting, perhaps, that the youngest people of the New World should seek here the instruction that will best lit them for success in those fields that have made the touted States the criterion of manners and methods, in the acquisition of practical utilitarian civilisation. We may not be much on Greek roots, but we know the best way to force a surplus on the right side of the b*dger. ’