: THE DAILY NEWS THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly by THE PRINCE RUPERT PUBLISHING CO. LTD., PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, Daily, 50c per month, or $5.00 per year, $2.00 per year. All Other Countries: Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. Contract rates on application. in advance. ‘HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B.C. Telephone 98, BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New York—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd S8t., York City. Seattle—Puget Sound News Co. London, England—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar Square. New Subscribers will greatly oblige by promptly calling up Phone 98 in ease of non-delivery or inattention on the part of The News carriers. << oo Thursday, April 3, 1913. DAILY EDITION THE NECESSITY or ernor in Council, in a news- paper or newspapers published RE-REGISTRATION. and circulating in such elec ‘ tora istricts respectively, or The concellation of the if no newspaper be published authorized voters’ list under in any electoral So Fo an . in a newspaper publishe in the provisions of Bill No. 108,) the province and circulating in being an amendment to the such. electoral district. (2) No application and no affidavit shall be received or accepted by any Registrar of Voters or to be considered at any Court of Revision unless it be made and date subsequently to the third day of March, 1913. (3 Notwithstanding any- thing in this section contained, the voters’ list by this Act can- celled shall be the list of vot- ers to be used at any election that may be held prior to the certification and printing of the first register of voters prepared under authority of this Act. There appears in this no veiled menace to the political well being of the Liberal party; on the contrary, it gives that party an opportunity of getting Provincial Elections Act intro- duced and passed through the legislature by Attorney General Bowser, seems to have given rise to all sorts of uneasy con- jecture on the part of the Lib- eral party of the province, and even unnecessary speculation among the ranks of the Con- servatives themselves. There are no substantial grounds for any such misgivings on the part of the Liberals, so far as can at present be seen and pro- vided the registration, which of course is in the hands of the Conservatives, is honestly con- every one of its members on ducted. Even this is a point] the list of voters if they will only work to this end. The that Liberal leaders all over the same laws of registration are applicable as before. In no manner is the franchise of an eligible voter endangered un- less through the tardiness of the voter himself. And remember that next Monday, April 7th, is the very jast day for registration. The necessity of cancelling the lists after periods of rea- sonable time have elapsed wil! be apparent. The lists, after years of revision and constant alteration, are bound to carry a superfluous volume of names belonging to deceased constitu- ents and to voters who have HAVE YOU REGISTERED? Every qualified person who wishes to vote at the next Provincial or Dominion elec- tion must register anew. The fact that your name is on the old list makes no dif- ference, as all the old Pro- vincial and Dominion voters’ lists have been cancelled. Those who fail to register will have no voice in the public affairs of the country. Registration must be made on or before April 7th, 1913. Registration forms can be a at = oe left the district for other parts. vo OF “om . yereens The cancellation thus frees named: - it the voters’ lists of this exces- jee ot f Any, Solilton, — sive material and makes them 0 4%, e easier to handle. P: Ww. .. Campbell : 8 ‘ 7 Morris ie ‘ican On the political associations e ieeennen gan of the province will largely fall the work of reconstructing the lists and the Liberals should be very busy at the work this week. In this city,it is being well attended to by the Liberal party, but it is hoped that all the Liberals in the outlying districts of this constituency are planning to take vigorous province can see to for them- selves if they will only awaken to the importance of the occa- sion. Section Il of the afore- said amendment reads: 0 i ay of : 2 . metab. + gy hy au- and concerted action in their thorized voters’ list shall be several districts in order to cancelled, and thereafter shall not, except as hereinafter men- tioned, be used at any election to be held in the province; and on the passin this Act the Registrars of Voters for the different electoral districts or polling divisions shall forth. with cause notices to be posted in conspicuous proses in their respective elec- oral districts * polling divi- sions, and to advertised, for such time oe may be di- rected by the Lieutenant Gov- complete the lists by April 7th, from which date they will be suspended until after the hold- ing of a court of revision on May 19th next. a, ONLY THREE DAYS MORE, AFTER TODAY, IN WHICH TO REGISTER. LIBERALS, STEP LIVELY. United States and Mexico: Weekly, Daily, $8.00 per year. THE DAILY NEWS stat- continuous | Ottawa, March 31—It ed that the almost presence of Sir Donald Mann in Ottawa, and the of Sir ghnessy has with the further financing Canadian Northern Railway. William Mackenzie, president of the Can is presence here Thomas something important the Sir Shau vesterday do question of adian Northern Railway, is in England in connection with the finances of the company, while Sir Donald Mann has been in Ot- tawa for the past two weeks con- ferring with the premier, Hon. W. T. White, Hon. Frank Coch- rane and other members of the | government. i It is asserted that the Cana- dian Northern at the present time finds itself in need of from thirty to forty millions to meet obligations incurred in connec- tion with construction, and to link up its various lines into a third trans-continental system. The situation has been explained to Premier Borden upon whom it has been urged that the company is as much entitled to a_ loan now as the C.P.R., and G.T.P. were in past years. Greatly in- creased cost of construction, in Britsh Col- is said, made it more particularl: umbia, has, it CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAY TO ASK FOR $40,000,000 CONFERENCES AT OTTAWA wiTH LEADING OFFICIALS BY SIR DONALD MANN impossible for the company to raise more money on bonds un- der present financial conditions Sir Thomas Shaughnessy has been consulted with regard to the matter, and the application of the company for a cash or a direct loan has the backing of the strong financial stated that in order determ mation to carry plans, the Canadian No has turned into the parent co interests It is to show out rthern m its pany all of the subsidiary com- panies, including townsites, ex- press, telegraph and_ transfer business, It is also stated that the ©.P.R. stands ready to step in and take including the Yellowhead how- Ifa western lines, through the It is believed, that this will happen measure of relief for the Cana- dian Northern decided upon, it is believed that it will take the form of a loan secured by the de- posit of Canadian Northern stock covering control and ownership of subsidiary companies. If leg- islation to that end is introduced it will be announced in the course of a few weeks, and will occupy much of the aitention of parliament during the remainder of the session. over line not Pass. ever, is STATIONED from Winston Church- ill’s speech Turning to the proposed Can- adian ships, Mr. Churchill said: “While they will be directly eontrolled by the admiralty, we propose to form them, with the Malay and New Zealand ships, | into a new squadron of five ships Extract of high uniform speed, to be call- ed the Imperial squadron. “It will be based at Gibraltar and thus able to reach Halifax in five days, Quebee in six days Jamaica in nine days, the South American coast in twelve days, Capetown in thirteen days, Alex- andria in thirteen days, Sydney in twenty-eight days, New Zeal- and in thirty-two days, Hong) | Kong | Esquimalt ; squadron CANADA’S PACIFIC PROTECTION 23 DAYS FROM ESQUIMALT CHURCHILL PROPOSES THAT CANADA'S DREADNOUGHTS BE AT GIBRALTAR and days. in twenty-two days, in twenty-three that this opportunity about the Dominions, any threat- or abroad. “Our intention shall cruise is as serves, freely Empire, visiting the ready to operate at ened point at home The Dominions Will be ed in ated movements not domin- military considerations all by of of the world, best able to such a strain if it should We have greater ac- cummulations of capital than are found elsewhere. We are freed from the need of maintaining an army of the continental scale.” all nations we are, perhaps, bear continue JOINT CELEBRATION OF PEACE CENTENARY Unofficial International Confer- ence from May 5 to 9 in New York. Ottawa, March 31.—Arrang- ments have been made whereby an unofficial international ference will be held from May 5 to May 9 in New York for the purpose of discussing the best method of conducting the cele- bration of the centenary of the signing of the treaty of Ghent in the winter of 1914-15. The con- ference will take place between delegations from the _ British committee, the American com- mittee and the Canadian Peace Centenary Association. * The American delegation will number 12, the British 7 and the Can- adian committee, which was ap- pointed at the meeting of the general committee of the asso- ciation which was held last Feb- ruary, will number 4. The three con- committees will hold their first meeting on Monin. May 5, and the discussion of business’ will occupy probably three days. The Canadian committee consists of of the Canadian Sir the president Peace Centenary Association, Edmund Walker, C, V. O., presi- dent of ‘the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto; Sir Alex. Lacost, former chief justice of the Province of Quebec, Montreal; Mr. Travers Lewis, K. C., of Ot- tawa; Mr. C. F. Hamilton, honer- ary secretary, Ottawa. The British committee will in- clude Lord Shaw of Dumferm- line, one of the lords of the judi- cial committee of the privy coun- cil; Mr. W. M. G. Gladstone, M. P., grandson of Mr. W. E. Gladstone and formerly attache at Wash- ington; Sir William Mather, P. C., M. I. C. E., an active promoter of technica! education, and Mr. H. 8 Perris, secretary of the British committee. Forty years in use, twenty years standard, prescribed and recommended by physicians. For Women’s Ailments, Dr. Martel’s Female Pilis, at your druggist. NEW ENGINEER COMES iA. A, Wilby, its} NORTH TO INSPECT Look Over Langara Light d Choose Site for Another Lighthouse. March 31 To giv the new resident en Victoria, gineer of the marine and fisheries | department, an opportunity of inspecting the new first order light at Langara Island, and als: to survey a new site for a light house on Bonilla Island, the steamer Quadra, Captain Mac pherson, left port at noon today ind will be absent for several weeks While in| northern waters the Quadra is! also to establish a number of new important aids to navigation, including arranged Masset and an acetylene beacon on Rose Spit. Mr. Wilby was only recently appointed to the position of resi dent engineer, familiarize himself with the work | of the department. As the dra was going to make the trip. at Langara Qua- The new light from Victoria} lights at! and he wishes to} | | north he decided | | Island will be ready | for operation by the begining of | June. Some time has been con- sumed in the to navigation owing to the iso- lated nature of the island. material for the construction of the big lighthouse had to be taken north from Victoria by the tenders, and it was with great difficulty that it was landed owing to the great seas which beat against the island. Wallpaper—new designs, mod- erate prices. Wallace's. 77tf r¢4 acreltea Venture” DEMAND Roya. Reserve WHISKY. AGE SG YEARS GUARANTEED BY THe GOVERNMENT OF CANADA. RecommeNDeD FoR THe INVALID Tre Home Tne Connoisseur Tne Pusuic who nafural want the best. =— Ace, Purity ANO MELLOWNESS | UNSURPASSED. DISTRIBUTORS ¢ anadian Prince Rupert Importing Co., Ltd Sawmill Co. 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