Daily Colonist (1884-11-16) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1884-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

\\ r, have seen of late years a remarkable phenonieiiun in the relieioiis w.irht. In the iiiosl cultured city of onr contineiii, on a week day, and At high noon, a man has stood forth to addro-s its bii.sy citizens upon the sulilimest and iiiosI dilliciilt thenii'S, and has spoken willi .siicii aiir.u: tive power as to till its largi'st halls to overflowing; and these liioli diseonrsos and great audiences have oo.ie ..ii together f..r aeven years with over-increasing interest, while hundreds of thousands of jiersons ill ditl'ereiit lands have eaL'erly pored over the re)iorts of these discourses as Ihov came slriMiiiing in from the [iress. What does all this meaiW it nieau,s, if I mi.'itake not, that tho man who stands upon the platfnnii of that Hnstop. lectureship,wlri!Tli he himself haa cre.itetl, has taken up into his great iieart and brain tho problonia of the ai;c and the wrongs of the race, and is deleriuined to do what ho can to solve those problems and to right those wrong.->. Like tho noble old lionian, ho has said: •'lama man, and I doom nothing that pertaiiia to humanity foroign.tu me." And when ho heemed to hive well nit;he.\-hansled the ciirr.'iil. topics of di.scussioii among us, he went forth to sail around tho globe in quest of new themes.— Fiof. Jfiske oj ChirxKjo Tlntoloijieid Semiiiarij.

.fcMlii).—The rock crusher was removed from Beacon Hill to Yates street the other day, when the road was rolled, and la now aiifoly housed for the. winter.

Mns. GuAHT, aged 90, died at New VYeatmiuBtev yesterday.

i riug interests established iu tho su]>i)ly the points east of the

iiutli of the Kicking llorso is a town oalli il (lolih'ti City, which will ]irob-alily be an iiiipoi laiil point iiitlie iieii.r future for the supply of tli. bii'gc district tributary to it.

Tho scenery is such that thoro will undoubtedly be an immense rush of tourist travid over tho C. P. R., which will in-

cn.'as.' so si'iui as il liecomes better kiiuv/u. Diir inf irm,lilt has travelled over all tho

I i aii:i-ci.lit mental roads, and must all tho roads in the oast, and says there is nothing to compare with the scenery, of the i.'aieidhill I'acMlic fr'im Cdgary westward to the I'acilie.

l''rom the end of liack to tho second crossiiio of ibc (Columbia occupied about ten (iajs, walking llie whole distance. The balance of the trip, to Savona, was done by staging and steamer. In the Selkirks alxuit a font and a Isilf of snow had fallen. From Savona to Cook's Ferry the roads were very dusty, no rain having fallen for some time.

Tho soil of iho Columbia valley ia gravelly, and imt very auitablo for agriculture. That ill tho neighborhood of Kaiiiloops can be made very productive by iri igation on a liixge scale. This could be done by a joint stock company making c iiials for Iho ctiiiyiiii,' of Ibe w.iter frnin the livers t.i I ho f.u ins, charging so muoli |"'i' ;ii'i'c f.ir water, as is done in other places.

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