Daily Colonist (1893-05-02) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1893-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

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1000 yards at 65c. per yd. Extra Width. Good ColorSi . Assorted Patterns. Suitable for Blouses, etc.

D. SPENCER,

GOVEHNMENT STEEET.

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HUXTLNG IN THE IIOUXIES.

The MiiripUs of borne .on Hrltlsh Ciilumbla— " iS'uwhere a Itleher Sea or .Moru ItoiuiuUle Coast."

Tho Marquis of Lorno publishes in tho current issue of the GraDhio a record of cx-periences.of "Hunting Life in tho Hookies" on the Canadian Pacilic railway, which is excellently illustrated by Mr. C F. Fripp, R W.S. It spejks of things as they were a decado and more ago, when the site of the city of Vancouver waa covered by gigantic Qra. But the Pacific Province is atill a sportsman's paradise.

*' What wondrous fly-fishing it was!" exclaims the Marquis. He took them to a lake wbiob shall be nameless—or which we shall, at all events, only call by sn approximation to the sound of the Indian title, something like Lake Gueaaimifurlcan —and there in two days they oaURbt about ■100 fish weighing 90O pounds. For fear .\Ir. Andrew Lang and everybody else who loves lly fishing should at once rush there, only an approach to the name is given, and tho access to the spot is not here inciicated except by the aaaertion that it ia in British (Columbia—a wondrous word is that double-barreled nanio—a name covering a country inconipiiniblc in beiuity and variety of scenery. Nowhere is there a richer sea,nowhere is thereumore romantic const. Fi^hermenof the British Isles could be settled along those shores in a cliinato soft us that of Devonshire and fmd a market for their fresh tish in the Canadian and American coast cities, and for their salt fish among the Roniaii Catholic population.s of (jhili, Peru and kindred southern states. Some diiy or other small fruit trees will bo as ciitiimon along the shores aa are now the innumerable lirs. A I'^user linx of apricots will be as popular in London markets as Cinned salmon from that river. Meantime, it is a mercy to the sportsman and traveller that nil tho ' congested districts' of F.uropo are kept by professional agitiitors from haunting the paradise, and the enterprising globe trotter may luxuriate in fishing and hunting better than can be enjoyed by any European in the Old World."—Canadian Gazette.

Robert M. Storey, of Nanaiiro, and William B. Stillmap, of ttevr Westminster, are at the Victoria.

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