Local news: The favourable weather of the latter half of the past week enabled farmers to get pretty well through with their haying.

Prof. Workman, the well-known musician, was in town on Monday. He is talking of opening a music class here.

Wanted: two men and teams for threshing season of about fifty days. E.T. Martin, Ladysmith.

Rev. O.C. Carey, Baptist minister of Starke’s Corners has gone to Edmonton, having been recommended to seek the dry air of that region as a cure for his throat trouble.

The Conservatives are arranging for a series of monster political picnics to be held in Ontario during the month of September.

The resignation of Mr. W.J. Poupore as federal representative for this county, owing to his becoming associated in the execution of a government contract, will naturally put people in a speculative mood as to what the future will bring forth, touching the representation of Pontiac.

Mr. McLeod Stewart, the promoter of the Georgian Bay Canal, is out with a lengthy address to the electors of Carleton county, soliciting their support at the next general election for the Dominion parliament.

Rebuilding at Hull and around the Chaudiere is said to be considerably retarded owing to the scarcity of labour.

The news of the death of the Duke of Sae-Cobourg-Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria, has created a sensation in London.

It was totally unexpected. Prince Alfred Ernest Albert died at ten o’clock last evening at Rosenau Castle from paralysis of the heart.

Seventeen members of the House of Commons have died since the general election of 1896. Six of these were Conservatives and eleven Liberals. There are in the House when full, 213 members and this death rate is about one in every thirteen.

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