Local news: A gang of men are at work from the foot of the Calumet Falls downward, in the interests of the Georgian Bay Canal survey. Another gang is at work from Paquette’s rapids down, and will follow the north channel to the Calumet Falls. It is to be hoped that the government is now sufficiently encouraged to push this great work to completion.

The 7th of December will determine whether the people of Pontiac are content to remain in the iron grasp of the lumbermen, or whether they will cast off the shackles, and proclaim to the world that they are a free people, determined to run their own affairs in their own way.

It is likely that a big lumber mill will be erected at Deschenes. Messrs Alex Fraser and John Bryson, lumbermen, are understood to have recently purchased a considerable amount of land at Deschenes from Conroy brothers, and the probability is that a mill will be put up on the property.

The several bands of crusaders who are “doing” the county this week in the interest of the millionaires are said to be fully provided with all the necessary equipment for instructing untutored voters how to mark their ballots; even that unpretentious instrument the corkscrew has been added to their outfit.