Local news: The building committee of St. Stephen’s Church, Thorne West, are calling for tenders for the completion of the stone tower and belfry.

A gentleman named Mulligan has engaged in the enterprise of catching sturgeon on the Ottawa River near the Schneaux and is meeting with fair success. The fish are barreled up and shipped to Montreal.

A number of young ladies and gents went up the Pickanock to see Gilmour’s drive of logs going over some of the chutes.

The picnic at Greermount was a decided success. Most of the farmers have finished putting in their crops.
Mr. John Douglas, B.A., late teacher at Portage du Fort, has been engaged to complete the term of Principal at the Shawville Academy, in consequence of Mr. Vaughan having been incapacitated from so doing through illness.

Mr. W.B. Crawford received by train on Monday, a span of Shetland ponies, dog-cart and express, with complete equipment, the whole outfit having been purchased from an Ottawa gentleman.

Many improvements are being made in the Hotel Pontiac at Fort William before the season opens.

Great bush fires are raging at the head of Lake Temiscamingue, destroying great quantities of valuable timber.
Work on the E.B. Eddy Company’s new saw mills, pulp mills and match factory has started and it is expected these buildings will be ready for occupation about Sept. 1. The new machine shop, smithy, wagon making and repair shops erected on the former site of the drying houses, are rapidly nearing completion.

The boiler houses and engine rooms are being got into shape to have steam up next week. Machinery for the machine shop, the paper bag factory and the match factory has been ordered and will be ready as the buildings are completed.

The intelligence of the occupation of the Boer capital, received here about 10:30 on Tuesday morning, created quite a little sensation when it became known. The tooting of several steam whistles at an irregular hour had the effect of bringing nearly every citizen to the outer confines of his bailiwick, with the inquiry as to what was up and of course their curiosity on this score was soon satisfied. Pretoria was occupied by the British and the British subjects of a British town felt in a jubilating mood over the good news which meant that a bloody conflict was drawing to a close, with honour and success to the arms of our beloved Queen and country.