Local News: The announcement made by the Premier of Ontario in the legislature last week that the government had decided to develop the water power on the Rocher Fendu channel for electrical purposes should be good news to the people residing on both sides of the river. Contiguous to the site of the proposed work, it is only a few miles distant from the power plant now practically completed at Calumet Chutes, from which Shawville expects to procure its electrical energy for light and other purposes.

Those who failed to notice the earthquake which occurred about 9:20 on Saturday night must indeed have been “dead to the world.” The disturbance was the most distinct felt in this section for years. The quake was felt over a large portion of North America and in some places the disturbance was much more violent than others, causing panic among the inhabitants and damage to property. The seismologist at the Ottawa Observatory calculates that the rock slip which caused it occurred on the lover St. Lawrence at the mouth of the Saguenay River. The earthquake was the heaviest ever recorded at the Ottawa Observatory.

A large area of Ontario and Quebec was in the grip of a terrific wind storm on Friday last, with the mercury below zero. It could be reasonably set down as the most unpleasant day of the present winter and the man who a day or two previously was seriously thinking of parking his fur coat for the next six or seven months, was relieved that he had not put the idea into effect.