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increased Sale 0f Liquor In Nova Scotia

' (c. I’. B! Guardian's special Wire) HALIFAX. March 26.--ImPY°V9d

' wndilions and lowering of customs

mo excise duties on spirits contrib- uted to increased safes by the Nova swim Liquor Commission last year, “cording m a report tabled 1n the Legislature tOdBY-

The report showed a surplus of

“$71,384.04 for the 11-month period ended Nov. 30, 1085. compared with a surplus of $360,842.81 for the pre- vious l2 months. Net sales totalled 33.806.204.01 compared with $2.917.- " .63. ‘gitcduced costs through the lower- mg of duties 1n April were passed on to the public in the form of low- ercd selling arise-S-

“There is good reason to believe thnt by this means a good deal of public buying has been diverted (mm bootleggers." the report states.

Beer maintained its Position 11B the favorite beverage, sales total- ling $2,000,888.05. with spirits next at $1,171,158.05 and wines at $631.- 709.05.

Most of the drinking was done 1n the hot monthl. Ajlilust sales top- ping the 11st at $406,858.15. compar- ed with January sales cf $168.0’18.50.

Spanish Govt. Eject: Squatters

BADAJOZ, Spain, March 20—The ieit Spanish government took swift action tonight to eject 00,000 squat- icrs who took over large farmlands in this area. impatient at the BOV- emmcnts delay 1n the program of breaking up big estates.

Orders were sent. to the sevefhfll‘ of Badajoz to use force 1f necessary lo oust the larm laborers. .

'l‘h.~ farmlands were taken ove n. man of the aea vlllases of this HZHIHVESYETH province. Apparently m" rnll preparations had been made icy illc step and workers. most of whom are socialists and Commun- Isis, lmndedjnto the National As- soclatinn of Land Workers. marched from their villages lo the big es- tc: early today.

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(C.P. By Guardian’: special Wire)

CYPPAWA, March 26~Provlsion for the Canadian National Reil- ways deficit for the calendar year, $47,421,464, accounted for almost the whole of the additional supple- mentary estimates tabled 1n the House of Commons today by Fin- ance Minister Dunning. A total of $51,167,229 will be asked of parliament to meet expenditures in the fiscal year ending next ‘rues- day. not provided for 1n previous estimates.

Miccellaneclu items including loans to the harbor commissions at. Montreal, Halifax, Chicoutiml, Que- bec, Three Rivers and a grant to be made to British Columbia, ac- counted for 02,847,262, while the balance was divided among a. num- ber of departments.

The grant to British Columbia, $750,000, is an extension of a simi- lar- grant made a year ago when that province asked for a commis- sion to investigate claims for in- creased. subsidies. Tile commission was not appointed but this increased subsidy allowance was made tem- porarily and is now being continued on the same basis.

NORTH Mka auo VICINITY

Citizens were shocked on Monday March 16th to learn of the sudden passing of Mr. Lewis Rose.

The many friends of Miss Erma McGregor are very pleased to have her in the vicinity. Miss McGregor is a. very talented young lady and a very successful teacher. She is substituting for Miss Rose who is off duty owing to the death oi’ her father.

Mr. H. G. Mon-ow, the big Hol- stein breeder, had the misfortune of losing a finecow recently.

Mr. Willie Fmaser, the lumberman 1s preparing for the Spring sawing.

Mrs. H. F. Morrow was a recent visitor to Red Point.

Mr. C. C. Dingwcll of South Lake was a recent visitor to Charlotte- town.

Mr. M. B. McPhee (merchant) was a passenger on the Out train Tuesday.

Mr. Preston Bennett 1s busy tak- ing out lumber for a new house.

Mr Austin Fraser ha; taken out a vary large pile of wood, has it sawed and is now having it split.

The sympathy of the whloe com- munity goea out to Mr. Seaman. that most courteous and bbliglng agent at Elmira. on the sudden passing of his mother 1n Alberton.

Mr. l". D. Bennett, foreman for the Old and Reliable firm of Matthew d; McLean. Sour-is. has

plant at North Lake shipped to Bruce stewartu for some mpair- This is one o1 the finest fish and canning plants on the Island and grader, 100 per cent.

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Life Insurance 1a tlle young man's beat Invest» meat. It nerves as an anchor for his entire fut- ure career and responsibilities.

The Great-West Life is tile Champion of Thrift and the Guardian of thousands of Canadian

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Canadian Leads Bermuda Tourney

. (A. P. By Glllfiltllfl Special Wire) HAltflLTON. Bermuda, March 2e —~l.nwie Miller of Chetser, N. 3., the defending champion, led the way into the semi-finals oi’ the Bermuda unatour golf champion- ships today. One other Canadian. one Bermudian and a single United States entry completed the last four.

Miller defeated R. M. Nelson of Greenwich, Conn., z and 1 in m; second round match today. E. H. Amory Jr., o! New York, R. 1). Case of clesakill, N.‘ J. Ted Fen- wtek of Montreal turned back R. C. Fisher of Jamestown, N. Y, one up and .1. E. Pea-rgan, leading Bermuda player, defeated T. S. Bassett of New York/Z and 1.

Aided by ideal golfing conditions all eight players were in the low 70's. ‘

Mt. Stewart

Mr. Allan Swan, Covehead. spent the week-end in Mtj stewart,

Mt‘. and Mrs. Daniel Clark spent the week-end at Covehead.

The whooping cough is dying out here now but there is still the odd case reported.

We are glad to sec Mr. Winston Birt around again after undergoing an operation in Charlottetown.

Mr. A. McKenzie, employed at the Govt. Garage. Charlottetown, zpeht the week-end at his home ere.

The lobster fever is on here. All the fishermen are engaged in building new traps to add to their fleets.

Quite a number of new boats are being built, Clark and Son are building their third while J. J. Mc- Intyre has finished his second one.

Among those visiting the City this week were: Mr. and Mrs. C. Ed- ward Burke, Mrs. M. McKay, Mr. A. McEachern, and Mr. Benjamin Bil-t.

The sympathy of the commun- ity goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Affleck in the loss of their little baby girl aged 51x weeks, who passed away on Monday, March 23rd.

Mr. H. W. McKay narrowly es- caped serious injury on Tuesday. While he was working around the batteries of his lighting plant one of the batteries blew up, spraying acid all over him, while a piece of flying glass struck him on the face. making a nasty gash which neces- sitated several stitches.

Miss Helen Gotell spent a day with her sister here, Mrs. E. P. Clark, on her way home to George- town where she intends to conval- esee after undergoing an 013811» tlon in the P. E. Island Hospital.

It is rumored that, several new houses are to be erected here this summer, 1t is not expected this "boom" will end uncmlilioymflli but it may relieve it temporarily.

JESUS MY FRIEND

I have a friend named Jesus The spotless Lamb of G1. He guides my erring iOOBiIBPB

Along the path He trod. His Word is my Guide-Book To guide me day by day. 1t gives me joy and comfort When It 1 do obey

H0 1s my only Saviour, No other name I need

Hts Blood alone suffices To cover every deed.

He 1a my blessed “ . My savlous and my Friend

He takes me through life's dangers Until my Journey's end.

0h. how I try to follow This Saviour every day. Though Btatan tempt me often To turn my 5011i IWBY- gut. still 1'11 trust my Saviour Through sorrow. 10y and min Then I will be with Jesus In Heaven with l-lim to rel!"- Lilly Creed. ' Albion. -.1_

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DIVORCE IN CANADA

In my early days around Parlia- ment Buildings the divorce com- mittee bf the Senate was not the exclusive body that it is today. Ally person seemed to be at liberty to attend the sittings and hear the evi- dence, but it was understood that no report of the proceedings was to be published. A lew W“; ago, however, the rules regarding the admission of strangers were made more stringent. Only members of either House. together with the 1n- terested purties and their counsel, are now permitted to attend. Any- way, outsiders nowadays aeeem. to take little interest in divorce pro- ceedings and the newspapers rarely mention when an application 1g up for consideration. Only when a bitterly contested ease reaches the House of Commons and the M. 12's get on their dignity is anything heard of the matter.

‘Section 01 of the British North America Act declares that the ex- clusive legislative authority of thc Parliament of Carlada extends to all matters comma. Within the classes of subjects enumerated in the acc- tion, amd among the subjects so mentioned is specifically that of "marriage and divorce.” It is fur- ther provided in this statute (sec- tion 129) that all laws in force in Canada, Nova Scotia. or New Bruns- wick. at the time of the union, and all courts of civil and criminal juris- diction should continue in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick respectively, as 11' the union had not been made; subject nevertheless (except with roapect to such as are enacted by or exist under act of the Parliament of Great Bri- tain) t0 be repealed, abolished or altered by the Parliament of Can- ado, or by the legislature of the res- pective province. according to the authority of the Parliament or of that: legislature under the said B. N. A. Act.

Nova Bcotia and New Brunswick, prior to Confederation, had enacted divorce legislation. and possessed courts exercising jurisdiction 1n. this matter so that by section 129 just quoted they have continued. Prince Edward Island 1n 1835 had created the Governor and Executive Council a Court o1’ Jurisdiction to deal with marriage and divorce, but only one case appears to have been presented to that body. Persons living in Prince Edward Island. seeking a scverence of the marriage tie, have invariably applied to the Parliament of’ Canada, but the record for the past twenty-five years shows that only four Island cases have been dealt with by the Dominion Parlia-

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five sessions number only 1&2, Pr“- “Billy all from the province of Que- bec. With an average of only thirty abillications to Parliament the di- voroe committee has now no qlm- Cult? 1n functioning expeditiously.

For some years after Confedera- tlon the Senate procedurctn divorce matters was rather crude, as con- tracted with present. day conditions. For instance. when an application Wes filed, cousel for the party m- terested would appear at the bar of the senate on sununons, and 801. emhly testify that he had duly serv- ed the moonshine with the requisite notices. The journals of the Upper House chronicle a score o1’ cases of this kind for the first few years after Confederation.

There was no “standing commit- toe on divorce" h those days. Every bill was referred to a “select” com. mitts-e. the personnel of which changed with each" application. The result would be that often senators would be appointed on a. select committee who knew little or noth- ns of the rules of evidence. A change came in 1888. at the instance of Senator (later Sir James) Gowarl, who had been called to the Upper House three years before. After forty years’ experience as a. county court Judge Sir James was natural- ly thoroughly fanullar with court practice. When he became a sena- tor he was from time to time ap- pointed on select committees to con- sider dlvorce applications and 1t did not take him long to realize that the procedure followed required a thor- ough overhauling to make 1t con- form more closely to that of a court of law.

(To Be Continued.)

Halifax Port’

Arrivals

..Daily vessel report f0‘: 24 hours ending 12 dclocl; noon, Wed. March 25. 1936.

ARRIVALS-Kirsten B. from local Harbour, Pentland 8s Barge, from Local Hadbour, Vlmy Ridge from Local Harbour O'Leary Lee from Local Harbour, BOII Serf from Local Harbour, Novallta from local Harbour, Barge from Local Harbour, Valerie S. from Bans.

SAILINGS-Boston city to Car- diff, Kai-lander to B. W. Indies, Pcnrith Castle to Boston, Pentland 6s Barge to Local Harbour". Vimy Ridge to Local Harbour, O‘Leary Lee to Local Harbour, Bon Serf to Local HarbourmNovalite to Local Harbour, Barge to Local Harbour.

ment.

British Columbia 1n i858, by a proclamation of the then Governor, Sir James Douglas, brought, into force in that. colony the civil and criminal law of England. and in thus establishing courts for the en- forcement of this law 1t acquired jurisdiction in divorce cases and has retained that right ever since.

Similarly 1n Manitoba, Saskatche- wan and Alberta it has been held in repeated cases that the En lish di- vorce law forms a part of t c Stat- utes of these provinces and that therefore the courts of the Prairie Provinces have jurisdiction in di- vorce matters. Thus we have seven provinces. when they entered Con- federation, equipped with legal ma- chinery for uniying the marriage knot. '

But with regard to Ontario and Quebec the situation was different. These provinces had no divorce courts, and as a consequence be- came subject to the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada. All divorce applications had to be dealt

and this continued until I030.

In that year Parliament passed a "statute “chap. l4", to provide 1n the rovlnce of Ontario for the dis- solll ion and the annulment of mar- riage." The Supreme Court of On- tario was given jurisdiction for all the purposes of the act. The result of the adoption of this statute has been to relieve Parliament to a marked extent of what had become an intolerable burden, 4

P‘rom 186B to 1919. a. period of

was 306. say an average of eight per nnmlm. Then in 1920 thc ap- plications began to take a. big leap. Commencing with 100 they rah as high as 247 ill 1930, the barlner year. The total number of parliamentary divorces in those eleven years was 1.738, or an average of 158 per ses- slon. 1t was strenuous work for the divorce authorities. To com- plete its labors 1n the session it was found necessary for the divorce committee to split into two or three sub-committees, and even then thcsc sub-committees had to work during periods when the Sentate had ad- journed. Wlth the passage of the statute six gears ego creating a. court in Ontario, conditions have greatly changed. The applications granted by Parliament for the past

with by the two Houses at Ottawa, .

forty-two years, the total number of cases dealt with by Parliament

Valerie B. to_Local Harbour. VESSELS IN BERTl-i—Pcntland dz Barge discharging, vlmv Ridge discharging, Cornwallis discharging, Can. Constructor loading, Lady Drake loading. Cavalier loading, Valerlt sloading, Bon Serf bunker- ing. 0'Leary Lee discharging, Barge No. 2 berth, Novalitc discharging, Kacllander loading, Kirsten B. Penrith Castle discharging, Lill- gunvor loading. Boston City load- lng, Calrnesk loading. Barge dis- charging, Greta Thordell loading. Mary Currie berth, Acadian berth. VESSELS DUE TO ARRlIVE— March 25-ChcdubucLo from EC. Ports. Ree from Halifax, Kirsten B. from Halifax. March 26—Incemore from Boston, Artlgcs from U. S. Ports. March 2'l—~Bebverh1ll from Saint John. Lady Sonlcrs from Jamaica, Colborne from B. W. Indies. Man. Brigade from Saint John. March 28—Auran1a from New York. C. of Pltisburg from Saint John, Japanese Prince from Far East. Y March Zfi-Sulairia from Saint John, Korsholm from New York, Ausonla from London, Ohedabucto from E. C. Ports. D. of Bedford from Saint John, Portia from Nfld. Ports. Veenham from Rotterdam. Scary Bnlshevik from Boston. March 30—F'ort Amherst from New York. A Steamer from Saint John, Taiisse from Far East, Lut- ben from Nfld. Ports. March 31'"N0l‘\\'€gl2ll‘l from Glas- gow, Bclle Isle from Nild. Ports. Nova II from Halifax. April lwReo from Lenarfish from Halifax.

Halifax,

PREFER gTRltll-ZTS T0 FREE BERTIIS

LONDON. March 2B—(C.PJ-- why pzople slccp out at nights and infuse offers of frcc lJPIlS is a problem. but in ls the cost‘.

There are home-lea; people o1’ both sexes who. except in the severest weather. prefer remaining in iho streets to sleeplnz in beds which are offered free to them. This fact is revealed by a census taken on a February morning. when 59 men and 18 women were found 1n thc streets, yet there were vacant beds in casual wards and hostels.

Dealing with the Latter thc

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SeekVMotirJe For Slaying 0f Retired Naval Officer

(C. P. By (luardlanh Special Wlrct

CORK 11-15}, Free 5tate_ Mnfch time to pursue their investigation. 25—-Pcliuc investigating the brutal v199'AdmiTa1 siimervilie had murder- of vicgflAdmjral Remy been living in retirement after a Boyla Somerville vccrcd tonight io tho theory that the retired naval office": was slain 1n an act of mis-i directed patriotism. l

A poster urging young Irlshmen to join the British army was found in the hall of Point House, the; Admirahs secluded residence n’. Castletownshcnd. It had evidently been dropped there by the four u..- sailants who broke in tho how" Monday night and emptied a ' volvcr at Sornerville before the rjrr of his wife.

A relative also told officers ill" the Admiral was "very aoiivu ‘ enlisting boys for tho navy. i"; someone may have considered ill. o matter for which he should i: , v put, out of the way." '

Acting Cornncl~ T. P. Gralner l1». _ day postponed the inquest lmli! i Friday" to give police addltionalli

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the war years he was engaged in patrol‘ and convoy work on the North Atlantic, and in 1917 was senior naval officer at Halifax, N. S. Early in his career he served in the Egyptian and Chilean- Peruvian wars. and in the V6878 0! peace that followed prior to 1914 he did extensive scientific work for the Royal Navy in all parts of the world.

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on Public Assisiancc states ii. is, inlposslbla to give reasons Wily, people sllnll‘d choose lo yleop out‘ in February. Tho l‘(‘p(ll‘i ndds, how- l over: '

"A motive in many cases may be l a desire to give an appearance n1 complete desitlltion as a means of 1 appealing to the pockets of lll"i clluritably-nllndrd; the problem is} one of mcnrlicancy 8-; well as nnol o1’ destitution. Ii scmns probable that. some people pra'cr begging to lrgul assistance because it docs not. involve the snpcrvlsion inciziiint- al to the grant of relief."