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Fifty or sixty yeara ajro when Australia was still but a penal 7rhr> Tltnitlfi^r settlement, Canada was our most important and pet colony, VirlJt UVUUllWl* Yier oliief towns Montreal and Quebec, Halifax and Toronto,' were the most popular of stations among our regimental oflicers who broujrlit home flourishinjr accounts of the beauties and attractions of the country whether in the shape of sportintj and canoeing expeditions through the lakes and fort-sis, or of social gaieties and winter diversions in the cities. Any mw. in those days who elected for a colonial life naturally went to Canada — and many gentlemeii settleil in the colony at that period. Subsequently the discovery of gold in Victoria and the rapid rise of our Au- stralian colonit's, drew attention to an opposite quarter of the globe ; and this be- ing followed by the gradual withdrawal of our troops from Canada left the latter oilniiy to fall out of sight for the time. Thus our gentleman emigrants for a long time past iiave sought for a home in New Zealand and Tasmania. Of recent years a great change has come over the importance and the future of Canada, ''.he yaet territory marked on our older school maps as British North America — and formerly supposed to be a useless waste, fit only for hunters and trapi)er{i, has developed into a great wheat field and is rapidly filling up with set- tlers, The whole has been bound together as the Dominion of Canada under a central parliament. The Canadian Pacific Railway has been carried from stT, to sea ; fast steamers are now plying from Vancouver to Japan and China ; steps are on foot for establishing lines to Australian ports, and to lay a Pacific cable, Canada now stands in a verv important position politically and commercially, and with a grand and assured future before her. The new importance and more especially the assured national future of Canada should lead settlers of the iiidep'^ndent class again to turn their attention in this direction because Canada possesses over New Zealand the great advantage of nearness and ease of access, Anyone who settles in the Australian colonies ne- cessarily cuts himself off in a great degree from home connections. Whatever may be the improvements in steam communication, the voyage must always be comparatively long and costly. On the other hand, ten days and a ten-pound note land you in Canada even with the present slow lines of steamers; but these it is certain will soon be accelerated and the time reduced to six or seven davs No doubt this ailvanta{,re would be more readily availed of were it not that a very exaj.'}:erated idea seema to have grown np reyardinK tiie supposed severity ol tlie Canadian climate. It must be admitted tiiat Canadians tliemselves are largely responsible lor this by their practice of giving undue prominence to the winter sports and amusements of the country, while tlie sjjlenfhtrs of tlio summer and the autumn are lolt in tlie background. For instance, wlien the ladies of Canada recently made a present to the Trincess May. a sleigh was selected as appropriate, though many voices were raised in protest atrainst this choice, as tending to encourage exaggerated arctic notions of the climate. Strangers may be excused for supposing that oue's time must be largely spent on snowshoes, and that skating and lobouganing arr the cliief recreations. The best sliort com- ment that can be made on tliis subject is, that very few people who live in Can- ada even so much as possess a pair of snowshoes, or a toitoggan, while everyone down to tlie humblest artisan, possesses a lent and a came. J'he truth is that — summery scenes are more prominent than wintry ones — the canoe, the lent, the gun and the rod are far more typical of Canada than are the sleigh and the snowshoe. Let us now run briefly over the "round of the seasons'" as we tind them in Ontario. It must be premised that Ontario is recommended to intending settlers, in preference to any other Province of the "Great Dominion," for sundry trood and suflicignt reasons. If you go furtiier west you get inti> tlie newer provinces, where things are ratlier rough at present, and moreover you increase your dist. ance from England and add a tedious railway journey to tiio voyage. On the other hand, the Eastern, or Maritime Provinces have a comparatively bleak and damp climate owing to their proximity to the Atlantic fngs and they present no countervailing attractions. Ontario stands far enough inland and high euDUgh above the sea to jiossess a fine dry atmosphere while its southerly position and th»» tempering efl'ect of th*' great Lakes give it a milder and 8hort»:*r winter tlian is fnind either at .Montreal or at Winnipeg. Good authorities place the climate of Ontario as being perhaps the finest on the American continent; an opinion which was largely supported by the extraordinary success of the exhibits from this I'rovince at the Chicago VVorld's Fair in all kinds of produce. Ontario is an old and well settled province possessing many fine cities and towns, excellent communications in all directions by rail and steamers, and is inhabited by an exceedingly respectable, sound and well ordered population, chiefly English and Scotch. In reviewing the climate let us begin with that bug.bear, the winter. It is neither so long nor so severe as is generally supposed. The winter begins late being kept back by the protracted and beautiful Can- adian Autumn. It is not until December that one finally takes up winter quart- ers, and not until the Christmas holidays are over that one feels regularly settled down. Or.e will be abroad again with canoe and rod by about the 1st of April, so that the winter, as such, practically comes down to some three months, which are not diflicult to get through. Regular winter weather in Ontario is bright and still. Most enjoyable weath- .\5 CIO- lb jath- er, tempting one to be out of doors, and really, the chief drawback is, that it is diflicult to P.id enongli to do to keep one out as much as one might wish. Herein iies the advanta^re of <:oin(i in for a little farming, as there is always something to be done abont a farm. If there is plenty of standing timber on your property any amount of occupation and exercise can be found in the Glad- stonian pursuit of cutting down trees, whether for firewood, or for sale as timber to the nearest saw mill. The favorite winter diversion is curling. This is conducted with much en- thusiasm in covered rinks as it is troublesome keeping an open rink clear of snow. For the same reason out door skating can only be had for a few days when tlie ice first forms. Tobogganing is capital sport and easilv arranged for if you have a steep hill liandy, but it seems to have gone out of fashion of late years. A brisk walk in fine winter weather is always enjoyabl and exhiliarating and no special wrapping up is needed. In fact the dry crisp oold is far easier kept out than one our cutting English east winds. The nsua! brilliant weather gives place now and then to a gray overcast sky and a fall of snow which lasts a day, or perhaps two, wiien blue skies and sun- shine again prevail Snowy weather is usually 'luiet and mild, and a snowfall in- terferes but little with out door j)urfeuita. In fact there are few days in the win- ter when one cannot take a i)lcasure in beiiiL' out. Now and then a cutting north wind sweeps down accompanied by driving snow and a low thermometer. On these occasions one j)refcra to stop at home for a day, or to wrap up well if you go out. But severe v\eather of this kind is quite the exception, in short the winter in Ontario is much the same as that of Centra! Europe, and has all the attraction of the traditional "old fashioned winter" once supposed tu have been |)revalent in the British Isles. ' i^^: The Canadian villa residence, such as the "gentleman settler" inhabits, is equal in pciint of (ronstruction ami fii.ish to the corresponding class of house at home, It stands in ampler grounds, including gardens, tennis lawn, orchard, &c.i to which may be added a few out-lying fields with farm buildings, if the proprietor has a taste for farming in a small way. There is a spacious entrance hall, fioored with polished oak. In a corner the visitor will notice an ornamental iror, grating, through which, i.*" it be' winter, a current of warm air is ascending. This is how the better class of Canadian houses are warmed and to this they owe their exceeding comfort. The heat pro- ceeds from a "furnace" in the basement w liich continuallv draws in fresh air, warms it and sends it up through the gratings or "registers," distributed about the house. These putent furnaces aro very well designed and can be regulated to a nicety by means of a slender chain w hich ascends through the floor and is hung to a hook in the wall of the entrance. By letting it up or down the draft is con- trolled a? re- ,ired by the inmates. At bedtime the furnace being fully charged is sot to i nr;i -low and requires no attention till morning ; but during the bitterest night it luaintuins the house at a comfortable temperature throughout. This system of heating, since it continually introducr i!6"eraliy disappeared by the end of the nioutii, Canadi- U'UV ?9UlilIllwi* ang 8.,,y jj,ey have no spring; the transition from winter to summer is certainly very rapid. By the end of May hot days occnr, the trees are in full leaf, yenetabies liave minle astonishintr progress, and tiie woods are full of binis that have returneil from the 8uutli and are pr3- paring to build. The lover of out door life may betake himself to his woodland cottage or ' shanty ' as early as the first of April. Caiioeinjr, fishing, anil other summer amusements can be begun at once. At this lime the naturalist takes great inter- est in observing the successive arrivals of the featlu ed tribes. Very beautiful ornithological collections can be made in Ontario, mai'y of the bpe(!ies being high- ly colored. Among them the ne»v comer will doubtless be astonished to find that there are golden orioles, canaries and humming birds. These binis supposed to be peculiar to hot countries atford a hint of the almost tropi(!al summer shortly to bo expected. The Canadian summer mav be defined as three months of splendidly fine and hot weather, sprinkled with severe '.i-.under storms. The retired Anglo Indian, during June, .July and A'jgust finds himself among quite familiar associations. Long chairs and ice»i lirinks on the broad verandahs which surround every Canadian home, are the order of the day — the Venetian blinds are cl(>sed and roomsdarkened for coolness, while tennis cannot be thought of until the cool of the evening. The mosquito and the fly have to be combatted by day or circumvented with the aid of gauze curtains at night. Owing to the great heat of the North American summer, the splendid weather that prevails and the existence of endless wild country intersected by lakes and streams, camp life occupies a very prominent position in the round of the year. No one considers the summer has been properlv spent without some "camping" so called. This was originally genuine tenting, as is still done on canoeing and shoot- ing trips or for their summer holiday by those who have not attained to the dig- nity of a cottage. But tentlife in very hot weather, with occasional thunderstorms, has its drawbacks, and when a family came to revisit the same camping place in succes- sive years and to form in fact a "standing" camp, it was found convenient to put up some kind of rough wooden shelter. This soon developed further, and it is DOW the usual custom to buy a suitable site, very often an island, and to build thereon a summer cottage, in which the hot months can be passed with more ease and comfort than under canvas. The cost of this is but small. 7" ( In favorite looulitios, ospccially tlioso wliicli are onsily reacltod from the larixo towns, tlioHo Hiimiiier rt treatH of all patterns and varioties from the luiniblo sinjjle roomed shanty to the elaborate npper story Swiss cottaL'e, with its verandahs and balconies are to be fonnd clnstorod in hundreds, flere ateaniers ply thron^rlioiit the summer, canoes are ),'lidintr over the water, tents are pitched around tlie cot- tages, llaj,'H are ilyint: and the whole presents a any and anin)ated scene entirely characteristic of summer life in Canada and the Northern i^tates. To the man of business, the clerk, the tradesman and the artisan, this annu- al outinj; in tent or shanty of course is the anah gue of the Hnglinhman's yearly visit to the seaside. Rut liow mucli more delif^htful than th" seaside lod(j;inj? house; and how much more economical. To the boys and twirls it is of course a veritable paradise. Throu^diout tiio summer there is excellent fishing in all lakes, the bass and raaskinonge (Masketjonzha of Longfellow'.s Hiawatha) being the principal game. These run to large sizes and take the spinning, as well as dead baits and to their capture a great many summer campers devote the greater portion of their time and energies. The intending resident, after deciding on his head quarters, will soon (ix on some site for his summer cottage. This he can easily select, as he will no doubt prefer to do, away from the popular and more crowded localities, which can be avoided while still keeping in touch with the steamers on which you depend for your mails and supplies. In fact you may go further than tliis— should you e8{)e(!ially i)refer a rural life and be unburdened with a growing family, which necessitates nearness to a school — you can make your permanent residence on some sucli spot. Hundreds of sites can be found on tlie banks of some lake or river, whence a driving track can easily be cut through the woods to the nearest road, and communication thus obtained witli some post oflice and general store. Land of course can be had very cheaply in such situations, and a good comfortable house can be erected for some £300 to £500. A very delightful settlement in Ontario cou'd be afl'ected on these lines by anyone whose tastes it would suit. At the end of August the heats of summer relax and the holidays being end- ed, the majority of campers and summer cottagers return to their homes. But we are now entering on that most beautiful of seasons, the Canadia.'i autumn, and the gentleman at large who has no spectial callo upon him will continue his stay among the lakes for a much longer time. His cottage fitted up with a stove or with tlie more cheerail open fire-place, will aflord a warm and comfortable abode long after the first element of cold is felt, and in fact right on into the winter if desired. During September and October the backwood lakes are wonderfully beautiful and the weather perfect Even far into November very delightful weather often lasts. Duck shooting opens on the first of September and continues until the lakes freeze. , Partridge shooting (strictly not a partridge but the Canada rufl'ed grouse) is in season during the autumn and up to the end of December. I Tim bass und tiiuskinoii^'c fisliinii; ^neR on ull tlie time, but in the autumn trout tishinj; also comes in. Tiie speck leil trout run to a hirge size in some lakes. On tlie 15th or 2(itli of October, deer shootiii}.; opens and continues a month or six weeks, the season boinj; from time to time varied by Government orders. I'cer are not to be found in the immediate neighborhood of the usual summer resorts. If uood spirt is wanted, arranuoments are made for an expedtiioa to tlie njore remote woods and lakes, where deer are plentiful as well as bears, wolves and the otiier wild animals of llie countr.v i'or a permanent arrangement it is best, eKjieciali y if two or throe join, to have a comfortable log shanty built in a good situation on some backwood lake, maybe fLfteen or twenty miles from your residence. I'roceed there about the middle ply of all kinds of game and fish The settler can therefore coiiiidenlly look forward to continued good sport in future years — the woods and waters are nnt being shot out or fished out. The backward exten- sion oi" settlement in Ontario has also j)raciically ceased, the ground being too rough to be worth clearing, now ihat ihe prairie lauds of Manitoba and the North West are available, Himuo these e.xtei^sive tracts of wild country, thougli easily ri'in^lied from the towns and settled parts, remain untouched, and will remain so for an indelinite period. We tliii-i complete our round of the seasons in Ontario, and the reader, it is lioped, may have learnt that things are not quite so wintry as he may have been led to 8uj)pose, To the lover of nature and of outdoor life, "the canoeist" the sportsman and fisherman, Ontario presents peculiar attractions. Eight months of the year, as wo have seen, he can spend abroad among the lakes and wood." with a varied succession of interests, from his tirst salmon in the early spring, until he drops the last duck of the season late in November. But apart from such pursuits, any- one who takes an interest in agriculture and farming, has the best of opportunittes for indulging such tastes. For the gardner it is a splendid climate — the warm spring and hot summer favor the raising of all kinds of vegetables and garden produce in great variety and perfection. Some parts of Ontario too are noted for fruit, grapes and peaches. Anyone who takes an interest in carpentering, boat- building, or wood working in any form can find every facility for indulging in any hobby of this kind, owing to the cheapness and variety of wood and the preval- ence everywhere of machinery for working the material into shape. The cost of living it may be generally said, is about half the cost of living in a similar style in England, and as there is a total absence of conventionality, you can live as you please. There are no ajipearances to be kept up for their own sake. But yon can keep a liorse and trap on an income wliioh would not permit of iour dreaming of such a lixury in the old country. A good residence in large grounds can be bought or built at half the cost of a similar one at home Generally speaking there are not many houses for rent or 8 sale, outmde the cities. In the country everyone is settled and owns his homo- The intending resident, after deciding on locality, will usually build to suit him- self. The housekeeper will no doubt enquire with some anxiety about the "servant question." The servant difficulty exists, of course, just as it does in En(,Mand, but not in an acute form. It is not as in Manitoba or British Columbia, where servants are simply not to be had, Ontario is an old settled province and the farms supply plenty of strong girls able to do all ordinary house work and plain cooking, and to bake and wash as well, if required, at a wage uf seven or eight dollars a month. If there is a family to be educated, there are many excellent schools for boyt- and girls, the charges being about £50 a year on the average. For the further or final education there are many fine institutions. There are several high class girls' schools and ladies' colleges. Foi bo> s the -Military Col- lege at Kingston provides a very superior training in a four years' course leading to commissions in the British army for a few— but all who pass the course are qualified for employment as civil engineers, and may get appoinlmenls as snch under government, or on tho gn^at railways. The School of Practical Science at Toronto also affords a very thorough training in varioiis branches of engineering, mining, electricity, &c. Similar facilities exist f(jr siudying law, medicine and other professions, and in all cases the expenses are very muderule, vvhile open- ings for employment are douhtlea numerous, a wide lield existing in the States as well as Canada. For society an English gentleman and his family naluraliy desire to have some neighbors of their own class and this circumstaiu-e restricts to Sdine extent the choice ol locality, English families having tended to collect rallier at certain places. The intending resident in Ontario will do heat, to begin by making his head- quarters, one summer temporarily nt some central place, and for this purpose the town of Peterborough is well situated — being very central in position and an im- portant county town. From here he can pay visits to such places as Barrie and Orillia on Lake Simcoe, to Port Hope, Belleville and Cobourg on the shores of Ontario, or any other places he would like to inspect; or in the immediate neigh- borhood of Peterborough he will perhaps find as suitable a locality as any other, the villare of Lakefield, beautifully situated at the foot of a chaio of lakes, eight miles from Peterborougn, being a specially favorite neighborhood. There are many individuals and families eking out an insufficient income in England, whose circumstances wonid be vastly improved and the measure of their enjoyment of life much increased by simply moving over to Ontario. If fear effacing the climate is the deterring cause, as there is reason to think it too often is, let it be repeated that the most delicate person has nothing to fear in an Ontario winter. The writer has never met with anyone who wished to go back after settling here, on the contrary all agree that after the bright, dry Canadian atmosphere they would dread returning to the chills and damps of the of the Old Countrv. LAKEFIELD. A Pretty Town on the Otonabee River — Unlimited Water Power— Picturesque Scenery —The Fisherman's Paradise — A Summer Retreat which Should Attract Thousands The following brief extract from the "Daily Globe" of Toronto, gives a short account of Lakefield : — Our time as Canailians is so fully occupied with the pressure of prosaic, every- day toil, that we have few opportunities io learn how to properly appreciate, by personal study and knowledge, the wonderful beauties of our aative or adopted land. And when a conapetence is secured, and leisure is earned, we rush off to distant lands, instead of studying the wide and rich domain at our very doors And it is not necessary to go far from the beaten track of commerce to find na- tural scenery so beautiful as to deserve description by pen and portrayal in picture. Do not think that you are to consent to a rough and tumble lourney through a wilderness. Ours is an Eldorado of nature's vealth much" nearer home. In fact we will not go beyond the comforts of good hotels, the sound of church bells, the brilliancy of the electri light, the telegraph wire, or the •'hello" of the telephone in our search of an eligible site for a factory, an inexhaustib'e supply of choicest woods for material, or, if on pleasure bent, the most inviting spot in ('anada. ^ , We will suppose ours is a party of Torontonians. Our route lies by Grand Trunk or Canadian Pacific Railway to Petorboro. There our choice is confined to the Lakefield branch of the Grand Trunk. Boarding the train there a start is made up the Otonabee River. The railway track follows the vagaries of the wind- ing river and narrow valley. The imaginative traveller can easily imagine that the rushing stream is claiming the right to dictate the course to be pursued and hear it taunt the railway with being a new comer and a modern innctvation. Up, up. up we go, for it is necessary to make an ascent of between 150 and 200 feet in our brief journey. At every curve of the river there is a picture of sparkling water, sombre woods, green fields, blooming orchards, and cosy farm houses that are a constant delight. "Lakefield," and we find ourselves at our destination, and at the terminus of the railway. P>om the station one sees a thriving village, made up of substantial residences, school houses, churches and stores, and a closer inspection and a few days sojourn more than confirms the first favorable impression. Now let us locate Lakefield. It is an incorporated village at the head waters mm 10 of the Otonabee River, for here the itreara widens so as to be dignified by being called a lake. There is, in fact, a series of lakes, but as one is called by the tongue-twisting name of "Katchewanooka" (lake of many rapids) no effort will be made to oursue the inquiry further as to nomenclature. It is in I'eterboro' Coun- ty, and its territory is taken from the Townships of Douro and Smith. Its area comprises 500 acres; has a population of 1,300, and an assessed valf of *3tiO.(i00. The rate of taxation is only thirteen mills on the dollar. This includes scliools, street watering, electric light, debenture interest and sinking fund— in fact every- thing requisite to run municipal matters. The cliurches are five in number, viz, Presbyterian, Methodist, Church of England, Baptist and Roman Catholic. The Presbyterian pulpit is occupied by Rev. A. C. Reeves; Rev. VVm. Liinbert ministers to the Methodists; Rev. George Warren is rector of the English Church : Rev. Father Kelly supplies the Catholic, and Rev. A. R. McDonald the Baptist. There are fiouris.'iing Masonic, Orange and Sons of England ledges and a large Court of the Canadian Order of Foresters. A brass band numbering 17 pieces furnishes the citizens with music. Cricket, foot- ball and baseball clubs receive the attention of the youny ineu. The village fathers of Lakefield hav* taken warning by the fate of towns left unprotected against fire, and a few years ago pnrchast^il a VVaterous Portable Engine, No. 1, two hose reels, hook and ladder truck, lOUO feet of hose, and three small hand engines. The streets, stores, hotels and other places of bu8iiie.ss are lighted by an ex- cellent system of electricity. There are four street lamps of two thousand candle power each, and the whole service is excellent. The .Mussrs. Madill Bros, own the plant and this, like all their business matters, is run economically, but so as to give satisfaction to all concerned, The Dominion Government, about seven years ago, erected a most substant- ial dam on the river and have maintained it since. No figures are at hand to show an exact estimate of the available power goiim to waste, but it is simply enormous. Even now two flour mills, one woollen mill, two planing mills, a saw mill with a capacity of eleven millions of feet a year, and the eleiitric light plant are operated by it, and yet there is room for more. And here is a good place to say that the townships to the northward have inillionn of feet of tl)e choicest hardwood timber.and therefore no better location can >)e found in Canada tor a furniture factory or wooden ware industry of any charattter than Lakefield. And now for a word or two in reference to the great stretch of water-way to the north of Lakefield for fishing and camping parties, or those seeking a summer residence with an unlimited supply of pure air and water. As already intimated the system of lakes begins at Lakefield and extends north to Young's Point, where there is a fall of six feet and a lock constructed and owned by the Ontario Government ; thence into "Clear Lake," a beautiful sheet of water, some five miles long by about two wide, unbroken by a single island; next, passing through "Stonev Lake," twelve miles in length, we arrive at Burleigh Falls (where there is a lift of 37 feet by lock). Love-sick Lake, (locks again), Buckhorn, Bobcaygeon, Coboconk, Fenelon Falls, etc., and there is a panorama of beauty the whole way, fully equal to that of the Thousand Islands. Already there are between one and 11 two hundred cottages at Stony Lake, where there are, by actual count, over 890 islands. And then the fishing ! Bet^inning at Lakefield and continuing for 3U or more miles, the fisherman is rewarded with lunge, trout, white-fish and bass, so big and delicious an to make one's nerves tingle and mouth water in anticipation of the sport and feast. Within the last year or two this fisherman's paradise has begun to attract the attention that its advantages deserve ; even the Americans, who are quick to appreciate a good thing, are invading the land and water, and it will be a surprise to the writer if the next few years does not witness an incoming of thousands of health and pleasure seekers. But a return must be made, if only briefly, to the village from whence the water journey begins. Threu-well equipped, speedy and comfortable steamers * provide means of transportation, and the landing place at Lakefield, daring the summer season presents a busy scene. The places of business in Lakefield make special provision to supply tourists with every comfort and even luxuries In planning this summer's holidays be sure and include ^he lovely lakes among the old Laurentian hills of Central Ontario." In udtlition to the above it may be mentioned that Lakefield has the follow- ing places of business: Five dry goods "and grocery stores, two flour mills (roller processs) witi\ a capacity of 200 barrels in twenty four hours, two planing mills, one woollen mill, one saw mill, three blacksmiths shops, two carriage factories, two hardware nierchauts, three harness shops, one printing ofiice, and bakers butchers, druggists, &(;. Among the merchants the names of the following may be more especially mentioned: W. H. Casement, reeve and postmaster, hardware ; R. Graham & Son dry goods and groceries ; E A. Tanner, (Manager Telephone Exchange), druggist; Madill Bros., (Electric Light Co.,) dry goods and groceries ; W. F. Trudo, butcher. J. F. Lillicrap & ('o., planing mill and furniture factory, Jas. Linton & Co., private bankers. Tit« Grove, Lakefield, is c preparatory school for boys, conducted by Mr. Sparham Sheldrake, a graduate from Cambridge, England. Here small boys are received, boarded and prepared for any of the larger public schools in Canada. As regards places of residence for those wishing to settle in Lakefield or its vicinity, particulars of diflferent properties that can be bought, from a 250 acre farm to a bijou residence with small garden and tennis lawn, can be obtained from the undersigned who will be glad to answer all questions regarding Ontario, Canada. F. R. S. BARLEE, Lakufikld, Ontario, Canada, Refkrkncks : — Major G. M. Bellasis, Lakefield, Ontario. or Surgeon-Col. Douglas, Berwick-on-Tweed, England. ^'***V.v| '^i '•■%WJSW 7^ ^r ^^ r i***-^ «:• ^A^ price %\Qt. The following prices may be calculated on the l)a8is of one cent equaling an |. J Enghsh halfpenny, viz: on the price Hat below, wliich is the market report of p'. *^' October 12th, 1894, for Peterborouph and Laketield districts "Butter, fresh roll per ^i] % ft), 22 cents to 24 cents," or 10 pence to one shilling' per ft>. "E^'j^s per dozen, 13 |. 'B. cents to 14 cents," or, ^ pence to seven pence per dozen. WHEAT. §e. §c. Wheal, lull per bushel, standard. . .0 m to M sprinsj standard 5110 54 FLOVR. '■'lour, patent process per cwt 1 50 to 2 (M) I'lour bakers per cwt J I'O to 3 60 COAKSE GKAIX. Barley, per bushel 38 toO 45 Peas, small 54 too 5(i Pens, mummies 5>ot)0 Oais It) toO .{:; Buckwheat 4'i loO 45 Rve 40 loO 40 Clover, Alslko 00 to 8 50 Clover, red ti 50 toG 50 WOOL AND HIDES. Kleecc XTiol l<)toO 17 Southdown ■vfool 20 toO 20 Veal Calf ski ns per lb 05 to 05 MEAT, POULTRY AND DAIRY PRODUCE. Beef, by the quarter per cwt 4 IK) to 5 50 Mutton per lb 00 toO 07 Lamb piT lb 07 too OS I tressed Hogs per 100 lbs 5 75 to ti 00 Hoys, live weight 4 75 to 5 00 Pork, by the quarter 7 00 to 8 00 J^i C. $ C I.iird OlOtoOli Ducks, per pair 00 to 76 ( ieese, ea<'h 50 to (K) Turkeys, each 75 to 1 20 Chickens, per pair 40 to 60 Poiatoes 50 too 60 Tallow, rendered per lb I) 0.1 to 03 GENERAL. Butter, fresh roll, per ib 22 to 24 Mutter, (M-c»ck 20 to 22 Butter, Firkin 18 to 20 Kttgs, pur doz 13 too 14 Hav, per ton S 00 to 9 00 Mi.\ed Hay 7 50 to S 00 St i-aw, per load 3 00 to 3 OO Wooil, hard, per load 3 iJO to 4 50 \Voo'i,solt, per load 2 00 to 3 (H) Union seed 1 00 to 1 ISi .Vppies 050to0()0 Coal, hard, per ton 5 50 to 6 50 Coal, soit, per ton 5 50 to li 50 c. c. Tea, per lb 40 to Go Kiee, per lb 05 to 0," Sugar, white 05to(K) Beef, per lb 10 to 12i Mu'ton,perlb .10 to 12* Vea,,perlb 10 to 12* Lamb, per lb 12 to 13 Servants wages, i?6.00 to $10,00 per month. Taxes— Lakefield, l;s mills on the dollar on assessable propert}', viz.: Land and buildings equal to three farthings on every live shillings. No poor rates, water rates or Queen's taxes. Horses, (common hack) from $75 upwards. Cows, (milkinu) from $25 upwards. Shooting and fisliint; free with close season for difl'erent kinds of game. Fare, first cabin, Liverpool to Montreal, $50 to $70. Fare, first-class, Montreal to Laketield, $8.25. •^^^iiibtmp^si^ibi^Ji^ii^iiSi^^i^t^^s'i^^^iSii k