Show THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto Mall and Empire The liThe coming coming cornIng com corn ing of the NIobe means that we now have our first warship The Niobe Is a cruiser which the tho ro royal al navy has dis dis- carded She was on her way to the scrap scrap heap when the Ottawa government determined determined de de- de- de that we wo should have a navy of our own owe Halifax Herald On the tho other hand tree free trade in natural products would be beof beof of no benefit to Canada It would for example ruin Nova Scotia's soft sort coal trade up the St. St Lawrence an and give ivo nothing of any real and certain value in return But the greatest objection of allis all allIs allis Is that such a a. treaty with the United States would place an Insuperable barrier In the way of the British empire reci red London Free Press While the st steamship steamship steam steam- am- am ship companies are showing their enterprise enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise by Increasing their fI fleets ets and improving improving im Im- im- im proving their steamers Canada still has much to do in the way of making the St. St Lawrence route as safe as any American route toute In spite of all that has been done in the past to safeguard navigation navi navi- gation there were several had accidents during the season and it must be remembered re re- that accidents not only prejudice prejudice prejudice dice shipping men but the traveling public public pub pub- lic ito as 35 well ell Montreal Ga Gazette zette The unanimous decision of tho the coal mine operators of Nova Scotia against a a. re reciprocal arrangement arrangement arrangement ar ar- ar- ar with the United States for forthe forthe I Ithe the free admission of bituminous coal somewhat complicates Mr Fieldings Fielding's tariff negotiations with the United States It does not follow of course that Mr rr Fielding Is bound to pa pay an any aHan attention to the protest of the operators but it would be somewhat Inconvenient for him to i to act against the view expressed expressed ex ex- pressed if It that position is also assumed by the Nova Scotia government Toronto Globe Within a very few years ears the bulk of the milk and dairy produce coming Into Toronto from a radius of fifty miles mites will come com by trolley car or motor truck The farmer who now spends a to toilsome Isome day In hauling his produce to town will leave It at the trolley trolley ley Icy or motor truck depot and one man with a modern modem horseless vehicle operating In ins ing on a good road will do the work that now takes twenty away from the farm for a large part of the time and greatly lessens their productive power |