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Show NOTES FROM ABROAD. From Brussels and for American use the bureau of manufactures, Washington, D. C, has received new application blanks and additional literature lit-erature relating to the international exposition to be held in Belgium in 1910. A new steamer, the Vasari, intended intend-ed for mail and passenger carriage, has been put in service by the Lamport Lam-port and Holt line, between New York and Brazilian and Argentine ports. During 1908 the 308 furnaces in South Wales, England, had an average aver-age pig iron production of 30,000 tons, against 27,400 in 1907 and 15,000 in 1882. The Japanese government will next year send commercial agents to Europe and America for the development develop-ment of Japanese trade. Leading Japanese provision merchants mer-chants have agreed to dispose of 7,500 bags of Brazilian coffee during the next three years. A new electric railway is to be built from Morrisburg, Ont., to Ottawa,. Ont. The power plants will be at Morrisburg and Billings Bridge, Ottawa. Ot-tawa. The company has $1,000,000 corporate capital. Another line contemplated, con-templated, called the Belt Line Electric Elec-tric (railway, covers practically the same route, and whichever line begins work first will get the right of way. Out of 206 railway charters granted by the Canadian parliament in the twenty years ended 1909 only twenty-eight twenty-eight have resulted in any construction, construc-tion, eighty-six have lapsed and the others have received extensions ot time. Exclusive of the Canadian Pacific, Grank Trunk Pacific and Canadian Ca-nadian Northern, the charters granted grant-ed called for 63,809 miles of construction. construc-tion. Denmark exports to Great Britain over $48,600,000 worth of butter yearly. year-ly. Dairying in Denmark is mainly co-operative. In 1907 the 1,085 associations asso-ciations had 158,170 members, bound as a rule to the enterprise for ten years. The creameries in 1908 numbered num-bered 1,345. |