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26 I I) ee ee a BR fy 4: ee CANADIAN SHIPPING NOTES Capt. W. Rogers has been appointed harbor master at New Westminster, N. B. : N. P. Horton has been appointed measuring surveyor of shipping at Owen Sound, Ont. The Toronto city council has decided to pail or purchase a dredge for work at the island. Capt. W. Milner, Capt. P. Hanson and R. Lowrieson, have been appointed members of the pilotage authority for Sack- ville; N. B. - During the season of navigation there arrived at Montreal 365 sea-going vessels of 1,218,368 tons, against 459 vessels of 1,399,621 tons in 1903. The steamer City of Topeka is to be repaired and refitted at Victoria, B. C., at a cost of $100,000. She will be put on the Alaskan run when finished. Capt. Muggah of the steamer Wasis died suddenly at North Sydney, N. S., Jan. 2. He formerly was master of the Black Diamond Line steamer Louisburg. A stern wheel steamer has been ordered by J. Walter for the Saskatchewan river trade from W. Pearce, Edmonton, Alta. The new steamer will be 80 ft. long by 16 ft. beam. The French River & Nipissing Navigation Co. has. been registered in Ontario to do a general navigation business. The head offices to be at Sturgeon Falls, Ont., and Hamilton The Ottawa River Navigation officers for 1905 are: Presi- dent, H. W. Shepherd; vice president, H. Wallis; managing . director, R. W. Shepherd; other ee Rk. Bolton, As cr, Riddell. The Muskoka Lakes Navigation & Hotel Co. shows a profit of $21,672.84 on its navigation business, and a net loss of $7,- 930.95 on its hotel business for 1904. No dividend will be declared, although there is now to credit of profit and loss account $22,680. T. G. Mitchell, the. recently appointed Lloyd's engineering surveyor for British Columbia, was presented with a case of cutlery by the Canadian Pacific railway's steamship staff at Victoria, on resigning as chief engineer of that company's steamer Princess Victoria. The Nelson River Packing Co., of which J. K. McKenzie of Selkirk, Man., is one of the principal promoters, has. been incorporated under a Dominion charter with a capital of $40,000 to carry on a general navigation business on Lake Winnipeg and elsewhere in Canada. The Turbine Steamship Co., reports a successful season for 1904. The officers for the year are: President, J. Moodie; vice. president, C. A. Birge; secretary-treasurer, G. Hope; other directors: C. S. Wilcox, W. C. Hawkins of Hamilton; Ed. Hyslop and Col. Davidson of Toronto. E. W. McKean, inspector of boilers and machinery, Toron- to, has had his headquarters removed to Collingwood, Ont. The report that W. Evans, inspector of hulls, Toronto, would also remove his office to Collingwood is incorrect. The re- moval of this latter office from Toronto would cause a great deal of inconvenience and delay for marine men, if it were contemplated by the department. The plans for the two new steamers for the Canadian Pa- cific railway, for which orders will be placed with the Fair- field Co., Glasgow, Scotland, are being considered at Montreal. The steamers will be 550 ft. long between perpéndiculars, with a 65 ft. beam, and will have a gross tonnage of 14,500 tons. The engines are designed to drive the steamers at 20 knots an hour. Accommodation will be provided for 300 first-class, 350 second-class and about 1,000 steerage passengers. The minister of marine has refused to sanction the find- ing of Capt. Salmon, late commissioner of wrecks, in the collision between the Capt. Breton of the Black Diamond Line, sailing between Sydney, N. S., and Montreal, and the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co.'s steamer Canada, off Sorel, Que., June 18, 19004. The ex-commissioner found the pilot of the Canada entirely at fault and suspended his cer- tificate. This has now been restored and the fines imposed remitted. The order-in-council recently passed relating to the in- spection of shipping in Canada revokes the order of 1904, and makes it compulsory that all vessels carrying freight, from port to port in Canada shall be subject to the Canadian steam- boat inspection act. It further provides that all tugs, yachts or other vessels registered elsewhere than in Canada, shall be subject to the like inspection. This latter regulation will apply to yachts, motor boats, etc., which are brought to Cana- da during the summer season by United States tourists. The Dominion government has issued an order bringing into force a new set of rules for the inspection of steamboats and for the examination of engineers of steamboats. The new rules are a consolidation of the Canadian rules for the inspection of steamers and for the examination of engineers along with a number of amendments rendered necessary to bring the same up to date. The new rules came into force Jan. 1, and all previous rules are abolished, except those adopted Nov. 12, 1904, respecting the inspection of passenger vessels propelled by gas, fluid, naphtha, electricity or any me- chanical or chemical power other than steam. 'The Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Navigation Co., _ which operates the steamers Lakeside and Garden City be- tween Toronto and St. Catharines, Ont., during the summer, has been purchased .together with the electric railway and their properties of the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto: Railway Co., by a Toronto syndicate. The new company will have as its president, F. Nicholls of. the Canadian General: Electric Co., Canada Foundry Co., Canadian Ship Building: Co., and other enterprises, and among its directors will be D. D. Mann of Mackenzie, Mann & Co., railway contractors, Toronto, and connected with the Canadian Lakes & Ocean, Navigation Co. The ship building and engineering firm carried on in Toron- "sto as the Polson Iron Works has been registered as a joint stock company under the Dominion companies' act with a capital of $1,000,000 and offices at Toronto. The company will take over the present yards, business and contracts of the Polson Iron Works, and is given power to carry on the same, acquire other works of a similar character, or purchase stock or bonds of the same, and to acquire lands for the extension of the present works. The provisional directors are: . A. ,H. Jefferey, assistant manager of the works; W. B. Tindull, the accountant; J. J. Main, boiler saperinicident Mrs. F. -B. Polson sen Mrs. J. Miller. A company is in course of formation in Toronto for the purpose of construction of a canal from a point on the Geor- gian bay between Waubushene and Midland, Ont., to Lake Simcoe, and from the southern shore of that lake to some convenient point in the county of York, near Toronto. This project has been mooted at different times for some years, but nothing definite has ever been done. The Dominion gov- ernment is constructing the canal from Georgian bay via. the Severn river to Lake Simcoe; from Lake Simcoe by a number of short lengths of canals, connecting navigable rivers and lakes to a point on Lake Ontario. This stretch of navigation is known as the Trent Valley canal, and it was originally proposed to have the Lake Ontario outlet at Trenton. There is some 130 miles of the navigation open for barges drawing 8 or 9 ft., and contracts have been let for the completion of the canal into Lake Simcoe. This work, it is expected, will be completed for the opening of navigation in 1906. 'The question of terminals is under consideration by the govern- ment. An alternative route to the Severn river has been urged, and Port Hope is agitating to be made the Lake On- tario outlet instead of Trenton. The Northern Navigation Co. has issued a warrant against the estate of the late J. J. Long, its former president, to re-