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pean Powers ; city officials, worthily presided over by 

 the Pro-Mayor, Hon. John Hearn ; speck and span 

 new members of the Provincial Cabinet, with their 

 eloquent, alert premier, the moving spirit Hon. H. G. 

 Joly de Lotbiniere following briskly the gay cavalcade. 

 " Let go the hawser " sang out our bustling captain, with 

 an abundance of gold on his uniform, and the Druid 

 shot past the Bellerophon, the Canada and the pretty, 

 tiny Thrush, bearing the flag of the youthful Prince 

 George, under a full head of steam. 



A few minutes more, the steamer, amid channel was 

 edging in towards, the grassy beaches of Beauport, 

 where the scream of the iron horse has this spring- 

 drowned the roar of the cannon and the shout of victory 

 which Montcalm's Grenadiers and the Canadian militia 

 echoed on this strand on the 31st July, 1759, when 

 Wolfe's Highlanders and the brave British Grenadiers 

 were confronted by the inaccessible heights of Montmo- 

 rency. 



EXCURSION OF THE FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



" The excursion offered, to the members of the American 

 Forestry Association took place yesterday by steamer Druid 

 to St. Anne de Beaupre, and was a delightful success. The 

 members of the Alpine Club of France, now in town, accepted 

 the invitation to join the excursionists. 



Amongst these present were noticed Sir Ambroise Shea, 

 Governor of Bahama Islands ; J. Bryce, M. P., South Aber- 

 deen - 7 Gen. G. Wilson, New York ; H. L. de Villemorin and 

 P. de Villemorin, Paris ; Hon. H. Mercier, Hon. Charles Lan 

 gelier, Hon. Geo. Duhamel, Hon. H. Archambault, Hon. H 

 G. Joly de Lotbiniere and Mine. Joly,M. G. Joly de Lotbiniere 

 and P. B. Casgrain, M. P. 



Forestry Association : — Messrs. J. D. W. French, Boston : 

 N. G. Kidder, Milton, Mass. : M. A. Blue, Deputy Minister of 

 Agriculture, Ontario ; Aubrey White, Deputy Minister of 

 Crown Lands, Ontario ; B. E. Fernow, Chief of the Forestry 

 Division, Washington, and Mrs. Fernow 5 Mr. and Mrs. Edge 

 and Mrs. Geo. T. Weston, Newton, Pa. ; J. Craig, of the Dom- 

 inion Experimental Farm 5 Professor Lazenby, Columbus, Ohio ; 

 George Moore, Hon. L. A. Robitaille, Edgar T. Ensign, and 

 Mrs. Ensign, Colorado Springs ; H. B. Moore, Hon. J. K« 



