'r" . ■ Ÿ- ..a. - WHERE TO GO TO-NIGHT WEATHER FORECAST Capitol—Fbg Bound. V... Dominion The Ruade of Silk. Columbia—Golden Dreatoa. v For 36 hours ending 6 p. m.. Friday: ' v'" Amazing Ana. Victoria and vicinity—Light to mod­ PVLKttfes— Vaudeville.Vaude erate winds, generally fair and warm. / X PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. 62 NO. 135 VICTORIA, B. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 7,1923 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Officers of Victoria Moose Lodge Entertaining Northwest Delegates MOOSE CONVENTION ASSEMBLY TAKES UP LANDS FROM SALE. OPENS TO BLARE OF MANY FINE BANDS THE UNION QUESTION People Will Get Revenue of —■ — $45,000 From Lands De­ Lieutenant-Governor Nichol Extends Welcome At Report of Committee In Favor of Union Presented At partment This Year Sales So Far Total $218,585; Auditorium; Thousands of Delegates Arrive On Session In Port Arthur, Ont., By Rev. Dr. Pidgeon; Holiday Bent; Ladies of Mooseheart Convene At Church Representatives Urged to Take Action Im­ Rents Amount to $51,- - 910 toDate Pythian HalL mediately. , \ ____ Fijfurt* to show that the city Victoria to-day welcomed several thousand members ”bf the Port Arthmr, June T—fCansdian Press €able)—The will rewve this year revemierto LoytH Order of Moose, attendioc the proceedings of the eighth long awaited debate on the question <o£ Church. Lnion was started the amount of $45,547 from re­ annual convention of the Northwest Moose Association. at this afternoon’s session of the Presbyterian General Assembly verted lands sold to date And The convention sessions will continue for three days in the when Rev. Dr. G. C. Pidgeon, Toronto, chairman of the Assembly’s about $25*000 in rents, were laid Chamber of Commerce Auditorium. Committee on Union, -submitted the' report of that committee and before a conference between Lieutenant-Governor Walter C. Nichol, Premier John Oliver, began his address. leading real estate men and the Mayor Reginald Hayward and C, T. Cross, President of :the The late Rev. Dr. James Ross, of Toronto, addressing the 1913 City Council Reverted Land* Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the three hundred accredited Assembly in Toronto, declared, “We have come to the parting Committee yesterday afternoon. delegates at 2.30 o’clock this afternoon at the formal opening of the ways. What must now be done by the church is to count the On account of the large amount proceedings. cost and take the loas.* which the city is receiving Benjamin J. Weeks, of Tacoma, a* A similar statement was made to-day by Df. Pidgeon and the and will receive., from reverted land president of the Northwest M0Ô6S sale* the Committee refused flatly to Association, responded, while Rev. general opinion expressed by delegates indicated that the period consider the proposal of the real Dr. Campbell pronounced the invoca­ of “patient waiting” is over and that the time for action has «•state men that all reverted lands Moose Programme tion. should be withheld from sale to Many hundreds of delegates arrived arrived. ri--. -, V strengthen the realty market. in the city yesterday, but the main In the course of his address, re­ Since starting its land department SECOND DAY, FRIDAY body arrived this morning on the flecting the views of the great ma­ in 1920 the city has sold 177 parcel* JUNE 8, 1923 8.8. Sol Due and the automobile jority of the members of, the As- 200 PUT UNDER of property, it was announced at ferries, the last large contingent being Membly aa indicated by the applause, yesterday's conference. For these on board the B.8. Princess Charlotte and the views of the majority of the ARREST FOR PLOT IN the city is . receiving $218,585. The FORENOON. froiix Seattle, for whose benefit th* members of the Union Committee, CZECHO-SLOVAKIA sale price of land sold in 1920. 1921 Business Session, 9.30 a. m. formal reception hfcd been delayed. Dr' Pidgeon said: and 1922 was $201.886.74, and no far New Business. Mooeeheart. Action Declared Needed. Reports of Committees. Prague, Czecho - Slovakia, June this year $16,998.52 worth of property The women of Mooseheart Chap­ “In the reiolulîbn herewith pre­ has been mid. Cash received for all —Photo by Goodenoush.. Future Policies of the Associa­ sented it is recommended that the 7.—Two hundred persons are un­ Sgt.-at-Arms; C. Cuming, Trustee; W.tD. Taylor. tion. ters met on time at the Knights of der arrest, including a number of sales to date totals $116,616.62, it was left to right—JU G Parnall, Trees.; J. Leask. Pythias Building, carried out nomin­ General Assembly proceed forthwith stated. The estimated value of all Adjournment for Lunch, 12 m. to the consummation of union. There Communiste, following the die-, Prelate; W. A. Hurd.d.-PHSTDIctator. ations and transacted much routine covery at Preesburg of a vast land so far was set down at $450,000. Front row. left to right—-W. J. Johnston, .A*8*-'Kgt.-at-Arms, W. M. Ritchie, Vice-Dictator; C. E. Copeland, AFTERNOON PROGRAMME. business Under the energetic direction is need for action immediately. The and of this $47,657 is represented in discussion and policies of the last espionage conspiracy, according Dictator; J. F. Pearce, Secretary; 8. H. M. Barber, Inner Guard. Business Session, 2 to 4 p.m. of Legionnaire May Davis, of Van­ te the newspaper Narodni Liaty. this year’s sales. couver. thereby releasing the dele- - twenty years have created conditions Big Current Revenue. Baseball Game, 3 p.m.—C. P. R, that can not continue. We have, by Victoria vs. Moose, at Stadium gates for the remainder of the day, The estimated revenue from land and malting possible their presence at oujr continuance of the negotiations, put on a tax paying basis by these Grounds. pledged ourselves to the other de­ 4.15 p.m.—Official Convention the formal proceedings at the Cham*» salés is $45,547 for this year. This ber of Commerce Auditorium thi*. nominations which have accepted revenue is made up of taxes that the Photograph, at Stadium. inconvenience and loss without mur­ NEW GERMAN OFFER 4 JO p.m^—-Band Contests in afternoon. new owner* will pay on the land It Is announced by the Executive of muring in order to keep faith with which reverted to the city and which Front of Parliament Buildings. us. We have bad the subject so long Prize, 1100.00. the Women’s Chapters that strict ad­ was later hiold to them: General herence to the time table feature before us that we must decide, the taxes on these lands amount to 5.30 p-iTv—Drum Corps Contests. pne way os the other, or merit the 1,300,000,000, MARKS Prize, «50.00. all sessions of their proceedings, "aa $19.000; local improvement taxes reproach or double-mindedness with FREE TRADE PLAN the delegates want to enjoy the $6.000; instalments on agreements of its consequent instability Since EVENING PROGRAMME. beauties of Victoria and the enter­ sale, $16.460.49; and interest on Un­ Benj. B. Weeks, of Tacoma, tainments so liberally available^* It 12 our church has been practising New Zealand Premier Says paid balances. $5#,090.11. • p.m. to 1 a.m/—Monster Con­ conciliation in the hope of approach­ A YEAR TO ALLIES Association Chieftain, Out­ vention Danes, at the Armories. Musical Features. Fort y-nine new homes have beeit ing unanimity. On this question Empire Should Be Self- erected at different points in the city lines Growth of Order (Same schedule for Women of The fine band of the Vancouver every such effort had succeeded only ^ , Supporting on tot# sold by the city to private Mooeeheart Legion). Lodge was the first musical aggrega­ in so far as the majority withheld buyers, it was announced at yester­ tion of the Moose to arrive in the city, tbelr conviction and dropped their Berlin, June 7.—Gmniriy’s amendatory reparations note, “ The Loyal Order of Moose i* THOU) DAY SATURDAY end title morning attracted much at­ Christchurch, N.Z., June 7.—(Can­ day's conference. The city has sold policy for the time being. In - the 46 buildings with reyerted lands and which was handed to the Entente and United States Government* an accurate cross section of the 7 JUNE 9, 1923 tention, playing through the street* judgment of the majority of the adian Press Cable via Reuter s)—The of the city. The arrival of the Sol present policy by which foreign ten buildings have been re-built by this afternoon, propwes a system of annuities estimated to total average good citizenship of members of your committee, this can private buyers. 'Thus 105 buildings I>yc augmented the musicians by not now be repeated, The minority goods were du/np«d In the countries 1,300.000.000 marks annually if an international loan i* not avail­ FORENOON. forty instruments from Tacoma and of the British Empire was neither are in the hands of private owners North America. ought not to ask it again. The con as a result of the lands department's able for immediate capital payment*. The annuities would become Business Session, 9.30 a.m. the drum and fife band of Port An­ dltion of union and co-operating sensible nor fair trade. Premier W. F. Progressive and helpful to Selection of Convention City for geles, while the Seattle boat brought Massey declared in a speechTiere last work. effective in 1927 and their number and amount would depend chargee through the country will not Largs Rents, Toe. neighboring communities, the 1924. the forty-piece organisations of Se­ night.