BETWEEN today and Christmas, there will be about 60 Bolton people emigrating to Canada. Mostly consisting of small families, these people can obtain quicker passages than emigrants to Australia and New Zealand. There are comparatively few young single people going out to Canada; those who are going belong mainly to a Government scheme. Very few have decided to try their luck on their own.

YESTERDAY, the outside passengers on the omnibus leaving Farnworth for Bolton, about one o'clock, were treated to the disgusting spectacle of witnessing a pigeon given to a dog to worry. The collier, a young man, after having seen the poor bird torn to pieces and a considerable portion of it greedily devoured by his dog, a ferocious-looking animal of the bull and terrier breed, proceeded to throw the wings, the head and the entrails on the public footpath as the omnibus passed along. The collier had with him three or four mates, one or two of them being guilty along with him. It is to be hoped, for the sake of common humanity, that the name of the scamp will be discovered and proceedings instituted against him; and further, to prevent a repetition of such a sickening scene, that Messrs. Holden will rigidly prohibit the conveyance of dogs by their omnibuses.

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