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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1912-1-18, Page 6NION ESTIIYIA a De:00St: Of $6,289,86L desPatch from Ottawa, say: The main estimates for 1912-13 we tabled by the Finance Minister. The total appropriation asked for ass' $149,789,677, a decrease Of $6,289,- 801. Thi e total is made up of $104,- 819,314 for consolidated fund, end $44,870,372 on capital account, as against $109,616,917 and $46,462,- 621. respectively in 1911-12. The de, ereases are $4,697,012 on coneoli- dated fund and $1,592,248 on eaPi- tal aecount. The principal deerease is hieptib- lie works, the figures for which etaed at $/4,5314,380 as against $18,014,030 in the current year. 'Another heavy decrease is $910.000 in arts, agriculture and statiet'ea, which get $490,500. The differ- ence is in the disappearance of the appropriation for the census. The navel eervico ehow e a decreese ef $885,000, the appropriatiou heiteg $3,001,300. The eependiture on militia shows an increase of $191,- 000, standing at $$,334,450. capital expenditure of one mil- lion is provided for herbor improve- ments at Port Arthur and Fort Wil- liam Li the naval service the prinei- pal decrease is, one of $1,340,000 in the item including the purchase and maintenance of ships, ppkeep of dock yaeda and maiatenance of training schools, the appropriation being $1 660 000. There aro i creases in most of the °thee items, including two new fishing protec- tion vessels for the Pacific, and a new surveying ship for the Atlantic coast. The capital expenditure shows appropriations of two millions for the Hudson Bay Railway, twenty- five millions for the National Transcontinental and three millions for the Quebec bridge. . The Trent Oanal appeopriation -ke $1,900,000, as against $2,250,- 000, There aro no large appropri- ations for either the Welland or Georgian Bay cartels. For the Wel- land surveys there is a vote of $50,- 000, ` A total of $1,183,470 is shown ttoder the heading previucial sub - sidles, divided as follows :—Ontario, $287,657; Qtteheti, $285,125; Nova Seotia, $26,207; New Brunawiek, $16,614; British Columbia, $19/,704; Alberta, $87,653; Saskatchewan, $318,213, The Manitoba seliekly drops by $4,004, IN THE C.A.RIBBEAN. A. Naturaltist's Voyagings Among Desert and Little Hawn Islands. Perez; le Lowe has had an un- usual experience, whieh lie d eeribee in "A Naturalist on 1)ese Islands," Air, Lowe is a, !nem of the Britieh Ornithelogiste Union, and epent six consecutive winters voyaginz amortg the islands of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Ztlexieo in search of scientific ma- teriel The trips were maae in the yacht a Sir Frederic johnstone, The eueieus thiue about these de- . 'slancle is that although they are known geographically for pur- poses of navigation, they are poli- ticany arid cemmereially off the map. They are lands primitive and for the most part, uninhabited. Here and there Mr. Lowe. found a single family living in Robinson Crusoe-like style on an island, On others he found fishermen making temporary homes during the fishing seasons, and on still others, notab- ly the Co,ymana, he discovered a scanty population, the descendants of shipwrecked- sailors. Besides giving much information of value to the naturaliat, Mr. Lowe interest the general readee with descriptions of his 'wanderings through the wild and beautiful scenery of these bits of the un- known. In speaking of the zest for primitive lands as he experienced it on these islands, he says : "The eharin lay rather in their complete privacy and inaccesaibil- ity, in the sease of 'exploraeion" that one experienced while on them; in the feeling that they be- longed to no one but the birds and animals upon them; that as far as any one else was concerned one could go on them where one liked, when one liked, and how one liked. One felt constantly inclined to thank God that they were so commercially insignificant and gen- erally worthless that man had not swooped down to 'improve' them out of all recognition. "One of then, at least, is a little playground where grownup people could go 'bird nesting' and feel young again; where one could play at 'desert islands' among the coral reefs, lagoons and shady groves of cocoanut, thatch pains and satin- wood trees; where one could fish or bathe the whole day long; where one could forget the hurly burly, the worries, and petty jealousies of the world and be thankful that there was still left at least one little Tden where one could be happy with simple things." MARCHIONESS OF DUFFERIN. Conditeting a Poultry Business on a Business Basis. The Marehioness ef Dafferin, who will be remembered was a Miss is of New York and oue ef the les of Newport, has suddenly do- ped a hobby which she means turn to profit, She bas -neve in for poultry farm- , and market gardening at lier home in Ireland, and has found some magnificent specimens of her ()esters in the poultry shops of Dublin and many of the English and Scotch towns. Her gardening operations are ill in tho embryonic stage, but by uext spring she will be in eompeti- tion some of the best experts in vegetable, fruit, and flower cul- ture in Ireland. Such, is her en- thusiasm in this latter commotion that she has extended her aetivi- ties to hor London home. ' She had not been long in Ireland before she Saw that poultry farm- ing was a very neglected industry, so she set about cultivating it. At first she confined her enterprise to providing poultry for the use of her own household. Then she began to supply some of her friends, as occasion demanded, and finally the surplus went to hospitals and simi- lar institutions depending on -char- ity. Now the enterprise is on a sound business footing and one more member of the aristocraty is trading without any old time feeling of loss of easte, thereby. SMALLPDX IN QUEBEC. Disease Prevails in at Least 150 Municipalities. A despatch iron" Montreal says: There are at least 150 municipal- ities of the Province of Quebec where smallpox eases prevail, de- clared Dr. Elzear Pelletier, secre- tary of the Provincial Board of Health, on -Thursday. In the Coun- ty of Terrebonne it is very bad and many municipalities have com- plained to the board that they con- sidered themselves threatened by the •carelessness of the medical au- therities of other towns. Com- piaints have been especially num- erous against St. Janvier, where. it is alleged, the Council did not do anything effective to restrain the epidemic. Water cannot extinguish sonic men's burning desire for something stronger. SATISFikCTOItY Ship's Builders and Admiralty Gratified at Speed and Economy. A despatch from Lo-alon says': of twenty-eight " knots n hour Apart from the popular satisfactiort throughout ,the test: Her boilers over beating Germany, the Vickers and turbines worked to the satis- t'olnpall,lt, the -bui f tele ba- faction ;of bothbuilders and navy tleship cruiser" Lion; ...vhich made inen and the, s -team economy Was " ' „ record of over thirty-one knots rerria,rkeable, all the More So because hour in her trial on Tuesday, coal was .used throughout, instead d the AdiniraltY have reasorr,for of oil, with which it is dot doubted greatest 'satisfaction over her there would .have.: been bettu. 'r ,feerviazice when she' beat the re- Sults., Moreover, ,the en,iines„, ow - of the, dell/31'1a Dreadnought ing"to the 'weathe,r,,,were, not 1,voyled , 'ertliSer Moltke. The trial was'inacleat highest pi. „e, although '• nringe,the,'seneeest kind of ,wea- 'it, is lestireated that , alitding.,fpgj rain; varying , made 300' revolutions a nithut�The ' The', weather Hg ship is .,deelared %alto out the mile steady. She plough_e ariOus speeds*ere waves' inStead leg IP high fl:eeloo'aird'' peei ed throw theo in PRICES• OF FARM PliODOCTS REPORTS FROTit THE LEA.DING TRA.DE CENTRES OP Priceof Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Produce at. Home and Abroad. BREA.1)S'PlIFFS, Toronto, Jan. 16.--flone-Welter wheat. 90 per rent, patents. $3.50 to 53,55 at sea - beard. Manitoba Flours-,Pirst patents. 55.50; second patents. 55; and strong bak- ers', 54.40, an track, Toronto. Manitoba wheat -4o. 1 Northern, $1.- 10 1-2, Bay Ports; No. 2 Northern, 51.07 1-2, and N. 3 at $1,03, Bay ports. Ontario wheat -No, 2 white, red and mixed, 90 to 91e, outside. Peas-Cood shipping peas. $(10, out- side. Oats -Car lots of No, 2 Ontario, 43 to 4.31.2e, and of No. at 4.2 to 42.1-2e; oxx traelc,, Toronto, 46 to 46 /-2e, No. 2 WeSt- ern Canada oats, 4ec, and feed, 46e„ Bay ports. 13arley-47 to 48 lbsquoted at 85 to 1-2c„ outside, Corn -NP. 2 .44nerlean ye1ion ese, To- rnte treieat. 0-44 to 96s tor No, 2 outside, Rriorwheat-61 to 62e, outside, Brati-lianitoba bran, $23,50. in bz,s, Toronto freight. Shorts. $2-5.52 ,- COUNTR) PRODVCD, App1es-82.75 to $3.50 per barrel. Deans -Small Its of 144414.pleked, 52,- 45 to 52.43 per bushel, 1:Loney-Extracted, in tins, 11, to 12e per lb. Combs, 52.50 to $2.75, Baled hay -No. 1 at $16 to 517. on traek, and No. 2 at 514 to 514.50. Baled straw -57,50 to 58, on track, To* !AO - P atoes-Car lots, in tam 51.25 to 51. - and Delawares at $1.35. out or store. $1.43 to 52,60. Poultry -Wholesale prices of dressed poultri‘e-Chielions. 15 ta fowl, 8 to 12e; ducks. 53 to 1404eese, 12 turkeys, 19 to 22r. Dire no ut ea lower thou the above, ' nurrEn. -EGOS, CBEESE. ator-Dairy, choice, in wrappers, 27 o ;,store lots, 23 to 2,3o; and interior. tees. 37 to 18e. creamery Quoted at 32 to 331-2o for rolls, aud 30 to 31e for solids per lb. Bggs-Strictl,ynew-laid, 40c, delivered here, and fresh at 27 to 2.0c per dozen, n ease lots, Cbeesc-Large. 153-4e, and tivinaat 6 1-4o per lb, T1OG PRODUCTS. 13acon-Long clear, 111-2 to 11 3-4c Per Ib., In 04Sta lots. Pere, short cut, 522.50; don, mess. 519.50 to 520, Rains-Xediuna to light. 16 to 161-2o: heavy, 14 to 141'2a; rolls, 103-4 to 1.1c; breakfast bacon, 16 to 17e; baelts, 19 to 20o. Lard -Tierces, .113-4c; tubs, 12c; P 12 1-4c. 12, BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Jun. 16. - Oats - Canadiau Western, No. 2, 47 1-2c: do., No. 3, 45c; extra No. 1 feed, 46 to 451-2o; No. 2 local white, 460; No. 3 do., 45c; No. 4' do., 412. Barley -Malting. 95 to 912. Buckwboat- No. 2, 68 to 70o. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat natonts, firsts, 55.60; do., seconds, 55.10; 8trong-bakers', 54.90; Winter pat. eats, choice, 54.75 to 55; straight rollers, 54.25 to 54.40; do., bags, 51.95 to 52.05. Rolled oats --Barrels, 54.65; bags, 90 lbs., $2.20. Bran -523; shorts. $25: middlings, 528; mouillie, 529 to 534. flay -,-No. 2, per ton, car lots, $15 to 515.50. Cheese -Fin- est Westerns, 141-2 to 15e; do... Easterns, /4 1-4 to 14 5-13c. Butter-ahoicest cream- ery. 31 to 31 1-2e; seconds., 30 to 30 1-2c Egg -Fresh, 45 to 50e; selected, 30 to 310; No. 1 stock, 26 to 27c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, $1.27 1-2 to 51.32 1-2. „ UNITED_ STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, jail. 16. - Wheat -May, 51.06 3-4; July, $1.07 5-8, cash. Closed -No. 1 hard. $1.07 3-4; No, 1 Northern, 51.06 3-4 to 61.071-4; No. 2 Northern, 51.043-4 to 51.- 051-4; No. 3 wheat, 81.023-4 to 51.033-4; Corn -No. 3 yellow, 60c. Oats -No. 3 white,' 46 to 46 1-2c. Rye -No. 2, 91. Bran -100-pound sacks, 523.50 to 523.75. Flour. Flour -First patents, 55.20 to 55.50; sec- ond patents, 54.80 to 55.10;' first clears, $3.60 to 53.95; second clears,. $2.50 to $2.90. * Buffalo, Jan. 16. -Spring wheat -No. 1 Northern, carloads, store, 81.133-4; Win- ter, dull. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 66 1-2c; No. 4 yellow, 64 1-2c, on track, through billed. Oats -No. 2 white, 52 1-4c. Barley -Malt- ing, $1.25 to $1.35. Rye -No. 2, track, 51.02. LIVE STOCK MARKETS, Montreal, Jan. 16. -Butchers' cattle , Choice, $6,75; do.. mediu.ra, $5.50 to $6.50; do., common, $4.50 to $5; canners, $2.0 to 53.50; beitchr' ,pattlo, choice cowsi°, $5.- 50 to $6; do„ medium, $4.75 to 65.25; do., bulls, $4 to $5; milkers, 'choice, each, $75; do., common and medium, each 550 to 660; Springers, 530 to 540. SheepTEwes, 54.50 10r $5; bucks and pulls, 54 to 54.25; lambs, 57,10.s Hogs F. 0 b., $7.10 te 25. Calves -$3 to $10. Toronto, Jan. 16. -The effect of the scar- city of livo beef is being ielt in retail circles,' for retail beef was said to be al- ready, about 2c a, pound higher. There were no high prices paid for live cattle, be t -it was because the o.tiality of tbe ort was v.ry poor most of it , 32651e from. the Weelt before. ' ,2uojtu1s ev" e however,,,to e ttfe, aud,"' kceedingly hi were made by.. toirs for th ood cattle, whiph' tItd diiover relused SIISS10 tbe.5lbep. itod laMbs were, iiiE NEWS IN A PARAGRIIPII laprEzsriNGs FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE IN A NUTSHELL. Canada, the Empire and the Woih1 in General Before Tour Eves. CANADA, Another reductioe of ten eente Sugar priees is announced by whole - ale houses. The Doniinion Gevernmeat will ELI -unease its 'grant to seed grain as- sociations to $35,000 annually'. A chair in metallurgy, has been established at the University of Toronto. Arrangements are beiug made for a hardware and store exhibition at Guelph next month, The Government has. decided to, aPPaint &Wei commission, to in- vestigate Farmers Bank affairs. The Great Waterways Union. o Canada. was organized by a met- ing of municipal representatives a Berlin, On. Mr. C. Grant's report that he ha's found diamonds in Keewatin dis. triet has not been substantiated at Ottawa, The eapaeity of the paper mill t Sault Ste, Marie will be doubled if tho company ean make satisfac, tory terms with the town. Jelin E. Robineou of Sarno foreman carpenter at the prison farm at Guelph, died verry sudden- ly from indigestion, An explosion of dynamite wreck - d the Hollinger mine powder - house at Porcupine and &Finland- er employee is supposed to have been killed. GREAT BJUTW There is a more, hopeful outlook i the British cotton etrike, but the tlook in regard to the proposed ike, of miners is gloomy. UNITED STATES, ATKITOW Carnegie gave I terestrng evidence at Washington in the Steel Trust inquiry, Detective Burns was acquitted M Indianapolis on a, charge of kid- napping J. McNamara, Mr. Andrew Carnegie condemned stock -jobbing before the United States House Committee. GENERAL. The French Cabinet has resigned. German authorities propose to introduee a bill increasing the strength of the army. The latest returns from Gernaany show thirteen net gains for the So- cialists. A Turkish flotilla of seven gun- boats was sunk in the Red Sea, by an Italian squadren. THE FISHERY TRADE. Products for Year Reached a Total Value of $29,905,433. A despatch from Ottawa says: The market valuo ef all kinds of fish and fish products taken by Ca- nadian fishermen during the fiscal year ending March 31, 1911, was $29,465,433, according to a report, presented to Parliament on Friday. The year's catch was thus more valuable than the catch of any previous year. To the total the sea. fisheries contributed $26,122,- 596, and the inland fisheries $3,- 342,837. Nova Scotia leads' the provinces in the value of the out- put of its fisheries.' The products of the fisheries of Ontario during the year were valued at $2,026,121, a decrease of $151,692 as compared with the value of the preceding year's catch. In the fishery indus- try itself 65,610 men were employ- ed, and in the allied industries 24,- 978. In all. $19,019,870 was invested in the fishing industry in Canada in 1910-11. The expenditure in con- nection with the fisheries was $760,- 734, of which $220,000 was spent for fish breeding and $159,166 in boun- ties. The total revenue from licen- ses, fines and licenses taken out by United States fishermen was $100,- 875. MINER'S STRIKE CERTAIN. British Federation Determined to Fight the Affair. A despatch from Lendon says: Experts in the coal .trade are cer- tain that a strike of the miners all ever England" and Wales will fol- low the declaration of the ballot figures. The men took a ballot on tile advisability of a strike tncl /lie yDreorsirtirkilistahmii rs, e tos- hhibc1) eew talarenmr11:01rtile:11:nnldorldsaebraoanut;eti <1.‘ 18. 11.1‹.. most militant ;dis- tricts are in Wales, Scotland and feeling. The men of:ha ',atter' dis- tricts, however, are bound to stand by the rest of the men, when a strike is declared. The Federa- tion of Coal Owners is equally re- solve4 not te give in ,to the men Chas. Eenwick, a member of Parlia- ment, and who himself ,Was origi 4 I. a coat rfi0161',nien at he is afraid they, are being. car- d. away, by mere phasei ;,f the .etion and are,, n°„'t epng, tne resnip -er, their act.e-e. '04 SITTIPLUS A110 -11T 30,000,0 11 Dominion Revenue and Expenditure for Nin Months of Last Fiscal Year. A despatch from Ottawa: says The revenue fer the first nine months of the current fiacal year totalled nearly one hundred mil - with total expenditures. of only soMe seventy-three millions. The increase in revenue over the first nine month ef the last fiscal year was $13,817,114, while the total expenditures decreased by $2,511,155, although the figures ,of expenditure are, of eourse, some- what incomplete, since they repre- sent only the returns presented to the Finance Department up to De- cember 31. Expenditure on con- solidated fund account totalled $54,303,871, an increase of $1,409,- 733, and forty-five millions less than the revenue. Expenditure OD ca- pital account was 518,993,354, or nearly three millions lese than dur _ img the corresponding period of 1010. The total net debt of the Do- minion at the end of the calendar year was $313,380,651, a decrease of thirteen and one-helf millions as compared with December 31, 1910, For December the revenue to- talW 5/1,596,099., an increase of 51,805,712, as cornpamd with the preceding December. The end of the year will probably show a sur- plus Of considerably over thirty millions between revenue and all ordinary expenditure, and it is ex- pected that this surplus 'All Mora than provide for every item of eagle tal expenditure, ineludiug over twenty millione spent during the year on the National Traascontin- entat, NY TOOK UP 1 Homestead Entries for risen Totalled 44,479. A despateh front Ottawa aays: The total revemie of the Interior Department in the fiscal year end- ing March 31, 1911, was, according ao the report presented in the House of Commons on Friday, $5,- 093,140, an increase of $35.1.22 over the previous year and fourteen times as much as was collected in 1991-2. During the year there were 44,479 homestead entries, 3,000 more than in the previous year, These entrier, represented 7,106,040 acres and a pOPIllati011 a 107,804 settlers. One third of the newcom- $ to the country last year ca- ged in agricultural pursuits in o West. The immigration from he British Isles reached 123,031, compared with 59,700 in the previous year, that from Continent- al Europe 66,0:10, as compared with 34,175, and that from the United States, 121,451. The area of for- est reserves has been increased from 3,450,720 acres to 10,128,640 acres. 474 EBARS OUTIIREAR: OF 12ABI Three Mad Dogs Said to be Large in Brantford. A despatch from BrantfOrd says: An outbreak of rabies is threaten- ed in Brantford and surrounding district. Numbers of cattle and sheep have been destroyed just out- side the city, and the anthorities says that three mad dogs aro at large, and serious damage may re- sult. The strictest precautions are being taken in this city to pre- vent the spread of the disease. 116.0.11MMWRINIZIF nere;Ase Moven 'SUS. 19 is to CUies. A despatch from Paris says: The official returnz of the census of France, taken last year, which have just been published, show that the population now itliMber$ 39,001,509, as compared with 39,252,245 at tho last census in 1906, showing an in- crease of $3.19,204. The figures show iz steady rtiON'Oltient; or the populatien from the country dis- tricts to the cities, of which fifteen, as 193 2900, have a pOpUlati011 of more than 100,000. Paris now has 650,110 inhabitants, Marseilles 500,619, and Lyons 523,796. The po- pulation of Franco in the past forty yeaee has increeeed only 3,- 000,600, 4D1U nb1iea Lalsing in Cb in e 'Vuriie A dcspatch Irsin St, Petovsbtorg ys: A despatch fi'oin Kuklja. Chinese) Turkestan, eretes that re has been a Republican up - ng there, which is headed by a. bineso general. The rebels eeiz- ed arsenal and demolished the tress. All the Ofileials Were tad, Three hundred Maaehus. eluding the Governor, were kill- ed. A school was burned and 217 children who were in it at the time lost their livee. A republic waa declared, and a proclamation is - feted which guarantees that there will be an orderly Gevermnent. )1, FIVE LIVES LOST. 'oung Man and Four Children Hemmed in by Fire. A despatch from Montreal says: Five lives were lost in a fire which early Wednesday 'morning destroy- ed the home of Mr. Joseph Desro- ehers of Notre Dame du Sacra Coeur. The twenty -year-old son ot Mr. Desrochers and four other young -children were trapped in the burning building, and before the frantic parents and neighbors could come to their assiatanee tho build- ing was a mass of flame, the heatereeen rearite- being so great that it was impos- sible to enter the place. The youth and the children perished. The fire loss was $6,000. HAVE SAILED FOR, 1..0'1111. Ring and fueen Leave Bombay on the Medina. A despatch from Bombay says: King George and Queen Mary sailed for home on Wednesday on the Peninsular and Oriental steam- er yacht Medina. They were cheer- ed enthusiastically as they boarded the ship.„ The Indian authorities breathed a sigh of relief as their Majesties left,' as there has been constant dread of the occurrence of some untoward event. 13. S. MINERS DEMANDS. Want Increased Wages and Recog- ' nition of Union. A despatch from Scranton Penn says: The demands of the anthra- cite miners for increased wages, re- cognition of the union Coal paid for by the ton instead of by the iar, and an eight-hour day, are in the hands of operators, having been re- ceived by President Baer, of the Reading, nominal head of the coal - carrying roads, and the other coal road presidents on Tuesday. TERROR OF MENINGrFIS. Public Gatherings in Texas Ciller Have Been Abandoned. A despatch from Dallas, Texas. says: The menace of meningitis in Dallas and other cities of north an east Texas has instilled such fear among all,clases of the poeula- tion that public gatherings have been practically abandoned. Even church meetings have been given up. Society gatherings are rare. and saloon keepers report a serious reduction in their trade. There are about 500 eases reported, with a high death rate. TI1Ei EST POI,IcE The Controller Says the Rate of Pay Kot High Enough. A despateh from Ottawa -saYse quiived if he were an' ag,ent for SeW- The annua,1 report of the Controller ing-maehines. qiiere iS all insist - of the Nortii-wcst Alleuiited -.Police. cat demand for more pestr'i, and just issued. shows the strength of without a isub,staritial increase in the force to be fifty officers, 576 non- the, force it will not be ,able to rend - commissioned' tofficers and con- er tlic sexy/cc expected of it. A 04. Li stables and 53 horses. This is a the same mo an increase is diffi- decrease of tw ity-three men . and cult loecatuse of the arrangement tweete-,0e,e hoilses11.7" Alberta has with the local Governments for the seventy three erletactiments, Sas. continua,nce of the force being -ben. katehewan eighty-three, North- tative. -The Controller says the west Territories six and Yukon rate of pay of the men is not high eight. There a e eleven division enough. Forty-eight purchased. poste. Illustrat, g the work and discharge la,st, year and forty-three responsibility of t e average con: are on the waitia'g list'. During stables, the Contre? er, quote ,s a re- the yeas 9,418 cases were entered:. port f r om ono who ,terriiorer - c oisn2.1-11etions and ers 2,000 square e- and'cont.tin I ere tr-nlf Or Se t San ,natiPnaJiPPs- One settler. et, 'e.rnaa and in 1 1