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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-8-21, Page 7THE WORLD IN REVIEW ARTHUR OF coNNAuGHT Items of News by Wire Prices of These Products in the Leading Markets are Here Recorded Brea dst uffs. Orente. Aug, 1.9,—Flou7—Ontario wheat doors, 90 per cent., old, $4,00 to $4.10; To routs or Montreal freight. Flonr made of new wheat $3.60 to 83.65, seabeard, for Se 'Amber deliverY 1,10,nitobas — first patents, in jute bagS, $6.50; strong bak- ers', in jute has, $4.80. Manitoba, wheat—No. 1 Northern, $1.01. on trii-ek, Bay ports; NO. 2 at 99o; No, 3 94c, Bay Ports. Ontario wheat—No. 2 .white and red vli.eat, 98 to 99,0,outside, and new wheat at 85 to 87e, ontside. Oat -0o, 2 Ontario oats, 35 to 36e, out - Olde, and at 37 to alio, on track, Toronto; new oats, 33 to 360, nominal; Western Can. ada oats quoted at 39 1-2o for No. 3, Bay ports; No. 1 feed, 38 1-2o. Peas --90 to 95e. Barley 52 to 53e. Corn—No. 3 American corn, 75 1-20. elf., Midland. Rye 60 to 62c. Buckwheat -60 to 53c. Brtin—IVIanitoba bran, $1,8 to $18,50 a ton, in bags, Toronto freights, Shorts, $21, Toronto. „ 'Country Produce. • 33utter-0holoo dairy, 21 to 230; inferior 17 th 190: creamery. 25 to 280 for rolls, and 24 to 26o for solids, • Fgge—Ciree lote of new laid, Vito 25.3 per dozen; fresh, 20 to 21o, and seomids, 16 to .180. - Cheese—New -oheeee unchanged at 13 3-4 to 140 for large, and 14 1.2 for twine. .• Beaus—Hand-picked, 42.26 to 92.36 per bushel; primes, $1.75 to $200. Honey—Extraeted, in tins, 11 to 121-50 per lb, for No. 1 wholesale; oombs, $2.50 to $2.75 per dozen. for No. 1, and 82.25 to $2.50 for No, 2. • Poultry—Hens, 16 to 17o per lb; taken', 18 to 20e. Live poultry, about 2o lowe'r Allan above. • Pottr=s—Jobbing lots of new potatoes, $2.25 per barsel. Provisions. • Bacon, long clear, 16 3-4.3 nerlb, 131 case lots. Pork—Short cut, $28.50 to $29; do., mees, $24. Hams—'Medium to light. 21 to 211-2c; heavy. 19 1-2 to 20 1-50; rolls, 17c; breakfast bacon, 21 to 22o; backs, 24 to 25o. Lard—Tierces, 14c; tubs, 141-20; 143-40. Baled Hay and Straw. Baled hay—New hay, 912 50 to $13, No. 1 at $13.50 to 914.50, on track, Toronto, and No. 2 at $1,1 to $13. Baled straw—Good, stock, $8 to $8.50, on track, Toronto. •Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, August 19.--Cash:—Wheat— No. 1...Northern. 950; No. 2 Northern, 930; l'Tc, 3 Northern, 08e; No, 4, .00e; No, 6, 72 1-2e; No. 6, 680; feed, 600; Ng, 3, screen, *Bales; No. 4, tongli, 734; No. 5. tough. 65e; No. 6, tough, 60c; feed. tough, 54c; oats, No. 2 C.W„ 35e; No, 3 0.W., 341,.4o; extra No. 1 feed, 341-50; No. 1 feed, 341.40; No. 2 feed, 31 1-4e; Barley, No. 3. 451,50; No, 4, 44 1-50. Flax, No, 1, N.W.C.. $135; No, 2, C.W., $1.31; No. 3 CM., 91.19. •••••••••••••••••• Montreal Markets. Montreal, August 19. --Oats, Canadian Western, No. 2, 4/. to 41 We; Canadian Western, No. 3, 391-2 to 400; extra No. 1 feed, 40 1-2 to 41.e. Barley, Man. feed,' 61 to 62e; malting, 62 to 64e, Buckwheat, No. 2, 50,10 60e. Flour, Man. Spring wheat Pat- ents, firsts, $5.60; seconds, $5.10; strong bak- ers',$4,90: Winter patents, ehoice, $5.50; straight rollers, $5,10; straight rollers, bags, $2.40. Rolled eats, barrels, $4.60; bags, 90`1118., $2.17 1-2. Bran, $19, Shorts, $21. Middlings, $24. Monillie, $26 to $32. Hay, No. 2, per ton car lots, $12 to $13. Cheese, finest, westerne, 131-8 to 133.80; finest easterud, 123-4 to 13o. Butter, choteest creamery, 24 to 241-4o; 0econds, 231-2 to 233.40. Eggs, fresh, 29e; seleoted, 27c; No. 1 stock, 230; No. 2 stook, 18 to 1,90. United States Markets. MD -moo -poll% .Aug. 19.—Wheat, September, 86 3-40; December, 89 3-4e; Mao', 950. Cash: —No, 1 hard, 893.40; No. 1 Northern, 873-4 to, 89 1-40; No. 2 Northern, 8534 to 87 1-4c. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 761-2, to 77e. Oats— No. 3 white, 39/-2 to 40 1-4c. ItYe—No. 2, 571-2 to 69 1-2o. Flour, unchanged, Bran, f.o.b., Minneapolis, $19.50 to $20. Duluth, Aug. 19,—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 893-80; No. 2 Northern, 863-8 to 867-50; September, ese-se asked; December, 90 6 -8o - bid; May, 960 bid.. Linseied, $&501-4c; Sep- tember, $1.501-4e,asked; October. 91.51; No- vember, $1.61 ' flaked; December, 91,49 1-8o asked. Live Stook Markets, Toronto, Aug, 19.—Catt1e—Exp0rt, 96.60 to $6.85; choice butcher's, $6 to $6 55; good medium, $5.25 to $6.20; co-mraon, $4.76 to 95; canners. $2 to 93,50; (tows, $4.25 to $4.75; good C0111M012 cows, $4.75 to 95.50; mikh oovrs, $60 to $75 each. Calves—Good. veal, $6, to $7.50; choice, $8.25 to $9.50; common, $3.75 to $6. Stockers and feedere—Steers, 700 to 800 pounds, $3.25 to $4.25; extra (stoke heavy feeders, 900 pounds, 94.76 to $6.25; rough, light, $2.50 to $3.25. Sheep and lambs—Light ewes, $5 to $5.50; heavy, $4 to $4,50: bucks, $3.50 to $3.76; spring lambs. $7 to $8. Hoge—$9.90, f.o.b.; $10.25, fed and wqtered, and. $10 50, off oars. Montreal, August 19.—Large supplies of common cattle had a depreseing effect on prices. None of the sales were over 61-2 omits, and not many over 53-4 cents per lb., and from that down to 2 1-2 cents for some of the leaner stock. Cows—$30 to $65 eaeh. Calves -2 3-4 to 6. Sheep -4 1-4 to a little over 41-2. Lambe -7. Hogs—About 101-2. TWELVE IllInTDRED KILLED. Half Of Chinese Soldiers Have joined Rebels in Looting Stores A despatch from Canton, China, says: Twelve hundred were killed n. 'a C the fighting between. the rebs anton City on Wednesday, and Tillage is in. progress everywhere. Half of the soldiers have jeined the rebels, and together they have loot- ed the principal goldsmiths' and .4' silversmiths' stores. The local Generals are powerless owing to clissention among themselves. An attack on the foreiga concee- sions at Sham.een is believed by foreign residents to be in contem- plation. by the disorderly elements, and the detachment of Indian na- • tive troops stationed there as a guard was reinforced on Thursday from Hong Kong in preparation for -eventualities. • The foreign quarter serves „as a buffer between the two forces, A huge, fire broke out on Thursday, destroying thirty barracks, and as a' result of the • accompanying rioting, the exodus of the civilian population continu- ed without abatement. Traffic 4011 • the Hankow Railway has been sus- pended. From Fayuen to the .north of Canton a. report was received Thursdae of a, rising of brigands, and from other parts of the pro- vince of Kwang-Tung news has • reached here that a, state of chaos exists. General Lung Chi Kuang, with his northern troops, has re- tired frera the vicinity of the city. DROWNED WHILE BATHING. Nicholas MeCullougb Loses His Life -in Freneh River. A despatch fromNorth Bay says:4 • Nicholas McCullough, aged twen- ty-0as,• years, of Pittsburg, Pa., was drawned in the French River on Thersday afternoon while bath- ing with his brother, Thos. McCul- lough, Byron Connell and Reemer Sewell, The unfortunate young Man tame for a month's outing., ar- riving at North Bay Augnst 41 His mother is o widow and resides in Rittsburg. The body was recov- • (and, CHINESE REBELS ACTIVE. Force of 25,000 Reported to be MOT. ing Towards Pekin. ° A despatch .from Hankow, says 18 is reported that 25,000 re- bels from the Province of Hu -Nen . lieve crossed the border late the Province of Fiti-Peh and defeated a small force of loyalists, It is re - sported to be their intention to celp- blue Hankow and afterwards to mo ve• against Pekin Northern troops, with artillery, • have left hero to intercept the rebels, and it is believed they wilt easily rout 'HARRY TRAM ESCA.PED. Ran Through Open Gate and Into an Autoniobile.--, A despatch from, Matteawan, N. Y.,. says: • Harry. K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford White, escaped from the hospital for the criminal insane here at 7.45 o'clock on Sun- day morning, A dart for liberty through an open gate, a, dash, in the open door of a powerful automo- bile that stood quivering outside, and a, flight like a rocket for the Connecticut State line, 30 miles away, aocomplished his escape. At night he was still at large, and the hospital authorities felt certain he Vas outside the State. Once be- yond its boundaries Thaw is free. ,Only months perhaps years, of gation con liring_hira bock to Mot- teawon, and • then only in one eventeethat he be. adjudged insane in the State to which he has fled. FIND OF PLA.CER GOLD. Officially Confirmed by Dominion Governnient. A despatch from Ottawa sa,ys : Official confirmation of the report- ed discovery of gold. in Alaska, close to. the Canadian. boundary, has been received by the Dominion •Government from- Commissioner George Bleck, who states that it is one of considerable proportions. It was made at & point thirty miles- frora the Canadian Yukon boun- dary, and three hundred noiles north of White Horse. The best route is from White Horse through the Kluane district. .„, GERMANY D E CLINE S. 'Will Not Participate la San Fran- cisco Exposition. A despatch from Berlini says: Gerrnany on Saturdoy officially de- clined the invitation extended by the United States to participete in the Ineernetienal Exposition al, San Francisco ifl 1915, to commemorate the opening of the Poriamo Canal. This announcement was made- Sete • urday evening through the North German Gazette, the official organ of the Giwernment. ' PLOT TO KILL KITCHENER. Egyptian Undergraduate at Oxford Implicated. A despatch from London says : The Daily Express on Monda;j7 morning -stated that enother plot to kill Lord Kitchener in Egypt, has been revealed by inuiries mule in Oxford .by Sootier -id Yard respect- ing an Egyptian recently en under- greduate in that University, George Hewitt, ith employee, of the McCormiek Biscuit Menefee- , turing Company at Landon, was fatally, erushed between the eleva- tor and the neer, on Friday, DverY fourth person one meets in Can - oda has come to the Dominion within the Post ten years. A totiriet in the train or a visitor to any citY tows from coast to coast if he has his Oriri onen is sure to be impressed with the nuMber of faces he Iseee that plainly show foreign birth. This Continent, has become the groat melting pot of the nations and the Government reporte ellow that representatives of ninety different nations settled in Cane, aa 10 1912. In. that year the number who mime from- the British Isles wee 145,859 end ,frem the Hutted, Statee 140,143, the ftrst 'Ville on record Nthen the British itre migrants outnumbered these from the TInited. States. Industrial Progress, Tim report of the census of 1911. dealiflg. with tho inanufeetures of Canada during the year 1910 has just been issued, and is a striking moot of the advance this coun- try has made along industrial 11ios. Com- pared with the census of 1901, which gave the figures for 1990, there has been an in- crease in the ten years of 4,968 in the nun - bei' of working establishments, of $600,- 667,122 in the capital invested, ef 176,930 in the number of. persons employed, of 8127,759,066 in salaries and wages, and of $684,922,264 in value, of products. Shrinkage In Building Operations. Building permits in oartadafor the seven months of the present year have showed a deoreaee of eightper cent, over those for the same periocl last year. This deorease has been the chiefly to Quebec and the West. In Ontario and the Mari- time Provineee large inereasee, have been recorded. The amount of nieney, expend- ed Ulla year On buildings in Ontario shows an increase of 38 per cent. in the Mari - tittle Provinces an ineretise of 87 per eent., in Quebee a decrease of 4 Der cent.. in British Codkanbla a decrease of 77 per Cent., in Alberta a decrease of 23 per cent., on Saskatchewan a deorease of 63 per °cut., and in Manitoba. a deerease of 51 .per cent. With only three exeeptione—North 13attle- ford, Medicine Hat, and Nelson, the west- ern cities are very much 'behind their re. corde in 1912. For the .month of July, this year, the general decrease 'le 26 per Gelit'• ' Notes of Interest as to What Is Going On MI Over the World Good Roads and Country Life. The public, improvement root needed to- day is the hnprovemerit of our roade, and there is reason for opal:11km. Persistent alMeals,•acoumulate effeht, but bet‘ter than a century of propaganda is the spread of the automobile sad the motorcycle. It is the poseeesion,of these for praotical use and pkasure that is taming the good roade movement. .And together they will still farther traneform the conditions of rural life. They will take up what the telephone and the trolley began and give to life in the country new social resouroes. Isolation is passing completely from the country, and with ite departure one oLthe profoundest soeial and economic chazge,s 9iniaethe.e history of the country will take . Forests to he Safeguarded. Arising out of the reorganization of the Forestry Branch. 4if the Ontario Depart- ment of Lands, Forests and Mines, it is understood that an important move is shortly to be taken by the Government to .rtiore adequately safeguard the forest wealth of Ontario. Prof. E. Z. ZaviTz, Forestry Cononiesioner, has been com- missioned by. Hort. W. H. Hearst to study the whole, question and report with a re- commendation of a plan to be adopted. It is likely that when. the Legielature meets next session a c.orepreheneive pro- gramme will be laid before the House. The fire -protection programme will co-ordinate with the reforeetation scheme now under way. Not only is the fire -ranging forte to be maintained and strengthened. but ,it is stated that fire belts will be -cut through the most valuable stretches of pine forest; a raore efficient patrol will be kept up, and severe „progeoution of 'those who violate the forest regulations. The fire 'belts:. it' is honed,' girove." win:Lifer, and where a fire starts to spread it will strike these belts and stop for lack of COM, bustible material. ' Thousands of Hindus to Come to Canada. Secret reports that have, reaehed the Department of Immigration at Ottawa of a schenie on foot th bring thousands of Hindus th Canada by a direct line of steamers from Calcutta to 'Vancouver are causing the officials considerable concern. One rumor has it that a co-operative soheme, embracing one hundred thousand Hindus, will shortly, be launched. Pro- tests have already been received from the Pacific Coast. and it is reported. that a special officer will be sent to London to make 'representations to the India Office. Hitherto it hae been possible th pre- vent an influx by' the order in council which stipulates that immigrants must come by direct passage from the land of their bfrth. Another clause that may be used, and has been used in similar cases, ie the one prohibiting the immigration of persons belonging to a -race deem unsuit- ed to the climate or 'requirements of Can- ada, but the Hindus have waged a cam- paign against this barrier. and point to their brethren now in good health and comfortable drcumstances in British Col- umbia. Hindu women and children are said to be included in the new colonize - tion scheme. If despite warnings the Hindus attempt to land in Canada a serious situation will develop foi, feeling among the white pop- ulation in British Columbia is very strong. Despatches from the Canadian Pacific coast say that white farmers are already olamoring fOr simila0 1a0vs in British Col- umbia to thoee Tecently passed in Cali- fornia, and against which. Japan so strongly protested. OH Fuel for the Royal Navy. • When Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced that oil will supplement coal in the case of large as well ae small ships of war, he called at- tention to another of the long series of 'changes that have revolutionized ocean traneportation. This leet is by no means the /east for the use of oil will 'bring with it not only increased speed, but a much larger radius of' action and easier and faster replenishment. The admiralty' bas not, however, come to this momentous decieion without full aesurance that it'le Justified. For more than a hundred de- stroyers are built or antler construction dependent entirely on oil fuel, .and the experiment of building a division of fast battleships and battle eruisere and a ninn- ber of light cruisers burning oil fuel only, Mr, Churchill affirmed, has proved elm - Coal, however, • will not be entirely abandoned, because, as the first lord ex- plained, oil is only required in large E3 hips when an exceptional speed has to be leached with a vessel of exceptional (nudity. Whatever may ultimately hap. pen,coal win continue to be the main be- Sis of British sea power in line of battle at present. Put the stake in oil shipS is already So important that Britain Must have tbe certainty of a steady supply of oil at a steady price and the admiralty recognizes that it must 'become the dependent owner and producer of its eup plies, In Britain itself are great potem Utilities, since the Sottish shale depoeits alone, if developed, can yield between -400,. 000 and 500,000 tons a year for 150 years, The problem'. remarked Mr, Churchill, is not one of quantity, but of price. SIR JOHN TO STAY. THINKING IT OVER. The interesting suggestion has been insole in a cable to Montreal that Prince Arthur assume at- his marriage the title "Duke of Canada," Last nfght 'the item which appeared, in The Star was the subJeCt or many conver- sations and some controversy. The people as a whole are thinking it over., • TAKES A. GLOOMY VIEW. Montreal Relief Officer Lneks for a Trying Winter. A elespatch from Montreal seys : Mr. A. Chevalier, Chief City Re- lief Officer, says that from all in- dications that will be a hard win- ter for lately arrived immigrants. Already, he said, a greater amount •of relief has been asked for than for the same time last year. Plenty of outside work is to be had just at present, but as soon as this has been stopped by frost all the peo- ple will be out of employment. An- other feature will be the importa- tion a many harvesters for the west. As soon as this work is over, said be, many of the laborers will return to to-wn with the intention of sailing for home, but a• certain number will be too late for naviga- tion and will be stranded here. Mr. Chevalier said that the charitande institutions in. the city„ would be ta,xed to their utmost. tieutenant-G over !tore TC1111 Ex- tended a Year. A clespateh fret°. Ottawa says: It is offielally announced that Sir John Gibsort, LieuteGovernor of Ontario., will retain his position until about September'19140 by which time the new Government House will be ready for oecup- pa,ncy. POPULATION OF ITALY. Ineieases in Ten Years Amounts to 1,750,000 People. A -despatch from Rome says: The results of the census made in Italy in 1911 have.just been published by the Government. Hefts are' some of theadata Tetal population, 34,- 671,3:77; males,. 1720l'790; 'f emal es, 17,694,57; unmarried men, 10,172,- 883 ;- unmarried women, 9,617,301; married men, 6,133,745; married women, 6,461,557; wid.owers, 650,- 250; widows, 1,500;929: The in - Crease in total population since the last decennial 'census is about 1,- 750,000. Illiterates constitute 28 per cent. of the. total population. The region that gives the smallest percentage • of illiteracy is Pied- mont, with 11 per cent., while the maximum is reached by Calabria with 70 per -cent. - -864 STORM SWEPT MANITOBA.. Extent of Damage to Grain Tree • Not Been Reported. A despatch feom Winnipeg says: The worst electrical storm that has visited this portion of the country for years, accompanied by a sixtynaile gale, swept acress from Bran- don to -the eastern boundary early on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of dollars damage was done to buildings in Winnipeg, and all the towns in the Province. The har- vest had just started, and the- dam- age to the' ripening grain. 'cannot be estimated. Electric light plants, railroads, telegraph, and telephone lines were puneout of commission, and several towns will be without electric light for several days. Meagrereports coming over dam- aged wires indicate •that central and southeastern. Saskatchewan suffered great damage. AVIATOR DIED PENNILESS. Family of Late Samuel Cody Will be Provided for by Grovernment. A despatch from London, says :— Samuel F. Cody, the AngIcp-Anaeri- can itViator Nvho was killed at Al- dershot on August 7, died practi- tally penniless. All the prize money he had won was spent by him in perfecting his machines, and his wife and family were left in suoh a. dependent position that the Brit- ish Government is making an in- vestigation with a vie -w to providing for them in some way. 178 NEW POSTOFFICES. More Thaa 250 Closed. Owing to Ina- ral Free Delivery. A despatch from Ottawa says: During the past three months 178 new postoffices have been ,nopened in Canada to keep pace with the flowing' tido of settlements, The extension of rural free delivery has resulted in the closing of over n59 rural offices, principally in Ontario and the Maritline PrOVillgtS. CAD,. WM. j. Jolinson, tt, pioneer Eseex farmer, died of ptomaine poisoning after eating 'tanned torn. Chief Jelin Holmes, heed a the Chatham pollee- force for mere than eleven yeare, has resigned. D'Arcy 11. Young a )1Le1vil1i3 wee seriously injueed by a Holstein bell weighing almost a tan, . Mrs. Cornelius Darby a Gir. owns was trampled and, kicked to death by a cow she was milkieg: Mr. H. Newoomba o Harivicb township was drowned at Readeau Government Park while bathing., Fred. C. Nash of" Vesieesa, was instantly killed by No. 10 train 4on the M.O.R. near jamvisoitFridan• The body of James Burns, who disappeared at Thoeold On Thurs- day, was found in the old Welland Canal. Ingersoll citizens have formed a joint stock company to acquire the Daly House and min it as a temper - &nee hotel. lifeclical Health &niter Hastings states that "appalling conditions" in housing in Toronto will prevail during the coining winter. Ottawa's population is estimated • now by both the. directory publish- ers and the 'city assessors at more than, a hundred and one thousand, James S. Burns, of St. °ether - lees, a, trusted employee of the N., St. C. es T. Railway for thirteen years, has mysteriously disap- peered. Grace Coopers': ENT, years old, lost for five days on Burnt Island, in Lake Timiskaming, was found alive by membera of a large search party. Wesley end Manitoba Theologi- eal Colleges, in Winnipeg, Method- ist and Presbyterian, have both de- cided in favor of 'combining their forces. As a result of an independent en- quiry which has been quietly -con- ducted, Montreal will ptobably have an investigation into alleged police graft. Wm. Hendershott, one of the •best-known residents of. Lincoln county, died at Thorold as the re- sult of a. runaway horse knocking down a ladder he 'was on. - The new barracks to be built at Long Branch to replace Stanley Baeracks, Toronto-, are to be con- siderably •smaller and less expen.- sive than originally intended. Fruit growers throughout' the St. Catharines district are clamor- ing for more 'baskets. The supply is not equal to the demand, albeit tlse factories have been working overtime. The Bank of Montreal has refus- ed to allow the town of Sarnia any more money for looal improve. merits The municipal aceount le ,overdrawn to a considerable, ex. tent, John Robinson, aged 17, has been placed for three years in the Iningse ton Provincial P'enitentia,ryn for housebreaking. The Kingston Childrens Aid Society are trying tes have youths removed, from therek as it gives them, no ,ehence, The entire street, car system of Calgary was hired by the Hudson Bay Company for four hours on Monday, and the whole population of the eity invited to ride, free Clnr. the hours frora 9., to 6 part., in cele- bration of the opening of the conos pany's nianunoth new store. • GREAT BRITAIN. jewellery worth $50,000 was • stolen Friday from a, hotel in Llan- dudno, a watering plane in North Wales. The, thieves escaped in an a,utornobile. • At the Hotel Cecil, London, Eng - laud, Prince Rolenburg was robbed of a cheque for $1,000, which he placed on the cashier's desk, turn- ing his back for a, few moments. The cheque was stopped by tele-, grant. UNITED STATES. Governor Sulzer, of New York, -was impeached and is seneesecled in office. • A bandit held up and robbed lour passengers in a train out of Inane saTs1esCit3United States Government has apologized to Britain for • the rash statements made by Henry Lane Wilson. William Colbert, a carpenter of Yonkers, New York, died of exces- sive laughter, when he woke • up to find that someone had blacked his face for a joke. A venomous iesect, probably a. spider, bit Abraham Snider, of New York, on the lip, causing his death, after intense suffering, Sni- der was 27 years old, and noted bowler. GENERAL. August Bebel, famous German. Socialist leader, is dead. a Capt. Koch, a, Danish explorer, suffered terrible hardships in eross- ing Greenland. • The Mexico:a, Government 'Will consider the, message, borne by ex - Governor Lind. , A 'convention has been signed be- tween France and Germany to pro- vide for lanidings of aircraft in each other's -territory. It is hoped thus to avoid unpleasant "incidents." CIRCULARIZING LETTERS. Fortune-Tellin g. and. Racing Litera- ture Denied Use of Mails. A despatch from Ottawa says: A number of new regulations have just been promulgated by the Peet - office Department. To begin with it is vigorously suppressing lot- teries and prohibiting their use of the mails. Money orders payable to them, also, are not -bo be issued. Instructions have been issued to postal clerks to forward to the Dead Letter Office all matter orig- inating in such sources. The con- cerne condemned are the Great Hamburg Lottery; Great Danish Colonial Lottery; Great Danish In- ternational Lottery; Great Ham- burg Money Lottery; Credit Uni- versal; Royal Hungarian and Royal Danish Lottery. Circulars regarding the fortune- telling business and racing sweep- stakes circulars are also ordered to be treated as unmailable, and, are placed in the same class sts.,illeg-al lottery literature. Other new regulaerons, -prohibit the eiroulation in the mails ;Ave. to the trade only of samples of patent or proprietary medicines; preclude from the mails raw hides, pelts ,or any articles with a noxious odor and prescribe that inflammable or explosive articles when discovered shall be packed and sent to a -post - office inspector, if possible. ii The prohbiton of Christmas or . charity stamps to be affixed on the address side of letters has been made into a regulation. Such seams' may be affixed to the back of the en.velopes. '4' SYLVIA AGA IN RELEA,SED I Miss Panklinrst Suffering Er0111 Effects of InungersStrike. A u0SrAttan fr0/11 London says : Miss Sylvia, Pankhurst was again released from Holloway Sailon Thursday as a sequel to a "hunger and thirst" strike. She was in it condition of collapse, When elle was sent beek to jail last be was still suffering from the effects of a previous `ihungesestriken' =a TO COMPLAIN ABOUT Hon. A. L. Sifton Says Bnsieess in the West Is Good. A despatch from Ottawa says; Hon. Arthur L. Sifton, Premier of Alberta, is not one of the men from the west who takes much stock in the "blue ruin" . cry which tight money conditions have produced., He arrived in. Ottawa on Thursday, and to the Canadian Press said that general business in the west is goode-with a hopeful outlook for even better things. "Among real estate men business may be quiet just Dow," he said, "but I assure you that, financially and industrial- ly, there is very little to 'complain about. Alberta will, I think, be able to look after her financial af- fairs without much trouble, if any, because of the rapid growth going on everywhere." ,Hon. Mr. Sifton said that the harvest promises to be bountiful. • 'ETERNAL ICE FIELDS. Captain. Koeh ,Tlas Succeeded in. Crossing Greenland. A despatch from Copenhagen, Denmark, says Captain Koch, the well-known Danish Polar explor- er, has succeeded in crossing Green- land. from east te west ovee the eternal ice fields. Captain Inoelt, who started in Jute*, 1912, with a number of prominent scientists, surmounted tho dangers and dif- ficulties of Queen Louis Land, and eventually reaehed P ro even , • near Upernavik in Baffin's Bay. Cap. tam Koch was a member of the My- lius Tr1i(4nee1. htion. in 1900, 13,000,000 BUSHELS CAPSCITY, Huge New Grain Elevator for Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says A new grain elevator, espeeially For export trade, with a eapaeity fteerly three million bushels, will be built by the Harbor Commis - sinners, This will bring thn tot:4 eapacity of the elevaeors of the port to 10,32,000 buslicla. 1 • 4 4 •4 4 4 ;14 4 4 4 4 4 • 4