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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1902-4-17, Page 6• .1 THE MA AETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. Toroato, April 15.--Wheat.-No. 1 Northern, 80c bici North Bay, and it offered at 80e Toronto and west, Ap-, aelivery. No. 2 Northern offered at 77e, April delivery. Ontario No. 2 white offered at 72e east, and No. 2 goose at 67e on Pacille, and itt 60e on Midland. Barley -No. 8 offered at 49c mid- dle freight on 0.13.13., • Peas -No. 2 offered at 79c high freights, and No. 2 white eyes at 85c Middle freight, without bids, COUNTRY PRODUCE. Dried Apples -The market is quiet, With prices nominal at 5; to 5;c, Evaporated 10 to 3.0e. Hops -Business quiet, with prices steady at 13c; yearlings, at Sc. Iloney-The market is dull at Va to We for strained; combs, $1.15 to $2.25 per dozen.. Maple Syrup -Supplies fair. and .inrices steady. Pure (new make), im- perial gallons, 90c to $1.; old, as to quality, Ofic to 85e. Sugar 9 to 10c. Beans -The market is quiet. Priraes 81.10 to $1.30 per bush as to quali- ty. Handpicked, $1.35 to $1.40. Cranberries --Market unchanged, with stocks small. 0ape Cod $9.50 to $10 per barrel. Hay, baled -The market is quiet, with prices unchanged. Timothy is quoted at $10.25 on track Toronto, for No. 1, and at $8.50 to $9 for No. 2. Straw -The market is quiet. Car lots on track quoted at $5 to $5.75, the latter for No. 1, Poultry -Receipts are small, and prices firm. We quote: -Fresh killed turkeys, 13 to 14c per lb; chickens, 75e to $1. Ducks, 75c to $1. Geese, 8 to 10c per lb. Potatoes -Market unchanged, with offerings fair. Car lots quoted at 55 to 580 on track, and small lots out of store sell at 65 to 70c. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -The market is steady with a fair demand for the best grades. We quote: -Finest 1-/b rolls, 20 to 21e; choice large rolls, 18c; medium and low grades, 12 to 14e; cream- ery prints, 22 to 24e, and solids, 21 to 22ac. Eggs -The market is steady at 12c per dozen in case lots. Cheese -The market is firm. with sales at 11; to 12e; the latter for best makes. HOGS AND PROVISIONS. Dressed hogs are firmer. Hog pro- ducts in fair demand, and firm. We quote: -Bacon, long clear, 10e, in ton and case lots. Mess pork, $20.50; do short cut, 621,50 to $22. Sanoked meats -Hams, 13e; break- fast bacon, 14e; rolls, lle; backs, 14 to 14c, and shoulders, 10;e. Lard -The market is uneha.nged„ with good demand. We quote: -Tier- ces, 11 to llic; tubs, 111c; pails, 111e; compound, 9 to 91c. UNITED STATES MA.RKETS. Buffalo, April 15. -Flour -Quiet but firm. Wheat -Spring steady; No. 1 Northern carloads, 77e: winter firm: No. 2 red, 81e. Corn -Higher; No. 2 yellow, 64e; No. 8 do., 64 to 64c; No. 2 corn, 631 to 64e; No. 8 do, enc. Oats -Firm; No. 2 white, 4,84c; No. 3 do., drac; No. 2 mixed, 46c; No. 3 do., 45e. Barley - Scarce; no sales. Rye -No. 2 offer- ed at 611c, through billed. Toledo, April 15. -Wheat -Active and strong; cash, 79e: May, 79e; July 741c. Corn -Dull, easier; cash, 57e; May, 59Sc; July, 59Sc. Oats - Dull, steady; cash, 44c; May, 42;e; July, 35e. Cloverseed-Active, firm; cash, $4.93; April, $4.92; October, $5.05; No. 2, $4.85 to 84.72c; No. 2 timothy, $3; No. 2 alsike, $8 to $8.10. Detroit, April 1i5.-4itheat •closed - No. 1 white, cash, 80;c; No. 2 red, cash, April and May, 70;c; July, 741e. St. Louis, April 15. -Wheat closed -Cash, 782c; May, 78•Ses July, 71c. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, April 15. -The receipts at the Western cattle market to -day were 38 carloads, including 647 cat- tle, 500 hogs, 272 sheep and lambs , - 50 calves, 50 spring lambs, and a few railch cows. There was a light run. a brisk de- maud, everything sold early, and prices all round were steady and un- changed. This to all intents and purposes suins up the market. ,Hogs to fetch the top price Must be of prime quality, and scale not below 160 nor above 200 lbs. Following is the range of quota- tions: - Cattle. Shippers, per cult -.44.75 $6.00 Do„ light .. 4.25 4.62S Butcher, choice... ... a. 5.00 5.50 Butcher, ord. to good, 4.00 4.50 Butcher, inferior;,. 3.50 8.75 Stoekers, per cwt... 3.00 3.75 Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, per cwt3.50 4.00 Yearlings, per cwt... 4.50 5.80 Spring lambs, each 2.50 5.00 Bucks, per cwt.., ..-2.50 3.00 Milkers and Calves. Cows, each... 25,00 45.00 Calves, each... ... 2,00 10.00 Hogs. Choice hogs, per cwt5.75 6,15 Light hogs, per mat.- 5.50 5.85 Heavy hogs, per cwt5.50 5.85 Sows, per. cwt 8,50 4.00 Stags, per ewt... 0.00 2,00 - . A PRINCELY GIFT. Lord Plouat Stephen's Present to Aberdeen Infirmary, A London despatch says: --Lord Mount Stephen, the former president of the Cana,dian Paretic, Railway, has , given ,,C80,000 to the Royal Mirth - nay at Aberdeen. He had previously paid on a debt of £26,000 on that RHODES, AT REST'. Consigned te Last aesting^ Plate in' the HillSs A, Bulawayo, Matabeleland; . des- patch sa,yea-On Thursday, amid an immense throng of saldiera, civiiinUa and natives, the body or Cecil Rhoden was 00nunittea to its rock tomb in the Matoppo Hilla. The coffin was shrouded in a. Union Jack and the wreath sent by Queen Alex- andra was laid upon it as It was lowered late the grave. The funeral party started from Fuller's Hotel early Thursday morn- ing. Tbe proeession was five miles long as it wound through the hills and gorges. Every sort of convey- ance was made use of; some were on foot, others were on horseback or on bicycles, while still others were in wagons and carriages. When the procession was 4 mile from the grave everybody dismouated and concluded the journey on foot. • • Twelve oxen hauled the coffin to • the ahnost inaccessible sail -Milt of the kopie, where the Chiefs Shombli, Fa- ku, and T.Tingula and two thousand natives had assembled to witness the Christian burial rites, which they afterwards supplemented in their own fashion, by the sacrifice of 15 oxen to the Shade of the great dead cbier. Thousands of white persons con- gregated around the wind-swept hill. The grave was encircled by six boulders, The interment was ex- tremely impressive. : The Dead March re-echoed through the hills, and the natives stood like statues, Tears were in the eyes of many of the onlookers. • The Bishop of Mashonaland, who conducted the burial service, said: - "1 consecrate this place forever; here he thought, here he lived, and died for the Empire." When the coffin was lowered into the toMb chiselled in tbe solid rock, all those present sang the "Old Hundredth" and "Now the Labor- er's Task is O'er." The remainder of the burial service was chanted, and the band played the Dead March in Saul. The tomb was covered with wreaths. LITTLE FELLOWS WANTED. Small Troopers and. Light Horses for South Africa. An Ottawa despatch says: -As the result of a conference between the Minister of Militia, General O'Grady Hely, and Col. Pinault, it was de- cided that the minimum height of men who are to be ace/lilted for the fourth contingent will be 5 feet 4 in- ches: Recruiting will conamence at all the usual points in Canada about the 18th inst. No particular quota will 'be as- signed to any one city or locality. Thus, if Toronto can. furnish 500 good men, who eons -Ply with the con- ditions of service, they will be ac- cepted. Daily reports of enlistment will be sent by telegraph to head- quarters, and as soon as the 2,000 men have been enrolled orders to cease enlistinent will be telegraphed to all points. The rate of pay will be the same as the 2nd Mounted Rifles. It is understood that some- what lighter horses will be taken, the iden being that with light men and smaller 'horses, greater mobility can be secured. It is said that Major Merritt and Major Cameron, now out with Col. Evans, will each be given a regi- ment.. 4 - CONTINGENT COMMANDS. Col. Williams and Major Boulang- er Appointed. An Ottawa despatch says: -LB -al -or Boulanger, of Quebec-, was in Ottawa on Saturday and received from the Minister of Militia the oiler of the command of one of the regiments of Mounted Infantry for service in South Africa. It is definitely settled also that Major Williams of Toronto will get one of the regiments. Col. Lessard was offered one, but declined. Col. Turner of Quebec would like to go, but is debarred by reason of his wound received in action. It seems almost certain that one of the regi-, ments will go to Major Cameron, now with Col. Evans, but Major W. Hamilton Merritt will be retained in his present position. The fourth colohalcy will go to either Perry or Saunders, of the North-West Mount- ed Police. Major Morrison. D.S.O., of Ottawa, can have a majority if he cares to go to South Africa again. $150,000,000 WAR LOAN. Further 8200,000,000 Funded Debt Loan Expected. A London despatch says:-Aceord- ing to the Daily Telegraph, the con- sensus of opinion in Stock Exchange and banking circles is that the Gov- ernment will need a loan of about £80,000,000 to cover the year's re- quirements and it is surmised that power will be asked. from Parliament for the creation of a further £40,- 000,000 founded debt, of which amount £20,000,000 to 030,000,000 will be issued forthwith. The city would like, says the • Telegraph, a guaranteed three per emit. Trans- vaal loan, but such a •loan is not generally expected. DR. TALMAGE DEAD. Expired. on. Saturday Night in Washington. A despatch from Washington says; -The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage died at 0 a'elock on Saturday night at his home in this eity. Tie had been 111 for Tome time and only a few weeks ago had experienced a change for the better, which gave hope of his move* Several days ago, how- ever, his eondition grew worse, reus- ed by congestion of the •brain. with eatarrhal eamplications, OM (I since then the family had daily been 'ex- pecting hie •death. POSSIBLE( PEACE TERMS. AN, ;41 TliE Dill 11101i PARLIAMENT 11/r, Kruger's Vie'w's PabliShed hi 11:diriburgla NOT:74 OP PROCEEDINGS , IN A. London (lope telt saysa-in apparently aetheatie statement pub- • THE FEDERAL HOUSE, lished in t he ladialau-gli Evening News, ahoae editor is e t011e 1 With Mr. Kruger, declareson the highest guthority that the Boers are prepared to accept the following con - They will not make absolute hide- pendeine a cardinal feature if they eau come to Q. satiallatstery egret., ment as to future Liteenal go cern- niett rle' laudshment and conescatioa of property proclamation inuet be cau- •celled, and coufiscated property Must be restored to its owners, with re- muneration for private stock and property taken by the British. Full recognition of State debts contracted before and. after hostiliti- ties and up to the date of the annex- ation proclamation • issued by Lord Roberts. . The language question to be mat -- 110],y agreed upon. Amnesty for Cape rebels. The release of all political prison- ers. A date to be fixed when all prison- ers ofwar will be returned to South Africa. The offices of obe or two friendly Dowers to be accepted to superiatend the carrying out of the teams' of PetLfeeth Oese, the cardinal point and the hardest for Great Britain • to agree: to is the granting of amnesty to the Cape rebels, not so much on account of British opposition, but awing to coloniai opposition IA South Afric0 itself. While there is no reason to believe that this is not a semi-offf- cial summary of the Boers' demandS, there is also reason to think they may be modified. The editor of the News is Ffector MacPherson. one of the most able of Scotland's journalists. MacPherson only recently went to Holland and interviewed former President Kruger of the Transvaal, Among the many peace rumors the most interesting is to the effect that "they are willing to come into .the British Empire, as junior partners, to give up their flag and become past of an African confederation, with a flag of its own, with a Su- preme Court and with practically an American constitution." • DISORDERLY SCENES. Members of 1.ustrian Parliament - Storm Platform. A Vienna despatch says: -The Pan - German Parliamentary manners were again unpleasantly exhibited in the Reichsrath on Wednesday. The trou- ble arose over the educational ques- tion in Bohemia, over which the Czechs and Germans are at logger- heads. The Ministers being absent, the President of the Chamber became the victim of the Pan -German fury. Whistling and slamming of desk lids drowned the sound of the Presi- dent's bell when he attempted to re- store order. Finally, a dozen Pan - Germans .stormed the platform and coarsely abused the President. They seized the bell and -hammered tbe table with it, and threatened the President witli fists and sticks. They also pelted him with wads of paper. The President left the House, there- by suspending the sitting. • 4 • LYNCH'S SYMPATHY. Blatherskite Colonel Sues His • Tenants. A London despatch says :-Col. Arthur Lynch, the Irishman who claims to have fought on the Boer side early in the war, and has since been elected Nationalist member of Parliament for Galway, brought a suit on Thursday before the Quarter Sessions at Kilrush against a num- ber of tenants for arrears of rent. The tenants belong to the fisher class, and are all poor people. They asked the magistrate to alio* them time to pay. He said he sympathiz- ed with them, but was unable to comply with their request. The af- fair has aroused great indignation against the • colonel in Ithrush. He has never attempted to take his seat in the House of Commons. MEDALS FOR OUR HORSES. Will Be Awarded at Toronto and Winnipeg Shows. A London despatch says :-In view o1. the movement to improve the breeds of Canadian horses by the importation of registered Shire stal- iions, the Shire Horse Society of England, with which the King is prominently associated, decided, at the suggestion of John Dyke, to awardtwo gold medals for the best registered Shire stallion and mare at the Toronto • and Winnipeg shows this year. A SIGNIFICANT STEP. Russia Preparing to . Mobilize ' Black Sea, Fleet, A Loudon :deagatch says: -The mo- bilizatioa of the Black Sea fleet of Russia, the eorresponalent at Odessa, -wires, has been fixed for the end of July„ and the depots at Se- bastopol are reeeiving unasually large cOnSignments of IlaVal Stores. The sinmItamtoos Mobilization of the Black Sea and Baltic -fisietts this elf/Inner, the correspot dent continuos, and the unprecedented military con- centration north of • Odessa, is con- Sidered to be very significant„ LORD DUNDONALD. Ile Will Stteteed Major-General . O'Grady A Londondespatch sare--The ap- pointinent, of Major-Cieneral the Earl or lainclottaid as General. Officer come Mantling the Canadian Militia., in suecesalion to Majer-General 0'.0.1-ady 'whose term will sweat expire, hae been Oillelaily annotfated. MANITOBA SCHOOL LANDS, Mr. Rosa presented a petition front Ike L0e4,11 Legislature Of Manitoba in refereace to the redactioa or, interest oa School lands held in trust by the vieee 01' Manito.ha, Dominion tlavernment for the Pro- . OANSO BRIDGF, COMPANY. The bill to incorporate the Strait of Canso Bridge Company was read a third time and passed. after ita serting an amendment to Make it quite clear that the tolls may be re- gulatea from time to time by the (.aovernOr-in-Council. •, SECOND READINGS. To incorporate the" Canadian Nala thorn Telegraph Co.. -Mr, Davis, Respecting the Bay of Quinte Rail- way Co. -Mr. Hardy. Respecting the Medicine Hat Rail- way and, eottl Co. -Mr, Scott.- • R.-.-'elfr.liC e°tinigatahrethly'e. magalni Railway Co Respecting the Calgary and Ed - =atm Co. -111r. Barker. . Respecting the Lake Champlain and St. Lawrence Ship Canal Co. - Me. Geoffrion. • ST. LAWRENCE CANAL. Mr. Henderson was informed by Mr. lifulock that in 1896 the amount of money expeuded ill paying the employes on the St. Lawrence Canal was $148,826, and the eantunt coi- leeted on the said canal, $120,256. Li 1897 the wages were $137,543, aa.id the • collections $122,437. In 1898 these amounts Were reser.. , $10,023 and $120;338, In 1890 they •• were $150,291 and .$141,979. In 1901 the wages were $100,840, and the collections were $147,637. SUPREME COURT. • Mr. Fitzpatrick stated that xvithin the vast five years the number of ap- peals taken before the Supreme Court of -.Canada was 494. Of these there -were only 16 heard belore the •full bench of six judges. GEORGIAN BAY CANAL. At the Railway Committee of the Senate the Montreal, Ottawa, and Georgian Bay Canal Bilr was report- ed. The company asked for an ex- tension of time for eight years. kr. Wisner, C.E., addressed the commit- tee. • He pointed out that there were 445 miles from the Georgian: Bay to Montreal. About ten per cent. of this distance would require canaling. The remainder was Open waterway. His estimate of the whole cost of construction to Montreal was $80,- 000,000. The change on the average level of the lakes would be about a foot., Mr. Gibson said that three feet more excavation wotilcl ale re- quired than was shown in the Gov- ernment Surveys, on account of the rise and fall of the lakes. He thought that the canal should be 150 feet Wide. The bottom of the prism is now put at 100 feet. Some ves- sels were 48 and.50 feet wide. The canal shoUld be wide enough to let them pass easily, Mr. Wood (Ham- ilton) asked the probable duration of navigation. Mr. Wisner said 235 days, practically eight months of the year. The bill was reported. withont amendment. TRANS -CONTINENTAL LINE. , The Railway Committee of the House of Commons had under con- sideration a bill which was practical- ly the granting of a charter for a trans -continental line to the Canad- ian' Northern. The company asks power to build a number of lines and branches which bring it from 'the St. Lawrence seaports to the ' Pacific coast. The Minister of Railways said that the Government looked with favor on a second transeeenti- -nental railway to the Pacific coast, and anything they could do or ask Parliament to aid in the promhtion. of that -undertaking they propose to de. There weresubsidymatters which required inore critical consid- eration. He did not feel at present like putting any one company in Ma limited possession of such a, great extension of country as the Canadian Northern Would 'cover with two par- allel lines across the prairie. The charter which theyare asking prac- tically gave them two lines, and 11 would be time enough to give them the second when they made the first a success. The bill was discassed at length, and all the Ace -Lions were pas- sed except the one increasing the cap- ital from $24,750,000 to $35,000,- 000. • THIRD READING-. The bill to incorporate the Nipia- sing and Ottawa Railway Co. was read a third time and passed. RAILWAY COMMISSION, Hon. A. G. Blair introduced the Governinent railway bill. Its chief features are the constitution of a, railway commission and the regula- tion of the tolls. Thealailway Com- mittee or the Privy Council is abol- ished. The powers of the Railway Committee of tho. Privy Comical are conferred cm the Railway Cormaiss sion and new powers axe add:ed. Membeas of thescommission Will be three in number. They will be ap- pointed for ten years, and are. eligi- ble for reappointment.' Age and sal- ary have been left blaela Tat Gov- ernment •wili be guided by the opin- ion of the House, No member of the cominiSsion can be removed except on an address from both Houses. Olio' meMber wiul be experienced 11) law, one itt railway transportation; and the third will probably be (shoat. en front the hush:less community. The Board oil Commissioners' will de- termine all questiOns of rates, subjeet only to an appeal to the Governor - in -Council, They vi11 haye jurisdic, tion in the matter .01 rates over or- dinary, eoirniodity sold oompeti ti vo traffic, • Much diseretion is allowed theC•orrunission, The Commissiori Will fusee no control over the Gov- , ernment railWoYe. JAPAN EXPOSiTION, Mr. Lemietlx Was itgarined by a.- Visb,er tha,tit was the fatention of the GoVernmeat to have Caitada tOr tnke part in the Japan Exposition in 11)93, KING'S BIRTHDAY, • Col, Hughes was informed by Sir Wilfrid Laurier that the Goverament lias not reached a (10018100 as to wbether a bill should be introdaced fixing the 24th of May as the day of offieial observance of the King's birthday, ' POST OFFICE EMPLO YES. 1-1011, Wm. Matlock. Introduced his Pott Mee' bill„ The bill applies10 messengers, packers, letter carriers; POrters and sorters. :En their :Case the civil service examination has been done away with. Instead of a yearly • salary a per diem allowanee will be 'substituted. Instead , of Waiting for nine years to reach the Maximum salary, • half that tinie would be all that was neCessary. A superintendent of city, pastoffiees would be provided for in the) bill. The first one to fill the position Would be George Ross, assistant postmaster of Toronto. MILITARY REFORM PLAN. Minister of Militia Borden outlined, it the :House an important scheme of' milit'ary reform. Increase Of the mi- litia to 100,000 men, the establish- ment of a rifle factory and the in, crease of stag and militia officers: with a higher standard Of military education, are some of the projects which the Minister of • Militia is bent on caxrying out. Asto the report of the Major-General, he agreed ii. the main with every suggestion, it contained. Under the present „ law, the permanent force is limited, to 1,000 mem The Otaeral proposed to increase it to 1500, , and he him - sell thought it a wise proposal. He was afraid it Would not he possible to get men away from their avoeas tioris for 21 days every year. Bet it might be practicable mine in three years to give the men a longer ,per- iod of drill than twelve days, ' He was quite in accord with the Major -General's proposal to form a body of reserves. At this moment, he said, the suggestion is being car- ried out, aud it would involve very little more expenditure for the extra Men, Riiiricient of whore would be raised to increase the present force of 35;000 up to 100,000, and this would be done by bringing them 111 -- to the rifie Clubs, for which provi- sion was made • last session. Un- doubtedly the day is near at hand, Dr. Borden said, When we should have at least one mere- arsenal, sit- uated in 'a central part of Canada. But as to the present. He would say that in the course of the year the output of anunuaitioa from the present arsenal at Quebec would be increased froze two millions to six or seven million • rounds a year, working on the 8 -hour basis, and 18 or 20 million cartridges coidd be turned out by the arsenal workiag full time. As to arms, continued the Minister, the Government hoped ia short time to have in operation. in Canada a factory capable of tinning out from 12,000 to 15,000 rifles yearly, working 8 hours per day, and more than double that number, when working fell time. The arra to be turned out was the Sir Charles Ross rifle. It was Possible to have it this country, he said, a very effective defensive force at very little More expenditure than the present outlay. We wanted educated, well-trained of- ficers, and he agreed that there should be, to that end, a severe ex- amination. Canada had raised at headquarters a medical corps second to none in the world. That had been shown in South Africa, for they had only been landed there with the Mounted Rifles, when they Were put at once to the Most severe test possible, and he had Peceived a cable- gram froth Col. EVallS stating that they had acquitted themselves with the greatest possible 'credit. PRENTICE PARDONED, Sentenced. Five Years Ago to Life Imprisonment. An Ottawa despatch says: -Arthur Prentice, a young English lad, .five. years age was seatanced to be hang-. ed for the murder of a feriner ia Western - Ontario. Prentice bad a quarrel with a neighboring farmer's son over a rabbit,. which Prentice said .belonged to him. 'The farmer tookup the row with r' preaS tice and the lad shot him. The death sentence was changed to im- prisomnent life, and now a par, don has been granted Prentice. There were 'extenuating circumstanc- es in the first place, and a favorable report froxii the judge. Prentice has got Meads' in England, and he will be released at Kingston. Penitentiary to -day arid forw•arded to them, -4- • LACKING IN DISCIPLINE. Methuen's Report. of the Twee- . boseh Disaster. A despatch from London says: - The Official Gazette contains a leng- thy. report from General Lord Me- thuen in i.ogard to the Tweebosch diSaster. General Methuen says he found the Tear screen of the 86th Im- perial Yeomanry lacking in fire dse cipline and knowledge as to how they should act in action. They seemed to be in need of instracted officers: Lord Methuen concludes his report by stating that maay of the Boots were in khaki, and wore the 'chevrons of non-commissioned offi- cers. Tbis Ied to a misapprehen- sion as to their identity, and result-, ed ix) the losses to the British, LIFE SENTENCE, llausic, Teacher Punished for Mur- der in Detroit. 'A Detroit despatch says -Prof. 131. Millet', the Canatliata who brutal- ly merdeiatd alias Jennett; and cona' Tossed to the erinie when 'eonfrobted with evidaece of his guilt, wets on Saturday afternoon sentenced to 11 impri so ment tia) j rick -sloe, prison. The assasai0 was ea!titsillied by three alienasts, till of ',Whom pronounced him taine. NEWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. CANADA. London's tax rate has been fixed at 28 mills. Col. Pellatt's appointment to the coronatiou contingent is confirmed. The Union Bank has erected a $25,000 building at Carberry, Mani- toba. • Tile Welland °axial epees for navi- gation on April 28th and the La- chine canal May lst, The Ontario Government is re- ported to be about to estahlish a fish hatchery at Loudon, Ont. According to a Halifax despatch St, John, N. B., may be made the te the Canada Atlantic Rail- way.esirilinrai iiirreahnl 0. 01 St. Catharines has decided to have a paid fire department to consist of one chief, seveu regular and twenty a as Shaughnessy Will erect a summer cottage close to the home of Sir William Van Horne at St. Andrew's, N, 33. The Oollingwood, drydock will be enlarged to a length of 525 feet,: making itthe largest fresh water drydock ia the world. .Sixty heads of families from Ne- braska and .ICansae are selecting lands in the Rainy River district. They have .0,0,000 deposited in the banks at .Port Arthur, . • The contract for the three -million - bushel elevator to he built at Winni- peg by the Canadian Pacific Railway in time for this year's crop has been awarded to C. H. HagliTS of Minnea- polis, It will be cement. GREAT BRITAIN. Rail -way waggon builders in Eng- land are forming a trust. The imports and exports in Brit- ain for March shows a heavy decrease. The coronation naval review will be held on the original fixture, June 28. The list of coronation honors will include a dukedom for Lord Salis- bury. , No less than £50,000 was realized by the Salvation Army- in England during self-denial week. Lincolnshire agriculturists are suf- fe:dhsig, from the ravages of moles, which are said to abound in thous - a . Sir William Drinkwater, the oldest living judge in the United Kingdom, has just celebrated his 90th birth- day, • The re-entry of South American and Canadian live cattle is being ag- itated by the butchers' association in England. The garden of Albert Square has been formally handed over for the use and eajoyment of Londoners. The Duke of "Connaught will have supreme control of all the troops whieh will be assembled for the cor- °nation- Seven thousand men will be em- ployed from Aldershot to line the streets on coronation day, and a Sim- ilar manlier from various southern stations. The gifts received front the colonies by Gm Prince and Princes s of Wales o:it:it-loci:I. voyage round the world are to be exhibited at the Imperial In- sUNITED STATES. Robert .1. 'Wynne, a newspaper num has been made .Assistant Postmaster - General. Charles Blanchard, (Mee an heir to $8,000,000 is confined in the infirm- ary at Baltimore, Md., as a tramp. Mayor Harrison of Chicago, on bes half of -the City ,Council, has invited Kinigea to visit Chicago. . The Boer Relief COMMittee in Chi- cago _will make an effort to raise $5,000,000 in' one dollar donations. Manacled to two offIcers James Rowe, convicted embezzler. attended hiswife's funeral, at New Haven, Conn. His disgracabroke her ,heart. The British camp at Lathrop, Mo., has shipped more than 72,090 mules and horses to South Africa since the beginning °lathe Boer war. A new telephone company is plac- ing public pay telephones on street poles in Bridgeport, Cenn., permis- sion to erect them, having •been re- fused in New Haven The telephone Will be encased in small boxes and will be operated 'like .siot machines. A. judge has grantee& permanent injunction against a boycott histi- tuted by tbe 33uilding Trades •Conn- ell, saying, "The boycott is . destruc- tive to personal liberty and utterly subservient of ell sociai order, all law nod all government, and is there- fore ualawfal." • • GENERAL. • , There were -two fatal duels in France last week,• ' • A Paris' paper says that the real Parisian native born is fast disaps peari»g. The Portuguese anthorities are tak- ing itetive steps to rePress the babit of spitting... Rill= Ching's eoa with his euite has 'left Pekin for London as China's envoy te the coronation, There have been Po . fewer than tWenty-seVon suicides committed in, Mti.dricl d uri lig the past week. 3Teavy fighting has ta,ken place be - tweet), the Turks and Christians in European Turkey, and the trouble if..) "Tychaeciehdlgitora of tWo Papers 111 Man- ila have dared to Criticise -the action of the IThited States Connuission pow governing the Philippines, arid they have been arrested', the result being its evollSO the eiltiVe Press Of mani14.118 representatives me1 and resolved to' Send" 0, eatumitted to the Coanniseion to argue against the itt justice of the proeeedings. STRANGE DEATH. Tr4veller Sanethe'red in 4 l'citor, borougb. Hotel. • Poterborongla, Opt., despatch sayS sa-A colitatereial traveller who • registered as Harry L, Boyd, 01 Boston, was found dead in ilia room at the' Orleatal Hotel here at neon: on Thursday. Boyd arrived here o4. the 5.35 Grand .Trunk train Wednes- day evening, and Was around the 'hotel during thel availing. It is not known at what tin e 'he •went to his room, but this morning the chain-- berm:ad, making unsuccese.61 .efforts. to gain access to tlie rooni or aronSe its inmate, reported -the fact to the office. Looking into the room_ the hotel deal< saw tbe unforttmate man lying on the aed. Entrsinee wee gained,' andit was: found he was dead. Re had bolted the dennaim the inside, and thrown him:Self an the • bed face downwards, fully dressed: The electors and coroaer Were sum- moned, and their suppositiba is that the man am, suddenly seised with illness, and throwing :himself on to the bed on his face was , annithered. NO inquest was considered aeceseary. HiS papers .'indicated that , he tra- velled for the Chase & 0c) tierpora- Cars of Boston, Masa, iri•thb acon- fectionary line. He was a stranger on the ground, for the hotel Men did - not know hint. HO was about 37 years of age. A telegram was sent to, the firm's address in Boston, and 4 reply Was aeceived in the, evening, saying that deceased's friends had been notified and instructioas would follow. •.PEACE IS .AT HAND. Boer Delegates Think Negotiations Will be Successful. A despatch from the Hague says: - A report is current in Alciarcireles that, terms of peace in South Africa - • will be signed in a few clays. It is impossible to verify the report on any definite authority. The Associated Press understands that the peace negotiations are pro- • grossing' satisfactorily, so far as the Trausvaalera are concerned, but the latest advices indicate that there is small proba,bijity of the Free Stat, . ers surrendering in a body. The ne- gotiations thus far have been maia- ly explanations of British intentions. It has been made plain to the leaders that their, surrender will not entail banishment, and this has a potent influence. The leading Transvaalers urge their allies to 'arrange peace terms. The inner circles of the War Office believe that if the paesent in- dications are fulfilled, and the Trans- Vaelers agree to surrender-, the back- bone of I3oer resistance will, be brok- en, and that the Free Staters' op- , position will soon be overcome. TO ENFORCE COERCION. Six Battalions' to be Sent to •Ire- • laud Within a Month. A despatch to the London Pali Mall Gazette from Dublin says that ten • battalions of English and Scotch militia, are to be embodied and sent to Ireland within a month, in pursu- ance of the British Government's de- termination to apply the Coercion Act. The correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette understands that Lord Lon- donderry, the Postmaster -General threatened to resign from • the 00137 inet unless active Measures were taken to circumvent the United Ir- ish League. KAISER HONORS OUR TARS Order of the Red Eagle f or Ad- miral Seymour. • A Berlin despatch says: --The Em- peror has couferred imon Rear -Ad- miral Sir EdiVard•II. Seymour, for- merly naval commander of the first British expeditionary force in China, the Order- of the Red Eagle, with sword of the first-class, and upoii Capt. Jellicoe, of the 13ritish navy, the same order of the second class._ The • Enaheror said that he was prompted te, decorate these officeis by readatig the report of Capt. von , 'Llsedom, the senior German naval officer present oe. the operation for • the relief of the Pekin Legatiians. • WHISTLING LANGUAGE. The aborigines of the Malabar I� - lands employ a perfect whistling lan- guage, by means of which taey can -communicate with each other Over low, distances. A stranger warider- ing over the islands is frecmently surprised to hear from a hill -top the sound of loud whistling, which is quickly repeated on the next hill:, and so is carried from summit to summit until it dies away • in the distance. • The WINE F011 HORSES. 4 recent large vintages in F1111)6'1,1 recall the years 1874 and 1875, when ' • the Wine was SO abundant that it • was given to the horses. It: was claimed that if oats were soaked in wine the horses would needno»ly half, the usual quantity for the sairee-r amount of work. . air The stable of Ms. Norman Bass in East Whitby was burned with most of its aantentra A man 'lamed Hhieston was arrested on suspicion of setting the place.on fire, abd con, famed. A new iron, mad steel company, . with 0 capital of 20,0 million clot:lava is :to be incorporated in New Jersey • this weak. • The total deaths from eholera in Manila amount .to 102, and 10 other parts of the Philippines to 818. Major 'Wailer, the Americap officer tbartfoo lotb 1d11111g Samar 11011VOS hi the :Pailippinas.-Withoul trial, has beea aCqUitted, • '