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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1902-6-19, Page 31%.4 THE•MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres, MARKETS OF 'InIE WORLD. 'Voronto, June 17.—Wheat — The inarttet, quiet and firmer, with No. 2 white and red winter quoted at 77 to 77*e middle freigist, NO. 2 eprieg quoted at 75 to 70e middle ire-in:tin and N. 2 oos at 680 anat. Illenitoba No. 1 herd steady at 88e, Toronto anti wet; NO. 1 Northern at 80iic, and No, 2 North - at 78 -ie, Toronto and west. Grinding in transit prices 2.e high - Buckwheat -- The marketis uomie nal at 61 to 62c east. • Rye — The Market is dull, with prices eotninal. Pees --• Trade dull, with No. 2 quoted at 75c WeSt Oats -- The demand is fair, With prices steady. No. n white, 45 to middle freight, and 46e caeca Flour --, Ninety per cent. Ontario pateat quoted at $2.02* middle freights, in buyers' eacks. Stra.ignit rollers, in wood, quoted at $3,25 to $8.35. Manitoba flours are steady. iiungariars patents, $1,05 to $1.25 Selivered on track., Toronto, bags leclucled, and strong bakers', e3.80 ,n) $3.95. Oatmeal -- Car lots in bbls. in1.85 DU track, and in sixths at $4.70. Broken lote, 25c extra. \ ' Millfeed -- Bran is arm at $18 to D18.50 outside. Shorts, $20,50 out- side, At Toronto bran is $19, and thorts $21 in bulk. Manitoba bran D20 in sacks, and shorts $28 in sacks, Toronto. . COUNTRY PRODUCE. Dried apples — Trade is quiet and rices unchanged at 5 to 51c per lb. Evaporated,. 10a to 110. Hope — Trade tailet, with prices steady at 13e; yearlings, 7c. Honey — The* market is dull; tomb, $2 to $2.25 per dozen. ' Beans — The market is. dull at $1.. to 61.25, the latter• for hand-picked. Hay, baled — The market is stea- dy, with fair demand; timothy, $10.- 50 to stt for No. 1. • Straw — The market in quiet. Car lots on track quoted at $5 to $5,7- 50, the latter for No. 1. Poultry — Receipts aro small, and ibe demand fair. We quote:—Tur- toys, young, 13c per lb.; do, old, 11 lo 12e; ohickens, 75 to 90c per -pair. Potatoes — This Market is quiet, /nth car lots quoted at 72 to 75c, or bag .oa track; small lets sell. at 30. to 85c. • TITE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter — The market is without 'change, with demand fair, and re- ceipts equal to requirements. We quote:—Choice pound rolls, 17 to 1.8c; choice large rolls and tubs, 14 io 15c; medium, 18,c; low grades, in Subs and pails., 10 to 12c; creamery prints, 19 to 20e; and tubs, 18 to 1,90. Eggs — The receipts are large, and feeling weaker. C•ase lots, 13- to .14c per dozen. Cheese — Market is quiet, and . prices are unchanged. New choice Is jobbing at 10 to 10io. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, June 17, -- Flour—Quiet and firm. Wheat -- Spring steady; •No. 1 Northern c.i.f., 76c; winter, •pod enquiry; No. 2 red, 84c. Corn — Quiet; No. -2 yellow, 6710; No. 3 Ilo., 67ic; No. 2 c,'orn, 67c; No. 3 do., 66nc. Oats — Strong; No. 2 White, 500; No. 3 do., 49-ic; No. 2 pined, 17e; No. 8 do., 46c. Rye -- nfo, 1 in store offered at 61ne. Toledo, June 17. -- Wheat—Fairly active, firm; •cash, 80c; June, 80c; July, 74c; September, -73c. Corn Dein, steady; cash, 62nc; July, 62*m. PnIstember, 581c; pecemben, 41ac. fiats — Active, Strong; conla 44e; July, 37a0; new, 30/e; September, 29e; new , 314c, sO1overeeed—Du11, steady; cash, $5.07a; October, $5. - Duluth, June .17. Close-eanneaa Cash No. 1 hard, 76ac; No. 1 North- ern, 73.1c; No. 2 Northern, 72e; Manitoba No., 1 Northerri cash, Vale; No. 2 Northern, 73nc. Oats— September, 29 c. Minneapolis, June 17. — Close -- 'Wheat -- July, 74nc; September, 681c; on track, No. 1 hard, 78c; No. 1 Northern, 75 to 75e; No. n Northern 73 to'78-c. Milwaukee, June 17. — Wheat -- Higher; -close, No. 1 Northern, 77 to 77ne; No. 2 Northern, 76 to 76nc; .July, Rye -- Steady; nro, 1, Min Barley—Higher. St. Louis, June 17. — Wheat -- itnose'd — Cash, 76ac; July, 69ac; Septeinber, 681c. nocr Dressed hogs are unchanged. Hog products in limited supply, with prices firm. Woquotes—Be:eon, long clear, 11 to 11t, in 'ton and case lots; mess pcitk, $21.50 to $22; do, .short cut, $23.50. ' Smoked meats — Hame, 13*e to 14e; breakfast bacon, 14* to 15c; eons, 11a to 126; bathe, 14a to 15c; and shoulders, 11c. Lard -- The market, isfirmiwith ivied demand. We ouote tiereee, 110; tubs, llac; pails, 1i -c; Com- pound, 0 to 10c. , LIVE STOCK MARKETS. • Toronto, June 11.—At the Western cattle yards tenday the receipts Were 17 carloads of lien .stocks including 1,000 cattle, 1,225 sheep and lambs, 1,200 hoge, 170 calves, and 20 milch, cows,, Trade was brisk, and pricee were firmer for good stuff, but for good stuil! only. The advance was snore apparent than real ; the email quaritity of choice eXport cattle found a ready 'ante et pekes .that rariged froie 6 to nine per lb.; and in a feW cases as, minis as 6/e was paid. Butcher cattle Was in lair demand ‘e.t. frOla 44 to tile Per lb., eod for oice ot5 aim u t 10 , to 15 c h igh er Bet theamen stuff is no stronger or in better deinand than it was on Tilesday, Mich cows, stockers, export buile, and springers Are not quotably changed, Good etoelters will sell, • Choice milch cows are in demand. Good to choice veal calves are wented here. Small stuff is firmer in price, ad in• better demand, but not quotably changed. 31/Ei1c12 cows and springers sold at 1630 to n50 each, Calves sold at from $2 to $10 each, or from 84.50 to $5.50 per cwt. Spring lambs are worth $2.50 to $5 each. Sheep are steady end wanted at $3.75 to $4 for ewes. • 13uthe are worth from $3 to $3.50 per cwt, Hogs are weaker, and the ten- dency is downwerd. The top 'price •of -Mance hogs is 66.87* 'per cwt ; light and fat hogs are $6.02* per cwt. • Hogs—To fetch the top price must be of prime quality, and scale not below 100 nor absve 200 ins. Following is the range of quota- tions Cattle. Shippers, per reit.. $5,25 56.5(1 do, light .„ 4..50 5.50 Butcher, cboice. .„ 4,75 5.50 Butcher, ordinary to good., , '3 75 4,40 Stockers, por ewt... 3.00 4.00 Sheep and Lambs. Choite ewes, per cwt.. .... 8,75 4,15 Yearlings, per ewt„ 5,00 5,50 Spring lambs, each .. 2,00 5.00 Bucks, per cwt. , • 8.25 8.50 Minims and Calves. Gown , , 25.00 50,00 Calves, each , • 2.00 10.00 • Hogs. Choice hogs, per cwt.— 6.75 6.87* Heavy Hogs, pe' cwt.— 6.50 6.62* Sows, per cwt... ... 3.50 4,00 Sta,gs, rer . ..... 0,00 2.00 SIX FAST SHIPS. British - Canadian C o m bine to Spend 542,500,000 on Fleet. A London despatch says: The newspapers here continue to discuss the British shipping combine, as though, tbe project had aseusued ciente tangible shape. The West- rai•nster Gazette intimates that the Cunard Line will scot join in form- ing the proposed Canadian -British line, and, it says that the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Chamberlain, favors subsidizing the latter project, rather than the Cunard plan, which is more epecially' directed against the Mor- gan shipping combine. According to the Wes'tmins'ter Ga- zette the capital of the Canadian - British line will be £10,000,000 ($50,000,000), of which £8,500,000 ($42,500,000) will be •expended on six 25 -knot vessels-, and a dozen freight steamere. Including sn,200,- 000 $1,000,000) subsidy from Cain ada, the promoters, it ie ridded, ex-- pect a, total subsidy of £500,000 ($2,500,000), besides an Imperial guarantee of interest on the capital amounting to £300,000 ($1,500,000) yearly. The Westminster Gazette further asserts that the negotiations for a - guarantee of the interest on the cap- ital are so far advanced that the only point at isms° is whether it shall be 2* per cent. or 8 per cent. • FRENCH AND GERMANS, Boers aope They May Fight • Thera. A Pretoria despatch says: In. all 10,225 Boers have surrendered up to 'date. Many are youngsters of • 11 years old , a,nd upward. The ma- jority of them are under thirty, though some of the burghers ivho have surrendered are septua.genar- fans, Aeports from all the districts say that the burghers are' increas- ingly ,ftiendly. The only bit -Winless observable among' the leading Boers here is against France and Germany. Alley ,declare the war was protract-. ed • unnecessarily, owieg to hopes held out by the French and German •piess. Some of the Deere are so bl- oused that ,they haveexpressed the hope that *some day they will, fight on the side of the British against one of these powers. ' The anticipated friction between the sin:rendered Boers and their for- mer..comrades of the National Scouts has not materialized to any extent, The Boers. admit that they receiv- ed ammunition through Portugueee territory. ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT. Neglect of Ventilation Laanentecl A. Toronto despatch says: The tweatieth annual repolit of the Pro- vincial Board of Health -has • been completed and issued. It is estim- ated that a total of 511,000,000 has been expended by the province •and the municipalities or Oatario in the Work' of preventing wan chairing out disease. Dr, 13ryce writes of ,,the immense change that' has come aver the public Mind with regard to dis- ease prevention, *. Twenty yews ago tubeeculosie was treated fii the. or- dinary Way by family physiciaase, now • tbe• doctor who treats,such aases'ia shunned. Dr. Itodgett,e0n- tributes some 'valuable scientific Pa- pers an the, disease, The, report al- so lameness the neglect of -late years of the question of ventilation in fac- tories and schools a$having a seri- als betteing on the prevention. • of Wherein °cis. by D,oetors. • CURLERS COMING. Will Visit Various Cities in Come acla Next Season. An 111diaborgh, deepateh says: It is, proposc,(1 to send it, Scottish own- ing team to C(11111441. next season. At it 'repeat -imitative meeting here to- dity 45 ounces agroed to go. . The subject, will be I:emitted to tile Itoytti Celled o»i Cunene' (ilub for approval awl the %inaction of the team, BEATH OF UN nSE BUIE 0011BIN.A.TI0N THAT DESTROYS THE DREADFUL PEST. It Will Kili the Insect and. Nee Not Injure he Most Tender T Dr. James PletTeeleneSi:, Inentiaio. n Una touselogist, has sent the following interesting report to the Meister of Agriculture for Oaten° The great desideratten la the Pent him been to .diecover a reme0Y: for the San Joee scale \Olen would kill the seale, but at . the. ;tonne time would not injure the treated trees, Mt. G-eorge Fisher, by instruction of the Provinciel Minister of A.gricsa- tare, with this express end In vim, has carried an e West extensive se- ries 'of experiments, and has at last found a remedy which from present appearances seems to meet all ree quh'ements.. This. consists r of an emulsion of crude Petroleum and noel). This nen been applied to an kinds of fruit trees, includiag the peach, without any apparent Injury, and with quite satisfactory results se fat as killing the scale- is con- cerned. A feattns of this remedy is that it is. mach cheaper than the whale all soap treatment, which was the beet previously known reinedy, It costs four cents to treat a tree with the emulaioss, While the whale ein soap costa tea =M.S. This work done•by Mr: Fisher Mt the ,Onlario Government I cousider the greatest ad -ranee yet made an. ties warfare against the San Jose gc al t‘ . winch is by fat the worst insect enemy fruit grower§ ever had to contend with. To sem the mattcr un, the fruit grower is now provided with a remedy which he can safely use en peach trees and other delicate trees, at About ONE-THIRD THE COST of the boat previously known remedy with more 'certainty of destroying tbe insect. Besides this the trees will be left in a cenditicin to with- stand further infestation for a mach longer tiine. Added to this it is a remedy which can be eafely applied by any fruit grower witb an ordin- ary spraying pump, and can 1)6 pre- pared by anyone without difficulty and without special apparatus which tie cannot Make for himself at home. Another discovery- - of importance which has been Made in these On- tario experiments is annemulsion of fish oil and soap, which is equally effective and safe, but Which, costs 6* cents a tree.- The advantages of this emsilsion are that at a cost of two- thirds of the whale oil soap WO have 6, mixture which 'can easily be made at home which, contains:the. same in- gredients in, known quantities-, which aen be variedin, accoratenee with the requfrethente ef the case and the kind of tree to be treated. It is hoped that further experinients will show then the cost of this remedy can also' be reduced. • . The fruit growers 61.America are certainly to be congratulated on the results of these experiments, par- ticularly of .the discovery of the crude oil emulsion. It has. for some time been known that the crude Oil was fatal to the scale, but there was considerable danger in using it, and it most certainly could not .be re- commeeded for general use by fruit growers. We now have a cheap and effective remedy Which all can use eafely. FRUIT MARKS ACT. Reports of Fraudulent Packing Reported. An Ottawa despatch says :---Seve oral inspectors under the Fruit Marks *. Act have reported to the Department of 'Agriculture that strawberries and other smell fruits are being sold in various centres, packed in such a Manner as to vio- late the Fruit Marks Act. Large and solid berries, have been found placed on top. to cover fruit of srmal- ler size and 'poorer quality at the bottom of the boxes. • Directionhaybeen issued to the inspectors tio informs the provisions of the . Fruit'Maiks Act against fraud in the packing of small fruits as vigoroasly as against fraud in the packing of ,ap,ples. The inspec- tors' will visit the venous centres from time to time to carry out those instructions. . KING 'OLDS FINAL . COURT. Scene in the Palace Was Unusual- ly A London despatch says: King Edward and Queen Alexandra held the fifth and haat court of the sea- son at Buckingham Palace on Fri - nay evening. It was raining hard, and a cold wind was blowing and the weather was worse, if possible, than that which marked the four inclement nights of the previous coerts. • The scene inside Buckingham Pal- ace was exceedingly brilliant, how - liner, as the Japanese and °Mean EMbaselee to the coronation of the ICiag, who have jest arrived in Eng-, land, and who attended court, were quite en splendidly attired as were the Indian Prinesse pressen The lat- ter were the feattire of this, as they have been of Previous court. The Royal party included the Princess Victoria., and the Prince of Wales,. All the Members of the spe- cial nrisSion front the United States, to the coronatioa of King Edward Wave present, and the efficers wore all in their full draes uniforms. SNOW L SOUTH AFRICA, Unprecedented Storm e in Cape :Coloty. A Cape Town despatch says i—Un- precedented enowstorms have swept over the Midlands. Trains are blocked by a six-foot snow drift at Ina ewe o ort Tim telegraph wires aro down. A despatch from Pretoria sans, that intense cold, aecompanied by heavy- snows, prevails there, The Capp mail was blocked in the snow at Springfield foe 21 bourn It Was neeesSary to employ three engines to extrieate the trans from the drift. RICE MUST HANG. Court of Appears Decision Upheld • by Supreme Court, An Ottawa despeteh says:, The Supreme Court of Canada on Wed- ueeday refused an epPlication Made by T. 0, Robinette, In, Oa of TO - rout° for permissioe to appeal from the unanimous decision of the On- tario Court of Appeal in the ease of Fred Leo Rice, met:sliced to Oe hang- ed July 11, for murder, Under the law previous. to 1897 there clearly would be no right of appeal from the unanimous judgments iof the Pro- vincial Court of Appeal, but the contention of Mr. Robinette, was that the skrordine of the amendment of 1897 enlarged the scope of thap- peea,07 and vested the Supreme Court with authority to deal with• e ns • 'Me Chief Justice and hie col- leagues, held, aowever, that the amendment of 1897 was based upon changes irs the Ontario law which had no bearing upon criminal eases. In announcing the decision, Sir Henry Strong rsaids 'We, are unanimous ia our opinion that clearly and plainly beyond doubt section 24 of the ameadment of 1897 does not apply to eriminal caste, Thi e being the case, it would be almost trifling with the prisoner to hold out hopes by any postpone- inent of the decisicoa'' Mr. Robinette said after the judg- ment was delivered; "We have still one chance of saving the prisoner, and thatisby applying for exams- tive clemency. I &nal follow that, up at once, and am seeing the Min- ister of Justice. to -clay. We will base our case chiefly on the ground that there was nothing to show that Rice fired. the shot or was guilty of the crime.'' NO BITTERN.ESS, SAYS KEMP Thinks British and Boers Will Harmonize Well. A Tracking deepatcla says: Com- mandant Kemp, General Delarey's trusty lieutenants, who has just sur- rendered, now intends to take up farming. He said his command, oonsisting of 1,900 men, surrender- ed at Doornkop June 6. A. few men wets still 'out, but they were com- ing in. He had been averse to yielding, but recognized the opinion of the majority. "We dad our best," cOntinued the commandant, "and must therefore be satisfied. As Lord Kitchener said, no shame is attached to out giving up. We were outnumbered. We might have • continued fighting for another c,ouple of years, but with no certainty ot success. I am quita satisfied with the twins, and have no , ill -feeling against England. "I think there will be no bitter- ness in the future. "We ehall get on all right, togeth- er. 1 expected to win, and only quite recently realized the hopeless- ness of our cause. I have given. the burghers my reasons for yielding. One reason was that the eastern part of the Transvaal had no food - stuns whatever. West Transvaal, however, had enough food for two years more. "Regarding the concentration camps, I am quite convinced now that everything is in goon. order." WRECKAGE OF CoNDoR. Piled Up on. Scott Islands Eight Feet High,. A Victoria, B. C., despateh says: The Dominion Government eteamer Quadra returned on Thursday after- noon seism a trip along the west coast in sear& of the missing seal- ing schooner Hatzno, which is now a month overdue, and, has been giv- en up as lost with. her crew of live whites and 24 Indians. The Quadra found a great quantity of wreckage along the- coast, ant breugiet some • of it down, but none can be posi- tively' identified as comiug off - the. missing khooner. Capt. ,Wrilbran reports that on the Scott Islands.; mirth of •Vancouver whith are, seldom. visited, wreckage is piled up to a, height of eight feet. • Much of this'is from IT.M.S. Condon The collier Mattenevan, which went down oft. Cape, Flattery, and the Walla •WalIst, sank in collision with the French. barque Max off the Califor- nia coast. The currents set in on this island, carrying the flotsam of • the sea, to their rocky shores. • 'rho 'crew of the Quadra were un- able to find the human body s•aid to have been washed ashore on the is- land., but found the body of a sea lion, winch may have led to the re- port that a body had been washed ashore. • SWORD FOR .ICITCHENER. Cape Town Decides to Honor Com- mander -in -Chief, • Tne London Times' Cape Town correspondent says the Towns- Cor- poration has resolved to present Visecient Kitchener with a, senord of noticeable, lie says, that in all press comments from distant up- country districts, and large centres a tone of condiality towatn. the Boers, prevails: It is generally 01? - that, the trouble non, will be with Cape Colony people end, not with those of the two Republics. Only two newspapers in South Af- rica oppose tie suspersmon el the Cape Constieution. ELEpfIANT WENT MAD. Two Hundred Men Necessary • Strangle nt. A. Tours,. France, deripateh Says; A crowd of n.bout 8,000 witeessed the killieg el the largest oallernunt a! -id Ilailey'e pc.rfortaing elephaats, its the City Park, ttt naiduight on Thu l'ad ay. The aMinal su cidOni,V sacra, mad, broke ite cleanse end tried to kill its keepers, while en the way to the railroad station, and had to be s'lain immediately, 'Inv° hundred Mott te,gged at tne rope WItith sttangled it, THANKS BOER WOMEN. De Wret Telle nein They Are Under New Goveramenn A Cape Town deSpatch says :— Gen, 3)6 Wet, the Boer 'leader, made it speech a,t Wiriburg an F,LInAo*lay 011 thasurrender tif the adjoining (avenge Vree,Stette conimandoeS. Went tO the refugee camp, and thenaed the women for the staunch SupPert the*, had g1Vell tha Boer eause threngliont, the War, both on the veldt and '10 camp.. He said that if the WOMeri had not been 'staunch the burgher's would halt° been obliged to submit Icing age. Even if all the burghers in the field, had bten killed in the eounee of the War it would have tseen the duty of 06 Weenie to 'Oleg up their ehaldren t6 be as listlY aS, the burghers he had brought, in • that day, Tbey were now under a sae* Gerverinnente and that was the Brit- inh Goveremeat, and he had to ex- plain' to thein inat it was it thor- oughly latana Government, He add- ed, "I am under that Government, as I fought -until there was no more hope. I heartily thank my sisters fOr their allegiance and faith in oer cause" , • The Repatriation Committee which bas been formed to assist the Boers in returning to their farmS, has, it gigantic task before it. The con- centration camps will be converted into supply depots to provide the re- turning: burghers with the Means to rebuild and restock their farms. 'rho wives and famines of the Boers will, if desired, be Maintained at the ex- pense of the Covernmen't while the burghers are preparing the faints tor their reception. TWO thousand of the National Seoute Who fought upon the British side during the war Will immediately be disbanded, and each scout will be provided with a pony axed enabled to retina to hie farm. CANADA'S FOREIGN TRADE. Increase for Eleven. Months Is -• Over $33,000,000. An Ottawa despatch seen: For 11 months of the present fiscal year Canada's foreign trade, oa the basis of imports for consumption and ex- ports on doineetic merchandise only, exbibits, an increase of nearly 535,- 000,000, as cempared with the same period of the provioue fiecal year. The imports, and nsPorts for the former prnion totalled $848,705,- 085, and for the latter period 5313,- 868,314. With coin and bullion and exports of foreign merchandise , in- cluded, the increase in aggregate trade falls it little short of 688,500,- 000, tbe total amounting to V66,- 942,595 for the 11 months just end- ed, as against $333,472,908 for the 11 months of 1900-1. The inverts for the month. of May show a gain of $859,129, and for. the 11 months a gain of 818,- 561,298. The exports of the month exceeded those of May last year by 54,079,060. For the 11 inmethe the betterment was $17,462,516. The exports of a.gnicultural and dairy products and cattle for the month thew a Splendid skewing, the chief items being: Peas, $104,118, increase, 537,637; wheat, $2,858,- 505, increase, 52,503,815; flour, 5312,518, increase, $92,105; hay, $860,248, increase, $166,956; pota- toes, $122,505, increase, $95,046; cattle, over me year, 51,169,955, increase $650,316; butter, $126,417, increase, $87,234; cheese, 5542,041, increase $135,655; bacon, 81,181,- 083, increase, $96,489. pEcuLIAR CASE. Stranger Gives Doctored Candies to a Young 11/Ean. A London despatch says; The po- lice are - investigating a peculiar poisoning case. While a Young couple were seated in the stalls of a variety theatre a, fussy, -talkative elderly person aiongside of the young man produced a, box of cho- colates, anclfAie ,young man good- nateredly accefiteil and ate some of the contents. The young woman with hbn deelinecinto partake, Short- ly afterward the elderly man left the theatre. The youth became drowsy and then unconscieus. A physician Was swami:used, and lotted that the youth was sulfating from the effects of a poison. The victim remained unconscious • for two days, but is now recovering. The police have not located the prisoner. ADULTERATED SEEDS. Department of Agriculture Making Experiments. An Ottawa despatch says:- G. H. Clarke, B.S.A., chief of the Seed Di- vision of the Department of Agricul- ture, ie engaged in important tests of adulterated seeds. A staff has beert selected to examine and separ- ate all samples bought and sent in by fanners, and when the needs, weeds, etc., have been separated the good seed is placed in ineeibators and the results noted. Some ex-, eneclingly valliable data is already being collected ot the subj•ect, winds will be invaluable to' the farmers in helping them in future to s•ow their fields with the best seeds, free 'of weeds. ; A bill is being framed for -the purpose of protecting the farm- ers and enforcing penalties for „the sale of adulterated seeds. LONG AVENUE On' TREES. Japan has an avenue of trees fifty inilee in length. The trees are tilt) cryptomera, and everyone is a per- fect spetimen, quite straight, from 180 feet to 150 feet ia height, and 12 feet to 15 feet in circumference. The 0X011,110 exteade from the town of Nanmdst to Nikko. A rep ort from onste n t in ople states tha.t Arabe levee massaered a MA'S:Vali of wealthy merthants in the desert near /Cowan Only tweuty of .11C'S 1111 lid rod escaped, 51,,s,sbri no , the TIn lion --brigand sebo• has been sentenced to mprison- /emit for lire, eight: 'years og whi6 wilI be solitary confinenmet, pleaded ao enotflielltly for the diecharge of his aceomplicee that they were all 11.0q1A i USA . NEWS Telegraphic Briers From All Over the Globe. Troadoti mayCAblAveTJA c0111PallY 01 highland Cadets, W. J. Lindsay, of Brandon, is Sending 5,000 bushels of wheat to New Zealand. Knox Church, London, has core menced the use of individual com- munion ceps, The Berlia nigh. School Boand has inpreased the salaries of three of its teachers by $100 ease). Two Doukhobors were (frowned at White Sand River, Man., and four others were rescued with difficulty. • Welland ratepayers have voted in favor of the by-law to grant exelX1P- tion from taxation, for the steel plant of Welland. The town of Hull is practically bankrupt, and an agitation to have the municipality goverued by cam missioners is on foot. Sir Henry. Strong, Cbief juatiCe of Canada, will, it is said, retire from the Supreme Court to becorae &Wyman of the commission for the re -vision of the Dominion statutes, The new comprmy formed in To- ronto to manufacture tbresbiug ana,- chines and, engines, in whicis the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Com- pany is interested, will ereet a big warehouse and machine shop in Win- nipeg. Thomas A. Edison has invented it new dipping needle which he claims will show tho presence a nickel be- neath the aurface very accurately, and ho will make a careful survey of the Canadian nickel belt north. of Sudbury. GREAT BRITAIN. The War Office is now Reeking transp-orts to be used in the repa- triation of the troops. Lord Charles Beresford, M.P., Will next begin a, campaign in the pro- vinces its favor of a, stronger Brit- ish nayy. The British Enapire League has de- cided that n fieet-class steamship service between the United Kingdom and Canada is of vital iuterest. A British cotton association, with the object of extending the cultivra tion of cotton in. Britisb celonies, is being formed in Lancashire. While 18,156. more males than fe- males were born in. England and Wales last year, 20,042 feever females' than naalesi died duriag the same time. ' Dorman, Long de Co., the largest steel manufacturers in Great Britain, have closed down their works in Middlesborough for the purpose of general reconstruction on American principles. Sir Michael Hicks -Beach stated on Wecbaesday that the coal exports for the first live months of the present year had been the highest on record and therefore the export tax an coal would be retained. UNITED STATES. A button trust with 53,000,000 capital is the latest in the United States. Three xuen were killed by an ex- plosion in the Aurora Mine, at Iron- wood, Mich, Woodrow Wilson, bead of the De- partment of Jurisprudence and Poli- tics, was elected president of the Princeton University. Wililam Startivell,s of Dunkirk, N.Y., butane Year mneriednwho se- parated from his wife three weeks ago, committed &Weide in her Fre- eerie() on Tuesday night. Chan. M. Schwa43, president of the United States Sthel Corporation,' is to build a $65,00Q chapel for the Pennsylvania State. College. Three men, were killed and tfteen others seriously injured in a -rail- way collision on the Naelsville, Chat- tanooga, and St. Louis Railroad an. Thursday. -- • Pte. Bert Maynard, of 11:01110r, NW. a returned soldier from the Philip- pines, said that during the raids on the Island of Samar he had orders to 8 -hoot everything that breathed. It was a case of self-preservation. • An employe of the,Delavsare and Fnedsoe Company • refused to obey the strike orders of the Pennsylvania striking miners, and his brother, a cripple, who is S. schoolteacher, must give up his school, according to the boyeottathreats of the strikers. Two .other brothers and a sister have been discharged from places where they were, thaployed. A. very rigid isosreott, is the miners' method of ob- t.stining their demands. • GENERAL. Several cab drivers have been nned 5s, each at JOhat1110Sbiltii or carry- ing Indian coolies as "faxes." The German Atlantic cable Com- pany evill lay another cable from Germany to the *Grated States, it-lee,Australia, rains have fallea throught ou relieving the ternable drouth from which the entsetry was suffering. It is rumored that the King of Italy may issue .a proposal for die- arniament in conjunction 'With the, Czar of Russia. The new French Government pro- poses to reduce the term of military Service to .turo years, and to levy a general: tax -ter re -venue. AS he WasSo littlo use in the World he preferred to die, wrote Mr, anneeph inentilt, an old violinist, be- fore eisaunitting suicide in Insane— So mail IS a Working model of a stoamship which has just been wade by it mechanic at lorankfort-on- aioaxitie that it Win go into bmatch-- A ed n kno 'fte.mako Canada bOttOr Vgitbut• France and to secine.s i " .setislees for the Do - 111144;: )1' society luts been forna OLD EITEILAN NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND Exis rorr.m. Oecurrences tne Lend- Vint Reigns Supreme in the 00m- • i aeretal World. Britain's cottonman n fee 4„ tired products are valued at 11300,000 day. • The Queen Vietoria Monica ha Fund amounted on the 3r1 insi.„, to 1110P1- 700, Liverpool Corporatiim has derided to spencl 117,000 oethe corimation festivities. The strike at Lord Peurhyn's slat quarries has now lasted over two years,. Oesly twice during the last, 37 years in London has April had so little raini as this year. For it quarter of a ceatury no new houses have been built in the Sussex village of Slindon. Reports to the London 13oerd of Trade show that not itpasseuger was killed on British, railways in 19(11. There was a defleit of 119,134 upon tyweaor.rkines of the Huddd ersfiel Gorporation Tramways during p,11 -the Liutorddii3e:Ifour, of Burleigle who sprained his ankle in alighting from a cab, is able to attend to his (An- ciaMany gangs of cardsharpers from Australia, Ainernea and the con- tinent are to -visit London for the coronation festivities. Mr. Philip Clanke, who was fon many years elerk to the late Lord Russell of Killowen, died recently at Ta.thvcirth. Mr. Bell, Town Clerk of Leicester, has been elected Town Clerk of the City of London at a salary of 112,- 500 0urpyBeraollairdoIn.f. Guardians have de- cided to placard on the walls ther names of 67 husbands who had de- serted their wives, On enalysis, the water of a spring Olt Ripon Racecourse has just been found to be strongly impregnated with Epsom salts. When the alterations on Victoria Station, London, at present in pro- gress, are completed, 112,000,000 will have been spent on thern.„ A pauper who declined at Wigan Workhouse to do his allotted work explained that he was a Christian. and preferred to lie in bed. It is said that Queen Alexandra, when driving in the park will use the grey ponies which the late Queea ordinarily drove at Windsor. One shilling for each, year of its age has just beeu paid in London for a dwarf Japanese larch 160 years old. The tree was only 21 inches high. On behalf of the Cork Exhibitioe it is stated that all the best bands, of note have been engaged to help in the en.tertatnment of the crowds. Sir Thomas Lipton suggests one steward to every eight of the King's gnests at the great dinner. Thin means 62,500 voluntems for the work. It is now possible to send for a penny a better from any part of the United Kingdora to any town in China. where British post-oflices are established. It is stated that the railitarsr au- thorities are saving up a Grenadier private, who measures 6 feet .10A: inches in height to head the 'corona- , tion procession. Australian blue -gum timber has been chosen by British engineers for harbor works because it will sink if washed away, and will not endanger shipping. s- - "GIBSON" BLOUSE JAC/CET. "Gibson" blouses are amongthe new- est of all coats, and are becoming to the greater number of norms, This Stylish inodel is made of cheviot, in tobacco brown, sireply stitched With stile, and snakes part of a costume, but all suiting materials are equally a,p- propriates and cheviot Moth, tafteta, pop- lin and moire'velours art all in vogue for separate jackets. The original is Made with the fashionable basque end plaited postillion, but the basque can be omitted and tho postillion only use, or the blouse can be made without either ternainatingat the belt. To mit this blouse in the medium size 4 1-4 yarns of material 21 incheS wide, 3 3-4 yards 27 inches wide, 2 18 yards 44 inehee wide, or I 3-4 yards n melees Wide will be required. SCIENCE SAVES moNny, , Rodent experience shoWe that soi- enee should go hand in hand with colonination in the development a new countries, and often it should be the pioneer. Sir harry Johnston. avers that the ;British Ooverninent might have savod as mach as $2,- 500,000 itt the construetioa of the Uganda railway if it led previously . expended $100,000 In enabling seen of science t, investigate tie) ge- ology, elimatoIogiy, botany and otie er saiontillo aspects ot the region. erMany and loran co have WI) o t an appreciation of the great of such inneetigations itt the settle- inent and exploitation of their co- lonial poStiOSSdOITS. EVery chey the practicial value of brain:hes of sci- onto eemmorily rege,rded as almorit purely' inilelleetital in their ciainnl, to atteetnee is bonen demonstratest,