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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1902-6-19, Page 7r. yo...,:•poonlat THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle etc in Trade Centres. MARKETS OF THE WORLD. Toronto, June 17. --Wheat - The lima:et is quint and firmer, with No. 2 white end red Wieter quoted at 77 to 77,;(5 middle freig-ht. No. 2 spring quoted at 75 to 760 middle freight, and No. 2 goose et 68c east. Manitoba, No. 1 hard steady at 83e, ',Parent° and west; No. 1 Northern at 80e, and No, 2 North- ern at '?Sc Toronto and west. Grindieg hi transit prices Pe!ic high- er. Buelcwheat - The market is nomi- nal at 61 to 62e cat. Bye - The market is dull, with prices nominal. Peas - Trade dull, with No, 2 quote.d nt 75e west. ' Oats - The demand is fair, 'with prices steady. No..2 'white, 45 to e6c middle freight, and 16c oast. - Flour - Ninety per cent. Ontario patent quoted at $2.92* • Middle freights, in buyers' sacks!. Straight rollere, ie wood, quoted at $8,25 to $8.35. 'Manitoba flours are,. steady, Hungarian Patents, $4.05 to $4,25 delivered on. track, Toronto, bags Included, and strong bakers', q>8.$0 :o $3:95. Oatmeal - Car lots in bbls. $4.85 en track, ad in saoks at $4.70. Broken loth, 25c extra. Millfeed Bran is arm at $18 to .outside. Shorts, $20,50 out - lido. At Toronto bran Is $19, and Molts $21 in bulk. Manitoba bran 820 M sacks, and shorts $28 in . :lecke', Toronto. • COUNTRY pEopric. Dried apples - Trade is quiet and prices unchanged at 5 to 511,c per lb. Evaporated, 10; to 11c. Hops - Trade quiet, with prices rteadyr at 13c; yearlings, 7c. , Honey - The market is dull; lomh, $2 to $2.25 per dozen. Beans - The market is dull at $1 to $1.25, the latter for hand-picked. Hay, baled - The market is stea- dy, with heir demand; timothy, $10.- 50 to $11 for No. 1. • Straw - The market is (inlet. Car lots on track quoted at $5 to $5.- 50, the latter for No. 1. Poultry - Receipts aro small, and the demand fair. We quote:-Tur- PeYs, young, 13c per lb.; do., old, 11 lo 12c; ahiekens, 75 to 90c per pair. Potatoes - This market is quiet, ?Atli car lots quoted at 72 to 75c per bag on truck; small lots seli at 80 to 85c. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter - The market is without !change, with demand fair, ,and hee peiptg equal to requirements. We enottie-Choice • pound rolls, 17 to .choice large rollsandtubs, 14 to 15c; medium, 13c; low grades, in bs and pails, 10 to 12c; crealnery. prints, 19 to 200; and, tubs, 18 to 19c. Eggs - The receipts are large, and feeling weaker. Case lots, 18?;to 14c per dozen. Cheese - Market is quiet, and prices are unchanged. New choice Is jobbing at 10 to 10,1c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, June 17. - Flour -Quiet end firm. Wheat - Spring steady; No. 1 Northern c.i.f., 76c; winter, sood enquiry; No, 2 red, 84c. Corn - Quiet; No. 2 yellow, 671c; No. 2 'do., 671c; No. 2 corn, 67c; No. 3 do., 664e. Oats - Strong; No. 2 white, 50c; No. 3 do., 49;c; No. 2 mixed, 47c; No. 3 do., 16c. Rye -- No. 1 in store offerect at 61e. - Toledo, June 17. - Wheat -Fairly !active, firm; cash, 80c; June, 80c; July, 74c; September, '73c. Corn. -- pull, steady; Cask 624c; July, 62;c; p6pten11a9r, 58e; December,44elec Oats -- Actiire, streng; cash, 44c; juIy, 371c; new, 391e; September, 294c; new, 31;e: `Oloverseed-bullie steady; cash, $5.07*; October, $'5'.. - Duluth, June 17: - Closes -Wheat Clash No. 1 hard, 761c; No. 1 North- ern, 73ec; ,No. 2 Northern, 72c; Manitoba. No. • 1 Nortbern cash, '73;c; No. 2 Northern, 73fc, Oats- Sopteinber, 29-4c. Minneapolis, • June 17. - Cloee - 'Wheat -- July, . 74,c; September, 28/c; on track'No. 1 hard, 78c; No. 3. Northern, 75 to 75;c; No. 2 Northern, 78 to 781c. Milwaukee, June 17. -- Wheat - Higher; close, No. 1 Northern, 77 to -774'c; No. 2 Northern., 76 to 76h,c; July, 714c.. Rye -- Steady; No. 1, '58c. Barley -Higher. •. St. Louis, June 17. - Wheat - Closed - Cash, 76;c; July, 69*c; .Septembcr, 681c. , HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are unchanged. Hog ;prochicte in limited supply, with prices firm. We quote: --Bacon, long ...clear, 11 to 11ic, in ton and case lets; mess pork $21.50 to $22; do, :short cut, $28.50. Smoked. meats - Hams, 13:le to .k. 14c; breakfast bacon, 14'6 to 150; lls IV' to 12c- b cks' 14,1 to 15c. and shoulders, 110. Lard - The market is limn, with • good demand. We quote tierces, llie; tubs, 11c.; pails, 11/c; com- • pound, 0 to 10c. -- . LIVE STOCK- MARKETS. Toronto, aline 17, -At the Western ,cattle yards to -clay the receipts were 77 cat•loacis of live 'stock, including 1,000 cattle, • 1,225 sheep and le:m.1)S, 1,200 hogs, 170 calves, and .20 lunch cows, Tradn was brisk, and prices were firmer for good stun', but for good •,stull 013ty, • The advance was more apparent than real ; the small quantity of ethoice export cattle found a, • ready .sale at prices that ranged from 6 to ,fiic per lb,, • pd in a few cases as much as 62o s paid, , Butcher eatt e was in fair demand at from. 41 to 51c per lb,, and for ,Cholee lotabout IO to 156 higher. Brit, eoninion stuff. Ie no stronger or irkheet3dtatY.erdemand than it wasl�ri Milch cotes, stockers, export'bulls: and epringere e,re not quotably ehangeel. Good stockers will Sell. Choice nailch bow, are in demand, Good to choice 'veal calves are wanted here.' Small stuff is Diener in price, and in better demand, but not quotably changed. • Milch cowe and springers sold at $80 to $50 each. Qalves sold at, from $2 to $1.0 each, or from $4,50 to $5.50 per cwt. • Spring lambs are worth, $2.50 to $5 each. Sheep are steady and wanted at $3.75 to $4 for ewes, Bucks are worth from $3 to $3.50 per cwt, Hogs are weaker, and the ten- dency is downward. The top price of choice hogs is $6.87* per cwt ; light andefat hogs are 36.6241 per cwt, 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. Chippers, per t... $6.59 do, light , 4,50 5.50 :Butcher, choice... ..... 4.75 5.50 Butcher, ordinary to good _ , • ..3.75 4,40 Stockers, per cwt.., 3.00 4.00 ,Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, per ewt 3.75 • 4.15. Yearlings, per cwt. 5.00 5.50 Spring lambs, 2.00 5.00 Bucks, per cwt.. 3.25 8.50 • Milkers and Calves. Cows, each.,, • ... 25.00 50.00 Celves, each 2.00 10..00 Hogs. Choice hogs, per cwt.... 6.75 6,87* Heavy Flogs, per cwt... 6.50 6,62* Sows, per cwt. 3.50 4.00 Stags, per cwt •0.00 2.00 • SIX FAST SHIPS. ___.. • British - Canadian, •Combine •to Spend $42,500,000 021 Fleet. A London despatch says: The newspapers here continuo to discuss the British shipping combine, as, though the project had assumed quite tangible shape. The West- minster Gazette intimates that the Cunard Line will not join in loran- ing the • proposed Canadian -British line, and it says that the Clolonial Secretary, Mr. Chamberlain, favors subsidizing the latter project, rather than the Cunard plan, which is more specially directed against the Mor- gan shipping combine. According, to the Westminster Ga- zette the capital of the Canedian- Britieh line will be £10,000,000 ($50,000,000), of which £2,500,000 ($42,500,000). will be expended • on six 25 -knot vessels, and a dozen freight steamers, including i2,200,- 000 .$1..,000,000) subsidy from Can- ada, the promoters, it fe added„ ex- pect a total subsidy of £500,000 ($72,500,000), besides an Imperial guarantee of interest on the capital amounting to £800,000 ($1,500,000) Tho Westnains,ter Gazette further asserts that the negotiations for a guarantee of the in.terest on the cap- ital are so far advanced that the only point at issue is whether it shall be 2* per cent. or 3 per cent. FRENCH AND GERMANS. Boers Hope \They May Fight Thein. A Pretoria despatch says: In 'all 10,225 Boers have surrendered up to date. Many are youngsters of 11 years old and upward. The ma- jority of them are under thirty, though some. of the burghers - who have surrendered are septuarrenax- ions. Reports from all the diaricts shy that the • burghers ,arc increae- obserVable among the leading Beers ingly friendly. he only bitternegs hey declare ti,e:war was .protract - ie is against Freace:and Germany. ed unnecessarily,' owing to hopes held out by the French and German press. Sonee'erthe Boors are so in- censed that they have expreseed the hopethat some day they will fight on the side of th'e British against one of these powers. • The anticipated friction, between the surrendered Boers and their for- mer coinra.des of the National Scouts has not materialized to any extent. • The :Boers admit that they receiv- ed ammunition through Portuguece territory. ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT. Neglect of Ventilation La.inented by Doctors. A • Toronto despatch says: The twentieth annual report of the Pro- vincial Board of Health has been completed and iseued.. It ie estim- ate4 that a total of $11,000,000 hae been expended by the province and the municipalities of Ontario in the work of preventing and driving out disease, nr. Bryce writes of the immense change that has come over the public mind with regard to dis-, eese prevention. Twenty- year* ago. tubercidosis was treated in the or- dinary way by family physicians, 110W the doctor who treats such ceses is shunned. • Dr. 41:ode-0tte eon- tribetes, Some valuable scientific pa- pers on the disease. The report al- so litmeete the neglect of late yeara of the stie,stion of ventilation in fac- tories and schools EIS having a •seri- ous bearieg • on the prevehtiou of tuberculosis. CURLERS COMING. Will Visit Various Cities in Can- ada Next Season. An' Edinburgh despatch says: It is proposed to 8eiid 'a Scottish curl- ing team lo Cunaida. Mkt season,. At a rePresentative meeting here tos day 45 curlers agreed to go. The SubJect will be remitted to the, Heyni, Caledonian Curling rOr opprovai and the Selection eftam- the DEATH OF gAti JIBE SOALE COMBINATION THAT DESTROYS THE DREADFUL PEST, It Will Kill the Xnseet arid Dees ' Not Injure the 11/Lost Tender" Dr, Janie! FIcit7s' er., Dominion Elni, tomolegiSt; has sent the following interesting report to the Minister of Age-if:al-Ore for Ontario The great desideratum in the past has . -been to discover a temedy for the San Jose: ecale which would kill the • ecale, but et the ..,anee time would not injute the tioated trees, Me, George Fisher, -by instruction of, the Provincial Minister of Agricul- ture, with this OXprese end In view, ha.s carried on a most et:deceive se- ines: of eXperieneets, and has- at last 'found a remedy which frean. present appearances sceins to meet ell re- quireineets. Tine Consists of an emulsion' of crude petroletim . and soap, Tills has been applied to all kinds of fruit , trees, including the peadh, without any apparent injury, and With, quite 'satisfactory resnits so far as killing the: Seale is con- cerned. A feature' of this reinody is that it is mach cheaper than the whale oil snap:treatinent, which was the best previously known. reinedy: It costs four emits to treat a tree with the emulsion; while the Whale oil soap' costs ten cents, This work dente by Mr. Fisher for the Ontario Government 1 coesider the greatest advance e -et Made tat-th.e Wariere against the Si joSo scale, which is by far the: worst insect enemy fruit growers °SU had to COriterid With. To Sum the matter un, the fruit grower ig now.provided With a remedy which be cart safely use ou peach trees and other delicate trees at about • . OSE-THIIID THE ,COST• Of the best preeiously known remedy With more certaiety of destroying the insect, Besides this the trees will be left in a condileon to with- stand forther infestatioe for a much longer time, Added to this ,it is a remedy which can be safely applied by .any fruit grewer with an ordin- ary epraeleg, pump, and can 17e pre- pared by anyone. Without difficulty .and without Special apparatus, .ne cannot make for' himself at home. Another discovery of importance •Which has been made in these , On- tario experiments is an emuleion of fish oil and .soap, which is, equally effective and safe, but Which costs Cifr cents a tree. The advantages pi this emidsion are that at a cost of two- thirds of the'Whale oii soar( we :have a mixture which can easily be Made at home which contains the eame ine grediente hi known quantitiee, Which cafe' be Varied iri accordance witit the requirententS of etlio case and tbe kind of tree to he treated, -It:ie hoped that feather :experiments: will show that the cost Of this remedy can also be reduced. The fruit growers of ,AineriCa are certainlyte be congratulated oil the results of these experiments, par- ticularly of ihe discovery of the erede 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 Doibe re- commended for general. use by fruit growers. We now heve a cheap • arid effective remedy which all can use safely. FRUIT MARKS ACT. Reports of Fraudulent Packing Reported. An Ottawa despatch says :-Sev- eral inspectors under the Fruit Mark's Act .have reported to the Department of Agric.ulture that strawberries and other small fruits are being sold in various centres, peeked in such a manner as to vio- late • the Fruit Marks Act. Large and stolid berriet, have been found .placed nn top to cover fruit of smal- ler size and ,poorer quality at. 'the bottom of the boxes. • Directionshave been issued to the inspectors to infoece the provisions of •e -the Fruit Act 'against fraud in the packing ',of knell fruits as vigorously as against fraud in the packing of apples,: The inspec- tors will visit the 'various. °mitres from time to time to carry nut thosci instructions. KING HOLDS FINAL COURT. Scene in the Palace Was Unusual , _ ly Briiliaut A London despatch sttys King Edward and .Qaeen Alexandra held the fifth and final court of the sea- son, at Buckieghara Palace on, Fri- day evening. It was. raining hard, and a cold wind was blowing and the weather was worse, if possible, than that whieh ma.rked the four inclement nights of the previous courts. • The scene inside.Buckingliam-Pal- ace was exceeelingly brilliant, how- ever,"as the Japanese and Careen EritbaSeies to the coronation of the King, who have just arrived in Eng- land, and who attended court, were quite as splendidly, attired as were the. Inelien -Peincee ,present. The let- ter. Were the fee/tate of this, as they Ile -ire been of provions notirt.s. The Royal partY included the Princess Victoria.; and the Prince of Wales, All. the Meitiliers of the spe- cial Mission from', the. United State$ to • the coronation. .King • Edward were present, and the .'offlcers Were all ia their full dross uniforins. SNOW IN SOUTH AFRICA, Unprecedented Storms in Cape C A. Cape Town: despatch says i-Un- precedenteci snowstorms have swept over the Midlands. Traine are blocked by a six-foot snow drift et Nanwpoort. The telegraph wires are clown. A. despatch from Pretoria Rays. that. intenee cold, aceonipan fed by 'lottery snows, prevails there.' The Cape 1118.0 WaS hi0Okdd in the snow at Sp rin gfl al d for :24 houre11 wa necessary Le employ theee engines to extricate the trainfreriet the drat, RICE MUST HA,NG. Court of Appeal's Decision Upheld by Supreme Court. An Ottawa despatch eays: Supreme Court of Canada on Wed- nesday refused an applimatioa made by T. 0. Robieette, ot To - Mita for PerilliSsiou to appeal from the unanimous deeleion of the On- tario Court of Appeal in the ease of Fred Lee Rice, senteneed to be hang- ed July 11, for murder. Under the law previous to 1697 there clearly would he no right of appeal from the unanimous judgfeent0.1,1iulePt70- vincial Court of Appe4,but contention of Mr. Robiaette •was that the wording of, the amendment of 1897 enlarged the scope of ap- peals and vested the Supreme Coart with authority to deal with the case, . • The Ohief justice and his eol- leagues held, however, that the ameadment of 1897 was ba,sed upon changes in the Ontario law which had no bearing upon criminal cases. Et annouacing the decision, Sir Henry Strong said: "'We are unanimous in our opinion that clearly and plainlY beyond doebt section 24 of the amendment of 1897 does not apply to erinainal eases.. This being the case, it, would be alleoet trifling with the prisoner to hold out hopes hY any postpone- ment of the decision." • Mr. Robinette seed after the judg- ment was delivered: "We have still one chcatee of eaving the prieoner, and that is by applying for execu- tive clemency, I shall follow that up at once, and am geeing the Min- ister of Jestice to -day. 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 BITTERNESS, SAYS KEMP Thinks British and Boers Will Harmonize Well. A Mareking despatch says: Com- mandant eKamp,, General Delarey's trusty, lientenaut, who has just, sur- rendered, now intends to take up farming. He said his comnicuid, oonsistieg of 1,900 man, surrender- ed at Doornkcin June G. A few men were still nut, but they were com- ing in. He had been averse to yielding, but recognized the opinion of the majority': "We did our best," • continued the commandant, "and must therefore be • satisfied. As Lord Kitchener said, no shame is attached to our giving up. We were outnumbered. We might have centinued.fighting for another- couple of years, but with uo certainty 01 setecess. I 'am. .quite eatisfied with the terms, and have no ill -feeling against England. `tZ think there will be no bitter- ness in the 'future. • 'We shall get On 11 night togeth- expeeted to , ,end only quite recently realized the hopeless - noes of our ause. 'I have given the burghers MY reasons for yielding. One reasOn was that the eastern part of the Traeseraal had no food- stuffs whatever. West Transvaal,. .however, had enough food for two years more. "Regarding the concentration camps, I am quite . convinced now that everything is in good order." WRECKAGE OF CONDOR. Piled. Up on Scott Islands Eight Feet High. • A Victoria, B. a., despatch says: The Dominion Government. steamer Quadra returned on •Thursday after- noon from a trip along the west coast in search of the missing seal- ing schooner Hatz$:o, which is now a month overdue, and hes been giv- en up as lost withher crew. of five whites and 24 Indians,- The Quadra found a groat quantity 'of wreckage along the coastcued, brought some cif .it .CinWer, • but ifbne-• 0011 bo poet-, tively identified aS coining- off the missing, jechoeper. .Capt. Walbran repoite Unit • on the Scott Islands, north of Vancouver. Island, •which are seldom visited, wreckage 1S:piled tip to a height or eight 'feet. -- of this is from H.M.S. Condor. The collier Matteawain which went down all 'Cape Flattery, and the Wenn. sank in collision with the French barque Max off the Califor- nia coast. ' The currents set .in . ofi this island, carrying the flotsam of. the sea to their rocey shores. The crew of the Quadra •were *un- able to find the human body said to have been washed ashore on the is- land., hut found the body 01 11 sea lion, which may have -Jed to the re- port that a body had been Washed ashore. SWORD FOR KITCHENER. Cape Town Decides to Honor Com- mander -in -Chief. .The London Tithes' Cape Town coriespoildent saye the Town. Cor- poration hee resolved to present Viscount :Kitchener with a sword of honor. •. • It is noticeable, he says., that in all press coneuents from distant up- cetentry dietriets, and e 'huge eentees 'a tcine of CordialitY toward tile Deere 'prevails. It ie genorallYe ob- served 'that -the trouble noW svilt he with 'Cape golony people and not with. those Of the two reepublias. Only two neWspepeiS in South Af- rica Oppose the Ospeneien of the Cape dolistitution. ELEPHANT WENT MAD. • Two Hundred. Men. Necessary to Strangle It. A Toers, France, despateh Says: A crowd of about :3,000 witnessod the killing of the largest of Barnum • end Dailey's performing elephants, in the City Park, et midnight on Thu rsd ay. The • niinai SU d d only weet mad, broke its cheerio, and tried to kill its keepers, While on the way to the i0ilioid eteti , en d bad to be slain immediately. Two hundred men tugged at the rope *Melt strangled it, THANKS I30ER WOMEN. De Wet Tolis There. They Are Under New Government, A Cape Town •despatch says ;- Gen. Do Wet, the Boer leader, made a speeeli at Winning on r.ilwri•ciay" on the surrender of the adjoining Orangc) Free State commandoes, Ho went Lo thwoornic'enfurgoe: tliaoatsp,to,taut ta vlitipiikpoerttl. upieho y had given the Boer callso threllgtwu,t, the war both on the Veldt and hi (Plump, He seid that if the womee had not, been stauneh the burghers would have been obliged to submit long ago. Even if all the burghers in the field had bten killed hi the Course of the war it would have been the duty of the women to bring up their children to be as bordy as the burghers he hacl brought in that day. They were now under a Dew Government, and that was the Brit- ieh. Government, and he bad to ex- plain to thern that it was a thor- °uglily lawful Government. He add- ed, "1 am under that Government, as I fought until there wee no more hope. X heartily thank my sieters fcias.t01.1,,eir allegiance and faith in our e • The Repatriatien Oonunittee which has been formed to assist the 'Boers returning to their farms, lies a gigantic task before it. The con- centration camps will be converted into supply depots to In:pvide the re- turning burghers with the recaps to rebuild arid restock their farms. The wives and families of the Boers will, if desired, be maintained at the ex - 'tense of the Government while the ber,s,,thers are preparing the farina for their reception, Two thousand of • tbe National' Scouts who fought neon the British side during the. war will immediately be disbanded, and each scout will be provided with a pony and enctbled to return to his farm. --x CANADA'S FOREIGN TRADE. In.crease for Eleven Months Is Over $33,000,000. Ilen Ottawa despatch says: ,For 11 months of the present ilscal year Cana,cla's foreign trade, on the basis of imports for !consumption and ex- ports ou domestic merchandise only, exhibits an increase of nearly $35,- 000,000, as compared with the same ,period of . the previous fiscal year. The imports and exports for the former purio'd totalled 3348,705,- 085, aud for the latter period 3313,- 863,814. With coin and bullion and exports, of foreign merchandise in- cluded, the increase in aggregate trade falls a little short of $33,500,- 000, the total amounting to 3366,- 942,595 for the 11 months jut end- ed, as against 3338,472,908 for the 11 months of 1900-1. • The imports for the , month of May show a, gain of 3859,129, and 'for the 11 Months a gain of 318,- 561,298. The exports of the month exceeded those of May last year by 34,079.060. For the '11 menthe the • betterment was 317,462,516. The exports of agricultural and dairy praducts and cattle for the month show a splendid slcowing, the chief ithins being: Peas, 2104,118, increase, 337,637; wheat, 32,858,- 505, increase, 32,508,815; flour, $312,548, increase, 392,105; hay, 3360,248, increase, 3166,950; pota- toes, 3122,505, increase, 895,046; cattle, over one year, 31,169,955, increase 3650,316; butter, 3126,417, increase, 387,234; cheese, 3542,041, increase $135,655; bacon, 31,181,- 083, increa se, 396,41_9. • PECULIAR CASE. Stranger Gives Doctored Can.dies to a Young Kan. A Loudon despatch says: The po- lice are investigating a peculiar poisoning • case. While a young couple were seated in the stalls of yariety theatre a fussy, talkative elderly person alongside of the Ye:Wig man produced a box of cho- colates, ' it,/211,. the young man good- naturedly accepted and it some of the , contents. ,The ' young woman with libithVgiiied to partake. Short- ly-efterad the elderly man, left the theatre. The youth became drowsy and then unconscious. • A physician was summoned, and found that the youth was suffering from the effects of a poison. The victim remained unconscious • for two days, but is now recovering, The police have not located the prisoner. ----.. 4 -- ADULTERATED SEEDS. „ Department of Agriculture Making Experiments. An Ottawa despateh says: G. H. Clarke, B.S.A., chief of the Seed Di- vision of the Department of Agricul- ture, is engaged in important tests Cif adulterated seeds. A staff has been selected to examine and separ- ate ell samples bought and sent in by ImenerS, and when the Seeds, weeds, etc.' have been separated the good seedis placed in indubators and the results noted. Some ex- ceedingly valuable data is already being collected on the subject, which will be invaluable to the farmers in helping thein.in futare to sow their fields, with • the best seeds tree of weede, A bill is .beieg framed for the Oppose of protecting the farm- ers and enforcing penalties for the sale el' adulterated eeeds. LONG AVENI.T1il OF TIMES, Japan has an aveeue of trees fifty miles in length. Tile trees are fhb cryptomeva, and everyone is a per- fect specinien, quite Straight, from 180 feet, to 150 feet in height, and 12 feet to 15 feet in circumference. The avenue extends from the town Of Minna& to Nikko. • A report from Constantinople states. that Arab5 have massacred a caravan of WeElAthy 1/1eraharitS 111 the desert near Koweit. Only twenty of five hundred escaped, vussoitoo, the Italian brigand, whe has boon 80111ot/0.14 to imprison- irumt for If fe,„eight years of 'which w 01 he solitary con linemen t, pleaded eo eloquently for the clieeharge of his aceomplices that they were all ecqu itted. ' NEWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From Over the Globe. CANADA. Londoa 1111237 have -,n ,comptoty Highland Cadet*, W, J, Lindsay, of Braedon, seeding 5,000 btleitels of wheat - New Zwland, All 01. is to • ICs.ox 011ureb, London, has com- menced. the use ef individual cent - mullion cups. - The Berlin High School Board 11E18 increa'sed the salaries of three of its teaehers by MO each. • Two Doukhobors were drowned at White Sand River, Man., 4/1 d four other5 were rescued with difficulty. • Welland ratepayers` have voted •in favor of the by-law to grant exemp- tion from taxation for the steel plant of Welland, The town of I -Tull is praetically bankrupt, and an agitation to have the municipality governed .by com- missioners is on foot. Sir •Henry Strong, Chief Justice of Canada, will, it is paid, retire from the Supreme Court to become chairman of the coimniesion for , the revision of the Dominion. statutes. The new compeller formed in To - rent() to manufacture threshing ma- chines end engines, M which the Minneapolis Threshing 'Machine Com- pany is interested, will erect a big warehouse and machine shop in Win- nipeg. Thomas A, Edison has invented a new clipping needle which he claims will show the presence of nickel be- neath • Lhe euriace very accurately, and he will make a eareful Survey of the Canadian nickel belt north of Sudbury. GREAT BRITAIN. • The War Office is now seeking transports to be used in the repa- triation of the troops. • Lord Charles Beresford, MP., will next begin a campaign in the pro- vinces in favor of a stronger Brit - jell navy. The British Empire League has de- cided that a first-class steamship service between the United Kingdom and Canada is of vital interest. A British cotton association, with the object of extending the cultiva- tion. of cotton in British colonies. is being formed in Lancashire. While 18,156 more males than fe- males were born in England and Wales last year, 20,042 fewer females than • niales died during the seine time. Dorman, Long ez Co., the 1111.g -est steel manufacturers in Great Britain, ht-tve closed down their works in Middlesborough for the purpose of • general reconstruction on American. principles. • Sir Michael Hiciks-Beach stated on Wednesday that the coal exports for the first five months of the present year had been the highest an record and therefore the export tax on coal would be retained. UNITED STATES. A button trust with 33,000,000 capital is the latest in the United States. , • Three men were killed by' an ex- plosion in the Aurora Mine, at Iron- wood, Mich, Woodrow Wilson, head of the Dee pertinent of Jurisprudence and Poli- ties, was, elected. president- of th.e Princeton 'University. Startwell, of Dunkirk, N.Y., but one year married, who se- parated from his wife three weeks ago, • committed suicide in her rm.- sence on Tuesday night. Chase M. Schwab, president of the tnited States Steel Corporation, is .to build. a $65,000 chapel for, • the Pennsylvania State College. Three men were killed and fifteen others seriously injured in a rail- way collision on the Nashville, Chat- tanooga, and St. Louis Railroad on Thursday. Pte. Bert Maynard, of Homer, N.Y. a returned soldier from the Philip- pints-, said that during the raids on tho Island of Samar he had orders to shoot everything that breathed. It was a case of self-preservation. An employe of the Delaware and Htuidson Company refused to obey the strike orders of the Pennsylvania striking miners, and his brother, a cripple, who ie a schoolteacher, must give up his school, according to the boycott threats of the strikers. Two other brothers • and a Sister have been discharged from places where they were employed. A very rigid boycott is the miners' method of ob- taining their demands. • GEINF,RAL. Several cab drivers have been fined 5*. each at Johannesburg for carry- ing Indien coolies as "fares," • The German Atlantic cable • Com- pany will lay another cable froin Germany to the United States, Heavy rains have fallen through- out Australia, relieving' the terrible drouth from which the etniatty was sllffte'rilsng I;:tnnore'd thet't the- Xing of Italy may issue a proposallor dis- armament in conjunction With the Cear of Russia. •, The neW French Government pro- poses to retince the term of military service 1,o tWo years, and to levy' a general tax for revenue. As he was so littie use in the world he preferred to die, wrote Mr. Joseph Benoit, an old violinist, be- fore cominittieg suicide in Paris. So small is a Working model of a steamehip 'which has just been made by a Mechanic at Frankfort -on - Maine that it will go into a, match- • A Canadian society has been feral - ad in PariS to tnake Canada bettee lenoWn throughout Viatice and to eeenre French settlers ieni the :00 - IN MERRY OLD ENEILAND NEWS BY MAlI ABOUT 3013.17 BULL AND HIS PEOPLE, Occurrences in the Land' That Peigi prodeets are valued at t Supretrie in the Celli" Britain's co tton manuf d mercial World. The Queen Victoria _Memo/ i,il Fund amouated on the Brcl Met., tc) 1194,- 700. Liverpool Corporation has decided to spend 27,000 on the coronation. f esti vities . The strilce at Lord Penrhyn's stile quarries has 110W lasted over LW 0 years. Only twice during the last 87 years in London has April had so little, rain as this year. For a quarter of a century no new house,s have been beilt 111 the Sussex village of Slinclon. Reports to the London Board of Trade show that not a passenger was killed on British railweys in 1901. There was a deficit of :£0,184 upon the workings of the Huddersfield Corporation Tramways during the past year. Lord Balfour, of Burleigh„ who sprained his tulle in alighting from a cab, is able to attend to his offi- cial duties. Many gangs of cardsharpers from Australia, America and the con- tinent are to visit London for the coronation festivities, • Mr. Philip Clarke, who was for many years clerk- to the late Lord Russell of Killowen, died recently at Tadworth. Mr. Bell, Town Clerk of Leicester, has been elected Town Clerk of the 500ity pezonnfaLounmdo.. London at a salarY cif ee2,- oBury Board of Guardians have de- cided to placard on the walls the names of 67 husbands who had de- serted their wives. On analysis, the water of a spring on Ripon Racecourse has "jest 13ee11. found to be strongly impregnated. with Epsom salts. When the alterations on Victoria. Station, London, at present in pro- gress, are completed, £2,000,000 will have been spent on them. A. pauper who 'declined at Wigan. Workhouse to do his allotted work explained that he was a Christian, and preferred to lic. la bed. It is said that Queen*Agalea.ndra, when driving in the park will' -uses, the grey ponies which the late Queen ordinarily drove at Windsor. One shilling for each year of its age has just been paid in London for ahigh. On was only 24: inches panese larch 160 years On behalf of the Cork Exhibition it is stated that all the best bands of note have been engaged to help in the entertainment .of the crowds. Sir Thomas Lipton suggests one steward to every eight of the King's guests at the great dinner. This means 62,500 volunteers for the worki ItSt now possible to send for a penny a letter from any part of the United Kingdom to any town in China where British post -offices are established. It is stated that the military au- thorities are saving up a Orentidier private, who measures 6 feet 104.• inches in height to head the corona- tiAitistpii:aouceassnionb.lue_guni tinfopt, he s been chosen by BritishQllgtiCeel'S for harbor works 13 caaore-rf-will sink if nL'a, and will not endanger shipping. -4 "GIBSON" BLOUSE JACKET, Gibson" blouses are among the new- est of all coats, and are becoming to the greater number of figures. This stylish model is made of cheviot, in tobacco brown, simply • stitched with silk, and makes part of a costume, but all suiting Materials are equally ap- prOpriate, and cheviot cloth, taffeta, pop- lin and moire velours are all in vogue for separate jackets. The original is made with the fashionable basque and. plaited postillion, but the basque tan be omitted and the postillion only use, or the blouse can be made' without either terminating at the belt. • To cut this blotise in the medium size 4 1-4 yards of material 21 inches wide, 3 3-4 yards 27 inches veide, 2 1-8 yarde 44 inehes -wide, or 1 3-4 yards 52 inchee wide will be required. SCIENCE SAVES MONEY. Recent experiento shows that sci- ehce should go hand in hand • with colonizetion i11 the development of new countries, and often it should be the pioneer. Sir Harry Johnston aVerS that the British Government might have saved as Much ae $2,- 500,000 in the constreetion of the Uganda railway if it had previousl3r expended $100,000 In enabling men of soiente to investigate the ge- ology, cliniatologY, botany and °tit- er scientific aspects of the rt.glon. Ci Inc ny and France have Sho wit an approciatien of the great Utility of such invciatigations hi the settle- ment and exploitation of their co- lotdal p61.ee5s1011s, Fivery day the practieal value of branches of Sci- ence commoaly resettled tie alitinet. perely hesilleetual in theie to attendee is being demouStrated,