HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1903-5-21, Page 6THE RKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
in Trade Centres.
Toronto, Vey M. -Wheat -The
market is quiet, with prices un-
changed. No. 2 white and red quot-
ed at 71 to 71ne micalle freights ;
No. 2 spring nominal at 7(4 to 71e
on Midland. inanitebte wheat steadY;
No. 1 nerd quoted at 82e tioderoch,
and No. 1 Northern at 81c Code
-
rich. No. 1 hard, 88e granting in
transit, lake and raft, and No. 1
Northern, 87c.
Oater-The market is cadet ; No. 2
quoted at 80Sie middle freight and
at 20Se high freight. No. 1 quoted
alac east.
Barley -Trak is cptiet, with No. 8
extra quoted at tide middle freight,
anti No. 3 at 42e.
Rye -The market is quiet at 51Se
east. , •
Biteliwheat-Trade clull, with priceslbe.... 6.10 0.00
nominel et 40e east. ' TSick fats a 5.85 0.00
Lights , . , , 5.85 0.00
....
THE VICTORIA STRIKE.
not so good. Rivets eontinue to
go to Chiang° anid Buffalo for cat-
tle to complete their cargoes, and
aleo because they are cheaper there
than here.
The foliowleg was the range of
qu,otations:
Exporters' cattle- Per 100 lbs.
Extra to choice ...$4.•65 $5.20
Bulls ,.. a.... 3,75 4,25
13uteliersa-
Picked lots a a 4.65 4.90
Go•oci. load,,..........4.40 4.65
Medium a. ,,,,, 4.25 4,50
Fair 8.75 4.25
Cows a .,. ... 3.50 4.2a
latex -tors, light ... .... 4.00 1.50
Feedere, short-Iteeps 4.50 6.00
Stoekers .„ 3.50 4.00
Sheep -
Expert, ewes, light .. 4.50 5.00
bucks ... a 3.50 4.00
C rain -fed hunas 5.50 6.00
Do„ bucks a a.... 5.00 5.50
Barnyard lambs ... 8.50 4.50 ,
Calves, per cwt 4.50 5.00
Silo
Sow ...............4.00 ..„ .„, ... 4.00 4.50
Stags ... a 2,00 3,00
Selects, 160 to 200
Peas -The market is quiet, with
sales of No. 2 at 63e high freights.
Coini-Market is dull. Canadian
feed corn quoted at 40 to 41c west,
and et 40c here. No. 8 Americau
sallow quoted at 51 to 52c on track,
Toronto, and No. 3 mixed at 60
to 51.e.
Flour -Ninety per cent. patents
unchanged at $2,671, middle
freights, in buyers' miens for export.
Straight rollers of 0 specica brands
for domestic trade limited at $8.25
to $3.35 in ba/s. Manitoba flour
st•eaely ; No. 1 patents, $4.10'; and
secoads, $3.90 to $4 ; strong bak-
ers', $3,80 to $3.00, bags included,
Torent o.
Millfeed-Bran is dull at $17 here.
'At °wield° points bran is quoted at
$15.50, and shorts at $17. Mani-
taba bran in seeks, $18, and shorts
at $20 here.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butten-The market is quiet, with
prices easy, In consequence of good , $500 tee or a year's ineerisonment
xeceipts. We quote :-Fresh large i wil h ioss Of pension, and mill be in-
rolla. 15 to 16e: choice. 145 runs. !elieibie in the future for Govern -
16 to 17c ; fresh dairy tubs, 15e: • ment employ. The bill eatto forlyins
secondary grades, 13 to 14e; cream- interfe.rence with einaloyes, the col-
ery prints, 21 to 22c; solids, 18 to lection of strike funds or enceurag-
19c. ing- the strike ihi any manner. The
Eggs -Receipts are moderate, with bill further empowers the police to
sales of case lots at 13e per dozen. deetroy documents entouraging the
Chose -'Market steady. We quote- steike, make printers thereof offend -
New, 121 to 12Sc per la.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are steady. Cured
meats are unchanged, with a goad lice are empowered to forcibly en. -
demand. We quote :-Ilacon, clear, .ter
10' to 10Sc, ia - an
.ton d ease lots. inectinge,
An amendment expressing regret
Pork -Mess. $21 to $111.50; do., at the strike and promising that
short cut, .'__0 to $23. Parliament would consider the
Smoked et:eats-Hams, 12a to
13a -c; rolls, 11 to 11-.1-c; shoulders,
101c; backs, 14 to 14Sc; breakfast
bacon, 11 to 141c.
Lard -The market is unchanged.
We quote :-Tierces, 10Sc; tubs, 10tc
pails 11c; compound, 8 to 9e.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY%
NOrtfyi,
Deluge of Oue Law Makers at
Toronto.
,e -
READ A SECOND TIME.
The following bills were read A
seeond time;
Respecting the Lindsay Public Li-
braleY-etli*OgPotxh.
lispe City Of London --
Mr, Beck.
Respecting St. Paul's Church,
Dunnville, Ont.-afr. liareourt.
Respecting the Village of Hanover
-Mr. Truax.
Respecting the Art Museum of To-
ronto -Mr. Pay.
To chaage tae boundaries of the
alSown of Berlin - Mr, Lackner.
Respecting the Elgin Loan and
Savings Company - Mr. Pattullo.
To confil'at by-law No. 597 of the
Town of Niagara Fails - Mr. Gross.
Respect -leg- the Lake Superior
Power Company and certain other
companies -Mr. Oonmee.
Respecting the Village of Fenelon
Falls -Mr. Carnegie.
Respect in g the Municipality of
Shuniah-Mr. Conmee.
Respecting the International Tran-
sit Company. - Mr, Conmee.
Respecting the Town of Aurora -
Mr. Davis.
Respecting the St. Thomas Street
R ail w ay -Mr . Mac di amid.
Bill to Suppress It Receives
Second Reading. •
A Melbourne, Victolia, desnatch
says: In the Legislative Assembly
on Weduatiday Premier Irvine made
speeca on the subject of tie strike.
He said the •country faced a loing-
meditated revolt against estabinaed
authority. The issue concerned ev-
ery country. The strike had thrown
the State into confusion, and it
would be a. fight -to a finitile
The Premier that moved elle sec-
ond reading of a bill providing for
the eappression of the strike, which
is not retrospective, and which will
not remain in forte after the ter-
reination of the strike. It provides
that an employe leaving bis work
without giving four nights' notice is
to be assumed to have Seined the
strike, and will incur the penalty of
ers against the law, and declares
meetings to be unlawful if four
strikers are present. All persons
refusing to disperse are liable to ar-
rest without warrants, and the po-
grievances of the railroad men if
they return to work was defeated by
58 to 30 votes.
FOUGHT TWELVE TO ONE,
Brilliant Feat of Arms in the
Capture of Sokoto.
Montreal, May 19. -Grain -No. 1 A London deepatch says :-The
Manitoba hard wheat, 77e; No. 1 - capture of Sokoeo on 'March 11 was.
Nerthern, 76c Vert William; peas, effected by a British column of 500
61e high freights, '71e afloat here ; men, with eight guns, against 6, -
rye, 52c east, 571c atioctt here ; 000 of the enemy's horse and foot.
buckwheat, 47c; oats, No. 2, 35c The Fulanis charged with fanatical
afloat, 37c in store ; flaxseed, $1,20 ibravery, undeterred by a withering
on track here ; corn, American, 52c ,I Maxim and rifle fire. They had no their tracks on all highway e or
afloat. Flour - arenitoba patents,iproper leadership, but the isolated ree'dwa:".
.
$1.10: seconds at $3.80 to $3:90; !bands contained to advance oyer Both of the bills in•troduced bythe
Ontaio straight rollers. 83.35 to 'heaps of dead and dying, often only . Premier are part of the recomenend-
$11.50; in bags 81.60 to $1.70 ; i individuals reaching alime a yard ation of the Assessment Commis -
patents, $3.70 to $4; rolled oats, jar two of the square, where refusing i°11'
milkirs' prices, $1.85 in bags, and 'quarter, they were shot down while .FINAL READINGS.
$3.85 per bbl. Feed -Manitoba bran, I shouting "Allah," with their last Resperting the allantsville and
$18 ; shorts, $20, bags included ; breath. Thirty chiefs around the Lake of Days 'Railway. - Mr. Tud-
Ontario bran in bulk, $17,50 to Emir's great white flag were defiant hope.
$18 ; shortS in bulk, $10.50 to $30,i to the last, and their cOrpses were To amend the Art ineorportiting
Free isions-I-Teaily Canadian short I found hedging the standard aelicn the Oa North Lanark Railway Com -
cut pork, $24; short cut backs, British entered the city, which con- panie-'Mr. Caldwell.
03.50; light short cut, $13; come sieted, mostly of thatcheci houses.- To legallee anti-,. confirm By-law
pound refined 'lard, 81 to 9-c ; pure ate sera -rained walls extended seven,Ne• 670 6f the Taint of PetroTea.-
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr, Powell - To authorize the
City of Ottawa to fix certain as-
semaclits and issue certain deben-
tures.
Dr. Jetleop - To conarm By-law
No. 247 of Beamsville.
Ma Downey -- Respecting the
GS -tenth Railway 00,
Mr. Pense - To ineorpoi ate the
Xingsten and Frontenac
Go.
Pr, Jeeeop-Respecting the City of
St, Oath:allies.
Mi. Cameron - Respecting the
el'ause in the measure permitted the
marling of Seaday earn. The bill
as finally assented to, but the
ammo in question was struck oat.
A similar clause in the hill re-
earecting the Saraia Street Bali'.
ay was treated in the saane maw
aer. •
LINEN FACTORY.
The request of Bfacebridge for
Permission to beaus a linen industry
by granting them freed= from tax-
ation for ten years was granted.
TAXATION 01? LANDS,
The Premier's bill tespecting the
taxation of lands in the Districts of
Algoma, Manitoulin, Thunder Bay
and Rainy River was' passed. It
provides- that if taxes are not paid
for three years, the land Shall be
farfated to the Province.
LAND GRANTS TO VETS.
The House went into come/pace
on Mr. Davis' bill to amend the 'Amt.
to provide for the appropriation of
certain lands for the volunteers who
eareed South Africa and the vol-
unteer militia who.. served on the
frontier in 1866.
Dr. Jesisop took the ground that
what was ka-town as the Home
Guard, who were on active service,
bat did not fight, should certainly
be allowed to participate In the ad-
vantages.allowed to the others.
• Mr. Davis pointed out that the
veterans have the advantage of set-
tlers in that they would get raore
benefit front the rise in varue in ten
years. - receiving free cit cost
land worth 50 cents an acre, they
would be receiving 8,80 worth for
nothing. They would be given all
minerals found on their property,
-
and tax exemption for ten yeass,
which ordinery settlers do not get.
If tie veterans kept their New On-
tario grants, they would reap a sub-
s t ant i al reward.
The hill WaS reported without
amendment.
THE PREMIER'S BILLS,
ThE IIGUSE..! NUM NEWS
Notes of Proceedings in the Can.,
adian, Parliament.
The following bills wore read
first time:
To confer -upon the Commissioner
of Patents certain powers for the re-
tie/ of J. S. McDouga1l:44r. Cowan.
To incorporate the Nepigon iron
Range Railway Company. a- Mr.
Dyment.
To ineorporate the Chatham, More
risburg, and Lake Erics Railway
Company. - Mr. Stephens.
To incorporate the City and
County Bank of Catlett-Ia.-Mr, Rosa-
mond.
Tile following private bills were
read a second time, and referred to
committee:
An Act respecting t,be Interprovin-
cial and James' Bay Railway Com-
pany. -Mr. Belcourt. "
An Act reepecting the Lindsay,
Bobcaygeon, and, Pontypool Rail-
way Co. -Mr, Vrooman,
An Act respecting certain trust
funds of the Diocese of Moosonee.-
Mr. Osier.
An Act to incorporate the Colum-
bia Improvement Co,, Limited. -
Galliher.
the
Town of Rat Portage. The Premier introduced four pub -
Ma Cameron - To extend the pro -
Lie bills, the most important being
\deicers el the Act enabling certain ' one to amend the act tor the nil. -
persons to develop Water power on
provement of public highways. The
the liaieinteticatia. e
new Inn aleoliahes the provision that
Dr. Pine -To amend the Public when a system. of comity roads is
Health Act. adopted, in order to obtain the
Mr. Caldwell -Respecting the Lake •
, Government's grant the mileage
Superior. Power Co. end oertam
hall be based on acreage. County
other companies. Councils are allowed to lay out
Mr. Lucas -To amend the Act re-
,LEseeli systems as they see fit. County
specting the mortgages on real es- councils will also be able to buy up
tate. toll roads whether they florin a come
Mr. Kribs-Recipecting vaccination
plete county system or not, and
and inoculation. deaiv the Coverlet -tea -Vs grant so far
Mr. Sutherland -To amend the
as it goes for such purpose, arrang-
General Road Co.'s Act. Mg to pay the municipalities not
Mr. Dianna - Reopecting the
directly interested in them a sum
Church of England Cemetery at Sar -
to which they may be entitle.d on
nia. the basis of their assesement. The
Dr. Pyne - To amend the Act to
thee in wbich County Council May
supplement the revenues of the
take advantage of the act is to ' be
Crown of Ontario. extended.
Col. Matheson - Respeceing the
NT.A.GARA'S BANKS.
flame Sayings and Loan Co., Limit-
ed. Another bill intradUceal by Pre -
Mr. Base - Respecting statute la- liner Ross aims at pree-enting the
nor.
Mr. Ross - An Ace respecting
amendments of the law in connec-
tion -a-it.11 the revision of the As-
eesemant Act.
Mr. Idrib's measure provides that
no cbild in the province shall be vac-
cinated or inoculated against the
wish of its parent or gavadiecn, and
makes vaecinalian. voluntary.
Dr. Peete's amendment to the Act
to atinnaiment the reveinies of the
Crown is to the effect that all rail-
ways Eleall be liable to a. mumicipel
meeesinent and 1,0 pay taxes on
An Act to incorporate the Mount
Royal Savings Bank. -Mr. Bicker-
dike.
The following bills were given a
third reading:
••An Act respecting the Winnipeg
Western Land Corporation, Liniitech
-Mr, McCarthy.
An Act respectiag the Ontario and
Qu'Appelle Land Co. -Mr. McCar-
thy.'
An Act respecting the Canada
Northwest Lead Co„ Limited. -Mr.
McCarthy.
An Act respecting the Great
Northwest Central Railway Co. -
Mr. McCarthy.
The Act to incorporate the New
Canadian Co., Limited, was read a
second time aad passed to
mittee.
e0M-
PENSIONS.
Colonel linghes (Victoria) was in-
formed by Sit Initidericle Borden that
Canadians disabled in the South
African War received the same pen-
sions as the men of the British
army. The Canadian. Government
contributed nothing to this, arid had
not considered the advisability of
supplementing the Imperial pension.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Hon. Mr. Fielding informed Mr.
Talbot that the Grand Trunk Rail-
way Company had received no loan
from the Dominion Government since
Confederation. At that time the
company owed the Province of Can-
ada $25,670,393.53, whith was
taken by the Dominion as an asset.
No payments had ever been. made by
the company on this debt.
CATCHING OP FISH.
washing 'away of the beaks of the Mr. Lemieux Gaspe) was informed
Niagara River from Chippa.wa to by Mr. Prefontaine that the Govern -
Fort Erie, and provides for -widen- I ment had rednived a petition from
ing and improving the roadways, the fishing interests of Gaspe, pray -
and authorielag the Victoria Park ing Sant the Government would pro -
Commission .to make an agreement hibit the catching of fish for use as
with a company to provide for the land fertilizer, and also prohibit the
construction and operation of an tee of trap nets for cod and herring,
electric railway from Chippewa to on the ground that these practices
were destroying the -fisheries. The
Fort Erie.
The Premier intaioduced a bill also Government had declined to act in
as an amendment to the neunieipal the matter.
eat, to provide that no personashall
ST. LOUIS EXHIBITION,
be disqualified from being elected a
member of any municipal corpora- Mr. Lemieux (Gaspe) was inform -
tion by reason of any contract or ed by Mr. ' Fielding that Canada
agreement granting exemation from would be represented at the St.
Louis International Exaibition of
taxatoi°1111.1.133LING AT SETOWS.
would not be attaches of the Bri-
1904. The Canaidian Commiesioners
The fourth bill introdimed by the tab. Conimiselon, bat would be
Premier provides for iraportant granted all the rigbts and arivileges
changes in the act relating to cire of .an independent national commis -
Mises and shows. The Provincial sloe.
licenee is increased from $50 to ELECTtON LAK.
$100. The license may be with -
In the House Mr. Fielding mioved
drawn if gambling or games of
the following resolution: "That a
chance are found. in the show. The
select committee composed of
plenalties for intriegement on the mw
Messrs. Charlton, Ca,sgratit, Russell,
are iacreesed, the minimum from
'aarketnsDeeners- (gt. John and Bier:.
$100 to $200 -arid the maximum.
ville), Northrop, Thompson (Beadle
mend), Ingram, arid Fielding be ap-
pointed to consider the state of the
laws. respectin.aDondmion elections,
and- that. lir. ' to
:areend the Dieminion Electioets Act
of 1900.be referred to this com-
mittee."
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
CANADA..
:Woollen mills are to be establish-
ed at Brandon,
The Mohawk Institute, recently de -
strayed by fire at Brantford, will be
rebuilt,
Chatham's population is norW 9,-
222„ an increase of 355. The eol-
ored citizens number 586, a decrease
of 8.
The Provincial Government will
erect a monument to Sir Oliver
Mowat.
The Niagara. camp will begin this
year on June 16.- Lord Dundonald
will visit each of the camps in. sue -
cession.
Two small children wandered into
a drug store at Sandwich on Satur-
day and asked a doctor if they had
smallpox... Theo had.
Mr. J. V, 'Teazel, 3:C.C.,. of Hamil-
ton, has been appointed to the High
Court of Ont•ario, Common Pleas
Division, ie. place of the late Mr.
Justice Lount.
A by-law to raise a35,000 for
school purposes at Winnipeg, and
Eunother setting apart $100,000 for
the erection of a contagious dis-
ease hospital was lost. -
Halifax is to have a naval reserve
depot and stops to this end are to
be taken at once. This will be the
first in Canada, but there is one in
every other British colony.
Biel, deposits of iron have been
discovered by Messrs. McAdam &
Grogan at Little Vermillion, Creek,
18 miles west of Saddle Lake, on
t,he north side of the Saskatchewan.
Fred. L. Young, agent of the
Mercantile Register of San Fran-
cisco, hirg been arrested by the Van-
couver police charged with obtaining
money by false pretences from local.
business concerns.
R. E. Milligan, the New York wa-
ter expert, who has been. investigat-
ing London's supply, reports that
the quality of the Springbank water
is excellent,, but no larger quanti-
ties can be expected. The Thames
enight be p,urified.
A Sydney, C. B., despatch states
that Sir A. L. Jones, head of the
Elder -Dempster Company, of Liver-
pool, and Sir Alston Dixon, a great
shipbuilder in North England, are
interesting themselves in a project
for the erection of a steel shipbuild-
ing plant at some port in Nova
Scotia, where the best facilities for
such works are obtainable.
panadian lard, lae to 11c ; finest miles around the place and were Mr. tvivna• !from $200 to $300 and imprinone•
lard, 11 to 3.1Sc; hams, 121. to 13c; pierced by eleht Teta A fay dave ( To colifirin By-law No. 575 of the I ment from 30 days to three months.
bacon, 14 to 15c; freshakilled abat-
, , toir bogs, $9 to $9.20. Eggs -New
laid, 12t to 13c. Butter -Fresh
creamery, 19 to 19. Cheese -On-
tario, 11.1c; townships, 11Sc. Po-
tatoes -The market for potatoes has
become strong durink the past few
days ; a carload of finest stock was
sold on track yesterday at $1.15 a
bag of 90 las„ but it is said that it
would be imposaible to buy the same
goods at less than $1.115 to -day.
Holders are demanding. $1.35 for lots
when drawn away from cars, and
$1.40 for smaller lots when taken
away from store.
UNITED STAikS MARKETS.
Chicago, May 19. -Grain trade was
dull and prices were easier to -day,
July wheat closing So lower; July
corn a shade higher, and oats off
tc. September provisions closed
from 2Sc lower to 2,1cihigher.
aliiineeepolis, May. 19.-Wheat-
C'Eteli, 781c; May, 77tc; July, 764 to
761e; track. No. 1. hard', 701c; No. 1
Northern, 781c; No. 2 Northern,
7'7fic; No. 3 Northern, 76 to 7.6;c.
Buffalo, May : 19. -Flour -Quiet.
.Wimat-Spring steady; No. 1 North-
am, 82e; winter firm; No. 2 %Yalta,
-88c; No. 2 redo 81c.. Corn -Quiet ;
emehanged. Gats -Steady, unchang-
ed. Barley -Unchanged. By - No,
S.,. in store, 57e, Canal freights -
Meat, 4/c, 0
•••••••14...1
LIVE STOCK mmutrirs.
Toronto, May 10. - At the Weet-
ern Cattle Market to -day there was
an active business transacted in
both butchers' and export cattle,
turd the prices for the former ad-
vanced from 15 to 25c per cwt.
Sheep, iambs, and Calves were un -
'di -fanged.
There were not many choice ship-'
pimg cattle offered, and ovving no-
tive amongst buyers,
the market for them was strong,
hotter pricee in eome inatances being
paid for them than there would Oth-
obrWiSc MVO 'WM. There are atilt
Mazy tvomment nand light ones weer
and the dithand for them 'Wee
Fulanis tendered their submissioa to I Town of Sarnia. --,Mr. Hanna.
To confinn lizajteiv acce al, 1902, Provincial -detectives wili have free
Under ahe new law Dominion an.d
. .
later the populace returned and the i
access to Ala gainae thea
March 19th and installed 1 Tome of Goelerich."Ti . 4.1
--'amn Stres - and
Commiesioaer Lugnrd, who arrived '01 the
Emir. The British then retired to. I n'jnPee-tirig the Ross en AO: r' !public gatherings. • •
a eiae i man (Heron), '
wards the coast, leaving a. garrieon. liondtal.--afr. Fox.
a - Reepticting the Town of Brace -
CANADA AND GERMANY.brge.--al r. Teeth o p e .
i The Houses on motion of the Mine
ister of Education, ratified the or -
Views of London Tames' Berlin i der-in-Ponneil dated February 25)
1908, loaning $50,000 to Toronto
IiniverEity for the new Medical
C orresp ond.ent.
• The 'Berlin carreeponelega of The
Landon Times wired on Theesday
an article on the contemplated tariff
war between Ge -many .and Canada.
"Canada's action cannot he challeng-
ed be- the extreme protectionist
party in Germany," says the cor-
respondent, "and if Germany ma-
tinees to treat Canada araordieg to
the spirit et the extreinista, the re-
sult will simply be the entire ces-
sation of trade between the two
countries, which would seriously lee -
indite Germany." . • .
The Beaten. Conner • melines to
this opinion evidently, as it advises
the German Government to exercise
residence, as further discrimination
might be apt to strengthen- the 'ten-
dency for an Imperial commercial
Union between the British colonies
and the motherland.
TEN KILLED IN STRIKE RIOT
Troops and. Mob Clash at Valpar-
aiso, Chili.
A Santiago, Chili, despatch says:
The strike of dock laborers at Val-
paraiso is becoming more serious.
The strikers, after setting fire to the
quay as well as to the offices of the
South American Steamship Com-
pany, had a number of encounters
with the police, ;during which ten
persons were killed and two hen -
tired were inartaa, detachment of
three thousand troops leas been des-
patched to Valparaiso to quell the
dieoreler. The Governetent luta re-
amed all offerto compromise the
dirfacialties, wild is determined to
adopt the steriaett racaalareS to re-
store arrive,
•
Third readings were given to the
following bills:
Respecting the Sandwich, Windsor
and Amherstburg Railway and the
City Railway Company of Windsor,
I de ri ted. -Mr . Auld.
Respecting the City of Landon. -
Mr. Beck.
Iteepecting St. Paul's March,
Dunnville, Ontario. -Mr. Harcourt.
Reepecting the Hamilton Electric
Light and Cataract Power Com-
pany, Limited, and the Hamilton
Cataract Power, Light and Traction
Company, Iamited.--ain. Carstiallen.
The following bills were given
their sawed reading:
Respecting statute labor. - Ma.
Ross.
Beepecting amendments of the law
in connection with the revision of
the Assessment Act. - Mr. Ross.
To amend the High Schools Act. -
Mx. Harcourt.
*
NAVAL BASE AT SYDNEY.
British Admiralty Site Has Been
Selected.
A Halifax despatch says :-The
British Admiralty is likely to es-
ta.blish a naval base at Sydney at
an early date. Two naval °facers,
acting under instructions from Ad-
miral Sir A. L. Douglas of the
North 'American 'squadron, have been
in Sydney for several days examin-
ing available sites, and it is an-
nounced that they have selected a
harbor front property for Admiralty
purposes. It is not unlikely that
fortifIcations will also be construct-
ed there, as Sydney is now con-
sidered by the Imperial authorities'
as a port of great strategic import-
ance, in view of the maintenance of
a strong French squadron at St.
Pierre, Miquelon. As a fortified
naval base it would also be a
guardian of the St. Lawrence route,
and an unexcelled coaling base in
time of war.
nr.,EamaC RAILWAY.
The bill to amend the Aet incor-
porating the Heron, P,ruee and Grey
Electric Railway was before the
Railvvey Committee, it empowers
the company to change its name to
the Ontario West Shore Electric
Railway, and grants permission to
make extensions to Winghern, Lon-
don, Parkhill, ten Sarnia. Objec-
tion was taken to it because it
would pa,raliel the Leaden, Parke
iii Etn.d Grand Bend road, end it
was allowed to stand over until ths
interested parties had a conference.
AGAiraTST SUNDAY CARS.
There was considerable diseuesiott
over the bill respecting the !i1 -
and Caledonia Rail \veer. A
GENERAL STRIKE SOON.
--
Victorian. right Only. an Outpost
Skirinish..
In a 'clespateli from Syiclney, N. S.
W., the correspondent of The Lon-
don Daily Mail, reports secret meet-
ings on the part of the New South
Wales trade unionists, notably the
railroad and street car men. The
corespondent says he conferred with
the edictal head of teat:a unionism
In New Smith Wales, Seim deelared
that all •worlerrein would support the
railroad men solidly, and that wi-
lefis the Victorian Goveterment Ear -
rendered the struggle woeld extend
to the other States, the Vietorian
13. lit being only cut outpost' skirm-
CHANCE FOR CANADIANS.
Forms of Tender for Army Sup-
plies From South Africa.
An Ottawa despatch says: Sir Wild
frid Laurier has reeeived a letter
from Lieut. -General G. Lyttleton,
Officer .cammanding the troops in
South -Africa, ..aateci Pretoria, April
6, in which he says:
"I. have the honor to inform you
that tenders are being called for the
sappier of bread and forage to the
troops for certain statioes in the
Cape Colony, and for bread, forage
anal 'groceries for all stations in the
Tranevaal and Orange River Colony
for a period ,o1 .six months, come
mencing October 1. I enclose ten
forms of tender for each coloey, for
distribution to any applitants that
there may be. Would you kindly
send me a list, giving the names and
addresses of those to whom forms
have been issued."
General Lyttletan encloses a form
of advertisement for insertion in the'
lea -ding papers, and asks that the
acectumt be forwarded toaltim. Should
there init be an.y tenderers in Canada
he proposes to send the names and
addresses of successful tenderers, so
that merchants at Canada may have
an opportunity of offering their
flour to the accepted contractor at
South Africa.
Police Commissioner Greene of
New York has dismissed from the
force Inspector Adam A. Cross, for
neglect of duty and =becoming con-
duct. He had, been on the police
force for 25 years.
Weary 3.1Euggiesi-"Youtivon't git
flothia' ,dectmt in there. Thera peovle
is vegetarians," 'Hungry Harry -"Is
Ibat right, ?' Weary ileggl es-' 'Yes,
they got a dog, wet
SPIKES THROUGH HEAD.
Fiendish w oil% in. MasSaereoE
jaws in Russia.
A St. Petersburg despatch says :a --
Additional details/ of the Kisheneff
massacre of Jews aro' printed here
daily. The correspondents give the
number' of 'victims thus itte buried in
the Jewish cemetery at 44, and say
that al persons seriously wounded
are etill in the Jewish Resell:el, The
horrors reported scarcely bear re-
Polnis)a. In one instance spikes were -
driven through a woman's head into
the floor, axed cases ot bodily mutila-
tion have been authenticated. About
800 to 1,000 persons were arrested,
ah energetic °Fidel having been sent
from. Odense to deal with the situa-
tion. The apathy of the local au-
thorities during the two clays of
rapine and murder appears to have
been fully established.
AUSTRIAN HELD FOR PLOT.
Accused of Planning A.ttack on
. Xing Edward.
A Vienna despatch says: Bs the
Lower ISIouse of the lieichstratch on
Wednesalay the Premier, Dr. von
Xcenber, was interpollated with re-
gard to the arrest at Gibraltar of
an engineer named Naqht, an Aus-
triai ssubject, who is charged with
plotting an attack upen Xing Ede
Ward during his Majesty's recent
visit to Gibraltar. The .interevellite
tion stated that although there was
no proof agates% Ne,elet he was kept
In coinfleement. The Peel:dor was
atiked to take proceedings to obtain
his liberation.
DARKNESS AIDS IiISEASE.
GREAT BRSTAIN.
British imports and exports for
April showed decreases of $11,988,-
000 and $1,780,500 reepectively,
TJNITED STATES.
Ex -President Cleveland, " U.S.A.,
writes that he is not desirous of
being a Presidential candidate.
Mrs. W. Lee of Buffalo, N. Y.,
died at Charlotte, N. C., from the
effects of a chicken bone, which
caught in her throat.
addition to the site Mrs. Eddy
has given $100,000 for a new Chris-
tian Science Church edifice at Con-
cord, N. H.
St. Louis laundrymen have refused
to handle work sent them from Chi-
cago, where the laundry worieers are
on strike,
The Augusta, Ga., Chronicel, estab-
lished in 1785, the oldest newspa-
per in the South, was sold at pub-
lic auction for $75,000.
Just before the Timbeia, sailed from
New York on Saturday, an infernal
machine inIorking °mice and con-
taining 100 pounds of dynamite was
found on the pier.
Joseph Trapani, the head of a
gang of Italians who defrauded New
York insurance companies by bogus
deaths, was sentenced to an indeter-
minate period of from two to four
years. ,
• To resist the demands of a -union
being organized among the. drivers
/or firms dealing In building 'ran-
4oliel, • in New Yerk'the lumber
dealers and brickyards have ordered
a lockout which may throw 100,000
men into idleness:
Miss Alice Roosevelt's favorite
costume is a white gown, and a
large black hat with a drooping
plume, and with this she carries -the
little silver mounted cane which
causes much comment, and the fad
bas been adopted by other society
mei dens.
Result of Enquiry Into Malady
Affecting Miners.
A Berlin despatch says' The Govi-
erueneent Commission, vditica has been
investigating the .tropioal worm 'dis-
ease win& has attacked 20,000
INIestphallan miners, reports that
only those who rarely see the Mal -
light are afflicted. The disease is
frequently fatal, and eatesee inabil-
ity to labor. The Government leas
decided to employ 150 doctors, spe-
cially trained, to combat the mal-
ady. The saferers will be isolated.
Cleanlimese and sienteane are the
peinental requisites.
GENERAL.
It is Liggett reported that the Rus-
sian troops have withdrawn from
Nov.chwang. .
The relations between Turkey and
Bulgaria, arising out of the incur-
sion of iusargent bands into Mace-
donia, aro strained.
BREEDERS AT CALGARY.
INDIANS PLAYED LACROSSE.,
lYfore Akin. to Warfare Than
Friendly Sport,
The present ga-me, modified and re-
duced to a science, is intense en-
ough, but the old lacrosse, as played
by the magnificent aborigine war-
riors of a, century ago, was more
akin to warfare than to friendly;
sport.
Months before a tribal match was
due the players would be selected
and weeks before they would pre-
pare by fasting - in fact, by going
into rigoro-us training. On the
night before the day of the match
all the players would assemble
around a great fire, and there would
begin a wild, fierce cletn,ce, with mad
music ever rising lousier and faster,
the dancers leaping, screaming,
shaking their cross -sticks, an invo-
cation, this, to -the Great Spirit for
victory.
On the next day, on the playing
groupd; a great crowd would assem-
ble -ancient warriors, squaws and
children - and the young braves
who were to play -would gather in
the woods in two parties, indulging
in the Wildest war whoops while
they festooned and painted theme
selves. Then; at a signal, when thar
goals were set and all was made
reedy, out from the trees they would
pour, shouting, leaping gnil somer-
saulting wane their lady lovers ran
forward to greet a.nd cheer them.
The genie director would count the
'sides; make. a Tong speech .and•give
the sigeal to plqy.
Matches might •consist of from 20
to 100 games, and were spread over
several days, beginning early in the
morning . and lasting ear itito thca
day. '"At the start the ball wasigend
orally throatn 'high: into the • air, .and'
then the wildest scramble 'would en-
sue as it fell, and a score of players
would leap up at it to strike. Wher-
ever the ball went, there the field
would follow with wild yells, and
one at last, would pink up the bail
in his .stick, and make off like A
deer, twisting, ducking, leaping,
doubling, while forty or fifty braves
pursued at top speed, for there were
no restrictions in the way of bound-
aries, in a wild and glorious stain-
pede.-Pearson.'s Magazine.
to a
Importation of Horses ie. the
Northwest.
A Calgary despatch says :-This is
agricultural week at Calgarty. The
annual meeting of horse and stock
breeders' associations is in pro-
gress, an'd the week is to close with
a fat stock show. Reporte presented
show the number of horses imported
into the Calgary district for 1.002
amounted to 4,756, -valued at $106,-
880, or an average of $22.47. The
average value of ' animals imported
into Manitoba. and the Territories
was $80.57). The Seeeetary of -the
a,ssociation urges that a mildwed
valuation shoind be placed on horses
imported into Canada. He says the
Canadian west is being flooded with
a class of horses that is already too
plentifully reareseeteil in the coun-
try at the pre'sent Aline, and which
are bought at slaughter prices on the-
overstooked ranges., cif Montana, and
the effect has been to completely de-
reoratiee the limited market for the
grade animals and misfits produced
by the Western breeders.
DO SOMETHING.
Don't stand with your hands in
your pockets,
And look like a knot on a log;
Tighten your "galluses," spit
011
your hands,
And hurnp yourself out of the bog.
Oh, never allow the spring breezes
Thrfoulgiyh ryuosutlre;whiskers to mourn-
Remeomildie jratdlet,et Portime, that downy
Smiles only on the people who
hustle.'
Chop cordwood, dig drains, or split
rails,
But don't sit around like a dumb
thing;
The spring is here, the milliliter is
' So ligeoart'o work and do something.
-The IChan's Spring Advice-
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- THE RING'S ANCESTRY.
According to a Jacobite authority,
only one drop of Xing Edward's
blood is estimated pure English -
that which he derives from, Margaret -
Tunor, wife of James IV.Sof .Seet-
land. Two drops of French
'wine from Mary Stuart, five drops
6f Sooteh blood from James IV.
and. Darnley, Queen adary's hus-
band. Of the rest, &eat drops are
Danish, and four thousanti end forty
aro Germans