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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-11-27, Page 2J.S. DID NOT INVEST LARGELY .IN BONDS Other Flotations More Attrac- tive Than Canadian Victory Loan. A despatch from Ottawa says: - Sir Henry Drayton, Minister of Fine mice, stated that citizens of the United States did not buy so many of Can- ada's Victory bonds as commonly re- ported. A great deal of interest was taken in the flotation, but just as they were beginning to ,purchase Victory fiends Great Britain floated a leen at 014 per cent., and this higher rate xnade investors forget Canada's offer- ings, Asked what hopes the Government had of Canada's overtaking the un- favorable exchange situation, Sir Henry said that the Government could do nothing to affect that situation. "So long as the people of Canada persist in importing expensive arti- cles so long shall we have an adverse trade balance," he said. "If that could be wiped out the exchange situa- tion would take care of itself." "Will American investors get any advantage from the 5 per cent. ex- change charged against Canadian money ?" he was asked. "The ,interest on Victory Loan bonds is payable in Ottawa, so that we shall have the exchange," he answered. During the six months of Canada's fiscal year ending September 4 Can- ada's adverse trade balance with the United States was 313`0,352,904. It is stated here that it is impose ible to float a loan in the United States to stabilize the situation. Sir Thomas White said before the Parliamentary Committee on Soldiers' Civil Re-estab- lishment at the last session of Parlia- ment that the seventy-five million dollars loan negotiated in New York last summer represented about as heavy a loan as Canada could raise there. If the amount had been one hundred millions he doubted if it could lnai-e been negotiated. 2,400 CANADIANS STILL , IN BRITAIN Military Authorities Troubled by Missing of Sailings. A despatch from London says:- More ays:More than a year after the signing of the armistice there are still 2,400 Canadian soldiers in Britain awaiting repatriation apart from the twenty odd thousand discharged men. While the number is small, it is supplement- ed by an equal number of dependents, and theyhave been giving the military authorities much trouble of late through their failure to turn up at a steamer after their passage had been booked. A recent decision that married soldiers be allowed free repatriation after six months' delay for family reasons promises to lengthen greatly the work of repatriation now almost NEW CABINET OF ONTARIO. LEAVING GOVERNMENT HOUSE, TORONTO, AFTER -BEING SWORN IN. , From left to right the men are: Hon. 13.. Bowman, Min. of Lands & Forests; Hon. W. E, Raney, Attorney General; Hon, W. R. Rollo, Min. of Health and Leber; Hon. Lt. -Col. D, Carmichael, Min, Without Portfolio; Hon. Manning W. Doherty, Min. of Agriculture; Hon. H. C. Nixon, Pro- vincial Secretary: Hon. E. C. Drury, Prime Minister; Hon. R. H. Grant, Min. of Education; Hon. F. C. Biggs, Min. of Public Works; Hon, Peter Smith, Provincial Treasurer; Hon. H. Mills, Minister of Mines. • Weekly Ma rket Report Breadstuffs. Japans, $4.75 to $5; imported, hand- Toronto, Nov, 25. --Manitoba wheat picked, Burma, $4; Limas, 17%x3 to --No. 1 Northern, '_2.30; No. North- 18%e. • ern, $2.27; No. 3 Northern, $2.23, in Honey --Extracted clover, 5 -lb, tins, store Port William. 25 to 26e; 10 -Ib. tins, 24r,:, to 25e; 60- Maaitoba oats -No, 2 C.W., 86lic; lb, tins, 24c; buckwheat, 60 -Ib, tins, 18 No. 3 CW, 84e; No. 1 feed, 81 Mie; No. to 20e; comb,'•16-oz., $4.50 to $5 doz.; 2 feed, 7934e, .in store Fort William, 10 -oz., $3.50 to $4 dozen. Man, barley -No. 3 CW, 31,51%; Maple products --Syrup, per imper- No. 4 CW, $1.44 as; rejected, $1,34;+x; Tal gallon,cmfwyp mfwyp mfwypwy*p feed, 31.34%, in store Fort William, -Provisions Wholesale. r.America* corn -No. 2 yellow, $1.75; Smoked meats Hams, med., Ile to No. 3 yellew, $1."r;l, track, Toronto, 88c; do, heavy, 31 to 32e; cooked, 49 prompt shipments. Ontario oats -o. 3, white, 87 to 89c, baeonc�44 rolls, tol 4G 0• Uacksc� lamed Pato .., according to freights outside. 48c; boneless, 49 oto 52c. p Ontario wheat •, o, 1 Winter, per Cured meats -Long el ear bacon, 31 car lot, $2 to $3,06; No. 2 clo, $1.97 to to 32e; clear bellies 30 to 31c. $2.03; No, 3 do, $1.93 to 31 J9, f.o.b. Lard -Pure tierces, ,29 to 29' ..e; shipping points, according to freight tubs, 29% to 30e; pails, 29% to 3011e; Ontario wheat -No. 1 Spring, $..,0;,, ri to $2.08; No. 2 Spring, $1.99 to $2.08; �' 'At to328c• 30%e; Compound,tierces, No. o Spring, $1..95 to $2.01, f.o.b. 2 rr 1 t pails, shipping points, according to freights. 8 to 28sic; prints, 29,_ to SJt. Peas -No.: 3, $2.50. Montreal Markets, Barley -Malting, 31.47 to $1,50, ac- . Montreal, Nov. 25.. -Oats, extro, No. cording to freights outside. 1 feed, J7e. I,lour, new standard grad:, Buckwheat -$1.32 to 31.34. • ; 311 to 311.10. Rolled oats, bags, 90 Rye -Nominal, {lbs., $4.50 to $4.55. Bran, $43 to $45. Manitoba flour -Government stand- Shorts, 350 to 352. Hay, No. 2, per ton, ard, 311, Toronto. car lots, $24 to 325. Cheese, finest Ontario flour -Government stand- easterns, 28c. Butter, choicest cream- ard, $9.50 to 39.60, Montreal and To-; ery, 65% to 66c. Eggs, fresh, 80-c; route, in jute bags. prompt shipment.' do, selected, 65c; do, No. 1 stock, 58e; 4iillfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont-; do; No. 2 .stock, 55e. Potatoes, per bag, real freights, bags included: Bran, per car lots, 32 to 32.30. Dressed hogs, ton, 345; shorts, per ton, $52; good abattoir killed, $25. Lard, pure, wood feed flour, $3.15 to 33;50. !pails, 20 lbs. net, 31c. Hay -No. 1, per ton, 325 to 326; i Live Stock Markets. mixed,per ton 20 to- 322,track, T ionto ' $ ° Toronto, Nov. 25: -Choice heavy steers, $13.25 to 313.50; good heavy Country Produce 4 helesale- ' steers, $12.50 to $13; butchers' cattle,' Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 43 tol choice, 311.75 to 312.25; do, goad, 44c; prints, 48 to 50c, Creamery, $10.75 to $11.35; do, med., 39.25 to fresh made solids, 60 to 61c; prints,' $9.75; do, coin., $6 to $6.75; bulls, 61 to 62c. I choice, $10 to 310.50; do, med., 39 to Eggs --Held, 52 to 54c; new laid, 65. $9.25; do, rough; $725 to 37.50; but - to 68e. cher cows, choice, 310 to $10.50; do, Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, l good, $9 to $9.25; do, vied., $825 to 26 to 30c; roosters, 25c; fowl, 20 to ; 38:50; , aontt $6.50:to $7; stockers, On; 25c; ducklings, 25 to 30c; turkeys, 35 $7.50 to $1Q; .feeders, 310 to 311,25; to 40c; squabs, doz., $4.50. f canners and cutters, $5.25 to 36.50; Live poultry -Spring chickens, 20, milkers, good to choice, $110 to 3175• to. 23c; roosters, 20e; fowl, 18 to 25c; do, tom. and med., $65 to $75; spring - ducklings, 20c; Turkeys, 35e. I ens, 390 to $175; light ewes, 38 to $9; Cheese -New, large, 31% to 32c; spring Iambs, per cwt., $13.50 to 314; twins, 32 to 32%c; triplets, 33 to ! Calves, good to choice, $17 to 31108; 83%,t; Stilton, 34 to 35e. hogs, fed and watered, $16,75; do concluded. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 53 to weighed off cars, $17; do, f.o.b., $15.75; 55c; creamery prints, 64 to 66c, do, do, to farmers, $15.50 - Margarine -33 to 38e. 1 Montreal,Nov. 25. -Butcher steers United States to .land Over Eggs -No. 1. 60 to 61c; selects, 63' tom., 36.75 to 8.50; butcher heifers, German Liners to Britain to 64c; new laid, 80 to 85e. f cern., 85.50 to $7.25; butcher cows, Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,! med., $5.75 to 37.50; canners, $4.75; A despatch from Washington 30 to 33c; roosters, 23 to 25c; fowl,' cutters, $5 to 35.75; butcher bulls, says: -Settlement of the controversy 30 to 32e; turkeys, 45e; ducklings, 34; come, 35.50 to 36; good veal, 314 to to 36e• squabs doz.,S6.00. I $16- medium $8 to $13- grass $6.50 over the disposition of the German Live poultry -Spring chickens, 22 to $7; ewes, 37 to $8; lambs, good liner Imperator was indicated by Ship- to 26e; fowl, 23 to 25c; ducks, 22 to ` $13.75 to $14; common, $12 to 318; ping Board officials, who intimated 25e, ' hoes selects 317.25; lights $15'05 to the ship would be tendered immedi- Beans -Canadian, hand-picked. bus., ` 316.25; heavies, 316,25; sows, 312.25 to ately to Great Britain. 35.25 to 35.75; primes, 34.25 to $4.75; 313.25. Action with regard to the seven other Getman steamers in the same CANADIANS ADOPT status had not been determined, it was said. It will depend, it was indicated, on final disposition of the tankers, under the German flag, but American owned, now held in the Firth of Forth by the direction of the Supreme Coun- cil. Australia Being Swept by Devastating Drought A despatch from London says: - Australia, especially New South Wales, is suffering the most devastat- ing drought since white men have re- sided in that country, even the drought of 1902 being surpassed, according to months past, are natives of a village a Sydney despatch to The Daily Mail, north of Archangel, and like the maj- Stocks and crops have been destroy- ority of Russian peasant children, ed, and it is doubtful whether there have had no education. They were will be enough seed wheat for next found homeless near Archangel by season's sowing, Hundreds, and per-' Canadian officers serving with the haps thousands, of settlers have been; North Russia expeditionary force. The ruined. : task of making the refugees Canadian Northwestern New 'South Wale; is citizens has been accepted by Major described as a desert, being stripped S. B. Pepler, M.C., Toronto. litho sailed of everything green. Paddocks are for Canada on the Megantic on Wed - littered with the skeletons of cattle,E nesday with cne of the boys; chile and even rabbits are dying in vast; Major W. 0. White, R.C.R., will look numbers. 'after the other one. RUSSIAN MASCOTS Two Little Peasants Whose Parents Are in the Hands of Bolsheviki. A despatch from London says: -A new type of mascot was adopted by the Canadian forces in Siberia in the form of two Russian peasant boys whose parents are in the hands of the Bolsheviki, but who are themselves to be given an opportunity of becoming Canadian cit°tens. These bays, who have made their home in the Y.M.C.A, Beaver Hut in London for sone t 1 Concs ete Coffins Are Being 'Used. in Britain A despatch from London says:- Owing ays:Owing to a prohibitive price of wooden coffins, substitutes of concreee have been delivered for the burial of poorer people. Up to a few weeks ago many ceme- tery authorities declined to sanction the use of concrete coffins, but in many industrial quarters conditions have become so acute that the em- bargo has been withdrawn, and they are now constantly used. Concrete coffins answer the purpose admirably,. and are much lighter than wooden ones. Prince's Visit to Spain ' .,.Sai "-tO 'Be Arrange.: A despatch ' from London says: - Ring George is said to have given a promise that the Prince of Wales shall pay a formal visit to Madrid next year. It is understood that a round of festivities will be organized in his honor. in Spain. NEW CONSTITUTION FOR EGYPTIANS Britain Will Also Confer Self - Government nment o'n Malta. A despatch from London says: -A constitution for Egypt and local •self- government for Malta, both of which were announced en Thursday, are de- signed to meet the unrest in these countries, which have been demanding the application to themselves for the theories of self-determinat-on and the rights of smaller nationalities. ,The extreme Egyptian nationalists have raised the banner of complete independence, like the Sinn Fein, and Cairo mesages :say that the Cabinet has resigned as an answer to Field Marshal Allenby's statement of the British plans. One of the Egyptian complaints has been that Great Britain has published its intention to maintain a protector- ate, but has kept tha Egyptians in the dark regafding what is meant by a protectorate, and how it is to be car- ried on. Great Britain's action in pre- venting an Egyptian nationalist dele- gation from going to the Paris Con- ference to present grievances has bean another cause for complaint. The Government's justification be- fore tie charges of neglecting Egypt has been the enormous loat( of other matters on its hands. The Milner Commission, which is to investigate` the causes of unrest in Egypt, has not yet started, and the natives threaten to boycott it and.re- fuse to give any information. Malta was in a state of tumult for several weeks during the summer, but there were no casualties, and little news of the movement there has reached England. Small attention has been paid to it on account of other overshadowing events.. Another sign of the times is that a group of Burmese, with the snpport of former British Burman officials, have begun an agitation for including !Burma in the naw measures of self- government which the Montague scheme will give India, Combined Chair and Cradle, For the convenience of parents of infants a combined rocking chair and cradle has been patented. C Warr Losses $331,612,542,560 Dead 12,990,571, despatch from Washington says: -The first eoinprehensive report on the "Direct and Indirect Oasts of the War" ihas just been made by the Carnegie Endowment for Internation- al Peace and published in a volume under that title. The direct costs for countries ac- tually involved :in the war aro put at $186,000,000,000 and the indirect costs. at $151,612,542,560. The latter total includes lasses to neutrals, w'h,ich are put .at 31,750,000,000, It also includes loss of production, put at $45,000,000,- 000, and war relief estimated at 31,- 000,000,000. 1;000,000,000. The capitalized value .of soldier hu- man life, also given among the in- direct' costs, is placed at $33,531,276,- 280, The property lasses are divided as follows: On land, $29,960,000,000; to shipping and cargo:, $6,800,000,000. The report, which was gathered by SCOTLAND. Ernest L. Bogart, professor of econ- omies in the University of Illinois, in ' estimat' g the " italizedpvalue of Tom Skene, a native of Tain, was married recently M. Winnipeg, to Miss Margaret Mackenzie, of Delny. The death has occurred at Alum of Alexander Ross, brother of Town Councillor J. A. Ross. Beating and trench digging have bon unsuccessfully resorted to to quench the moor and forest fires hi Tain district. The inhabitants of Stornoway were Lentertained to a garden fete by Lord Leverhulme at his castle grounds. The death is announced on the Af- ghan front of Capt. Alex. Thomson, brother of Mrs. Mackenzie, of Castle Debbie• Dr. Owen Reid, of Inverness, has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for Lochcarron parish. The estate of Inverernate, situated on the banks of Loch Dulch and con- sisting of 22,000 acres, is being sold by Sir Keith Fraser. Andrew Lindsay, J.P., of Golspie, has been appointed a deputy -lieutenant for Sutherlandshire. The Duchess of Sutherland has been appointed a lady of Grace of the -Or- der of St.. John of Jerusalem. The death is announced of A. M. M. McAdie, for twenty-five years secretary of the Glasgow Caithness Benevolent Association. The Hon. Mrs. Douglas Vickers has arrived at Tulloch Castle, Dingwall, for the season. Britain Has Borne Burden . Of the Famine in Austria A despatch from London says: Premier Lloyd George, replying to, questions ,in the House of Commons, said he saw no hope of amelioration in the economic situation of Vienna with- out the help of the United States. The British had already given aid to the Viennese Government amounting to three;: and one-half million pounds sterling, but the Premier .announced that Great Britain did not intend to bear the greater part of the burden of the famine in that country. • '1 he live lady men)bsrs of the Canadian Council of Agriculture, an or- ganization which is doing much to shape the future policy of Farmers' or- ganieations in Canada. The photograph was taken at the Winnipeg ponven- tion: Back row: Miss Mabel Finch, Mrs. S. S. Wood, Miss Mary 14IoCal- lum; sitting: sirs. John McNaughton, Mrs. Geo. Brodie. You 1,; MUSTa CNA. TO It,. SEE HE- LOVE Tp - • {T JUST LOOK. bAU4HTER HAS PICitErO car TH1= m/;os`r STYLH 15 •.AL HERE i0 TALK TO. 1- BRING G UP FATHER * E CER'rAl - L-`( KNOWS Maw 'TO 4Er IN WlTI1 SOCIETY Fpl_ICS • '/ l.( •tSyT `fou CAN'T PICK.O(.!'I' C!_iNSSY MEN TO <d wiTi- FOW OUT WHO -CHAT GIRL'S FATSIER IS Ase CUL-fry/cite 11 i -i 5 ACQUAINTANCE • 11 in ne cap human' life," fixes the Worth of` the individual at figures ranging from 32,020 in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Japan, Roumania, Serbia and several other countries, up to 34,720 for the United States, where the economic worth of the individual to the nation is placed at the highest. An additional $33,351,000,000 is :allowed for civilian losses. Although many of the latter were of children and old persons, the estimate given for the civilian loss is believed to be conserva- tive. The number of known dead is placed at 9,998,771, and the missing presumed to be dead at 2,991,800. To the losses from death and wounds there is added "those resulting from disease, pesti- lence, privation, hardship, physical ex- haustion and similar 'causes." it First Party of Women Settlers For Canada A despatch from London says: -In a dismal rain, but in splendid spirits, the first official party of British wo- men settlers under the Dominion Gov- ernment scheme left Euston on Thurs- day morning for the Canadian land of promise and hard work. Others from all parts of the British Isles joined them at Liverpool, bring- ing the number to seventy-five. A hardier, healthier seventy-five lot of girls never left this land before. All have worn uniform, and are under no illusion that life consists entirely of ehifi'on and sugarcake. The Canadian housewives who se- cure the help of these eager pioneers must be prepared to welcome vigorous young women who have contracted the awful habit of work. Every one in this pilgrim band wears a hopeful spray of maple leaves on her badge. When Water Talks. "Katie," one of the moat wonderful Inventions exhibited at the recent ship- ping engineering exhibition in London, is Iikely to prove the most valuable aid to sea captains and navigators yet discovered. "Katie" is the name given to the invention of an engineer, by which he makes water talk. It is an automatic float, with a sen- sitive depth -finding mechanism con- nected telephonically, and is placed on the sur'face of the water. Another delicate instrument rests on ,the bot- tom, with a wire connection. When an engineer wants to know the depth of water at a particular spot he rings up "Katie" on the 'phone and she tells him the exact•depth. She speaks in soft, jerky buzzes in the manner of the Morse code, and when. she gets out of her depth she stutters. If the current is too strong she becomes speechless, "Katie" will also warn a captain how much water has got into the hold or the engine - room after a collision. • The floating ship's safe is another wonderful invention. It automatically casts itself adrift from a sinking ship, and will send- up a distress signal every. hour for twelve hours. A sound signal is also given, and. it will burn a light at night for three months, Niagara -on -the -Lake Has Won Forty -Seven Cre'is • Niagara -on -the -Lake passed its mil- lion mark and has 47 crests on its flag, making a record of 1,203,3 of its ob- jective. Its total buyings were 31,099,- 300. ��_...-e_ _. *gip 43. /1/,4. ?HAT'S / MC)OIZE`S 43- DAU4HT1C ,,,11111] tri 9 •„ ENGLAND. i Lord Joleoy has given Morpeth Town Hall as a gift to the borough council. Lord Redesdale has been driving a, motor lorry loaded witif churns from London to Oxford, Sir F. Beauchamp, of Camerton, Somerset, has purchased the Canter - ton Court estate. An explosion in an R.A.F. motor launch at Poole- caused the death of Sergt. 'Thomas Bunting. The new mayor of Windsor is W. Fairbank, M,V,O„ , surgeon to the Royal household, Windsor Castle. ,, One of the voluntary helpers at lea` dington Station during the strike avi s Sir• Charles Sust, equerry to the King. Railwaymen who are members of the Bradford Co-operative Society will be supplied goods on a week's credit. The Bishop of London presided at.a nneeting of the Waifs and Strays Society, held in Leicester on October 14th. The death is announced in the Royal Berkshire Hospital, at Reacting, of William Henry Mooney, secretary of 73radfield 'College, The death ' took place at Carlisle Station, while travelling in q,, train from Glasgow to London, of .4:s. Ag- nes Young Drummond, of Barrow. A license' for a slaughterhouse for the purpose of killing horses for con- sumption abroad, has been refused by • the East Ham Health Committee, Bishop Gore has dedicated a win= dow in the parish church, High Wye- com.bc, in memory of three sons of the Bishop of Buckingham, killed in the war. An open market has been set up in Brook Street, Holborn, by the,.Hol- born branch of the National Fdera- tion of Demobilized Soldiers and Sailors. A Motor -Cycle Charge. That the infantry did not monopo- lize all the thrills in the war is proven • by Capt. A. P. Corcoran in his book, The Daredevil of the Army, from which the following incident in the life of a dispatch rider with the Bri- tish is taken. He had reached.a cross- roads on his way from Landrecies. To . the right was the turn for home. lis motor cycle took the curve itt a a gerous angle, and as he once more swept into the level, he raised his head to scan the new road. He was looking for his fellow rider, but at a distance of not more than a hundred yards he saw six mounted uhlans. There was no time to turn; the speed of the motor cycle decided that. There was little time to think. Would he surrender? That aright insure his life, but the idea of a German prison dd not entice hint. He was going about sixty miles an hour. Throwing open the. throttle of his machine, he sent his speed up another five miles. He could see the uhlans fingering their_ carbines; one of them, probably a sergeant, was shouting an order to the others --they were stretching in a line across the road. Taking one hand from the handlebars, he. drew Ms re- volver. Twenty-five yards away the two centre uhlans were taking aim at his head. With a sudden jerk he drew himself erect in his saddle and thea,. suddenly Iet his body fall along the top of his tank, at the same time fir- ing his revolver. He heard their bul' lets whiz by him, but he had .spoiled their aim. He saw one man topple over. ` Another's horse reared . and cane down with a crash on the two uhlans on the left, As the dispatch rider shot through the broken line, he sent two more bullets point -black at the men on his right and tore past, a dark streak on the dusty highway. Crouching over his handlebars, muscles taut, nerves quivering, he strained his ears for sounds that might indicate pursuit. They came. He could hear the pounding of horses' hoofs on the hard road, but no cen- taur could have caught up with his motor cycle. Whiz! Another bullet shot past his ear. He crouched still lower on tiffs saddle, and was soon well out of rang. :o-. Breeding Insects. It is no trouble at all to breetn- sects of any kind. All that is required is suitable temperature and a supply of the kind. of food preFE.rred by the bug. Most insects feed on plants. It is a question then of providing a closed re- ceptacle containing the proper food plant --as for exaihplc, tomato leaves for thl tomato worm. • A growing plant may be.used. Grain weevils will breed in a jar with the sort or cereal pro- vender they like. Economic entomologists make a. business of breeding the bugs in which they may happen to be spechally in• terested. In this way they study their life history and, what is very impor- tpnt, they identify their parasites ---- the insects that customarily prey upon them. For the parasites breed along with the "hosts." "A small ship launched upon en known sea, sea, A small seed planted by an unknown tree: Such is this strange new year to you and me: Whither the' eseta gocth, And how the tree upgroweth, Gocl only kuoweth: But sail the ship, and plant the •seed,'• What is done; n'gaith Is'cione indeed." M:. , icp r