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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-3-27, Page 3THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade C 't/res. Toronto, March 25,-, Vhectle—No. 1 ' Manitoba herd Offer e 'at 86c on • route, North Bay; lo. I. Northern • offered at 82les ee oouI.o, North Bay, • With 82e bid; No. 2 'ertitern at 78ee ee route N.B., tvith 'Teo bid. On - tare), No, 2 red were or, 70c bid, mid- dle freight, i Withot ' offerings, No, 2 • i white offered at 7, e oast on without bids, , 1 spriug, 72e bid east on e . '1'. 2, without sellers. No, epring offer- ed e e 78.10 Ger It., withont bids. NO. 2 goose offer° 1 at 67e middle freight on (Jleile Ny1111011( 1)1(18. Davley.—No. 8 1.' eered at 50ee out, - Bide, wit 11014 ble e 1'c—No, '2,o erect at 81e high. freight. Pacific), ,e. Oate.—No• 2 'erwhite offered at 4.24e in buyers' sitelck .,,, low freight to New York, with 4.2:7(, . eke eml 0110 ea,e eold at 42c. 4'100, 2 offered at 41S, IOW freight ..roilb N. er., now shipped with 40le '• ' id. Two cars of No. 3 White seed ; ' o ;etc on a 14ec rate to Now Voriv 1 five ears then offered. at 40ec oa 1e e„. •. ea. rale. A bid of 43e 011 track 11011ei. 't, was made for No. 3 white, ' Corn. -1 011taid(', AN\ offered at ' Rye—Ne T. R., ine without lthoiit bids. 1)- . 2 yellow offered at 574c all 57c bid. ,No. 2 miked 57c outsicle, With 56e bid. . 2 offered at 56ec on G. uldie freight, nova shipped, Ids. ..OUNTRY PRODUCE. 11 Apples—The market is quiet, 1 small lots jobbing at. 6e; roued s bring Sic per 12. Evaporated, to 10 e c. Hops—Ii 851 11888 quiet:- with prices steady al; 18e; yearlings at 8c. • 1Toney--The market is steady at 9e to 30c for stvained. Combs, $1.15 to $2.25 );)er dozen, Maple Syrup—Otte-gallon tins, 95c to .51; small packages, $1.05 to $1,15 per gallon (imperial). Sugar, 9 to ltic per lb., as to quality, Deans -e -The market is quiet. Prices 51.10 -to 51.80 per bush. as to qual- ity. Handpicked. 51,85 to 51.40, Cranberries — Market unchanged, with stocks small. Cape Cod, 59.50 to 810 per barrel. Onions—Market seemly nt $2.50 to $3 per barrel. Ilay, bttlecl—The market is firm, with good demand. Timothy quoted at $10.50 to 511 on truck, Toronto, for No. 1, and at 59 to 59.25 for No, 2. Straw—The market is quiet.: Car lots 011 traek quoted at 55.75 to 56 the latter for No. 3. Poultry — Offerings limited, and priees firm. We quote--leresh killed turkeys, 124 to 1e0 per lb; cbickeas, 70c to 51. Potatoes—In cox lots on track, 62 to 67c pr bag, according to quali- ty. Small lots, out of store, bring 75c pev bag. Tlefle DAIRY MARKETS. Butter—There is it fair trade, with receipts of choice que titles 01111 small. We quote as follows:--Choiee 1-12 prints, 19 to 20c; choice large rolls, 17. to 17e0; secondary grades, In rolls, 36 to 16e; low grades, 12 to 13c; creamery prints, 22 to 28c; do., solids, 21 to 221e. Eggs—The market ihm, with seles at 131 to lec per dozen in CaSe lots. Leteese—The market rules firm at; 11 to nee per lb., the latter for choice Septembers. , IlOOS AND PROVISIONS. Dressed hogs ere nominal, with few offering, and little demand for ear - loads. Hog prochiets in fair demand and steady. We quote:—.13acon, long clear, 10 to 104c, in ton and case lots. Mess Pork, 819.50 to 530; do„ 'short cut, 521.50. Smoked Meate—Hams, 14 to 18c; breakfast bacon, 14 to :14c; rolls, 11e; backs, 13e to 14c, and should- ovs, 'flee. Lard --The market is -unchanged, We (motet—Tierces, 11c; tubs, Ilec; palls, ilea to 11e; compound, 9 to UNITED S'l'ATES MARKETS, Buffalo, breech 25.—te1our -- Quiet and easy. Wheat, --Spring active; No. Northeim spot, 78e; No. 2 red, 85ec. Cora—Weak; No. 2 yellow, 33)c; No. 8 do., 65c; No. 2 .corn, 65; No. 8 do., 64eee. Oals--Steciffiee No. 2 white, 50c; Eo. :3 do., 491c; No. 2 mixer], 47e: to 47ec; No. 3 doe 461c to 47c. DarleY—Spot, 680 Rye leo. 1, Clete Duluth, March 25.—Wheat closecl— Ceuth, No. 1 hard, 74;c: No, 3. Nor- thern, 71;c; No, 9 Notahern, 692c; Bitty, 721e; July, 78;c; Manitoba, No. 3. Northern, cash, 701c; May-, 71; No, 2 Northern, 67ec, Oats— elc. Corn -60,c. Milwaukee, Afar. 25, closed—Lower; No, 1 Northern, 75 to 751c; No. Q. Northern, 74 to 7410; May, 74ec. leye—Steady; No. I, 60c, Barley— Firm; No, 2, 65lee. Minneapolis, 'Meech 25. — Wheat closed—Ditty. 71c; July, 791e; on track, eTel. 1 hnrcl, 711,1e; go. 3. Nor- thern, 74 to 72;c; No, 2 Northern, 701c. Flour—First pateuts, 58.80 to 58,90; second patents, $3.70 to 58,80; fIrst clears,' 52.50 to 52,55; second clears, $2.20 to 52,25. Bran— In bulk towel', 518. Detroh, March 25.—Wheat-0losed 71c; white cash, 834c; No. 2 red cash, Mny, 82e; July, 78.1c. St, Louls, March 25,—C1oeed)— W1(eitt—Cash, 814c; July, 80,1c: Sep- tember, 73 LIVE STOCK lrATMITYV, 'Throne°, 111110011 25.e -At the West: ern cattle yaetis to -day the reeripts WM' 56 carloads of iive etock, in - 01 0 i lig 1,000 cattle, 1,000 hogs, 400 sheep and lambe, 30 calvee, 16 1)111011 COWS, end 2-1 • spring lambs. The qeotatiens rm. wad's at good te choice butcher cattle Were from 4; to eee per peund, with from au eighth to a, quarter More paid occa- sionally for cetera mime lots. Clood feeders are worth fie= 4 to 4ee per pound, with a frantion move foe choice MAIM Both .feedeve end stoelcers are in fair request, :Following is the reuge of quota - 110118:— • Cattle. Shippers, per 0101,,, „..$4.60 55.50 3/0., light 4.25 4.50 ilutcher, choice,. .....,4.50 5.00 Butcher, or(1, te good, 3,50 4,00 Jillechee, inferior— 3,00 3.35 Stockers, per owl, 3.00 8.70 Sheep and Lambe, Cholee wee, per cwt.,.$,5� 4.00 Yearlings, per ewt 4,50 5,60 Sprang lambs, each .,, 3.50 6.00 Bucks.. . 2,50 ;3,25 Milke;:s and Calves. COWS, earl) e. 45.00 Ctelves, each,„ „, ,„ 2.00 10.00 Hogs. Choose hogs, Pee ewt. 5.75 6.00 Light' hogs, per cwt5.50 5,75 Heavy hogs, pee cwt, 5.50 5,75 Sows, pee cwt., 8.50 4,00 • Stags, pee cwt .,„...„ 0.00 2.00 4 SITUATION NEVER BETTER. Delarey's Recent Successes Were Unimportant. Tito correePonclent of the London Daily Mall wires :—Although X am unable to give, for obvious reasons, exact details regarding the present operations of the troops in the field, I am glad to say that the situation is now more hopeful than it ever was before. "Willi a thoroughness and zeal whicit are most achuirable, the eol- unins 'operating newt:II-oast of • the Orange River are systematically clearing the country of the strongest centres of 13oer resistance. "Much operations, however, re- quire an enormous number of troops, and it is II tribute to Lord Mt- ehener's Strength ,..that, in spite of general Delarey's recent successes, the columns operating against Oen- eral De Wet have not been: weakened by a, einglo man, "It must 1313 remembered that in conducting a war within so vast an area the nuinber of troopl has never been eufricient, a fact Which fele peo- ple at home realize. An army of a million men would not be exceSeiVe. Nor must the fact be lost sight of that our recent successes in. Orange Colony, while owing much to the dash, zeal, and wiedom of the driv- ing columns, are the reeult of long, hard, and patient work, which has now been strildngly rewarded. The capture of guns by General Delarey is unimportant, at this stage of the war. The Boas seldom find use for captured guns—witness General De Wet's captures at Zweifontein, Oen- eral Botha's at Brakenlaagte, and the seizures near the 'Bloemfontein water works last September. A battery of guns would be less use- ful to the Boer than a few -thousand rounds of aramunition. "The heavy rains 18111011 hare re- cently fallen indicate an cierly and severe winter, which is always a fac- tor, and local farmers say that the veldt fires, which will destroy the only available 13oer forage, • must, owing to the present condition of tho veldt, be severe.” AN IRISH RESOLUTION. 33oard of Guardians Congratulate Hruger. A London despatch says :—The feeling in Ireland is well illustrated by a resolutioe now on its way. to Mr. Kruger, "core of Queen Wit- 1101101nm," adopted on Wednesday by the Edenderry (King's County) guardians, an elective body, as fol- lows :— "We desire to record our admira- tion of the magnificent stand the brave South African Republics have made agaiest the colossal might of the British Empire, and to con- gratulate the humane Boer leader, Delarey, cm his recent great victory, whieh riot only covers England with disgrace and ridicule, a result em- inently gratifying to the rest of the civilized world, but which mus1 have a _chastening effect on the jingoes of the greatest helot empire the world has ever seem" GETS ANONYMOUS LETTERS. British Consul at ‚New Orleans Asks Protection. A New Orleans, La., despatch stters :—Geovga Van Sittaet, British 0011$1.11 at New Orleans, who.declares his life and propevty (WC in danger from. the Boers and Boer eympathiz- ere 111 the city, and has 'appealed to the Mayor and police for protection, says anonymous letters have grown much more numerous and threaten- ing of late, and that daegeroue and suspicions 111811 constantly stand around his Consulcir office, as well tts his house, contemplatiog, lie be- lieves, an attack on him. Chief of Police Joureeo has pro- mised to inveetigate, and if there are any good pounds for Mr, Van Fitt - art's fear the request fox protection will be granied. Police protection has bon recently granted the British mule stellons here, at the requent of the British officers and Secvetary of State Hay, AFRICAN MEAT SUPPLY. Great Scarcity Expected in the Future, The London Standard's Pretoria coreespondent, reviewitag the pros - wets in South Africa, says the ques- tion of the re -stocking of the new colonies is a very serious o»e. The South African.' Cold -storage agents killed foe the use of the troops be - 118008. jelly, 31)0(1, antl June, 3001, no fewer than 134,000 cattle and 544,000 sheep. No figures; are given foe the previous 1)1(10 (100 for the last, Seen moans, nor arty record foe Natal. The loss in cattle to South Africa through the war can- not, however, lutve been 1080 -than 250,000, and of sheep teeer a mil - lien, Beeeding cattle Weretet om) time killed by the thorieand, so that oxen might be saved foe transport puepcisce. For many years to COMO 8011th AfriCa. Will be almost wholly dependent upon cold -storage for its meat, supplies. THE DOWINION PAHLIAWENT, NOTES OF ,PROGEEPINGS IN 1P4=1LAL 3.'3.0115. Pit:WA:TS DILLS. The following' private bine Were read a seeOnd tilne and referred to the proper committees. To encorporete the Niplesing and OtteWa Railway C,o, . To incorporate the 131'itIsh Celume bla and 'Yukon Railway Company. To incorporate the Spragues lealis Manufacturing Co., Limited, To incorporate the St. Lawrenee and Northern Railway Go., ' PILLS nialtopuemp. The following Dills were Introduo, To incorporate the Strait of Can- so Bridge 00.-131'. McLennan. To incorporate the Canadian Man- ufacturers' Association,—Mr. Flint. To incorpovate the Montreal and St.- Lawrence Bridge Co.—Mr. Goof- frioa,01.1.00,11er on the Commissioner of Patents cevealn powers for the relief of John Weston.—Mr, Flint. Respecting the Niagara, St. Cath- arines and Toronto Railway Com- pany.—Mr. Logan, To incorporate the Dyment Bank - Mg Loan and Savings Co,—Mr, Thompson. 1'11E1 G HT RATES, Mr. Kemp asked when the House might expect the eeport prepared by Prot. McLean, with respect to freight rats. Mr, Blair replied that it was now being printed, and it would be ready 8011/0 day next week. REGINA LAW LIBRARY. The bill relating to the Regina Law Library was read a third time and Passed. The object is to relieve the Dominion- Government from the obligation of maintaining the lib- rary, and to hand it over to the Bar A.ssociations of the Territories. CANADA SOTJTelleRN. At the Railway Committee the Canada, Southern Railway -bill ask- ing for an extension of time for the construction of certain branches for live years to begin work and ten to complete was changed on the agree- ment of Colonel Thompson, Maldi- mated, to three years to begiri and five to complete. The 2111 was then adopted. ' TI1E YEAR'S FINANCE. In his budget epeech Mr. Fielding pointed out that the receipts on con- solidate& revenue account amounted to 552,514,701, while the expendi- ture was 546,866,367, leaving a sur- plus of 55,648,384. The capital ex- penditure for the year had been 57,- 695,488, and, adding to this su10. certain special expenditures, which were also classed under the same head, it gave a total of 511,116,- 498, or an increase of $1,374,811. The aggregate expenditure of all kinds was 557,982,866, being an In- crease of 55,265,899. The total net debt on June 30111 was $268,480,- 000, /01 increase of 52,986,000 over the previous year. The average in - 0001100 for the past five years had been $1,996,514, as agailiSt an (1100" 8.30 for the eighteen years of Con- servative. rule of 56,563,075. Mr. Fielding enumerated the increases of revenue -under the several heads which had taken place during the year, in- cluding 523e,969 from 'postollice re- ceipts. The deficit in that depart- ment had been veey materially re- duced, and ' the postoilice returns fen the Current year indicated the next budget would disclose even more satisfactory results. For the eight months of the present year the re- ceipts had been 53,179,981, as against 52,900,128 for the corres- ponding period of the Ir0ld01.15 year, and 52,046,51.3 for the correspond- ing period of 1898. Since the last- mentioned year the domestic rate of postage had been reduced from 3 cents to 2 cents, and the Imperial rate from 5 cents to 2 cents, not- withstanding which the betteemene 1113011 the operations of the last eight, niontils waS OVer 5200,000. The to - till net surplus for the past five years had been 53.6,748,357, and the average during the same period 5:3,- 848,70e. For the eighteen years of ConservatiV0 l'ule the surpluses amounted to 527.809,861, and the total deficits 51 8,060,648, leaving 59,801,718 as the total net surplus foe that period, or an avevage of 5554,539. For tho current year tip to March 1.0111 (110 revenue anlounted to 538,047,685, and he estimated that at the close of the year the to- ta1 revenue would amount (0 356.- 800,000, as against an actual rev- einle last year of 552,514,701, so that the probable increase for the year would be 52,285,298. Theta hate been expended for the current year up to :March 10111. 880,1813,502, and, taking M10 [(Muni( Met year's expenditure, and allowing for a con- siclerable 1110001184 this year, he anti- cipated the total when the twelve moilths closed would be 551,000,000, or 54,133,689 in advaece of last year's expenditure on consoliditted account, lie expected the surplus tO be 55,800,000. THE CAPITAL EXPENDITURE,. The capttal expeacieure would 131: exceptionally large, and he expected 11. to tottil 514,250,000. This would include railway subsidies, iron and steel bouneies amounting to &tont. $700,000, Which Were ror the first time chargeable to capital (=mutt, and large Muria for improving the equipment of the Intercolonial ond for transportation, and $950,000 for certain awards dealt with Mat session, The addition to the public debt at the end of the year would therefore 'Emmet to close upon 56,- 000,000, aa against 55,490,000 dur- ing the last yeor of Conservative rule. The aveeage animal nffilition to the nubile debt would then emotent to 52,798,000 as against 56,- 156/3,1100 during the Consevvittive re- gime. Mr. Fielding then gave nom to show that 111 the per- iod from 1 885 to 1890 only ill per rent, of the rapt- tal charges was peid for out of re- venue, and from 1801 to 1.898 only 3)15 por cont. was se Paid, lorom 1897 10 1902, howeeer—assuming bis estimate of the result of the pre- eent yeer'e operetioue to be correct —the Government would have pro- vided fur =ORM and special elnergee out of reveime to the Oetent of '73. pee cent, As to the next fiscal 7041' beginning on July 1, Me Fielding saw no indieations thet prosperity would not eontinue. Notwithstand- ing that the Government heel been ablo to meet the large (melte' and special expenditures imposed ttean It, recourse had been had to.tempor.. ary loans, aggregating aboet41,- 250,000: Reeving regard to tbis and loanWelch would shortly mature, the Goveremenl) would shortly have to go upon the niterket as borrowers, Whether this would be doeie during the present) yeer, or next yenta, when the loam' matured, would be deter- mined later; CATTLE GUARDS. the ilrst time la ew committee the n rouTolite. Railway Committee met Tor . Mr. Lameaster'e bill adds to the Railway Act it clause that no ani- mals Met allowed by law 10 run. at lareo shall be held for the purpose of such liability to be improperly in a piece adjoining the railway, if such animal gets upon the railway from the higliwaY by reason of ones- eion or neglect to mobil:0111 such cattle guards or fences at the high- way cvoesing. Mr, Lancaster said the 011,15, and G.T.R. wore required undev American law to provide cat- tle guards, aml they should not ab-' 3001. to do as much for Canadian as for American farmers, There was a lively discussion, the friends of railentys tend fiumers alike aseeeting themselves with vigor. Re- presentatives of municipalities, of the railways, and of the . railway employees wove present. 'In trio course of the discussion it was stat- ed that the number of railway men injured on the railway during the Past year was 971, and there were 3.3.8 killed, The railway argument was that the bit1 was not calculated to safeguard the lives of travellers and railway employees, and that 'it was in effect a premium to farmers to get their cattle killed at good prices. (Cries of "Ole 1 01) 1") It wets as much to the interest of the railways as to anyone to secure the safety of the travelling public. EMIGRATION ARRANGEIVfENTS, James Smart, Deputy Minister of the Interior, gave evidence before the House Committee on Agriculture and Colonization regarding the reorgan- ization of the Canadian emigration agencies in tho United Kingdom and Europe. The head office In Londou is to be removed from the oflice of the High Commiseioner to 11. more cenlral lo- cation, where a display will be kept up of Canadian products. Under' the High Commissioner, Mr, W. T. R. Preston will have charge of all the British agencies and the agen- cies in Eurcipc, reporting directly to the department at Ottawa. In Ireland the agency in Ulster is placed ia charge of Mr. O'K.elly, With headquarters in Belfast. The Dublin agency will remain in charge of Mr, Devlin. The head office for Scotland will be at Glasgow, in charge of Mr. Murray. Twenty-eight local agents will be located in every central district. These agents aro to be paid by a commission of 17 shillings per head on all hmnigrants they secure over twelve years of age. Mr. Grant's services in Scotland have been dispensed with. The chief office for the West of England will henceforth be at Maine chester instead of Liverpool. Front his observations while in the Old Country, Mr. Smart is of opin- ion that the British Isles are still the most promising source of settlers for the Dominion. CLIMATE, OE CANADA. Col, Hughes/ called attention to an alleged statement by Hon. Joseph Chamberlain regarding the "terrible Cliniath of Canada." Mr. Fielding said that all the Gov- ernment knew 111)0111 the mutter was the report in the public press. They were of the opinion that there was Some clerical error, but if Mr. Cham- berlain really held these views the best Way to disabuse him would be to send the Canadian lady teachers to call on him on their Way to South 'i 03 0 LocusTs. Before the Committee of Agricul- ture end Colonization Prof. Fletcher, Entomologist and Botanist, at the Experimental Earm, stated that it had been discovered that horse man- ure and Paris green were the most efficaelotis remedy yet used to pro- tect wheat fields In Manitobe from the ravages of the locusts. ' As an example of the necessity for prompt mensures being, taken by owners of orchards against the San Jose scale, Pool. Pletcher cited the case of an °minted of 20,000 trees, the owner of Which negleeLed to take a0 - Live illeaSureS When CM pest first ap- peared a few years ago. Whon. he visited it last fall every tree was af- fected and nasally teem dead, Whale oil or seep, crude petroleum. and. fumigation 181111 hydrocyanic gas wove the three remediee which Prof- Fletchev regarded as most efficacious. lileBATES PAM LAST YEAR, -Rebates were pai0 to agriculltn•al implement manufeetturers last year on account of exports from. Canada, tte followe:—Massey-Harris Com- pany, Toronto, $10,781; Verity Plow Company, 58,1 65; Noxon 13108., gersell, 51,361; Mahn Alanufactur- log Company:, Brockville, $265; Hamilton Manufateturing Company, Peterborough, $6. CANADA TEMPERANCE ACT. Me, Flint introduced a bill "to amend the Cenada Temperance Act, and Acts in amendment thereof." Mr, Charlton agreed to second it, and the bill was given its tirst eead- ing. Mr, :Flint promised to explain the ammo of the measure the next Hew it 0011101; up. Wages at the vate of 14s. a (ley are eonsideeed inetifficient by car- penters and joinees at Pieeermaritz- berg, Natal, They Want 168. NO CHANGE IN POLE1 ICING EDWARD leeARES PLAIN 1613,3TAIhr S ATTITUDE. Deplore Oenditiens in South Afriea, But Sys They Are Necessary, The ancient proverbial query, "Can the leopard change Ids spots ?" ap- plies to the present polithed situa- tion. The question arises front the various rumors affecting the policy of the :King in South Africa, and the continuation in power of the Tory 81170 e recent London It, is only those for whom the wish is father to the thought who affect to see signs of a change. Thettgh the Cecil family, who are now 111 the saddle, may be dismonnted, their euccessors In office will still be im- perialists and advoeates of the crush- ing out policy against the Boers. NO BACKWARD STEP. Whether the next premier be the Dulce of Devonshiee or Earl Rose- bery, Balfour or Chamberlain, no backward step is considered pro- bable, The Staiee once controlled by Kruger and Stcyn are noW parts of the 338111011 empire, and the dictum "to have and to hold" must con- tinue to be the' policy of British Mialsters, if, with popular feeling unchanged, they' expect to remain in office, It is evident that the people, par- liament and the colonies stand to- gether on this issue, mid the indica- tions are that should a general elec. tion be called to -morrow iinperial- ism and all that it means—.war, bloodshed and ruinous expenditures —would receive popular approval. WOLSELEY STORY SCOUTED. In ministerial circles sneering ex- pressions are made to answer the re- ports that Field Marshal Wolseley goes to the Cape as the King's en- voy, to./ook over the field and re - Port on peace measures. King Ed- ward is hardly the man to employ on such a mission what the cabinet clientele calls a discredited soldier. Much as Edward desires to have the empire at peace at the time of his coronation, be hesitates to flout his ministers by IntraSting to the former comme.nder-in-chief any mis- sion that carries with it a reflection on the Salisbury Government. The situation is teo delicate for active or exasperating endeavor, and Ed- ward will hardly invite It 'Conflict of policy with his official advisers, PERIL IN OTHER QUARTERS. Moreover, the conditions abroad aro lowering and inflammable, China, Turkey, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Persia demand unremitting dip- lomatic attention, and the king is wise enough to discern that political strife at home is perilous while the powers, though openly declaring cor- diality of feeling, are still menacieg- ly alert in watching for any happen. ing that might embroil the empire. Recurring to Wolseley's trip, it cam be said that unless King Edward has had a remarkable change of heart within the last few weeks, he, too, firmly stands agaiust conces- sion to the Boers. Recently the Free Masons of Switzerland, through the Alpine Lodge at Zurich, petitioned the British ruler in a fraternal mes- sage to the London lodge for aboli- tion of the concentration camps and for better treatment of the Boers. The leiter went to the English Grand Lodge, of which the Duke of Connaught is now Master, and the Duke held a conference with the King on the subject. ROYAL REPLY TO MASONS. After mature consideration Xiug Edward, whose fraternal title is Pa- tron of BriUsh Free kfasons,eorderect an exhaustive reply to be drawn up. This reply received his official sanc- tion, and it carried additional weight from the fact that it was his first public declaration on the South African War. The letter declaxed that the British had not violated the laws of war ; that the Boers theniSelves bad creat- ed the necessity for the conventra- tion camps ; that the mortality, while deplorable, was something for which Britain could not be held re- sponsible; that i1 is the principle and tho right in war that an enemy should be deprived of all means of subsistence, anti that it was an honor to Great Britain not to have abandoned the Boers to the horrors of famine. DEFENCE 0:0` THE Altletle. The letter further deplorecl the so - call malicious reports affecting Britian that prevailed throughout the continent, Justified the war in general and defended the British army from the reproach of cruelty. While the Swiss Dfascms were shocked at this royal letter, the mis- sive showed clearly the attitude of King Edward, and 1( 114 has changed his tailed in regard to making con- cessions to the fighting burghers it may be set, doern as a wouderful re- vulsion In feeling, +-- LEARNING HOW TO FARM. Students at Guelph From All Cor- ners of the Earth. The annual report of the Ontario Agricultural College at Otielplx has just been issued, aml howe that 281 students were registered for the geneval course last yoor, SO la tho dairy course and 22 ill the 8(1001111 18118' course, For the three short courses, stock judging, poUllry rais- ing, and domestic science, 1314 ad- ditional students were regietered. The average of age was twenty years, atul the gamut ran from 16 to 85 years. In the general course 222 students come from the Provence Of OutOvio (4.8 colinties being '1'8p('0- 80,11811), 27 from the other provinces of the 00113111100, 7 from England, 3 from Jamaica, e from the United States, 14 front tile Argentitie lie- mailir, one each from Asia Minor, 148111Inral, etheiritins, told Swericei. leiglay of the Ontario seudents on the roll in 31)1)1 were sent, to the collegn as itominees of 9011111.7 Coun- cils, which, muter the At, have the right lo send to the rollege, free of 1,11111011 fees, one nominee each year. Telegraphic Briefs Prohl All Over the Globe. CANADA. Premier Roblin, of Manitoba, is ill. Londo11 carpenters ask for a mini- mum wage rate of 25 cents an hour, Sir Wilfrid and Lady Laurier sail from Now York June 14, to attend the coronation,. The new C.P.R, car shops in the 70110..t.Lend of Montreal will employ 7,000 men 110(1 their capacity will reach 25 cars a day and 75 engines a. y It is reported that a syndicate of Canadian and American capitalists is being formed at Philadelphie for the purpose of conducting a steel works at Ottawa. .6. youth, notieing a broken rail while svalking the track near Hali- fax, flagged the St, john express with a lighted newspaper, prevent- ing' a disaster. The Malleable Iron works of Mont- real will remove to Ottawa if a bonus is granted and an exemption from taxes given, Three hundred hands are employed. Brantford bas selected Hamilton McCarthy's design for the memorial to the fallen in South Africa. The monument will be 19 feet high, sur- mounted by the figure of a soldier in khaki. The management at the Canadian Pacific Railway have about com- pleted their arrangements for run- ning their fast train from Montreal to Vancouver. The distance is 2,- 7006muillses, and will be travelled in 2ho The Trans -Canada Railway Com- pany has been organized, with a cap- ital of 520,000,000. It has been formed for the construction of (11(111 - road from Quebec to the Pacific via James' Bay. Capitalists of London New York, Boston, Montreal, Ot- tawa and Quelsec are interested. An unfortunate affair occurred at Stratford, when Rev. Father Walsh, who has been in poor health for some time ancl whose mind is said to be affected, met a couple of young ladies in. the street after night, or- dered them home, and struck them with his cane. GREAT BRITAIN King Edward's proposed visit to the RiViera has been abandoned. The Cunard Line is building a new ship to compete for tho Boston At- lantic trade. Mr. Balfour's friends are urging him to take a month's holiday abroad to recruit his heuelth. London doctors have never been so busy as at the present since 1889, owing to the influenza, epidemic. Lancashire weavers will sen0 a de- putation to America to see the work- ing of the Northrop loom. Two Imperial seals esod by the Empress Dowager of China were sold by auction in London for £200. Lord Chaanberhtin has secured the whole of the 13uckingham Palace Hotel for the accommodation of cor- onation guests. Rifle clubs are springing up ail over England ns a result of Mr. As- tor's gift of 550,000 to the Nation- al Rifle Association. Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago promotor, has concluded a deal in London giving him oontrol of four different underground railroads. The British. Admiralty has con- tracted with various shipbuilding companies for the construction of ilve first-class and two third-class cruisers and two battleships. Henry Copeland, agent -general for New South Wales, says that the of- fers made by the Austreeian breeders for remounts for the British mount- ed infantry in South Africa at an average of 560 a head, was deliber- ately tamed down by the Govern- ment, and English and American horses purchased at $125. The charge has made a sensation in Lon- don. . UNITED STATES. Dir. T. Sage, ninety-six years old, of Eldora, 3a., is seeiously ill from whooping cough. Wm. F. Cody, "Buffalo 13111" will colouize 5,000 Swedes in the I3ig Horn Valley, at Wyoming. A company with a capital of 510,- 000,000 is being formed. at NOV York to promote 1110 Marconi sys- tem of wireless telegraphy. Rather than submit to the noisier of vaccine 100 machinists of the Chi- cago' Great Western shops at St. Paul,, Minn., went out on strike. The Coachmen's Union, of Tren- ton, 11,.7., has decided not, to drive at Sunday funerals, In this Move they have the support of all. the un- dertakers of the city but one. The local secretavy of the Iron Molders' Unioa, who ere striking in York, Pe., has been orrested for placing ciertridges in the molds at one of the foundries, The present rush to South -Western Alaska, and Klondike districts bids fair to be outdone by the great movehteut to the gold camps at Cape Nome during the spring. Mr. Prattle P. Sargent, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive loiremee, has bee11, offered the position of 'United 'States Commissioner of :Im- migration ia succession to Mr, Pow derly. Adam Datmenberger Waa 1 mind dead at Springfield, 1)1., from heart fail- ure. Three months ago his son Walter was burned to death, and previous to that his son Ielmer WEIS seriously shot over a love affair. OTeNTIMAL. Sixty students were arrested in Odessa recently. It is reported that the 7011113 1411)3 Alfonso of Spain is weak in mend. JJ 11011It WPM UNCLE BA I'(OW THE BUSY 74111li315I4 SPXINTPS_WX,M Seine Interesting Matters of Mot Meat end Mirth Gathered Peorn His Doitegs. SaMinerviile, S.C., 0113038e the (1151 1111itOle1r0Li1100zt itig IMO 5U11115U11111301'SUe 013)11 0,w This eeason the Maine woods have Yielded an albino moose, three oe four albino deer, and two Miro ale bio squirrabs. compaldes have fige tired that their losses by the remelt fire at Paterson will aot De less than 58,000,000. The highesb of the noted health ree sorts of California are in the San Jacinto Mountelns, at an eloyation of 8,000 and 0,000 feet. , Lake Superior is the deepest of the great lakes. Rs greatest (teeth. is 1,008 feet, and the lake le 1303, feet above the level of the sea.' National banks In Chicago hold larger amounts in deposit at the present time than they ever sheered before in their published statements, It is expected by the management of the New Jersey Central that about May lot hourly service bee tween New York and Philadelphia will be established. There are 10,000 men engaged in fishiug on the great lakes, and .the total capital invested is 56,000,000. The number of vessels engaged is 208, and of small boats 3,800, The contractor has done half the digging for the tunnel in New York at a cost of 518,750.000, and the engineers extent that the remainder of the excavating will be completed in thirteen months. Mrs. Charles M. Schwab, wife of the president of the 'United Seates Steel Gorporatioe, hes travelled ex- tensively, and has a large and valunble collection of miniaturee, 01 which she is an enthusiastic collec- tor. Mrs. Ityle, who preeented to Pater - S011 the building, destroyed in the receut fire, in which the public lib- rary was kept, has donated to the city 5100,000, to be used with the insurance money in the erection of a. new building. It is proposed to erect in connec- tion with the old St. Paul's Episco- pal church, Edinburgh, a ehapel of memorial to Dr. Seabury, the first Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, who attended services there when he was a sthdent In F,dinburgh. The latest statistics of the com- mon schools for colored children in the Unitect States aro ;—Negeo chil- dren of school age, 2,912,910; num- ber of these enrolled in schools, 1,- 511,618: average daily attendance, 969,011 ; ntunber of colored teach- ers, 28,560. A bronze tablet now marks the spot where the body of Prestdent McKinley ley in state in the city of Buffalo, in the lower corridor of the City Hall. The inscription on it is as follows :—"Here lay in state the body of William McKinley, President of the United States, September 1512, 1901." The nut -cracking industry of St. - Louis gives employment to over 1,- 500 people. The nut-erackers are • driven by electricity, each mit being, fed individually into the crusher. After the shells are cracked the nuts are winnowed by an air -blast and the went is picked from the crushed shells by hand. Owing to the depleted condition of the city treasury Chicago is threat- ened with an epidemic of typhoid fever. According to a recent bulletin of the Health Department there has been no sewer -flushing rain in the city since last October. In Novem- ber sewer -flushing was suspended for lack of funds, Of the eight locomotives building concerns in the United Stotes the most important is the Baldwin works at Philadelphia, which com- pleted the seventieth year of their existence last weelc. During this pe- riod the works tented out 20,000 locomotives. Last year, out of 8,- 600 locomotives built in tho Milted States, the Baldwins produced 1,- 440, or 40 per cent. of the *hole. OLD -AGE PENSIONS, Reading of 11111 111 British Houee of Commons. A. London despatch says :—The House of Commons to -day presented the second reading of the Aged Pen- sioeers' 33111 grantieg deserving poet.. persons a, pension of from live to eeven shillings weekly, at the age of 65. It is esthuated that. the sum of £10,000,000 will be required unwell- ly to pay the pension, the national exchequer and the local authorities half the amount re, eganAcil.s1°d1.11.1.0"tilcolis.li:egennient a1 this session declared it could not provide Its share, the scheme is not, likely to become effective. BODYGUARD OF CYCLISTS. Lord Iffilner's IVIounted Escort at Sohannosburg. A. despatch to the London Daily Mail f80111 Johannesburg etates that cyclisth take the place of the ordin- ary i1101111ted escort, which tietially surrounde the Digit 001111018010001' when 110 takes his rides abronel. Teee 1000 Lord Mitner'e carriage ride ilret of ail two moimted oederlies armed with rifles, next come tWo cyclists in eolith then abreast of the ear- ring° two more cyclists, while two move bring up the roar. DUFFERIN LEFT 4108,548, Will of Former Governor-General Of Canada, A. London despatch 511.75 :—The Will of the late Marquie of Dufferin, who died February 12 IPA, wee pro- bated on Wednesdny. The eettate is valued itt 03,548.