The Brussels Post, 1902-5-22, Page 7000soeweweeoposo, .
iroo-ea.
PtlCos of Grain,Cattle, ete
in Trade Centres.
oilwApsTurvs,
Toron t ce, ay 20 ,--Wheat-irtio
nmeaut ie unelumgOd. O. 2 white
ond rd Winter quoted at 78c nliente
freight. Q. 2 opriug at; 75 to 760.
Oast, Manitoba ace 1 hard held ae
080, Tor,ollee and west; No, 1. Norelle
ern ae 3440. and No. 2 Norehern et
Sleete Toronto one woof.. etiologic's
in trampit mecca 2i0 higher."' At iitie
deiriali and Owen Souod No. 1 hood
.ouoteti at 84 to 1344e,
ilinicwheati-lio„ 2 nominal at 61
to We &toe,
Flour-eleiooty per cont. Ontario
patont, $2,90 to $9.92, 'Mettle
freight, in bnyere. reitoes. Straight
rollers, in woott, 'quoted at e8.20 to
$8.80, Monitobe. !Muni are higher ;
patents, $4..20 to $4,25 doliverod on
tratet ieoronto, bags includod, and
string et:thole', $3,110 to e8i95.
lealimeal-Car lots, in bbls,, ;44,85
on track, anti in sacks at $4.70.
lirolcon lots, 25e extra.
1141Bfeed-13ran is &toady at $16.50
°utile°. Shorto, e19 outside. At
Toronto bran is $18,50, and shorts
$20.50, • Manitoba bran, $20 hi
motes, and shorta, $22 in audio, To-
ronto.
Barloy-Trade-quiet ; No, 2 quotod
at 138e rniddlo (might, and No. 8 at
50 to 61e,
- Oato-No. 2 white sold at 431e
Middle freight.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
beied apples --The market is quiot
nt unchonged mites. Small lots
quoted at 5ee, and jobbing lots at
5 to 5-10 per l). Evaporated, 10.4c.
Hope -Trade ciutot. with prim
steady at 1.80; yearlings, at. 7 to So.
Houoye-The market is dull at
to 10e tor strained; comb. $1.15 to
$2,25 per dozen.
Maple syrup -Market quiet, with
prictis unchangod. Pure new make,
inoperial gallons, 9ec to 81: old. as
to quality, 70 to 80c. Sugar, 9 to
9e per ib,
13�n8 -Tho market is quiet, with
prices tinchangod. They aro jobbing
at $1.15 to $1.80, and hand-piciked
quoted at 81.35 to $1.40,
Hoy, baled The market is steady,
with fair demand; timothy, $10,50,
-on track for No. 1.
Straw -The martot he quiet ; ear
loton tracik quoted at $5.50 to $6,
the latter for No. 1.
Poultry-Reccipta small. We quote:
-Fresh killed tur1soys,13 to 14c por
Mr chictens, 75c to $1. Molts, 95c
to $1.
Feeathesi-The inertia is U11011 an
ad, Car lots aro quoted at 75 t
78o per bag, and naafi lots at 85
to 00e.
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THE DAIRY MARKET.
Butter -The offerings coutinue Itu•g
and the demand fair for choice
<panics. Choke grades in fair de -
manta We quote :-Choice 1 -lb rolls
16 to 17ec; choice large rolls, 15 to
16e; second grades, 11 to 13
crearaery, prints, 20 to 21c; solids
18 to 19c.
Figgs-Tho market is steady, with
a good demand at 13 to 13eo per
doeen for new laid, and at 11c for
cheps.
Letieese-erlie market is flrxu, with
oalos of old at 121c, and uow at 114
to .1.2e.
Wier cottlo sold at frOm 5 to ffec Per
11,i, init OfiNadiery fend inferior gradOO
W000 aint tile encelliry Won
dial,
Coate).
Shippers, per cwt... $5.25 $6.12e
do, 4.60 5.00
Dutcher, ••• 4.75 5,3,
Btitobor, ordinery to
4.00 4,00
Stockers, por ewtio ...„„8,00 4,00
' oSbeep and Lambs.
Choice owes, per cwt.", 3.75 4.50
Yeerlinge. NW cwt.., 4.00 5.50
Spring hoots, each .. . . 2.00 5.00
Duthie per cwt... ,„ 3.25 3.75
Milkers and Calves.
Cow, each., 25.00 00.00
Calves, each... ,. 2.00 10.00
HOgii,
Cholco bogo, por cwt.. . 13,75 7,25
Light hoga, per clot .„., 6.75 7.00
Heavy eagle per mote., 0.75 7,00
Some par cwt..... „.. 0.50 4.00
Stags, per mot-. ......e. 0.00 2.00
CRATER ON ST. VINCENT.
Fissures Continue to Throw Hot
Vapor.
A St. Thomas, D, W. I.'despatch
screw Advices from St. Vincent
ohow that it is impoosible to got
neater than tight miles to the now
crater that has appeared in the yolo
moo on the 'Island of St. Vincent.
Tho old crater was Ailed by a beeuti-
ful lalco, but this has disappeared,
having either sunk into the bowels of
the inottotain or been blown iti the
shapo of steam and scalding water
over the surrounding country. The
assure ' that have appeered on the
sides of the volcano cominue to
throw out hot vapor. Subtez•ranean
hoises are .heard . miles front the
mountain, and the treintilings of the
earth indicate the possibility of fur-
ther discharges.
On Mondayafternoon great vol-
umes of steam and omit° were
thrown out, -The whole island is
covered with a peculiar mist, and tho
atmosphoro is charged with SOXIOUS
vapors, which have the effect of in-
creasing the sickness amoug the peo-
ple. An ambulance and modical as-
sietance have arrived from Barba -
The poorer classes' from the afflicted
districts aro now threatened with
starvation, though the Government
is feeding 3,000 -of thexueancl giving
them shelter. Among tho many vie -
time of the disaster aro almost all
of tho Carib Colony, who lived . on
'the devastated part of tho island.
'. 'MANY OF THE BODIES
of those who lost their lives hew
now remained unburied so Wog that
decomposition has set in, and the
odor is so overpowering that many
of tho searching portico have been
compolled to abandon their work.
-In other cases those•ongaged 18 bury -
o ing the doted refused to handle the
bodies. Consequently, ropes are tied
to thera, and they are either dragged
to trenches and there interred or are
placed on Impromptu funeral pyres
O and burned as speedily as possible.
Tho Legislative Council of Jamaica
has appropriated 01,000 for the
, benefit of the sufferers.
Despatches by mail froni St.
; George, Grenada, stated that the
, Royal mail steamer Taw has taken
medical assistance to St, Vincent.
A lino drawn from- Chate,au Retain
to Goorgetown would (livid° the Is-
land of St. Vincent in halves. Thero
is probably no human boing living
alive north of it.
It is conservatively estimated that
two thousand have boon sacrificed.
since tho first eruption ou May 7.
This incluchis all of the Carib Tslaods,
which means tho practical extinction
of the race that was Mond by Co-
lumbus four centuries ago.
An old Indian prophecy that the
Oaribs would be sacrificed to the fire
god which thoy worshipped has thus
been fulfilled. Of the Caribs only a
•few individuals remain on the Is-
lands of St, Lucia and Dominica.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Droseed hogs aro unchangod. Hog
products cootinue in goou demand,
with prices thim, 'We quote :-.Liacon,
long Lleim, 10Ac, in ton and case lots
Amos Imre., 821 to 521.50; do., short
cut, 522.50 to 528.
Smoked Atouts-liams-13 to 134c;
bretaidast Ottawa 144 to 15ci roles,
'loco books, 144 to 15c, and. shout -
done .1.1.
Lard -Tho market is steady; with
good demand. We quota i -Tierces.
11 to 1.110e tubs, 1140; pails, lolgoe
compound, a to 940.
•1301I1TED STATES MARKETS.
St,"Louisi May 20.--C1o8cel-Wheat
-Cush, blc.• Nay, 79c; July, 78oc ;
Soptionbor, 734c,
Neale°, May 20. -Flour -Firm.
Wheato-Spring, quiot, spot, 80.0 ;
winter, No.. 2 led, 61,10.
.eittoog ; No. 9 yollow, 60c ; No.3
do, 674e. • Oats -Quiet, but flion ;
No. a while. 4910; eice 3 do. 4e0 ;
No. 2 mixed, 47c ; N. 8 do, 4640.
Barley, 68 to 72ec aakedi to arrive.
etyo-No. 1, 63 to adec in store.
Comae freights steady.
Melovankete May 20. -Wheat -High-
er • eloaa, No. 1 Northern, 78 to
784e; No. 9 Northern. 77 to 774c ;
July, 7640. Bye -Higher; No 1,
59e. 3Barley--Eirmer; No. 2, 70 to
74o; Samples, 05 to 78c. Corn -July
08e to 634.
Dueuth, May 90.-Wheat-Clo5e,
canhi No, 1 hard, 70ec. No, 1
Northern, 761c; No. 2 Northoen,
744e; May, 7640; July, 764c; Sept.,
74o; eViamitoba, No. 1 Northern,7430;
May, 761o; July, 'Mee; "Soot., 74c ;
Manitoba, No, 1 Northern, cosh mid
bitty, 751e; No, ti,Northern, 73c,
taita-elept. 80c. Corn, 626. •
elinimapolia, Maar 20-0108e, wheat
` 76c; July, 7151e; September,
7.2et, lot track. No. 1 hard, Mee ;
No. e Northern, 764 to 774c; No. 2
Northern; 751 to 7540. lelour-leirot
peewits, $8.86 to 53,95; sewed do.,
$8.65 to 53.75; iliot clams, e2.(35
seeorol do. 52.10. Iiran-In bulk,
514 to $14.a0.
LIVE STOOK eiAlleZETS,
Tovanto, Afity 110. -At the Wostern
cattlo yards to -day tho ree011ete
amonoted to 76 this, including 1,-
870 cattle, 248 sheep mod lambs, 800,
hogs, 220 Whim, and a few flinch
cows. Owing considorahly to the
boniest rub eattlo dragged aoniewhet
to-daye and prim' for (Melling but
the beat Matti° Woro a HUM off, and
scow oi tho stole was loft, over. 'rho
export trivia was light, 81 demand,
and prices weed Oa a bit botoro
1100t), but chola.) Mate fetched froin
rie to di, per poand. Tho best but, -
PAST OCEAN SERVICE.
Government Has Opened Negotia-
tions With the C.P.R.
An Ottawa' , despetcli says :-in fit
view • of tho probable effect of the ,
now steritashi,p combine on Canadaea ;
trade and trans-Atlantic tranaporlet-
ition, it is said that tho Government
is tonsidering an arrangement for
the °pompon of a fast trans-Atian- g
tic stoaniship ' line, in connection t
with a tramicontinental railway, It t
• is stated that negotiations loom t
been opened with the °P.R. lootking
to the establishment of a fast At-
lantic steamship and freight, service. b
The idea la that thoro should be 0
a wetikly passenger scrota) beteveth 11
Canada and Great Britain equal to h
the best that, seila from Now 'York. it
In order to maintain a good height iv
service a dozen freight ateamora. I
would bo required, and the total, c
cost of the undertaking .would 1)0 1)
520,000,000. Tho Government al-' 8
reedy has the power to subsidizo
Il no to tho oxtent of 5750,000 a
year, but a poeseoenger and froight
woke, it 18 said, would involve a
million yearly, The 0,P,1t. is re-
ported to bo willing if thd prOJOet
goes through to • allow tho east
steamship line to be bontrolled by
trOstees oominatod by the Govema
Mine. el'h6" matter is zieW engaging
the consideration of Sir WilfrideLau-
rier. and his ,colleagitea, and forthor
dovelopmoots aro expeoted when (boy
proceod to London 18 June., It ie
thoteeht that theeprojoet Will then
bo discussed with the C.P.R. direc-
tors and rOprestibtatives of the Reit-
ish Government with 13 ViCW to
handoomo oubaidy,
Ti P8ANDLiYE.TOQK
ABPOBT CV TEX ONTABI0
BUREAU OP INDUS'ITtIES.
The Hessian Ply Has Done Little
Detinagie Live StoOlc Have
• Wintered Well,
Teo following is a sunallery Of Olue
roporto mado to the Oidario Borth,
of lialustriao by 01/0{' 500 corms.
poodent, under date of May flr,
eti
THE WEATHER,
November and December Of 1901
were a little woler than the eyeing°.
January a little warmer, and Feb -
ropey aliout the avorago, though
fivo degrees warmer then a ;veer ago.
Dearth was morel ton &glees above
the average, paid April opmewhat
warmer than Usual, The proolpita-
tion for the past oix months was
ono and a half inches below the feli-
erago. There was little or no rain
during January. .The snow fell for
February, March and April this year
woo only 15,7 1110110S LIB agaillSt an
SIN:Wage Of 21.0 inches for the past
twonty years.
FALL We-iLAT,
The November bulletin otated that
tho,'e was it considez.a,ble deorease in
the area sown ,to fall wheat, owing
to tho ravages of the Hessian fey, It
18 satifffactory, however, to note
that the injury to the crop by the fly
so far has been much leos than was
'feared.' While a year ago oomplainto
of losses by Maslen fly were coin
'mon in nearly all tho countlee Booth
of a line drawn from liuroo to
Wentworth -very extensivo damage
haviog been done to the geowing fall
wheat in the counties bortioring upon
Lake Erie- only a few of the cot.
respondonto now reporting speak in
a positive manner of actual injury
traceable to the fly, and theoo re-
port:, aro confined to odd seotiono of
Lambton and tho Lako lerio coun
ties. A considerable amount of fall
Wheat was sown late to avoid the
fly, and this has ziot done as woll as
that got in earlior. Several correm-
pondonts remark that having sown
fall wheat on oat stubble it. has
done poorly. Tho greatest injury
to tlio crop so far appears to have
been sustained from, severe hosts and
cold winds just after.the snow left
the ground, the exposed fields u80r-
ing in some quarters.
Taking tho crop 'as a whole, how-
ever, the prospect is bettor than was
hoped for six months ago. The loss
from Hessian fly, wire -worm, and
other insoct pests has so far been
c4emperatively snivel, Them are
patchy places owing to trying spring
weather and to local' causes, and
here and there portions of the cropi
have been plowed up or resown .to
barley, but, notwithstanding thee°
drawbacks, there aro many eields re-
ported in excellent condition, and in
a 'ribmbet• of sections a large yioid
per acre is loolced for, ,
WINTER RYE,.
Although moro winter rye is being
raised than 01 rodent years, the,
acreage is still ecanparatively
That which was -sown last fail came
through tho winter in good condi-
tion, neatay every reforonce to the
growing crop being favorable.
ChOVER.
Reports concooning clow0 are far-
orabio generally, many of them being
nuthusiastically so. Hero and them
accounts come in of heaving during
the winter or spring, but nothing
general has been reported in the way
of injory to the ci•op, As corres-
pondentS wrote tho prospects for hay
wore nevor bettor, both old and new
meadows promising well.
SPRING SEEDING,
Most of tho spring crops wero got
in somewhat earlier than mune, a
number of correspondents reporting
seeding as having bow practically
oompleted by the first of May. In
most cases the seed -bed was in ex-
collont condition, and tho "catch"
has been ono of' the best for years.
As correspondents wroto a consider-
able amount of the spring grain was
above ground, and gave promise of
a first-olass crop should nothing un -
°ward intervone. The sowing of
eld peas, howover, had been dolaYed
n many instances in ordor to escape
he "bug." -
VEGETATION.
Correspondonts do not egret: ro-
artling state of vegetation on
lie first of Afity, oome assaeling that
ho growth in used and forest was
hen weli. advanced, and othors that
t was about normal, whilo the ma,-
ority claimed that the season might
e regarded as a rather backward
no, In many quartors there was'
uffklent grass for pasturing sheep,
ut hardly though for cattle ; but
woe considered that only a iew
arm doya were neoded to make a
=orient growth, as the ground
°Maine(' pionty of moisture, and
Lai and blade were ready to re -
pond.
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PRINCE CHRISTIAN'S ESCAPE
Carriage in Which He Was Riding
Met With Accident.
A London despatch says; While,
returiting from tho rows on. Thurs-
day tifthrpoon the 03))'i 3t) hi which
Potion ChrieLlan .311(1 301110 friends
woro riding met with an accident,
Oito of tho doors of Lilo 00,11'lagb was
litr0110110(1 Oa% 101 1, 1110 0001(p01,111S ON-
cwpat With a thaliing up.
• LIVE STOCK.
All olassea of live otock have
come through tho winter good
condi tion, A few comparatively
light forms of distempor among
horses aro reported in several lo-
calities, and in the County Of Lan-
ark sumo Gasps of stranglesioccurred
lent tho ineeloeity of correspondento
speak.ot boeses as being in an 1111 -
wiener good condition for the Unto
of 'the year, aud spring work has
hail only •a good afoot upon them,
Their chief drawback appears .to
havo boon a lathier lighter ration at
oats than ordinarily, owing to tho
sonacley of that grain. antelo ao a,
rido, aro Mao • io excollent foion,
Some report them aa boing rather
thin, but nono disputo their anneral
good lioaleli. Ringworm appoar,ed
among several leeds in some of tho
Parry Sound townoldpe, and odd
etesoo of lumpy jaw ocOuvrod , oise-
wham but with those oxcepleoos
thoro'io remarkably cloom hill of
'loath to be :damn for cattim Sheep
lawn dono oxceOdingly wall, a large
ntimber of lambs Mixing been drop-
Pedi Width have turned out hoolthy
Mid vigbroua. The dog is inveighed
agaitiot by soveral cOrreapontionts aa
being a petition= Swine luteo also
don c well as a Mateo. Cases of die -
woe ond elOatel lerioneg yOung Inters
haw been enpOrted, 111 Overal Parte
Of tee) Province, but thee() .apipetir to
Ilavo rOaulted from purely local mom
ditiouli, and hi 110L 600t10110 have
lowee general, In Met, ro-
feroneos to the atoady way In Which
bacon hogs WINO boon L fitted for the
nutrket 18 a feethro of the report%
Fodder generally hos been staffioient,
although otraw hao bow rether
mace, and the high prices Prevail-
ing for comae graina and Mill feed
tempted mony raloOril Of 'Ivo Stock
10 eced cloSer than uoual. Mayoral
corroopondonto rofer18 tho slio as
having boon an coccollent aid in
oterrying cattle through tho winter.
FARM ,,SUPPLIVS.
There in nothing like noitninitty in
tlie roports received rogarding farm
oupPlieo. Toeing tho provinco as a
Wil.Q10, however, tluiro bati been a
aufliciency or room of hay, and a
scarcity of °eta. Many eorrespozni-
mita otato that there is buts lietle
wheat loft, although othors olaim
that thot•eI 0. fair Surplus yob on
band. It is oleo to say that 'while
there is not as Math hey or grain
in femora' hands ao uaual at WO
Mom Of the year, other fording
stuff, soh as ensilage, stover, etc..,
would enable them to put a fair
%mount of beith lia,y and W1108A on
tho market should extra bigh prices
provide, Fat cettle aro scam in
nearly every section, the high 'Prices
ruling having cleared them out ear-
ly'. Many correspondents also re
port a scarcity of otoro cattle, al-
though Dome claim that thoro aro
still a considerable number on
hand, mom esliocially in the East
Midland and Northern Districts, 011
1301110 of the western countlea buyers
from tho Canadian Northwest bought
up a number of .young stoolc for faa
ishing off. The high price of grain
and other feeding etuffs is also given
by oome correspondents aa a reason
for tho comparatively small number
of fat and storo cattlo kept on hand.
FRUTI"I'liEfes.
Reports from Um districts where
the bulk of oux• fruit is grown aro
decidedly' optimistic in tone. Them
havo been no ice atoms this year to
break off limbs and disfiguro trees,
and the general appearance of or-
chards is all that could 130 desired.
There is promise of abundant biota
som for nearly overy variety of
fruit, and if frosts ape heavy rnits
koep cife during the period of bloom
a. record yoar for fruit gonerally may
be looked Ion 311 tho counties lying
between the St. Lawrence and Ot-
tawa rivero, however, there has been
a sorious visitation of field micoe
which have warmed over the orch-
ards and wrouglie much sen.ious in-
jury by gholleng young apple and
other 'trees. A correspondent hi
Fitzroy states that mice ate 44: rods
of thorn leeege on bio premises. The
only complaints of mice in the Lako
Ontario district came from the
County of York, and of the western
Ontario comities Middlosex eves the
only one to send a report of their
prosence. Soveral correopondents in
the. fruit growing centres express
fear that tho tent caterpillar inay
do much injury unless actively
checked. A few also compritin of the
presenco Of the borer. Warninge are
also sent in regarding black -knot in
cherriese It swam atrango that so
few references are made to San Jose
Scale. Small fruits ca,mo through
the winter in good condition as a
rule., although in somo quartors
berry busbes were considerably brok-
en down by snow. These toports
were all mado before the cold dip of
May 1011), and thonefore ropreeent
the condition up to that time.
ELEVATOR SITES FIXED.
Ogilvie Milling Company An-
nounces the Locations.
A Montroal despatth says :--11.Er.
11'. W. Thompson, vicogresicient and
general manager ol the W. W. Ogilvie
Milling Compeller, on Wodnosday anet
flounced the looation of tho '20 grain
elovators which it is proposed to
eroot dui•in.g the present season in
lelanit.oba and the ,North-Weeet 'Tore
ritories. Six of the elevators,
thOSO at POIICO, 13,31.1g01310. 1111.'1.013r,
Zoll, .Arnand, Mariner, auci Carlyko
will be situated in the 'Territories,
while tho remaining 14 will bo in
Manitoba, Ws follows :-Brookdale.
Braciwttrdine, Sio1alr, Newcialo, Lo-
noro, Arcola, Carnegie, 'Renton,
Oakville, Grandview, Afarge.rot, Gil-
bert Plain, liainrea, and at the ter-
minal of tho Waskada branch of the
C.P.R.
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HAD $1,500,000 ON BOARD.
Vessel enRotit e From Chili a
Total Wreck,
A VaAparalso despatch SaYS :-The
Eforritata stiounship SaAricarain Capt.
Piening, from this port for Ham-
burg, is a total wreck on tho Homo-
blln Island, Chili. Tlio cargo in-
cludes 51,500,000. which the Gov-
ornmont of Chili had remitted to
!Mancha agents 10 E_uropo.
MANCHESTER TO NEW YORK
proposal to Establish a Direct
Steamship Line,
A Liverpotel despatch says: item
livening .Express says. Mr, Morgan,
through eis,ropreoentativeit, has been
111111 is negotiating with several com-
panies alio uso tho Manchestor Ca-
nal, with 0. vim of running steam-
ships demob from Mitnoliestio. to Now
York, Balton, awl other ports. The
schomo hivolvea tho construction of
cotton warehouses.
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WILL CHANGE CRUISERS.
To ,Be Provided With. Hoeetier
Stool Plates,
Glasgow deornetch says :-The
preparations for layingdown tho
keels of four British critheers have
beee stopeod for tho moment, 113 tho
Admiralty has decithol .to lengthoo
elm vessels with a 1-10111 of allowing
groatior thieelateizs of armor 1)0000-
11011, 7110 change will lei ruatio be -
memo of tho liewly invoitea forged
s•teel tap for armor-piereing
THE DOMINION PAiiLIAMENT
.11-6'xgp or Ing)044PINGS
TEE '41111B,A,T4 ncgrsg.
seeorel Soasion of the Puglia -
Mont of Oalaada prorogued 00
Thursday.
Bic Wilfrid LieuriOr laid on the
toblo copies of t10 9330110310 which
had boon received from vierioua
Boards Of 7031(10 with 0efe0ene0 49
preforential erode withiri tem Ene-
rare. The Senate bill respecting the
incorporatioa of joint stook com-
op:at:ales:was di5011500(1 tor it Sow min-
utes, and was put through all jto
FOUR MONTHS' IMMIGRATION.
Dir. Ross (of Oothrio) was loran:n-
od by ler.' Sefton teat M the Year
1902 up to May 1st, tbe number of
immigrants who come to Canacia
was 24,122. Of theta' 5,164 were
Britioh, 7,478 were from the Contin-
ont of Europe", arid 11,430 from
the United Stetes. Tem, settled 4
pee cont. 111the Maritime Provinces
9 per cont. In Quobec, 12 pia cent.
In Ontario, aod 70 per coot. in Mani-
toba and tho Territories. Tim sot-
tiors' effects of thoao lotto came from
the United States were valued at
51,261,289. 'Thoteo from Euriepo and
tho British Islea wei.o eatimattel to
11.va.obe0>tlght property worth about
1,scs4,00
RAILWAY COMMUNICATION,
Mr. Kaulbath urged upon Um Gov-
ernmene the necessity of tioing
thing to provide raliway cominunica-
tioll between Halifax and tho South
Shore of Nova Scotia.
Mr. Molding roplied that tho needs
of this section would be inet very
shortly, as the Provincitti Govern -
merit had given a loan of 518,000 a
mile to a company which proposes
to build the lino required.
BIGGL'It SURPLUS EXPECTED
Mr. Fielding informed the House
that since .the budget speech was
delivered two months ago tho re-
venue of the country had surpassod
his exPeetations, and he behoved the
surplus would bo larger and the ad-
dition to the public, debt smaller
than. he had 'expected
CLOSING- CEREMONIES,
His Excelioncy arrived at the Sen-
.
ato Chamber sharp at 3 o'clock. He
Was eacorted, as usual, by tho Dra-
goons, and waa received by a guard
of honor. Tho gathoring hi the Sen-
ate was not a largo ono. Tho gal -
Miles woro well filled, but there were
many vacant seats on the nom` ,of
the Chamber, which is always crowd-
ed at the oponiug. 'The ladies pre-
sent appeared in walking 00510030.
Attn. Afr. Speaker Brodeor and
the Commoners had reached the
Chamber, the ClerIo of the Upper
House read tho liet of bills.
SPEECH FROM THE THRONE.
His Excellency then dismissed the
Parliamentarians with the following
eech from. tho throne :-
Honorable Oentlomen of tho Senate :
Gentlemen of tho Hou.so of 007.12-
010118 :
In rolioving you from further at-
tendance in Parliament I desk° to
thank you for the care and atten-
tion given to your important
duties.
• Tho unusual number of Acts that
have been passed incorporating in-
dustrial and railway companice may
bo taken as an ovideuco of the rapid
progress that Canada is making in
wealth 'mil prosperity, Further
proof of that satisfactory condition
is allot -clod 1)3r tee inertias° in the
trade and revenue of tho country.
It has been gratifying to note the
unprocedentod flow of immigrants
from Europe and from the United
States that aro now seoking homes
In Mitaltoba and in tho North -B'31
Torrtoories. The rapid incroasing
population of (.h -'.t fortile section of
tho .Dolnixdou moat yearly add to
eehe trade of the country.
Tho agreement ontored into with
the. Canadian Pacific Railway Coto -
pithy when aUthOrieing Morons°
of its -capital to oxpend over nine
million dollarin providing ad-
ditional rollin5 stock will, it Is hop-
ed, materially diminish in the fu-
ture tho 000101.18 1osseti that have
arisen. from the in.sollicient eupply of
cars to carry the products (ruin the
West to Eastoi•n ports.
Tho amendments to tho Manitoba
tiraM Aet authorising tem formers
in Manitoba and the North-West to
their grain et railway stations will,
itis beilioved, ho found to servo -a.
useful purpose, and defeat any at-
tempt to depress prices by combina-
tion,
The growleg population of tho Yu-
kon Territory and tho rapid dovoloPo
intuit M the trade of that :motion of
Canada amply justify tho Act
granting to its rosidents represen-
tattoo in Parliament who will bo
authorizod to speak Mr las con-
stituency' in all matters (1130011115 4110
more important intheeete of that re-
mote part of the Dominion,
Gentionien of tho House of Com-
mons
I thank you in his Majesty's
for the liboral oupplits you have
goo.nted for tho publia sorvico.
Itonorablo Gontlionen 110 tho &mato :
Gentlomen of the Howe of Com-
mons :
De bidding you farewell, T cloak°
to express the impo that when . we
moot next yoar 1133 81131 11 1)0 :33110 to
again rejohn in the continued prose
fierily which now prevails over this
wido Dominion.
HEAVY SNOW IN GERMANY
Creat Damage Occasioned. to ViOes
and Crops,
A. 'Berlin dospatch Says; The Wen. -
flow is tioseasonahlo throughout Goy -
loony, . Thorn vois a, heavy snoivfail
on Thursday night in tho PrO-
VinCee, 11,101 grail, Minoan, was d000
to violet end crops. Snow has fallen
IO t1io. depth of 11 foot in Mayenee.
Gold villas and ialowors prevail in
•
:NEWS ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briers Prom All
Over the Globe.
CANADA,
Woodstock's police force is to be
4.111130 1)
`,VOn tim Yukon is broakieg
41) on th0 tenair reoches.
Tho 0.9,34. has granted aii ioCrOeioe
of pay to its meow:dots,
Nearly a foot of 811011 foil at
leather Point, Quebees, cae Saturday.
Winnipeg's zeolty asaossment now
totals 528,012,060, with 86,558,210
oxemptiono. Population 48,397.
Ottawa ki recoiving °Vero from soy -
oral telephone companies desiroue of
inatallios a System en oppooltion to
th°R01)31°1,
61.Leel, the Kingston Calms()
latuniryman, who Imo givon liberally
to Qiieenio University, tots sub-
scribed 625 to the Y.M.,C,A, '
As a result of a. petition of sixty
of Brantford's inioiness men, the eitY
will colobrato Victoria Day on Mao
26, instead of Saturday, tee 2441).
The Canadian Paoifio announces re-
ductions en Freight rates beteveer
Lake Superior and Manitoba, points.
ranging from 40 to 44 cents per 100
P
de°:ludedds. to introduce a by-law* ciono-
Tile City Couneil 'of Ottawa has
polling tho removal of all signa
verandahs,
9; " other proje.ceions 1.
Ute
`The Northwest Commoreial Tra-
velers havo purchased a promineut
business corner in Winnipeg, and
will erect there an eight -storey
office building.
Owen Sound assessors' returns
show a population of 9,414, an in
crease over last year of 159, end au
assessment of 58,529,991, an in
crease of' a. quarter of a million.
Somo membors of the Hamilton
Board of Liducation objeot to the
forming of a rifle club among mem-
burs of the Collegiate Inetitute.
They should wait till they are old
enough to join the 13th Regal:tent.
Ron. le. R. Latchford, Mill/star of
Public Works, on Saturday turned
the first sod of the Bent Government
railway in Ontario, which is to bo
known as the Tomiska,ming es North-
ern Ontario Railway, near North
Bay.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Orders have been Jawed for the
Imperial Yeomanry battalions now
at Aidorshot to embark for South
Africa,
Tho King and the Queen with thi
own hands pletwel in position soy -
oral of the young seplings Nam0,.
recently in the groimds of Birekio'l
ham Palace.
The allow:ill combenittion of Pone:1h
Ship -owners to keep up the freights
on British goods loth attracted lb'
attention of the Government.
The Minister of Public Works has
decided to reduce the telograph rates
between Ashcroft, B.C., and Doevson
from 51.50 to $8 for tan words..
UNITED STATES.
The U. S. Stool Oorporation em-
ployed 158,263 mew during the past
year, and paid out in tvages $112,-
829,198.
Miss Rebecca French, a public..
school teacher of Marinette, Wis.
has gone insano over hor love for
cats.
James Duffield, elected meyod of
Bualiner, O., on a prohibition ticket,
has been -fined for selling liquor co t-
trary to law.
Former City Treasurer Gerst, of
Buffalo, was lined 51,000 and dis-
missed for complicity in defalcation
amounting to $10,000.
likcateso o. teacher at a potato
school in Philadelphia, sat on a biblo
while playing the piano, the stool
being too low, a row was stern.,
which the directors had to invest!.
gate and sottle.
SiummleiVendoll Williston, professor
Goology in the Tin iversity of
Kansas, and 'author, of 150 scientific
papers one books, has been chow.
head professor of palecintoloezi in tho
University of Chicago.
,On Saturday Of this weok Mayor
Low, Of New York, will make an
underground trip in an automobile
through the Maga 15-1oot sewer that.
is being built to drain the entiro
Bay Ridge Section of Brooklyn.
Senator Tillman made a violent
speoch in the Senate at Washington
on WeiliwisdaY, in which he homed
the United States would tom from
their "gime tee deviltry in the Phil
11)1)1008'. Sad assist the South to rill
herself of tho threat of negro dom-
ination.
GENERAL.
The revolt in Portugal is against
bad government and oirecreble ad.
ministration.
A Britith subjoct named Alloock
has bow murtiorod in his own gar-
den near Tetuan, Moroceo.•
e Serious earthquakes hay° 00011rrad
11 81)aill, destroying it lumber of t
houses and terrifying the, pooplo.
Tho young king Alfopso will wear 11
fifty different uniforneo . during the
festivities aLeendant op. his Deco,. I
skin, e
Two .Austrian Deputies have fought '1
another bloody Mud in Vienna in h
which both wero cut and :dashed ter- a
rlbly, 11
Frightened by minors that 'Russia '1
is ,preparing for war with Japan, e
mew Chinese traders have left.
Port Arthur for Shanghai. P
Till KING OF BAROTOLANN
IZ WX4,1. l3BP,4$5iN9 AT 02alf0
C011.0244TION,,
Territory Zarger Titan Gorman);
Acquired by the Ampire
Without Bloodshed,
Colonel Colin XXardinig, late acting
administrator of Northwest Rhodesia
has loft lihndand for South Africa in
order to meet King Lowanika, the
Paramount Chief of Berotstilend, fen4
to wort him to Ninglend, whither ha
Is going at the invitation of the
ICing to bo present at the' Corono-
tion. 00400e1 Harding only return'
0C1 a few weekprevious from Bora-
seland, where in ido official capacity
lio concluded an arduouo journey of
ovor ton thousand miles thoough Lee
Wallikaeti country, penetrating to
within a hundrod and Afty rollea Of
the west coast. Tlie diftleultion wero
very great, ond Colonol Herding and
his brothor, who (lied 01 blaelc-ivalee
fever on his return, had to travel foi.
prolonged poriode walot deop through
water. These expeditions, which
lasted for two yoaro, and wero made
on foot and horseback„ were under-
takeu for the purpose of establishing
personal acquaintance wl tho
chiefs. Colonee Harding met with
unfeeling courtesy from tho natives,
some of Whom bad never bofore SOOtt
a. width man. They declored them-
selves to be loyal to Lewanika and
content under British rule. On two
occasions only did ho coma on slava
caravans, tho leaders of 3013050. bo
had to punish. Colonel Harding's
journey oxtonded in the north to tho
Congo frontior. A considorable por-
tion of the area explored was quite
now country. Last year ho diseover-
ed the source of tho leakombo, ono
of the most important tributaries of
tho Zambesi, and in the previouo
year he visited the source of the
Zambosi.
ICING LEWANIKA.
Some' interesting dotalls of the pre-
sent situation in Barotseland have
already been obtaloed by Reuter'
Agency froni a well-informed source.
It is not inappropriate that King
Letvanika should come to England,'
for there is 110 more enlightened or
loyal native chief in Africa. Ile has
placed the whole of his empire, which
is mooti larger than Germany, under
British protection, and it is admin-
istered hy the British South. Africa,
Company. 31 is one of the few coun-
tries which have been handed ovor
to the British without bloodshed.
The King is a man of fine physique,
and is 45 years of age, and hip pro-
nounced loyalty has led him to deo
everything in his power to assist the
.adminiotra,teon. Ile is a 'curious
.inixturo of European and nativo
ideas. Ilo is a pagan and does noti
speak English, but he always dresses
in European clothes. Ho lives in a'
really 5110 houso in his capital of
lealui, and in many respects main-
tains the establishment on British
lines. The place is built of choico
native woods, but it contains Brit-
ish furniture. A prominent feature in
his dining -room -where ho often on-
tei•tains the officers of tho adminis-
tration at luncheon or dinner, which
is excellent , and well sorved in the
European style -is a, portrait of
Queen . Victoria. After discussing
with the company's citlicials in one of
.his well furnished rooms, he will pro-
bably repair to his "kortla" or na-
tive parliament close by wbero he
will bo.greeted by his indunas, who
squat on this ground -in the usual Af-
riran style. Before entoring his pare
liament house, he Is saluted by his
native. band, composed mostly of
drummers, one of whose duties it is
to play near the o king's bedroom
through the night in order that they
may lull iffin to sleep. Another cler-
icals habit which he has is to sum-
mon all his iadunixa who may be
within rail to be in the room with
him during the Progress of a thunder
storm.
JOURNEY IN STATE,
Lowitnika. possesses a .great Stato
barge, which during the dry season
is kept in rt kind of dock. As Soon
th
as o Zambesi is high enough this
vessel is used to convoy the court to
a more healthy site a day' e journey
distent, and the king` marches hi
state progress to his new headquar-
ters. The barge is of immonoo
weight, •being least 30 Mot long
and vOry wide. It is propelled by
eighty rowers, most of whom are
dunes, itt-
and all attired. in tiger skins
round the loins and l(ons' manes on
their beads. Even the Prime Minis-
ter, who wears Europeen clothes, has
to tako off these garments, and, put-
ting on his tiger skin, to take his
tutu at the oars. Tho king 1110091)15 Boated iindor a canopy, evleitilt is
surmounted by gigantic stuffed fla-
ures cif elephants or giraffes, usually
manufactured by Loivaailre hhasolf
of tattoo and cane.
in Wing Lowanika's country them
tre about twenty 13ritish
mostly at tho goyernmont hoadquart-
as at lialomo. Tho whole country
s very rich in 10111301115, especially in
oppor, in the 13atoko and lia.kitorule
istriets. A. great 40a1has boon
clone by the company in tho 611990305-
1111'.of of- olave trade in tho florin
owards the COL1g0 State, when)
loom cetravrius coming from tho ores('
&NO (Tossed into British territory.,
Melly of tho districts holm; t(10
un-
iealthi, for European police, It roma.
octavo Barotsi 1)5,00 1)000
`hie forco, which ouniboro 250 mon,
as bee0 eetablished for two yeam
rid has demo mecellont woek,
laxly in the. supprossion of slimly.
Oro 'tattoos prove to lin moat willing
uti rondo, and after four menthe
raining' thee attain it Ittgle teepee, of
rolloieney. Thorn is in tho counteer
13 olaborato postal service of oatirn
molars. AM therm mon wear a Mad
khaki uniform mail mooned w((It tho
iords "B.S:A. mail." Thor', ta
egular weekly serviro botiieen Lee-
li'alonto, the V,ielorla 10 and
A. Moscow a nra caused ..by. Ilte„
carelessness of a workman has ro-
suited in Oa destruction ot 8113,ei
steamovs and ooveral workshops:
Tim lempreso Downger of China ie
credited with having doreloped qui,
a 0011.00 for foreign WarS, partiCUI
1111.1:13 in t110 diractiou of suelitl fune- k
tions.
In Juno it :Danish expedition will P
visit Oreettland to maim an exhaus-
tive study of the manners, eustoine,
and saporstitions of the native pop-
sulnwa„vo, tho 011000113do11ng tot
1'('011571 1,111113' miles it 11;))'.'rho
Mg to g000lly interosioa tto‘ elope
o rt) way, w filch NA' 11 et 01)8
art, Of- /itirtt toOl fuel,
lames aro suppomoil to havn loom
ulittion. erst dontoolitheted in Chin.' 1100 1 .1.C.
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