The Seaforth News, 1924-01-31, Page 6;BRITAIN IS REPRESENTED IN SOVIET
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There were important "developments Great Britain, who had not been
C
3n the Labor Government's' first 'full
working Y
orkin day.
With the appointment of Frank
Hodges, secretary of the Miners' Fed-
eration, as Civil Lord of the Admin'- not sound astonishing, but cons
alty, and Harry Gosling, president of a revolution in Whitehall's working
the National Transport Workers' As- hours, as no Foreign Ministers ever
sedation, as .Minister of Transport,t have turned up for work before
Ramsay MacDonald has filled the im- eleven:
portant posts of his Government. Al -1 MacDonald has ordered all Foreign
though most of the members of ti ,o1 Office personages to be on the job at
new Ministry are inexperienced, quite 10, even the highest permanent offi
a number, like Viscount Chelinsfor•' and none of these latter have
Lord Parmoor, John 11,.:Clynes ail _ea in the habit of appearing before
Arthur Hendersonhave been in pre -1 eleven -thirty,
vious Governments. MacDonald made it clear on Thurs-
A great help to the Ministers and day to callers that writing notes to
a sign that nothing extremely revolu-' France will be discontinued. Future
tionary in administrative practice isl negotiations, he said, will be made
contemplated, is seen in the appoint -I through Ambassadors, or when neces-
menta by the Ministers as their pri-I sary, by personal interviews between
vete secretaries. Premier MacDonald' chiefs of state.
has named Sir Ronald Waterhouse' The Russian envoy was asked about
and Robert Gowers, who filled a simi-1 Russia's willingness to acknowledge
lar position with the late Andrew; Russia's pre-war debt to Britain, and
Boner Law, and C. P. Duff, who was' MaeDonald received a favorable re-
private secretary to David Lloyd, ply. But the Russians want recogni-
George. itioa first and debt negotiationsafter-
James O'Grady has accepted' the wards, while some of the right wing
post of the First British Ambassador Labor leaders are anxious to get the
to Soviet Russia. Premier MacDonald debts admitted before O'Grady is sent
received at the Foreign Office, Chris-, to Moscow.
granted an audience by Lord urzon.
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DEADLOCK IN BRITISH
RAILWAY STRIKE
Strike Pay Abdut £7,000 Per
her requirements. As a consequence,
11 was said, the surplus investment ac-
count of the United States will re -
sieve less opportunity than before for
work in Canada; but it will still luau
Day,—Next Move Up to more to that country than Canada will
Governmentloan to American industrlea.
A despatch from London says;—A CANADAyS.I. DEBT
deadlock has been reached in the
strike of the Associated Society of STILL ON THE INCREASE
I.ncomotive Engineers and Firemen.
he managers of the railways an-
ro^need that they would not reply to Public Accounts Show Big
a e 'ter sent them by J. Bromley, see-
r•. , y of the Associated Society, in-
f,,sreing them that he regretted that
11 strike must continue.
1'1 2.re is a fundamental difference Public accounts for the fiscal year
c. .inciple between the Associated ended the 31st of last March have
Ft i.•ty and the railway managers re- been finally completed, and efforts to
ming the finding of the Wages produce a surplus are thwarted by
li.,ard, from which the managers re- the drafts upon the exchequer of the
fused to depart, although they assert- Canadian National Railway and the
that, they would consider cases of in- Merchant marine.
dividual hardship among the men if Consolidated revenue stood up
the strike were called off. buoyantly and totalled $394,614,900,
It is said to be costing the Asso- while the total outlays on consolidated
dated Society about /7,000 daily to and capital accounts were $346,565;
pay the strikers, The members are 616. This lefts& favorable balance of
reticent about their resources, but it $48,049,284. About 83 millions were
is believed that the payment of the advanced, however, to the railways
. strikers' wages is a severe drain upons and merchant marine—seventy-seven
the exchequer of the organization. millions to the former and six mil -
It was asserted at the headquarterslions to the latter. As the increase of
,of the National Union of Railevaymen' debt was $31,641,067, about fifty mil -
that it had been learned from several lions came out of revenue.
provincial centres that many. of the The increase in the net debt in the
members of the union, who had joined fiscal year was $31,641,065. The total
'the strike had returned to work. is now. $2,453,776,888. The gross debt
The next step to be taken in the stood at $2,924,109,338, which is a
strike will be action by the new Labor decrease of ten and a half millions.
minister, Tom Shaw, and the Trades
Union Congress's mediating com-
mittee.
Addition in Fiscal Year
Ending Last March.
A despatch from Ottawa sayst—
Canada Able to Finance
Bulk of Her Requirements
A despatch from New York says:—
The fact that Canada was able to ab-
sorb without foreign assistance the
heavy Government financing of 1923
end the latest big issue of $50,000,000
of Canadian National Railways- bonds
is interpreted by New York bond
dealers as an event of more than pass-
ing significance. It shows, they sag-
gested, that Canada has grown in
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PHILIP SNOWDEN
J. C. WEDGWOOD WM. ADAIISON SIR S. OLIVER
JOHN • WHEATLEY LORD CHELMSFORD
New British Labor Cabinet.
A despatch from London says:—
The new Labor Cabinet as officially
announced; follows;
Ramsay MacDonald -Premier and
Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
John Robert Clynes—Lord Privy Seal
and Deputy Leader in the House of
Commons.
Lord Parmoor—Lord President of the
Council,
Viscount Haldane -Lord Chancellor.
Philip pnowden—Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
Arthur Henderson—Secretary for
Home .Affairs.
J. H. Thomas—Secretary for the Col-
onies.
Stephen Walsh—Secretary for War.
Sir Sydney Olivier -Head of the In,
dian Office.
Brig. -Gen. Christopher Thompson—
Air Minister.
Viscount Chelmsford—First Lord of
the Admiralty.
Sydney Webb—President of the Board
of Trade.
John Wheatley—Minister of Health.
Noel Buxton—Minister of Agricul-
ture.
William Adamson—Secretary for
Scotland.
C. P. Trevelyan—President . of the
Board of Education.
Thomas Shaw—Minister of Labor.
Vernon Hartshorn—Postmaster-Gen-
eral.
Revenues increased by over twelve
and a half millions, while expendi-
tures decreased by $15,266,968. The
increases in expenditure were $2,644,-
886 in the interest on the public debt
and $410,745 on agriculture. There
were reductions of over three millions
in pensions, s0"an millions in public
works, $822,000 in post office, $462,-
8883 in soldiers' settlement, and $4,-
416,169 in soldiers' re-establishment,
while miscellaneous reductions were
over eight and a half millions
Increases in revenue were mainly
$12,369,824 in Customs, $993,210 in
excise, and $3,820,250 in inland rev-
enue. Business tries fell off $9,784,-
265 and income 418,972,816. Over 55
financial importance to a point where millions have so far been collected on
oho can in future finance the bulk of income.
Dominion News in Brief
Halifax, N.S. -Six large trans-
Atlantic freighters, carrying a total
of 76,074 barrels of Nova Scotia ap-1
pies, left this port recently for the,
United Kingdom. With these ship-
ments the grand total for the present;
shipping season up to January 5 is',
brought to 836,219 barrels.
Quebec, Que.—Navigation of the!
St. Lawrence river is expected to open'
early in the month of April. Accord -I
ing to preliminary schedules issued;
by the various steamship companies;
oporating between Canadian Atlantic;
ports and Europe, 192 ships will visit,
this port during 1924.
Fredericton, N.B.—Five new com-'
panes, with a dotal capitalization am-}
minting to $706,000, have been rotor
porated in New Brunswick, according
to notices of incorporation in the
Royal Gazette.' The largest of the
new companies is the Edward Sinclair
Lumber C -•o., Ltd., of Newcastle, with
an authorized, capital stock of
$60040.
Te"' nto, Ont. -=Weather conditions
in Northern Ontario having been ex-
ceedingls' good -for -timber operations,
Hon.James Lyons, Minister of Lands
and 'Forests, stated' that a very heavy
out was expected this winter. Mr.
Lyons further stated that the cut was
so heavy that the list of Government
scalers was almost exhausted.
Oshawa, Ont—Ono of the newest
industries to establish in this city, is
the Ontario Potteries. The first kilt
has been opened. The company will
produce table and art ware, using
Canadian raw imaterials. The clay is
being secured from Saskatchewan and
the Feldspar from Ontario.
Calgary, Alta.—This city claims
that it is Canada's leading sunshine
city. The record for sunshine for the
fall was as follows: September, 195
hours or an average of 6A hours.
daily; October, 228 hours or '1 1-8
hours daily average: November, 156
hours or 51-5 hours daily.
Regina, Sask.-The Indians' of the
three prairie provinces in 1923 season
harvested the greatest crop in their
history, according to the annual re-
port of the superintendent of Indian
affairs. In the three provinces the
Indians harvested 638,561 bushels of
wheat, 574,282 bushels of oats and
62,304 bushels of barley. The report
shows they raised 58,264 bushels of
potatoes and 10,000 bushels of other
;vegetables. They summorfallowed
20,000 acres of land; broke 6,808
acres; put up 57,000 tons of hay and
19,616 of green feed.
:. .Vancouver, B.C.—Vancouver ship-
;
ped 13,092,249 bushels of grain be-
, September 1 and December 81,
and bookings for; future loadings in
sure a total movement of more than
140,000,000 bushels for the present
crop year, according to figures com-
1 piled by the Vancouver Merchants'
I Exchange. Additional bookings may
' bring the • total up to 80,000,000
'bushels. About 11,000,000 bushels
1 have been booker' for January load -
,ii r 5,600,000
, rug'.; 8;500,000 n February,
, in Match and considerable amounts
for April and May.
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RAMSAY MACDONALD
LORD PARMOOR
C. P. TREVELYAN
Col. Josiah Wedgwood—Chancellor of.
the Duchy of Lancaster.
F. W. Jowett---Comrnisaioner of
Works.
London Death Notices Show
Many Live Long
A despatch from London says:—
That London's climate, for all its fog,
is conducive to longevity cannot be
gainsaid in the face of statistics pre-
sented in the deaths column of the
London Times. Of twenty-seven per-
sons whose death notices appeared on
ono day, the aggregate age was 1,992
years, or an average of '73 years. Six-
teen of these were more than 70, in -
eluding -twelve 80 years old or more,
two of 96 and one 91.
Yukon is Warmest
Section of Canada
A despatch from Dawson City, YT.,
says:—The Yukon is experiencing the
mildest winter weather in the memory
of the oldest'inhabitant. This month
the thermometer has hovered around
zero daily as contrasted with previous
Sanuaries when it ran the scale bee
twoon 40 and 70 below. Extreme high
temperatures have prevailed in the
Yukon and parts of Alaska since early
last summer.
THOMAS SHAW A, HENOERSON SiDNEY WEBS
V. HARTSHORN STEPHEN WALSH F. W. JOWETT NOEL BUXTON
J. R. CLYNES
J. H. THOMAS
Natural : Resourr e3
Bulletin.
The Natural Resources Into'-
ligence Service of the. Depart-
ment of the Interior at Ottawa
ays:
Few in the inland Province
of Ontarioappreciate the magni-
tude of :the fishing industryof
the three Maritime Provinces,
Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Is-
land and New Brunswick. Dur-
ing, 1922 fish to the value of
$16,507,517 were taken. The
largest takings were of cod,
187,488,800 pounds,herring be-
ing next, with 159,550,400
pounds.
Of the herring taken 21,491,-
400 pounds was used as bait.
'me importance of the bait sup-'
ply is evidenced by the estab-
lishment by the Dominion Fish-
eries Branch' of a Bait Report-
ing Service, -by which captains
of fishing boats and others in-.
-terested are supplied with in-
formation regarding the catch
of bait at various points along
the coasts of the Maritime
Provinces and the Magdalen Is-
lands. Throughout thespring
and summer officers of the De-
partment of Fisheries gather in-
formation regarding the landing
of bait and forward it daily by
telegraph to the larger distribut-
ing points. This service is of
very great importance to 'the
fishing industry, as even the in-
land fisherman will appreciate
how useless would the line -fish-
ing vessels be without a supply
of bait or advice as to where
bait might be secured.
This is but one of the many
servicesrendered by the Federal
*`Government departments in as-
sisting in the development of
Canada's natural resources.
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Historic British Private
Bank to be Merged
A despatch from London says:--
Drummond's, the most aristocratic of
all British private banks, figured in
the news this month, when it was an-
nounced that the Royal Bank of Scot-
land would take it over, soon.
Thera are ledgers at Drummond's
dating from 1697, when the bank was
founded by Andrew Drummond, reput-
ed to have walked from Edinburgh to
London with a price upon his head
because he had been intrusted with
Jacobite funds. These early ledgers
are written in Dutch and contain en-
tries of gold plate, old. lamps and
rings, as well as currency. Tradition,
says that one of the early Princes of
Wales was refused advances by Drum-
mond's unless he had the consent of.
his father, the King, because the bank
officials thought he was too extrava-
c.nt. Coutts' Bank then came for-
ward and offered the Prince all he
wanted, and as a result .the latter
transferred his account as soon as he
came to the throne and could do as he
pleased with his banking account.
Business has been carried on upon
the same site, in the now historic
building at Charing Cross, ever since
the bank's founding. Though it now
will be a branch of the larger concern,
members of the old Drummond family
of Perth still will control it and it
will retain its individual character-
istics. Drummond's is a real "die-
hard" among banking institutions. It
was only last year that for the first
time in its long history it published.&
statement of its assets and liabilities.
The Week's Markets
TORONTO.
25 to 30c; twins, 20 to Sle; triplets,
30 to 32e.
Honey -60 -lb. tins, 11 to 12c per
lb.; 1.0-1b. tins, 11 to 120; 5 -lb. tins,
12 to 130; 21/4-1h. tins 13 to 14c; comb`
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, honey, per dozen, No. 1, 63.7u to $4;
$1.10Yo-. No. 2, $8.26 to $3.60.
Manitoba oats -No. 3 CW, 46c; No. + Maple products -Syrup, per imp.
1 extra feed, 45c, I gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, 62.40 per
Mani':,ba barley—Nominal. gal.; maple sugar, lb., 6c.
Butter -Finest creamery prints • 40
All the above track,bay ports. to 47c; No. 1 creamery, 43 to 45c; No.;
American
.barley G6 t2 yen. c 12 42 to 430.
American corn—hTo. 2 yellow, 96c. ,
it cartons,
Buckwheat -No. 2, 72 to 75c. 1 Eggs --Extras, fresh, 1 c o ,
Ontario Rye—No. 3, 72 to 74c. 158 to 59c; fresh extras, loose, 66 to
Yeas—Sample,, $1.45 to $1.50. 157c; fresh firsts, 50 to 51c; extras,,
Millfeed--Del„ Montreal fi eights, • storage, in cartons', 44c; extras, 41 to
bags included: Bran, per ton, $28;42c; firsts, 30 to 37c; seconds, 29 to
shorts, per ton, 630; middlings, $30; 31c.
good feed flour, 2.10, Live poultry—Spring chickens, 4
C)ntaro, wheat—No. 2 white, 05 to lbs, and over, 28c; chickens, 3 to 4
930, outside. lbs., 22c; hens, over 5 lbs., 22c; do,
Ontario, No. 2'White oats -40 to 420. 4 to 6 lbs.,' 15c; do, 3 to 4•' lbs., 15c;
Ontario corn -Nominal roosters, 16e; ducklings,'ovcr 5 lbs.,
Ontario flour—Ninety per cent pat., 190; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 18c; turkeys,
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship- young, 10 lbs, ;and up, 22c,
men t, $4.60;-Toron".'i besis, $4.60; Dressed poultry—Spring; chickens,
bulk seaboard, $4.25. �4 lbs, and over 300 cfit k0ns, 3 to.4
Man. flour-1stpats, in jute sacks,', lbs., 25c; hens, over 5 lbs„ 28c; do,
$I , 6.20 per barrel; nd pats.., $5.70. 4 to 5 lbs.,' 24c; "do, 3 to. 4 lbs., 18o;
roosters, '18e; ducldin e over 5 lbs.
Hay—Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton, . raoste ,.,r g ,
track, Toronto, 61.4.50 to $15; No. 2, 24c; do,'4 to 5 lbs„ 25c; turkeys,
$14.50; No, 3, $1.2,50; mixed, $12. ;young, 10 lbs. anci np, 28 to 82c;
Straw—Car lots, per ton, $9. f geese, 22e.
e 21'' to 22c;, Beans -Canadian, handpicked, lie.,
Cheese ---New, large, �n
twins 22 to 221c; triplets, 321,4 to�7c; primes, 6'/4e."
23c;
twins,
24 to 25c, Old," large,' Smoked meats—Barns, med., 26 to
27c; cooked hams,.37 to 390; smoked
rolls, 19 to 21c; cottage rolls, 22 to
24c; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27c; spe-
cial brand breakfast bacon, 80 to 330;
backs, boneless,. 30 to 36c.
do, country points, $7.75 to $8.25; do
Weds; $9.85 to $9.90.
MONTREAL.
Oats. --Can. west, No. 2, 65 to
Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 60 60c; do, rdo 3; 0213 to $30; 'do, oxtra
to 70 lbs., $18.50; 70 to 90 lbs., $13; No• 1 feed, 51c; do, No, 2 local white,
and 17 lightweight 7.011• 481/ to 40c. Flour—Man, spring wheat and they want to see him made a
00 lbs, d p, $Tats:, lsts, $6.20; 2nds, $5,70; strong .knight of the Legion of Honor.
m barrels 837; heavyweight rolls, .i , ,
$32, bakers 55.50;' winter pats, choice, Another aim of the-tlrive is o£fieial
$6.65 to $5.76; rolled oats, slags, 90 recognition of those who have died
Lard—Pure tierces, 17 to, l7 Fac; lbs.,, $3.051 bran, $28.25; shorts, of in'uries'received in reseaicli and
tubs, 1715 to 18c; pails, 18 to 18'/ c; , 81.25. Middlings, $37,20: 1Iey, per 7
prints, 19 to 200; shortening tierces, $ r lots is to . 10. practice. Among these are cited Redi-
tm$ $
Paris Raising Funds
For -X-Ray Sufferers
A despatch front"Paris says:—A
campaign has just been launched here
to raise a' fund for all French X-ray
victims and'their relatives, and to oh -
'fain official recognition of. their ser
vile;:• to science and humanity,
Obe of the potential beneficiaries of
the n b ement is Dr. Soret, who at the.
age of t had to submit to the ampu-
tation of`one forearm and then the
other hand. `e is still in the hospital,
but his only desire is that his wounds
may heal rapidly; so that he may re-
turn to his laboraS ry to direct the
work of students of Ro tt gen methods,
Like many others in the i>gld, he is a
poor man, Stet one of.the pinneers in
X-ray, The campaigners wish't2, ee
him assured of a comfortable incotce,,
14�a to 16x/ae; tubs, 15 to 15'/ c; ttatis, lttl,er, j>7o. 1 pasteurized,' 128,A11:. -each, a airuggist, Demons, an aper
151 to 160; prints, lr'¢ to i8c, 43',tc do No i creannery 42 tosuer; Dr Cruilloz aucl Di. Blanl•he
I3eavy steersi choice, $7 to $7,50' Eggs, storage extras, 40e; do, elorage Wittman. Those behind the movement
butchers steers, choice, $6,26 to $0,75; firsts, 85c; da, storage second., 28 to suggest a marble slab at the doors o£'
do, good, $5.75 to 6; do, nned„ $4,75 to 800 the most important hospitals, to be
$6; clo, cont., $4.26 •to $4.50; butcher Fairly good veal" calves, $10; med., inscribed with the names of all vie-
,heifers, choice, $G 10 $h. 5; do, mad•, $9 to $9,50; good lambs $10 and t.ims of. the 71, -lay.
$4.75 to $5.25; do; comm $4,60 t0 $5; $10 50 • sheep $5,50 to $6; hogs, 28.85
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butcher cows, 0110100, $4,75 to $5; de, to $9; cont, dairy typo tows and
meds, $3.50 to $4; canners and cut- bologna bulls, $2.50 to $3; tattlers,
tors, $1.25 to $2; butcher hulls, choice, $1.60.
34.25 to $5.26; do, com., $2 to $8; - -
feeding steel's, good, $5.50 to $6.50; The Sack Stunt.
do, fair, $4 to $5; stockers, good, $4 As the gnats arrive let each one of
them st:lp his right hand into a two A despatch from Louden says:.-
to$4.76 dofair$3,60 to $4; milkers
and springers, $70 to $100; calves; lila Tie the baground The smallest newspaper in the world
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to $14; do, bucks, $10.50" to $11.; do, bag is worn out.
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