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The Brussels Post, 1903-6-4, Page 6MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, ete in Tracie Centres. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, June 2. -Wheat -The Market is ateady. No. 2 red winter is quoted at 72*e east, and at 72e middle freight. No. 2 white at 72ec middle freight. No. 2 spring quoted at 70ec middle, and 13o. 2 goose at 66e on latidland. Alanitoba wheat steady ; No, 1 hard quoted at 83ec Groderiela and No. 1 Northern at 82/c Gedorich. No, 1 haz•d, 894c grinding.. In trantit, lake and rail, and No. 1 Northern, 873*c. Oats -Tho market is steady. No. 2 white quoted at 30*c high freight, and at 81c middle freight. No. 1 quoted at 32 to 132ec east. Barley -Trade is quiet, with No, 2 extra quoted at 44e middle freight, and No. 8 at 42c. Corn -Market is vary dull. Cana- dian feed corn quoted at 40 to 41e west, and at 46e here. No. 3 Am- erican yellow quoted at ale on track, Toronto, and No. 3 mixed at 53c, Flour -Ninety per cent, patents un- changed at $2.70 middle freiglits, in buyers' sacks, for export. Straight rollers of special brands for domes- tic trade quoted at $3.25 to 88.35 in bbls. Manitoba flour firmer ; No, 1 patents, $1,10 to 84.25, and strong bakers' at $8.85 to $3.95 in. bags, Toronto. Millfeed-Bran is firm at $17 here. ed out, for, though there was not a heavy run, soles were slow and (la- fieult to make. There wore not many choice export cattle offering. in fact, but even if there had hem the export trade was- off, in view of the prices at which prime export cattle con now be bought In Chi- eago, Under dime eircuinstatnces holders of oxport cattle in the coun- try would do well to take the ad- vice of some of the operators bore to keep their cattle back a little while until conditions change, which will probably bo when the last of the Ar- gentine cattle (now on the road to Englad, but shipped before tle. em- bargo was put on. the Argentines1 arrive. A great; number of these cattle were on the way at the time the embargo was put on, and this circumstance, along with the ',resew( groat rush of cheap cattle in tM• United States merkets. constitutes a imetty heavy handixtlp to the Canadian market. • in a couple or thrc'. . . . of the Argentine cattle will be al- lowed to land in England. The prospects will then be better for Canadian cattle. About 84.90 was 1 the tc) price paid here to-doy for - export, 'rho following was the range of (mot ati oils: Exporters' cattle- Per 1 CM tbs, Extra to choice $4.65 $4.95 Bolls „ 3.75 - 4.10 Medium to light ,,,4.50 4.70 But chers'- Pickett lots ... ... 4.0,5 4.85 Good loads .,. ... 4.40 4.65 Inedium ... ... ... 4.25 4,50 Cows ,„ el,O5 4.00 Feeders, light ... 4,00 4.50 Feeders, short -keeps 4.50 4.85 At outside points bran is quoted at Stockers ... 3.00 4.00 $16, and shorts at $17. Manitoba Sheelt- bran in sacks, $18, and shorts at Export owes . 3.75 4.25 $20 here 110., bucks ... 8.110 3.75 Spring lambs, each 2.50 4.00 COUNTRY PRODUCE, Calves, per cwt 4.50 6.00 Hogs - Beans -Trade is quiet, with offer- Sows „, 4,00 4,50 logs small. Primo white are worth Stags ... .„ „, 2.00 4.50 $1.65 to $1.75 per bushel. Selects, 1 60 to 200 Hay --The market is quiet with u . 6,00 0.e0 car lots of No. 1 timothy at 89.50 Thick fats 5.75 0.00 to $10, and mixed at 88 to $8.50. Lights 5.75 0.00 Straw -The market is quiet at $6.50 to 86 per ton for car lots, on 4/•- track, Hops-Trade dull, with prices nom - MURDER MYSTERY. inal at 18 to 20c, Potatoes -Car lots are quoted at $1.10 par bag, and small lots at $1.20 to $1.25. Poultry -Spring chickens aro quot- ed at 28 to 25c per Tie„ for broilers. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -The receipts of butter are fair, and prices unchanged, We quote :-Fresh large rolls, 14, to 15c; choice 1-18 rolls, 15 to 16c; fresh dairy tubs (uniform color), 15 to lfiic; second grades, 12 to 13c ; creamery prints, 20 to 21c; solids, 18 to 18*c. Eggs -Receipts are moderate, and the prices unchanged. Case lots sell at • per dozen. Cheese -Market is quiet at 12c per 58. .1300 PRODUCTS, Dressed hogs unchanged. Cured meats are unchanged, with a good demand. We quote :-Bacon, clear, 10* to 10ec, in ton and case lots, Pork -Mess, 821. to $21.50 ; do., short cut, 822.50 to $28. Smoked meats -tiaras, 13 to 13lc; rolls 1.1* -c• shoulders, 10e; b 14 to 14ac; breakfast bacon, 13* to 14e. Lard -The market is unchanged. We quote :-Tierces, 104c; tubs, 101e pails, 11e; compound, 8 to 9*c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, June 2. -Grain -No, 1 Manitoba hard wheat, 78c; No. 1 Northern, 761c. Fort William -peas, 68c. high freights, 73c. here. Rye - 62c east, 58ect afloat here ; Buck- wheat, 46 to 4,6*c; Oats, No. 2, 86c afioat. 87cin , $1.15 on track here; corn, American, 52c for No. 2 afloat. I"eed barley, 48c ; No. 8 barley 51c. Flour -Manitoba patents, 84.10 to $4.20; seconds at 88.80 to 84.00; strong bakers, $3.40; Ontario straight rollers, 83.85 to 88.50, In bags, 81.60 to $1,70; patents, $8,70 to $4,00. Rolled oats -millers' prices, 81.85 in bags and 63.85 per bbl. Feed-Itfanitoba bran, 818; shorts, $20, bags included; On- tario bran in bulk, $17,50 to $18.- 00 ; shorts in bulk, $10.50 to 820. Provisions -Heavy Canadian short- cut pork, $24; short-cut back, $21.60 light short-cut, 828; compound re- lined lard, 8* to 8c; Canadian lard, 10* to 11c; finest lard, 11 to 113c ; hams, 18* to 14/c, bacon, 14 to 15c; Meth killed abattoir hogs, 88.75. Eggs -Now laid, 121 to 18c, No. 2, 1.01,e. Butter - townships creamery gross, 18* to 1,9c; fodder, 19 to 18(ec; Western dairy, 16* to 17c. Cheese - Ontario colored, 11/es white, 11 a; townships colored 11 8-16e, white, ile. UNITED STATES MARKETS, Buffalo, Juno 2.-Flour-1"Irtn, Wheat -Spring dull; No. 1 hard, 84/c; No. 1 Nortnevo, 82;c; winter quiet; No, 2 white, 84c; No, 2 red, ; 80c. Coen -Dull ; No. 8 yellow, 52/c; No. 2 corn, 51 to 51c, Oats - Dull; No. 8 white, 38c; No. 2 Mixed 851e, Barley -50 to 57a in store, 1 • " • .Dultith, June 2, -Wheat -To ar- rive, No. 1 hard, 80e; No, 1 hard, Northern, '781e; No, 2 Northern, Vile; May, 78Sc; July, 784e; Sep- tember, 711e, Oats --May, 84e. Minneapolis, June 2.--Wheat-July, 771e ; September, 701c, Flour - First patents, $4.1.0 to 84.20 ; sec- ond patents, 84.00 to 84.10 ; first clear% 88.10 to 83.20 ; second clears 0,85 to 82.45; bran in bulk, 818. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, Jime 2. - With cattle 10 to 15e, lower in the Chicago market Yesterday, tvhieh meant good to prime steers at 84.00 'to 85.80, it, was to be expected that the export nettle buying would be slow in the Teronto market to -day, It So turn- Thirteen -Year -01d Girl Shot Dead Near Collingwood. .A Collingwood despatch says: A murder ntystery, which at present is 08 inexoneahle as any that eier battled the human mind, has thrown the Town of Collingwood and sur- roundings into a state of excitetnent The cone gains -its 111y$11.ViOUS ttal- • ity from the apparent absence of tory cenceivable motive, and so far 110 theory has been formulated which serum likely to lead to a solution of • the problem presented, while the clues in the case 1100 110 slight that even the mostastute detective might feel discouraged by the ores- peet presented of unearthing the my- stery. Glory Whalen, the 13 -3e0.1' - old daughter of a respectable farm- er, living two miles south of Col- , lingwoocl, left her home on Wednes day morning to, go to her school in town, Tl()' shortest route is by may of the Grand Trunk track, and this she invariably followed. See did inot return loone in the 1' yming. and 1101' anxiMIS fat mi and a couple of small youths Revelled the hushes all ; night. and in the early Inorning, US- SiSt0(1 by a young 3000101' named I1eude.11. they found her body lying in at 0)15181', oast of the traelc and W 11 11111 11. L11011O•S Of 380112,1150 110USP, Around her head was bound n. white handkerchief, met em• owe, and on removing it, a bullet wound was found in hack of her head. Some black marks on the 110112 - kerchief may allow that the fatal shot was fired after the bandage was placed around her Ileac!. A Hub was found near the body. tied medical examination showed a bruise inflict- ed by some blunt instrument on top of the bead, Not another scratch WAS found on the body, There was no sign of disorder about her clot Fl- ing. der school bag lay unopened, and her umbrella lay near, end small sem of money in du: corner of of her handkerchief was untouched, Such are the facts of the cote, They offer abunda.nt foundntion foe a host of speculations, but most (71 these most be of negative order. WM. OGILVIE MARRIED. Ex -Governor of Yukon Had Saved Life of l3ride. A Dawson despatch says cards have been received theze) announcing the marriage at Paris, Texas, a short time ago, of ex -Governor Wm. Ogilvie and Miss G. P. Richardson. The bride is twenty 106 years of age, and a sister of Captain Rich- ardson, formerly commanding the United States military post at St. 1 Michael. Their courtship was very romantic, Mr. Ogilvie having 14030E1 Miss Richardson from drowning at Nome. CHILDREN DROWNED. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, Doings of Our Law Kok= at Toronto, IltON-S M le 0 13051 NTI ES. btr. Moyle (N. Ontario) moved for a return showing money annually expeutled on the encouragementof iron mining; 111(1 111000111 of ore mine ed and smelted, aud the amount of fortegit ore smelted in the Province. ID• wished to bring tha bounty quest len before 11, }louse. '1'110 poplin inn and the Pro v o during 1900 and 111111. had. gb'i'e 8248,158.- 60 1$25,01.11) from the l'rovinctO In bounties to tin, severs blast furnaces in the 1'1-0\41100. Thu 11{11.11.8 Of lite bot' at these furnaces, amounted to $ 1 0,0(0 less than the Manies, 10 sliite of this, Pig iron In Canada cost 1:20 to $23 und in New York 8-19 to $2 1, This looked like pro- tect Inn ren mad, and he thought the industry W1111 11011 sti•ong, enough to 9(1(111) ''0 its (ion feet: Tho peat foto hotnetry, 1..1 101•011, 88115 a bet ter (-11bject for a hunt,' than the 0111,11 111111181 l'11'. Ron, 1'. .1. Davis explained 1.1121i ths •• s in • 1' • quoted by Mr. laosle were rot sineltieg only, and did not eover the expente 1-,1 raising the ore from. the mimes 15,' was glad to have the peel Mel letsinees mentioned, as the Itepartment of Mines had been exam- ining oito the induzdry and had ril- read:: piralielied 11 itztuebie bulletin upon the !natter, 18• would be glad to finmish the informed:in requested. 11( N 1 PA le WEIR, The Pretnier's bill to provide for the (.0i:slimmed! of munielpal power world' wee threshed out in commit- -tem The prize object i011 1E111011 10 lilo 11u118111.0 1.V the Opposition 89119 111,11 1011Iii0illt1 lit 1114 W10'0 being; deprited (o' their rights to the extent I that the thief Justice of the Pro - 1' one empowered to say who; shoole or should not supervise .1 he expendmes• of their on this, point 111.• Premier consented to 11, comonmete end amended the bill liy perm:it:1es Slutiieipal Councils to: discharge the coortnietioners ap-; pointed to carry out the construe - tion of a power plant. Another ob-- jection to tlu• bill was that it would no1 001)11)') 1,24105 to develop their own electrical 00 11' if the cost of (Mime so wo1110 increase the tax rate ess 'mil t he 1 i nil t it 0 W fixed by the at imicipal Act. The upshot of the whole diecussion was that the bill wee reported 11 (((1 the Premier peoinised to consider the objections rais;(1•1: O111ISKAMING 17A1LWAY. Mr. (1, 13, Powell (Ott(1wa.) moved for a return of tilt correspondence Let vo 011 the Government and the onm msi on neat ing to the Temi s - homing' :Railway. He heard rumors all onm the country that the road when completed was to be leased to the Grand Trunk. 12' 1 hought the road shoeld be run for a period of, say, ten years by the Government in order to show that a State-owned railway could be conducted success- fully. Ile considered that tho com- mission ammintrel by the Govern- ment was an excellent one, and should he allowed to ma.nage the road. Don. 11, Latchford denied the rumors that the tole vontrol 01 the road watt to be bossed 10 the Grand Trunk or Conaclian Pacific, or any other railway. The only corres- pondence 0185 bet 130011 the counsel for the commission and himself, and was at to the form of the bill and with reference to the value of the securities for the i11.11131,,dviess, and that was of a quasi confidential na- dirs, 111th these assurances Mr. Powell withdrew his motion. TEM 1,0 1L1..8 0 1e LEG ISLATION, A definite statement as to the postpenenteut lot' a• year of the pro- posed tomperatme legislation was made by Premier Ross on. a motion by Pr, fiery fot• correspondence re - speedier the delay. Mr. Ross point- ed. 0111 that the Gamey case 110.0 taken tip the time of the Govern- ment, especially of the Provincial Secret nem lobo had charge of the li- cense dopartnu•nt, Ile also pointed (1)11 that bcsich•s the inctowenlence of prelonging de, sitting 110111 fm• such a bill, nothing would be gained on the ionin points, as the license year has already commenced. (11 \ leN THUM READING'S. following bills were road a third time: To inem•pot•ate the illinnetakie, Lac Sod. and Albany 111 Rail- o•as• t'otiontny---Air. Cameron (Fort 11 1111181,11, iii,1•10.q.ling the 'Town 111 13race- biolgo-,Mr. I uclhope. TO l'OVIVO, extend, tout lament] an Act to incorpot•ato the Kingston and Gan:100m0 Electric: Railway Com- Culdwell. ll,specting the corporation of the College of St. Jerome, Berlin -Mr, Lackner. To inecirporate the Sarnia, Petro - ea and St. Thomas Railway Coin- panyz-lir, Hanna, To 1/10011/01`1110 the Lac Saul, Rat Portage and Keewatin Railway - Mr. Cameron Wort William). Respecting tho fsarnia Street Rail- way Company -I -Mr. Hanna. Resi-H.111g the Church of England Cotnetet•y in the Town of Sarnia - Mr. Hanna. Ferryboat Capsized While Crossing a Prussian River, A. Posen, Prussia, despatch says: The. Posener Tageblatt publishes a report that a ferryboat, having On boatel forty-five children, capsized on the riser Warthe, hill)' fiembro. The ferryman and twenty of the child- rrin, the paper 0113.14, 89111'11 drowned, 8 I,ater investigation of the report published by the Tagehlatt of this a city shows that a ferryman and a eleven children were drowned as 0. result of the capsizing of a ferry- y boat on the River laarthe, near n Dembro. 0. 14 WESTERN CROPS. Enough. Rain Falls to Assure tA Their Success, A Winnipeg despatch says: The Crop reportsof the (3. R. land de- partmeet indicate that tho country has received enough rain to assure the success of the Crepe all over, INDPSIRIAT, SCROOLS, A bill to amend the Industrial chools Act was Introduced by Hon, f. ft, Stratton. It provider.; for the malgantation of the reformatories nel the; industrial schools in the rovince. Boys from 10 to 16 ears, muter the 1)111, May he corn - Tilt (of"! to any indeStrial. school, and liholigh only to bo retained in the china for three years on the hula- erminedl sentence plan, they are o remain under the guardiamehip of he school until 21 years of ago. nother provieion in tho bill is that lee Must pay $1.25 and he thoveminent $2 per boy per week, instead of 700 and 82, re- spect holy, CIS at present, 114)10451 IN slIrripl. estimator of the Werke 13 Department wero taken up and pats - ed. lion. Mr, Latchford claimed that 11101's WaS nothing unusual about the estimates of his departs nmot, except that some of the voles required might be tanned "pretty largo orders, ' During the discus - 85011 the Conianissiorier intimated that it was his intention to place 1111 amount in the eupplemontary es- timates for providing road-anaking machinery in certain portions of the province. After the itublic Works Department estimates, a vote of $54),000 was pasted to meet uniateseen mid unpro- %Oiled expenses; also 88,000 to defray expenses of legislation, maintenance of puhlic institutions and salaries of 111,' °Myers of the 1 0111111110erv1 rind civil service, for the month of Jan- uary. 1904. Other estimates wore left, over, ROAD COMPANIES ACT. Stitherhool's bill to amend tho General Road Companies Act to permit County Commits to send thc County Engineer over toll roads to examine their condition and report thereon, nee•ived 11,1 imeolicl reading and was reinrred to the Legal Com- mittee. NEW ZEALAND. The Government Will Enter the Meat Trade, A. London despatch Says: The Gov- ernment of Now Zealand will shortly initiate a big Meat selling enter- prise. Prime Minister Seddon has cabled 11, response to an enquiry from London that tho Government proposed to buy moat 10 the colony, and ship it direct to the United Kingdom, where depots will bo en- tablished in tee big manufacturing content. The meat will be sold at a price that will eimply cover the costs, it is further learned that New Zealand intends to employ the existing sixty or SOVOnly faCtOrit11.1 to kill, fres', pack and ship the moat at 11 fixed stun per camases A cononissionee will manage the Government's business in the United Kingdom, and superintend a stag of branch managers. 'Pho first depots , will he nit ablished al. Glasgow, ' Manchester, 3 Averpool, end Cnrclief; all will be run in the name of tio) Now Wetland Government, There will 110 alsu retail shops, although it. Is Intended when the business is firmly est tibledied to abandon these and lease the retailing to ordinary butebers, the (1oV01111)1011t 111 111ply maintaining experts to oversee the trade. The NOW Zealand frozen 1110191 trade has rapidly advanced in re- cent yeat•s. The Now 'Zealand mut- ton imported into Great Britain in 1807 was valued at 112,077,000, and the beef at L11 8,000. In 1.002 the mullein imports had risen in value to Xa14,21 9,000, and the beef to 4.417,000. Great 1.3ntain s total im- palas of mutton in 1002 amounted to nearly 117,000,000 and beef mar- es, 118,000,000. Mr. Seddon hopes to capture a large proportion of SPRAYING OF ORCHARDS. Tho Power Sprayer Does Rapid. and Thorough Work. 'nu, Fruit. Division of the Domin- ion Department of Agriculture is just now giving a series of orchard demonstrations in Ontario and Que- bec to illustrate the groat advent:- 1mm which follow the tom of the power sprayer, The chief object Is to show that a dozen or mom fann- ers 11111y profitably combine to imr- chase a, power sprayer, place it in 01111113)) of some such man as usually (low; threshing, who can easily make himself thoroughly conversant with the host methods of spraying, and mignon lion to make regular visits to their orchards. At easel farm the expert sprayer will only require the astistance of a teanteter, ond thus the regular work of the farm need not be interrupted. Under peosent methods every farmer in the fruit distriett requires a spraying outfit of his own, and the spraying, if done at all, is done in a careless, heti- hearted way by men who do not know just when or how the work should he performed. Farmers are very busy at the 5055011 when spray- ing should be done, consequently it is often neglected enth•ely, or post- poned until too late to be effective. Farmers have reason to feel in- debted to Mr. W. A. MacKinnon, Chief of the Fruit Division, for bringing to their attention the (11er- its of the power sprayer. 11 the 011.1 nlethode of spm.ying W'Cl't) v and it is generally admitted that they were, this new plan must prove infinitely better. It is thor- ough and rapid, and is accomplished with little or no exertion 01` 11W011- venienev. The pressure is supplied by a 8111 Ell 1 gasoline engine on the wagon and the spraying Bono while the horses are driven up and clown between the rows of trees, The liquid is forced from a tank on the wagon du•ough two lines of small rubber hose. By the use of bamboo rods with a cluster qf Mx small nozzles at the end it 18 possible to reach the topmost parts of the trees, and the spray, which is its foie as a C/011d of vapor, falls lightly upon the trees and adheres much better than if applied in 0 coarse spray as is sometimes done, The pressure of 80 to 100 pounde to the inch en - sums a. spray so lino that it pene- trates to all parts of the trees. This 15 ef the chief advantages of the I new sprayer. The difficulty has been to reach 1110 tops of trees without a waste of the preparation used, which has been the invariable result when a heavy 01101011 was tunied 011, Again the appliances used by most farmers have only one 11ozz10, while this, as has boon stated, has six on each line of hose, and the force is notch greater and the mist finer, which Is all-important. Under favorable conditions, the op- erators of this machine coold ably spray from 1100 to 800 trees per day. l'oety trees, some of them difficult to get at, were. sprayed in about twenty-five minutes; after making several moves a clay, some of them long ones, the operators have been averaging between 400 and 500 trees a day. The trees sprayed will be given a regular com•se-four sprayings at least. It is hoped by the Department of Agriculture that these tests will bring about the general adoption of the power sprayer, A. similar spraying apparatus is being -used by private 0wne1•5 io the Niagara dis- trict 0112 is said to give excellent re- sults. The efficiency of the machine Will shortly bo increased, as it is tho intention to use either nine or twelve nozzles instead of six on each It is contended that if farmers will only unite to carry ou1 at systentatic campaign of spreying necortliog to the latest methods, a great deal May be done towards eradicating the enemies of fruit. lexpoeters who am familiar with tho results of spraying and the systematic care of orch- ards, strongly en,dorse spraying, Maiming that it is certain to im- prove the quality of the fruit, and in support of their claim they refer to orchards where the syste1n has been dari•led out, the fruit of which always commands the highest price. HOW TIE KNEW. One day Mother called TomMy and Mabel to go down the garden With her. She took them to the greenhoute, where a quantity of toot liad boon scattered all over the door of the greenhouse, and the path In front of it. Mother asked each child if ha Or she had done it. Both entwined In the negative, Then sbe said "011, Tommy, 1 Haw you do it, out my bedroom Whitlow 1" "That you didn't," sald Tommy ; 'for I looked at all the Windows dere I did it 1'' this A SOLDIER'S HARD LUCK. Robbed in London and Dies in New York, A Now York despatch says: A tinge of romance and tragedy in the life of a Canadian volunteer in South Africa is brought to light, by the finding of the body of L. A. 13e1011, Son of A. J. Belch, of 'Win- nipeg, 'Manitoba, in Newton Creek, Long Ishind City. (Mal: had been a hedger at the home of Mrs, Fiske • 89001(0 ago, Shortly afterwards she was informed that he WaS dying in o. Brooklyn hospital, and that 110 1106 given her nano) as that o.1 18 friend. Tho next she heard his body had been found, Mrs. Fiske says 1 :Belch often spo ce of his lather, judge in Winnipeg, and formerly edi- tor and proprietor of a newspaper there. He • said his mother was an! invalid in California, and that his younger brother was a lumber mer- chant. Belch said his father 13115 a man of wealth and that his 08011 in- heritance would be about 8100,000. , While returning from Solidi Africa, with about 8800 back pay, Belch stopped in Londom and there was i•oblied. He evidently did not in- form his parents of his poverty, as their letters showed they thought him in comfortable ci 1,1.11 lilStCtllll38. KEEPS UP WHEAT DUTY. .Bill Proposing Reduction Rejected by Big Majority. A Paris despatch says: 111 the , I a kther 01 D&'putles on Tuosday, after a brief discussion, the bill re- ducing the duty on wheat to five Mums was defeated by a majority of 801 votes. Tho Minister of Agricul- ture, Mougeot, io opposing 1110 measure, stated that the present price of wheat was not excessive, and that the fanners were receiving a lower price than wan regarded as legitimately profitable. The pro- posed reduction of duty would not produce the desired ond of cheaper broad, as It would not afibet the price of flour, The remedy, if broad was too dear, continued the Minis- ter, was for the municipalities to ex- ercise their power to fix an official price of bread. SHOT BY A FRIEND. Richard Christmas Mistaken for a Panther and Killed. A Victoria., 13. C., despatch says: While shooting at Parksville on Tuesday, Richard Christmas was ac- cidentally shot and 'killed by W. .7, Walker, mistaking him for a panth- er, The men, the best of friends, wont out to hunt panthers, and sep- arated. CHAMBERLAIN IS ILL. British Statesman Reported to Be in Poor Health. A despatch received at New York on Wednesday from London states that the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, who has re0ent1y come more promi- nently than ever before the people of the civilized world by reason or his docloretions in favor of a preferential trade partnership in the British 14)111.' p110, is in poor health. GERMANE'S TRADE GROWS. Returns for the Four Months ShoW Inewease. A despatch from Berlin 505/8 :- Germany's foreign -trade report for tho first four months ol 1008 showe the imports to have been 3.8,441,18(3 tens, an inereate of 1,804,6711 tont; exports, 19,058,074 tone, an increase of 3,241,841) tons, The exports of iron and manufactured articles in- creased 25{-3,00-7_4100_5. - PLAGUE IN TI1E DVINTJAITR. Deaths from ,Ian, 1st to May Number 14089. despatch from London Rays :- The dectthe front the plagu0 in the Pinejtoll) from ;January 1 to May 2 window 141,78(1, item:ding to a statement »tilde ()it Wecleestlay by 1,0rd George' 1 1 ami 1 on, the Irish Secretary, in the Mese of Com - MOOS. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS Notes of Proceedings in the Can- adian Parliament. IN TIlla SENATE, Sir Maekonzio Dowell presented 18 petiticins, signed by toino 300 resi- dents of the City of Vieloria, ogainst the bill to increase the poll tax on (ihinese, one of which be read. The petition sets 101(11 the value of tho Clidnese s domestic servant:,', etc., the orclorlinets their conduct, and urged that the itienmse 111 the tax would seriously increase the cost of labor, 11011, 11, Watson presented a hug number of petitions in favor of th labor union labelS. these 1)0.111011H came from Mont real, 0 t awa, Wind- sor, Winnipeg, and 011101' large e'en 1 res. Mr. Landry enquired 11 judicial proceedings had been taken for the recovery from the Town of Valley- field of the amounts paid by the Militia Department for the employ- ment of the volunteer 11)11111a force called out in aid of (ho civil au- thoritiestime at the of tho strike last year. Mr. Scott said the amount claim- ed 1300$4,481, and a suit was pending, Air. Landry moved for a, copy of the memorandum sent by Ills Holt. (less Leo XIII, to the Prime Minis - 'kir of Canad(0 at; the time or the latter's visit to the Eternal City. ale, Scott was not, aware that there was a memorandum. If so, it litomsst. confidential. The motion was BILLS PASSED. In the noose the following bills were passed through the final stages: -Respecting the Mexican Light & 1.01.901. Company, Limited - Mr. 'Thompson; to incorporate the Mac- Leod, Cat•dston & Montana Railway Company -Mr. 011801';respecting the Calgary & Edmonton Railway Com- pany -Mr, McCreary; respecting the Alberta Central Railway Company - /dr. Oliver; respecting thE e Lake rie & Detroit River Railway Company - Mr. Cowan ; respecting the Hodson Bay & Pacific Railway Company: - Mr,, Stewart; respecting the Ottawa Electric Railway Conipany-Afr. Bel - court ; respecting the Canadian er Northn Railway Company - Mr, Davis ; respecting the Edmonton, Yukon & Pacific Railway Company - Mr. Oliver ; respecting the Nipissing & James Bay Railway Company - Mr. Scott; to incorporate the Nipis- sing & Pontiac Railway Company - McCool ; to incorporate the Re- gina & Hudson Bay Railway Cora- pany-leht McCool ; to incorporate the Hle Hudson Bay & estern Railway Company -Mr. Iiaggart ; respecting the Canada Atlantic Railway Com- pany -Mr. Bolcourt ; to incorporate the Pere Marquette international Bridge CompanMry-. Cowan. • MILITARY milrop. In answer to Mr. Monk, Sir Fred- erick Borden hinted plainly that a new military depot will be estab- lished at Montreal, and that pro- vision for it will be made in the supplementary estimates. CANADIAN NORTHERN., The Primo. Minister announced that the Government propose asking Par- lianneit to guarantee 130110(0 or the 00111801101 Northent Railway to the amount of ,5{1/3,000 per utile in 01(1113to facilitate the construction of about 500 miles from the 1VIanitoba boundary to Edmonton, taking in return a first mortgage on the pro- perty of the company, This is a 1)013 departure on the part of the Government, and i13 wilt ensure tho construction of a most important stretch of railway without entailing ono cent of cost to the country. The line to lio thus aided will run through territory which is being rapidly settle(1. The new settlers whose means are Dinned will be able to secto•c; employment on the new line while they are 8000101)1(1acquainted with local conditions. WHERE WATER 18 SOAROE WILL BE CARRIED OVER 800 MILES TO A D11SERT, Western Australia Is Building a Pipo Line to the Gold Mines, Western Australia Is now one of the target( gold producers in tho World. Twenty yeams ago the groat desert oast 01 the fringe oe fertile grain lands and timber along 1110 se0, was not supposed to be worth a rent a square 1(610, Tho dOSert. '131)811'1101ly 1(111(0013(1, except that 11. few explorers hall made their toil -' n 0 atoe Wily over the immense eXpallSO e of sand; a few others less fortunate bad perished in these forbictding wastes. Then it was found that this Sa- hara was really to b, t,lte treasut•o house of the colony, The preen:me metal dug 0111, of these sande has made tho gold product of Wettern Australia equal to that of all tho other States in the Conononwealth, Gold hes helped this division of Australia to become one oe tho lust- iest members of the British colonial empire. Around the great mining centee in the deeert 50,000 people are living. It's natural to ask how they get water to supply their nods. Tho fart is, water is an extremely scarce commodity there. X43 probably does not bring so high a price in any oth- er part of the world. Salt water is obtained without 111.11011 difficulty by digging, but the cost of condonsa ing it to procure fresh water is so costly that every pint must bo care- fully used. There Is AN 0 C CAS 1 0 NAL SHOWER, and every house and tent in the Min- ing district is supplied with tanks to catch the rain water; bu1 it is an unreliable source of supply. The re- sult is that every drop of water must be husbanded, We have no idea hero, where ter seems anaost as free as air, how carePul they aro in the mining re- gion of Western Aucaraliti to put every drop to the best use. It is not comfortable to bo compelled to use water as though you never ex- pected to have another pailful, The inconvenience and discomfort clue to this cause; aro a terrible drawback to that region, and nothing less than the greed for gold would induce any one to submit to the incessant deprivation. Tosclay Western Auotralla is hard at work to remedy this great need and to supply the Coolgardio anti Kalgoorlie mining districts with a good supply of water. Tho total cost of 1110 work: will be not, lost than 815,000,000, but it, will solve the water problem. About 25 miles northwest of Perth, near tho sen and tho capital of Western Australia, is the Green Mount Range. The Helena River CrOSSOS this range through a deep valley. A dam 100 feet high ha.s been built across the river and the reservoir thus formed is seven miles in length and will hold 4,000,000,- 000 gallons. It is nocetsary to lift the waiter 2,700 feet to the top of the mountains in order to give it sufficient headway to reach the gold camps out in tho desert. The distance to • It algoorlle, the furthest camp to be supplied, is 828 miles. The water is to be raised to the mountain top by 11100115 of eight pumping stations, the machinery for which has been purchased at a COST OF 83,500,000, At the summit of the mountains the pipe line begins. It is thirty inches in diameter and is laid a lit- tle under the surface along the rail- road track, except that in crossing various salt lakes on tho route it is supported on piers. It is hoped to deliver from the reservoir to the mining camps 5,000,000 gallons of fresh water daily. Even with this amount of water it is not ex,pectecl that the mining population will have a drop to waste. They vill have to pay a good price for it, The charge to the miners, for exampie, will be $1,50 to r1,75 per thousand gal- lons et wholesale rates, It is not expected that the project will become self-supporting for s•onte time, The plant is to ho own- ed by the State, and the deficit must be paid out of the general taxes, Even if the 50,000 parsons to bo supplied should require the works to run at their fullest capacity the pipe Iine would hardly meet, expenses. It is believed, however, that an in, - creased production of the gold will be made possible by o good supply of water and that tho entire State will thus he benefited, for more min- ers will be required in the field, and practically all the supplies, except orachinery, come from the fanners and merchants of WeStern Austra. lia. PAUPERS LONGER LIVE». The Total Age of 34 Is 2,387 Years. The wonderful old age to which paupers live has been demonstrated by an Interesting investigation 10- 001)115) made by Janice Eells, super- intendent of tho Stephenson County, 111. poor fano. 11.4. Ells wa.s asked how old a cer- tain 0110 of his inmates was, and this led to an inquiry ELS to the ago of a 11.01181301' of others. He discov- elect that: he had 84 people whose ages aggregated 2,887 years. '1110 ages of one party of seven pooplo footed 600 years, the aver- age being a fraction over 88 years, Another party numbered' seyen, and their ages aggregated 527 years, the average being 75, There Is still another party of from 18 1.0 20 perzione, whose ages average between 60 and 70 years, and the average of the whole bunch is 0901' 70 smars. Supt. Keyes of the Kane Comity tarot, has a large contin- gent of old people, Soma of thorn two so old that it is Impossible to fix their age to a certainty, Some of them move about Over the prem- ises, a few beteg helpless, There is one colored womah who 13eyes says it at hotel., 125 years of age, Site 11 0111 inveteeate talker end tinger, WEIS born a Wave, and served different masters in Maio. She talks continually of plantation clays, intaginet that she Is 111 EL 10(1011 field harvesting this groat stople of the touth toed. From her dieconnected tnlks one is able to take tip the threads of SkOlne of the most interesting epochs of the ante- -Was* dive. She is tractable and gives lees trouble than many others of lighter color, Should the Pope live another' year he will 401ebra2 112 diamend jubilee as 0 bithop, hie golden jubilee as cardinal, and silver jelellee as Pope, HARD ON THE DOCTOR, One dark, foggy night there was a knock at the door of a physician. "Who's there 5" "011, doctor, make haste I My wife is dangerously I" Tho doctor uttered a suppressed groan of MI:mitotic°, for the village to which he was summoned 38115 about six intim out of town. Ha ordered out his carriage and the two drove on through tile dump, cold night, 01.181 before they reached the vile lase in 011108t1 011, the husband of the sick womaa alighted on solne pre» text or other, but did not return and, after driving into the village the physician found nobody who needed his nosietanee, 4. woole litter bo received a: note, Without signature, explaining the mystery "'Dear Doctor, -I am exceedingly obliged to you for giving 1110 a lift in your carriage, for 3. found it im- possible to prOcitre another convey. ance, and it WWI a dreadful night bone yeti Will forgive me this mica". 14)0151(1 Wife -"I'm afraid Jack doesn't lova me its he fonnerig dna" Her li•fother-"What maim have yon for thittking so, flear 7" Young Wile -"De is beginning to read 1110 paper every morning 1311110 at break., faet,"