The daily witness, 22 mars 1907, vendredi 22 mars 1907

[" RUB ému Dore tre pd by wig f the by a F Wa- me igh t'y VIC L spe- l'rade.the lation ng to tht to b rest Can- ce for jolum- pvern- > take e into ertain- pot to as to people jurivus indus- ITED [AML di pro es by pers ni es au fs, =v at £ pol pranc.- abat rire vernour d that the of nol $1,000 offi 3 and he gov wr rail f the need- tion je ice 1 bomtz by the officers mpeigt wa and form h a bill stature ILD.ling Pend: Rouge, ned io throat eaming who lotional provig- rounger at the - quite 5 death me sd and bg.at street:.Redpath pougail, | de ad- Vitoes to à uter of @ the 4 Eau it A N 9 ee s ~~ oF + Sa \"9 welve ° Pages Ss > ° y 2 SD RE.i Cam.mah ce pra GS 45 FE L__\u2014emmeneé ni DAI EE ER Ce Fair and Mild - = SPRING SAILINGS FOR THE ST.LAWRENCE.\u2018The passenger traffic to the St.Law- rene, this year, will be the largest on record and this is partially accounted for py the fact that the people of the British L-les are awakening to the great possibilities of Canada as the country of the 1uture.\u2019 This statement was made to-day by Mr.George Hannah, general passenger manager of the Alan Stermship Company.in discussin the prospects for the opening season.\u2018More especially is this true, he said, \u2018of the traffic westward as sur steamers have booked full lists up to thc middle of May next.This is a most unusual situation and it will give the steamship companies all they can do to nnd accommodation for thousand who are clamoring to reach this side of the Atlantic.\u201d Prospects for eastward travel are also @ ag hundreds of Inquiries are being made by intending passengers, and the St.Lawrence will, this summer, enjoy its full share of th: emigration traffic.\u201d ; The management of the Allan Line have completed arrangements for the ailings of their different lines vrhile they will add several new steamers to the Canadian service this spring.The steamers on the Glasgow service will sail every Thursday during the season of St.Lawrence navigation, carrying only second cabin passengers.On the Liverpool service the Allan Line will again place en the route the popular and speedy steamers which so successfully carried on thig service last season.The first steamer of the Allan Line to wil for the St.Lawrence this scason will be the SS.\u2018lontan,\u2019 which leaves Liverpool on April 18 for Quebez and Montreal and she will sail from the latter port on May 4, on her return voyage.The &S.\u2018Virginian\u2019 will leave Liverpool on April 26, and will sail rom Montreal on May 10, qn her return to Eng- Jand.The SS.\u2018Tunisian\u2019 will follow on May 2 and is booked to depart from this port for Live I on May 17, while the KS.\u2018Victorian* will sail from Liverpool on May 10 and is booked to leave dlont- real on her return on May 24 next.On the Havre and London service to Montreal, the SS.\u2018Sardinian\u2019 will sail from London on April 13 and from Havre on April 15 for the St.Lawrence, and on her return will leave this port cn May +.The SS.\u2018Parisian\u2019 will leave London on May 27 and Havre on May 29, for Montreal, returning June 18.The 86.\u2018Pomeranian\u2019 is booked to leave London on May 11 and Harve on May 13 for this port, retwming on Jume 1 next, On the Mon G serviee, the £8.\u2018Corinthian wi Sail from ge Juicer port on April %, departing or-her roturn trip from this pert \u2018on May 9.The SS.Pretoria! will père: 6 : or Rp Zi, resuiling from ME otf May 16; while the SS.\u2018sicilisn,\u2019 the HS._\u2018Mon- glian and the SS.\u2018Numidien\u2019 will coz WIRELESS TELEPHONES, Count Arco Experiments With Success up to Two Miles Berlin, March 22.\u2014Count Arco, in his wireless Jone experiments, has succeeded in obtaining distinct exchanges of words in a tolerably natural voice, at à | distance of two miles, by using poles thirty feet high.Rear Admiral Man- ney, who was a delegate of th» Dnited States to the International Conterence on Wireless Telegrapny at Herlm, and Lieut.Commander Howard, US N., the American naval attaché hers, have been present at a series of privaie exbrbitions of the wireless telephone apparatus, and have been able to talk with cach otner at a distance somewhat less than three miles.But the best practical results are attained at two mils or shdér, with thirty feet poles.Count Arco does not regard his dis coveries ad commercially peacticanie at present, though he hopes to eventually construct an apparatus which wal take the place of wires in cities and perhaps in suburban districts.Ê 0 PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS ADJUSTMENT OF GALAËIES\u2014WO- MEN'S HOME MISSIONARY .SOCIETY ELECT OFFICERS.: \u2014 Toronto, March 91.\u2014The.Augmenta- flou Committee of the Presbyterian Church met to-day, reviewed the work of the past year, and considered the ad- Juetment of salaries of men working in the mission fields.\u2018This year, owing to a surplus of $5.000 in the receipts, all the claims of the men of the church will be bromptly met.* The Women\u2019s Home Missionary Society, at their meeting to-day, elected the follwing officers: Honorary president, Mrs.Mortimer Clark; president, Mre.Emilie; vice-presidents Lady Taylor, Mrs.Bastedo, Mrs.Cochrane, Mrs.Lang and Mrs.H.'M.Parsong; recording secretary, Miss Bessie McMichael; corre *ponding gecretary, Mrs.H.Kipps; trea: surer, Miss Helen McDonald; secretary of auxiliaries and mission bands, Mrs.ki.Be Kennedy; secretary of supplies.Mra.¢ Orge Anderson; life membership secre- ary.Mrs.J.A.Patterson; literature Secretary, Mrs.R.F.Scott; editors of pioneer, Mrs.MeCurdy and Miss vckle: secretary-treasurers of \u201cPioneer, Mise Burns and Mrs.John Cavin.URN.MR.DONLY T0, stitute the ining vessels to do ser vice on this route.The new BS.\u2018Gram- pian\u2019 and SS.\u2018Corsican\u2019 will be sent out te the St.Lawrence at an early date.The Canadian Pacific Railway Koyel Mail steamers are in readiness for The opening of navigation to the St.Lawrence and as the management anticipate a rush for accommodation this spring, everythin possible is being done to carry a recor number of passengers from Britigh ports to Canada.] The Canadian Pacific this morning announced their summer sailings to Quebec and Montreal.The first steamer of this line to leave Liverpool for the St.Lawrence will be the 5S.\u2018Lake Manitoba, on April 24, and she will leave this port on May 11.The SS.\u2018Empress of lre- land\u2019 will follow on May 3 from Liverpool for Quebec, and she will leave on her outward passage on May 17.The $8.\u2018Lake Champlain\u2019 will sail for Montreal from Liverpool on May 8, and return on May 25.The SS.\u2018Empress of Britain\u2019 will leave Liverpool for Quebec ou May 17, re-sailing from the latter port on May 31.She will be followed by the SS.\u2018Lake Erie, which will leave Liverpool on May 22, returning from Montreal on June 8 next.; The Dominion Steamship Company is also preparing for a heavy season\u2019s traffic.In speaking of the prospects, Mr.McFar- lane, passenger manager of the line, said that the season of 1907 will certainly prove a banner year in transatlantic business.; ; The.first vessel of the Dominion Line to sail from Liverpool for Quebec and Montreal will be the SS.\u2018Ottawa,\u2019 on April 18.She will re-sail from this port on May 4.The SS.\u2018Vancouver\u2019 will leave Liverpool two days later, April 20, returning from Montreal on May 6.The SS.\u2018Dominion\u2019 is booked to leave Liverpool on April 25, and will sail - from Montreal on May 11 on her return voyage.The SS.\u2018Kensington\u2019 will leave Liverpool for this port on May 2, re-sail- ing for home on Mav 18.The SS.\u2018Southwark\u2019 will follow on May 9, returning from Montreal on May 25, while the SS.\u2018Canada\u2019 will leave the other side on May 16 for Montreal, re-sailing \u2018from here on June 1 mwext.The Dominion Line steamers have all heavy bookings, especially up to the end of Maye Donaldson Line will also have its.share of the traffic between Glasgow and the St.Lawrence.The SS.\u2018Athenia\u2019 will soil from Glasgow on April 20 far Montreal, returning from this.port on May 9, while the sister boat, the.S& \u2018Cassandra,\u2019 will leave Glasgow fer the St= Lawrence on May 4, and she is scheduled to 2a from Jia gi tuen trip on ¥ me eg The other stestusting Tim wh aiet, ly cater to the ftaight.té Son x ed.to have a heavy summer's bubin?éss.trade and commerce, to return té Can- \u2018ada for some months during the coming summer, for the purpose of visiting the industrial centres of this country.Since Mr.Danly went to Mexico, the trade with that country has materially increased.In 1905 the ex from Canada to Mexico amoun to over $115,000, and in 1906, to$250,309.In 1905 the imports amounted to $61,000 $287,500.~ OSHASKY CASE and in 1906 to MAN ACCUSED OF .ATTEMPTING TO BLOW UP HOUSE OF JOHN - SCOTT DISMISSED.L Lethbridge, Alta., March 21.\u2014The celebrated OeMasky dynamiting case came to an end this morning without any evidence being taken, Chief Justice Sifton dismissing the prisorer, when the Crown asked for more time in which to secure evidence.The case dates the atrike of the miners here, during which two attempts were made against the house of John Scott, ome in May and one in, June.Peter Oshasky was arrested in June, and \u2018has ever since been trial.William Judges, a Thiel detective.who gained the confidence of the union, has the evidence for the Crown.1t was freely | redicted that Judges, who belongs in the, United States, would not come across the line to testify.A report was handed to a commission to take his evidence on March 5, and Chief Justice Sif- ton set the case for March 21.The Crown to-day was mot ready to proceed, asking for more time, and the judge dismissed \u2018the priconer, saying that he FOUR INSURANCE \u201cBILLS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE.Ottawa, March 22, \u2014 The Commons Committee on Banking and Commerce at its meting to-day reported four àn- surance bills, as follows: a bill respecting the Traders\u2019 Fire Insurance Company, to convert the company\u2019s Ontario charter into one that will enable it to carry on business throughout the Dominion; a bill to incorporate the Eastern Canada Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company; a bill respecting the British America Assurance Company, and a bill to incorporate the Travellers Indemnity Company of Canada.The Traders\u2019 Fire Insurance bill was subjected to amendments, however, which that company is not likely to accept.: + CONSCJENCE MONEY.The city treasurer has received $70.conscience.money, at- the hands Rev.Father Pars.© de of the The seeretary-treasurer of the Mont- Teal Street Railway also reports received the sum of $30 conaci Ottawa, March 22.\u2014Mr.A.W.Donly,.panadian commercial agent in Mexico, instructed by the minister of & money through a Jesuit priest.side où her re, 3 fe fo ict of Vaslui alone rd tw | GE STS ed The movment: \u2018is.really, from Mexico to Canada: in the cells at.the barracks awaiting\u2019 thought he had been in jail long enough.\u2014_\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ¥ 1 BANKING - AND | COMMERCE having | ence.| Atlantic \u201ca TRANSVAAL ,Ç PARLIAMENT and Other Asiatics Passed in Upper | House.(See also Page 12.) Pretoria, March 22.-The Upper House: of Parliament to-day s ordinance,\u2019 providing for the exclusion of \u2018 the Japanese and other Asiatics v.o are immigrating to South Africa in increas ing numbers.RISING IN ROUMANIA MONTREAL, FRIDAY, MARCH Bill to Exclude Japanese; assed the \u2018Asiatie | 4 22, 1907.MR.McGUIGAN'S SUCCESSOR The - Position may go to Mr.Me.G.C.Jones, Manager - -of Central Vermont.4PROBABILITY THAT TITLE OF FOURTH VICE PRESIDENT OF G.T.R.MAY BE ABOLISHED.A.despatch from St.Paul, Minn., states that according to rumors in circulation \u2018in railway circles Mr.J.J.Hill presi dent of the Great Northern, will retire on Julpl, to be succeeded by Mr.Lewis J.Hill, now vice-president, and Mr.F.H.McGuigan, who goes to the Great Northern from the Grand Trunk system, will Burned by the Peasants.AND ROUMANIANS\u2014MANY KILLED.(See also Page 12 1 Vienna, March ES ithe to news received to-day in Buda-Pest from Moldavia, the peasant movement in.Roumania is spreading.\u201d The town of Dore.boi has been sacked and burned by the.peasants.The inhabitants were eon pelled to flee for their lives, At Cuct- teni, where many Hungavians live, » fight occurred between the Hungarian and Roumanian.inhabitants.Four Hun: , ed in a collision with troops at \u2018Belgos-.tie, while in FokcHany the people are\u2019 in revolt against the authorities.by peasant rioters.The fate of the in habitants is not known, coe Bucharest, Roumania, March.22.\u2014~The agrarian revolt which at first centred] around Botuscheni has pow .spread over ractically the whole of Moldavia.he telegraph and telephone lines have been destroyed and marauding hands have made some attempts to hold up 3 large estate belonging te Liberal Miniter.of Agriculture, een\" gare Paru ho the A than .ahti-Semitic.\u201d The jet ant# are in revolt st the great fdrin- ing t, which has leased half the cultivable land in Moldavia.- The absentee Jandlortls who controi-the trust happen to\" be\u2019 Jews and most of their estates bave already been sacked.,:Had it: not bean for he merciless \u2018actions of quel agents, who ground -the peasanfs down to starvation wages, the revolt would not have occurred./ The Jews Lave saf- fered.more: than other people from \u2018the uprising because the majority of the shop keepers are managers of farms, in Mel- davia, for JDewa.itary reigioré Lo \u2018urther, military reipforcemests were sent to idavia tot sh THE \u2018FIGARO\u2019 ~ DISCLOSES CON TENTS OF SOME.OF THE .\u2019 SEIZED.DOCUMENTS, _ (See also Page 12.) Lo Paris, March 22\u2014The \u2018Figaro,\u2019 a paper with Catholic sympathies, says that the documents seized at the Papal \u2018Nunciature here.after the expulsion of its secretary, .Montagnini, include a despatch from Cardinal Merry del Val, the Papal Secretary of State, advising Mgr.Montagnini to: give the Catholics free rein to oppose the taking of Church inventories, under the law providing for the separation of Church and State, and a report from Mgr, Gaspari, secretary .of ecclesiastical affairs at the Vatican, embodying information for use | during the \u2018French.electoral campaign, and instructions relative to that eam- paign.Lo ] Continuing, the \u2018 Figaro\u2019 asserts that one of the most inceresting documents is Mgr.Montagnini's diary.detailing con- -versations which the prelate had with various political personages, which, however em sing to those.involved, will not compromise the Holy See.In conclusion, the \u201cFi \u2019 asserts that the documents do not contain anything confirming the reports that the Premier, M.Clemenceau, attempted indirectly to negotiate with the Vatican, or anything -from the \u201cex-Premier, M.Rouvier, although\u2019there are notes indicating' that he hoped ultimately \u2018to arrive at an understanding.with the Väti- can., ame Mareh 2\u2014The Vatican em- tically denieg the.report current in Europe that it intends to publish the text of the documents seized at the Nunciature in Paris-in order to forestall their publication by the French Government.: .: NEW.C.P.R.ROUTE.\" A despatch fromr Vancouver says\u2019 the C.P.R.completed the arrangement by which freight trains may run over Har- riman\u2019s tracks into Portland, Ore., and from Rossland to Spokane.Throug' Pullman cars will be operated to St Paul, .and through freight will be carried to all eastern points, including the \u2018+ arrangement be comes ope =: = i Town of Doroboi Sacked and | CONFLICT BETWEEN HUNGARIANS gerians are reported killed and thirty#.wounded.Fourteen peasants were.kill: j The village of Sulina was destroyed] fo foe, niddle division of the em.DS 4e At Negresti, in the District of Vaay, | CHURCH AND STATE \u2018| me, first vice-president.Mr.J.J.1, the story says, will become chair- n of the Great Northern board of directors.* Inguiry at the Grand Trunk offices is morning showed that the officials ere are still without any other confir- tion of Mr.McGuigan\u2019s appointment is to be obtained from the news- pers, but Mr.McGuigan will probably «| Mftumn from Chicago to-morrow, and then ne official announcement is\u2019 expected.J Ti, is thought probable that Mr.F.E.Ward, the\u2019 present general manager of the Great Northern Railway, will sue Mr.Lewis J.Hill as assistant to egident, .and that Mr.McGuigan .me pot only vice-president, but general manager of the Great North- sady_ there is speculation among d' officials as to who will suc- wil: Mr.McGuigan, and two names are mékitioned im connection with the office fiose of - Mr.George C.Jones, who suc- Mr.E.H.Fitzhugh es general beg r of the Cemtral Vermont, and .W.G.Brownlee, the superintendent G.T.R, grarters at\u2018Toronto.It is @genaraliy.thought that the choice will {fell on the former, Mr.Jones came to She Grand Trunk with Mr.McGuigan ?he hea beet\u2019 siperintemdent -of the: eastern division.of the Grgad Trunk, with head- 3 trains.ter bet tons he mi ip with head.r- | A serious.encounter between troop ja at T - going from the lat- and raiders hag occur: \u2018at Blogoati, 1a ter offiée .the- penerat ma ip of the district of \u2018Baku.The peasanis at: ihe Central Vermont.It is not umiike- tacked the .troups; whe- opened fit, ah11y, | though, hat.the position of fourth the raiders, killing fourtéen - of} vick president: wilt be abolisked avid tht\u2019 : \u2026 MeGuigan\u2019s suctessor will become ly peneral\u2019 superintendent.BORshS QI DOANE OF a aie LAM MERIT FD : ABS MINTER, = \u2014 sa + .Boston, March 22.\u2014A etal of 100 lives and 54 ships have been sacrificed to the storins - and treachiorous coasts of New Bngland and the Maritime i for: the winter just énded, accor to the statistics compiled \u201cby the Associated Press to-day.Of the vessels, no account has been.taken of the dozens that have been driven ashore and later relloated,- and figures x Connecticut, waters, H dead is swollen out of all proportion to those of many previous years by the\u2019 \u2018sinking of the dtedamer \u2018Larchmont,\u2019 in Block Island Sound, \u2018fhe nigh of Feb 11, with an estimated loss of 150 lives.This was the one great disaster of the\u2019 ear in these waters, the largest loss of Tite in any other single wreck occurring ih.the foundering \u2018this, month of \u2018the Newfoundland \u2018echooner \u201cHarry Louis\u201d \"with her entire crew of eight men, - .As usual, the Nova Scotian coast hes \u2019 \u2018proved the most disastrous to ehipping this year, claiming 16 vessels, but Newfoundland was mot far behind with 14 eraft.- The American coastwise fleet was the \"heaviest loser, wath 95\" ahips and 175.Jives, while the British.loes was 18.chips -and° 24 Tives, ! 20° LORD, CHARLES BERESFORD oN LA.es > LS a.Ne SULE.IN HIM.\"Chicago, \"Marsh 22.\u2014' Admiral Lord Charles Beresford ~_ yesterday passed Chicago on his way to London.-A cable despatch \u2018from London \u2018of : Feb.| 23, which said:\u2019\u2019Lord Beresford is in a huff and declines to rule the Channel Fleet, objects to withdrawal of shipe -service for reserve, thinks Home Squadron should be under his command, and that he may run for parliament to advocate hig views on the naval policy of England,\u201d was shown to the Admiral Lord Beresford said that he did not be- Have ehips for reserve service should not be withdrawn, and felt that the Hoine Squadron should be undér his commandas admiral of the navy.\u2018As for running for parliament,\u201d he concluded, \u2018that ie beyond my intention.It sounds too jouch like sulking, and a sea dog Like sngself \u2018will not sulk.\" i \u2014 _# \u2019 IMPERIAL FREE TRADE.Mr.-Atek.McGoun, K:C., has called à preliminary meetingfor mext Thursday evening, March 28; at eight 0\u2019clock, in Strathedna Hall, \u2018corner of Sherbrooke street and McGill College i avenue, to take steps for organizing a public meeting at which to set on foot a determin- éd; agitation throughout the whole Do- mia in.favor of free trade within the Empire, > A = \u2018JASE ADJOURNED: .i This morning Recorder Weir adjourn- | \u20182d.the.oase umtil March 29 of Ernest predant, who \u2018es charged.with.sesaulting \u20188 gonducter in thé em- titreal Strest Railway.Wabash Railway in 1808, and | rterè\u201d here, and superintendent of | mn, \u2018| the Amerïean WHITELEY MURDER Horace G.Rayner Found Guilty and Condemned to Death.\u2014_\u2014 JURY TOOK ONLY NINE MINUTES TO RENDER A VERDICT.London, March 22.\u2014Horace George Rayner was arraigned in the Central Criminal Court to-day charged with the wilful murder of William Whiteley, the dry goods merchant of Westbourne Grove, on Jan.24.The general interest taken in the case was evidenced by the crowded court room, many women Veing among those present.fn his opening statement counsel for the prosecution, whose assertions were subsequently corroborated on the witness stand by Louisa Turner, who lived under Mr.Whiteley\u2019s protection, disposed of the fiction that Rayner was an illegitimate son of the man be killed.The rest of the evidence presented in behalf of the prosecution was merély a repetition of - the Police Court testimony regarding the murder.Mr.George Eliott, counsel] for Rayner, in his opening speech for the defence, said it was -not part of his case to prove that the prisoner was a son of the late Mr.Whiteley, Rayner, rightly or wrongly, believed he was his son, and counsel was going to show that Raymer wae insane, in the legal sense that he was a degenerate whose mind was tainted, defective and weakened by the overindulgence of two generations of his family in drink.The jury, after being absent nine minutes, returned a verdict of wilful murder, and Rayner was sentenced to death.WAR TROUBLES IN CENTRAL AMERICA.Mr.Roosevelt\u2019s Offer of Arbitration Accepted by President .of Nicaragua.SENTIMENT OF PEOPLE COMPARED WITH THAT OF AMERICANS WHEN THE \u2018MAINE WAS\u2019 BLOWN UP.arbitrafion of \u2018the wat troubles in Central Amerien in a letter received last wight from Bluefields.The statement of \u2018Zelaya is said to have been printed in Blu , along with President Roose- \u2018velt\u2019s appeal for peace, which is dated in February._' ; President \u2018Zelaya closed his reply by saying: \u2018I therefore accept your friendly offices, being disposed to have the ques \u2018tion settled by arbitration.I beg to state to you that the sentiment of the Nicaraguan public is the samie as that of ple when the \u2018Maine\u2019 was blown up.HARRIMAN AND HILL.° All litigation to prevent the Harriman interests invading Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railway territory in the State of Washington has been withdrawn, whaich leaves the Harriman interests free to \u2018push construction work on its line from Portland, Ore., to Seattle, Wash.FAIR AND MILD THE WEATHER PROPHET.1 ain\u2019t no ceg'lar prophet with a license to But when I eteris predictin\u2019 I kin do st purty wi : I doesn\u2019t stop to bother 'bout to-morrow or nex\u2019 .day, .; But I looks away off yonder jes\u2019 a-past de month of May.- \u2019 \u2018 I's got it safe an\u2019 certdin, am\u2019 it ought to make & hit, De way I maps de weather out dat we's a-gwinter git, - It's.fair an\u2019 warm an\u2019 sunshine, and MK soun\u2019s jes\u2019 like a tune, : Dat bulletin dat 1's a-puttin\u2019 out about nex\u2019 June.1 I's made my calculations year by year.I's got \u2019em sure, .Dey\u2019s al right, honey, even if I is an amachoer.De blizzard an\u2019 de snow-drif\u2019 dey ls gwine- ter.fade away, : Dar ain\u2019t ao use o° stoppin\u2019 lo pecdict \u2018em day by day.I's tellin\u2019 'bout.de blue skies an\u2019 de murmur of de bees An\u2019 de honeysuckles sendin\u2019 perfumed kisses to de trees, So don't you lose yoh patience, 'cause de climate purty soon Will ast jes\u2019 lke I tell I is pro- phesyin\u2019 June.\u2014Washington \u2018Star.\u2019 Toronto, March 22.- Victoria, 46, 32; , 50, 32; Calgary, 42, 26; Edmonton, 42, 20; Battleford, 34, 14; Prince Albert, 38, 18: Qu'Appeile, 38, 18; Winnipeg.44,30; Port Arthur, 28, 26; Parry Sound, 38, 34: Torcnto, 42, 34: Ottawa, 36, 30: Mondreal, 36, 30; Quebec, 30, 22; St.John, s6, 20: Halifax, 36, 22.Fair and very mild to-day and on Setur- dav.© Rain has fallen heavily in portions of Saskatchewan and Manitoba ?by eoniewhat colder conditions; she Dominion the weather has been you.\u2018| and quite mild.1640-* Notre Tame strest, Montreal, March- 23, 1807\u2014Retdipgs by Hearn & Har- risou'\u2018« Standard Barumeter at noon Yesterday, 20.67; 11 a.m.io day, 29.25.Temperature.ax.Min.TRARY 0 \u2026 \u2026 +.oo 42 20 Yesterday \u201cos se os es 37 3 A 4 « ed the battle.still contest Ze championshi; New en March = 2 : ar is quoted as accedi too request 06 President Roosevelt fes.PricE Owz \u2018 ENT NEWS IN BRIEF.King Menelk, of Abyssinia, Las cun- ferred on the Pope the decoration of the Star of Ethiopia.À bill to exclude Asiatic emigrants from the Vransvaai wus passed 1 toe Upper Mouse of tbe lrausvaai Leguels- Lure yesterday.The newest thing 1» wireless tele phones.(Count Arco, according tv a Berlin despatch, has, by placing lus transmitters and receivers ou poles thurty feet high, succeeded In talking over à distance of two miles.President Roosevelt's offer of arbitration in the war between Honduras and Nicaragua has been accepted by the latter.Australia is now proposing not only to establish penny postage throughout\u2019 its own territory, but to offer it to all other countries who will return the compliment.Plans are afoot in Germany to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Kaiser's accession to the throne by a big World\u2019s Fair in Berlin.The Channel Tunnel Bill has been killed in the British Parliament.The Premier thinks the commercial gain would fail by a long way to overbalance the political worry.Horace G.Rayner, the man who killed Mr.William Whitely, the London millionnaire merchant and then tried to commit suicide, has been condemned to death.Lord Charles Beresford when shown a Chicago newspaper report that he m- tended to leave the navy und enter parliament, replied that it sounded too much \u2018hike sulking to fit an old sea dog like himself.After a fight of three days and two nights about Potrerillos, in North-West \u2018Honduras, between the forces of HMon- duras and Salvador on the ome side, and those of Nicaragua on the other, the forces of Honduras and Salvador are reported fleeing, with hundreds of dead -and dying left on the field.The Nicaraguans are also said.to have captured 2,000 rifles, large quantities of munitions of war and several high officers.La- ceiba, a port of Honduras on the Atlantic coast, is in the hands of the The jast despatch report- in progres.ita, iu the typewriting in C , y, wom the for ti hird time, on a 200 words better than in New York._ 3 Califomia is suffering from eerious floods.All rail communication between San jean cisco and Los Angeles bas been eut off.M Caught by a belt yesterday, in the Mc- Clary Manufacturing Company's works, London, Ont, Fred Howe, one of the emplovees, was literally beaten to a pulp.Fifty-four ships and one hundred and ninety-nine lives have on the coast of New land and Maritime Provinces during the past winter.Tt is expected that the Orford Mountain Railway will be opened in about ten days.Sherbrooke maple sugar makers had their first run of sap spoiled by the blizzard of Wednesday and Thursday.\u201c Intercolonial trains are blocked in New Brumswick by snow drifts, from eighteen to twenty feet high.Mr.McGuigan it is reported, will be first vice-president of the Great Nor thern Railway.The Montreal General Hospital is to be remodelled, at a cost of $500,000.rer PENNY POSTAGE.Australia to Introduce Bill Establishing it With all Countries Favorable.Melbourne, Australia, March 22.\u2014The Federal Government decided to fn- troduce a bill during the next session of parliament, establishing a two-cent rate of postage on letters not only through- oui Australia, but with all parts of the British Empire and all foreign countries that will deliver two-cent letters from Australia.er MILITIA COUNCIL SIXTEEN DAYS TRAINING FOR FIELD ARTILLERY RECOMMENDED.Ottawa, March 2.\u2014The Militia Council, in a report presented to pariiament by the Minister of Militia yesterday afternoon, observe that twelve days\u2019 training is too short a time to enable the soldier to attain even moderate acquaintance with his duties.The allotment of 16 deys to the Field Artillery has had a markedly good effect.Whether a general increase of the period of trainmg ie financially possible, or would be feasible without entailing interruption of the business of the country is a large and important question.But whatever the answer to that question may be, it is right that the country be made aware of the draw in so short a period \\ of training.\u2019 > : me = PRT 22 - nt kg rate se CL Adee ae Ce TE ae med eee wah wl lg \u201ca em Wari TS Tamme an dat on see (= .(iles es words in thirty minutes, her last record.Smee vee : Tati: wien eno Av DCR WY tL ( à & j bo ; # ; ° i WES.RA - etre AD I Yo MABRIÉD.: CHANTLER\u2014BREWSTER.\u2014 At Newton Robinson, by the Rev.J.J.Sperling, Mina Chantier, youngest daughter of J.4) Chantler, of Newton Robinson, Ont, ie R.S.Brewater, M.D., 0: Beeton, Ont.MATHESON\u2014FREW\u2014At the brides Home, Cottage,\u2019 Guelph, Ont, on March 197, -by the Rav, R.W.Ross, of .General Purveyors to the Trade: } LAPORTE, MARTIN & CO., MONTREAL, ushoede y ow Tee 53 ES Ltd.se, \u2014_\u2014 CB 4 rR WE Li (es y P | 1 pi Na) Pi | V db £ 77 a 3 ) W Su SE CEST PA THE MONTREAB Fr ne \u2014~ \u201cda Traffic Almost Tied up MONTREAL EXPRESS STALLED, AT MONCTON, AND TWO MARITIME EXPRESSES AT HAR.SPRESSES AU RAR Sw ; .Tr - Moncton, N.B., March 22.\u2014On the In- tercolonial yesterday an almost complete tie-up existed, affairs on the northern division being in particularly bad shape.No trains have arrived trom the north éince early on Wednesday morning, and Thums- days Montreal express from :Halifat \u2018is\u2019 stul here on account of the fearful condition of the road, which in many places is blocked by dyuite eighteen to twenty fect in-depth.The Moncton bound Maritime Express, both Wednesday's and yesterday's, are still held \"at - Harcourt.Wednesday's tram remained for the greater part of.the day at Kent June tion, and then progressed as far as' Har-.court.Despite the fact A equipped with two locomotives and à big enow plough, it made only a few miles headway, and the trainmen sban- doned any attempt to get.through, re- |THE INCLINE - DAILY WITNESS RAILWAY.as Condition of New Contract BRIDGE OVER WHARF TRACKS TO BE ERECTED THIS SEASON.At yesterday afternoon\u2019s meeting of the Parks and Ferries Committee, a report Was presented relative to the incline railway on the mountain.lt was stated that this had been running without à contract with the city for severa] years.Attempts had been made to arrive at an agreement satisfactory alike to the city and the \u2018company, but without success.As the railway was of such public service, the committee had sanctioned its running without a contract, but yesterday afternoon the members decided to renew an agreement.; The secretary was instructed to «write to the company to arrange for a conference, at which the committee.it is said, that the t rain\u201d-wes will ask for a reduction of fares as one of the conditions of a new contract.The committee also decided to move in the matter of the erection of the overhead bridge crossing the wharf tracks from the ramp to the St.Helen's Island turning to Harcourt after lea one fer ite Bonsecours Church, \u2018Lhe locomotive and a plough to try and fowce bridge jig \u201cordered b the Harbor Coma way through the drifts.at A special was sent out from Moneton yesterday to try and make headway through to Harcourt.so thay.the efprem could be run to Moncton.; ORFORD MOUNTAIN RAILWAY WILL BE OPENED FOR :THRQUGH TRAFFIC IN ABOUT TEN DAYS.iw .The Orford Mountain Railway is now practically completed from Ri nd; on, the St.Francis River, near Bromé, to Mansonville, on the Vermont border, a distance of abuve 70 miles across, the counties of Shefford ang Brome.« Æ is expected that the completed \u2018road.will be opened for through traffic, in -sabout} en ays.The road will open.a nortk and south route: through.a.district ¢ this province which badly -needs™duch facilites, It will also give easy.dete to Orford Mountain and the cluster pf fishing lakes at its base, as well as to the Bolton mineral springs, where a fine.bo tel hus been constructed.pige e Orford Mountain Railway: *connects with the G.T.R.and C, P.Bu at its north end, and with the C.P.Rind\u2019 Boston & Maine at its: southern ter minus, so that it will give splendid\u2019 dh- | nections for this summer: resort: country: from Quebec, Montreal and\u2019 Boston .\u2026.\u2014 11104 eu have Auaw VERDUN HOSPITAL.\u201cM7 The visiting governors to .the Px taût \u2018Hospital for the Es = for the week commencing March 25, Messrs.John Allan, J.Wylie, H.Le Putnam and Dr.D.F.Gurd.\".For the.week ended March 19, the Hyedical-abp- erintendent .of this hospital reports ?\u2014 Admissions, 18; -discharged.cured, 1; discharged on trial, 1; deaths, 1.1 CO TT | h di El 1 know well, missioners on the understanding that the city will pay the interest charges.\u2018The material for its construction has been delivered, and it is now a question as to \u201cwho shall put it up.The Harbor Com- Praiesioners will be written to, and the meeting.It was decided to take no further action regarding the smuggled cigars found on St.Helen\u2019s Island; as it was thoughv the fines -imposed were punishment enough.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 - THB TRAVELLERS\u2019 TAX BUSINESS MEN ARE GRATIFIED .AT ITS REMOVAL.The decision of the Quebec Government to remove the annual tax of one \u2018hundred dollars, imposed about two years ago on commercial travellers from outside the province doing business in this Province.is being highly commended by the officers and members of the Dominion Travellers\u2019 Association.The tax resulted in a severe check to trade that formerly came from distant points, It is expected that, following the withdrawal of this tax, considerable foreign trade that \u2018was lost to this province will be regained \u2018and that outside houses which some time ago.ren their representatives will reenter fhe province, «At.the last meeting of the executive committee, of the Dominion Travellers\u2019 dation, a resolution of \u2018condolence was passed to the wile and family of hthe late Mr.R.B.Hutchison, expressing regret at the death of such an esteem- -ed.member of the association, ©.AN.AWFUL DEATH EMPLOYEE OF .McCLARY _ OOM: PANY: AT LONDON CAUGHT _ ~ - IN THE BELTING.London, Ont, March 22.\u2014Fred.Howe, an employee of the McCleary Manufacturing Company, was literally beaten to ing caught by a belt and whirled around in a heavy éhafting for over a minute.\u2018He was cleaning some pipes, when hie coat was caught and he was drawn into \"1a space of but a few inches, re MISS PEPPERCORN'S RECITAL.\u201c Miss Gertrude Peppercorn first came to America as a Chopin player, but she now claims credit as a Liszt player also, and is gaining on all sides.She will give Montrealers an opportunity of judging for themselvey on Monday evening next, when, im addition to a series of Chopin selections, and unhackneyed \u201cpieces by Schumann and d\u2019Albert, she will play the great Liszt B Minor Sonata, Her rendering of this tremendous \u2018| composition has won for her the un- \u2018| qualified praise of many of the greatest American and European critics.Mise Peppercorn will be assisted at the recital by Mr.Arthur Blight, baritone, from Toronto, whom many people here but who has never been heard in a concert in Montreal.- New Styles for Spring In Gentlemen's Clothes\u2014the best we have ever seen.Inspection will reveal why we are proud of them.3 3 Stores : ar + Qu {291 st.James Street ! 471 $t.Catherine St.East | 470.$t Catherine St.West.Reduction of Fares will be Asked | negotiations with a view to arriving at question further discussed at the next.a pulp at 3.20 yesterday afternoon by be- oT Sid ab 47 Hunyadi Janos Best Natural élassful in the morning for headache, biliousness, torpid liver and especially FOR: 3 IP CONSTIPATION PpusLc NOTICE ishereby given N that under The Companies\u2019 Act, 1902, Letters Patent have issued under the Seal of the Secretary nf State bearing date the eighth day of March, Nineteen Hundred and Seven, incorporating ALLAN R.OUGHTRED, Advecate and King's Counsel, of the City of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec; ROBERTSON W.GIBB, Student, of the Town of Westmount, in the said Province of Quebec; MICHAEL A.PHE- LAN, Advocate; EDSON G.PLACE, Advocate, and SAMUEL C.MARSON, Bailift,, all three of the said City of Montreal, in the said Province of Quebec, for the purposes of:\u2014(1) Carrying om a general business as engineers, machinists and \"manufacturers of plant and machinery of all kinds and descriptions, with power to transact all business of a similar nature; (2) Carrying on the trade or business of manufacturing, buying and selling, and otherwise dealing in ali kinds cf plant, machinery and electrical or steam devices of every class, kind and description; (3) Buying, selling, manufacturing, repairing, eltering ana exchanging, letting or hiring, and dealing In all kinds of articles or things which may be required for the purposes of the aforesaid business; (4) Acquiring, holding, hypothecating, selling and conveying any real estate, lands and buildings necessary for the execution of the aforesaid enterprises, and for this purpose to take and accept hypothees, charges and pledges on real and personal property of all other guarantees whatsoever bearing Interest or otherwise, as the Company may Ceem fit, of the purchasers or other debtors of the Company, and to sell, convey or otherwise dispose of all or any of these securities; (5) Purchasing or otherwise acquiring any business within the\u2018 purposes for which incorporation is hereby sought, and any lands, properties, rights, contracts and liabilities appertaining to same, and to pay for such business in paid up capital shares of the Company, common Or preferred, or in bonds of the Company, payment of which may be secured by hypo- thecatimg any or all of the real estate, lands, buildings end immovable property generally of the Company; (6) Letting or sub-letting any property of the Company, selling or otlierwise disposing of its bysi- need) property or undertakings, or \u2018any \u2018part thereof, for such consideration as the Company may deem fit, and in particular for shares, debentures or securities of any other company having objects similar to those of this Company; (7) Acquiring and taking over as a going concern the business at present carried on at the City of Montreal, by the St.Lawrence Supply Company, Limited; (8) Issuing bonds for the purposes of the Company with the an- thorization of the shareholders; (9) Manufacturing and supplying electric light and power for the use of its own business, and to sell any surplus it may have, with power to acquire all privileges, and do all acts which may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, provided that when exercised outside the property of the Company the powers contained in ¢his clause shall be subject to all \u2018provincial and municipal laws and regulations in that behalf; (10) Acquiring any trade marks, industrial designs, paterts, patent tights, licenses, privileges or authorities for or in respect of any invention relating to the Company's business, and to pay for the same in paid up common or preferred stock of the Company if deemed advisable; (il) Io so far a8 may be necessary for the business of the Company: (a) To buy, sell, manufacture and deal in minerals and other natural products; (b) To buy, sell, manufacture, and deal in metals of every description; (¢) To buy, sell and deal in and manufacture - the products of timber, and to buy, sell and deal in timber lands;.(12) Subject to the approval of the shareholders to pay for any property, rights or things, Company in pald wp shares, common or preferred, of the capital stock of the Company; (13) Doing all such other things that may be necessary or useful to the attainment of the above objects: the operafions of tbe Cempany to be carried on throughout the Demdcior of Canada and elsewhere by the name of \u201cTHE INTERNATIONAL STEEL COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED,\u201d with a total capital stock of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), divided into Five Thousand (5,000) shares of One Hundred Dollars ($100) each.Dated at the Office of the Secretary of .| State of Canada this eighth day of March, Nineteen Hurcrod and Seven.\u2019 R.W.SCOTT, Secretary.OUGHTRED, PLACE & PHELAN, Attorneys for Applicants, 'LONUSHOREMEN STRIKE OVER 200 VESSELS TIED UP AT HAMBURG, Hamburg, March 21.\u2014The dispute between the \u2019longshoremen and the shipping aseociation has caused a serious congestion of freight here.Two hundred and, thirty-four vessels are now awaiting loading or unloading, and enormoas quantities of freight are piled on the docks., \u2019Lorgshoremen engaged in England continue to arrive here to take the place of the locked out men.A fie.SPECIAL NOTICE.Miller & Miller, of New York, are in the city for a limited time only.Who are they, you ask.Well, they are experts in the matter of measuring cutting and fitting Ladies\u2019 Garments, Ho can be seen at Carsley\u2019s Dress Goods Store.You want a garment for Easter, ladies! Now is your opportunity to select your goods, and choose one of the many style plates which Professor Miller has brougnt F7 Ÿ v York.The measuring, cut- fitting costs only 5c.acquired, and for services remdered \u201cto the | { GYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN NORTH-WEST HOMESTEAD REQULATIONS: ANY EVEN NUMBERED sectica of Dominion Lands in Manitoba or the North- West Provinces, excopting 8 and 26, not ne served, way pe homesteaded by any person the sole head o! a family, over 1§ years of age, to the exteat ol one- quarter section, of 160 acres, more or cas.Application: for homestead eatry or ia- spection must be made in person by the applicant at the office of the local Agent or Sub-Ageat, : An application for entry or faspectioa .made personally at any Sub-Agent's office ; may be wired to the local Agent by tae Bub-Agent, at the expense of the appiicary, and if the land applied for is vacant on receipt of the telegraia such application :s to have priority, and the land will be held until the necescary papers to complete tau i transaction are received by mail.In case of \u2018\u2018personation\u2019 the entry will oe summarily cancelled, and the appilcant will forfeit all-priority of cisim.An applicant for.ingpeotion must be eligible for homestead ent:y, and oaly ons application for Inspection will be receives from an individual until thet apylication has been disposed of.A homesteader \u2018whose entry 1s in geod standing, and not liable to cancellailon, may, subject to approval of Department relinquish it in favor of father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister, 1f eligible, but to no one else, on flllng declaration of sbandonnaent._- Where an entry 1s summarily caccelled, or voluntarily abandouncd, subsequent lo fostitution of cancellation proceedings.tae applicant for inspection will be entitled Ww prior right of ertry.Applicants for Inspection must state Ia what particulars the homestender |s in default, and if subsequently the statement 19 found to be inccrrect in material partilcu- ars, the applicant will loss any prior right of re-entry, should the land become vacabt or if entry has been granted it may be summarily cancelled.DUTIES.\u2014A betfler is required to perform the conditicns under one of the following.plans:\u2014 | wn 5% Noe alx months\u2019 residence upon and cultivation of tho land in each yeas during the teétfn of three years.(2) If the father.(or mother, if the father is deceased) of a homesteader resides ujon & farm in the vicinity of the land entered for by -sugh homesieader, the requircment as to residence may be satisfied by said person residing with the father or motber., (8) If the settler has his permanent residence upon farming land owned by him is the vicinity of his homestead, the requirement may be satisfied by residence upon such land.Before making application for patent the settler must give six months\u2019 notice in writing to the Commissioner of Dominon Lande at Ottawa, of his intention to do eo, BYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN NORTH-WEST MINING REGULATIONS.COAL.\u2014Coal laads may be purchased at $10 per acre for saft coal and $20 for av thracite.Not more than 32) acres can le acquired by one Individual or company.Royalty at the rate.of ten cents per ton of 2.000 pounds shall be collected on the gross output.\u2019 ; : QUARTZ.\u2014A free miner's certificate 1s granted upon payment in advance of $5 per ennum for an individual, and from $50 to $100 per annum for, à company according ving discovered mineral in place, may te a claim 1,500 x 1,600 tort, OST OT The fee for recording a claim is $5.At least $100 myst be expended on the claim each year, or paid to the mining recorder in lieu thereof.When $500 has berm sxpended or paid; the locator may, upon having à survey rade, and upon complying capital.A free mine, with other requirements, purchase the land at §1 per acre.The patent provides for the payment of 8 royalty of 24 percent on the sales.Plucer mining claims generally are 100 feet square; entry fees $5, renewable voarly.A free miner may obtain two leases t@ dredge for gold of five miles each for a term of twenty years, renewable at the discretion of the Miaister of the Interior.The lessee shall have a dredge In opers- tion within one scéson from the date of the lease for each five miles.Rental $10 pee annum for seach mile of-river leased.Royalty at the rate of 23% perceat collected on the output\u2019 after its exceeds $10,000.- W.W.CORY, Deputy: of the Minister of the Interior.N.B.\u2014Unauthorized publication of this ad- Vertisement will not be paid for.£7 The ST.ANDREWS 5 SOCIETY £37 of Montreal open to \u2018receive applications for the position, of \u201cMatron.the St.Andrew's Homé.vo co .Candidates must be of Beottish descent, Protestant, a .possess the necessary qualifications, both as to character and ability, for the prcper conducting of the Home.No objéction would be made to a married couple., Applications, with copies of testimonials and references, may be addressed to : ~ AM SECRETARY, Box 533, Post-Office.Have You a Cold ?THEN QET A BOX OF Harte\u2019s Grippe Wafers Cures a Oold in Twenty-four Hours.Have You a Cough ?QT A BOTTLE OF Harte's Cough Mixture JUST THE THINQ.PRICE 250.J.A.HARTE, Druggist 180 Notre Dame West are Groceries, Provisions, &o.GETTING READY for EASTER EASTER ovght to be, and is, one of the Brightest and wost Joyous Seasons of the year, and if yon would thoroughly cnjoy it.GET YCUR SUPPLIES at WALTER PAUL'S Grocery Establishment, for there you will find the LARGEST ASSORTMENT AND BEST QUALITY OF GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, TABLR FRUITS, aod FRESH VEGETABLES, that can be had anywhere, and you will find that his prices are not much higher thas what is usually charged for inferior goods Corner METCALFE AND ST.CATHERINE STREETS.a pee worth only \"Dally Witness\u2019 and \u2018World Wide $4.50 3.30 Fitness\u2019 and \u2018Messenger.2.40 310 Pally,\u201d \u201cWorld Wide\u2019 ad as ze © 12 ve 390 2.99 Fe fonluded for Ganadé (Montres! ~ ) suburbs excepted), Newfonodlasd, C1 pat Britain, Maita, Gibraltar, Now Zea- x Jamaica, Trinidad, Babama Island, i TYsRsvaal, Parbadoes, Bermuda, British 3 a, British Honduras, Ceyion.Gambia, k wak, Zanzibar, Hougkong, Cyprus: 1180 United States, Alaska, Hawalfan Is- : and Phliippine Islands.i ly Witness\u2019 and \u2018Messenger\u2019.y.\u201d \u2018Worid Wide\u2019 and \u2018Mes- es oo sn sss os ss ae \u2019 ly Witness\" and \u2018World Wiis\" Wi Lap; oc.T gro tal union countries, excepting 1 Dentioned above, add for\u201d pofuge, for \u2018Dally Witness,\u2019 $1.08 for \u2018Weekly .* 50e for \u2018Northern Messenger.\u2019 Pat ; ape Just edition of the \u2018Dafly Witness\" is ered in the city every evening of pub- at $4 per annum, \u2018World Wide L'6R 50 per annum.aT \u201c2 er rrs.{ ess communications should be #d- A \u2018John Dougall & Sem, \u2018Witness® \u201ctefficc, Montreal\u2019 All .letters to.the rc Maitor, e should be addressed \u2018Editor of \u2018Witness,\u2019 of Montreal.RCE rea F|S 13 ° 16: 2223 29 |-30 | .se .ee | +}.1p \u2014\u2014 \u201cEEE INT : de nd - ETRY.- dn j pes wv Op \u201cEs \u201cFRIDAY, MAROH 22, 1997.- Rvp Py is a general feeling that the ent of certain McGill students péponection with the McGill Union fizsge is barely adequate to vindieate >4 à ,feputation of the university, which Sa pertaiely suffer if it gets abroad that {la school of lawlessness.The feel- pg: would, however, be greatly lessened \" a knowledge of the facts.It should be remembered that the young men who ed the ammonia-throwing came for- Ÿ to a man and gave themselves up A fullest apologies and surrenders t e decision of the powers and that #8i.group did not include the young , who threw the liquid, who they 3 was not one of them, but had prevailed on by them to do the Mise trick.Their instructions to him wae pour the contents info thé: vén- i shaft after the lights went out, gh he had got rattled and threw it The young man who actual throwing, came forward = w 3 @mmsibility for the:-unfortuñéte transi The students - themselves \u201cheld _ ge and recommended: certais -pun- sshadents.As a previous \u2018experiense\u201d had shown how difficult it was for.tire \u201cau- sities to get at any.facts; this, ¥élun;, V rg action on the part, of the students 4 ; wel naturally bailed , 55.an augury.- ôf :) .things, and if the punishment: of ispnsion for six \u201cmonths wüs*inild, #5 Value as à detefrept\u2019 was\u2019 immensely.ter than the severest of punishment bave been had 2 épirit of antagon- law and order prevailed, *.0.\u201cBf peasant revoit.in Romania, 3 not ising in view.of the social evndi- tion is mainly composed of three classes, Bojars, or nobles, merchants and pesagnts.Every twenty-fifth.man is a noble, every bundredth: a merchant, the temgin: ing mass of peasants, attached to ffie \u2018poil as in Russia, are little- better serfs.They.are of »#-mixed: race Fhe some two hundred thonsand paies, who, down to a recent -period, Wer held as slaves by the nobles and the teries.The powers when they es- ished Roumanian independence did Bot\" confer freedom on the peasantry, ' condition is extrémely .misetable, pokh the country is highly fertile and 8 rts immense herds of cattle.The févétnment is in the hands of the-no- Bled\u2019 who own all thé land and alsp con- ¥ 1 the courts, and are notorious for gk tyranny; and oppression of the apts.What seems a little strange is LA fact that Jews, ostrécised, penalized quif hated as they are and have always y prevailing in that; country.The | the towns, and not allowed to engage in the more lucrative and respectable callings, they are mostly small shopkeepers and traders.As in\u2019 Russia, they are always the first and worst sufferers at times of | public disturbance, because, in addition to the racial and religious detestation in which they are held, the peasants believe thgy may be beaten and plundered with impunity as they always are.There is little hope of peaceful progress in the country so long.as the present system of land tenure exists and the power of a corrupt, licentious mobility remains unbroken.Roumania finds her farm lands largely cornered by what are spoken of in the despatches as land syndicates, which are assumed to be largely controlled by Jews.This is a little singular as, firet, a3 we-bave said, the land was all par celled out among the gentry, and, in the second place, Jews, there as elsewhere in eastern Europe; are barred from either owning or working land.\u2018 Barred in thie | way from the humanizing relationship to mother earth, the Jew has, however, never been forbidden to lend money, and the natural result of this would be that the real control would paës from the thriftless noble to the thrifty Jew.This ie not an amelioration of the condition of the masses of the population.It would seem, on the contrary, to have rendered their servitude much more galling.This change is part of a move ment leading .necessarily towards a new .order-of things.There.are many who à would have taken far more interest than they have done in the process of working the landlord burden off Irish\u2019 soil, but for the bel:ef that the old landlord would ere long be replaced by the absentee money-jender, who would gradually get thefarm lands into his hands so that the last state would be \u2018worse than the first.As long as there \u2018is unlimited land for the taking, as there atill & in North America, this process will not attract capital; but as econ as there comes to be any pressure upon the | land the tendency to monopoly will de -} velop.- Then will appear the need for government to.do something.It is probable that government will then have to exercise more \u2018and more control over ernment becomes really the owner and \u2018the occupant the govermment\u2019s- tenant.This result will be reached by leying such taxes on the land value as \u2018Will eliminate the middleman\u2019s profite,., and 20 prevent the oecupant borrewing upon the land, Torin The process of landed credits, which has recently shown an\u2019 alarming recrudescence in this country, and which bas been greatly \u2018trumpeted in parla- ment as a boon to farmers, will naturally work in the same direction.landed securities are not and never can be good banking.The \u2018land bank\u2019 fallacy has travelled eround the world érom England to Calentta, from the United\u2019 States to Australis and South America.Examples are almost numberless.In 1814, two hundred and forty English banks failed, in 1831, Caloutta houses failed to the extent of $75,000,000.in 1837, every bank in the United States closed its doors; and all for the one cause\u2014and and: credulity.In 1857 a great panic PR were seven thousand two hundred fail- \u2018ures for an amount exceeding $500,000, 000, \u2018besides \u2018failures that resulted in Fimigland from that crash.The cause -wds that'mortgage loans on lands in the United Statés proved valueless when the time came for them to be submitted to the *eet- of realization.The same old tale sceounte for the failure of Overend, Gurney & Co.in 1866, which submerged Englich houses to the extent of $500,000,- 000, and the Baring crisia was due to the same \u2018cause.Our chartered benks now-a-days\u2019 are too eareful to yield to \u2018the questionable seducementsof land as security; indeed, the Bank Act pre à | vents them.* In Chili.it bas been: J found .necessiry for the government | to underwrite them, so that the government has become a gigantic creditor of | banks ggt\u201ca\u2019 lien on a majority of tho farms, we shall be in a fair way either to the-Chillan-or to the Roumanian conditions.Why it is, says a thoughtful writer ori thie subject, that each generation has to learn again the lesson so ridely taught in every preceeding de- \u2018cade, is\u2019 a mystery which only those who study the psychological influences of calamity can venture to explain.THE \u2018CURRENT\u2019 LOAN AOCOUNT.thirty-six chatbered banks to the government for Janvary what are called cur- vent l6ans amounted altogether to about $587,000,000, while what are caHed cali and ehert loans amounted altogether to about $107,008000.Call and short loans consist in large messure of money lent on stocks and other \u2018quick\u2019: securities, and as the banks usually allow plenty of \u2018and d jis, form a very large element in Wout, Confined iby ibe a et 4 \u2018of \u2018them Josing- money on tirat accoent.the terms of land ownerskip until gov: | swept aver the United States, there, the farmérs of the country.When land According to the statement of the margin for shrinkage, there is little fear.statement is \u2018current loans\u2019; indeed, it has been called the only really important item in a bank\u2019s balance sheet, aithough many who have to - analyse\u2018\u2019bank statements do hot appear to have realized that fact.Neverthelese, it is true that the \u2018paid-up capital,\u2019 \u2018reserve,\u2019 aud \u2018de posits\u2019 are important jteme only from the fact that they show, after deducting \u2018cash\u2019 and \u2018investments,\u2019 what pgoportion of the funds loaned are supplied re- epectivdly by the shareholders and \u2018the depositors._ Again, \u2018profit and lose\u2019 arises entirely from the manipulation of the loan account.In analyzing the per centage of profits made by a bank that fact cannot be lost eight of, As\u2018 the author of \u2018Banking\u2019 puts it, if a very large percentage of the loans made by a bank \u2018are arbitrarily taken in stock as \u2018good,\u2019 the profit will appear greater and the dividends will be larger than if a smaller percentage is eo taken.It is impossible for anyone to know how large a proportion ought to be so taken, or even to guess at it, without an intimate knowledge of all the facts.And no one outside the management of a bank can even know what proportion actually has been disposed of in this manner in any particular bank, \u2018as such .proportion is never disclosed in a bankev's balance sheet.oo 1 It is obvious, therefore, that eny attempt to compare the proportionate profits of different banks, or the intrinsic value of their shares, is limited to à mere face comparison.The most ekilled and homest bankers themselves differ of ten widely in their estimate of the same securities, and neceesarily #0 when those securities are only promiges to pay.When Mr.Fyehe, for instance, succeed: ed Mr.Hague as manager of the Mer- chante Bank, he insisted in shaving down the book values of some of the securities held by-tlie bank.This is invariably done by an incoming manager, who neceesarily knows, less about the merits of the specific loans, and must therefore alow a larger margin for safety.Where the inanager.is incompetent, or dishonest, it is in the curremt loan account where \u2018monkeying\u2019 will almost certainly be found.It was found in the Banque du \u2018Peuple, the Banque Ville Marie, Bank of Yarmouth, and Ontario Bank, and in some of these cases to an extraordinary degree.In the case.of the Banque du Peuple, one customer \u2018Had; been lent over three-quarters of a, million dollars\u2019 on paper\u201d that proved to He worthléé; after the Ville Marie Bank failure; it wes found that many Toans carried on the books as current onee were outlawed or worthless, ar only the \u2018president\u2019 bons or notes; in the Yar- mouth failure « good deal of the \u2018cur Tent\u2019 paper wes found to be worthless; while in the case of the Ontario Bank the \u2018current Joans\u2019 was largely a piece of \u2018bookkzeping\u2019 intended to cover- stock - speculations; In a bank of standing, nc matter how large a business housé may be, it can only get its trade paper discounted up to a certain amount.The limitations] such a bank imposes upon discount accounts are tliese: The customer must be à good one; the amount that any customer may borrow is defined and strictly limited; the customer is expected to leave a propcrtion of - the amount borrowed on deposit as further security; and ~ure- ful inquiries are always made about every bill offered for discount.Not so much care is taken hy banks desperately stiug- gling for.business, and we see the re- solt in-disaster from time to time.As the public has to depend upon tha of ficers and directors of a bank as to the value of the security for loans, and the charecter and financial \u2018standing of the men to whom they make advances, it especially behooves -the directors really to direet.They must to a very large extont rely upon the general manager and local mandger in some of these var- ticulars, but they onght.to acquaint them- selven as far as possible with the char acter of all large accounts requiring advances: something of the character of their chief officers should be known to them, and the hooks of the bank should be thoroughly audited at reasonably short periods.Here is where an independent audit.has its admitted limitations ana where it is obviously mot to be Telied- upon by directors naturally anxious to lay off responsibility.An independent audit would not reveal the intringic value of the current loan account \u2018of any bank, but it would reveal whether or no the securities named in that account were actual or imaginary.=.| FINANCIAL REVIEW.~ The New York market has again been iatlined to weakness since the early part of this week; and the supporting factors have had the greatest difficulty in preventing further widespread losses in the market prices of securities, .All this week there has been a series of decKnes followed) by advances, the market alternating in the moet speculatively approved fashion in both directions.Feverish and éxregular would best define fhe situa.tion, the operators etill being Possessed | The most important itén in the bank] | weele \u2018ago, while the d'à déep-rooted optimism concerning the early future apward course of prices.Thia is.very well illustrated by the great volume\u2018:of investment buying, which alone, however, is not sufficiently power- fol to qualify as a permanently sustaining forte.The buying on professional and \u2018aemi-professional account is mainly for _s-\u2018quick- return, and this factor is probably the \u2018most uneettling of any | no _ influencing the whole situation.With every rally there is a rush for profite, and; in the present state of sentiment, such selling easily encourages a Broader range of liquidation by the weaker folders who imagine themselves-face to face with another rout.The basic conditions surrounding the market posi- \u2018tion are eopnd.with practically no exception, excepting the continued scarcity of funds, and it is to that that the recent heavy liquidation of stocks is directly\u201d attributed.This realization .on the steck market has, however, been of great benefit to the money market, and yesterday money on call was quoted at four percent in New York, * There Was a genuine surprise from Paris yesterday, in the _ announcement that ghé Bank of France had raised its discount rate from three to three and a fiaif pécent, which was said to have been dup to a pressing demand for money from \u201cforeign bourses.The Bank of France bas throughout the past six months\u2019 of international monetary stringency protected itself from the withdrawal of gold in the most aggressive and jealous manner, and the advance of this week, when the Bank of England l'Eovettiors thought the situation did not justify.an advance from their ruling five pereentt rate, was indeed a blow to the bull parties of the stock markets.The proportion of the Bank of Engldnd\u2019s re serve ta liability was nearly two end a half percent lower than in the previous weék; \u2018and'it is understood that the gov- ernoré: Of the bank have seriously considered the advisability of advancing the rate,\u201d \u201cIf New York keeps ite hands off the bank's gold the discount will no Aoubt.be, unchanged, as traders in the United Kingdom would be unfavorably affectéd by the advance in the rate.Sterling exchange is at a point to tempt the New York houses.and it is questionable if they can withstand much longer the _profitable \u2018bait.Perhaps such im- portätions for speculation, if they thigpten the international situation, will not be encouraged by the Secretary of thi Teasuiy by advances of gold without ittérst \u2018agminst shipments known to be on the way.Any.attempt to withdraw:.gold from London would not only impat'a higher rate of discount by the Bank of England, but New York importers would .be squeezed to an extent that would easily offset any temporary benefit derived by the gold imports.London thinks that the United States Treasury ghould relieve the New York money market when necessity calls for such action, and not try to convert European credits into gold, since the credits mainly represent borrowings upon railway notes and other securities, Gaing and losses have been mixed on this market since a week ago to-day.As a rule the price changes here have closely followed those on the New York market, and as a consequence it was not easy to know just what the market was doing a few minutes after a glance at the tape.Fluctuations were rapid and severe in many stocks, and what was & strong bull market in the early morning had changed two or three times from bull to bear before the noon hour.; Scarcity of money for speculative purchases is the trouble at this point, with, of course, an anxious eye \u2018upon\u2019 the course of events in the New York: Stock Exchange.The business situation in thig country is excellent, and practically every company with its stock listed on the local market is making the best of the great industrial prosperity.Many bargains are going a- begging, perbaps not so.much because of the stringency of funds as the fact that there is a peculiar and altogether unique disposition on the part of investors to buy for investment those stocks.that have some anticipation of a speculative rise in the early future.What the investor seems to be looking for now is a six percent stock with a return\u2019 of almost seven percent on the purchase price, and a stock that will have an assured advance in any ordinary market.movement of ten or fifteen points.The gilt-edged securities are neglected as there is no possibility of more than a few points appreciation in their market prices.Since a week ago Canadian Pacific has declined a few points; Power a large fraction, Montreal Street has shown a slight improvement, Twin City gained a point and a half, and Teronto Railway two points.Riche- lien, Fova Scotia Steel and Dominion \u2018Coal were all fractionally higher than a Mackay stocks, lake of the Woods common.and \u2018 \u2018Soo\u2019 common were all down substantially.Hlinois wag about steady and there was an improvement in the market tone for bank etocks, .ecome chara¢ter won her many new a coovacess == esse Finpay, Marcn 22, 109; ee _ rte SAN-FRANCISOO.; po (New York \u2018Globe 20d, Cotamereid] Ad- TO SET ASIDE A LEASE vertiger.\u2014_ At last, through the efforts of Prosecutor Heney and Detective Burns, the lid is completely off in San lrancisco: There is a foot race among the guilty as {0 which eball confess first and buy immunity by information, The first indictments were in the nature of biutts, it being now admitted that the evidence supporting them did not suffice for conviction, but they achieved their end.The frightened robbers, ag ready to betray their fellow conspirators as the public, are hastening to the grand jury to tell their stories.Bose Ruef has .ost his impudent assurance, and Mayor Schmitz, three weeks ago pompously ing to Washington and stretching his es under the Wibite House mahogany, already in imagination feels his hair clipped.The exposure is the worst known in Americas since the days of Tweed.The corrupt \u2018combine\u2019 among the aldermen of St.Louis, uncovered by Governor Folk, was not one-quarter so bad.Less than a year ago San Francisco was over whelmed by a catastrophe that made her a mass of ruins.In the first days of the calamity, when looters appeared to prey on the wreck, the world applauded as they were summarily shot down, But the worst looters have not been those that tried to wrench rings from the fingers of the dead.The distinctive infamy 16 reserved for thef ranchise seeking corporations which saw a chance to pick San Francisco's bones and began to traffic with willing public officers who found opportunity for personal gain in the public misery.At no time in che his tory of America has there been a reve | lation so appalling and discouragmg\u2014 the only consolation being that it is so bad that it is hardly conceivable that it ie illustrative of other municipal corruption.The bribed have been caught in San Francisco, and will mot escape except as pardon may be granted to them for furnishing evidence, Effort is now being concentrated, and properly so, on getting the bribers into the bag.According to Detective Burns the street railway of San Francisco paid $700,000 for the privileges it secured, and the lighting and telephone companies huge sums.It is obvious that the principals and not merely the petty officers of the com- nies authorized these expenditures\u2014 ew for what purposes they were made.The supreme object should be to put these business criminals, and not merely the politicians, in the penitentiary.Li we are to have soundness and health in municipal government we must go higher up than the office holder.The buyers rather than the sellers are the- fountain of corruption.The apprehension of the bribed must in all cases be but the first step toward the punishment of the bribers.\u2019 Another lesson outstands in San Francisco.Neither of the old parties was in control of the city.Mayor Schmitz was | Himself a member | of oe ane, held of a labor union, won gng | .powes by posing as thé maint workirig- men.The warning is writ large for the instruction of every man - with his hands not only in San Fran cisco but elsewhere.The rank and file of labor unions ehould look more carefully to their leadership.The men they depute to speak in their name are .too\u2019 often fters of the worst type, ready to traffic with predatory capitalists, Intelligent labor unionists know this, yet they it themselves to be played upon by appeals to their prejudices.It is time for workingmen\u2019s organizations to clean house\u2014to repudiate practically all of present day labor politicians.DEATH OF MRS.DAUGHERTY.A telegram has just reached the city announcing the death of Mrs.Fanny.B.Daugherty, wife of Mr.Geo.B.Daugherty, of Frome, and sister of the Rev.J.B.Silcox.concladed a three months\u2019 visit to her niece, Mrs, Alex.McA.Murphy, .of Westmount, during which time her win- friends, by whom this news will be re ceived with regret.She died at the house of her brother, in Toronto, where- she was spending a few days on her way home.Mrs.Daugherty was a very kind and zealous Christian worker in the neighborhood of her old home.She was \u2018Aunt Fanny\u2019 to the whole commmun- ity, where old and young held ber in highest esteem.A touching exprassicn of the régard in which she was held was intended to \u2018have been carried out next week.It was planned by her: neighbors to give her 2 surprise in the form of a present of a new organ.The disappointment will be tempered by the |\u201d assurance that to her it will be given to join in the richer music awaiting her in the eternal home.MLSS FRITZ AGAIN WINS BREAKS THE WORLD'S RECORD, FOR SWIFT TYPEWRITING AT CHICAGO -COLLISEUM.Chicago, March 22.\u2014 Miss Rose L.Fritz, toe winner of the championship typewriting contest at the Uolliseum, last night won the championship for the third time, winning permanently the silver cup offered, and breaking the world\u2019s record for copying dictation from shorthand notes.- lhe record she established last night was 2,445 words in thirty minutes.This is 200 words better than her last record, which was made a year ago at the contest held at Madion Square Garden, New York, THERE WAS NO DEIIVERY.The Court of Review yesterday confirmed the judgment of the Superior Court which dismissed the action in a case of Johnson ve.Wolfe.This was a claim for the price of a consignment of 800 musk-rat skins sent: by Johnson to Wolfe.Both courts iound that the coneignment included a class of skins not contracted for'and which.brought on a seizure of the whole lot by the game authorities of Ontario, with result that Wolfe got no clivery of the goods.Judge Charbonvesu® dis .the \u2018works | Mrs.Daugherty bad just { VALUATION OF DOMIN in TON MILLS PROVE.FORE TUE (oe, sec irmg of evidence wae continu | torday an the action instituted oo, Cie the Dominion Textile Company 1, aside the least of the Donunion ( Mills.and witnesses were culied - tabliah the value ot the Dominiun < ur.pany'e property at the Liule of the : er.Mr.A.B.Mole, general manager Dominion Textile Company, tee.| having made the valuation hime; \u201ca fair selliug price._ Le bud estimait.: | value of the two \u2018city mills at SL ss.or $15 per spindle,\u201d while that of :.mills outside the city had beun plau à \u2026; $1,472,425, or from $12.50 to $13.70 spindle.Besides this, the Hon.Cotton Mills Company owned accu- industries, the value of which hal i estimated at $1,797,000, which add.- the value of the mills proper, mauc « total of $4,628,305.From this had iv i deducted the $3,354,000.worth of vute: a; ing bonds, which left a surplus to tue shareholders of $1,274,305, or 42% pu cent.He admitted that there had Lu n a slight advance in the cost of mache, since the time of the transfer, but «- clared that this advance had been uiiset by.a reduction in the duties un Eusis articles, 60 that practically speaking, na chinery did not cost jngre- today \u2018Lan five years ago.He also admitted tha: some of the D~minion.Cotten Company .spindles were worn out at the tim.the transfer, : Mi.:Alfred- Hawkeworth; former: manager of the Merchantse Cotton Mi: Company, thouglit \u201cthat she valuation placed on the Dominion Cotton Mii.Company\u2019s property was a fair onc, ua.though he considered that \u2018 the figure placed on the mills inside the city we.rather high.K \u2019 Mr.John Taylor, superintendent v: the St Anné's and Mochélaga mills, wig has been in the cotton industry fu forty years, gave expert evidence on the relative durability of American and In: lish machinery.The former, he qui.generally lasted from twelve to li:tcen years, while the life of English machin: ery was as high as twenty years.He corroborated the evidence of the other witnesses with regard to the present cost of cotton producing machinery, as well as the cstimates of the Dominion Cotton Mills Company's property, made by Mr.Mole, the general manager.Hc was also of the opinion that the cost ot manufacturing depended more or éhip- Ping facilities than the locality, and de- oy ee oo vir has to at [199 ay he tn ie PI ery uit self And the etat ous ro and urg- > Di - ay FrIrAY, MARCH 1807 DISQUIETING \" MARKET RUMORS London Lower-on Unconfirmed Report of Troubie in Euro» pean House, LOCAL MARKET IRREGULAR AND HEAVY BUSINESS TURNOVER CPR.MEXICAN, DETROIT, IRON COMMON AND MACKAY COM.AND PREF, WERE TOWN\u2014POWER, ! OHIO, TOR.STREET, TEL.AND LAKE W'DS HIGHER.Exchange value of £1 Sterling to-day is $4.83.33 te $483.47 There were rumors of financial dificul- ties in London to-day, reports saying that (here would be an investigation into the af- pirs of an international housé.À market jer says that the rumor was based upon tbe fact that some time before the panic » London house, with foreign connections, was helped over tbe settlement.\u2019 ¥he housé vas not an important one, and its failuré would not affect the New York market.London was irregular, with losses more sumerous than gains, and that market was 1 considerable seller of Americans.A feeling of apprehension prevailed through the disquieting reports from' Continental centres, which, however, had not been confirmed up to the hour of writing.It was pot svrprising that New York stocks opened weak in sympathelic response to reports or renewed liquidation in.the London market, - + Union Pacific and.Erte first preferred fell 1%; St.Paul, Northern Paeific, South- «a Pacific, Reading, B.& O., Pennsylvania, United States Steet, Smelting and Anaconda fell from a large fraction to a pcint, There were a few gains,\u201d but they were among minor stocks.The \u2018Soo\u2019 \u201ctocks rising 14 to 144 .\u2018300' Railway, second week of March, increase, %,757; from July 1, increase, $412,- 930, oo.The local market was irregular, with some weak spots conspicuous in' the specu- BANK OF ENGLAND AND NEW YORK As re in these columns yesterday the Bank of England rate remains at 5 percent, as- might bave been expected.Reduction war o! course ouf of the question, while New York has rained from taking advantage of the exchange market to engage gold, a return to the old 6 percent rate was equally unlikely.The proportion of reserve to liabilities is decidedly disappointing and is lower than it\u2019 ought to be at this time or than it has been at the same period in recent years.It is evident that the bank has been helping other institutions to make adequate preparation for the heavy requirements of the coming quarter day.« The bank ought to ehow & much Btronger return next week as the quarterly dax payments will have begun to come in even if tho outside money market does not repay at least a part of its borrowing.The latter ought to show in volume the follow-! ing week.It is plain that the bank a bound to discourage engagements of gold by New York until that time.There is reason for thinking, however, that there has been some.sort of understanding between the Bank of England and.Wall Street bankers which may admit of a reasonable quantity of gold being secured from the open market on April 1, or if not then at least during the week which begins then {from the Bank of England itsei.BEHAVIOUR OF DETROIT McCualg & Company's market letter:\u2014 Although there has been considerable liquidation In Detroit United, the behaviour of the stock throughout has teen very satls- factory.It is Believed that several larger blocks of this stock, which were held in New York on margin, had to be disposed of during the recent severe break in that market.Locaily, there bas been more inarked investment buying in Detroit United than any other stoex on the Canadian list, and there has been considerable comment on the breadth of the markst for this.security at the présent time.: MR.ROOSEVELT BLAMELESS Philadelphia, March 22.\u2014Mr.Stuyvesant Fish, delivered an address yesterday before the students of the Wharton School of Finance, of the University of Philadelphia.In the course of his remarks Mr.Fish sald: \u201cThe fact that the investigation of the railway conditions of the country was ordered by President Hoosevelt had no more to do with the recent decline of rallway ptocks in Vall Street than you or L had.It is quite crue that the investigation did uneaith some bad conditions.That there have been rotten conditions in railway circles is kuown to all those who have had to deal with the management of vast railway Interests.© The result of these conditions has just been feit, and will \u2018be felt to a grealer or less extent until they are eatire- ly corrected.: ?: : lative list.from yesterday's improved beevy selling.The stock opened at 70%, and later about 300 shares sold at 70, a cne-eighth improvement on-that price being registered before the close of the early wsslon, Mackay preferred was down: 113 -pint.-#rou common \u2018sotd-\u201coff Ce 13% Wnd 19%.The preferred\u201d was stady to \u2018strong at 3 to 50%.At the former price 228 shares were exchanged.Illinois preferred lost a fraction on a small turnover.Mexican Liz} and Power was down to 45% trois yesterday's quotation of 45%.Cana- dias Pacific lost twa points to 1\u20ac8.Mac- kay ccomon lost a point, but busincss was quiet in Lhe stock.Lake of the Woods recovered the 80 mark after gelling down & low as 74 yesterday.Scotla was quiet but steady, .- \u2019 The advances included a substantial rise of about a point in Power, on a heavy wurnover of business.Telephone was up tout four points.Ohio Traction one »int.Twins opened at a fractional ad- tance, but fell of! later.Ex-dividend to-day:\u2014Bell Telephone, 2 preent, also eelling ex-rigbts., Laurentide Paper preferred, 1% percent.Sales to ncon on Wall Street were 261,274 MORNING EXCHANGE SALES.Onlo Trae.\u201450 at 27%.Detroit\u201425 at 70%, 30 at 7, 100 at 70%, ke at 70, 5 at 71, 100 at 70, 10 at 70%, Vis at 70, 10 nt 70%, 25 at-70, 6 at, 70%, au 104, Mackay pfd.\u201425 at 67.lron\u201450 at 19%, 25 at 19%.Toronto Rd.x-d.\u2014&0 at 196,, $ at 106%, | Dat 1, 4 at 16k, 2 at 100, 7 , l'ewer-50 at 8534, 50 at 85%, 235 at 86 wn 36%, 76 at 85%, 60 at 8614, KO at Wa 5 at 86%, 4 at af, 25 at 86%, 100 at -viephone-~23 at 131 (cash), 10 at 130.Mont.St.Ry.\u20145 at 215, IE :s.n0is pfd.x-d.\u201410 at 8934, 29 at 2.:wins\u201425 at 94%, 25 at 9414, 25 af 83%.y lexican-50 at 41%, 2 al 48, X at 46% - .Can.Pac.x-d\u201450 at 160%, 50 at 170, 20 à 10012, 12 at 168.kay x-d\u201415 at \u20ac, 10 at 65, 25 at Iron prd.\u2014228 at 50, 10 at 50%, 16 at 50%.Toiedo\u201430 at 26.3 at 26%, 150 at 26.L.of Wds.\u201475 at 80, 25 at 79%, 5 at 80.iwch, Bank x-r.\u201425 at 160.Scoua\u201450 at 72, 25.at 724, 25 at-72.Bank of Mont.\u20143 at 249%.+ B.Tel.Ris.\u201418 at 43, 6 at 4%, 47 at) x's, > oat 4%, 10 at 4%, 23 at 4%, 10 at 110 at 4%, 170 at 4%, 22 at 4%, 25 at ja 5 at 4M, 63 at 4%, 42 at 4K.t.John Bds.\u2014$6,000 at 104.COBALT MINING PRICES Testerday afternoon\u2019s quotations en the poe, Standard Stock Mining Exchange 'pecially reported for the \u2018Witness\u2019 by areviiie & Company, Limited: Beaver |, Te ee os nC Te Bufalo \"| ° 2.2.9% cobalt Central ,, - 40 \"35 Foster ce ve be ee 6 \u201c1,96 1,4 prcen Meehan ., 00000 0 $B \u201883 ger Jake ., ,, ee cose 6.00 5.15 Neinley LL ne ae 1 200-1150 mISiNE + + ee +.\" 12.50 - 13.00 perso Lake .24 65 00, | 57 Uent of way UJ 10 5.00 \u2014 Ver Leal LL, Le vensen er Saver Bar LL LL.TR ! ns Jiver Queen .,.Le a.» TM 1.32 Trehewev LUTTE 17 154 Caiveraity US ST 05 slo Detroit dropped a fraction \u2018 level under .\u2018It has of late been very much the fashion to blame President Roosevelt for what happens on the Stock Exchange, but I can as- ! sure you that it is not right.The legisla- ; tion that he bas dictated has been largely : { teneficiai.The so-called Hepburn Bill, if constitutional, is, in my opinion, economi- ; cally unsound, and has affected, and will i affect adverzely, the general commercial in- ; terests of the :couatry.mere severely : i the railway interests.\u201d =' .on ! es | .SL 1 - ; | THE LONDON CABLE.! Lun .- i i McCuaiz Bros.& Bo.: 2.Ï To-day.Yesterday.* Grand Trunk Ordliary .2% 30% Grand Trunk Thirds.71%/ 72 Canadian Pacific .177% 178 .Hudson's Bay .« .10435 105 BANK OF FRANCE ACTION .THE MONTREAL \u2018DARY- DEPOSITS C DECLINED $2,000,000 Current Loans Increased $100,000,000 Since 1906.INTERESTING BANK REPORT The February statement of the chartered banks of Canada shows the usual incrcases with the one exception of deposits on demand.This account is shown at $168,432,- 383, compared with $170,564,666 in January, a decline of netriy two million dollars.It will be remembered that considerable dls cussion was caused by the great falling off of $22,000,000 in deposits on demand, id January, contrasted with the preceding month of December.The unusuil decliné was first pointed out in these columns, and immediately gave rise to an interesting discussion as to the why and wherefore of such a situation st a time of business activity everywhere, It was pointed ouf that considérable withdrawals \u201cad bee» made Lo meet the speculative demands of Cobalt, the New York and local stock markets, and that a large volume of funds had also gone into LA real estate investments and western ands.Contrasted with February of 1906 the deposits on demand increased over $18,000,000.Current loans in Canada increased nearly $100,000,000 in twelve months, and $11,500,- 000 since\u201d Jamvary of this year.Cail loans in Canada fell off $2,200,000 from the figures of January,1806, and about $600,000 since January last.Call loans outside Carada are $7,500,000 less than they were à year ago, and nearly $2,000,000 in excess of last January's total.It is Gatisfactery to note that deposits creasel, there being now an excess nf approximately $33,000,000 over those of a year: ago.The increase since January was $L,- The following comparative table shows the position of {ne more important accounts.in January and February of this year and February of 1906: \u2018 DEPOSITS ON NOTICE.February, 1906.$373,683,78L January, 1907 .ee \u2026\u2026.\u2026.404,802,318 February, 1907 .ae .«.406,307,062 DEPOSITS ON DEMAND.- February, 1906 .$149,621,785 January, 1907 .\u2026.170,604,888 \u2018February, 1907 : .se se en se es hy » CURRENT LOANS IN CANADA.February, 1908.$458,706,908.January, 1907 .550,938,838 562,678,044 February, 1907 .«0 «0 CALL LOANS IN CANADA.February, 1906 .+ ++ on noo January, 1907 «.\u2026 eo so eo oo 53,979, February, 1907 .oe oo BB32912 CALL LOANS OUTSIDE CANADA.February, 1908 .January, 1907 + +c 20 ee 00 ; February, 1907 -.HAVANA ELECTRIC - \"77.INCOME ACCOUNT, Havana ®lectric\u2019s report for the year ended Dec.31, 190¢,.compares as follows: a.is ee D EST ved pe oo oo VB; Income accéunt\u2014 The one thing talked of yesterday fn Wall, Street was the announcement that the Bank of France had advanced its rate of discount from ¢ to 3% percent.A New York Times\u2019 editorial ucder the head of | \u2018Our Foreign Debtors\u2019 declares that it is a further admission of inherent strength\u2014 American strength, saying: \u2018The facil is, that both Lotdon and Paris are our debtors, and the rise of the French rate denotes appreciation that the debts to us must be settled soon instead of juggled between the two markets.\u2019 \u2019 \"AUER LIGHT BONUS Direciors of the Auer Incandescent Light Manufactuging Cempauy, Limited, have declared a quarterly dividend -of 1% percent, end 1 percent bonus, payable April 20, to holders of record, April 10, 7 MORNING VALL .Reported by MoDougall & Cowans, Stook Mocbreat and Qusnea Sb 13.0 anon dag.Tore Sellers Buyers Sellers Buyers Conl pfd.ooas- AutoRy.re Bell Teixd 1% Dom.L& À 1: 19 opfd.48% Duluthcom .70 B.C.PsckB .70 Can C.PE.xd 18% 165% Halifax xd LL; New Pacide a, 0e, Har.Kiec.45 Detroit.104 \"T0 Dom.Conl com xd 82% 60 Mex EP 47% 47 \u201cTrac.xd 8014 88% kESeP.10 IntiConluxd 3.ee L E:2P.863 86 do, pid.xd cise seen Me LSM.L.W'd, pfd.310 102 M.8 R.37 3213 do.com.ME ue Me Steel.96° 90% L.Paper.age sed .\u2026.100* do.pla xd\u2019 188\" 100 180 XA ees OF do.ptd 2d .tool.73 TR NW Land.\u2026\u2026.woe Ogilvie coms wooo Bho HH ce.at.Exo Paule.ise PTE UK 200; Uniom.wn 14 CoTIONE 0 Moatesal,, 18.121 BONDS : .wise Hav, B.1 wa 6 oe La Paj ¢ % Mex L3 8 Mex.LP.97% Textile A 3 ave \u201c cree \u201c 06 - wees \u201c D6.8 9456 Win.Elec.§ 105% .e on notice have, and are showing steady in- | RESPONSIBILITY FOR BELATED GOODS.: \u2014 The four rket ig rether quiet, and the difficulty ot getting stock into store is still @ matter of great concern to local dealers and jobbers who are often quite unable to fill the orders that do come iu.Complaints of shipments that have beell on the way since December were heard on \u2018Chepge to-day, and no doubt there are many other cases that furnish quite as.good cause for dissatisfaction.General satisfaction is expressed with the enforced removal of the Grand Trunk's freight embargo, not that it will hasten deliveries in - the least, but when the pelter of a carload of flour or feed can get the goods into & car, and can forward the bill of lading to the purchaser, the matter is out of his hands, The responsibility for the non- arrival of the shipmvent is located, and as arrangements with a bank will enable the seller to draw on the value of thé merchandise, less money is lylng idle than when the shipper could not get the stock oX bis bands ON.; , TOKONTO MARKETS Torontr.March 22\u2014The situation with regard to facilities for the movement of grain has not zetleably improved, and shipmerts for export are still tied up.Business continues fair, however, white, red acd mixed Ontario wheat being steady wround 72c here.White winter, In some transactions, is worth from 3c to lc premium, Good bids for Manitoba spot at North Bay have failed.te bring out offerings.Corn, although easier in Chica- £0, continues firm locally.Bran is still a scarce commodity, bids of $23 at Montreal rDQt being considered.: Local pricèe are: \u2014Ontario wheat, No.2 white winter, Tllge to 72e; No.2 red, 71c te 72¢; No.2 mixed, 71léc to 72c.Manitoba \u2018wheat, No.1 hard, §7%; No.1 Northern, 86, \u2018lake ports; 916 North Bay.DAIRY PRODUCE The local cheese market is unchanged sad holders are rm in their ideas, asking from 13%c to l4c per pound.- The opening of a few more creameriet Atring the week has increased the supply of fresh made butter on this market, but prices atill keep firm.The offerthgs of dairy grades are limited and same packages of Western made are about the oniy kind that is available in any quantity.To-day's quotations are from 28%e to 27¢ for wholesale lots of finest creamery, 28c for single packages; 2ic to 26c, according 0 quality for medium grades, 18c to 20c or dairy solids, and 23c to 28i4c for dairy rolls, .\u2019 PROVISION MARKET Quite an active trade in dressed hoge is pasaing on this market and prices of abat- tolr dressed stock are well maintained at the recent advance to $10 per hundred peurds.Deliveries of !rozen country d.essed hogs are light and quotations of $8.50 to $9,080 per hundred pounds are nominal.There is a good demand for all lines of curdd.and smoked meats, and the inquiry for \u2018hams is particularly active just mow in view of the approach of Easter.The saraliest selections especially, are moving frgely, and the filling of the numerous or- deng-dfom outside points together with the looal* requirements is taking a heavy vi ¢ of stock Into consumption.no change in lard and the mar.demand and light Xet howdh frm on a good stocks.7\" ee fh nanan + COUN TRY PRUDUCE Today\" receipt of eggs by freight were \u201cPers is nd change in the conditions governing the local market, and a heavy cohsumptive demand is being met with domestic and imported stocks, though tlie ; latter are being brought in in diminishing quantities now that the Canadian product is plentiful and cheap.Sales of fresh arrivals are being made at 2ic to 2c in wholesale lots, and at 32c to 22%cin a Gross .$1,621,200 $1,504,837 $1,247,438 3g Ex.tax, etc.1,031,573 576,052 724,748 | Net.®80,%8 $28.78 $522,740 Other inc.\u2026 40,882 38,03.3,138 Total Income $620,699 $766,818 $545,878 Charges ./.402313 26807 43,210 Surplus .$132,336 $270,821 $137,630 Pid.divs.200,000 .« seessees jobblng way.| \u2018Defeit ., .$67,614 1 i Prev.sur.: .\"508,073 P.-& L.sur.$41,459 4 ; Yb: xSurplus.A STRONG MAN WANTED \u2014 T Great activity is reported from the Green-Meehan mine.Carloads of ore are being taken out.At the mine office there is one huge block of ore, almost entirely of silver, and it was recently a standing cfter that the nugget would be presented to the man who could lift it, unaided, into his waggon.À drayman named McKinnon came and looked the block over.It looked Like a cinch to him, He endeavored to lift it with one hand.It was mo use.He apuliéd both hands and all his muscle, It did not move.The block.is still there, It weighs 402 pounds., MONTREAL WHOLESALE PRICES FLOUR\u2014Manitoba spring wheat patents, $4.40 t0 $4.60; strong bakers, $4 to $1.10; winter wleat patents, 34 to $1.20, and straight rollers, $3.75 to $3.56 fu wood, ia bags, $1.65 to $1.76; extra, 1a bags, $1.50 to 1.60.= ROLLED OATS \u2014 $3.10 to $2.15 in bags os.- 3, d3léc to 44c per bushel; No.8, 42%c to 43¢; No.4 41%0 to 4c.CORNMEAL\u2014$1.35 per bag: granulated, 50, Ho LLFEED \u2014 Ontario braz, in bags, $31 to $72; shorts In bags, $22.50 to $23; Man|.toba bran in bags, $21 to $22; shorts, $22 lots, $1.25 to $1.30 per bushel.POTATOES\u2014T0c to 73%c per bag of 99 Ibs.tn carioad lots.| PEAS \u2014 Bolling, in broken lots, $1.10 te $1.15 per hr ln car lots, $1.08.HAY\u2014No.0 .50 per ton en track;/ No.$12 to $18.50; clover, $10.60 to ai; clover, mixed, $11 to $11.50, \u2018 HONBY \u2014 White clever in somb, extract, 100 to 1040: buckwbeat, 6lc to 7e per pound.PROVISIONS \u2014 arrete hort eut mess, 2 to $23.50; Tis, 9 to 8 ; el = 0 $24 to $24.50; long cut heavy mess, $20.50 to $22: Le bris, do.$10.75 to $11.30; dry salt long clear bacon, 12c to 1946: harrels plate beef, $11 to $12.50; baïf.bris.do, 36.25 to $6.76; barrels heavy messy beef, $8.50; % barrelc do., $4 15: compound lard, Shc to 10%c;: pure lard, 11%ec to, 13c; kettle | rendered, 18¢ to 13%c: 13c to 16%0 acer rding to size: preaktast bacon, Ihc to \u20184: Windsor dacon,15%4- to 16%c; fresh kfl.- ed abattoir dressed hogs, $10; alive, $7.25 to $7.35.EGGS\u2014New laid, 2lc to22c.CHEESE \u2014 October made, white, 13%c: colored, 14¢ nomical BUTTER \u2014 Choicest creamery, 2%c to.BEANS \u2014 Prime pes beans, In car load | 18e to 14¢; dark, 9%oc to 10c per Ib.section; whit.1 P -are coming forward freely, and an active jobbing trade is passing al 758 + 850 per bag, according to variety.For carload lots quotations range from 70c to 72%c per 90 pounds.The market in beans is stesdy, and prime 3-pound pickers are seRing at $1.30 \u2018to $1.35 per bushes in small lots, and at $1.22% to $1.25 by the carload.* MONTREAL TRADE will say of Montreal trade: \u2018The general trade situation is quite sat- istactory, as noted last week.\u2018There is à heavy inquiry for pig irom, and spot stocks are well depleted, with $26 quoted for small lots of No.& Scotch from store.For delivery on opening of mavigation, standard Scotch brands are quoted at $22.50 ex- wharf, as against about $20.50 last spring, and English at $18.50 to $19.00, as against about $17.50.The product of Canadian furnaces is tespoken for months ahead.Domestic bars are firm at $2.15 to $2.20, and wire nails at $2.20.With the near approach of Bastern, city dry goeds refail- -ers report good sales, and wholesale trade is brisk.The Montreal Cotton Company has issued a new price list, showing advances of.from 5 tn 71% percent.Loot and shoe mgnufactyrers are not so busy, the main bylk of spring deliveries now being made, and they will shortly be turuing their attention to the preparation of fall samples.In other lines, the movement is well sustained, and general collections may now be called fair to good.The money market is tight, but bankers appear able to accommodate their customers for regular and legitimate needs, \u2014 .CHICAGO MARKETS Messrs, J.5.Bache & Co, Bell Telephone Building, report\u2019 the closing pricos In Chicago to-day, ae follows: pen.High.Low.Ciose.Wheat, May .76 %Yy 7 7, July .TI% 74 T% TR Corn, May .46% 16% 8% 4% uly .oo 46% 46% 45 4% Osts, May > .42% 42% 41% 4% UT + + + BK STU 6% 3?Pork, May .46.5 15.70 15.55 15.65 July .16.78 16.8 15.67 \u201815,7 Lard, May .S8.75.871 56 8.7 Sh.Ribs, May .866 8.67 8.56 3.62 July .8:82 8.77 $2 8.82 67 87 8.62 8.72 July .op NEW YORK MARKETS New York, March -22.-Flour, receipts, 25,882: sales, 1000.Flour, dull and barely sieady.Rye flour, steady.Wheat, re- from.thé south-west outside buying and covering of short.May, 8¢ to ¥4y; July, ; medium grades, 24c- to 26.A shee Piet pots, $5.90 to $6; weconds, 84% to M 11-16.Corn, receipts, 12,47; sales, 10,000, - .\\ Dun\u2019s- Bulletin, of Saturday, Mareh 23, do.MONTREAL st.Catherine Gtreet, cor.Stanley.West End Branch\u2014Notre Deme anû Seigneurs.Montreal Annex \u2014 105 Fairmount Avenue.AFTERNOON - STOCKS \u2018Reported by McDougall & Cowans, Stock Brokers: Mntreal St Ry.\u201410 at 214, 25 et 211% 10 at 211.: Mexican\u201450 at 47, 60 at 46%.Toronto Ry.\u201410 at 108, 25 at 103%, 11 at 106.Power\u2014T5 at 86%, 100 at 85, 100 at 36%.Mackay x-d.\u201425 at 6744, 4 at 65%.Iron pfd.\u201425 at 49%.Telephone\u20147 at 130 (cash), 1 at 130.Halifax Ry \u201425 at 97.Detroit\u2014405 at 70.Toledo\u20142 at 26%, 5 at 26.Tri-City xd\u2014100 at 88%.Twins\u201425 at 84.L.of Woods\u20145 at 7946, 2 at 77.Sovereign Bank\u20143 at 125.: C.P.R.xd\u201414 at 168, 50 at 166%, 50 at 165%, 150 at 165.Bank of Montreal\u201423 at 249%.Illinois pref\u201410 at 89.DB.Tel.Rights\u2014100 at 4%, 112 at 4%, 13 at Scotla\u2014150 et 72.Iron\u2014225 at 19.NEW YORK STOCKS, Specially ted for the ' Witness'by J.D.Monk Hospital rent, Tooal Manager of J.Bach & U>, New York, by direct wire.Opening and Closing Prices.March 22nd Blocks, Ops.Clos Stocks Op'g Clos Awal, Cop.23% 91% Kan.kTex.pfd 63 6 Amer.Toco.Ci 66 Louis'vk Nas 118), 115 do.pid i= fo .Elev J Am.Sngar.\u2026 % 73% 74 d aise sees 108 108 o Am.Bolt.120 320 Am.Cor.¥yzd ¥ B% 118 1 AmWool.supe 1005 23% 247 Ansonds .63 Qu 60 Atwchiron.91%.8H 431, 28 do pfdiiee coe ooo 37% Balt, & Ola.ok 974 Breokiyn Rt.n.Leather.\u201cdo pid.Can, Pacific.Can.Bouth.Ches.&Ohio.Chic & Alon._.,.do pid.CENW.VBA isis do pra\u2019.do.pfd.se .Tem C #1 CMAStP.file 1264 Pallman.Col.Sonth.27 26 Rock Island.Routh Rs BY fi it esos do.pla.us TA 8.Paci.$035 70 Blom #hefield 53 53% Tol BR.Ju.c Twin Olty.94 U.8.Bteol .36% do, ptd.100 99) U.K.Rubber \u201cooo oeee do, ptb.ren iver Upion Pas.136% 133 JEIMOY UPDE.vues sere WIL UBDo.co ieee bsud& Tea, ML wn den CA OGM.Luce 4 LONDON QUOTATIONS.Jouden March 22nd, 4p.m.\u2014 Qonsols (or mone 86 1-4; do.Sorscoount is oid uvonda.13% Kris.28% desliag Hh Area 94, uo.À .od deli.do.pid Mu% do.llpih.434 dalin tt Luc K.k Us.lU27 EL Con.151 sain 235 Uhicago 1774 Lou a.133 do.gil.79 Uhesk 0.43% Esa & floc.3à Mothte si Chic.i.W, 149 A.Y.U.xd 3 Un.cas 140% ChicMks.P ldi Aortkx of, 804 dell.wi De Boers,.38 do.ptd,.¥ Uddetl slg Venvritu 33 OUnte Wess 305 du.21 15% do.pid., 77 Pent.\u2026\u2026 03% Wabash it subaul., .Hand dias.dass 3 punish Fours, 947 % bar suver steady, 27-84 per ounce Munez 3 to 344 percent.CYRRENT COBALT PRICES This morning's sales on the Standard Stock and Mining Exchange, Toronto: Sales.High.Low.Close.Hudson Bay .- 152 150 13.Peterson Lake .2,500 5714 57 ST Trethewey .1,350 138 138 138 Silver Queen .192 192 192 Sitver Leaf .480 16% 16% 16% Abitibi .\u2026.100 262 262 262 Nova Scotia .,.2,000 38 38 38 Conlagas .200 420 420 420 Green-Meehan » 100 s\\ 8 8% TORONTO MORNING SALES.Mackay sold at 67% to 67 in Toronto this morning.The preferred was very quiet at 674.Mexican was lower at 48 to 47.Soverclgn Bank sold at 1244 for thirty shares.THE WINNIPEG WHEAT MARKET.FARMERS\u2019 MARKET PRICES, March 22.There was one of the largest turnouts of farmers\u2019 sleighs of the season ia the vicinity of Boasecours market this forenoon, an unuguai thing for so late In the season, and oats and pelatoes yrere offered in large quantities; live fowls were also unusually plentiful, and there seems to be a brisk demand for them at from $1.50 to $2.5 the pair.Oats sold at 9c to $1.05 the bag.buckwheat, $1.25 do,; potatoes, 0c to 80c the 80 1b.bag: turnips, lc to 75¢ do.; beets, carrots and parsnips, §1 do.; oalony, \u2018$1.25 to $1.50 do.cabbages, $1 to §2 \u2018he \"barrel; American celery, 50e to $1.17 the doren; lecks, 10c to 20c do.; lettuce, A0 There were ne dressed hogs or beef quarters offered by the farmers, but Mr.Biockerdike is ceiling dressed hogs at Slkc to 9%c per lb.; prime beef hindquarters up to 9c per Ib., and 5¢ per 1b.for fronts; veal carcases, 4c to Sc do.; dead turkeys, 15¢ to 17c per 1b.: geese, llc to 2c da, ducks and chickens, 12¢ to 15c do.; tub butter, 220 to 25c the 1b.; print butter, 25e ceipts, 47,000; rales, 1.200,000; market was, steady ou osbies, unfavorable crop news | sy, hox: Jamalea oranges, $4.50 the barrel i lems, $200 9 \u20ac to 30c do.; new laid eggs, 35c the dozen; older eggs, 2c to 30c do.; apples, $2.50 to $1.50 the barrel; Valencia oranges, $3.60 to 6 Lex; bananss, $1.50 to §& the munch.Muy, $11 to $13 per 109 bundles of 15 Ibs; straw, § to $5 per 100 bundles: of 12 lbs.| So Tope av.To Yesterday's e .7 Opening 7: close.\u2026.744 76% 76% CIOSE on oo oo +.T44 76% Ti High .o 00 00 000 TA Ta 77% LOW +.ve oo 6e we on 4% 78% 76% The Royal Bank of Canada SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.Interest Added Quarterly BRANCHES : Main (City) Office, Corner Notre Dame and 6t.John êtes.Westmount -Greene Avenue and St.Catherine Street, Westmount \u2014 Victoria Aveue and Sherbrooke Street.8t Paul-Church Ave.and\u2019Rieie, Professional ra ADVOCATES, BARRISTERS, de \"ELLIOTT & DAVID, Advocates, Barristers and Solicitors, Commissioners for all the Provinces Aud for the States of Massachusetts and New York.Canada Life Buliding, 189 St.James St.Henry J.Elliott.L A David, Tel Main 3968 PATTERSON & BROWN, Advocates, Barristers & Solicitors, TEMPLE BUILDING.185 St.James 8t, MONTREAL W.Pattersom, M.A.LLR, EN.Brown, BA BOK MACLENNAN & MEAGHER, Advocates, Barristers and Seliciters, New York Life Building, Montreal.PF.B.MacLennan, K.C.J.J.Meagher, SMITH, MARKEY & SKINNER, ADVGCATES, BARRISTERS, oto METROPOLITAN BUILDING, 179 ST.JAMES STREET.ROBT.C.EMITH,K.0.FRED.H.MARKEY, K.0 WALDO W, BKINNER KENNETH G.ROBERTSON PATENT ATTORNEYS PROMPTLY SECURE] so Engineers and others who realise the advisa ity of having their Patent business transe.ra Preliminary advice free.Che! ga moderate, r s pe, seut «po request.Pl NA Bc 1 and Washington, D.C.U.8.A, |PATENTS THAT PROTECT FETHERSTONHAUGH &- 00.Chas.W.Taylor, B.80, the Examines Canadian Pateat Office CANADA LIFE BUILDING, = MONTREAL OWEN N.EVANS PATENTS AND TRADE MARKS Morehants Bank Building, Mentreal, \u2014\u2014 CANADIAN CONSOLIDATED RUBBER COMPANY, Line.DIVIDEND NOTICE.The Second Quarterly Dividend of 1% percent on the Preferred Stock of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co'y, Limited, has been declared payable on April Ist.107, to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 23rd instant.R.R.MACAULAY, Secretary-Treasurer.COBALT STOCKS Bought and Gold on Commiesion Forinformation and prices Phone Main 218) GREVILLE & CO.Limited, Members Standard and Stock and Mining Exchange s0 Yonge St., TORONTO, Can.The BORROWERS AGENCY LIMITED, Roome 206 and 207, New York Life Insurance Co.'s Bldg., Place d'Armes Square, NEGOTIATES LOANS for people having Furniture, Pisano, Horses, Waggons or other Securities.: A short interview will convince you that there is no misrepresentation in our methods.TIL aS ROYAL BANK OF CANADA.DIVIDEND Ne, 78.NOTICE is hereby given that a Dividend of TWO AND ONE-HALF PERCENT \u2018or the current quarter, ending 31st March, be- Lg at the rate of tem percent Der annum upon the paid-up Capital Stock of this Bauk, has been declared, and that the same will be payable at the.Bank and its Branches on and after TUESDAY, the 2nd day of APRIL NEXT.The Transfer Books will be closed from toa 16th to 31st March, both days inclusive, Ry Order of the Board.PEASE, B.L.\u201c General Manager, Halifax, N.8., February 2ist, 1907.THE MOLSONS BANK 106th DIVIDEND.The Shareholders of The Molsons Bank are hereby notified that a Dividead of TWO AND A HALF PBRCENT upon the capital stock has been declared for the current quarter, and that the same Will be payable at the office of the Bank, in Montreai, and at the Branches, on and after the SECOND | DAY OF APRIL NEXT.The transfer books will be closed from $4 the case; California oranges, $3 to $3.50 4; 18th to 30th March, both days inclusive, By order of the Board, JAMES ELLIOT, General.Manager, Montreal, Feb.23, 1907.- ca.ee fly rot oe eee Ee a .° 4 Cr ne > Sian: À Le 0 a > * A TO MEET IMMIGRANTS PRESBYTERIAN HOME MISSION.- ARY SOCIETY TO TAKE AD VANCED ACTION.t has been decided by the Home Mission Committee of the Presbytenan , Charch to make a change this year In Canada.The Tenmigrants wil be met at Quebec ta met and aleo on their arrival at Winnipeg.The Kev.J.McFarlane, chaplain at Quebec, who has charge of a church at Levik, the Rev, J.A.Bow- Pointed to these two new positions.The followmg appointments have been made for the coming year: Quebec Presbytery \u2014ihe Rev.James Mesh J.M Shaver, H J.+ , Ottawa\u2014 Rev.A.Robertson, the Rev.M.W.fr K.Paimer, Mr.L.Sully, Lanark and Renfrew\u2014The Rev.G.D.Campbell, thé Rev.W.D.M.Blakeley, Mesers.Wm.Ferguson, 2 A, Scott.ville\u2014The- Ber.A Bowind, LE.Lys Peterborough\u2014Mewgry.J.McLean Bea- ton, W.F.Orok.\u2018 ~ Rev.John Davidson Whitby\u2014Mr.A.T.Haddon.Toronto Mees.B.B.Duckworth, M.Wright, B B, B.Weatherall.Carrie dE \u201cF.W.K.Herris, HA.Bain, C F.oF, Malntosh, A.C, Eakin, W.H.Burgess, North Bey-The Rev.A.er, Mesers.F, L.McDonald, R.J Me Donald, Jas.Mcliroy, Wm.Gilchrist, W.A ob KJ.Hartson, shell, Algoma\u2014The Cam Messrs.I.W.Mills, 8.T.Simpson, 8.C.0 Hamilton\u2014Mr, Wesley Baker.Londo .No more Alcoho As now \u201cmade, Ayer\u2019s Sarsaparilla does not contain the least particie of alcohol in any form what- over.You get ail the tonic and alterative effects, thout stimula Yom doctor will know it, and will tell you of it, Consult him freely about our remedies, We have ne seeretal We publish She formulas of all ant preparations.tion.When a stimulant is needed, LATE: FOR Two adjoining 134 feet.FOR and Mountain Streets.Property is admirably or Office Building.Property.SALE lots on Mountain Street, each with a frontage.of 27 feet and a depth o of Apply: \u2014Qeneral Superintendent, - Belt Telephone Company, 118 Notre Dame Street West, SALE = / ST.CATHERINE STREET PROPERTY\" \u2018Four Story Stone Building; co corner St.Catherine Frontage on St.Catherine Street - 39 feet; on Mountain Street - 90.6 feet.situated for a Baik, Store.Apply General Superintendent Bell Telephone Company, 118 Notre Dame Street West.H.ville, A.Lame, Cook; G.Me- Donald, Ww.Rothwell, Thos Johnston, Alex.Kenmare, E.A.Kirker.Alberta and British Columbia \u2014Messrs.Hrgh Miller, E.A.Corbett, J.Thom Gordon R.Anderson, W.A.Bea croft, we D.McHay, G.E.McDonald, W, &.Graham, J.N.Burns, D.i Gribble, and\u2019 M.Laue.ltt BOYS SUNSHINE CLUB.The Westmount Boys\u2019 Sünéhine Chub is holding a meeting to-morrow evening in Victoria Hall, when interesting papers will be read by members.The enter tainment to be given under the auspices of the Boys\u2019 Sunshine Club on Tuesday, March 26, at 8 p.m, in Victoria Hall, romises to eurpass any previous enier- Resor) given dy this club.The chil dren\u2019s ¢hoir of the Montreal Caledonian Society, 300 voices, .conducted by Mr.J.R.Bain, will sing the \u2018Battle of Stirling' Bridge,\u2019 \u2018Cam -ye be Athol?\u2019 \u2018Cuddle Doon,\u2019 \u2018Hames aye me,\u201d \u2018Bonnie Breast Knotts,\u201d and * Lomond.\u201d Other items will lue \u2018Bonnie Doon,\u201d Miss Mabel Marshall; Highland dances, lrish jig, Bell sisters; juvenile Piper William Murdock; recitations, rold Kerr; sword dances, J.Johnson; humorist, Mr.Robert MoGlaughlin; accompanists, \u2018Miss MeMillan and Mr.L.Young; pipers, J.Mathewson and J.Special cars with pipers will convey Pine cheldrén\u2019s choir to and from the city.KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.An official visit of the Grand Lodge officers was paid to Ingomar Lodge No.2, at their ednesday evening meeting, many visiting brethren being present.Grand Chancellor Ben.T.Campbell was accompanied by Grand Vice-Chancellor J.Stewart, Grand Prelate liver & chti Grand eeper D.eis Grand Master of Ex.Charles Webb, and Supreme Representative John Campbell, Before adjourning for the social features, Grand Thancellor Campbell presented to Past Chancellor Ramsay a past chancel- jor\u2019s jewel on behalf of the members of Ingomar, as a well merited reward for his good work in the chair duri 1906.The banquet, presided over by eu- preme representative as toast-master, was a most en, joyable affair.\u2018The first toast was \u2018the g\u2019 \u2018The Supreme Lodge\u2019 was replied to Supreme Representative Campbell, w © took for his theme \u2018What nism \u2018demands of ite members.remarks and heats applause.The toast of \u2018The Grand Lodge of Quebec\u2019 brought the grand chancellor and his officers to their feet with facts and figures, showing prosperity and advancement in the grand domain ofQuebec, as well as in all of the other grand domaine in Canada and the United States.The total membership in good standing was reported to be over received frequent | square feet.\u2014 MARRIAGE LICENSES MONEY TO LEND CUSHING & BARRON i Notaries and Commissioners.| Liverpool & London & Globe insurance Building, - 112 St: James Street.seven hundred thousand, an.increase of fifty thousand members in tbe year 1906.The toast to \u2018Sister lodges\u2019 was responded to by several of fhe visiting brethren from city lodges.In drinking the toast of \u2018Ingo dge\u2019 any complimentary things were said of them, regarding their ability as entertainers, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 t TO FORM NATIONAL UNION.The printers of Montreal are invited to attend a meeting in Empire corner of St.Catherine and St.Lawrence streets, to-morrow evening, to consider the advisability .of forming à a National Union.It is announced that two or thrée speakers from Ottawa will address the gathering.DEATH OF AN AGED PRIEST.\u2018The Rev.Abbé A, H.Coutu, an aged priest who had retired from the mun- istry gince 1904, died at the Asylum of the Sisters of Providence, on Wednesday afternoon, at the age of sixty-nine years.Deceased, who was ordained in 1861, occupied positions in- different parts of the diocese, hig last charge being that of Thaplain of the Carmelite monastery.A man of retiring disposition, his piety and zeal gained for him the esteem of all those with whom he came in contact.The funeral will take place to-morrow morning.The service will be held in the convent chapel, at 8.30 o'clock, after which the remains will be conveyed to the vault of St.James Cathedral for interment.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HOCHELAGA MISSIONARIES.Two very earnest and excellent \u201cmis- Sona discourses were delivered on Sun , March 17, by Mr.William H.Lam- et of Inverness, and on Monday ad- dresees that were wise, weighty and eloquent on the great missio theme were delivered by Dr.Robins, Mr.Larw bly, and the Rev.Dr.Young, of St.James Methodist Church, .TWENTY YEARS FOR MURDER.ichmond, March 21.\u2014Joshia père was Cr, at Elizabeth City, N.C., sentenced to twenty years\u2019 imprisonment Sor the Kidnapping and murder Kenneth Beas WO years ago.e boy was a son State Senator Besse Large Brick and Stone Factory Property on Aqueduct ; a adjoining C.P.R.Tracks.Total floor ares, approximately ows.FIRE PROTECTION | LOUE Each building protected by automatic sprinklers, hose aad, pipes, hydrants, etc., supplied by city gravity pressure, and also by.one 150,000 gallon underground cistern through & thousand-gallow per.minute Underwriter Pump.\u201cFire-proof .irom staircase: and slevator for each section., .ou dee gr ; EQUIPMENT ~~ 7 es! Boiler House containing two tubular boilers.B containing steam engine and electric light plant \u2018heated by condensed steam plant from power boilers.For permis to view and other information apply General Supée- intendent, Bell Telephone Company, 118 Notre Dame Street Weat.towers, containing ; #4 fe JB Whole prépas DPLRTAENT OF RALWATS AND CANALS QUEBEC CANALS.SEALED TENDERS, addressed: to the undersigned and endorsed \u201cTender for Supplies,\u201d will be received by the tnder- eigned until noon on the 28th March, 1907, for supplies required on the Canals of the Province of Quebec, during Osea} x year 1607-08.- \u2026 GE Forms can be obtained at thé ot Be rintending.Engineer of Quebec 0.2 Plice SArmes, Mon , on o ne the 15th March, A The .Department\u2019 does not\u201d \u2018bing.tg Eto accept lowest or any of.the.By: order, ERNEST MARCEA®; : Montreal, 14th March, 1907.Newwpapers inserting \u201cthis \u2018advertisement without authority from the Bepaseutoz will not be paid for it.LAS TER TENDERS, addressed io tae un at Ottawa and marked on the pad.\u201cTender Zor Steam Engine, Bolle; and Derrick for Parry Sound Scow,\u2019 will berreveives up to the 28TH DAY OF MARCH, \u201cThor, for supplying and delivering at the Canadian Government Lighthouse Depot at Prescott, Outarlo, a double cylinder tandem hoisting engine, winch with four hoisting drums and two winch heads, an up- 11ght steel tubular steam bolier of 20 horse power capacity, and a structural steel der- rid pecifications of the mathinery and plans of the derrick can be obtained at the Department here, at the Canadian Government Lighhouse Depot, Prescott, Ont., at the Agency of the Department of Marine and Fisheries at Montreal, at the Office of the Director of the Sorel Shipyard, at the Agency of the Department of Marine and Fisheries Department at Quebec, and at the offices of the Collectors of at Toronto, Hamilton and Kingston and St.Johns, PQ Tenderers must furnish plans of the boilers and engines offered.Tenders for the engine, boiler and dec- rick separately will be received or for all || together.An accepted cheque on a Chartered Cade dian bank equal to 20 percent of the whole amount of the tender must a y each tender.The cheque acoqmpan: 5 the tender accepted will be forfeited it the party tendering declines the contract pd faile to complete the werk contracted for, and each cheque will be returned immediately in case of non-aceeptance of a tender.The Department does not bind itself to accept the lowest or amy tender, Newspapers Inserting this advertisement without authority trom the Department will not be paid for it.F.GOURDBAU, Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries.|./ Suptg.Engr.Canals, Pa.DOMINION LINE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS.PORTLAND TO LIVERPOOL, SOUTHWARK \u2026 \u2026 .0 .Mar.18 CANADA .« es se oe oo .Mar.33 3 TRON eee en se us Apr.SOUTHWARK.\" = = A Steamers sail at 2.00 pm, but await ar rival of Friday even! # Yor y ing Grand Trunk trate LOW WINTER RATES, FIRST ce + qu oo +.356.00 tO $60.00 | BECOND CLASS ., .H0.00 to $3.50 According to steamer, , Passengers berthed not more than two 13 * THIRD CLASS, to Liverpool, Londen, Londonderry, Belfast, Glas; 987 ne Tates to Scandinavia and the Con- Passengers berthed ta 2 and 4 berth The \u201cCANADA\u201d îs one of the fastest and Do comfortable steamers in the Canadian The + DOMINION\" is noted for her stead!- .- gd a .y s J i ALLAN LINE.ROYAL MAIL SERVICE, $t.John and Halifax to Liverpool From .VICTOR Fron Bt.Joho.From Hola PARISIAN \u2026 \u2026 \u2026 % April VIRGINIAN oe eres 13 April TUNISIAN ., ,, ., 20 April MONTREAL TO LIVERPOOL.IONLAN- May 3, May 31, June 28.TRGINIAN- Ma7 10, June T, July 5 VIRISIAN- May 17, June 14, July 1% CTORIAN\u2014May 2, June 21, July 19.VICTORIAN and VIRGINIAN, each 12,000 tons, are the only Turbine Steamers on the Canadian route.Absolutely no vibration.Record passage, 5 days, 14 hours, Midship sat eo p sal oons, spacious promenade decks, eiestria FIRST-CLASS, $35 and acco steamer and date of sailing.\u201d Faiog te BECOND-CLABS Liverpool, sadup, Return tickets at ed an ondonderrs see THIRD-CLA! 17.50, ery Rood; to stea BOSTON Te cLascow, Leurentian .28 Mar.Pretorian .11 Apr.PORTLAND TO GLASGOW.Corinthian .4 Apr.Sicilian .18 Apr.One class cabin called second.1 5.ad Rate $35.00 Apply to H.& A.ALLAN, Montreal, London, or Belfast, PORTLAND TO BRISTOL (A ath) ENGLISHMAN .,.«0 «0.os .Mar.81 TURCOMAN .+ + +, s.+.oo April 4 Pr all information apply to lecal agent, DOMINION LIER, 17 8¢.Sacrament Street, Montreal.TOR Xe to\" BERMUDA Frost even Maleris im bl From Ne \u2018York 48 hours by elegant new maby > \u2018Bermudian: tons, or 88.\u2018Trinidad,\u2019 600 bon Sailing from em York, 2ad, 4th, 9th, 16th, 18th, 23rd and 30th Tetxseo 1c WEST INDIES 17 \" ti SPECIAL OrUISE 88, \u2018Trini From New York 30th March.TICKETS FOR SALE AT ALL PRINCIPAL TICKET OFFICES, For further articulars, apply to A.E.OUTERBRIDGE £00.Broadway, Now Ÿ LG.BROCE ECO.11 Commissioners Fini Montreal ARTHUE , Becretary, Quobes Stemtip J Company, (Sram we NOW is THE TIME .TOGO SOUTH\u201d Weare offering a SPECIAL CHEAP EXCURSION by our fine new 14 knot vessel, the S8.\u201c\u201cBORNU,\u201d seiling from Halifax, N.8.,on MAROH 380th, for Nassau, Ouba and Mexico.First Cinss Accommodation Only.WE SUPPLY ALL RAILWAY TIOKETS in connection with this trip.Secure our Illustrated Booklet \u201cA Tour to the Bahamas, Cuba and Mexico,\u201d which gives full description of voyage.Apply to ELDER, DEMPSTER & OO.9 Board of Trade Building, W.H.BENay NORMAN IL.LUSHER, Temple Building 178 8s.Jamos Street.MONTHEAIL, + Atlantic City, N.J \u2018SEASIDE HOUSE \"Atlantis Sir.N.J.Best location on ths ocean front.complete.Modera.F.P.- THE LORAINE.and sea water baths, running water, etc.Special Spring rates.Auto meets trains.CHARLES B.WAGNER.\u201cHOTEL RUDOLF, Auanyic Sits, Directly on Beach; American and European plans 400 ocean view.rooms; tes, with private ses ; phones rchestra, weekly social features; capacity 14 1 (00 op fat spring rates.MYERS, Owner, JOHN DATE Sanitary Plumbing Heating, Drainage, Ventilation, Electric Light and Bell Fixing, Prompt Service, Careful Supervision.152-154 Cralg Street West.Telophones\u2014~ Main 431, East 73.RECOLLECT That we offer the best way of kee {keeping our suit neat and dressy.Lien: \u2019s Clothes and préserre their natty sbape.- R.PARKER & CO., Dyers and Cleaners, Montreal, Que.620 S¢.Catherine 8¢.W, Cor.Mountain and 392 Netrs Dame St.West, | Phones Bell (Up) 341 Main 1597.PUSINESS CARDS AND\u2014 : COMMERCIAL FEINTEEG or ALL XENDS NEATLY DONR' À, At-the *Witness' OMe, - JOB DEPARTMENT, Ocean front, between two piers.TFresk |] Reford Agencies.DONALDSON LINE GLASGOW WEEKLY SERVICE.From West St.John, N.B.88.CASSANDRA (cold gto a £#.MARINA (cold storage) oo) .e Mar 18 : 83.ATHENIA .Mas D PASSENGER SERVICE, Excellent accommodation for Cabin ana Steerage passengers on the high-class steamers Athenla and Cassandra.Rates\u2014 Cabin, $35.00 to $42.50; Steerage, $25.00.Other steamers of the line take a limites number of Cabin passengers only, at $35.00, Agents: DONALDSON EROS.Glasgo w THOMSON LINE LONDON WEEKLY SERVICE.From Portland, Me, £8.CERVONA .ve ss ee unicipal franchises.\u2018For these, said Mr.Haina, \u2018the pro- wince.is Tesponsible, and over these the province has jurisdiction.~The Domin- Jon; to.:mining and manufacturing companies,\u201d Ru ; To impose too strict terms, would bei to drive many of the companies to Ot-: tawa, in which event the provincial-re- venue would incidentally lose, ., Mr.Graham thought the idea of limiting the number and price of shares might People were often tempted because the price was low when as a matter of fact, they could not afford a dollar for this purpose.He thought the province should -bave a policy of its d.\u2018We are heading,\u2019 be said, \u2018toward the discouragement.of crazy over-capitaliza: tion.I think, perhaps, the department might go farther in:the way of investigating.- Me, Hugh Clark \u2018did not think this water in stock was caused by companies ling stock at.a discount.People thought they were getting for twenty- five cents what was worth a dollar, and.eount had to pay dividends on par value.He thought something should be dope to prevent compenies issuing stock at than par value.- \u2018Only mining companies do,\u2019 observed said the value of mining; shares was so uncertain that it was impossible to protect the public.No change was made.- Some discussion occurred over Clause.157, which gives \u2018the Lieutenant-Gover- norin-Council the right to vary the terms of letters patent from those applied for.Mr.McDo this.Mr.Hanna in reply instanced the application of the Toronto Electric Light mpany for an increase of capital, and argued that this clause gave the government discretionary powers.He instance, a company wanted to sell stock at $100 which was worth $140, they should not have\u2019 the right to say they \u2018wouldn\u2019t Pay\u2019 if they At 6.30 the Commitee rose and re- -ported.: | \u2014 SPRUCE LIMITS SOLD.St.John, N.B., March 21.\u2014Stetson Cutler & Co., of Bt.John and Boston, have purchased from the Murchie Lumber Company the latter's extensive crown landholdings oin the Littie Tobique river, in this province, comprising some 280 square miles, nearly covered with spruce.The price paid is said to be $108,000.It is thought likely that a pulp mill will be.erected and operated by the mew owners.\u201d _ © mr \u2018PANTHER\u2019 SAILS FOR HAYTI.St.Thomas, D.W.I., March 21\u2014The German gunboat \u2018Panther\u2019 left here.this) morning for Port au Prince, Hayti, where according ta repert, she will support the demands of the German minister in connection with the treatment of certain German subjects who have made re- An amendment was made .to jhe bill | Railwa.however, has joint jarisdiction: inf\" - > - own regardless of what the Dominion | Ginwood, Toronto; grand 4; the companies issuing stock at this dis-| : \u2019 1 objected toi.NEW BRUNSWICK ' LEGISLATURE, MACKENZIE AND MANN PROPOSAL TO CONSTRUCT LINE DOWN ST.JOHN VALLEY.Fredericton, N.B., March 21.\u2014Premier Pugsley, in conclu one of the ablest and most statesmanlike budget speeches ever heard in the New Brunswick Legislature, made the announcement this af- ternon that the New Brunswick government was now considering the proposal from the Mackenzie and.Mann, to construct a railway down the valley of the St.Joka river to Westfield.Government supporters in the House received a hint of what was to come in caucus yesterday, but to the members of the Opposition and spectators in the gallery, the announcement cime.as a complete rise.The premier stated at the outset that he had been much disappointed - ment that the Valley route was-not choseri for the Grand Trunk Pacific way, but, carrying out his duty as a member of the.Government, he.bad kept-in touch with ngie Mann, whom he described as two of the Jreatest railroad builders in the world.He referred to their railway etiterprises in the West, and went on to säy that they notified him tbat if satisfactory terms could be arranged they were willing to come to New Brunswick and enter into a contract for the construction of the valley road.The government had their proposition under consideration, and if they believed that it was favorable to the couñtry they \u2018would recommend the Legislature to adopt it.The Premier spoke in glowing terms of the section of the country along the St.John Valley, and declared: that' he did not believe its superior could be found in.4 the Jord.The inhabitants, he , were intelligent, essive \u2018an up-to-date, but had always been handicapped by lack of railway facilities.He made reference to Mackenzie and Mann\u2019s railway line in Nova Scotia, which terminates at Victoria Beach, directly opposite the Port of St.John.steamer plying between the two points would enable the company to distribute freight in Nova Scotia.If Mackenzie and Mann built the Valley road, the Premier felt .sure that in the future it would be part of a transcontinental system, with St.John as ity terminus.The Premier's closing.remarks, in which he referred to the resources and most hopeful and optimistic mature, and made an impression upon the House.Loud applause followed his address.Mr.Hazen, J r of the Opposition, moved for the Mackenzie and Mann correspondence, \u2014 FRENCH INCOME TAX INTERPSTED FORBIGNERS, FEARING IT, \u2018ARE LEAVING THE _.COUNTRY.Paris, March 21\u2014Fear that the Income Tax Bill will be passed is.driv \u20ac | : il foreigners who have big incomes derived from abroad out of France.The parlia ment commission having the measure in hand has adopted an amendment fixing a.tax: on foreign residents not en- | gaged -in business in France at the uni-, orm rate of ten percent, on the house or lodgings they occupy.\u2014\u2014p CARLETON ELECTION MAJORITY OF 672 FOR MR.\"MCELROY.\u2014 Ottawa, March 21.\u2014The complete re- {mens of the Carleton County election for the vacang in the Ontario Législature, give Mr.R.H.McElroy a majority over Mr.W.H.Hartin of 672, The actual figures are: MeElroy, 1,681; Hartin, .AE) \u2014rermsre IN MOROCCO > 2 e\u2014\u2014 RAISULI ON \u2018HIS WAY TO JOIN \"THE PRETENDER.Tangier, March 21.\u2014It has been ae certained that Raisuli, with fifty horsemen: and a camel train, conveying his personal effects and booty, is now on his way to join the pretender to the \u2018Moroccan throne, Pa BARQUE ASHORE.Halifax, N.S., March 21\u2014The Noxr- wegian barque \u2018Maggie Parsons\u2019 was \"driven ashore at Port Peswick, 40 miles east of Halifax, last.night.She struck in the face of blinding snow, and remained hard aground.The wind was offshore from the north-west, or the barque would have been speedily dashed to pieces.Captain McKmlisy and the \u201ccrew \u2018were able to get ushore safely, but they- had a very close call.the barque is still intact, and there are \u2018hopes that she may be got off if assistance is promptly received.Tugs have left Halifax for the wreck.The \u2018Mag- giè Parsons\u2019 was in ballast from Buenve \u2014pac PERISHED IN STORM.Charlottetown, P.E.J, March 21.\u2014Oli- ver Mason, § prominent farmer and horse dealer, aged- fifty-two, of Hopetown, near Charlottetown, was found dead in a field near his home this morning.He perished in last night's storm.Mr.Mason left Charlottetown in the evening.and, after crossing Hillsboro river, it is pre sumed hie horse ran away.This morning the animal was found near Hillsboro bridge.: à, _ ; LL.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 TC ** ONTARIO'S VIEW OF QUEBEC.- MF S, Willisgn n, ing director.of the Toronto \u2018News, ge I \u2018speak prs \u201cAn_ Ontario f Quebec\u2019 sentations to the authorities at Berlin.On view of at al luncheon of the Canadian Club at the at the announce-.\u201cpeople of New Brunswick, were of the | To-day | Friday, Maron 22, 1907 -_\u2014 RISING IN ROUMANIA, Soldiers Fire on the Mob and Wound Number of Rioters, Bucharest, Roumania, March 21 \u2014Plus- dering recommenced to-day at Vaslui The peasants surrounded the admigistyy tion palace, intending to demol:sh the building.Further plundering Cecurrei throughout the town.Troops interveg.ed and the major commanding and po eral officers were wounded.Th.soidier then fired on the mob and woundd ; number of the rioters.Five ot thet were stabbed with bayonets.Another collision occurred at Jam between troops and four hundred peu ants, who were trying to invade thy town.Major Colori was wounded 4; two peasants were killed and many wer.wounded.To \u2018our peasants were killed and tx wounded at Lespezi, in an attempt \u201c seize the \u2018arms at the gendarmes\u2019 by, $.THE re ITNESS DAILY MODEL FASHION CATALOGUE FOR SPRING AND SUMMER, 1907.For the convenience of our subscry ers, we have arranged to supply a a \u2018logue containing between 400 and 5% of the very latest designs for ladies\u2019, mies\u2019 and children\u2019s garments, also illustrate \u2018lessons on the making of fine lingere and baby clothes, including the varion embroidery stitches now in use, and the fancy stitches \u2018employed im the finishing of hand made garments.To obtain toy book, send ten cents In money ot stamps to Pattern Department, \u2018Da:ly Witness,\u201d \u2018Witness\u2019 Building, Montreal A\" STYLISH.LITTLE DRESS.ey Simple little dredses in yoke effect, and having a full ° waist, are well liked for the Howie girl, and are very becoming.\u2018The \u2018illustration shows a devélonment in red and black check.The yoke and cuffs.are made of plain red material, ti p with black sou- taghé braid, put on in a fanciful design.Most of the season\u2019s materials are appropriate, such as challis, cashmere, a; batross, linen and gingham.For a girl of twelve years 43-8 yards of ma terial 36 inches wide, will be required.| Sizes \u201cfor 8, 10, 12 and 14 yeays.PATTERN COUPON.Please send the above-men- tioned pattern as per directions + Fe cavooce Sie eoressstensesassesesrerasneess 3 hr Name L.\u2026oeosessescossaronsasece \u2018Address in full l''écopsasensenseessensassacasoncences eosvessaseessessnsesessarscsarssess 200000000080 00000000000000800000000 N.B.\u2014Be sure to cut out the illur tration and send with the coupod.carefully filled ous.The pattern car not reach you in Jess than a week.Price 10 cents, in cash, postal note, Of stamps.Address, \u2018 Witness\u2019 Patter?Department, \u2018Witness\u2019 Block.Montres! EE \u2018DAILY WITNESS\u2019 is printed 22d - published nt the \u201cWitness\u2019 Buliding.a the corner of Craig aud St.Peter streets.in the city of Montreal.by Jobo Redpet> Da t and Frederick Eugene Douga!\" both of Montreal.- communications should be sd An bois \u201cJoh Dougall & Son, Witness\u2019 Office, Montreal, and all ietters to tbe Editor, should be addressed, Editor ¢ the \u2018Witness.\u2019 Queen's Hotel next Monday afternoon.cava crn i.a _ 30 "]