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ey Bruce, Gordon O n Are Effective Without on a Prime Ministers of Delay but Other Revisions; three Dominions, of the Em-! Date Forward to July 1. pire, took part in London in idm same deliberations and Otiéwa--Tex reductions calculated adopted the same resolutions "4 effect a saving of $27,000,000 to in the same circumstances. Canadian yers were proposed in Now the last two, when they a of Dommons h Hon, James | > En, Fine Minter, In bis "his | Visited this country, conducted «| fourth Eiger presentation, themselves quite openly as Four ct cuts mm existing tevies missionaries of national de- | ware involved, as follows: Reduction of foro Fither they spoke pay- | 10 t. in all rates of the income . dh pac nerd)' cut of 20 per cent. in the ing due consideration to the ales tax: reduction of 25 per gett. an conclusions reached at Lon-| $ excise tax on matches; an institution of a flat rate of two cents, don, and in that case Mr. King ve of values involved, for all cheques, bills of exchange, promissory vein, or they notes, and similar documents exceed-'gented those conclusions, in! ing ten dollars in value, which case their. The stamp. tax on overdrafts and | opens up, in order that | mer, the. 'Britich engineer selected by. Whang Poo i !the Government, can comme his a Ae : | investigations as early as possib | fore, should Te ae Be Wh bs oul ame phase" Sele, ives and propScty Shoe ought to speak in the same Lord Chief Justice of England, who have misrepre- | 1eY visit Toronto in' August. He has {of new. activities this summer relaf | to the Hudson Bay Railway. An In. 'Committee of the' {been invited to be the chief speaker | at the annual meeting of the Canadian terdepartmental - j Goverment is now working on a Lord Hewart heme for an wir survey of naviga- 'ments awaited - tion conditions in Hudson Straits. 4 Representatives of the Departments of 4 Railways, Marine and Fisheries, and National Defence are working on is conduct Bar Assoclation, which 4akes place on 'PTOI. One proposal is for an ice: the Pittsbu advances will be abolished, and the Would be inexplicable. August 24 to 26. breaking. Sug, with . Snive i: omits nd Mi exemption from stamp tax on ch ling records amd notifying vessels of m ox o bills, ete., i to be increased from five| abolish what have 'been known as|fronf West Kent and the Ledder of ice conditions; while another scheme 3 Diego 4 to tén dollars. Mr. Robb said thé re- | "nuisance taxes." the Liberals enlivened the day. The if for a seaplane base from which at ductions amount to practically 70 per| The reduction in income tax levies: reply to the Speech from the Throne air patrols would make constant ob- | warships were those of the United cent. of the stamp tax, and practically | 5 4 straight 10 per cent. cut on the: 'ith the Nesbitt amendmentto Raney's servations. States SD Bribain, Japan, France C.V.0., D.8.0. v , {amount payable under existing sche- amendment was carried without al and tal quietly compo 1 dules; the sales tax cut is from b to 1, Day" being registered. The Nesbitt Thin Red Line and stibpornly at anchor, dl Commanding the she Si vigten n per cent; the match tax cut is general amendment to the amendment was as Saved Shanghai' assurances' of the Warring Chines' an troops ig concen on existing schedules, based on the | follows: factions that foreign lives snd pro- : | "That all the words after the word ant. 2 number of matches to a particular | a Ors al ver Londopsti C.'M. Amery, Secretary rty were not en In Shang- Brandon, Man, Definitely" Sing the dates: "tor the Western Canada tions brought in by the executive; 'the Association of Western Canada Ex- hibits at Brandon for two days a wide field of discussion ma tothe fixing of the program. The dates fixed for the exhibitions are - Brandon, July 4th to-9th; Calgary, _ fia 11th to 16th; Edmonton, July A Gen, John pain cl =~ / od to 28rd; Saskatoon, July 25th to 80th, and Regina; "August 1st to 6th. Sir Miles W. Lampson' British minister to China, who, it is said, has notified the Pekin govern- ment of Britain's readiness to adopt a new "policy favorable to Chinese. container, and the flat twocents impost | on cheques wipes out the old gradu- ated charge of, roughly, two cents per fifty dollars of value. The reduction in the sales tax be- came effective Feb. 18. The proposed reductions in the tax on matches and in the stamp taxes will become effec- tive on the Diamond Jubilee of Con- federation, July 1. And the fhcome tax cut becomes effective on this year's income. This year's Budget is remarkable in that it proposes not a single tariff change. It is the first time within the mémory of old Parliamentarians that a Budget has left existing tariff ar- rangements absolutely untouched. Mr. Robb explained the situation by stating that certain of the applications considered by the Advisory Board on Tariff and Taxation were interlocking, and inquiries respecting them were not as yet completed. Following are thg proposed tax re- visions announced in. the Budget 'speech: A reduction of 10 per cent. is made on all income tax rates. A reduction of 20 per cent. is made on all sales tax rates, A reduction of 25 per cent. is made on match tax. . Exemption from stamp tax on che- ques, notes, etc., increased from $6 to $10. Stamp tax on cheques, bills, notes, etc., of a value over $10 is now 2 cents. The graduated scale is abolished. Stamp tax on overdrafts and ad- vances abolished. Income tax change comes into effect for this spring's payments, Sales tax reduction comes into effect on Fsb. 18, Stamp tax changes and match tax change come into 'effect on July 1. Special War Revenue Act amended to make it clear that printers are liable to sales tax. Tarift changes, none. Synopsis of Proceedings of Provincial Legislature ¥ & # The : ject of this "Diary of the is to supply our readers | with a eoncise, non-political, running sbatement of the procedure in our local Legislature. Only of speeches and] measures of. particular importance © will synopses. be. given. FEBRUARY HTH ey ih in Committee. . Hon. W. E. a bill: 1. "To. "PROGRESS DAY BY. DAY (Con., North Lanark). In the evening session. ¥. G. Oliver (UF.0,, South Grey), the youngest member of the House, who acquitted himself well; C. A. Robertson (Lib., North Huron), A. L. Shaver (Con., N. Wentworth), E. B. Miller (Lib., East Elgin), and J. H, Mitchell (Lib, S.W, Simcoe). FEBRUARY 16TH-- --re in somemities, Bills under the amendment to the Marriage: Act ie permit British clergymen to legally perform the mar- remony in Ontario; Nexiqus § weeds to prevent seed dissem- Several private bills were ced in readings, following | riage eo %. | Weed Act, which calls for owners 'or | 'occupants ta 'cut down and destroy| Vinformation way' gives in answer to | 2 The ne "Bast Block Wil cast S| 'that' in the second line of the amend- mont be omitted and the following be | substituted therefor: 'This House as- sures your Honor that the proposed measure for improvement in the me- thod of control and administration of the sale of liquor will receive its most earnest. and thorough consideration, in order that it may advance the inter- | ests of true temperance and afford ad- ditional: safeguards to all classes of | the community against the evils of intemperance'." With 'the expression of the views of Rev. A. C. Calder (Con., West Kent), Wm. Newman (Iib,, North Victoria), and W. A. Bdird (Con, Toronto), te debate was brought to a close. Many private bill were Se trodubel and given their first reading and many amended hills passed. rel What the Minister Said. Sonny had just returned from his first attendance at Sunday-school. He beamed proudly as he announced that the minister bad spoken to him. "Well," said his father, he say to you?" "He told me to keep quiet," replied sonny. "what did | for the Colonies, speaking at Hackney, | declared that only the foresight of the | British 'Government in sending troops | to Shanghai had, saved the city from! Jooting." The southern army, with the | benefit of Russian instructors, he said, | had inflicted a hdavy defeat on the | army protecting Shanghai, and doubt- less within a few days the rabble of. the defeated army would be pouring | into Shanghai. The Secretary repeated that the Government would not intervene in the civil war in Chiba. re ee Double Holiday in July for Confederation Jubilee | Ottawa.--Final res reading was given : by the House to's bill to provide $2560, 1000 for Canada's Jubilee celebration. 1 It was arranged that the first meeting of the evecutive will 'be held in: Ot- tawa, and that also July 2 ag well as July 1 will be made a public holiday. em ft \ "~ Why are the buttons on a man's coat always on the right and those on' a woman's always on the left? Or hadn't you noticed that'they are? * Washington, D.C.--American visi- tors to the Canadian legation, Can- adians from the dominion visiting the offices of business, will have no doubt at all that 1767 N. street is Canada's house. Corporal Lamont of the R.C. M.P. will see to that, The new minister will have on duty at the legation a real Mountie, scarlet coat and everything. Not a movie Mountie, not a doorman, dressed up in a red coat, but a service man with three medals across his left breast and a record of service that marks' This little touch of Canada is distinct- ively national. To the American mind the men of the R.C.M.P. are singu- larly Canadian, definitely typical. Corporal Lamont has arrived at SCARLET-COATED MOUNTIE AT ENTRANCE MARKS, LEGATION AS CANADIAN 5% the. legation. The 'curious point as to his appearing in oe jn uniform, but it is understood thet the scarlet coat will only be worn on in tion. all right, but Washington'sflappers will down the streefi Outdoors Corporal |% Tamont will be: in mufti.. Strictly speaking, the R.C.M.P. is not a mili- | tary force, it is a police force, but its uniform is held in high regard, When ! ington will at last be able to see what a real "Mountie" looks like, and the Canadian legation. will have a sign! {manual at its front door, a sign that is known the world over as Canadian, ' i 2] 1) and within the precincts of the loga- | bags included: Bon, SE Inside the legation is Canadian | shorts, per ton, $9425; middlings. soil 'and a 'militery uniform is quite | $40.25. not be able'to stand and gaze admir- | ingly as the stalwart Canadian ro to f.0.b. shipping points, ing | him anything but a carpet: soldier. | Corporal Lamont goes on duty, Wash-| 'their administration. it fell back toward Hangchow. had fallen into the Cantonese hands, twins, 26¢; triplets, ¢ 27c. re. remaining ome, in which there are as 'yet no enemy troops, has paid $600,000 monthly to Chang Tsung-chang, Mili- tary Goromor of Shantung, for aid in, case of need. Pressed by the Cantonese in Che- . Kiang, Sun was said to have urgently appealed to Chang for soldiers, but the latter was, holding his. men north 'of to Nanking. It was asserted that Chang, once thrown out of control of Kiangsu |-P Province by Sun, was awaiting the op- portunity to seize that Provines if Sun , however, were y foreign re- from Hi a Kiukiang, | from which a they had been evacu- lated when coolie mobs overran the British concession districts and Can- tonese Government officials took over The Cantonese, reinforced from Fukien Province, hammered away at the lines of Sun for three days, drive ing them back northward from Yen- chow, where they. had taken stand along the Tangtsien River. 1 Sun's army,split into three Solufins 43 tis Ona outskirts of the city fighting took Place, Reports; un¢onfirmable b of hampered telegraphic Summit. he Cabinet Dounctt met in Toe Foust hed Shanghai angchow | of Commons consider a Gat "{news from China, -where, with two "A tale of Chinese duplicity was wo- | Cantonese armies marching on Shang- ven into thé war news. For some time hai, affairs have - again 'reached an it was said Sun Chuan-fang, formerly 'acute' stage, and where military de- undisputed ruler. of five provinces and} velopments are likely. to have a power- now threatened with: the loss. of the ful influence over diplomatic issues.' TORONTO. choice, 8 ee so to $7; springers, $76 to Man, wheat--No. 1 North., $1. hs & 0) ir to = ban > No. 2 'North., $1.50% ; No, 3 "North. 88 0. 2 CW, nominal; No, do 5 not op No. 1 feed, 60c; No. 2 Teed; Tay 2 rn grain quotas yes eotn; tre Toronta_No 2 old Mifeod-. Dal. Montren \ London X Serious decisions are in bal over the Chi Ont. oats, Ble, {f.0.b. shi ints. Ont. good milling ERIE, ll "Ho, 3 do, Sh Soo are > MONTREAL 3 Oats--No. 2 CW, 76c ee flou Fist ah $8.10, Toc! ronto; do, ond eile) Ont. Rote Torani, 89 tent, per barrel, in sarlots, S0%e: logs, Man 5 40; "seab , in' bulk," $5.45. ow, to 2 twins, £1 to 21140; tri] ts, Ne ,223¢. Stiltons, 28¢. - Old, large, 26¢ 6 "Old Hiitons, i Sreamery prin to 46¢; No, 1 creamery, 44 to 45c; Sh hs 5 12, 42 to 48¢c. Dairy 'prints, 34 to ge. | { ca ' Eggs--Fresh extras, in Shei fresh extras, loose, Ble; fresh seeqnds, 36e ok eh, a. Sor Lh rsts, 43¢; Seconds, 40 to 4 he 5 Poultry, 8 Ee 5 PIN es a pa, SE The Australian Band, the Johnny J. | Jones" 'midway ~shows and the World Amusement Co, of Chicago will furn- ish leading entertainment. + ¢ 'Hamilton, Ont--Employment con: "were defeated in the present drive of p ditions in Hamilton are much better Shan: they were a year ago, according a report -of the Chamber of Com- merce, showing 28,399 persons em- ployed by 200 firms, as compared with 26,642 this time last year--an increase ' of 2,767. 4. Montreal, Que--The International aper Co. has announced the closing of the mill at Franklin, New Hamp- shire, and many of the employees will | be transferred to the' new mill at Gatineau, near Ottawa, raising the daily qutput to about 8,500 tons, as against the present 7,850 tons. Truro, N.S.--A" new concern called The Maritime Egg: and Poultry Ex- ¢hange, which will handle'the products of 23 ez circles of the province, is to open a warehouse at Truro for the grading of eggs and marketing them through established trade channels. Dressed: poultry will also be handled by the Exchange, which will be affili- ated*with the New Brunswick Egg and Poultry Exéhange of Saint John, N/B. of Listowel, Ontario, his. 90th -birthday . rece r 3 Bogues is §8 years of age nd the ¢ couple expect to Selehral she 3th