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Cauticn and Courage ~The decrease in the net debt amount ad to $3,371,117, ; The oost-of the Transcontinental to .-€ale has been $8,163,878, "Actual cash surplus ol $16,427,167 re- yorted for nine months. . Tariff is not perfect, but it is too soon Yel to make any changes, The revenue for the closing fiscal year is estimated at $96,500,000. We are just emerging from a period of world-wide financial stringency, Owing to change in system the fiscal period this time covered only nine months, A reduction in the debt has been made only in six years since Confed- eration. vt Imports have increased nearly 845. 000,000, and exports decreased about $5,000,000. On the part of the Government it 's a lime for caution and yet a time for courage. . There are alterations in the excise duties on tobacco, but not for purposes of revenue, In 1891 the net debt per head of po- pulation was $49.09; in 1897, $50.87; in 1908, $42.84, We must not fail to push forward the greal enlerprise of the Transcon- tinental Railway. For the present year the revenue is timated, al $90, oho and the 'expen- diture al $12 Jerrad ites 2 The Tea rtment. showed & revenue of $5,001,728, and expenditure of $3,979,557, a surplus of $1,082,171. . Rates of interest of 6 and 7 per cent. to be paid on the $10,000,000 advanced | op. for moving the 'western crops last year. |: The total exparls. for eleven months of 1906 were $266,876,601, For the cor- responding months of the present year they were $2061,434,521, The fotal imports for eleven months of 1906 were 764,306; for the oor responding period of the present year they were $341,175,095, The Intercolonial Railway revenud® was $6,284,251, showing a surplus +f $218,079. On the P. E. I. Railway there is. a deficit of $67,718, Mr. Fielding thought the House was content with a budget speech nol so leng as formerly, and therefore occa- pled only an hour and a half. Need for greater elasticity in the cur- rency laws by extending the powers of the bank with respect to the issue ol thelr currency af crop movement periods. - He estima'ed that the revenue would amount to $96,500,000, and the amount chargeable to consolidated fund to $77,-| to 500,000. If these expectations were rea- lized the year would close with a sur- plus of $19,000,000, & larger surplus than in any previous year. EE ------------------ THE TEMERAIRE TYPE. The New Warships are Infinitely Su- perior to Dreadnought. A despatch from London says: Speak- ing in the House of Lords gn Wednes- day evening, Lord Twoedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty, defended the policy of the Government in refraining temporarily from laying down a large number of battleships, and said that the construction of battleships just now partook largely of the nature of an ex- periment. Great Britain's three vessels of the Temeraire type, he declared, were infinitely superior to the Dread- nought type, and the three vessels of the St. Vincent {ype would be an im- provement on the Temeraire type. In the spring of 1911 Great Britain would have three squadrons of four ships each ol the St. Vincent type. No power in the world would be able to assemble such a fleet of first-class battleships, Lord Tweedmouth declared, and he could almost say that a combination «! all the powers of the world would not be able to put an cqual squadron <a the sea. ---- Rp r-- LAND SEEKERS POURING IN. Entering Saskatchewan From Western : States in Crowds. A despatch from North Portal, Sask, says: Nearly one thousand land seckers and prospective scltlers came in at this 'peint over the "Soo" line on Thursday from 'the United States, and it looks as if the fotal number for the week will form a new record for this port ol entry. Fifty cars of seltlers' effects were passed through the Customs, chiefly belonging to men from the mid- dle 'West, who had {aken up land along the "Soo" lie and west of Moosejaw, 1ast Fall. Most of the seltlers who are coming in are Americans from the States of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, lowa, Nahraska, Minnesota and 'North and South Dakota, Almost all of them are 'experienced farmers, and many of them have from $10,000 fo $30,000 with which to purchase land and erect first-class buildings. In every way they are a de sirable class of settlers, and each fam. ily is a decided asset ta the country; TWO YEARS FOR CHIEF CLERK, W. A. Hunt Defrauded C. N. R. With Forged Pay Checks, ? A despatch' from Winnipeg says: W. A. Hunt, formerly 5 DEATH SENTENCE ON ORCHARD, Judge Recommends it be Commuted to Imprisonment. A despatch from Caldwell, Idaho, says: Harry Orchard was sentenced. (0 death on Wednesday for the murder ol Governor Sluenenberg. Judge Fre- mont recommended that the * State Board of Pardons commute Orchard's sentence of death to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, The sentence of death was pronounced in aceordance with the plea of guilty entered by Or- chard on Tuesday of last week. teen A CHINAMAN SHOT. Stranger Demands Laundry That Was Lelt Elsewhere. A despatch from Montreal says: Hop! Lee, a Chinese laundryman, was shot in the head on Friday night by a stran- ger, who entered the laundry at 320 Roy street. Two men called and one produded a ticket, which had come from another laundry. Hop Lee refused to comply with the man's angry request for his laundry. He then dréw a re volver and shot the Chinaman behind the ear, and escaped before the police arrived. Hop Lee was taken lo the hospital, and the doctors believe he has a chance to live, rte BOARDING-HOUSE MILK. In Winnipeg It Must Have Three Per * Cont. Butter Fat. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The new city milk by-law affects not only daifymen, 'but all those who sell milk, including restaurants, hotels and board. ing-houses. The latter must not place milk 'on the tables or on draught that contains less than three per cent. but- ter fat. ~~ Beveral will appear in the Police Court lo-morrow ¢harged+ with violating the law in this respect. --eee UP TO THE RAILWAYS, Sucgess of Great Quebec Camps Depends on Transportation: ; A despatch Irom Ollawa says: The Militia" Council on 'Wednesday had: ain: nsideration- the question of the {gost der. co ai nh, 1 Tus we Sup Se al: 2C, the last week 'in July, Fuederick Borden said the desire of the Flour -- Maniloba = patents, i brands, '86; seconds, $5.10; str . ers', $5.30; winter 'wheat patents, $3. Bran--Full cars, $25 10 $20, cluded, outside. £3 COUNTRY PRODUCE. Poultry--Very quiet, Young turkeys, extra choice . 15¢ to 17¢ Young geese wens Dololle Yeung ducks ... + Octo tic Chickens, choice ., .,.. +... 13¢10 14¢ Ol. foW] "..0 diiisan mranasts 1010¢ Inferior chicks and fowls .... Seto Tc Butter--Recelpts are improving, . Creamery, prints .... .: 3 do solids... Dairy prints do large rol do. solids . 40 ho: Inferior .... .... Lin 206 10 21¢ Eggs--New-laid 21¢ 'to 22¢; limed, 19¢ 20¢. ; Honey--Strained steady al 11¢ to 12¢ per pound for 60-pound pails and 12¢ te 13¢ for 5 to 10-pound pails, Combs av 81.75 lo $2.50 per dozen. Cheese--13%c to tic: for large and lic to 14¥c for twins, in job. lots here. Beans--$1.7%0 to $1.75 for primes and $1.80 to $1.85 for hand-picked. = 30010 31c 256 10 27¢ 0 25¢ Baled Straw--$0 to $10 per ton on! {rack here. Baled Hay--Timothy is-quoled at $16 tc $17 in car lots on track here. Potaloes--Ontarto, 90c to' 956; Dela- ware, 95¢ in car lols on track here. PROVISIONS. Pork--Short cut, $21" to. $21.50 per barrel; mess, $17.50 to $18, Lard--Tierces, 11%c; tubs, 1134¢; pails, 11%. Si Smoked and Dry Salted Meals--Long clear bacon, 9%c to 10¢ for tons and cases; hams, medium and light, 12%c to 13¢c; hams, large, 113¢ 10 12¢; backs, 16c to 163c; shoulders. Pe 0 De; rclls, 93¢c to 10c; breakfast bacon, lic lo 15¢; green meals out of pickle; 1c less' than smoked, fo : MONTREAL MARKETS. | 3 Montreal, 'March 24.--The flour mar- ket is fairly active, Choice spring patents, $6.10; seconds; $3.50 to: $5.60; winter wheat patents, 85.30; straight rollers, $4.75 to 85; do.,"in bags, $2.25 t~ "82.35; extra, $1.89 to $1.90, 5 An active' demand prevails for cheese on the local market. = September west: crns_ are selling at 13¢ for white 'and 18%c for colored. Seplember. easterns, 13)c for white and 18%c for colored. There is a strong demand for bu Oriiss goods. are selling at 80c-to 5c, current receipts ab 26 to 200. 1 is a lithe 'firmer lone to the local market, Canadian fresh are soling at 25¢ to 26¢, American fresh at 23¥e bc: ¥ 4 Provisions-~Barrels short cut mess, §21; half-Narre's, $10.75; clear fat back; #28 10 $23; long cul heavy mess, $20; half-barrels do., $10.50; dry salt 'long! clear backs, 103¢c; 'barrels. plate beef, £13.50 to 815; hall-barrels do., $7.95 10! 81,75; barrels heavy mess beef," §10 $11; hall-barrels do.,.$5.50 to $6: co peund lard, 8%¢c to 9c; pure lard, 113c to 11%{c; kettle rendered, 113Xe to xo hams, 12¢ to. 13)¢, according to 'size; breaklast bacon, "14e 10- 15¢; Windsor bacon, 14e to 153e; fresh killed a toir dressed' hogs, $8 to $8.95; ity bron, $13.30 #0i%0 "chante, anitoba. bran, $23 to $24.50; s $25; Ontario bran, $24.50 10 $25: mid: dings, $26 to 827; shorts, $25.50 to $26 | Jer lon. including bagk; pure gras pouilie, $1 10 835, and milled gra led oats, $2.75; corn, $1.60 $1.70 per bag. TR home 32 0 | 2188 In| pulatio place the which was The new Go caygeon will Was) a res 1 incredse the head 'ai at Lindsay. ay. - Guelph 01d 1 400 of them, 'will return k pext Augus The . Quebec budget, Hon. 'W. A. Wel 0 surplus of aver .- Premier: Whitney tion of -Uneémploy: tario Government Mrs, | do twenty dollars for on a baliff whe came to-se The liquidator of the "Mu Insurance Company . warns policyholders to pay. all pre unadien sol him "in trust, x g FEAT ER 5s C A pickpocket at Monfreal; when con. : 4 was selz- yg Et Ee UL "TW Se tho raters ; | night, 'guarded by Two. women, Mis, Ciste Mogul an -- Heth TR and Mrs, Margaret Hayes, were bul : "GENERAL, ~~ io dah adn in Mir dveliing a "There are 'now fifty-one cases of bu. Ald, John Gaskin of Kingston is dead, | boric plague at Guayaquil... Ben. Howard, a' well-known runner, |. 'Karavalell; leader of the Gn was killed on 'the railway. near Peter-|é i boro', on ores Staats hs } a by Semi opnries. i « on No squatters' ls. wi 'recogniz-| "The Czar has issued a'ukase praising ed by the Temiskaming & Norihern| his soldiers for heir valor in the de' Ontdrio Railway. oy y PN The by-law to reduce the number of{ ned ithe tavern licenses in Toronto was quashed ave from "the ned Ale wi by Chief Justice Meredith. ° ¥ Prince Joachim Mf. W. E..Etavert, trusle I Sovereign Bank, lias entered for $110,000 joins the _ . : ager, Mr. D.:M. Slewart. ar aise CARs Ld ; fine "hundred "boys. dgel's | Excursionists 'are refused p:rmission School, at Mantréal, m good order in 'a minute and al ing 'a fire in the building. Kenora Board of Trade is encoura the use of electricity as fuel, electric ¢ooking utensils for tion' purposes, Ge SRO a Cor Hall and-all: but; thrée of fhe 'of: fleets 'of the 5th' Canadian Artillery at Victoria, B. C., have resigned 'because, they are mot -salisfled with provided for them. fo Ee Brockville: Board of Health finds it cannot alter the law allowing children | tionisls has been isi Ching, the V + hundred arvests hive. na he King of ter, 0 altend. schoo's who have not 'a cer- Is 'Liflcate 'of 'sucoessful vaccination of i susceptibility to it. FG ©88| Guiseppe and Bruno Greeo were vested 'near Paris, Ont. on a:charge of stabbing A as, Relszo has | his Nomis In he tan : 2 ¢ The practice I Bi end imflammablé materials in mail fer has called forth a' prote: British 'General Posto] 'rmion Government will next case {hat oooirs, © w 0 Hoe v4 R; 2 Abe Bist: Dunn, ns bental 'marched. out, in | 1 1a FR co bus aban: | Sfratiord