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"No. 2, 68¢ wheat---5lc outsid 'No. 3 American, 70% and : "3 yellow, 67 to 67)e, Toronto hts. Canadian corn, 63 to 64c, nd shorts, $23.50 to $24 in nto. 3 : COUNTRY PRODUCE. ples--81.60 'to $2.50 per bar- according to quality. Beans--Car lots outside, $1.85 to , and small lots ut $2.10 to 20 per bushel. Lia oney--Combs, dozen, $2 to $2.- , extracted, 10% to lle per Ib. Baled Hay--No. 1, $14.75 to $15.- on track, and.No. 2, $11.50 to 2.50. 'Baled Straw--$7.50 to $7.75 on k; Toronto: 3 k. J : 4 'otiltrys-Turkeys, dressed, 18 to ¢ per 1b. i chickens, 15 to 16¢, and wl, u to 12. THE DAIRY MARKETS, nnd. prints, 21 to 23c; olls, 20 to2le; 1mn- lerior, 18 to 18¢; creamery, 29 to solids, 26%; to 28c per Ib. £ BE i oy (5 \ pes "to 18%ec per lb. for Smt Ja 1 5s y making the num-{° 1 sa soEn 400, 350 of these to] HOG PRODUCTS. 8 y. the King from the n--Long clear, 16}; to 187{c 'and 50 to be the per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $28 'Government, to wav; short cut, $30 to $31. a : : Light to a, 8. a, 19¢; do., heavy, 16) to 17c; rolls, : STATES. 15%e; shoulders, lac; breakfast ork Central' system | bacon, 19 to 20; backs, 20 to 2lc. 000 on new equip-| ~ Lard--Tierces, 16% to 16¥%c; tubs, 17 to 1734c; pails, 17)4c. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL: ; Montreal, April 5.--Oats--No. 2 murderers; both| Canadian - Western, 43} to 44c; from the jail at No. 3, ; y to. lo; Ontario Ne. 2 gata Ww " 48%0; Ontario No. 3 white, Guelph, Ont., | 4 % Ontario No! 4' white, 40%. ident Taft at Wash-| Barley=No. 3, 60; No. 4, 6c; feed ; 7 ' 56¢. Flour--Manitoba : of 'the Lords be in, committee of : TS were killed by a pre- n in an Oklahoma bakers', 85:10; straigh , 85.25; straight rollers; in bags, eed--Ontario bran 0 A despatch from: Ottawa says: The total revemie.of the Dominion for the fiscal year which closed on Thursday has passed the hundred-. million-dollar mark, an increase of about four millions over the previ- ous record year of 1906-07. ~~ The! fina! figures will not be known for some weeks yet, but from state- rents of Customs and other soure- es of revenue already available it is safe to state that the total will ba a little over $100,000,000. - This is an increase of about two and one-half millions over Hon. Mr. Ficlding's estimate of revenue, as made in his budget speech of De- cember last, and should bring the Revenue of the Dominion Reaches High Water Mark. surplus for the year up to the re- cord figure of nearly nineteen mils lions. : The Customs revenue of the Dos micion for the fiscal year ending . Thursday will, 'it is estimated, to- tal over $61,000,000 when' the final figures are in. This is an increase of nearly three millions over the: . highest previous record, namely, $3,331,000 for the twelve months ending March, 1908. = As compared with last year, it is an increase of - a little over thirteen millions. The receipts for the month ending Thurs- day total $5,979,089, an increase of $1,232,607, or about 25 peri cent. as compared with March of last year. ee $5.60; bulls at 84.50 to $5.60. Stock- ers and feeders strong at $4.80 to $5.25. Sheep and lambs easier, but Spring lambs, which are now eaming in, were quoted up to $10 'each. - Hogs after keeping up to the $10 mark for over a week declined 25 cents. Selects were quoted at $0.60, f.o.b., and $9.75 fed and watered at the market. erties G. T. PACIFIC BRANCHES, Let for Line From Regina to Boundary. A despatch from Montrea) says: Tht the Grand Trunk Pacific is | determned to 'enter 'into "active competition with the Canadian Pa-| cific for traffic 'between western Canada and the States of the mid- dle west is:'shown by the announce- ment made at the Grand Trunk Pacific headquarters on Wednes- day morning that a contract had been awarded to the J. D. McAr- thur Company for the construction | oi a branch line south ffom Regina to the boundary near Portal, while contracts have also been let for the completion of a line north from Re- gina to Melville on the main line of the Grand Trunk Pacific, rani Bap hints HOMESTEADING IN WEST. Contract | Increase of 890 Entries Over March 1.18; 2 $1.15; No. 3 hare a a: States, 208 by of Last Year. "A- despatch' from "Ottawa says: During the month of February 2,- 254 homesteads were entered for in tive. Canadian West, an increase of 690° entries over the corresponding menth 'of last year. The: entries represented 5,676 souls. 239 en- trie: were made. by . people from Eastern Canada, 679 by Americans, 30 by Canadians from the United s 77 by Scotch by Trish : SEVEN BODIES IN MORGUE. Two Men Found fn the Montreal Canal. A despatch from Montreal says: There were seven bodies in the Morgue on Friday, four of which were brought in during the night. On Thursday night the water was let out of the canal to make re- pairs. . Two bodies of men were found." Two young children's bod- jes were found, one in Notre Dame Chugch' was hidden under a seat, and the other under melting snow in a field in the north end. A boy was killed by a car on Thursday. The day before a man suicided de- gpcndent from being" out of work, and an unknown woman fell. dead on the street. ' ESISEEN URES THIRTEEN FIREMEN HURT. Explosion During Conflagration in Montreal. A' despatch from Montreal says: A fire which broke out on Satur- day night on the premises of J. H. Waldman and Co., cloak manufac- turers, St. Paul Street, resulted in a loss of over $100,000 and the in: jury of 13 firemen who had a mira- culcus escape from death, © When the fire was at its height there was a loud explosion, and the firemen who were working on the outside of the building 'saw a number of their comrades catight in the burn- ing pile. The explosion was caused by a back draught on the lower floor: of the building, and so great was its force that Beveral the firemen were blown clean out of the place, ' while others were knocked down and had to be dragged in an unconscious condition out of the