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oront's tax rte i xed at 17% : | $1.20 to $4.95 in buye © A 'wireless signal system is to be ceted on the C. P. R. Hamilton manufacturers are com: laining of a shortage of coal. A severe blizzard raged over the eastern part of Manitoba on Pr "day It is reported that Tisdale town- ship gold-mining claims were sold for. $1,700,000. "The command of the Bisley team bas been cllered to Lieut.-Ool. Ed- wards of St. John, N. B, The Grand Trunk Pacific prom- ses Toronto and Montreal connec- * tion with the west in a short time. © Bt. Catharines License Commis» : mioners reduced the number of lic- 'ences in the city from sixteen to 0; Miss Nellie Priestland of Jarvis disappeared from . Montreal, and hor parents have instituted a search for her, It is stated in Montreal that Mr. R Forget, M.P,, may take the 65th Regiment for a trip to England and France, A number of men who have re- turned from the Camel's Back Lake geld fields speak in disparaging rms of the prospects there. A very . stringent temperance measure has been introduced by the Nova 'Beotia: Government, with the okject of banishing the bar from the Province, The order of the Quebec Govern- ment forbidding the éxport of pulp- weod cut on Crown lands is highly Spproved by the paper trade: of ontreal GREAT BRITAIN. Bir Robert Giffen, the . famous British statistician, is dead. Mr. Balfour has altered his tariff | policy, abandoning all thought of a tax on colonial grain. Mr. Asquith's veto. resolutions were approved in the British House of Commons on Thursday by, 8 ma- Jority of 108. Trooper Mulloy, the blind Cana- dian, was one of the speakers at the opening of the campaign of the Imperial Pioneers: 'at' Walworth. UNITED STATES. A Montreal man was arrested at Beston for using a United States mailbag for a valise. Eleven men were killed by a premature blast in a quarry at Eas- om, Pa., on Wednesday. A number of Pittsburg ladies Bare formed a society, the object of which is to get men to 'wear wed- ding rings. { The Governor of Rhode Island kas signed a bill giving the Grand *unk Railway permission to enter the State. A man at Ansonia, Conn., com- mitted suicide by climbing to the top of a tall smokestack and jump: ing down inside. : 2 The famous. German' cobbler kncwn as the "Captain of Koepen- feck," 'will be deported from the United States as an undesirable alien. Nearly a dozen persons are dead in Rhode Island and Connecticut as Yaa result, it is 'believed, of drinking wood alcohol in medicinal whiskey. Thé announcement that Quebec wil! prohibit the export. of pulp- 'wood from Crna lands has been yeceived - with much surprise ab Washington. Nine million dollars will Seiad ded to the Pye roll of the Unied - Btates Bteel Corporation : Increases to go into effet 0 brvey "wheat 80 per track, Toronto, and $4.10 'outside, in buyers' sacks. ba flour, first patents;, see- ond patents, $5.20 to fy strong bakers', $5 to 354 track, Toronto. Manitoba wheat=No a 1 81.12, Bay ports; and No, ery, $1.10, 'Bay ports. rail 1 Northern, § prices 81.174 for No. and 81.18% for Noi 8, Ontario Wheat--No. 2 white and ved Winter, $1.07 outside. : Barley---No. 2, 64 to 5bc outside; No. 3:.extra at 51 to 52; No. 3 at 49 to b50c, and feed dt or to 48¢ outside, : Oats--No, 2 Ontario white 36 to 86Y4c outside; and 88 to 38% on track, Toronto. Canada West oats 40}4¢ for No. 2, and 39)¢ for No.| 3, Bay ports. f % aay por 2 for shipment, 76 to 78¢ outside. Rye--No. 2, 68 to 68%c outside. Buckwheat---81 to B1%c outside for No. 2 ora We. 9 kiln-dried American, 664 to 670, and No. 3 yellow, 64 to 84146, Toronto freights. Canadian corn, 61 to 62¢, Toronto freights. Bran--Manitobas #21 in bags, Toronto, and shorts at $22, in bags, Toronto, COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples--8$1.50 to $2.50 per barrel, according to quality. Beans--$2 to $2.15 per bushel. Honey--Combs, dozen, $2 to $2.- 50; extracted, 1034 to 11c per 1b. Baled hay---No. 1, $15 to $15.78 on track, and No. 2 at $12 to $18, 'Baled 'straw---$7.50 to $7.75 on track, Toronto. Potatoes--Ontarios, 35 to 400 por bag on track, and New Brunswicks 40 to 4bc per bag, Poultry~--~Boxed lots nominal: THE DAIRY MARKETS, Butter--Pound prints, 22 to 24¢; large rolls, 20 to 2%; inferior, 18 to 200; creamery, 30 to 392¢; solids, 28 to 20¢ per lb. Eggs---~19 'to 20¢ 'per dozen. Cheese--13. to 18%c per 1b. for large, and at 13%c for twins. A HOG PRODUCTS: Bacon---Long = clear, 15% to 16¢}' per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $29 to '$29.50; short cut, $31 to $33. Hams--Light to medium, 18 to 10¢; do., heavy, 16% to 17¢; rolls, 15340 ; shoulders; 14 to 14%{¢; break- fast bacon, 19 te 20¢; backs, 20% to 2%. Lard--Tierces, 16% to 16¥%c; tubs, 17 to 17}c; pails, 1734. | BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, April 19,-Oats--No. 8 Canadian Western, 42 to 42%0¢; No. 8, 41 to 41¥%c; Ontario No. 2 white, | 40¢ 3 Ontario No. 8 white, 30¢; On- tario No. 4 white; 88e¢." Basler No. 3, 60¢; No. 4, 58¢c; feed barley, Sc Flour--Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $5.80; do., seconds, $5.30; Winter wheat patents, #5.- 50. to $56.60; Manitoba strong' bak- ers', $5.10; straight rollers, $5.10 to $5.20; straight rollers, fe pugs, $20 jo 85 oo Feed- ali to $22.50; Ontario mi rig $23.50 to. $24 3 Manitoba bran, $20 to $31; Manitoba shorts, $23 to [SLAGEE YS ad $93: pure grain': souillic, $39 to' THE.CENFURY OF PEACE, $15 mix monillie, $28 to od 898. | puttalo Chamber of Commerc P Cheese--18% to 1274c for white, and 1 to 19550 for il + paring for Celebration. ld. stock; Boe new i | a1%o. Egge--1 to 30 per to $6, while the average prices paid | HIRING *l'were from $4.85 to $5.50. Btockers and feeders were sca and dear. Milkers and springe steady. Sheep and lambs firm, and fully 25 cents dearer. ' Hogs weak ana unchanged. = Seletts were quote ed at $0.15 L.0.b., and $9.40 fod and] Ath L watered. dos.