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Al despatch from' Delhi; King George, on Thi , 'Teview 000. British! and native .-Hiy Majesty: held ! inyestiture in the Royal Camp at oe ht oF orden 1 0 | » $245 per bushel. "Honey--Extracted, in tins, 11 1b. Combs, $2.50 to $2.75. Baled hay--No, 1 at $16 © 17, & n track, ack, To- of nd No. 2 at $14 to 614.50, Baled straw--$7.50 to $8, on a 0 1% | route. : ig the state-| Potatoes--Car lots, in bags, quoted at odiipany and mot | $1.30, and; Delawares at $1.ILOut off HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER J got up for purpose. of {- "It the inexperienced store, $1.45 to. $1.50, : ' Poultry--Wholesale prices dressed poultry :--Chickens, 12 to 130 per ib; fowl, 9 to Alo; ducks, 12 to 140; geese, i} to 180; turkeys, 18 to 200," Live poultry, about | %0 lower than the above. , BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, Butter--Dairy, choice, in wrappers, 2% "7 | to 280; store lots, 23 to 250; and inferior, 185} tubs, 17 to 18c. Creamery quoted at 31 banks much, it is a rule company in good shape its sssets should amount to at least ity t labilities. In Canada er of sch a company would be deeply concerned 'in its welfare, He : ing to pay off its advances when they Brituin | matored, it that were at an inconvenient po | abi 10 3% for rolls, and 28 to 290 for solids, per 1b. Egge--S8triotly new-laid, 45¢, delivered here, and fresh at 27 to 200 per dosen, {in cade lots. Oheéese--Large quoted at 151-20, and twine at 15340 per lb. HOG PRODUCTS, Bacbn--Long clear, 1113 to 1134¢ per 1b., in case lots, Pork, short cut, $2250; do., mess, $19.50 to $20. Hame--Medium to light; 167t0 161-3 heavy, 14 to 1412; rolls, 1034 to fig; breakfast bacon, 16 to os. backs, 19: to Reo. Lard--Tierces, 1134c; tubs, 120; pails, 1834, Sd ¥ 2 x -- BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Dec, * 19.--Oats -- Canadian Western, No. 2, #120; do, No. 3, 40; extra No. 1. {#6 to 4612c;; No. 2 Jocal white, 461%; No. 3 do, #510; No. 4 do, #12. Barley--Manitoba feed, 640; malting; %ec to $1. Buckwheat, No. 2, 65 to 66c. Flour--Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.60; seconds, $5.10; strong bakers', $490; Winter patents, cholge, $4.75 to 85; straight rollers, $4.25 to $4.40; do. bags, $1.95 to $205, Rolled oats--=Barrels, $5; 'bags, 9 1bs, $2371.82 Bran--$23; shorts, $25; middlings, 827 to -'| $28; mouillie, $29 to $34, Hay--No. 2, per ton, car lots, 815 to $1550. Cheese--Fin- est Westerns, 1412 to 1434c; finest East erns, 1378 to 1414e. Butter--Cholcest creamery, 3018 to 31120; seconds; 89 to 300. Egge--Fresh, 60c; selected, 30 to le; No. 1 stock, 26 td 27o: Potatoes--Per bag, + | car lots, $1.25 to $1.271-2 ---- UNITED STATES MARKETS, Minneapolis, Dee. 19.--Wheat--Decem- ber, 1.2; May; $1.0518; July, $1.0614 to $1.0638; No.*1 hard, $1.0158; No, 1 Northern, $1.0114; No. 2 Northern, 958 Fo 9944e; 'No. 3 wheat, %58 to 98680. corn, 55 to S6e. No. 3 white No. 2 rye, 85 to 8c, Bran, Flour--Pirst patents, $4.80 nd patents, $4.40 to $470; 20.83.65; second clears, pring wheat~--No. 1 ads. store, $1.13; Winter, ; No. 3 red, 9136; No. No. 3 yellow, 64 84a; |. 5, all on track, through 'Companions. bestowing orders on ninety- three: Enights: and 4 two nindrad review and 'the besto of 'Orders, = THE NEWS I A PARAGRAPH we "THE GLOBE IN A NUTSHELL, Canada, the Empire and the World in General Before Your Eves. CANADA. Mr. J. C. Eaton has given $25,- 000 to the Winnipeg General Hos- pital, The penitentiary statistics show a large number of convicts under twenty years of age. The Berlin Board of Trade is agitating the question .of the de- velopment of New Ontario, Perrin's 'confectionery works at London, Ont., were damaged by fire on Baturday morning. The Berlin waterwerks yielded a net profit of $14,170 during the year. . The Railway Commission is mak- ing rules for the inspection and testing of railway engines. Bir William Mackenzie is report- ed to have bought a tract of oil lands in New Brunswick. The announcement 'of new tele- phone "rates in Winnipeg has aroused a storm of opposition. In an official reporf, Dr. Ruther- ford, livestock commissioner, strongly recommends the establish- ment of municipal abattoirs. ; Government will. probably make Baskatoon or vicinity the eastern terminus of the Hudson Bay ilway. The contract has been signed for the building of the Bt. John Valley, . B., Railway, from Grand Falls to Bt. Jobs It will be operated by Montreal proposes a 'civic pen- gion for firemen, police, clerks and permanent employes of the Roads Department, to which thev éontri- bute one per cent. of their wages. Canadian trade with the United States increased over $61,000,000 during the last fiscal year; with Germany it increased $2,280,000, and with France $1,726,000. The increase with Britain was only a little over two millions: According to C. O. Castle, Do- minion: Warehouse, Commissioner, there is from 30 to 40 per cent. of the Western Canada crop still un- threshed in the fields. . Threshing still continues in many sections of the Prairie Provinces and, given fair weather conditions, the grain will be cleaned up by February. GREAT BRITAIN. The House of Lorde passed the national insurance bill on Friday. threatened strike on British "railways has been averted by "an amicable settlement. The. War. Office has. ueen wibness- King 'Geo ad eon a ing rge 'and Qw 'Mary were much concerned. during the investiture of thé King-Emperor, wher a large tent adjacent to the Royal shamiana was gutted by fire, according to a despatch to the Cen- * tral News. ~The -Royal. quarters were in' considerable"danger for a time, and great excitement pre- wailed. 1 £3 re military aero- for competition 1 ilica os § &pen planes; 'the oo the world. The Eabor:-party-in: New Zealand has gained the balance of power ab the polls and a dissolution'may. fol- ow. J ; The British Government has intis mated its' determination not fo ise sue tenders for army and na contracts to the indicted Mini Btates meat packers. wid GENERAL. 5 Delhi will henceforth be the ca- pital of the Indian Empire and seat of central government. The King and Queen laid at Del- hi, on Friday, the foundation stone of the new Government buildings. Restrictions on the production and distribution of opium, morphia and cocaine were agreed to at The Hague conference, BRITISH SPIES SENTENCED. Max Schultz and Accomplices Get Penal Servitude, A despatch from, Leipsic, Ger- many, says: Heavy punishments were meted out on Wednesday to the British spies arrested at Ham- burg on March 18, and who had been on trial behind closed doors before the Imperial Court for sev- eral days. Max Schultz, 'an Eng- lish ship broker, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Ons of his associates, an engineer named Wulff, was sent to jail "for two years; a merchant named Von Maack and Max Schultz's house- keeper each received three years. Ata Tivseti-S MAN KILLED WITH AXE. Daniel Reynolds Uses Weanon on Culbert After: a Quarrel, A despatch says : Daniel Reynolds, a junk deal er of Hamilton road, killed a man named Fred. Cilbert, outside of Graham's Hotel at Pottersburg at 9.30 o'clock on Thursday night. The men, it is said, were quarrelling over a gun belonging to Reynolds, when the latter seized an axe and brought it down on Culbert's head with such force that Culbert was instantly killed. The victim was about thirty years old, and the pri: soner gives his age as thirty-seven. mri , ii mt HOME RULE BILL DRAFTED. But 'Will Not be Made Public Until' the Now Year. = A despatch from ' London says: Replying, to a question by Waldorf Astor," Unionist 'member 'for Ply. mouth, in the House of Commons, on Wednesday Might, Mr." Birrell, Chief Becretary for Ireland, said the Home Rule Bill had been draft: ; but would not be made publi efore the adjournment of Parlia- he Ch days from-London, Ont. ~ 2