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at | the central port for continue to be used by the" ) America : tha 8 and Jousitly by the! Joseph d'Alma, 126 2 North Qontoal ands réday, when the Ham-|two other Whi ; here, f ed Q tant step was an- Ad Fecha tm te : to captiire as nfuch British an de it known that the! A. E. Hary merikanisch. and] next year, calling at Boulogne Norddeutscher Lloyd. : BULLET PIERCED HEART WHILE CLEANING PISTOL / inent St. Thomas Law- yer, Who Served Overseas, Killed in His Home. A despatch from St. Thomas, Ont, says: --Two army pistols, relics of the great war, cost Martinell H, McLach- lin, prominent lawyer, his life here on Thursday, when in the act of clean- ing them, one exploded, the bullet piercing his heart. : After lunching at noon with his wife and mother at his residence, 1 Wellington: St., Mt. Meliachlin decid- ed to spend the remaining part of the luncheon period cleaning two heavy calibre revolvers that he used as an officer in France. ished cléaning one of the was working on the other when ft! harged. His wife, formerly Miss Derothy Smith, daughter of Dr. Rt. Hon. Wi F. Massey, P.C. . s. F. \W. Sniith, was in an adjoining Last of wartime Premiere, who passed Ting, young: bogs, fo room When the explosion occurred, and AWay ii Wellin accompanied by Mr, McLachlin's mo- ther, she rushed into the living room and. found Rim lying on the floor in a pool of blood, gton on Sunday. 3 & Sobbing > {LAST OF WAR-TIME a . | Germany's April Payment PREMIERS PASSES, Town on Prince's Arrival |G bee W. F. Mosse ~ New Zealand Fol His legal partner, W. L. Wickett died early this year and Mr. McLach-| Rt. Hon, lin had just completed the taking over of the husiness. Enlisting with the 7 during: the early sta war, Mr "Mctachlin served during wie' Somme drive in Fiance and re- turning to Canada at the close of the War served for a tme with the W.O. He was active in reorganizing the 'Elgin regiment, be- Ing commissioned as Captain. He was a member of St. David's lodge, No. 302, AF. and AM., and of the 8t. Thomas Golf Club, 'Besides his wife and mo- ther, he is survived by one brother, Archie McLachlin, of Montreal, Que, ei fests HIS MAJESTY OPENS EMPIRE EXHIBITION 110,000 Pass the Turnstiles as Compared With 288" of 'the late Hon. William Ferguson Massey, Pre- mier of New Zealand, died to-day. Mr, Massey was the Inst of the war: time Premiers in office. head of the Dominion Government in 1912 and, despite war and post-war changes, which one by one threw the elder leaders out of power, his posi- tion remained secure. The Premier was born 69 years ago In the village of Limavady, near Lon: donderry, Ireland. New Zealand 'when he was 14 years old and followed the occupation of a RS. at Quebec. He emigrated to Mr. Massey visited the American continent several times. His last visit was in 1928 when he was o attend an Imperial con- With Massey at the head of its Government, New Zealand made new records; it floated war lo it was the first Britis strike a blow at German Colonial am. bitions in, the war, for New Zealand troops took German 8 London, May 10.--The British Em- pire Exhibition at Wembley went into a second and revised edition Saturday, when King George formally opened it before a crowd of 90,000 persons, who packed the big stadium. Millions of others who were unable to visit "tie heart of the Empire in miniature," heard the King's speech over the speech was. re-broadeast by stations in the British Isles to carry the King's words throughout the amoa in Septem: Second Victim Succumbs to Monoxide Gas at Ottawa: A despatch from Ot: As the funeral of Sidne vietim of monoxide gas pois- oning while driving on Saturday in a closed car with a leak: was being held here noon, Thorpe Brown, aged 28, of Que., one of his compan. died in a local hospi- own, a brother, who pant of the car, is King George officiated to the ac- companiment of roaring artillery and the music of massed bands aggregat- Ing 1,200 musicians, y exhaust heater, al) i Thursday after- Four Persons Drown in St. Croix River Bt. Stephen, N.B., May 10.--~Four persons were drowned aud two suffer- ed serious shock when: their boat over- turned in the St. Oroix River this The dead are: Miss Mar- "Jon Vickery, aged 21; Calais, Me.; "Miss Helen Kyle, aged 17, Calais, Me. ; Murray McKay, aged 15, St. Stephen; george. Stevens, aged 19, also of 'St. S nia Vickery of Oalais and aft of St. Stephen, who were immersed in the icy water of the river for several minutes-until their rescue by the crew of a passing ner, are expected to recover. "The party were attempting to trans- 4 themselves In a tender froma motor boat to the shore when the 'lender capsized. Takes Passage on Cattle Boat to ay 10.--Prof. James A. ; head of the English Department Europe this summer on a ions in the car, tal. Gilman Br was the third occu expected to survive, The three men wero overcome by the gas on Saturday afternoon while driving in the Gatineau hills, . They managed: to get out of the car and fell unconscious in the road, Passers- by thought they were intoxicated and their condition was not realized until when. they we: tal. Morgan di but hope had been ecovery of the on Sunday evening, entertained for the r Brown bro » ---- Town of Mayo, in Y: ------ el Edmonton, Alta, May 10.--Accord- ing to information received in the to-day by radio, the. Town of Mayo, Yukon Territory, of the Stewart River, burned out by a fire Saturday night and to-day. At the time of of the radio message fire 'was practically] : Picture Theatre shortly was no show in progress. Handica 'Ped by searcity 5 water and the lac of adequate firefighting facilities, the citizens with bucket brigades had little or no effect on the flames, wh ch - IS 'spread rapidly to the neigh i buildings. » vp ! Sie } Telephone communication with! break as the exchange was consumed by the flames. i } Bt. Joseph d'Alma strove to master | flest Louis Collard Ostrich Feathers Decorate A despatch from George, C pe Col- y Diesiin{ony, says'---The Prince of ales ar- pia Hay 3, reat Britain re. : | rived Tere, in the midst of the ostrich c¥ived 25,500,000 marks on pare country. .The entire place was a riot, tions account from Germany under Dawes plan-during April, according puliing the Royal trains being de- Jone report oC oymour Parker Gil- eorated with them, = or 000. marks, a 1 o - a Ta my EV UUM . The Prince was welcomed by a com- Since Sept 1, when the: Dawes Dian : : became operative, France received EE by the Burghers all were handed to|0ne million Duper Trance, ; the eldest Burgher, who presented |Payments for eight mon them to the Prince as a gift. 640,010,066 gold marks. : of ostrich feathers, even the engines mando 0f 160 local farmers, ail of : 3} + and they in turn to k athe space, words starting at numbered . horizontally or vertically or both, ~~ HORIZONTAL Puch I : © make a great show {[=Te poke sharaly To e v - : -Man's name (abbr) > 2a ign) 'medley' a 0 Velirak (16~What mammals are usually # covered with ? nd victor over the | ee i Admiral of fleet. : 'mans at thes batlle of Falkland h o'clock last night, Fortunately there Dar: ALCAN) Avi j - my Roberval ceased shortly after the outs from London says:-- rdee, admiral of the , who commanded» the British the progress of the fire, but were un-| squadron in the 'battle of Falkland {able to get' it under control until Islands in 1914 and. later participated | about 3 o'clock in the morning. In! in the battle of Jutland, died on {an effort to prevent destruction of the Thursday. entire town, recourse was made to old. % dynamitihg buildings. It was during | According to Senator.De Veber of one of these explosions that Pelchat!' Lethbridge, was killed. The house of Thomas | Admiral Sturdee was 3 native of St. was being blown up,John, N.B. The senator claimed that when Pelchat, unable to escape before he was a schoolmate of Sturdee, who the' detonation, was buried in the left St. John in 1869 with, three other enter the Imperial For eight hours the inhabitants of! Sir z 4 ry, 36 to 87c; r : 24 2,.85 to 36¢;. Dairy prints; 29. to estlts of. tests to at, > dl that the perish oth rae He in of the. wrac uminous coals, includ- "coals 'of 'the Canraove ca higher heating Has Need of Larg serves of Capital.at Home. A despatch from New York says:--| . arked deerease in British bu bonds in the New York marke traeting 'attention in connection with'do the return of Great Britain to the} gold standard and the advance of ster- 80c3 her; practically to par. The 8 to 4 retation is that Great tively preventing the cugh no official He was sixty-six years|. loose, 88c; fresh fi 27. : €31 low volatile bit , over 4 to b the class, appear to hav valué than the average American an- thracite sold at Ottawa, that is, it re- quires a 'smaller quantity of these 7 fuels than it does of American an. thracite to deliver a uit heat. "It requires from one ten to three-quarters of a ton of these coals to" deliver the same quantity of heat as one ton of the average anthracite sold in" Ottawa. ----------p ii a St. John man, the: late! ® i » navy, Toanless; 20c; due an, handpicked,' Ib., AE. export of capital, measures in that dir. taken, The mere passing of the word among British bankifig snd swock ex- change houses that the Bank of Eng- land" frowns on foreign security pur.' chases, at the present stage of Brit- ish financing, is sufficient to check the outflow of money. With the British so resently re- turned to the-gold standard, the need cottage of -large- reserves of capital at home is-seen, both to fortify Great Britain in the competition Maple produrts----Syrup, per im. |' peril pu, $6.6; pr Egil. do sa 10-1b. tins, 13%c: b ib. tins, 15% to 16e, Smoked . tins; 14c; 2%- meats--Hams, med., 30c; cooked hams, 46¢; smoked rolls A despatch from London says:-- London's i fashionable church; - St. George's, Hanover "Tits bicentenary recently with a ften called "St. for foreign trade! ears ago as many as 1,000 p= dings .took place. eagh. year at St. -* George's, but during the last fifty ars the average has been about 300. a luded among the latter was that ot = olfors, Theodore Roosevelt, who described himself in. the register as a '"ranch- man' when he walked over from .Brown's Hotel in a bowler hat ta be married to Edith Kevmit Carew Iw. The, registers are rich'in signatures of other prominent men, as weil as | royalties. The signatures of King Fd- Queen Alexandra, alongside the present King and Queen, are recorded against the wedding of a g aford family, The + ur' Prime Ministers of England are also there, inseribed at the wadding of Henry Asquith, now ¢ Lord Oxford, to his present wife, are Lord Rosebel ts, 16¢: . steers, choice, $7.7! without the use of its gold reserves. $7.25 ta $7.75; bu $7.60; do, The demand by London for securi- ties here, particularly some issues of 76+ .| foreign dollar bonds, has not stopped | $5.60 + to completely, however, and bond delers| ehotee: is: not likely to tv so, $6 Ss no means of absolute control over the internatio capital, and such operations" are en- couraged by the price spread in se- curities here and abroad, ; Brampton Man Killed While 'Removing Wall Paper A despatch from Brampton says:-- to Ibert Dolphin, formerly of Toronto and a resident of Brampton for the!an met. death suddenly | He fell from a butteh choice, $6 to. $6.50; do, fair to tp. $6.50; canners and cut- to 3: do, fair, $5 to s pe 3 to $9; , com 3 =z ows, cholee; $10 to 880; do, air ilch | member of the Go past two months, "Thursday afterno piece of board, s rted on ladders, "fon which he i oh paper from a ceiling, stru g and broke 'it, a-fragment of the ladder omen and causing| penetrating his a hemorrhage w a short time after the accident, His companion, Har was assisting him, was a down ard badly shaken mp otherwise uninjured. |. MONTREAL: 'W, No. 2, 70%c; CW. last forty years. 70; rolled oats, 90 brhn, $26120 10 $2 id Landed at: Quebec i 'Quebec, May 10--Five transatlan- Quebec during the total passenger list © ytlers. Among: the 1,750 persons were| a number. of selected families who |' ily: farm gettlemen |, BUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD Start out by filling in the words of which you sure. These will give You a clue to other words others. = A letts Jonkoping,: Swa- utter, No, 1 pasteurized. den, says: --A maich a day for every tic liners came into week-end with: a of 2,600, of which res and running, | B8--Measure of length 89---Tg sell In small quantities 80--P, ining to the Be oration, accord- : 3--~Whaleborte 4 2--Stay, remain <® © 8A ATs Hit avs i DG be fa] ; H n) » isfand possession of U 15--inter abbr f weight :