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h _ A despatch from Wellington says : The New Zealand budget proposals _include the raising of a loan not exâ€" ceeding £2,000,000 at 3!4 per cent. for the fulfillment of the Dreadâ€" nought offer. The naval proposals involve the total expenditure of â€" £250,008 annually, £150,000 tewards the cost of a Dreadnougbkt and £100,000 as a contribution to the ‘Admiralty zo cover the difference between the Imperial and local \%iif_o%fmy. Regarding internal defence ib is proposed: to reorganâ€" ize the present system on lines apâ€" _proved by the Imperial Defence Canada Led the World With One Exception. c % A despatch from Ottawa says : During the decade from (1898 to 1908 Canada led the. world, with the exception of Argentine, in comâ€" *parative increase in trade. During the preceding decade, from 1897 to 1907, Canada ranked <third in reâ€" spect to trade growth, Argentina first and Japan second. Japan now ranks third. This is the most inâ€" teresting fact brought out in the Thus Mr. E. D. Smith of Winona opened the annual convention of the Ontario Fruitâ€"Grwers‘ Associaâ€" tion at Toeronto on Wednesday. ‘‘We have at present over 7,000,â€" BSNA_anpleâ€"trees in Ontario, bearing in a good season one barret of pack ed apples to the tree. _ Moreover, this is a very _ moderate estimate.‘"‘ ‘‘Besides this great quantity of appleâ€"bearing trees there‘ are 14,â€" 000 acres of vineyard, and there are no less than 350,000 orchards and gardens,"" continued Mr. Smith. He went on to show that where 25 years ago all fruits in Ontario were sold to commission agents in the large cities, toâ€"day they are sold directly to the trade throughout the Dominion. "‘Why, in the Western States andl British Columbia they laugh at our laws ; theirs are so much stricter, NEW ZEALAND WHL HELP PARLIAMENT IS NOW OPEN The packing laws he does not conâ€" sider adequate in Ontario. More Stringent Laws Are Needed to _ â€" Equeleh Dishonest Packers â€"â€" . FDTURE OF RRUTâ€"GROWINEG The Dominion Has Adopted a Vigorous Defence Policy. ‘A despatch from Ottawa says: Mild, hazy November weather conâ€" ditions attended the opening of the second session of the eleventh Caâ€" nadian Parliament on Thursday afâ€" ternoon. Two members of my Government attended the Imperial conference called by his Majesty‘s Government on the question of defence. A plan was adopted, after .consultation with the Admiralty, for the organizâ€" ation, of a Cangdian naval service, on the lines of the resolution of the House of Commons of the 29th of March last. The papers will be imâ€" mediately brought down and a bill introduced accordingly. The new convention between his Majesty and the President of the Spesch From the Throne at the Opening of the Eleventh Parliament. Immigration has poured into the new settlements of the North and the West in a copious andâ€" wellâ€" ordered stream, drawn from the best elements of the British Isles, the United States, and continental Europe. Trade and commerce have made rapid advances in all direcâ€" tions.~ The revenue has almost comâ€" p]etelyfl‘ regained what it had lost in the recent period of depression. Most remarkable has been the raâ€" pid recovery from the financial emâ€" barrassment which for a short time was the cause of anxiety amongst business men.. In nearly every branch of business there has been a revival of activity which gives asâ€" surance ‘of continued progress and prosperity. .+ As a result of the nice weather conditions an even greater crowd of citizens than usual gathered on Parliament Hill to witness the miliâ€" tary pageant, and the arrival of His Excellency from Rideau Hall. The speech from the throne conâ€" tained the following clauses : INCREASE OF TRADE. ‘and as a result a strong. industry has sprung up. | The construction of the Transconâ€" tinental Railway has made substanâ€" ‘tial advance during the year. The EWestern division has been extendâ€" 1&--..‘. 66 miles beyond Edmonton, comâ€" \pleting a total distance of 861 miles k\vest of Winnipeg. Contracts have ibeen let for 399 miles in the mounâ€" ‘tain division; good progress was | made on this work. The Eastern diâ€" lvision is now open for traffic from Winnipeg to Lake Superior Juneâ€" tion, and thence by. the Grand \Trunk Pacific branch to uue lake itself.. The whole of the work beâ€" tween Winnipeg and Moneton is now ‘under contract. 4 "I look forward with a great deal of confidence to the future prosâ€" pects of fruit3'g_}‘0\\'i11g in Ontario. We have the natural conditions of soil and climate to produce the best apples on the continent.‘"‘ he conâ€" cluded. % ‘‘We cannot expect assured sucâ€" cess except through united action, not only in the townships, but in the whole Province. We can then make a strong recommendation for better legislation which will serve to stamp out the most prevalent diseases and pests. In some cases the inspectors themselves are not fitted for their work, and a barrel of apples which will pass one ~inâ€" spector will not pass another. There should be a school of training for them." ' Mr. Smith thought the growing of Baldwins and Spies should be made a‘ national industry. annual report of the Trade and Commerce Department, issued. on Wednesday. _ For the last fiscal year the statistics of trade, as alâ€" ready stated, show a falling off of $67,916,284, as compared with the preceding year. The Deputy Minâ€" ister, in his report, lays stress on the fact that this decrease was alâ€" most wholly in imports, the deâ€" cline in exports being only $3,446, 586. Compared with other nations. Canadian trade figures for the year show that the financial‘ depression was felt much less_ severely here than elsewhere. Conference as applied to local conâ€" ditions. All boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen will undergo elementary â€"division. _ All ~young men between eighteen and twentyâ€" one will undergo two years‘ comâ€" pulsory training on stated evenings, half days and whole days, and also fourteen days annually in camp. A volunteer force of 20,000 men will also be maintained and rifle clubs will be encouraged. The cost of the Stheme is estimated at £100,000, while a further £150,000 will be exâ€" pended in a period of three years or additional armament and field equipment. & In order to improve the facilities already afforded the public by the Government railways, and to enâ€" hance their value as part of the great transportation system of Canâ€" ada, a bill will be submitted to you for the purpose of enabling the Minâ€" ister of Railways, on the recomâ€" mendation of the Government railâ€" ways managing board, and subject to the approval of Parliament, to lease any line or lines connecting with the Intercolonial Railway. FErench Republic, respecting the commercial relations between France and Canada, having been approved by the French legislative chambers, you will also be asked to confirm it. The exploratory surveys for a railway from the Western wheat fields to Hudson‘s Bay were pushâ€" ed energetically during tae whole of last summer. It is hoped that a report of the opération will be placed before you at an early date. A measure will be. submitted to you for the purpose of rendering more effective the present legislaâ€" tion, respecting combinations which unduly enhance prices. Mbntague Guest, a close friend of King Edward, died while hunting with s Majesty at Sandringham. A man died at Somerville, N. J., while in a hypnotic trance. The kypnotist is charged. with manâ€" slaughter. 2 Lord_ Dundonald _ advises the towns and populous counties of Britain to purchase estates in the colonies on which to place their un employed. The Court of Appeals at Albany decided that oral betting was not illegal. s s ut . Ovs}ing to a remarkable boom in the steel trade the Homestead steel mills will run on double time. Suffragettes made a raid on the Lord Mayor‘s banquet at the Guildâ€" hall, London. § s 9 The British Committee on the Dramatic Censorship has advised that the censorship be retained and extended to music halls. There are said to be 200,000 perâ€" sons out of work in New York. Nine men lost their lives in an explosion in a colliery at Nantiâ€" coke, Pa. 33 The defalcations of C. L. Warriâ€" ner, Treasurer of the Big Four Railroad at Cincinnati, amount to $643,000. A bandit who attempted to rob a bank at New Albany, Ind., killed the chashier and seriously wounded the President and another man. The Reading Railway. has 200 tank cars engaged in hauling water to towns and collieries in the anâ€" thracite coal region of Pennsylvanâ€" 19. Lieut: Shackleton, the antarctic explorer, has been Knighted. Samuel _F. Morley, whose home was near. London, Ont., was shot and mortally wounded near Deâ€" troit by a woman who says he promâ€" ised to marry her and then refused. Earl Bullock, aged seventeen, and a companion, robbed a bank at Euâ€" dora, Kansas, on EFriday. When pursued Bullock shot and mortally woungded himself. Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife are on a visit to the Kaiâ€" ser at Potsdam. Telegrapnic Bricfis From Our Ows and Other Countries of Recent Events,. CANADA. A company has been formed to manufacture steel by electricity at Welland. Port Arthur Catholics have plans prepared for a handsome cutâ€"stone cathedral: People of Hazleton, B. C., are petitioning Premier MceBride for constables to protect them against possible trouble with the Indians. An Indian named Bernard, on the way to penitentiary, on Friday, jumped from a train running at thirtyâ€"five miles an hour near Glouâ€" cester Junction, N. B., and escapâ€" ed. "The Catholic clergy at Nantes, France, have refused absolution to children in the schools using. interâ€" dicted school books. The first train of wheat over the National â€"Transcontinental _ from Winnipeg arrived. at Fort William on Tuesday. Fort William has been billed for $3,345.50 for costs of the services of the militia in connection with the recent strike riots. The steamer Ellwood rammed a gate in the American Soo Canal, and the locks will probably be closâ€" ed for‘ the remainder of the season. Mr. Hugh Mackenzie, a witness in the coal conspiracy case at Haliâ€" fax, told the court that he had burned all his correspondence beâ€" fore being subpoenaed. Frederick Peterson, a colored man, was stabbed in the head at a dance‘ inâ€" Hamilton, . and Oharles Smith hag been arrested on a charge of committing the offence. Quebec Government _ Will Issue Them for Certain Arcas. A despatch from Quebec â€" says : The Provincial Government has adopted an . orderâ€"inâ€"Council. auâ€" thorizing the Minister of Colonizaâ€" tion to issue prospecting permits for areas of land not exceeding two hundred acres in extent. The terâ€" ritory upon which these permits will be issued will be determined by the Minister of Colonization, Mines and Fisheries. GONDENSED NEWS ITE D. W. Hines, President of the Farmers‘ Railway at Prince Albert, Sask., has gone insane. Port Arthur shippers are proâ€" testing because one of the elevators is not operated on Sunday. s The finding of the commission in the wreck of the Hestia blames the captain and officers of the ship for the disaster. HAPPENINGS FEKOM ALL OVEER THE GLOBE. PROSPECITIING PERMITS. UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. GENERAL US Butterâ€"Pound prints 22 to 22%¢; tubs and large rolls, 20 to 21¢; inâ€" ferior, 17 to 19¢e; creamery, 26 to 27¢6, and solids, 24 to 25¢ per lb. Cheeseâ€"12%Mc per lb. for large, end at 12e for twins. Baconâ€"Long «‘clear, 14% to 14%ec¢ per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $26.50; short cut, $27.50. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 15 to 16e; do., heavy, 14 to 14%ic; rolls; 14 to. _ 14!e;shoulders, 12% to 13¢; backs, 19 to 20¢; breakfast bacon, T7 to 18e. / Eggsâ€"Case flots, 28 to 30c per dozen for fresh, and 26 to 27e for storage. Lardâ€"Tierces, 150%4¢; tubs, 15%6¢; pails, 16¢c. Montreal, Nov. 16.â€"Oatsâ€"No. 2 Canadian Western, 414 to 42%c. Barleyâ€"No..2, 66 "tor67c ; Manitoba feed barley, 52 to 53¢; buckwheat, 58 to 58i%e. Flourâ€"Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.70 ; do., seconds, $5.20; Winter wheat patents, $5.50 to $5.60; Manitoba strong bakers‘, $5; straight rollers, $5.16â€"to $5.25:: do., in bags, $2.â€" 40 to $2.50. Feedâ€"Ontario bran, $21 to $§22; Ontario middlings $23.â€" 5J to $24;: Manitoba bran, $21 ; Manitoba shorts, $23 to $24; pure grain mouille, $32 to $33; mixed mouille, $25 to $27. Cheeseâ€"11‘% to 11}%ec: easterns, II, to 11%e. Butterâ€"Finest creamery, 25 to 25%4%¢ in round lots, and at 26 to 26%c¢ in a jobbing way. â€" Eggsâ€"Relected stock.I27 to 28e; No. 1 candled, 25 to 28e per dozen. Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy, $15 to $15.50 and No. 2 at $13.50 to $14 on track, Toronto. Strawâ€"$8.50 to $9.50. ; Potatoesâ€"50 to â€"55¢ per â€"bag on track for Ontarios. Poultryâ€"Chickens,â€" dressed, 11 to 13¢ per lb.; fowl, 9.to 10¢ ; turkeys, 16 to 18e per lb.; ducks, lb., 11 to 12¢c; geese 9 to 10c. per lb. __a BREADSTUEES. Toronto, Nov. 16.â€"Flour â€" Onâ€" tario wheat 90 =â€"â€" cent. patents, $4.30 to $4.35 1 _ uyers‘ sacks on track, Toronto, and $4.15 to $4.20 outside,; in buyers‘ sacks. Manitoâ€" baba flour, first patents, $5.60 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.10 to $5.20, and strong bakers‘ $4.90 to $5 on track, Toronto. track, Toronto; second patents, $5.10 to $5.20, and strong bakers‘ $4.90 to $5 on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern $1.03, Bay ports, and No. 2 Norâ€" thern, $1.01%%4, Bay ports. Buffalo, Nov. 16. â€" Wheat â€" Spring wheat stronger; No. 1 Northern, carloads store, $1.08%%4 ; Winter easier. Cornâ€"Firm ; No. 3 yellow, new, 66¢. Oatsâ€"Easier; No. & white, 43%c; No. 3 white, Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 mixed, $1.â€" 03 to $1.04 outside, and No. 2 white and red Winter, $1.04 outside. _ Barleyâ€"No. 2, 58 to 5%¢ outside, and No. 3 extra at 56 to 5ic outâ€" side. Oatsâ€"No. 2 Ontario white, new, 37!% to 38e outside. New Canada West oats, 394 to 39%e, and No. 3 at 38% to 39c, Bay ports. Peasâ€"86 to 87c outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 74e outside. ° Buckwheatâ€"55 to 56¢ outside. Cornâ€"No. 2 American yellow, 71 to 71%e on track, Toronto. : Apples=â€"$2 to $3.50 per barrel, according to quality. Beansâ€"$1.60 to $1.75 per bushel at outside points. Honeyâ€"Combs, dozen, $2.25 to $3; extracted, 10%e per lb. Branâ€"$21 in bags, Toronto, and shorts atâ€" $23.50 in bags, Toronto. Llé}/éé; No. 4 white, 41%c. Barleyâ€" Feed to malting, 61 to 70c. Chicago, Nov. 16.â€"Wheatâ€"Cash, No. 2 ted, $1.09 to $1.20; No. 3 red, g1.08 to $#1.15 ; No. 2 hard,; ‘$1.06 to $1.09; No. 4 hard, $1.02 to $1.05; No. 1 Northern, $1.07 to $1.09 ; No. 2 Northern, $1.05 to $1.01% ; No. 3 Northern, $1.02 to $1.06. Cornâ€" No. 2, 63% to 63%e;, No. 2 yellow, 63!4 to 64c; No. 3, 63%¢: No. 3yelâ€" low, 62%e. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 4Mllic; No. 3, Silke; No. 3 white, 38% to 41c; No. 4 white, 37 to 39%c ; THE WORLD‘S MARKEIS low, 63)%e. â€" Oats O M‘ie:. No. 3, Siie; . 383% to 41c; No. 4 white standard, 39% to 4114 Montreal, Nov. 16. â€"Prime beeves sold at 4% to near 4%e per h.; pretty good animals, 34 to 44c¢; common stock, 2 to 3¢ per lb. ; lean canners about 1%c per lb. A superâ€" ior milker was sold for $75, and two others at $69 each ; other cows and springers from $30 to $60 each. Grass fed calves, 2%% to 4%e per Ib.; good veals, 5 to 6e per lb. Sheep 314 to 3%c, and lambs about REPORTS FROM THE LEADING ® TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Chcese and Other Dairy Produce at Home aud Abroad. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. UNITED STATES MARKETS THE DAIRY MARKETS LIVE STOCK MARKET COUNTRY PRODUCE HOG PRODUCTS. Toronto, Nov. 16.â€"The export trade was quiect. Butchers‘ of the choice variety sold as high as at any time during the past few months. One load of prime steers sold at $5.50. Ordinary good loads sold freely at $4.60 to $5.. Choice cows were firm at $4.25 to $4.75. Milkâ€" ers and springers were not quite so strong. The top price paid was $67. Sheep and lambs were very firm and dearer, lambs averaging $5.85.. Hogs auoted at $7.50 £o.b., and $7.75, fed and watered. C Sentence on Men Who Blew Up House Near Ottawa. A despatch. from Ottawa says : For blowing up the home of Mr. M.Laporte with dyramite in Juane last, Victor Lacasse and George Deltour were sentenced to twelve months‘ imprisonment each by Sir William Mulock in the Assize Court on Friday. The two men pleaded guilty to the charge of exploding explosives of a nature likely to enâ€" danger life.in an attempt to do in-{ jury to property. They denied, howâ€" ever, _ that they had attempted to commit murder. . The ; prisoners agreed to pay $500 compensation for damage done to Mr. Laporte’sl kouse and furniture by the exploâ€" sion. A despatch from Abmedabad, British India, says: Lord Minto, the Viceroy of India, and Lady Minto had a narrow escape on Saturday from 1qloirrg killed by bombs. They were driving : through one of the streets when, without warning, two bombs were thrown at their carriâ€" age.â€" A dragoon, who was riding alongside, spurred. forward â€" and with outstretched sabre intercepted the first bomb, hurling it some disâ€" tance away into a sandheap. ‘The second bomb struck the Viceroy s jemidar, a native Lieutenant, who was holding an umbrella over Lady Minto, and fell harmlessly to . the ground. â€" Neither bomb exploded, as the soft sand acted as a buffer. A despatch from Cherry, I]]inois,{ The last says: Three hundred_ and eighty= made whe four men are probably dead in the | superinten mine of the St. Paul Coal Company, arose. T} where they were trapped by fire on the car re Saturday afternoon.. All efforts to about the rescue have failed. Nob a sign ofibelief that life has been received from the imâ€" | ing when prisoned men. The fire which gutâ€" | survived te ted the two s:hafts has been smot}}â€"] Heartro ered by sealing the shafts, but it sifennss is feared the men‘s lives have beenl s hour after snuffed out by the effort to save | A , the mouth them being roasted alive. teeamio TOB The fire originated in a stable in the second level, or in the mule barns, and was discovered by a miner named James Hanney, who gave the alarm, but little notice was taken of the warning until near 3 o‘clock, when a general alarm was given. Then it was too late and the biggest mine disaster in the State went on record. Besides the men desd in the mine, a band of twelve rescuers volunâ€" teered to go down and they, too, lost their lives. These men were lowered to their death, but went down bravely. 5%e per lb. Good lots of fat hogs sold at 83 to 9c per lb. A despatch from Innisfail, Alberâ€" ta, says: Two young lives were lost in â€"the fire which destroyed theâ€"Reâ€" vere Hotel here on Wednesday night, and several â€" other persons had .a bare escape from the same horrible death. The victims were Ethel and John_ Arnell, aged, reâ€" spectively, seventeen and twelve years, daughter and son of the proâ€" prietor of the hotel. Three other children were saved by the mother throwing them from a window of the second story. to firemen, and she and her husband saved them DKD TO SAVE BROTHERâ€" Ethel and John Arnell Lost Their Lives in Hotel Fire at Innisfail, Alta, _ NEARLY 400 MEN PRMH Determined Attempt to Assassinate the Viceroy of India. Great Disaster in a Cool Mins af Cherry, Illinoiss. A BQMBS FLUNG AT LORD MNNT YEAR FOR DYNAMITERS. On examination they were found to contain picric acid. . Just prior to this, as the carriage passed lthrough one of the streets, a bomb | exploded some little distance away. |Police and others, attracted by thq@y explosion, ran up and found a man on the ground with his hand blown | off. He proved to be an innocemi |bystander. The bombâ€"throwQ made their escape in the excitemen®@, lzmd as yet no arrests have been’j | made. ; selves by jumping. One_ of the boarders named Munroe,. who was also obliged to .jump, had this leg broken. Other guests escaped only in their nightâ€"robes. The unfortuâ€" nate girl who perished in the flames was the victim of devotion to her little brother, and lost her life in & noble effort to save him. Bhe rushâ€" ed to the window with the intention Iof jumping to the ground, but on |learning that Jolin had not been aroused, she wert back to look for ]him and was enveloped in the \fgames. f § Charivari Near Neepawa, Man., Has Serious Ending. A despatch from Neepawa, Manâ€" itoba, says:\There was a sad and‘ almost:â€"tragic ending to a charivalg at W. McLaughlin‘s place, ne:i Glendale, on Tuesday night, whe enraged by the noisy crowd assembâ€" led, .following his wedding, Mcâ€" Laughlin fired a rifle among them, and wounded Harry Bosnell, aged eighteen. The ! bullet _ passed through his stomach and liver, and although he is still alive and in theâ€" hospital here, his life is despaired of. McLaughlin was a widower and had â€"been quietly â€" married a tew days ago, hence the celebration. Sentence Imposed . on Window= smashing Suffragettes. . . A_despatclhs from _ London ‘says Alice Paul and Amelia Brown, the: windowâ€"smashing suffragettes,. on Wednesday were sentenced each to one month at hard lakor. Both are members: of the Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst organization. _ During the banquet at Guild Hall in honor of the King‘s birthday stones were thrown through a window of the dining hall, the crash _of glass startling the company â€" and interâ€" rupting the speech of the Lord Mayor. The affair proved to be a suffragette demonstration, and the two offenders were arrested. Attempts have been made in Inâ€" dia during the last year . or two against the lives of Lord Minto, Lord Kitchener, Sixr Andrew Fraâ€" ser, Lieutenantâ€"Governor of Benâ€" gal, and many other officials. Heartrending scenes of grief and suffering were enacted. Half an hour after the ‘explosion occurred the mouth of the shaft was surâ€" rounded by frantic women and chilâ€" dren._ Many tried to enter the: mine,, but gave up after the first éeffort, or were carried away unconâ€" scious from the smoke>and fumes= For two hours, officials of theâ€"mine, assisted by the residents of Cherrg,,‘ tried to devise means to help the im prisoned miners, but in vain. The last trip of the cage was made when the bodies of the mino superintendent and his assistants arose. â€" The men were dead when the car reached the surface. Those about the pit mouth expressed the belief that they woere dead or dy .â€" ing when placed in the cage. Nond@# survived to tell the story of the trip. Deeds of true heroism were called forth by the disaster. Six men gave up their lives and many more were willing to brave death to carry aid to comrades, until Chief Mine Suâ€" perintendent Taylor declared that all hope had gone. SHOT THROUGH STOMACH. JAIL WITH HARD LABOR.