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The clerk on duty at. the War Office transmitted this message to Bucking- ham Palace, where King Edward was lunching. At about 5 o’clock word was re- ceived permitting the publication of this message, and the small notice which was stuck up outside the War Oflice consisted of a. copy of Lord {Kitchener’s cableglfiam. A similar notice was put up outside the Colâ€" onial Ofllce. Beyond these two skimpy bits of paper, London knew nothing 0! the great event. SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE. In the clubs, :he hotels an newspaper oflices. which were all deses‘tmx. the momentous “A document concerning terms of surrender was signed here this even- ing at half past. 10 o’clock by all the Boer representatives, as well as by Lord Milner and myself.” The news which Great Britain was so anxiously awaiting came charac- teristically on an entirely pacific and uninteresting Sunday afternoon, when London presents a sadly dead and deserted appearance Very late Saturday night, a despatch was re» ceived from Lord Kitchener, in which he said the Boer delegates were comâ€" ing to Pretoria, that, they had acâ€" cepted Grth Briiain’s terms, and that they were prepared to sign terms of surrender. Mr. Brodrick, the War Secretary, personally com- municated this message to King Ecl- ward, who was at Buckingham Pal- ace. But the government declined to take {my chances, and nothing con- cerning the receipt; of this message was allowed to leak out. At about 1 o'clock Sunday afterâ€" noon, the War Office received the folâ€" lowing despatch from Lord Kitchâ€" ener, dated Pretoria, Saturday, May 31, 11.15 o’clock p. 111.: According to a despatch from The Daily Express from Utrecht, Hol- land, Mr. Kruger was informed that peace had been declared, shortly af- ter eight; o’clock last night. Mr. Kruâ€" ger had been asleep. “My God,” he said, "It is impossible!" Mr. Kru- ger and his entourage, the despatch continues, hope to be permitted to retum to the Transvaal. This, howâ€" ever, is quite unlikely. , How greatly King Edward’s in- sistence that peace in South Africa be secured prior to his coronation influenced the present agreement will probably never be known until the private \memoirs of the present re- gime are given to the public. "The King has received the Wel- come news of the cessation of hosâ€" tilities in South Africa with infinite satisfaction and His Majesty trusts that peace may speedily be followed by the restoration of prosperity in his new dominions, and that the feelings necessarily engendered by war will give place to earnest co- operation on the part of His Maj- esrLy’s South African subjects in proâ€" moting the welfare of their common country." London, June 2.â€"Peace has been declared after nearly two years and eight months of war, which tried the British empire to its uttermost, and which wiped out the Boers from the list of nations. The war has come to an end with Lord Kitchener’s 2m- nouncement from Pretoria that he, Lord Milner and the Boer delegates had signed “terms of surrender.” This announcement has been anticiâ€" pated for several days, and it was definitely forecast in these desâ€" patches; but its receipt on Sunday afternoon took the nation by surâ€" prise, as everybody has confidently believed that the House of Commons would hear the first news toâ€"day. THE KING’S MESSAGE. The edge of the anticipation with which Great Britain awaited the proâ€" mised statement in the House of Com- mons from Mr. Balfour, the governâ€" ment leader, was still further dulled by the following message from King Edward to his people, which was isâ€" ued after midnight: l KITCHENFR’S MESSAGE. PRETORIA, May 31.â€"(11.15 p. m.)â€"A document containing terms of surrender was signed here this evening at half-past ten o’clock by all the Boer representatives, as well as by Lord Milner, the Bri- tish High Commissioner in South Africa, and myself. KITCHENER OTTAWA, June 1.â€"His Excel- lency the Governor-General receiv- éd the following cable to-night: Pretoria, June lst.â€"Peace was signed last night. KITCHENER. Thirty=Three Months’ War Brought to Conclusion on Saturday Night. Boers Accept Terms. SUTH AFRICAN WAR ENDED KRUGER IS SURPRISED OFFICIAL MESSA GE KITCHENER TO MINTO . he hotels and the almost news Two sentries and many policemen guarded the historic message outâ€" side of the War Oflice, which could scarcely be read by the flickering gaslig-ht. After reading this notice the people passed on in eager crowds into the more eastern districts of London. where there were no illum- inations Sllc’ll as made the clubs on Pall Mall noticeable. By 8 o'clock last night the news had become generally known. A few belated extra editions of newspapers were peddled about the streets, but before their appearance the enterpris- ing hawkers, who for a long time past had kept Union Jacks, feathers and horns, stored up in anticipation of the present event, were much in evidence. The efforts of the hawkers received lucrative rewards, with the result that until long after midnight, the national flags were waved indis- criminately by Wellâ€"meaning roysterâ€" ers. There was scarcely an omnibus or a cab which was not . adorned with the national emblem. Improâ€" vised processions marched up and down the Strand and Piccadilly. Sporadic cheering and much horn~ blowing atoned for the slimness of the crowds, which, had their volume been greater would doubtless have rivalled “Mufeking Night," As it was the demonstrations of the night resulted in a. genial and harmâ€" less sort of jubilation, which con- tinued long after midnight. Outside of Buckingham Palace. where King Edward 'kept himself in wise seclusion, a crowd of fairly good proportions gathered and here, as elsewhere, thé national anthem was sung lustily. SENTRIES GUARDED MESSAGE. At this statement the assembled crowd, which Was in no humor for praying, yelled lustily, and at the instance of the Lord Mayor gave hearty cheers for King Edward, folâ€" lowed by cheers for men .who 'died in South Africa, since the War comâ€" menced. was ticked out on the tape. Then, like wildfire, about 6 o’clock and without any visible means for the transmission of the news. London awakened to the fact that the South African War was over. The inhabitâ€" ants of the east end floclked to the Mansion House, that mecca of the boisterously patriotic, just in time to see the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Joseph C. Dimsdale, come to a balcony on the front of the muni- cipal headquarters and announce that terms of surrender had been signed in South Africa. Amid many cheers the Lord Mayor made a short speech, in which he expressed his hope that London would show its appreciation of the good news by behaving itself decently and in an orderly manner. FOR A HAPPY PEACE. ' "Let us,” said the Lord Mayor in conclusion. “now pray for a long and happy peace." CITY WENT WILD GEN. LORD KITCHEN ER. Young Woman Arrested With One in Her Handkerchief, A dcspatch to the London Central News from St. Petersburg, dated Tuesday, says: '1'uesclay, says: “Secret service officers arrested a. young woman at Tsarskoe Selo, the summer residence of the Czar, carryâ€" ing an infernal machine concealed in her handkerchief. The identity of the woman has not yet. been estab- fished." A London despatch says :â€"In a discussion of the navy estimates in the House of Commons on Thursday, the Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr. Arnold-1901‘ster, refuted Sir Charles Dilke’s suggestion that the Gov- ernment shipbuilding programme was so small as to create a bad imâ€" pression abroad. The Secretary said that. during the past year 35 ships had been completed, 75 vesâ€" sels were now under construction, including 20 armored cruisers, and the Admiralty contemplated imme diater proceeding with upwards of 27 other ships. The vote for the construction of vessels alone, he said, during the present year, would amount to qver £9,000,000. 35 Ships Completed During Past Year. The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed June 8th a day of na- ti'onal thanksgiving, in which Car‘- dinal Vaughan will join, in behalf of the Catholics. At the fashionable hotels and resâ€" taurants, patriotic airs were played, and those present repeatedly stood up and cheered when the bands played “God Save the King." In the meanwhile, the news had been conveyed to most of the churches, whose bells clauged out the message of peace. Preachers stopped in their prayers and their sermons to read Lord Kitchencr’s laconic message to their congregations. A large number of those who had relatives at the front participated in toâ€"night’s street scenes and lent a serious and often pathetic touch to what would otherwise have been an amusing jollification. "Dear Old Bill” or some such name, would be called out, by some one in the crowd. with an added “He’ll soon be ’ n ome. While the general public celebrated the news of peace in the streets, so- ciety was equally joyous, although perhaps, not quite so demonstrative. “Good Old Kitchener," and “We’re blooming glad it’s over," were among the phrases shouted by the crowd. A BOMB FOR THE CZAR. BRITAIN’S GREAT NAVY. SO CIETY CELEBRATED Toronto. June 3.â€"â€"At the Western cattle yards to-day the receipts were only 42 carloads, including 658 catâ€" tle, 375 sheep and lambs, 400 hogs, 250 calves, and a few milch cows. Cattle was, if anything, a. shade easier, but the market can be fairly described as unchanged all round. Baileyâ€"Dun; No. 2, 71% to 72c sample, 6'5 to 71.1,c. Cornâ€"July‘ Minneapolis, June 3.â€"Close â€" Wheatâ€"May, 74-gc; July, 73%c; Sepâ€" tember, 69; to 70c; on track, No. 1 hard, 77-3â€"0; No. 1 Northern, 75k to 753c; No. 2 Northern, 73%- to 74éc. Flourâ€"First, patents, $3.80 to S3.- 90; second patents, $3.60 to $3.70; first clears, $2.90 to 83; second clears, $2.30. Branâ€"In bulk, $14 to $14.25. Ijuluth, June 3.â€"Closcâ€"Wheat -â€" Cash. No. 1 hard, 77c; No. 1 Northern. 74c; No. 2 Northern, 2c; May, 73%c; July, 740; September, Tlgc; Manitoba No. 1 Northern, cash and May, 730; No. 2 Northern, 70:};0. Oatsâ€"Cash. 4450; September, UNITED STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, June 3.â€"â€"â€"\\’hea,tâ€"Wea.k; Closeâ€"No. 1 Northern, 78 to 78%;; No. 2 Northern, 77 to 771:0; July, 72%c. Ryeâ€"Steady; No. 1 59.;c. llic Eggsâ€"The receipts are moderate, and the demand less active. Case lots sell at 13?; to 14c a dozen. Cheese~Markct is quiet, at 12%} for old. The market for new is 11 to 29% Butterâ€"The receipts arelmoderate, and pricgs are steady. The supply of rolls is ample. We quotezâ€"Fine 1â€"1b. rolls, 16 to 17¢; choice large rolls, 14 to 150; medium, 13c; low grades, in tubs and pails, 10 to 120; croamery prints, 19 to 20c, and tubs, 18 to 19c. Lardâ€"The market is firm, with good demand. We quotczâ€"Tierces, lléc; tubs, lléc; pails, 11%0; com- pound, 9 to 10c. Hopsâ€"Trade quiet, with steady at 12c; yearlings, 7c. Honeyâ€"The market, is dull; comb, $2 to $2.25 per dozen. Maple syrupâ€"Market quiet, with prices unchanged. Pure new make. Imperial gallons, 906 to $1; old, as to quality, 70 to 800. Sugar, 9 to Qgc per lb. v prices Poultryâ€"Supplies are small, and the demand fair. We quotezâ€"Tur- keys, young, 13 to 13$}c per 1b.; old. 11 to 12c; chickens, 80 to 906 per pair. Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, 134;» to 14%0; breakfast, bacon, 14k to 15c; rolls, 111.} to 12c; backs, 14’; to 15C, and shoulders, 11c. Dressed hogs are firmer. Hog pro- ducts in active demand at unchang- ed prices. We quotezâ€"Bacon, long clear, 11 to 1150, in ton and case lots. Mess pork, $21.50; (10., short cut,. $23 to $23.50. Beansâ€"The market is dull, with little demand. Prices rule at $1 to $1.25. Hay, baledâ€"The market is firmer, with fair demand; timothy. $10.75 to $11, the latter for No. 1. Strawâ€"The market is quiet. Car lots on track quoted at $5 to $5.50, the latter for No. 1. Potatoesâ€"The market is unchang- ed. Car lots are quoted at, 80c per bag, and small lots at 900. Peasâ€"Few ofi‘ering; No. 2 quoted at 77 to 79c west. Dried Applesâ€"Trade is very dull, with on‘erings at 5c per 1b. Evap- orated, 10; to 11c. Hopsâ€"Trade quiet, with prices Buckwheatâ€"TBe market is firm at. 61 to 62c east. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white sold at 450 low freights to New York, and No. 3 white nominal at 43%c. Cornâ€"No. 2 yellow, 63c west, and No. 2 mixed, 62c West. ' Millieedâ€"Bran is steady at, $17 to $17.50 outside. Shorts, $19 to $20 outside. At Toronto bran is $19 to $19.50, and shorts $20.50. Mani- toba bran, $20 in sacks, and shorts, $23 in sacks. Toronto. Barleyâ€"Trade quiet; No. 2 quoted at 54c middle freight, and No.3 at 52c middle freight. Oatmealâ€"Car lots in bbls, $4.85 on track, and in sacks, at $4.70. Broken lots, 25c extra. $3.55, Manitoba Hours are 5 Hungarian patents, $4.05 to delivered, on track, Toronto, included, and strong bakers’, to $3.95. West. Grinding in trans 24m higher. Flourâ€"Ninety per cent. patent. quoted at $2.1 freights, in buyers’ sacks. rollers, in Wood” quoted at Toronto, June 3.-â€"Wheat -â€"'1‘l‘.e mquet. is unchanged. No 2 White and .red quoted at. 79 to 800 «mid- dle freight. No. 2 spring steady at 77 to 78%: middle freight, and No. 2 goose, 69c east. Manitoba No 1 hard steady at 853c Toronto and west; No. 1 Northern at, 82c, and No. 2 Northern at 806, Toronto and West. Grinding in transit prices Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. THE MARKETS LIVE STOCK MARKETS THE DAIRY MARKETS COUNTRY PRODUCE HOG PRODUCTS ;, June 3.â€"Close â€"- 74-gc; July, 73%0; Sepâ€" to 706; on track, No. 1 \I0. 1 Northern, 75%- to Northern. 73% to 74%:3. GRAIN. ‘éc Toronto and mm at 82c, and 806, Toronto and in transit prices Ontm‘ 5 mid( Struig $3.25 3.25 to steady; $3.80 bags ‘10 He ht Figures for April Show Little Over 14 per Thousand. A (lespatch from Toronto says :- The monthly report of the Provin- cial Board of Health gives the total deaths from all causes in April as 2,490, as compared with 2,427 for April of last year. This makes the death rate 14.4 per thousand. Deaths from contagious diseases for April of this year and last are as follows 2â€"Scarlatina, this year, 13, last, 17 ; diphtheria, this year 36, last, 39 ; measles, this year 10, last 14 ; typhoid, this year 24, last 12 ; tuberculosis, this your 283, just 236. Ninety-one per cent. of the total population reported, w'Hile last year the percentage was ninety. Seven hundred and fifty municipalities re- ported out of seven hundred and seventy, While the total number reâ€" porting in April last year was seven hundred and fortyâ€"five. PROVINCIAL DEATH RATE. A Battle in Which the Losses Numbered 1,500 Men. Cabling from Shanghai, the corresâ€" pondent of the London Daily Mail says the southern rebellion is in full activity, and that a. severe but- tle has been fought at Chutuhsien, in which the rebels were defeated by the Government forces, with losses amounting to 1,500 men in killed or Wounded. The Government. troops pursued the rebels to their en- trenched Villages and cut off their supplies. The insurgents, continues the correspondent, who included boys and women, made desperate sorties from the villages and forced the Government troops to retreat. The rebel leader, Ching Ting Pin, was killed. The rebels are increasing; in strength, concludes the Daily Mail’s despatch, and Boxers are gathering in large numbers in Shantung Pro- Vince. On Thursday Lewanika was on the point of starting on a driving tour through the West of England, when King Edward sent him a. mes- sage saying that he would be glad to meet him. Lewani'ka. came to London and called at Buckingham Palace, where he shook hands with the King and conversed with him. During the visit he received some of his Majesty’s cigars, and they smok- ed together. Fierce Battle on Circus Train While on the Run. A Poughkeepsrie, N.Y., despatch says :â€"A two-year-old Indian tiger was killed in a. fight, with‘ horses on a circus train While en route from Goshen to Poughkeepsie, early on Friday. The tiger, which had been recently imported, escaped from its wagonâ€"den while the train was in motion. It crawled over the tops of four wagons, and entered a car con- taining 30 draught horses. A fierce battle ensued, the panic-strick'en horses plunging and kicking at: the savage intruder. When the train reached here the‘ tiger was found dead and mangled under the hoofs of one of the horses. Six of the horses were badly scratched and bitten. King of. Barotseland Calls on King Edward. z A London despatch says :â€"The first of the black monarchs to reach London for the coronation ceremon- ies is Lewanika, King of Barotseâ€" land. He had an interview wibh‘ King Edward on Friday, afiter which he sent a cable despatch to his son, saying :â€"“Toâ€"day is the day of _my life. With my own eyes I have seen and saluted a chief, who, besides be- ing a great King, is a kind man.” Choice hogs, per cwt .. Light hogs, per cwt Heavy hogs, per cwt Sows, per cwt .. Stags, per cwt .. Choice ewes, per cwt Yearlings, per cwt... Spring lambs, each Bucks, per cwt . . . . . . MILKERS AND CAL Cows. each Calves. each . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Shippers. per D0,, light Butcher, choice Butcher,» ordi: good . . . . . . . . . Stockers, per cwt Following is the range of quota.- tions: Good to choice export cattle sold at from $5.75 to $6.25 per cwt., with from ten to twenty cents more pade for selected lots. There was a fail" enquiry, though trade might. have been more brisk. Good to choice‘ Changed, but there is an upward ten- dency in skimp. Sheep are worth from 4 to 43¢ pr; ll). For bucks the price is 33 to 3):. :Mr lb. Spring lambs fetch from $2 to 5‘4 each. Ex- tra choice will sell up to $5 each” For yearlings the 'price is from 5 to 530 per 11). Thin ycm‘lings are 110?- wanted here; The top price for hogs is $7 per cwfi‘ylight and (at, hogs are $6.75 per cwt. Hogs to fetch the top price must be of prime qualâ€" ity, and scale not below 160 nor above 200 lbs. HORSES KILL TIGER. CHINA’S REBELLION. THE FIRST VISITOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4‘00 '5, per cwt . . . . . . . . . 3.00 SHEEP AND LAMBS ordinary to per cwt CATTLE IIOGS 0.00 ‘VES .00 .00 '10 '30 '30 236. total year Seven 50.00 10.00 4.00 13.00 60 50 50