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â€"â€"_â€"â€"â€"1 W’fl-fl :wâ€"__E_ LESSGN 1‘6 The True Meaning 0 f New Zealand’s Aid to Britain. A despatch New Zealand, says: A conference“ of the New Zealand Chambers of, Commerce on Tuesday unanimously, carried a resolution approving ofl the Government’s offer to share in‘ the defence of the Empire by prc-‘ senting a. Dreadnought to the lm-‘ pcrial Government. The resolution stated that they acknowledged and placed on record their opinion that the prosperity and integrity of the from Wellington, 3 Empire could only be upheld by[ the provision of an united defcnco by each and every portion of his Majesty's doniinions. Now and in the future they were prepared to assist in establishing such a posi- tion. At a. dinner held in the evening the Prime Minister proposed the toast to “Commerce.” Referring to the offer of a. Dreadnought, he delegates 0n conizratulated the . . , V , 'unanimously supporting the Govâ€"l The, delegates that, (:tilll'SC‘, crnmcnt's action. had recognized that was adopted and was in t interest of the Empire. 1t was not, one, nor indeed twelve, Dread- noughts that counted, but the value. of the moral to be drawn from thel offer. New anland was not stupid enough to believe that Great _l’.riâ€" ’tain was unable maintain a 1strong navy, or to offer a. Dread nought on the mere score of the in the belief that England re- r assistance, but she reâ€" t was a proper thing lto do to show foreign nations that. ltlic outlying portions of the Ein- pirc were willing to help. Moreâ€" over, the offer proved that they really formed a. part of the Eni- pire, to which they were proud to :belong. be general 1 Host, ;quircd he :cognized that i ___________________________._____â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"- THREE PEOPLE BROWNED. Mr. and Mrs. S. Robbins and Mr. J. M. Taylor, of Ganaiioquc. A dcspatch from Gananoque says: Another rivcr tragedy occur- red near here on Saturday aft-cr- noon by which mourning is brought to three homes. Early in the at- ternoon Mr. S. Robbins and wife and Mr. John M. Taylor left here in a. light skiff for Clayton, N. Y. That was the last seen of them al‘ve. Mrs. Robbins had an aunt ill in Clayton, whom she intended to visit, and the young men, after cape and was completely exhausted when rescued and brought ashore. The names of the victims are:â€" Michacl Driver, 32, Englishman, married, eight children; George Hancock, Englishman, unmarried; Harry Gardner, 29, Scotchman, un~ married; William McLeod, 32, of Port Morien, married, two child~ ren. The rescued man is Thomas Wrench, who is in a serious condi- tion as a. result of his experience, but will recover. The accident oc- curred shortly after 1 o'cl0ck, and when it became known great crowds lined the shore while the rescuers were at work bringing the remains leavingr her at her aunt’s hOUSC‘. toland intended returning to Gananoque at once. But instead, about the time they should have returned, a telephone message. was received from the chief of police at Clayton that a, skiff, supposed to be from Gananoque, had been upset about two miles out, near the head of Grindstone Island, and the occu- pants drowned. A description of the boat, on the oars of which were the initials G. R.. at once indicat- ed that it belonged to the party above mentioned. If there had been any doubt it was removed on Sunday morning, when several parties were organized to visit the point where the accident occurred and grapple for the bodies. About 9.30 a.n1. the body of Mrs. Robbins was recovered, anda fe wminutes later 'that of Mr. Taylor. The body of Mr. Robbins could not be located. The boat was a small one, being only fifteen feet long and of narrow beam, and it is supposed that when the occupants attempted to change seats she capsized. Both Taylor and Robbins were young men of good habits and well thought of here. The latter was 23 years of age and Taylor 19. Rob~ bins' wife, to whom he was inar~ ried lest November, was formerly a Miss Ncwbury and was only sev- enteen years old. _____x,_____ FOUR MEN DROWNED. Went Out in a Frail Boat Near Port Morten, N. S. A despatch from Halifax says: As a result of a boating accident at Dominion No. 6, near Port Morien, on Thursday afternoon, four men lost their lives by drown» ing while another had a narrow es- v 'I‘ WHEAT WILL GO HIGHER. lA Question of Supply and Demand, Says .135. A. Patten. A despatch from Chicago says: James A. Patten, the “Wheat King of the World,” on Thursday announced his intention of getting out of the wheat market, and cou- pled the announcement with the cf the market wheat would go even higher than it was selling to-day. Mr. Patten ascribed the present market price of wheat to supply and ,demand. He said that while the supply of wheat had not materialâ€" ly increased, the world’s popula- tion and demand had grown and the present price of wheat was merely the natural result of these conditions. _____. DXI_.__ __ STIMULUS T0 PROD UC'l‘ION. Farmers Will Increase Their Wheat Acreage. A despatch from Regina, Sask., says: Cool weather during the past seeding operations through the west, but the delay is not. serious and there is no concern about the. outlook for the seaSOn. High prices for wheat in the markets of the world will undoubtedly lead to larger increase than usual in the acreage to be seeded in that grain. Farmers do not usually pay much attention to skyâ€"rocketing tactics on the part of wheat manipulators, but conditions at the present time are recognized as extraordinary. lllllllllllllllll BY A Ulll‘lll Deputy Warden Stddinan Killed at Ed- monton, Alberta, Penitentiary. A dcspateh from Edmonton, Al- berta, says: The deputy warden of the Alberta Penitentiary was mur- dered on Thursday morning by a convict, who struck him at the base of the skull with an axe. The deputy warden with six convicts were in the carpenter shop at the time. The reason for the assault is unknown. Richard Stcdinsn, the dead man, came from Pcnetanguiâ€" shenc in 1906, where he was war- den in the reforniatory for :25 years. He leaves a widow and two Sons. The murderer is Gary R. llnrrctt, sentenced a year ago for life foriabout his health, and claimed that‘at $3.50 to $0 each. killing his stepson at North Bat- tlcfol‘d. After the blow the murdcrcrmct was a fancied grievance which, [He went direct to the carpenter Pope and six convicts. stant Barrett had picked up a short carpenter's axe that was lvâ€" ing nearby, and advancing a strip towards the unsuspecting man. lstruck him a fearful blow with the sharp edge of the instrument and half severed the head from the trunk. The murderer, who is about ‘ycars of age, has never been a troublesome prisoner, but was ,inorosc and Constantly complaining ihe did not get a fair trial. The only posstble explanation for his «$1.55 to 51.05 in biiycrs' sacks outâ€"' Side for export. Manitoba. lloiir, fii'Lt patents, $6.10 to $0.40 on; track, Toronto; second patents, $5.40 to $510 on track, Toronto. “and No. 2 Northern at $1.28, Geor- prediction that after he was out‘ few days has interfered with the' ii shop, in which were Instructor A.‘ In an in-‘ . in: \t’OlliD’iliiillliEiSi REPORTS FRO.“ T111”. LEADISG TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle. (1 ruin, Cheese uiid Other Dairy Produce at BREADSTUYFS. Toronto, April 20.~â€"'r"lour ~ (In tario wheat 90 per cent. patents,l 55.50 to $5.90, and strong bakers, Wheatâ€"1V0 1 Northern, 51-31 gian Bay ports. Ontario wheatâ€"{(0. 2 wheat $1.â€" 15 to $1.17 outside, according to freights. Oatsâ€"Ontario N0. 2 white 47)“; to 48¢ on track, Toronto, and 45 tc 45).;c outside. No. 2 Western Canada, oats, 47%0, L‘ollingwood, and No. 3, 465.30.15ay ports; No. 2 Western Canada, all rail, 51m. Peasâ€"No. 2, 96 to 961/20 outside. Cornâ€"No. 2 American yellow, 74 to 741/.gc on track, Toronto, and No. 2 at 73 to 731/20 on track, T0~ ronto. Canadian corn, 71% to Tie on track, Toronto. Branâ€"Cars, $23.50 in bulk out- side. Shorts, $23.50 to $24 in bulk outside. ,__.-__. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€"$4.50 to $5.50 for choice qualities, and $8.50 to $4 for sec- ibcen killed. The city has been pracâ€" 1 arm. iiiiilii iiii ii inn Terrible Torrent of Blood Is Sweeping Over Southern Asia. Minor. ‘ .‘\H(lCF\PflilCll'Ell‘tilll Beirut] Syria, .\ d-r‘spatch from Constantinople :n'lffi r Ci‘ri c iiirisiiiU ias tic-l vi . v . ' curred in Adana. [Sin-cl lighting “in. “"00 {Fond} “amlnps am has been going on for tlirccidm-Q‘,l’,”"rl'l‘lq Ito .ilrrsiiia, \V‘llCl'O the and at hast, L000 porsflns hrmesitiiatioii is desperate. I‘oreigners and many (.liristiaiis have taken refuge in the Consulates. The local troops and the Governor are doing their best. to protect the tically destroyed by fire. Ameriâ€"y can missmnaries named Rogers and Maucr, the latter from I'lft-(ljlll, t l . are dead. All the other Americans .an‘ mt “INC 15 great fear that are safe. The British Viceconsul it cannot hold out much longer against the invasion of the Mos- lenis, who are sweeping down in large numbers. A British warship is proceeding to Alexandretta, which is threatened by the Mosr lcms. Major haughtyâ€"Wylie, is among the‘ wounded. He was shot through the At Tarsus there was less less of life. The Armenian quarel tcr was destroyed. Four thousand refugees are housed in the Ameriâ€" can mission. The need of relief is great, for shortly the fugitives will be on the verge of starvation. Con- ditions in the vilayot of Alexanâ€" dietta are most serious. Reports Kurds in the surrounding villages, have also come in of an outbreak although the town itself has not at Erzerum, on the Euphrates, in,been the scene of any particular the northeast. diSorders. M $7.40 fed and watered Toronto. HANGED IIERSELF. Sheep sold at from $4.28 to $4.75, -â€"- grain-fed yearling lambs at $7 to Suicide of Wife of a Well-known 37-50. and Spring 1311le at $3 to Medical Man 01' Montreal. $6.50 each. , -V A despatch from Montreal says: A few loads of Manitoba stock- Mrs. D. J. Evansi wife of a, well_ Several Armenian farms in that neighborhood have been destroyed. Alarm is felt at. Kharput because of serious deprcdations by the onds. Beansâ€"Prime, $1.90 to $2, and hand-picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per bushel. Honeyâ€"Combs, $2 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to 110 per pound. HayiNo. 1 timothy, $10.50 to 810.75 per ton on track here, and lower grades $8 to $9 a ton. Strawâ€"$6.50 to $7.50 on track. Potatoesâ€"~Car lots, 85 to 90c per bag on track. Poultryâ€"Chickens, dressed, 15 to 16c per pound; fowl, 11 to 12c; tur- keys, 20 to 22c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Pound prints. 21 to 25c; tubs and large rolls, 17 to 18c: in- ferior, 14 to 15c; Creamery rolls. 25 to 20c, and solids, 20 to 21c. Eggsâ€"18 to 19c per dozen in case lots. Cheeseâ€"Large cheese, old, 14 to Lil/QC per pound, and twins, 14%, to liyyc; new cheese, 131/2c. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 12 to 12%c per pound in case lots; incss pork, $20.50 to $21; short out, $23 to $24. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 14 to 14%.: ; do., heavy, 13 to 131/,0; rolls, 1] to 11%0; shoulders, 1034c; backs, 16% to 170; breakfast bacbn, 15%z to 1611. Lardâ€"Tierces, 13c; tubs, 131/,c; pails, 13%0. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, April 20,â€"Peas â€" No, 2, $1.03 to $1.04. Oatsâ€"Canadian Western No. 2, 51 to fill/QC; extra, No. 1 feed, 50%. to 51c; No. 1 feed, 50 to 50‘,/2c; Ontario No. 2, 50 to 50360; Ontario No. 3, 49 to 491/20; Ontario No. 4, 48 to 4833c. Barley #No. 2, 66 to 67c; feed, 59% t0 60c. Buckwheatrâ€"69% to 70c. Flourâ€" Manitoba Spring wheat patentS, 'firsts, $6.10 to $6.50; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, secondS, $5.60 to $6; Manitoba. strong bak- ers', $5.40 to $5.80; \Vintcr wheat patents, $5.00 to $5.75; straight rollers, $5.40 to $5.50; straight rol- lers in bags, $2.60 to $2.7 ; extra, in bags, $2.15 to $2.25. Feedâ€" Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; Mani- toba. shorts, $24 to $2“; Ontario bran, $23 to $24; Ontario shorts, $24.50 to 825; Ontario middlings, $25 to $25.50; puic grain inouille, $33 to $35; mixed mouille, $28 to $30. Cheeseâ€"12% to 13c. Butterâ€" Fall creaniery, 21 to 22c‘ and first; receipts at 19 to 19%c Eggs â€" 19 to 19‘/._;c per dozen. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, April 20.â€"â€"A few of the ,liQSf. cattle sold at about 5‘/Qc per ipound, but they were not extra; two loads of cattle from the North- ,\Vcst ranches, which had been out fteding on the prairie all winter. ‘wcre sold at from 41/2 to 5c per ,pound; common stock. including lknien's strippers. sold at lsoine mi 3 to {'21: per pound: niilcli cows sold at from $25 to $5.3 cacli. Calves: sold at from $2 to $0 each l ‘ . and 5}._.c per pound; Spring lambs (itind liiti uf .fat hogs sold iit 7‘; 1.7, 513,. p0,. ‘pUllllCl. Toronto. .lprll f’).**lll spzzc of quietly surrendered and was locked 3 he had against the deputy warden‘uw fad 11,3, more “a: an mnwuu}- up in his cell. The deputy wardcu‘ibccause he would not let him see 1, large imlux of in gs. tlie market had left the ofiicc of \lnrden Aleâ€",thc penitentiary plinicizin withoutifsnmihpd quite firm, and “my. Cnulcy about 25 minutes after 10I o’clock for a. tour of the building. going on the sick list. according lto the rules of the institution. iiviun \\21< dispcwil ~f \iithout (if liculiy at 57.15 fob, muddy ah, ers found ready sale at $4 to $4.25. k d. l h The demand for this class of cat- now“ me, 103' man’ anged her' self on Wednesday morning. She He is incremng as the pasmring had been in poor health for some . h . . . scam“ approac CS time, and had prevrously attempted I T rD v ,J to take her life several times. 1 N1 L ST TS MARKFTS' Wednesday morning she chided atâ€" Buffalo, April 20.â€"Spring Wheat; tention’ and procurlng a, rope sue- No. 1 l\orthcrn, car-loads store, ceeded in stranohnrr herself, $133114; Winter nominal. lornâ€" D a Higher; No. 3 yellow, 72%0; No. 4 yellow, 711/40; No. 3 corn, 71‘/Z to 720; No. 4 corn, 710; No. 3 white, 731/,c. Oatsâ€"Firm; No. 2 white, 57‘2 to 580; No. 3 white, 56V2 to 570; No. 4 white, 55% to 56%c. Chicago, April 20.â€"â€"Cash wheatâ€"â€" No. 2 red, $1.39 to $1.40; No. 3. red, $1.30 to $1.38; No. 2 hard, $1.27 to $1.33; No. 3 hard, $1.22 to $1.28; No. 1 Northern, $1.28 to _"’l< LAY DEAD IN HER ROOM. Woman Stricken With Apoplcxy While Retiring. A despntch from London, Ont., says: Mrs. James Fairburn was found dead on Thursday morning in her room over the London Cafe, where she boarded. She had evi- $1.29; No. 2 Northern, $1.26 tordcntly been dead some time. She $1.28%; No. 3 Spring, $1.22 to,was lying on the. floor where she $1.28. Cornâ€"No. 3, 671/30; No. 3'had fallen when taken with apo- ~3/ ,/,c; No, 4, (56 togplexy while retiring. She was the 'widow of the late James Fairburn, who died a number of years ago, and who before his death was a. partner in the firm of Fairburn and Mallock, who kept a foundry on Fullerton Street. yellow, 67% to G 6624c. Oatsâ€"«No. 3 white, 53%1 to 550; No. 4 white, 51% to 53%6; standard, 54% to 54%c, Minneapolis, April 20â€"theat â€"â€" May, $1.26%; July $1.26Z; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.29%; No. 1 North- ern, $1.28%; No. 2 Northern. $1.â€" 2efig; No. 3 Northern, 951.23% to 7'“ ’1‘“"" $1.24}; Flour~First patents, $6 FRUIT PACKING, to $6.20: second patents, $5.90 to $6.10; first clears, $4.95 to $5.15; second clears, $3.45 to $3.65. Bran ~â€"ln bulk, $22.50 to $23. 5.: MANY PERISH IN HOTEL FIRE Commissioner Finds Improvement ' in Canadian Methods, A despatch from Ottawa says: Before the Commons Committee on Agriculture on Wednesday morning Mr. A. McNeil, fruit commissioner, stated that there had been a notice- able improvcment during the past two or three years in the methods of fruit packing throughout Cam ada. Cases of fraud were now very few. and violations of the acts were being 0105e1y watched by a. staff of eight permanent and thirâ€" teen tomporary inspector's. Last year there were 79 prosecutions for fraudulent packing. Panic in Lodging-house for Labor- ers in San Francisco. A dcspatch from San Francisco says: Six bodies recovered, and. probably eight or ten others buried in the ruins, six injured, one fatal- ly, property 1035 $125,000â€"tliese are results of a fire on Friday that destroyed the St. George Hotel, a lodging-house for laborers, at How- ard and Eight Streets. Eight other small buildings were burned. The bodies taken to the morgue were so charred that identification was impossible. The hotel was a three-storey frame building. ,It burned so rapidly that none of the 200 guests had time to dress. Many .esaped by jumping to the roof of an adpoining workshop. Scores clambcred down the firemen's ladâ€" that sixty deaths from plague have dersv and the fire escapes 0" the occurred in the Miianza district, L‘llildingv F01” lllmlmd to safety which lies south of the Victoria‘ in a net held by the fire fighters. Nyanza, .____.__* PLAGUE IN GERMAN AFRICA. Dcutlis Have Occurred in One District. A despateh from Berlin, Ger- many, says: Advices received by the German Foreign Office state Sitxy iii iii ANS iii Sl‘lliV iii Failure of the .Fur Industry Means Terrible Hardship. j A despatch from Edmonton, Al- berta. says: Reports received herelhave no ammunition to hunt wit from Fort (‘hippewyan state tllatialld are slowly starving to death.l the past winter has been the most Their condition is described as be-" ‘scverc experienced in the far north ling truly pitiublc. Many are mere for many years, and’in some sec- lskeletoiis and too weak even to get tions of the country starvation was? wood, and are lying huddled to: only averted by the fact that {liclgether in their tcpees. deer were unusually numerous! At Cliippewyzin and the vicinity Fish, on which the inhabitants chicw‘n, where food has been obtain- Iflul largely for subsistence, have able. the mortality among the In- lucn very scarce. The fur ()in dians has been very high, sixty ltllad ("fun-Ht entirely. and the 1:1» having died within twelve Ly;-nths. and as they cannot get fur-the (Lin: have brcn in dire >llilil<. llc- , l'artlicr north the death fate is ~,~. .- nav- that the traders have still higher. The princich range 9.1.: d, an on giving tinm ci'edit,lis their filthy 11(t_i." if livin;