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the orit thei one abo diate secur Rex ............. va MU bll “I South and North China. Reports state that five missionaries in Kwangsi and Kwantung Provinces, at the towns of Taiwan and Pienlo, consisting of the Rev. R. A. Jaffray, of Toronto, and the Rev. E. H. Came, Britishers, and two Americans, named Rev. Rex. Ray and Dr. H. G. Miller, were captured end are being held prisoners in the mountains. The missionaries were proceeding toward the Town of Kwai- shun, in Kwangsi Province, in order to take supplies to their group of mis- Iionaries, practically held prisoners there due to the internal fighting. A despafch from London says:â€"â€" The Government has communicated with the British Minister at Pekin in- structing him to make vigorous and immediate representations to the Chiâ€" nese Foreign Office for action to effect the release of the four missionaries, two of whom are British, who were captured by pirates while proceeding to the relief of a band of twenty axis- lonaries belelved to be in dung-er at the hands of Chinese bandits. The Government has asked for :m immo- fOl rlvea, however, the pirates abandoned the motor boat, which they had ran- sacked, and carried ofi‘ the four mis- sionaries who were on board toward the hills. Soldiers followed in pursuit. A despatch from Shanghai says:â€" Despatches published in the Shanghai papers tell of military and bandit outrages against missionaries both in When military rived, however, the the motor boat, w} A despatch from Hong Kong sayszâ€"The Chinese captain of the motor boat, belonging to the Stout Memorial Hospital, boarded by pirates as it was proceeding up the Cassia River from Wuchow to Kweilin, which place is being besieged by opposing; Chinese armies, and where twenty missionaries are believed to be in danger, has escaped and returned to Wuchow. He reports that 300 brig- ands, all ex-soldiers, attacked and routed the escort of 80 soldiers. A Chinese gunboat passed and fired a few shots, but did not stop. The brigâ€" ands then boarded the motor boat and demanded £100, firearms, gold leaf, etc. It also has been decided that the standard charge for current shall be 2 cents for a minimum of 60 kilowatts and 1 cent per kilowatt for all cur~ rent supplied above that minimum. In the case of municipalities which find the revenue from this basis of rating insufficient for their needs and neces- sary additional revenue will be ob- tained by increasing the number of It is beiieved, Sir Adam states, that. sion, as well this will be found in the end to be‘ing‘ system. more equitable than the minimum and goes into f0 maximum floor space ratings hitherto At the se enforced. revisions of CHINESE BANDITS CARRY OF MISSIONARIES One Canadian, One English- man and Two Americans Held Prisoners in Hills. Simplification 01’ the rating method has been under consideration by the officials of the Commission for some months, and on Tuesday members of the Municipal Hydro-Electric Asso- ciation were Called into conference. The call for this conference was is- sued by ex-Mayor Maguire of Toronto as president of the association. The result of these deliberations was a de-‘ cisionâ€"which was communicated offi- cially to the municipalities through-‘ out the provinceâ€"to abolish floor, space rating for all domestic services and to provide instead thereof a 30-! cent service charge in the case of alli houses, large or small, connected with! municipal distribution services in the various Hydro zones. HYDRO-ELECTRIC COMMISSION AN- NOUNCES CHANGE IN RATING SYSTEM Flat Service Charge of 30 Cents Replaces Domestic Floor Space Tollâ€"155 Municipalities Get Cheaper Power. A despatch from Toronto says:â€"â€"A revolutionary change in the rating system for domestic and commercial lighting throughout the various Hy- dro Electric systems of the Province was announced Thursday night by Sir Adam Beck, speaking on behalf of the Hydro Commission. SlO 11‘ ament has : afficial repo: the release 'eleased military reinforcements ar- he I116 ‘1 NEW by thei paymer s, named Rev. Rex. Ray . Miller, were captured : held prisoners in the The missionaries were Chi T} the aptors t( aptiv \r l A despatch from Ottawa sayszâ€"j The Dominion Government plans for. the reception to the British special service squadron on the Pacific coast; were announced by Hon. E. M. Macâ€"j- Donald, Minister of National DefenceJ The Dominion will give the officers' of :the fleet an official welcome on their arrival and will tender them a reception and dinner at Victoria. Subsequently a party’of 30 officers and 250 men will be given a tour to Calgary and Edmonton and back by way of the Yellow Head Pass. In this tour the Government of Alberta will! co-operate Pte. Charles Mullet Of Toronto, spent his (55th birthday in the trenches of Flanders during the Great War, and can still fix bayonets with the best of them. At the session of the Commission. revisions of provincial rates in 212 cities, towns and villages were form- ally approved, having regard to the surpluses disclosed by last year’s revenue returns. In 155 cases reduc- tions were made in the rate for power supplied by the Provincial Hydro to the local authorities; in 54 the rate holds at that of last year, and in 3 only was it found necessary to make increases. It had been decided, Sir Adam stat- ed, to accept for general use in the matter of commercial rating the basis put forward by the Toronto Hyro- Electric Commission for use in this city. Formerly commercial lighting was supplied at a minimum rate of 5 cents per kilowatt hour for 30 kilow- att hours, 3 cents for the next 70 and 1 cent for all over 100. The T0- ronto rate, which will now be applied throughout the province, provides for a rating of 4 cents per kilowatt hour for the first 50 hours, 2 cents for the next 50, and 1 cent for all over 100. If, for example, a municipality finds that it requires a minimum of 90 kilowatts per month at ‘2 cents to carry its necessary expenses, the local authority will have power to increase the standard minimum from time to time, subject, of course, to the general supervision of rating by the Provin- cial Commission. kilowatts from 60 upwards to which thg _2-cent rate is app1icable. with the Dominion h v , Dempsey, with Edward Barrie and‘ ‘ Morley Pearson of this city, went galong the river bank with a skifi' and §launched it just above the whirlpoolf :with the idea of taking it down to Queenston for the summer. Dempsey got into the boat himself and started to row across the big eddy. The cur- rent, however, was too strong for him and he had to pull the oars into the boat. Finding himself gradually be- ing drawn into the vortex of the pool, he jumped into the water and started toward the shore. He made about twenty strokes, shouting for help, and na, and later a professor of moral theology at the University of Vienna Just before the collapse of the empire l~e took the post of Minister of Pub- lic Welfare in the Mammasch Cabinet. His great work as Chancellor consist- ed of obtaining a. loan through the League of Nations. NIAGARA WHIRLPOOL CLAIMS YOUNG VICTIM Dr. Ignaz Seipel, who has been Chancellor of Austria since May, 1922, is one of the outstanding fig- ures in ‘ghe European political and economic situation. Born in 1876, he entered the priesthood in 1899 and served the church for four years. Then he became a teacher of religion in a fashionable girls’ school at Vien- The Chancellor's condition is ag- gravated by diabetes. Three shots were fired at him, one going wide, an- other grazing the skin, and the third penetrating the lung. He was shot as he stepped from the train on his return from Weiner Nenstadt. His assailant, 29 years of age, of Rottenâ€" dorf, near Weiner Neustadt, wounded himself seriously in an attempt to commit suicide. - senger in Vienna. Vienna. June 1.â€"The Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Ignaz Seipel, lies in a hospital here to-night in the grav- est condition. A bullet fired by a young raidl‘oa'd emplbye, Karl Jaw- orek, penetrated the Chancellor's lung and it remains imbedded there. The surgeons have been unable to extract. it. Ignaz Seipel, of Ausiria, Was ‘vVounded by Fellow-Pas- CHANCELLOR SHOT WHILE LEAVING TRAIN James Brown, Labor-miner being named by King George as Scotland and ruler of Holyrood bie" at th abor-miner M.P., has lea Lord High Commis Palace. He didn’t Fort William, June 1.â€"Arthu1' (“Joe”) Lucas, who was first in Can- ada to broach the subject of soldiers‘ insurance, and whose suggestion was finally adopted by the Dominion Gov- ernment during the war, died at 6.15 o’clock last night in IcKellar General Hospital, Fort Wi iam, following an illness of six weeks’ duration. Father of Soldiers’ Insurance Passes in Fort William -ing in the United States for a long ' Lardâ€"Pure tierces, 14% to 1514c: time to come, but without a tariff to 11155. 15 b0 15%0; Pails. 15% to 16c; protect us we cannot thrive. We will p_l‘ints, 18 to 181/éc; shortening, continue, because we own vast timber tlerces’ 14 to 141/267 tUbs' 14% to 15°; tracts; but when these are exhausted we will cease manufacturing. labor of foreign countries. “Our plants in the United States will be utilizel for the manufacture of electricity, for which we have a well equippel engineering force. The company of which I am the head will suffer no loss.” Immigration Shows Increase of 103 Per Cent in April A despetch from Ottawa says:- Immigration into Canada in the month of April this year shows an increase of 103 per cent. over that of the same month last year, the total for April, 1524, being 19,330, as compared with per 1b., 15c to 18¢; she Of the total forl$7 to $8; d0. 011115, $45 9,500 in April, 1923. pails, 15 to 15%c; prints, 161/; to 17¢. Export steers, choice, $8 to $8.25; We d d 7~50t 5- th ’1' . cannot compete against the clieapl$gj7g500to$$é; d%,$7ézm’.,expor el en. $4.75 to $5; $9; butcher steers, choice, $7 to $7.75; do, good, $6.25 to $5.75; do, med, $5.75 to $6; do, com., $4.50 to $5: butcher heifers, choice, $6.75 to $7.25; do, med., $5.25 to $6 do, com., $4.75 to $5; butcher cows, choice, $5.25 to $6.25; do, med., $3.50 to $4.50; butcher bulls, $4.50 to $5.50; bolognas, $2.50 to $3.50; canners and cutters, $1.25 to $1.50; feeding steers, choice, $6 to $6.75; do, fair, $4- to $5; milk- ers, springers, choice, $75 to $90; do, fair, $45.00 to $60.00; stock'- ers, choice, $5 to $5.25; do, fair, $4 to $4.25; calves, choice, $10 to $10.50; do, med, $7.50 to $9; do, com., $4.50 to $5.50; lambs, choice ewes, $16 to $17; do, bucks, $14 to $16; do, culls, $8 to $9; spring lambs, , light ewes, to $5; hogs, April this year 9,410 were British, as fed and watered. $735; (10, £013” compared with 4,671 in the month last year; States, 1,838, as against 2,140 in April last year, and 8,082 from other countries, as against 2,689 in April last year. same from the United 58 $7.35; do, country points, $7.10; d0, lect. $8.60; do, of? cars, long haul, $8.25. MONTREAL. Oats, Can. West. No. 2, 751 to 52c; “Our plants in the United States will be utilizel for the manufacture of electricity, for which we have a well equippel engineering force. The company of which I am the head will suffer no loss.” A despatch from Ottawa says:â€"- Immigration into Canada in the month of April this year shows an increase of 103 per cent. over that of the same nounced to-day. “Action of the United States Con- gress in placing newsprint on the free list,” Mr. Dodge said, “has dealt the United States industry a death blow. We will continue manufactur- ing in the United States for a long time to come, but without a tariff to protect us we cannot thrive. We will continue, because we own vast timber tracts; but when these are exhausted we will cease manufacturing. We cannot compete against the cheap labor of foreign countries. New York, June 1.â€"Looking for- ward to the gradual removal of its entire newsprint manufacturing in- terests in Canada, the International Pap-er Co. will break ground in the near future for the erection of a new plant in the Dominion, Philip T. International Paper Company Will Eventually Move En- tire Interests Here. Dodge WILL BUILD‘NEW NEWSPRINT PLANT It is probable that if he had re- mained in the boat he would have been saved, for it drifted around the eddy and was drawn up near the shore. suddenly disappeared. It looked as if he was caught by a strong undertow. The body has not been recovered. leaped into the limelight through gh Commissioner of the Church of He didn‘t torgetlo chat with the president of the company} anâ€" Cheeseâ€"Finest wests., 15% to 15%c; finest easts., 14% to 14%c. Butter, No. '1. pasteurized, 33c; No. 1, creamery, 3214c; seconds, 311/2c. Eggs, fresh specials, 35c; fresh ex- tras, 32c; fresh firsts, 28c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, $1.40 to $30. $16 canner calves, Oats, Can. West. No. 2, 51 to 52c: do, No. 3, 49 to EOC; extra No. 1 feed, 48 to 48%c; No.2 local white, 44 to 45¢. Flour, Man. spring wheat pats., lsts, $6.50; 2nds, $6; strong bakers, $5.80; winter pats., choice, $5.90 to $6.00. Rolled oats, bag, 90 lbs., $2.90; bran," $23.25; shorts, $24.25; middlings. $30.25; hay, No. 2, per ton, car lotsI Flour, M $6.50; 2n winter p Rolled 0a $1.45 sprmg Thirteen Unaccompanied Chikiren on Atlantic Voyage Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon. m to 70 lbs., $18.50; 70 to 90 lbs., $18; 90 lbs. and up. $17; Iightwei ht rolls, $32 barrels, $37; heavyweig t rolls, Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, med., 23 to 24¢; cooked hams, 34 to 36c; smoked rolls, 17 to 18c; cottage rolls, 18 to 20c; breakfast bacon, 21 to 25c; spe- cial brand breakfast bacon, 28 to 30c; backs, boneless, 28 to 33c. Honeyâ€"60-lb. tins, 11 to lll/éc per 1b.; 10â€"Ib. tins, 11 to 12c; 5-1b. tins. 11% to 120; 2175-1b. tins, 12% to 13c; comb honey, per doz., No. 1. $3.76 to 84; N9. 2, $3.25 to $3.50. - Mapie productsâ€"Syrup, per imp. gal., $2.50; per S-gal. tin, $2.40 per gaL; maple sqgarl 1b., 25 to 26c“ Live poultryâ€"Hens, over 5 lbs., 26c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 24c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 15c; spring chickens, 2 lbs. and over, 55c; rooste‘rs, 18c; ducklings, over 5 lb_s., 26;; do, 4 to 5 1113., 24c. â€"vv, “V, 1 w u “13., 5‘2». Vfire'sseamboultryâ€"Hens, over 5 lbs., 28c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 18c; spring chick- ens, 2 lbs. and over, 60c; roosters, 22c. Cheeseâ€"New. large 16% to 17¢; twins, 1'] to 18c; trip ets, 18 to 19¢; Stiltons, 20c. 01d, large, 22 to 28c; twins, 23 to 24c; triplets, 24 to 25c..‘ Butterâ€"Finest creamery prints, 35 to 36¢; No. 1 creamery, 34 to 35c; No. 2, 33 to 34c; (fairy, 28 to 30c. Eggsâ€"Extras, fresh, in cartons, 33 to 34c; extra loose, 31c; firsts,’28c; seconds, 24c. Beansâ€"Cam, hand-picked, 1b., 6'60; primes! 6c. Screeningsâ€"Standard, recleaned, f. o.b;_,_Bay pqgts, per ton, $17. StraEVâ€"Cai'léts, {Sethâ€"{on $9.60 to $10. Hayâ€"â€"Extra No. 2 timothy, per tonI track, Toronto, $16; No. 2, $16; Neg 3, $13 to $14; mixed, $11 to $11.50; lovzer gradgs,_$10 to $12. Man. wheatâ€"No. 1 North, $11354: N0. 3 Vorth.. 331.05%. Man. outs~rNo. 3 CW, 43%“; N0 2, 410. Man. barleyâ€"Nominal. All the above c.i.f., bay ports. Ont. barley-65 to 70¢. Am. cornâ€"No. 2 yellow, 96c. Ont. Ryeâ€"J14 to 78c. Peasâ€"No. 2, $1.4v to $1.45. Millfeedâ€"J)el. Montreal heights" bags included: Bran, per ton, $28 shorts, per ton, $24; middlings, $301 good feed flour, $1.85. Ont. wheatâ€"No. 2 white. nominal Ontario No. 2 White oatsâ€"â€"â€"39 to 41¢. Ont. corn~NominaL Ont. flourâ€"â€"Ninety per cent. at“ In jute bags, Montreal, prompt s In ment, $4.95; Toronto basis, $4.951 bulls. seaboard, $4.60. Mim. flourâ€"isvt_£éis., in Jute sacks, $6..5'0 pe1;bbl.; K2711d7patsq $6. VS The Week’s Markets 10m des; dairy type cows, $3 t‘ $1.50 to $1.75; good 6 to $6.50; do, med., $5 >ail fed calves, $4 to i TORONTO d chi 0 $4; veal .50 to