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MARKETS. LONDON CORN, MONDAY-ENGLISH WHEAT. —There was a fairly good attendance on market, but English wheats were quiet, and not very firm, while the whole market wa 1liciiiied to ease from last week's best: English white milling lots ranged up to 37s., and reds up to 36s. per qr. FOREIGN WHEATS. Condition* were sluggish, and 3d. less money was taken for most descrip- tions on the week: No. 1 Northerns, 37s. 6d.; No. 2 ditto. 37s. ex ship: Plate. 36s. 6d. lanit, 3 Russian, 33s. 6d. upwards; Indian.3S". 3d. tip- wards ex ship to arrive. MAIZE.—There was only a limited inquiry, but owing to the limited character of supplies trade kept firm: Plate. 27s. landed: South African, 27s. upwards landed. OATS.—A moderate business was reported, and most samples were held for fully late rates: Plates, 16s. 3d. landed; Canadians, 19s. 3d. German, 18s.; heavy Russians, 21s. upwards landed. BARLEY. Grinding and feeding barleys re- mained scarce and firm Canadian, 21s. 6d. landed. Malting lots, though quiet, were well rylaiiitaine,l.. Pr:isli nominal: Smyrna, 29s. to 33s.; brewing Californian, 30s. to 32s. 6d.; Oregon, 29s. to 33s. Plate, 23s. 6d. to 26s. per 44Slb. BEAKS AND PEAs.-The-re was a fair demand at steady rates. LONDON FLOUR. MONDAY. Market con- ditions were slow, though the colder weather assisted the consumpti ve demand English Town-made Patents, 27s. 6d. to 29'. 6d. ditto Countrv-made, 24s. to 26s. American Patents, 26s. to 29s.; ditto Bakers' 23s. to 26s. per sack. LONDON CATTLE. MONDAY.—Beast entries on to-day's market numbered 550, a decrease of 200 compared with last. Monday's figures. Trade was steadier owing to the smaller sup- plies and the colder weather. The lipet bullocks were quoted as follows: Scotch, 4 s. lOd. to 5s. 2d.; Norfolks. 4s. lOd. to Ss., exceptionally, 5s. 2d Shorthorns. 4>. 8d. to 5s. Fat cowa and bulls met a,f.teady sale; the former being quoted at 3s. lOd. to 4s., exceptionally 4s. 2d.; and the latter at 3s. 6d. to 3s. lOd. Twenty milch cows offered, and the quotation for the best was < £ 23 each. Five thousand one hundred and sixty sheep were penned in the market, an increas-e of 260. Trade ruled slow as follows: Best Down tegs, 6s. to 6s. 4d. best half-breds, 5s. 2d. to 5s. 6d. best, Down ewes, 3s. lOd. to 4s. 2d. Lambs, 7s. 4d. downwards per stone. Five calves offered, but trade was too timall to quote. LONDON MEAT, MONDAY. Trade Supplies moderate: Beef. English, lOd. to 4s.: American, 3s. lOd. to 4s. Scotch, 4s. to 4s. fd.. Argentine hindquarters. 3s. 4d. to 4&. Mutton, English wethers, 4s. Sd. to 5s. 2d. ewes. 3s. 4d. to 3s. 8d. Scotch ewes, 3s.. 4d. to 3s. 8d.: teg*. 5s. to 6s.: New Zealand. 3s. to 3s. 4d. La.mb. English, 5s. 6d. to 6s. 4d.: New Zealand, 3s. 6d. to 4s. Veal, 4s. 8d. to 5s. 6d. Pork, 3s. to 3s. 6d. per stone. LONDON POTATO. MONDAY. Trade steady for fair supplies as follows. Quotations: Lincolns, 75s. to 85s. King Edwards, 80s. to 90s.; Kents and Essex, 65s. to 75?. Blacklands, 55s. to 65s. per ton; Jerseys and Guernseys, 13s. upwards; Teneriffes and Canaries, 10s. upwards per cwt. LONDON PROVISIONS, MONDAY.—Butter quiet: Danish, 112- to 116s.; Normandy, ICOs. to 116s.: New Zealand, 100s. to 116s.; Irish, 100s. to 112s.: Australian, 90s. to 102s.; Rus- sian, 90%. to 102s. per cwt. Cheese quiet: Cana- dian, 64s. to 70s. Dutch, GO.. to 74". per cwt. Bacon steady: Irish, 60s. to 78s.; Continental, 50s. to 76s. per cwt. Hams firm: American, 66s. to 80s. per cwt. Eggs steady. BRADFORD WOOL, MONDAY.—The market is extremely quiet so far as new business goes, the present high prices forcing users to a hand- to-mouth policy. Merinoes ar" very stiff, ond up to 2s. 8d. is asked for sixtyfours tops, but this cannot be made. Crossbreds are not hanged, and English wools are neglected, but. "n neuter case are quotations altered. Yarn trade con- tinues most disappointing.

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AGRICULTURAL NOTES. I BY A PRACTICAL FARMER. IMPROVING IRISH LIVE STOCK. Excellent progress is evidently being made in the Government schemes fcr improving the breeds of Irish live stock. The total number of sires allocated under the horse- breeding premium scheme was 393, of which 181 were thoroughbreds, twelve Irish draught stallions, 100 half-breds, seventy-five Clydes- dales, and nineteen Shires. The attempt to revive the old Irish type of draught horse appears to meet with fair success, and the half-breds and the^ Clydesdales both show continuous progress, while Abe thoroughbred and the Shire had a slight set-back as com- pared with 1912. The number of mares passed at the 229 local exhibitions as sound and suitable was 5,024, made up of the dif- ferent breeds in about the same proportions as the sires, and ihe total amount expended for nominations, including £ 1,810 from the Development G -ant, was £ 11,467. There were 13,765 mares inspected, of which 8,251 were passed by the judges as eligible for nominations, but of these 797 were rejected as unsound, and 72 per cent, of the nomina- tions were given to mares six years of age and under. The total amount expended in premiums for bulls was £13.032, and funds were set aside for the award of an aggregate of 959 premiums. Local exhibitions were held at 440 centres, and 579 bulls that had held pre- miums in 1912 were passed as suitable for further service, but only 560 were actually re- tained. Only 340 new applicants were selected, making the total 900 instead of the maximum of 959 provided for. Of this total nearly two-thirds were Shorthorns--namelv, 592—185 Aberdeen-Angus, sixty-seven Here fords, and fifty-six other breeds, and with few exceptions all the bulls were less than four years old, and more than a third of the total were yearlings. In addition, 265 bulls were placed under special arrangement for congested counties, making the total number of sires distributed under the scheme 1,165. The number of premium boars was 395, comprising 250 large whites, twenty large blacks, and 125 white Ulster. The sheep- breeding scheme is only on a limited scale, being confined mainly to the congested coun- ties, in which 103 black-face mountain rams were sold at reduced prices. • HOW TO TAKE SAMPLES. I With reference to my recent remarks on the failure of the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act to achieve what it was intended to do, I am reminded that failure to comply with the sampling regulations is not infre- quently the reason why successful proceedings are not taken when there has clearly been contravention of the Act. It may be well, therefore, to mention. the following points in the official regulations: The sample must be taken within ten days of arrival of the manure or receipt of the in- voice—whichever is later. The seller must receive three days' notice of intention to sample, with notice of time and place for the operation. The sampling must be performed in conformity with the instructions of the Board of Agriculture. Bags of manure must, of course, remain intact until after the opera- tion. The buyer should always carefully com- pare the percentages of nitrogen, phosphate of lime, and potash inserted in the invoice with the quality agreed upon at time of purchase. A sample should then be sent, as per Board of Agricultural instructions, to the Official analyst for the county; but if the buyer should not desire the certificate of analysis to be of such a formal nature, he can forward the sample to the analyst of his local agricul- tural society or to any well-known analyst. He will have the iatisfaction of knowing that the "samples have been drawn in such a manner that the certificate of the analyst will be accepted without demur, and can be used as a basis for compensation should it show that the quality was inferior to the quality purchased. < LOSS IN WEIGHT OF CATTLE IN I TRANSIT. An important investigation has been car- ried out for several years in order to test the loss in weight of the different classes of cattle when conveyed by rail, and to discover the various factors causing a greater or smaller loss in* the course of the journey. The loss in weight depends very materially upon the length of time the cattle are kept without food and water before being loaded; the nature of the feed which the cattle have before loading—good hay is recommended as Being superior to beet pulp or silage; the weather conditions at the time of loadÜJg. during transit, and at the market; the char- acter of the journey—slow, rough journtys causing greater loss—and the treatment the cattle received at unloading stations; the time of arrival at market-if the cattle arrive just before being sold they have no time to have a good feed. It wa-s found that cattle reaching the market ^ariy on the day of sale or the afternoon of the previous day fed better than those arriving during the night. The tests showed that an exceedingly large feed at market is not desirable, as it de- tracts from the selling price. The shrinkage in the case of calves holds about- the same proportion to their weight as is found with grown cattle. Steers usually shrink somewhat less than cows of the same weight. The loss in weight over a long jour- ney is greatest proportionately during the first twenty-four hours. The shrinkage during a journey of thirty-six hours is found to range from 3 to 4 per cent. of the live weight, and during a journey of seventy hours from 5 to 6 per cent. It is advised' that cars conveying cattle be well bedded with sand or similar material to prevent slipping or falling, which, of course, tires them unnecessarily. KILLING WEEDS AND MAIMING I CROPS. Readers may be interested to have particu lars of some experiments carried out at fifti different centres last year, to test the efficacj of calcium cyanamide in the eradication ol charlock and wild radish. There was a wide range of fcoil and weather conditions at thes< centres. The crops were spring-sown, and, in most cases, oats; the calcium cyanamide was applied at the rate of 1341b. per acre on the average. The weed plants were at different stages of development at the different centres when ) the calcium cyanamide was applied. The ap- j plications were always made in the early, morning after a dewy night. In most cases j the succeeding weather was favourable—i.e., without rain, and in these cases the effects of the calcium cyanamide on the charlock and wild radish were visible on the two succeed- ing days, plants with from four to six leaves being completely burnt, and even stronger plants being usually killed. Plants in bloom were not completely burnt, but were weakened to such an extent that the oats overgrew them later. At four centres where there was rain after the application of the' calcium cyanamide the effect was not visible nntil a few davs later and was 1-s marked man in tne preceaing cases, ine experiments also showed thistles to be very susceptible to calcium cyanamide. Although there was a yellowing of the oat plants a few days after the applications, it was established at all centres that the calcium cyanamide had no harmful effect on the young oats. At eleven centres clover was sown in the oats. In nine cases, when the oat crop was taken, the clover was seen to be better than on untreated plots; in two cases it was worse, but attained a better growth by the autumn. In no case did the calcium cyanamide permanently harm the clover. At all centres the manurial effect of the calcium cyanamide was very noticeable-equal, in fact, to that of either sulphate of ammonia or nitrate of soda when these were tested. In the less badly infested fields the gain from the treatment was about 5cwt. of grain per acre over the control plots. But for the treatment in some of the badly-infested fields these frould have had to be ploughed up.

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SPORTS AND PASTIMES. The competition at Henley this year pro- mises to be of an international character in the leading events, and the publication of the "list of Colonial and foreign entries, which close on June- 1st, will be awaited with some interest, says an Observer writer. It is quite dikely that England will have to fight hard to tretain the Grand Challenge Cup for eights -and the Stewards' Challenge Cup for fours. It appears practically certain that the /United States will send two eights for the Crund Challenge Cup. The Union Club, of 'Boston, and an eight from Harvard University will compete. This is stated to .be the Har- IVard second boat that met with great success at the American Henley. No Harvard crew "has ever been seen at Henley, but in 1906 harvard rowed' a match against Cambridge -University over the Boat Race course and suffered defeat. The Boston Union Boat Club crew will be made up entirely of Harvard graduates who have rowed in the University moat, so that quite a big party or Harvard anen will be over, and they may count on a swarn) welcome. The American Rowing Association, which las secured an agreement with the Henley executive, must not be confused with the 4Katiorial Association of Amateur Oarsmen of the United States. The former was formed to -run the American Henley, but more recently widened the scope of its operations by affiliat- ing the best clubs in the States, including the leading Universities. The other outside entries will include <he Winnipeg R.C. eight for the Grand and a couple of Canadian scullers for the Dia- monds, including R. Dibble, of the Don R.C., Toronto, who is the holder of the amateur sculling championship of America. The Mainzer Ruder Verein, of Mayence, will again send a four for the Stewards' Cup, and possibly an eight for the Grand. Last year the Mayence four defeated the Argonaut (Toronto) and Leander in the Stewards' Cup, but lost the final to New College on a foul, the Germans steering very erratically and colliding with their opponents. So far as the home entries are concerned, Xeander, London, and Thames may be reck- oned as certainties for the Grand. The 'Var- sity entries will depend to some extent on the Tesults of the Summer Eights, but it is antici- pated that a combined Trinity (First and Third) crew and Jesus will represent Cam bridge in the Grand, whilst New College will most likely be the only Oxford entry. Leander, Thames, London, and New College are probables for the Stewards' Cup. There will be a big contingent of college crews for the Ladies' Plate and Thames Cup, and Eton, Radley, Shrewsbury, and Beaumont are expected to represent school rowing in the Ladies' "Lord Wimborne and the members of the English polo team left Liverpool for New York on Saturday in the Carmania. It would be absurd to say I am confident of the result," said Lord Wimborne, but I have a much better team than I anticipated I would have a few days ago. If we can get the team thoroughly together we may put up a better game than we thought." The demand for Beats for the polo matches at New York is so great that extra stands are being erected to accommodation a total of 47,000 persons. It is confidently expccted that next year's international polo meeting at San Francisco will be the biggest thing of its kind ever attempted. Every effort is to be made to make it really representative of polo in every part of the world. Mr. J. Cheever Cowdin and Mr. John B. Miller, the special commis- sioners who were recently in London, are now on the Continent arranging for the visit to San Francisco of teams from France, Spain, Germany, and Austria. The British War Office is to be approached to grant permission to officers to compete in the open Army events, and an invitation is also to be sent by the United States Government to India to secure the attendance of native teams. The travelling expenses of ponies and the grooms in charge of them are being paid by the ex- position management. Another name has been written on the scroll of golfing honours, says the Observer. It is the name of Mr. J. L. C. Jenkins, a player well known in the Troon district and scarcely so well known elsewhere. Mr. Jen- tins has on several occasions worthily repre- sented his country in international matches, and has gone some distance in previous championships. For some time he has been knocking at the door of golfing fame, and on Saturday it opened to him. Mr. Jenkins is a short, alert man of thiry-one,very self-pos- sessed, very confident, with a command over every shot that has to be played. In the championship he beat in turn Mr. Castle, Mr. Munn, the two Martin Smiths, Mr. H. E. Hambro, the Hon. M. Scott, and Mr. Norman Hunter. The runner-up is Mr. C. O. Hezlet, whose mother and sisters have figured so soften in ladies' championship meetings. So numerous are the entries in the 108 classes of the International Horse Show, which opens on June 4th at Olympia, that it will be necessary to hold three performances on each of the eleven days. The mornings will be devoted to preliminary judging, so that a weeding-out process will leave only the best of the animals to be dealt with during the afternoon. This reduces waits, and leaves more time for varying the programme. When it is known that in each of the jumping classes there is an average entry of seventy horses, it will be realised that the judges have no light task before them. and their work will extend from 10 a.m. until midnight, and possibly later. I There is every prospect that all parts of the British Empire will be represented at the Bisley meeting in July next. Oversea contin- gents are expected from India, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Rho- desia, the East African Protectorates, Egypt and the Soudan, the China Ports, Burmah and the Straits, the Mediterranean, Ceylon, the West Indies, West Africa, and the Chan- nel Islands. The All-Indian team, which has been raised by Major W. Donald Smith, Madras Volunteer Guards, is now on its way to England in the P. and O. steamship Nubia. Very interesting was t Ie programe of the London Athletic Club's spring meeting at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. One encourag- ing result, in view of the Olympic Games, was the performance of F. O. Kitching, of the promoting club, at throwing the javelin. He won that event at 143ft. 3in., by far the best recorded achievement of its kind by a native- born Englishman in England. At throwing the discus also A. E. Flaxman (L.A.C.), the hammer-throwing ex-champion, did well. He won that event at 115ft. lOlin., beating the old Oxford University" blue," W. E. B. Henderson (L.A.C.), by 3-2 Ift E. W. Haley won the club's quarter-mile champion ship somewhat easily in 51sec. C. N. Seed house, the quarter-mile ex-champion, had-, sent in his name for this event after a long absence from the path, but he arrived from his home at Newmarket just too late to com. pete. Captain H. E. H. Blakenev (L.A.C.), an Army ex-champion, won the 300 yardE hurdles handicap from scratch in 39sec. E. W. Britton, Ashcombe A.C., was doubly successful by winning the 100 yards open" handicap, with eight yards start, in 10 l-5sec., and the 220 yards handicap, with 15.} yards start, in 23sec. In the absence of H. Shelton (holder) F. de B. Collenette won the club's mile challenge quite easily in 4min. 37sec. The finest bit of running throughout the afternoon was shown by B. Ives, the Queen's Park Harriers hon. secretary, in the two miles "open" handicap. Starting from the virtual scratch mark of 65 yards, he rapidly cut down the field, and, getting the lead 300 yards from home, won by 18 yards from H. Taylor (Geneva A.C.), 220 yards start, in the fast time of 9min. 28 2-5sec.

when asked to pay his bill in a Bordeaux restaurant a customer named Emile Lafort produced a revolver and shot the landlord dead, He then fired at the landlord's wife and her sister, both of whom are fatally wounded. Afterwards h{! surrendered to the PoJice.

WORK AND WORKERS. I It is announced at Crewe that the London and North-Western Railway Company- have made concessions to their 80,000 employees, of whom about 9,000 are clerks. For some time there has been an agitation for greater railway facilities, and the company have now intimated that in future free tickets will be allowed to all the clerical staff, both wages and salaried, on three occasions during the year; also to their wives and all children earning less than 15s. per week. A free pass will also be granted to the salaried staff once a year over the lines of other railway com- panies; also to two dependent children. Resi- dential passes will also be granted to junior clerks, wages and salaried, in receipt of not more than £ 40 per annum, also free tickets to juniors visiting their homes at week-ends. Free passes will in future be granted, annually to all men in their works at Crewe, Wolver- ton, and Earlstown, numbering over 20,000. Their wives and families will also participate in this privilege. The delegates of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, at their Leeds Conference on Saturday, unanimously passed a resolution practically vetoing the principle of fusion which has so long been agitated at the meetings of that body. It was also unanimously decided to demand that the words competent pilotmen" in the com- panies' orders be altered to pilot driver." and that the Union officials should approach the companies and the Board of Trade on the matter. Advances in wages ranging from Is. to 3s. weekly, affecting nearly 3.000 workers, are contained in the award of the North-Eastern Railway Conciliation Board lately issued. The concession is also made to some sections •of a six days' working week. I The London branch of the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association has notified provincial branches that the special events staff" have refused to sign for duty at race meetings on June 1st at the reduced rates for mainten- ance allowance. The cause is the decision of the Postmaster-General to reduce the sub- sistence allowance from 6d. per hour to 4d. per hour, which is paid to telegraphists when away from home on official business. The re- duced rate becomes operative on June 1st. It is stated that the Postmaster-General is re- considering his decision, and that the tele- graphists hope to induce him to return to the old rate. Speaking at a great miners' meeting at Aberdare. Mr. William Brace, M.P., presi- dent of the South Wales Miners' Federation, remarked that next year they would pass through a crisis. For the first time in their history all their agreements would terminate —the Conrciliation Board agreement and the Minimum Wage Act. They were demanding 50 per cent. on the standard rate of 1879. and they were going to have no maximum. Their experience showed that they were not able to share in the great prosperity of their em- ployers. The men had given the employers notice of their demands in time to enable them to make provision in their contracts for 1915, and to meet their demands. If the em- ployers did not do this, it was because they contemplated fighting the miners' protective organisations. Greater wages and safety must come before employers' dividends. A hundred and ninety-three miners em- ployed at Dawdon Colliery were summoned at Seaham Harbour Police-court for leaving work without notice. There were five days involved, some of the men being summoned in respect to the whole and others to three and two days. The sum of 5s. damages per day was claimed. The matter arose with the putters, and there was a dispute regarding the minimum wage, and at length the whole colliery, employing 1,500 hands, was laid idle, involving, according to the prosecution, a loss to the owners of about £ 1,000. After over forty orders for damages had been made, the bulk of the defendants, not satisfied, left the court in a body, and after the fiftieth tease the Bench adjourned the remainder for fourteen days. The men marched to the court headed by a brass band and with banners flying. Less than a quarter of them could be accom- modated in the court. The summons in re- spect to one of the defendants was dismissed. He was the president of the Dawdon Lodge, and proved that his absence on the two dates for which Ihe was summoned was due to lodge 'business. The Farmers' Union of Kent recently wrote to Mr. Lloyd George urging that his proposal for a minimum wage for agricultural labourers would be unworkable in the Kent fruit and hop districts, where piece rates are the rtne. The following reply has now been received from the Chancellor's secretary: "With re- gard to the question of piecework and the minimum wage, referred to in your letter, I aa requested by the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer to point out that this question can easily be dealt with on similar lines to those adopted under the Trade Boards Act. Under this Act the Board may fix minimum piece rates, and where piece rates are not fixed by the Board the employer shall be deemed to pay wages at less than the minimum rate un- less he can show that the piece rate of wages paid by him would yield in the circumstances of the case, to an ordinary worker, at least the same amount of money as the minimum time rate (Section 8). Hence, in those trades where the minimum piece rates have not been fixed the employer has to show that ordinary workers receive a wage which is up to the minimum time rate; but it is not necessary for him to show that the piece rate wlrfch he has fixed yields to every worker, however slow and incapable, an amount equivalent to the mini- mum time rate. Nor. on the other hand, is it sufficient for him to show that the piece rate which he had fixed will yield the equivalent of the minimum time rate in the case of the specially fast worker." A Conference, convened bv the London Trades Council, was held at Essex Hall on Saturday, for the purpose of founding a Lon- don Labour Party for capturing as many seats as possi-ble for Trade Unionists and Socialists at the L.C.C. elections in 1916. Mr. J. Stokes (Glassblowers' Union) presided. Mr. Fred Knee (secretary) said that up to the pre- sent the working-class movement in London was divided, and it was the object of the Conference to unite them. What they would have to do was to form what was called on the Continent a bloc party, in which nobody should be top dog and no one bottom dog. At present there were only seven Labour Mem- bers on the County Council. They were divided into three sections. Of the seven one only could be called a Labour representative by courtesy in virtue of his position as secre- tary to a Union. All this had to be ended. He appealed to them to sink all differences, and let the ideal of working-class unity stand before them as one to be gloried in, aimed at, and achieved. If they were firm and united Tie looked to securing at least fifty seats at the next election. The resolution was adopted. A provisional Committee of ten was apPf);nftod' to dn.ft a constitution for the proposed Ion- don Labour Party, and report to a meeting to be held not later than Jurif 13th. A resolu- tion was also carried constituting the Confer- ence as the first session of the London Labour party. A settlement of the galvanisers' strike at Mersey Ironworks. Ellesmere Port, was ar- rived at on Saturday, and the men returned to work on Monday. The firm have recog- nise the union, and will confer with the officials on several long-standing grievances. Strikers on Saturday received strike pay for the first time in the firm's history, extending over forty years. A meeting of Manchester tramway em- ployees was held in the Lesser Free Trade Hall at one o'clock on Sunday morning to consider replies received from the manage- ment of the Manchester Corporation Tram- ways to certain grievance* under which they allege they suffer. At the close of a three hours' discussion it was resolved that the pro- gramme of the management contained in the replies be rejected as unsatisfactory.

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CHIPS OF NEWS. I Mr. F. J. C. Ganzoni, the Unionist candi- date, has won Ipswich from the Government with a clear majority of 137 over both the Liberal and Socialist candidates. Much anxiety and alarm is felt concerning the fate of Mr. Gustav Hamel, the famous aviator, who has been missing since Saturday. The suffragette headquarters in Kingsway have been raided by the police. Further out- rages occurred during the week-end. The Prince of Wales may quite possibly spend a third year at Oxford. A lightship has been wrecked on a voyage from Scotland to Halifax, and a loss of twenty-five lives is feared. large steamer Transylvania, for the Cunard and Anchor lines service between Mediterranean ports and the United States, was launched on Saturday at Greenock. She is the first Transatlantic liner to be fitted with geared turbines. Mr. R. Dixon, of Brandesburton, East Yorkshire, has sold privately, for exporta- tion. the whole \Qf his yearling rams of the Lincoln long-wodled breed, the transaction one of the largest and most important in th( history of the breed. Whilst engaged shunting waggons at Fish- guard Harbour on Saturday, James Phillips, twenty-three, was cauglit between the buffers and killed. lIe had just previously bought some cigarettes, and said, This is my last," but that remark was made owing to his being under orders to go to Port Talbot on Monday. Aaron Robinson, thirty, a Sheffield insur- ance agent,, was found drowned near Notting- ham on Saturday. A memorial to the late Captain Oates, who died in the Antarctic, was unveiled at the School Hall, Eton, on Saturday. Eight men were overcome by fumes during a fire on the German wheat-laden barque Elfrieda at Bristol on Saturday, and several had to be detained in hospital. Thomas Owen, lock gatesman at King's Dock, Swansea, slipped arid was crushed to death between a steamer and the quay wall on Saturday. He leaves a widow and five children. Mr. James Thomas Woodhouse, thirty-two, of Goole, second engineer on the British steamer Burma, lying in Boulogne Dock, was killed on board on Saturday, bis head being crushed in some moving machinery. He was married, and had four children. Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian poet, for the first time had a flight at Eze on Satur- day, piloted by M. Maicon. On landing, M. Maeterlinck expressed his delight, and wrote in the airman's book, Tt is a morning prayer in an azure cathedral. At Charlton Cemetery, on Saturday, a marble cross was unveiled over the grave of Christopher Henry Witt, one of the Scouts drowned in the Sea Scouts' ketch disaster in October. It was erected by the Old Boys' Association of Lombard Wall L.C.C. School, Charlton. During artillery- firing practice at Nowry Targ, Galicia, three men were killed and two injured through the bursting of a breech. A sum of C3 accompanied by a slip of paper on which was written the wowl "Conscience," kl" becil received at the L.C.C. Education 0 ffi (-. e s. The body of a man found in the Thames at Lambeth was identified on Saturday as that of William Bradley, twenty-one, a clerk at the Admiralty. While riding with the German Emperor, General Von Scholl, Imperial Adjutant- General. was thrown from his horse and broke his collar-bone. The Chancellor of the Exchequer attended the funeral at Richmond on Saturday of Alderman W. Thompson, of Ruislip, chair- man of the National Housing Reform Council and a pioneer of town-planning. 1 The Grimsby trawler King Erik sank in the number on Saturday. She was reported to have had her condenser door blown off and the water immediately filled the engine-room. The crew were saved. The Allan liner Victorian brought to Liver- pool Marconi Operator William Peak from Antieosti Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence. He was badly injured in a shooting accident, and the liner called in response to a wireless message. The death took place on Saturday of Mr.- Charles Davis, the well-known antique dealer, of Bond-street, London. A motor lorry laden with fruit and flowers caught fire in Floral-street, Covent Garden, on Saturday, and was practically destroyed. A telegram from Tokio announces that rati- fications have been exchanged of the arbitra- tion treaty between Japan and the United States. The death is announced of the Rev. James Geldart, of Kirk-Deighton, Wetherby, Canon of Ripon, which took place on board the Guildford Castle at sea on May 12th. Mr. John Crewdson, of Attercliffe, cele- brated his 105th birthday on Saturday. He enjoys good health and has never tasted medicine. He was for many years employed as an agricultural labourer. After a previous jury had failed to arrive at a verdict. a jury at the Old Bailey on Satur- day again disagreed in the case of Sidney Ben- nett, picture dealer, indicted for cOllsplrmg to obtain t2,1000 from Captain Robert Gardner by false pretences. He was released on bail pending a decision as to his retrial. Students and members of the Horological Institute on Saturday made their annual visit to the works of Big Ben for instruction. To attain to the interior of the clock 399 stairs have to be climbed. Two ancient fire buckets, dating back to 1600, have been recovered by the Ashford Fire Brigade, which is the oldest voluntary brigade in England. The buckets are of leather, with wooden bottoms. A communication has been received at Aylesbury from the Privy Council asking that a scheme upon which a charter shall be based may be drawn up. This is in reply to the town's application for incorporation. Ayles- bury may, therefore, expect to elect its own Mayor in the coming November. A sailor named Legg, charged at the Lon- don Guildhall, was said to be tattooed all over the body. On his bald head he had the face of the Saviour, round his neck a snake, on his back the Lord's prayer, and on his chest a picture of Christ and His disciples. He in- formed the police that the series of operations hnrl him

Stated to have jumped over the cliffs, Mr. I Samuel H. Phillips, aged thirty-one, was in- stantly killed at Blackrock, Sussex, on Sunday. A permanent horse-riding track over a mile long is to be constructed by the London County Council on Hampstead Heath at a cost of £ 1,580. Local residents are paying half the money. As the Rev. E. C. Barnicoat has declined to give an assurance that ritualistic practices will not be introduced, the Bishop of Exeter has refund to license him to the living of All Saints', Plymouth. Captain Wotton, of the Canadian Northern steamer Royal Edward, has reported by wireless that the vessel grazed a large iceberg off Ca.pe Race on her way to Bristol, but was not damaged. A collection of valuable aeroplane models, including some from abroad, which were ex- hibited at Frankfort-on-the-Main last week, was destroyed on Sunday by unknown people, who broke into the building. Over 20,000 children have been received into the Foundling Hospital since it was opened 175 years ago," said Sir Alexander Henderson at the thanksgiving service on Sundav at the hoeuital. Guilford-street. London

REVIEW OF THE CORN «TIiADE. High summer in middle May is delightful, but it is also portentous. It has its obvious joys, and its hardly less obvious ^threats. The show of spring blossom is extremely brilliant, but is wonderfully soon over. The deep-rooted wheat may be able to sustain the forcing pace of the season, and we see no signs as yet of flagging even on the. chalks. But all lighter and more surface-rooted vege- tation is in danger; and un less we have fairly plentiful and frequent rains (not pass- ing thunder showers merely) within a fort- night the hay crop will be short, and oats will often fail altogether and have to be re- placed by some late root crop. The British wheat gradient this week is be- tween Northumberland (almost always, the cheapest wheat centre) and Nottinghamshire: Nottingham, 34s. 7d. Berwick, 31s. range, 3s. 7d. Prices have risen on the week some- what markedly at Banbury, Bedford, Canter- bury, and Maivchester. Barley has the following range: Cam- bridge, 28s. 6d. Dorchester, 21s. 3d.; gradi- ent, 7s. 3d. No English barley was sold last, week at Hull or Reading, Banbury or Bedford. Oats show the following gradient: Bedford, 20s. Bury St. Edmunds, 17s. 9d.; range,. 2s. 3d.—Mark Lane Express. CURRENT PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN AND FLOUR IN MARK LANE. LONDON FLO nr. (Cash ox Town NIIII.) Top Price per 2801b. 31!6 Town Whites 1. 3ft 6 Town Households „ 2716 No.2 2-/0 Hungarian Process „ 32,6 But American London Ground ?9-'C London Standard, 80 per cent. „ 28,0 COUNTRT FLOUR. Cash at London Terminus.) Beat Price per 2801b. 2(5.9 Good Patents 11 249 Straights „ 24 3 Roller Whites 6 8tone-Made. 2.( 0 BRITISH GRAIN (Orr STANDS). s. t. Wheat, White perWMlb. Red „ 33 to 37 Rivetta <>3 to 34 Poultry per 18"tK 3] to 32 Taili^s per 4-I Mb. £ 0 lo 30 Barley, Malting per 44lb. 18 to 30 7 to 23 Poultry Feeding per 4005b 23 u> Malt, English, Best pur 30tilli. t., I t Fille 1. 40 t.- 4l Oi-,Iiiinl-y 11 38 t 3D Scotch, Fine 41 t. Ordinary 3s if Brown S! u Crystallised Oata, Fine Scotch 1012 K; in 27 H)! „ New. tI Lt, 21 Tartary, Old New „ 20 to 21 « W inter, Old Black. „ 33 to 24 1 1 L(, *? 3 11 New „ Old Grey 22 3 Neiv 21 Common, New per 3121120 t0 21 Inferior. New ■ pai- 31 :,11. 1) to 20 Baiana, Pigeon, 1!)12 |*«« iSy h2 1013 42 to 44 Winter, 1912 „ 3(i to 37 11 1913. 31 to 35 Spring, ]912 „ (i to W J913 31 to 35 Peas, Marrowfats, Fine to S4 Sound JO to 74 Yearling Common. 40 to 44 Partridge,Fine 4P to 41 Common „ 38 to 39 Maple, 1912 3S to 40 Dun 1913 33 to 35 Rye, Essex per foil,. •_}(', to 27 Tare*, Best Spring, 1911 I)et. i) (; t(, 58 Good 191:& 48 to 52 Fine, 1913 -12 t (-, 44 Common, 1913 „ 34 to 38 Winter. 19]2. „ 48 to 49 Fine, 1913 42 to 44 Common, 1913 „ 31 to 33 Gores, 1911.n 9o to 110 „ 1912 „ cS2 to-90 „ 1913, Best „ 5vS wiCfi „ Common )!J13, 42 to 44 Buckwheat, Norfolk poi -t""tt.. 33 to 34 Linseed, Lincolnshire. per 43tilt. M to 54 Hapeaeed, Rust New per 41 1). 74 to 75 to io- o Common 6S w 70 Muatanlsoed, Brown per 44SN).ii8 to 110 White 90 to 9S f)utnmoa 7*> to 80 Canaryseed.Essex per 40 lib. 84 to 88 Teazleseed, Somerset. per 1121b. 17 to IS tjunflowerseed, Sussex per 11211.. 15 to IS -Mark Lane Express.