CONFERENCE OF GOVERNMENT AND- STRIKERS HOLDS HOPE OF SETTLEMENT , British Coal Situation May be Alleviated if Government Pro- Ti 'portend Dock Workers Maye Joined by Othe Sections of A from London says:--"It '$s betber to fight than surrender." This was the view expressed by high offi- cials of the British Government on Thursday. evening when they were asked whether any ee. remain- withthe striking tween Premier Lloyd George and the representatives of the Miners' Federa- tion. The miners. insisted that the Government and owners must agree to the estalishment of a national 'wages board and the pooling of pro- \fits before the question of rates of wages could be taken up. They also took the position that they would not jhirder the mines from flooding while megotiations were oging on, holding 'such a proceeding would amount to helping the owners to fight the min- ers. This attitude was taken as prac- jtically a demand for surrender, not only by the owners but by the Govern- ment, Trans- Labor. The Premier's mediation move with the object of reopening negotiations between the miners and the mine owr- ers failed early in the day. He an- nounced in the House -of Commons rTHSaaAy night, however, the willing- ness of the Government to participate in a conference to discuss the qnes- e| tion of pumping before other mat- ters were consider Both the railinad. and_ transport} delegates have now formally decided to strike but the order has not yet been issued. The mediation by the Government has disclosed the bitter, uncompromis- ing spirit of the men's leaders and the equal determination of the Cabinet not to concede the demand of the miners that they have their pay kept which the dele- gates now insist is an essential con- dition of the settlement. Textile work- ers, electricians and other important are beginning to take up a position of solidarity with th up out of taxation, sections of labor e miners. CANADA'S CROPS INCLUDE OLIVES Vancouver. Island Also Pro- duces Tea, Figs and Bamboo. A despatch from Ottawa says:-- That there are now being successfully grown in Vancouver Island, and for the first time in Canada, both tea and 'olives was the information given here This beautiful arch was unveiled of the late King Edward VII. veiled by the Duke of Connaught. KING EDWARD MEMORIAL ARCH It was donated by King George V., recently in Calcutta, India, in memory and un- SWISS ALLOW THE RETURN OF CHARLES After Unsuccessful Attempt to Regain Throne of rifice of 65,000 Indians who gave their $1.70%; oats--No. 2, Saf ane No. Me Ow. 88%c feed, 88%c; 'No. 1 rhea 36%; x. 3 feed, S3%e barley--No. 3 CW, borin No, few, "62%: rejected, 50%c; fi Au of the above in store at Fort Wiliam #814, American soaring oc trae track, Toronto, prompt Ontario oats--No. 2 white, 43 to Git ulragskie Si 2 Winter, $1.80 to $ 185 pe x ot; No. 2 Spring, $1. 40 to 1 1S: No. 2 Goose vies, nominal, shipping points, according to freight. Peas--No. 2, $1.15 to $1.65. --Malting, e to 80c, accord- Barley: ing to treighbe outs B 4 "$1. 05 to $1.10, nomin. t--No. Tee NS: 2, $1.40 to $1.45, nominal, according to freights outside. Man. flour--First patent, $10.70; second patent, $10.20, bulk, seaboard. Orcario flour--S$8. 50, bulk, seaboard. Mitlfeed -- Delivered Montreal Se abi bags included: Bran, per ton, 6; ae _-- $2.10 to $2.40 per bag. --Car lots, per ten, $12 to $15, 50, Eee, Toronto Hay--No. 1, per ton, $24 to $26,| P ig Toront ese-- gill 'steve 32 to Des 32c; 245 to large, 314% es 3214c; triplets 8444 to patios Peak dates. choice, 48 to 49c; creamery, No. 1, 58 to 6ic; fresh, 60 to 63c. Margarine--29 to 3le Eggs--New laid, in cartcns, 33 to lives and hundreds of thousands who were wounded in the war for the cause of the Allies. Followers of Gandhi, the non-co- operationist leader, have been doing | Beans--Canadian hand- aN bus., 50 to $3.75; primes, $2. o $é 25: ! Ja pans, ; Liman Madagas sear, | 104 C3 California ee aot 12%%e. Maple products--Syrup, per imp. | , $3. orts, per ton, $34 to $88; good] $ 88c; old, St or 34 to 35c; ie tai R ~ Weekly Market. Report -- ies asin ge, Ts 1 Northern; Honey. : gut Ne No: 2 ENerihers, § 110% No. Notthern, wheat, Pies one Ge So ae one. é per- Dntatio corm. homay, ab SUED per 18: Hams, med., 35 to 36; heary, 2 to 3 cooked, 50 to 55c: rolis, 81 C3 34c; breakfast bacon, breakfi bacon, 53 ple in, '47 to 50c; boneless, ee, peste peers 27 raha case. 8% t prints, 19% "ts 11% to 12¢; ee 12 to 12% to 13¢; prints, 14 to 14%c. Choice heavy 5 steers, fae to $11; good heavy steers, to $9.50; butchers' cattle, choice, my to $10; do, good, $8 to $9; do, med., $6 to $8; do, com., $4 to $6; butchers' oe choice, $7 to $7.50" ai, good, $6 to $7; do, ' Bagot cows, choice, t good, $6.50 to $7.50;-do, com., ai 3 $55 P eeatire: $7.75 to $8.75; "3 fo, 900 } 2E bs., $5. 75 to $6.75; pen denn and cutters, 2 to milkers, good to cheice, $85 to $120; do, com. to med., $50 to $60; choice, 'epringers, $90 to. $130; lambs, yeari- ings, $10 to $11; do, spring, $11 to 14; calves, good 'to choice, $8 to $13; cheep, $6 to $10; hogs, fed and water- ed, .25; do, weighed off cars, $14.50; do, f.0.b., $18.25; do, country points, $13. P Montreal. Oats--Can. West. 'No. 2, 63 to Gde; . Flour, Man. ts, $10.30. $3.20. 5 2, per rok car lots, Cheese--Finezt 30c. 25. Hay. "$24 to 32 easterns, 29% t¢ ld choicest riage sy 5- laid, 30, to 31ce; New) 5438¢ 34c. ; com. F $7 to $8; | $7.50 to $8.50; £5 m., isthe enon 35 to $7.50 to $8; vil $2, to $2.50; yf to $4. 505 butcher bulls, cem., ;at a meeting of local horticulturists by Hon. Dr, Tolmie, Federal Minister | of Agriculture. { This year, too, on Vancouver Is sland | there will be a good fig erop. Filbert! their best to arouse the werkers! gal., $3 to $3.10; per 5 imp. gale.' $7; against the British. The doctri ine| Gandhi teaches is*supposed to mea passive resistance; but there is daily evidence that the fruit thereof is Hungary. A despatch from Lucerne, Switzer- land, says:--Former Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary, domicled here calves, $3:50 to $5; hogs, $15. 50. $5,000 BOX RADIUM | LOST IN CHICAGO j | Lord Edmund Talbot, D.S.O. Who has been appointed Viceroy of Ireland. -----_--_--_----- National Debt is -- is $2,311,294,443 Net A despatch from Ottawa says:-- During the fiscal year which ended on March 381 ordirary revenue of the ! Dominion exceeded ordinary ex pendi- ture by nearly ninety-four millions of; Dez pite the decline in Cus-, be emperor of Austria. dollars. toms and excise revenues, not'ceable in the last few months, revenue for the twelve menths geri 866,029.00, as compared with $380,- | trian 832,507.00 in 1919-20. Ordinary ex-, itures in 1920-21 was $357,515,-; 278 in comparison with an ordinary expenditure of $340,880,668 in 1919-20. In the month of March alone ordi- nary revenue was $32,449,819 in com- pstison with $53,100,204 in March, 1920. Ordinary expenditure was: March; 1921, $23,975,765; March, 1920, $31,219,097. The net national debt (no credit be- ing teken for non-active assets) now staris at $2,311,294,443. --_----4 O.A.C. Has First Woman Farmer Graduate A despatch from Guelph says:-- The first woman to be graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College will be Miss S, J. Chase of Greenwich, N. S., who completes her course this year. This year's class is one of the largest ever graduated from the college, and includes a large percentage of return- It is expected that 75 Offers of positions for fourth-year students are coming in gradually, and a number have been accepted. Salaries are good, although not so high as last year. The students in the graduating class represent nearly every Province in the Dominion, as well as Scothand and South Africa 'and almond trees are in full blcom,} and the bamboo crop is large enough! } to harvest for baskets .and fishing Ht alin, "This is an astonishing statement to those without our borders who are prone to think of Canada as a land of snowbanks and wild country," he said. Dr. Tolmie also thought it would be only a matter of time until Canada is import Great Britain, Ireland, and other coun- tries. a Troublesome Ex-Kings. They are trying to find a nice, quiet little place on the Spanish Peninsula for the roving Charles, who used to Since his re- cent picturesque and colorful excur- 'sion into his old haunts, it appears od was $451,-! that Switzerland is too near the Aus- border for the ambitious 'Charles. It is conceivable that he ' might be the spark that would set the smoldering Balkans aflame again. While Eurcpe has pretty well colon- ized the ex-royalties in two countries Switzerland and Holland, causing much trouble. It is a dull day when some monarchist rumor fails to sweep over the Old World that a king or an emperor somewhere is ti back to his people. The wood- er at Doorn looks' eastward. Chenkes sn@jked back across the fron- tier. Monarchist parties are formed they are and sometimes come-into power, as in Greece. The return of Constantine was fuel on the fires of hope for -many another exile. These refugee royalties may appear humorous objects to the New World, 'but the Old World finds them other- wise. They are possibilities of trouble, potential leaders of causes. They must e guarded, fed and considered. No tatesman or nation wants to make! a martyr of one of them. They will be dangerous as long as they may live, and even unto the secend and the third generations. Canada's claim for reparation »} man's burden alone. against Germany is $1.371.000,000,-the chief items being: Cost of war and de- mobilization, $1,715,000,000; separa- tion allowances, $85,000,000; Halifax losses, $30,000,000; army of occupa- tion, $8,000,000; illegal warfare, $3],- 500,000. after his unsuccessful trip to Hun- gary in an effort to reclaim the Hun+ garian throne, is occupying with form- er Empress Zita, the same hotel suite that King Constantine Queen Sophie of Greece lived in when they. were in exile here. This suite is known locally as "The King's and Queen's Refuge." Swiss Government permitted the ex-ruler to return to Switzerland in Switzerland, as does the ex- Empress, becauce of its healthfulness and the facilities it affords for the education of their children. There- fore, it is declared, there is no ques tion as yet of their gcinmg to Spain. | NE ale India's Viceroy. The Earl of Reading, now on his way to India to resume the responsi-| ness bilities of the viceroyalty, takes up a white man's burden of the first mag- nitude; and it is fortunate for India that he does not regard it as the white The Government of India Act, pas sed in 1919, has not completely effect- ed a "transition from a bureaucratic to a self-government system"; but i is a departure in that direction, and it cuts the ground from under mative agitators, who prey upon the illiter- acy of 90 per cent. of the population. This Act delegates to provincial gov- ernments large powers hitherto be- longing to the central government. It gives to provincial councils the con- trol of their own budgets. The fran- chise is granted to males with a cer- tain modest qualification as property owners and taxpayers. This means that India has a voting list of about ; 5,000,000. That & not a large number out of a population of 315,000,000, but it is a good beginning. The Duke of Connaught in Febru- ary visited Delhi and inaugurated the new parliamentary regime. Lord Reading, as viceroy to succeed Chelmsford, is now to confirm and carry into effect the promises made by the duke and accepted by the ruling princes and by the legislators in be- half of the people of India. An im- only on condition that he take part} P Charles "strongly desires to remain 'profession and who will apply in the pressive ceremony was that of the laying of the cornerstone of an Arch} of Triumph to commemorate the sac-! bloody violence. Said Lord Ronald- shay, Bengal's governor, on a recent tour of his province: "The object is, in fact, no less than the complete! eradication from thi 3 country of wes- ern government." - legis'ation for Tucia, to which Lard Reading is now to give effect, is as complex and elaborate as the nec-| i essities of so wide and so various a jurisdiction require; but the essential man can a With all the disorder that pre- there are many enlightened na- tives in India, high and low, standing solidly with the administration to stem the tide of disloyalty. To all classes and factions the new viceroy goes not as a soldicr with an iron hand, but as a jurist who 'has risen to the highest attainable post in his Government House at Delhi the same clear wisdom, tact, and openminded- that have distinguighed. him at horhe. French Census Shows ' Decline of Population A despatch from Paris says:-- rance has lost approximately five and seven-tenths per cent. of her population since the 1911 cemsus, ac- cording to the early returns of the 1921 census. In a fourth of the popu- lation area, including the city of Paris) and eighteen departments, three de- partments showed a total gain of 40,-| 000, while fifteen departments lost; 617,000. Paris, which was believed to, have greatly increased, was found to be almost stationary. ------_-- Irish-Americans Send s to Ireland A despatch from London says:-- Methods by which the Sinn Feiners are receiving arms and ammunition have been disclosed by the discovery of an underground dump in Dublin, says the Evening Standard. Ammun- ition boxes found there, it declares, bear the stamp of a powder works in Massachusetts. The boxes, the news- paper ascerts, were shipped by Irish- American sympathizers _who had established wireless communication between "gunrunners" on the west coast of Ireland and in the U. S. Constant Menace to Finder, Say Physicians. A despatch from Chicago Fifty milligrams of radium, valued at $5,000, and the joint property of a group of physicians, is lost somewhere on a window ill of an elevated train} ear. There was some confusion in the car and when she alighted she forgot the radium for a moment. e train was searched later, but the box had disappeared. This cap- sule represenis practically all the radium owned in Chicago. Physicians have issued warnings to the finder that he is dealing with a living death, and that even in the hands of an expert radium is a dan- gerous element. The effects are last- ing and may be quickly fatal. Women Administer Kansas Town Affairs Ayer, _Kan., A despatch from says:--Two widowed grandmothers, three housewives and a woman tele-' phone operator will administer. the affairs of this town of 400 population for .next year. An entire woman's! ticket, compaigning without platform, was swept into power in Monday's election by a majority of four to one. Members of the new administration' include: Mayor, Mrs. Forest, widow, three children and eight grandchildren; Police Judge, Mrs. Hattie Brewster, witow, four chil- 'dren and four grandchildren, ----__--- te... - Rheims Objects to Germans Rebuilding Town A despatch from Paris says:---The former inhabitants of Rheims, 70,000 of whom have returned to the ruins of that city, object to any plan of hav- ing German laborers rebuild the town and have announced that they want to do the work themeelves. M. Loucher, Minister of Devastated Regic ig®who recently visited Rheims, was told by the mayor of that place that it has suffered damages from war to the extent of 74,000,000 pounds. says:-- Sir Thomas White Former Minister of Finance, who has resigned his seat in the _Dominion House. _-- University Attendance. On the face of things it may seem unjust that the City of Toronto with omy--between twenty-amt twenty-five per cent. of the population cf the | Province should have thirty-five per cent. of the enrolment of the vincial University. There are, | ever, two considerations which, } facts were available, would mat terial! y affect these percentages. One is that j the families of many students move ; to the city while they are attending , the University, and the other that .there is a considerable number +f undengraduates who have no he: 33 and who on their registration forins _ Rive only their boarding house a'- dresses in the city. Even as the figures stand the pr-- portion is not out of place. It is hit natural that a university situated in the largest centre of population should have from that centre a larger proportion of students than from other places. If the Provincial U ni- versity were situated in some simul! city or town the only appreciable dif- ference in the enrolment would be that there would be fewer students from Toronto. The enrolment from the Province outside of Toronto would not be materially affected. To have. the Provincial University placel where it is within easy reach of the largest number is surely the demo- cratic way =a ~ REGLAR FELLERS--By Gene Byrnes -- Ty gal | WHY 4 DIDN KHowW You WERE IN Love aa BUT SHE Likes YG THE SAME KIND f OF CANDY THAT] Po! Es