, 1872-11-14
RECEIPTS.
EHIPMESTSs

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faihe f9ahe'ea Ta !" ''..... a13o| 2ooo l,2sS 81
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| Withdrawn from store yesterday for city con
sumption: 8. 797 hu oats & 41A hu oota ina br,
| W.. ~'1D- 0'''' ''' ~
T,,o .
Ing following grain has been inspected into
store this morning up to 10 o'clock: 165 cars
wheat; 10 cars corn % cars oats. IA cara r,o
| 60 csrs harley Totai asa c,ra A. 1ae nm ~,
~ -aa % s:,aa .A.' oo' 1Sne, VI i1o'ooo pu'
! IL WAS announced on .change to-day that
Committee. consisting OF Messrs. Ray, Kershaw,
! McLaren, Shaw and Balding, will arrive here in
day or two from tha nr;Iwau,aa Chamber ~
commerca tn confer in ra1.tion " ,;,n;tin~s tha
ooilaeaee " eoH1er IL te1aslon TO ilinlt1hg the
hours OF Western trading. They will meet q
- Cpnl.ee n4 IRON our bosro OF irade, consisting
~ Aess1s. b1omafo, Z. rope, delmer, Is. +.
4n4IPny, anu Cooiey. ,........
- s Mas remar4ea upon to-day as very singular
5gsteruay 1ssaeu onietln OF STOCKS III store in
cl'ca9o On SATURDAY evening last, IN which he
cleutsu ne 1our n elevators OF George Armour d
". "ita 41o,zoz ~ wheat, eno lO5 ,64U bu corn,
~ 3nat nrm' and pos:ed ct the same time. It
coulu not ne tnat the Eeglstrar had not time to
resase his own statement, as that Of Armour
20. vas handed in to him at S
O'CLOCK on the previous evening. 1t was also re-
marked upon was very singular that this discrep-
ahcy shonld nave grown up within the six weeks
that have elapsed since the Chief Inspector Of
Grain took measuring tour among tho eleya-
tors ihose Who thus wondered we're evident
y under the impression the Registrar
accepted the measures OF tho Inspector
as 3 basis on which to reckon afresh;
nut 1t would seem that tho Registrar
preferred to continue his calculations from the
last report made by Mum ts Scott, which was
dated 3 fow days before our Great Fire. We have
heard Of navigators who preferred to stick to tho
" dead reckoning" from one end Of long yoy-
age to the other, and only took observations Of
the sun and stars for the purpose of proving
that the sextant iH humbug; but We
we're not previously aware that the same
policy was pressed on the land where all is sup
B9ssd 5ss tt to BE 4h Rsl t q a salas We sic
with correct assumption in regard to the
amounts of grain in store, when he entered on
the duties Of his Office, but inasmuch as that
point Of departure was, itself, only guess, the
whenever circumstances a1Iori the opportunity.
While on this point, we may we'll intimate
that there arc parties on the floor Of the Ex-
change who claim to have an indistinct recollec-
ad 70 n make s oah ss to as Of
their statements, which were required to be-
made once week: OF course, they are mistak-
en-. It would be the height Of folly to suppose
that perjury has eyer been committed in making
returns which have not baen mado ct ali
for so long period that some of
the warehous7men seem to have regarded
was dead letter. But the awkward fact re-
mains that there are two sets of figures, viii ch
are startlingly different; they cannot both be
right Seeing this, the announcement Of the
Registrar. that he will investigate, with view
to ascertain the cause Of the difference, IS most
Sa to,a ba woqd pc more sasfaetory
t the former, he w probably need to go back,
at Least, as lar as 1868, and find out how much