, 1912-04-13

mum OF Twelve Genus pei uIl Weight
Other Canadian products believed to be
favoured are: fish, meats, poultry, beans,
peas. grains, cereal foods, soft coal, boots,
shoes, steel rails, nails, wire, machinery, mo-
torcars, paints, oils, paper, vegetables, lum-
Der, furniture, glassware and pianos. The
West Indian products include probably sugar,
molasses, syIup,sweet potatoes, honey, onions,
salt, sponges and spices.
The Government asks for proposals to
build the worlds largest d~ry-dock for a sub
sidy of three and a half per cent upon a cap
ital of five million dollars for thirty years,
the dock to be eleven hundred and fifty feet
long and one hundred and thirty seven feet
broad. to be located at Quebec or Lewis.
Montreal, April 1Oth-Shipowners are pro
noting a Canadian Lloyds in protest against
the maintenance of Insurance rates twice to
four times those to the United States ports,
although the Saint Lawrence route is con-
stantly improving and is already among the
safest in the world.
London, April ~1Oth.-Sugar in stock on
the sixth inst. was l42, 600 tons, Last year
Al, 900 tons.
Ottawa, April 1Oth.-Tt is officially an
nounced that q reciprocity agreement has
been signed for a term Of years, revo-
cable by one years notice after expiration. It
includes exchanges of products upon q wide
and generous scale based upon preference to
each %country's products in the market of the
other, and will become effective when approx
ed BY the Government of the Dominion the
Colonial Legislatures and His Maieotys Secre-
tary Of State for the Colonies, possibly before
next New Year, no objection is anticipated,
Judging from the Delegates Instructions, and
The Conferences harmonious cooperation.
The agreements are between Canada ard the
interested colonies alone, leaving both free
to adjust their tariffs as respects all other
countries. Bermuda, the Bahamas, British
Honduras, Jamaica and Grenada, are the
only British West Indies not included, but
for these the latchstring is left upon the
outside, cable and Steamship commu-
nications between the British West In
dies have been carefully considele ed, and
the views of the Conference embod-
led in resolutions and unanimously passed
their objective is the establishment Of
adequate modern communication based
upon cooperation between the British West
Indies, Canada aud Great Britain.
Inasmuch as the agreement will be sub
mitted for the consideration of and rati flea
ton by the various Governments concerned,
publication of details is inadvisable at pres
ent.
London, April 1th.-IndustIies are re-
viviIg with the miners resumption Of work,
aud possibly may revive faster, since only two
hundred thousand are working, but more
gradually than was expected. The South
Wales and Lancashire men are defiant and
will not work nor allow others to DO
so, and sectional strikes persist in York
shire, Durham and Fifeshire. Sectional
settlements of the surfacemeu's demands
have been reached in Durham and Derby
shire, other settlements are approaching, aud
District Boards are being organized gene
rally. Among tie signs of more active trade,
due to the stimulus of the suspension,
Lloyds reports that five hundred and forty
five vessels are building, exclusive Of wal
ships, their aggregate tonnage being l,GS6,
1893, the maximum recorded. The March
exports of coal decreased by two millions
sterling, but this is offset by an increase in
the exports Of manufactures leaving the to-
tai exports but little altered from March
1911. Imports increased two millions SIX
hundred and fifty thousand pounds, in
Guiding two millions in raw cotton, and it
is difficult to reconcile these figures with
the reports of damage to trade by the
strike.