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KI1 AND Malta Was En Fete to Greet Their Majesties . on Arrival A despatch from Malta says : King George and Queen Mary land- ed here on Wednesday, and were given an enthusiastic welcome. The picturesque harbor of La Valletta, formerly held by the Knights of St. John as the most easterly bulwark of Christendom in the Mediterran- ean, was gaily decorated, and the British fleet thundered a Royal sa- lute. The King and Queen were received in state by General Sir Ian S. Hamilton, commander-in- chief of the Mediterranean depart- ment ; Chief Justice Sir J. Car- bone, members of the Legislative Council, and a crowd of nobles. A drive through troop-lined streets to Government House was followed by a reception, at which most of the- Maltese officials and noblemen were presented to the King and Queen. Although many of the Maltese are closely related to the Italians, they hate the : r neighbors, and much prefer self-government under British rule. Tbeiefore, the reception accorded their Majesties was one of the most enthusiastic they have received since they left England. Beside the British Medi- terranean fleet, which was present in virtually full strength, a squad- ron of French warships, under the command of Admiral Boue de La- peyrcre, joined in the greeting, thus marking the existing friendship be- tween Great Britain and France. The City of Valetta is thronged with I British "and French visitors, who i have come especially to participate I in the festivities. AEROPLANE SAVES ITALIANS. Determined \tf.irk by Turks Heavy Italian Losses. A despatch from Gabes, Tunis, says : Details of the engagement between the Turks and Arabs and an Italian column near Ghirgarish, a small oasis about ten miles along the coast from Tripoli, on January 19, have reached here, and show that at the time of the fighting the Italian destroyers had temporar- ily withdrawn. Boats laden with contraband approached the shore and opened a heavy fire on the Italian forces. At the same time 1,000 Turkish regulars at Ainzara prepared to attack the Italians from the rear. The Italians would inevitably have been annihilated if by chance an aeroplane, coming out to try its motor, had not been seen by the Turks, who became so alarmed that they were unable to carry out the turning movement. They kept up their firing, however, until nightfall. The Italians lost fifty killed and thirty wounded. DARING BANK ROBBERY. Brandt of Royal Bank of Vancou- ver is Hold t'p. A despatch from Vancouver says : The Royal Bank of Canada branch, at the corner of Main streot and Seventeenth avenue, was lit. Tally cleaned out of all its cash by two robbers at 11 o'clock on Friday morning, and Ledger- keeper Harrison was knocked un- conscious for resisting the hold-up. The amount of loot secured by the robbers is unknown, because A. A. Steeces, Manager of the branch, refuses to make a statement. It is. however, estimated that between $1,000 and $5,000 was taken. In- stead of going out the way they entered, the two men unlocked the back door and made their exit that way. Excellent descriptions of the robbers, one of whom was tall and the other short, were obtained. ALBERTA'S FINANCES. . Premier Sifton Announces a Sur- plus Telephones Paying. A despatch from Edmonton, eays : Premier Sifton delivered his I Budget speech in the House on I Thursday afternoon. He quoted ; figures to show that the present as- i sets of the Province, exclusive of j the telephone system, in public ; buildings, etc., were $7,733.579, ' and the liabilities in treasury bond issued $7.293,333, leaving a ! surplus to the credit of the Pro- i vince of $440.246. He congratu- lated the Province on the success of the Government administration I of the telephone system. Every year since the. Government took control, after paying the cost of maintenance, operat-on, etc., there has been a surplus. The Premier announced that it had been decided to increase the sessional indemnity : of members from 81.000 to $1.500. and provision was also made for a j salary of $1,500 extra for the lead- er of the Opposition. STRANGE PROVISION IN WILL Income (o Stand for One Hundred Years. A despatch from Halifax, N.S., says: Jas. Cosman, a merchant of Meteghan River, Digby, N.S.. died sonic time ago and left an estate of about $500,000. After certain comparatively small legacies were paid the will provided that the ca- pital should be invested and the in- come allowed to accumulate for 100 years. At the end of that time the accumulated funds, principal and interest, are to be divided, one- half going to charities in Ireland and the other half to build a hos- pital in every county in Nova Sco- tia. The will provided that the Archbishop of Halifax should ap- point three trustees of the estate. His Grace has named Mayor J. A. Chisholm, of Halifax, Judge Wal- lace and T. \V. Murphy. Cosman was a widower and had no children. FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. Annual Convention Will be Held at Olti>.\va Feb. Tth and 9th. The thirteenth Annual Meeting and Convention of the Canadian Forestry Association, under the patronage, of H.R.H. the Governor- General, for the reading and discussion of papers, the reception of reports, election of officers, and other business, will be held in the i Railway Committee Room, Parlia- ' nient Buildings. Ottawa, on \\Vd- | nesday and Thursday, Feb. 7th and i 8th, 191:!, and to it all friends of forest conservation are invited. The aim is to make this the most practical convention yet held, and to this end the gentlemen who will read papers and make addresses will direct their attention to sub- jects now pressing for immediate solution in Canada. AN ALTERNATIVE HUDSON BAY ROUTE YEiB'S LABOR DISPUTES Department Returns Showing Loss of Time and Settlement Reached AX ALTERNATIVE HUDSON BAY ROITE Hon Mr. Cochrane has announced that if the Hudson Stri'.t.s prove impracticable as a grain route from Western Canada, owing to ice, that the grain may be carried from the terminal of the Hudson Bay Railway, across James Bay to the Matta\va River, and thence- to the National Transcontinental Railway, probably by a spur lino. Thi-.i would save GOO miles of railway haul. The map shows the proposed route and its alternative. A despatch from Ottawa says : | Statistics issued by the Labor De- j partment show thaUapproximately I 2,013,710 working days were lost . by employees in Canada through trade disputes during the past yea*, 1 as compared with the loss of ap- proximately 718,745 days in 1910. There were approximately 23,218 employees involved, directly and indirectly, in trade disputes last year, compared with 19.594 during the preceding twelve months. The increase in the figures for last year was due largely to the coal miners' strie in Alberta and British Co- lumbia, involving 7.0CO men for nearly eight months. The only other large strikes were the coal miners' strike at Sprinahi!!. N". y.. which was settled on May -1-1. and the strike of th building trades in Vancouver during June and Ju'y. Of the ninety-eight strikaa throughout the Dominion, which oc- curred laat yar, forty-two took place in the Province of Ontario and nineteen in the Province of Quebec. Demands for higher wages caused strikes in forty-two canes, while the question of wages in re- gard to threatened reductions, etc., also entered into twenty-one other disputes. The employers won in thirty- three of the strikes, and employees in twenty-three, while in nineteen cases a compromise was reached. In the other cases the settlement was indefinite or not reported. During the past ten year?, out of a total of 1.079 trade disputes in Canada, ths employers won 393 cases and ths employees 330. In 244 canes th strike was ecttled by a comprom- ise. STORY OF HEROISM. Former Uuelnh Man Saved Several Lives, but Died Himself. A despatch from Guelph says:! Word has been received here that I by fighting a pack of timber wolves | single-handed all night long Harry E. Fennell. lately of Denver, Colo., but up- to six years ago residing in Guelph, saved the lives of sevea I girls and the other men who were i in a party and died as the result of j the exposure he was forced to en- j dure. Fennell's desperate fight' with the wolves took place aear, Hudson Bay. He and a chum were j trapping up near Hudson Bay and : went to a party or dance th^t s.niie half-breeds were giving. They were, the only people near, and on the >. way home were given a ride with '. another mail and some girls in * | bobsleigh. It was late at night | and they were chased hv \vo!v.-;. ' Mr. Fennell got out and got up a tree and told the others to run the horses to their cabin and he would fight the wolves. The others wa it- ed to stay, but he begged them to | go on and not take anv chances . with the girls. They then wo it home, but could hear shot- night. Fennell killed nine wo ! \cs. The men went back at daylight and j there was only three wolves left. Fennel was so cold he could hardlv walk, and died before, they could get help, the nearest doctor beiu-j; sixty miles away. MAD RfSH FOR GOLD. A SOCIALIST LEADER PIES Of FA1 PJKIS * AMERICA. Prices of Cuttle. Grain. and Otlr-r Produce at Ilome and Abroad. DRE.tt>ST; Flour iV.nter wheat. 90 per cent. . 2 local white. 47 to 471-Zc; !o. J do. to 461-Zc: Xo. 4 do.. 43 to 451-2o. Brl7 Malting. 98c to 91. Buckwheat -Xo. i 71 to 72c. Flour Manitoba Spring wheat DEPORTS FROM THE LEADING ' pat * nu - arsti> $360; do " 8<wondl1 ' 510 ' t I strong bakers'. 94.90; Winter patent*. riJAl>E CENTRES OF (choice. 94.75 to SS; straight fallen. 94.30 to 94.40: do., bars. 92 to 9210. Boiled >au -Barrels. $4.65; bag*. 90 lb., 91.20. Bran *2o; -hort?. $25; middlings. *3): :n-m.!Uf. 523 to $34. Hay Xo. 2. per ton. ear lota. 915 to 915.50. Checsa-Finejt WcitiTn. :31-4 to 151-2c: finest Easterns. 14 3-4 to 15 l-c. Butter-Choicest cream- ery. 33 to 34c; ii-onds. 3! to 32 l-2c. Egg* -Kreh. 45 to 50c: seled. 33 to 34o : No. 1 -t-v-k. 28 to 29c. Potatoes Per bag. cor tents, 13.60 to Si.So it se:i'>...-.r J. M.:i:i ;b.i 1 : s. S1.60. flours first ,)itt-n:s. $580: second 11.1- tents, 95: .inl Itrong b.'.k.-rs . :.;:. UNITED STATES MAF.KETS track. Tor. >::.,. Minneapolis. Jan. 30.-Wb.eat. May. 91.- Man: .; whca: So. ' * \tnrn. $:.- 06 5-8 M 91.06 3-i: July. 91.071-2; So. 1 1-2. ! : ' - ni a: *!.- hard. $1.071-4. No. 1 Northern. 91061-4 to 081-2: ai:d Xo. i at t :. Cay ports. - *t.06W: Xo. 2 Northern. 91.04 1-4 to $!- Ontano wheat No. 2 wh,:e. re i a::-l OJj-4; :,o. 2 wheat. $1.021-4 to 91.023-1. mixed. r i to 9; C.-rn-Xo. 3 yellow. 62 :-2c. Oats-Xo. 3 Pei- Good shipping peas $;.'0 -,j 9: 1". white. Kr. Eye Xo. 2. 88 to 89c. Bran outside. . ,:i.5o. r-.our--Ki.-8t patents, 95.10 Oats- far lots of ?; >. 2 Ont.:r s\-\< > I ;> $5.40; wcond patents. $4.75 to 95; firsl outside al 43 '.-Jc. and of :>"o : .1: '2 to r' .\r*. *j .53 to $335; second c!ear3. J2 iO Wl-Je; 3 t.: u . to K.80. N.V 2 \\ -"-.cm I'anaJi OS . Buffalo. So ' Jan 30.-Spring wheat No. 1 N.-rtht-rn. !-' .iK itort, $1.151-2; Winter. HERR BEBEL. leader of th Oer-nan Socialists, who cut a wide swath In the recent general <'lvvlkii:j yi i_J-T- many. They are rapidly gaining la Uic l.'-. Ibs. quou i N... 2 ri-d. $103; No. 3 red. $1: No. 2 wh:!. DKBT OF NEW YORK CITY. Exceeds Public Debt of the Vnited States by .520.(MM).(X)0. A despatch from New York says: According to official figures sub- mitted on Wednesday to Mayor Gay nor by the Finance Depart- ment, New York City's total debt at the beginning of 1912 was $1,- 037, si 1,718, or approximately $20,- 000,000 more thun the public debt of the United States. During 1911 the funded debt increased 871.43-2,- 485 ot which $44,200,000 represents bond issues for rapid transit work and the new water supply system. Samuel Alex was fined a thou- sand dollars at Sault Ste. Marie | for five violations of the liquor law. ' He is alleged to have sold a patent medicine for whiskey. Minitonas, Manitoba, is Now Overrun by Prospectors. A despatch from Minitonaa, Ma- nitoba, says 1 One hundred more gold prospect. irs arrived on Thurs- day night from scattered points in the United States and Canada. N<>: much prospecting is doing, only a wild desire to stake regardless of location. The private car of Mr. R. J. Mackenzie, of the Canadian Northern, is ho re, with his miaiiijc expert from California and several others. Thoy left at daybreak for the scene of action with the nec- e.ssary equipment. Several are looking for residential and busi- ness sites, and the stampede is on in earnest, with all public buildings full of men, lying all night nil floors like sardines. Excitement anil crowds are increasing every hour. aide. C.:rn No. 3 Am .- .1:1 y, '.' . ' . :' -. i <;. a 65 to o7.-. Ei'u.T Manitoba bran. S--. 1.1 b:!;". T> ronto fr". ;!:;. Shorta. $2i.;j. ?!.-32. Corn- No. 3 yellow. 681-Jr. No. 4 How. 663-4o. all on truck, throuth 1 Oats No. 2 white. 54 Me; So. J white. 533-lci No. 4 white. 523-te. Barley :-i e . $1.25 to $:::-. SOBPLDS Budget Speech of Hon. Mr. Mackenzie Shows Encouraging Features A despatch from Quebec says : [ At Thursday afternoon's session of the House, Hon. Mr. Mackenzie, I Provincial Treasurer, delivered his annual Budget speech, which proved an interesting review of the financial state of the Province for the past year, with encouraging es- timates for the coming twelve months. The ordinary receipts mounted to $7.032,74-i. and the ordinary expenditures to $6,126,- 634, nuvkim; a surplus of 8905.910. But ns there had been an addition- al extraordinary expenditure of f29$.06.> the actual surplus was an- ouneed as being $607,845. The Provincial Treasurer mi- ; the increasing prosperity ; 1'v which the (~!i;vcrn- i jy,, <is :)!. V t" announce a sur- plus of $600,000, with provision for increased amounts for the cause of education, for the construction of iron bridges, for the abolition of toll gates, and for the large loan for the improvements of roads, which are to be built with the co- operation of the municipalities of the Province. For the past year it was shown that both the receipt* and the expenditures had exceeded the estimates, the former by $1,- 128,210, and the latter. '.>rdi:i.-;ry and extraordinary, by $710. l'0!>. Comit'H to th>' estimates for the v--;ir 191-2-13, the hon. Minister es- timated thnt the ' nlinary revenue would reach $7.133,221, and he also o-!''!)nted the ovdiMary and extra- ordinary expenditures at $6,733,- SSO TO DISENDOW CHI HC1I. Ilonie Secretary Will Introduce Bill ;it Cumins Session. A despatch from London says : Add*ssing an enthusiastic meeting at Queen's Hull on Thursday nischt, Reginald MeKvnna. the Home Sec- retary, said that early in the com- ing session of Parliament he would introduce a, Lull for the disestab- lishment ai'.d discndownient o r the Church in Wales. All the resources of the Government, he added, would be used to carry tlu- mea- sure into a. law. FOR MIK".U;U IN FK.VMT. Frenchman Arrested at lieixina for Killing a Woman. A despatch from Regina. Sask., says : F.mile Oscar Pougnet h^s been arrested near here on a charge of murder committed near Paris, France, on January 9, 1910. It is alleged he murdered and mutilated Mrs. Guisiennc Legrand, his friend's wife. !> HONOR OF HIS N.VMK DAY. Iving Alfonso Donates $0.000 to Poor and He:niN Sentences. A ik-R'iateh from Madrid s;n-s: King Alf'-p.s-.i has celebrated hi<s name day bv donating stt.OOO for the poor and by remitting eight death seuti-nces. HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVEK THE ULOBE IN A NUTSHELL. Canada, the Empire and the World in General Refore Your Eves. CANADA. There are now seven cases of smallpox at Montreal. York County Council proposed to I tax autos for read improvement. Sugar prices have b.-cu ;ig:iin re.- Idueed by ten cents throughout Oa- tario and at Winnipeg. A Grimsby farmer said the price- of-food problem could be solved by the producer and retailer gotting closer together. Owen Sound hotH proprietors have decided to increase rates ow- ing to the strict enforcement of the local option law. Three foreigners were injured, ono fatally, by drilling into an old charge on th.- Canadian Northern line near North Fay. The Lake Krie Coal Company, it is said. lia< submitted an offer to the London Cuy Council to elec- trify the Port Stanley Kaiiw.iy. The William Dav!es Company have decidi'd to close their Harris- ton pork-picking branch, but may use the building as a cold-storage. A sufferer from an infectious dis- ease is housed in a:i old ^lird in a. cemetery i:i\:r Bnuitfmd. the city having no place to keep him pro- perly. Peter Peterson of Cobalt was sentenced to ten years in peniten- tiary for writing a Black Hand letter to Manager Goodall of the Imperial Bank. GREAT BRITAIN. Troops will be despatched to Bel- fast to preserve the peace between Unionists and Nationalists. The tension in Belfust has been somewhat relieved by a change of venue for the Churchill home rule meeting. Mr. Winston Churchill, while abandoning the Vlstor Hall as a place of meeting, insists on his right to speak iu the city of Bel- fast. corNTKY LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal. Jan. 30.- Butchers' <*'.-.>. f. $5.75 to $7: do., medium. 95 to Apple* Winter s.tock. $ - 3 per ,4.5,,. ,,., . omraon . 9J to 94: canners. $250 to 93: butchers' cattle, choice cows. -Small lota of barui ;.. -It,-,!, s i Ky> , ,5^. d ,, mi>lliam , 53 ^ $5 . do . t barrel Beans to $2.<0 per bushel. "ire.- i:x;rsctcj. in tins. 11 to Ib. C.-.ii I::-. <2..-0 to :? K.ilod li.iy So. 1 at *'.'i ~t> : < * ' on track, and No. 2 at ?' :i t Baled straw $8 to . ' ' ' - F. o. b.. $7. CalTen-$3 to 912. - Car : ' ,- T ., r ,, nto . Jnn . 30,-The trade , ,. acl , ,45 to 555. milkpr ,. n,,,,,,,, and , prinB( , r9 , JM to ,40. to $-1.75; bucks nd 81.50. and Drlware .r .' > to / t.' Oat- of-sUjrc. ?;.{j to ' W 1 .;,.', . . ]' ,; ,-.1 is <::'.! nil oTer.! loadt bulls r::niri>il from *2 50 tn $5. Canner poultry (. hu-ki";-. 14 to ! , per wre bounht at around ?! 50. Shevp wer 10 to I!.-, li'n k . ' i .. i:.'--'. ' '. - "''-aiiv. 1>ut trade vai dull. Lnmbs weri irkcrs, :o to 2lc. L ^v u: lx ' 90 " afl< ' r at ** lo *'- 75 - Ho "' icr than th,- ah '' :llv " Wl-rt> "'"''-'"cod There w.-,. ^ rainy acme demand for good mil!; cow*, but common nncs were nut wtnte.l. ifilkers are now selling from 950 to JO. BTTTKR. EUCiS. Eutter---Dairy, i-hii.-e. .M r.i:>ivri. 23 to JOc: l.irge ro ' . :: lo -'. tubs, 13 to 19c. Creamery. 3: la ."5e -.or roily, and 32 to 3oo for ~ol:,ls. >ier Ib. Eggs -Strictly lion l.c.l. . c. ii.-i.i--i-"! here, and fresh at 29 I- > ;0c per doicn, in i-.i-e lots. rhcesc Large. !6o. and twins at 16 l-2u per Ib. . q> . DIED FROM KAHIF.S. Valuable Foiiies Bitten bp a Mad .\ desj^ateh from Hempsteaii, N. Y . sjy-i : C'lianipi.)!!. the third of the -'tring of' imported polo ponies of John S. I'hipps. of the Me.vlow- Bacon- Long clear. 111-2 to I13-lc per brook Polo C'lub. was destmye<l .':\ Ib.. in case lot^. Pork short cut. $2250: \Vvs.!n .-day ln.-L-.iu~i 1 ._ f an at lark .if do., mi". > I.SO to *20. Uams Med:um i" raiiii-s. 1'he p.'iiy \\as vuhuxl at light, 16 to 161-2c: heavy. It to 141-Ce: |?.(.000, and was imported from rolls. 10^4 to lie: bnMlii'.ist bacon. 16 to Knuhuul for the P"!o match !- 17c: backs. 19 to 2Ce. fAi-en t.Min^ uf the United StaU-i ' '"I "'' cl, 113-4e: tub. 12c: pa:'.a. a n d K.lg'.'ind last summer. T.i.i 12 We. weeks ago rabies deve'.i'iu-,! in the Philips polo stables alter a cur .to^ had l-it Hay Buy. a $4.000 p. ry, and also a !?o.OOO brood m.ire 1!. -;'\ MOXTRKAL MARKETS. Montreal. Ja'l. oO. Oats Canadian r:.. No. 2. 491-2 to 50c: do.. No. 3. th.-:-,- .i.ii-nals dixl within .1 f.'W 471-2 to <Sc: extra No. I feed. 481-2 to THE SOCIALISTS Capture One of the ''Kaiser Seats" at Close of the German Elections GEXF.RAL. Resumption of hostilities in China seems inevituMe. France insists on the release of Turks taken by Italians on board Fivivh \essels. A despatch from Berlin says : Thursday's second ballots brought the Socialist strength in the new Reichstag to well over one lain dred. The Socialist, Dr. Lieb knecht, captured the coveted "Kai- ser division'' of Potsdam, where the principal residences of the Em- peror, the Crown Prince, and other members of the Imperial j family are situated. The new member for Potsdam, where all the crack regiments of the army arc ^oned, only recently finished sewing an eightcen-months" sen- tence in a ortrc.-s for anti militar- ist propaganda. l>r. I.iebkuecht, who defeated the Conservative Burgomaster c f Potsdam, is a bril- : iant barrister, and son of une of founders of the Socialist party. Ho is also a member of the Prus- sian Diet. This is the first time in the history of the Knipire that one of t.he ''Kaiser seats" has fallen in- to the hands of a Socialist, and the joy of the. crowd gathered in front of the office, of The Vorwacrts, the Socialist paper, knew no bound* when the result was announced on (Thursday night. - ^ .__ . ^