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H1E MORNING POST, THURSDAY; APRIL 6, 1899. THE RATIONAL DRESS CASE. ALLEGED FRAUDS ON UNEMPLOYED. 110 13-16 15-16. 2f per Cents.

(Redeemable 1905) -were operated at 10.U 2i per Cents, at 103 3 per Cent. Local Loans Stock at 110i, Turkish 4 per Cent, Guaranteed at 104i, and Bank of England Stock at English Corporation Stocks. Cambridge 3 per Cents. improved 1 per cent, to 101 3, but Ipswich 3 per Cent. receded 1 pe cent, to 105 8.

and jading 3 per Cents. to 123 7. Metropolitan 3i per Cent. Consolidated marked 118, 3 per Cents. 111J ji ex and 21 per Cents.

98. Corporation of London 2-i per Cent. Debenture 97, Birmingham 3 per Cents. 108, Brighton 3 per Cents. 116A ex Elinburgh 3 per Cents.

Leeds 2h per Cents. 9M, Liverpool per Cents. 129 Reading 3i per Cents. 124, and 3 per Cents. 104, Torquay 3 per Cents.

HONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. Bank Rate (Feb. 2, 1899), 3 per cent. DEPOSIT RATES. Discount Houses, li percent, at call, If percent, gt notice.

Banks, per cent. STOCK EXCHANGE SETTLEMENTS Making-up Day. Ps- Day. Consols April 6 FOREIGN AND RAILWAY STOCKS AND SHARES. Continuation Days.

Ticket Divs. Pay Days. April 11 April 12 April 13 April 25 April 26 April 27 Ic the Mining Department the waking-up is a fay earlier. dividend of 5 per cent, for the six monthaending Match 31, being at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, payable on May 3 next. The coupons will be paid by the Exploration Company on presentation at its offices.

11, Cornhill, at a rate of exchange to be fixed in due course, and which will be duly advertised. We are informed that the Buluwayo Syndicate is making its first flotation in the form of a Company, entitled the Confidence Reef Gold Mining Company. The following mining returns are announced for March Koffyfoutein Mines, 3,000 carats diamonds Glynn's Lydenburg, Ivanhoe, total yield, 7.337oz.; Premier Tati Monarch Reef, 2,450 tons of tailings treated producing 590oz. of bullion Golden Horse-shoe Gold, crushed 2,684 tons, yielding of smelted gold 1,440 tons (of tailings) treated by Cyanide, yielding of gold Pestarena United Gold, 259 tons of ore produced 89 tons of tailings concentrates (Cyanide process) produced 34oz. total, 205oz.

of gold Broken Hill Proprietary report that 20,242 tons of ore were treared for the four weeks ending March 30 (including product from ores purchased), and that the output from the refinery was 683oz. gold (estimated), silver 2,497 tons lead, and 35 tons antimonial lead (estimated). complaint had ever been made against the management of her hotel. Bocnd to "Draw a Line." In cross-examination by Lord Coleridge, the witness admitted that the coffee-room was the proper piace in which to serve ladies in ordinary dress, and that it was only the rational dress that caused her to send Lady Harberton into the bar. As an innkeeper she knew that she had no light to make remarks about ladies' dresses, but she had a right to consider her general customers.

Lady Harberton and her immediate followers were without reproach but there was a class of rider frequenting the Portsmouth road that it would be fatal to her business to supply. There were ladies wearing tights," and she felt, therefore, bound to draw a line, and she did so at knickerbockers, so as to prevent anyone using the coffee-room unless she had a long skirt to cover the knickerbockers. She thought that by admitting such ladies to her coffee-room she would be damaging the business which she had done so much to establish, and driving away her best customers. Elizabethen Paton, the head waitress at the Hautboy Hotel, said that Mrs, Sprague had directed her to prepare luncheon for Lady Harberton in the bar-parlour. There uth alts 4 P61" J-ent- 1 10 s' VtLPe ot tj001 Hope ment ot all Preference dividends the sum of 1,340 is Tno 2 mea torward.

A year ago the Ordinary Stock received a y1 iui uwiuuuuu at me raws ui per ceuu per annum, fel.OUD 4 riprfTnt Ai. 1 to 10G 8. Trinidad 4 nw rVat do 1 tn hein.r per Uent. do. I to iw xrinniaa 4 per Paraguay i per enis.

jrozu anaaaiv-auoro per Lnts. 1JS3TS Tm' 3 Turkish Series to 26. and Series to 99. 7.1; 9.1B. Wednesday Evening The Money Market to-day, not having received the full benefit by the Bank of hardening tendency to pay oil the loans due, the rate for advances became very hrm, day-to-day loans being quoted at anything between 2 and 3 per and ultimately a proportion of the advances due at the Bank had to be renewed at 3 uer cent.

Loans tor lixed periods were generally quot 1 at 2 per cent. Trie India Council called a shade harder at 2 per cent, for three and four months, and at 2i per cent, for sixes, with a very fair number of bills ofiering. 99,000 in bar gold i.i,, i 1 1 rrt was bought by the Bank, making on balance since the date of the last return. The Silver Market was steady, and the price of bars unchanged at 27 per ox. The Bombay exchange was a shade easier at Is.

3 and the Calcutta steady at Is. 4d. The Hong Kong rites were a shade higher at Is. 11 7-1 (d. for telegraphic transfers, and at Is.

11 9-l(ki. for four months' bills, and the Shanghai were unaltered at 2 8d. and 2s. Si d. respectively.

The gold premium Bueuos Ay res has advanced from 122.00 per cent, to 124.10 per cont. At Rome the quotation or gold has improved 107 lire 97 ic. per 100fr. Tenders for RsJiO.00,000 drafts on India were -it thr HytiL- t-Auv u-. -n Ra 1(1 OlMl rt- as allotted in bills and Rs.49.U0, 000 in telegraphic transfers, the allotments being Rs, 10.00,000 in hills on Calcutta, Rs.30,000 on Bombay, and Rs.

1 tm Madras, tenders at Is. being the previous price, receiving in full, andRs.29. 39,000 in telegraphic transfers on Calcutta, lis. 10.38,000 on Bombay, and Rs.9. 83.000 on Madras, tenders at Is.

being 1 32d. reduction, receiving about 10 per and Rs.3.00,000 was specially allotted iu telegraphic transfers on Calcutta at Is. 4 l-32d. Tenders for Rs.60.00,000 will be received on Wednesday next. The chetjue rate at Paris on London advanced to per and short money at the first -named centre fell from 4i to 4 per cent.

The following are the current rates for Bank bills Mid the approximate terms for trade descriptions bank bills Ftxty days -i Three months. 2- TRAPK bills. I Sixty days 2t Three months 2i I Four months. 2:. I Six months 22 p.c.

P-c p.c. p.c. of p.c. p.c p.C. p.c leading Four months 2 Cix mouths 2g 1 The current rates discount at lua Coutmeutal cities are as under of the dividend distributions ngland, has shown a distinctly aUU, Uwlll 1J tilt? aesire iu and lent a moderate sum at 2j per cent, till the 17th inst.

Discount rates sy.npatlteti- cally showed a slight improvement, and were quoted 2r.21i, the Rome exchange to 27.21, and the Lisbon to 3T 15 Hi, but the Vienna declined to imM, and the Madrid to 29.23. At Berlin the ,,7 private of discount was per cent, easier at per and at rankfort and Hamburg at 4 Ayrcs and Pacific 7 per Cent. 1st Preference do. (Cumu- lative) 1 to 122 4. and 4i per Cent.

2nd Debenture do. 7' Ifa debenture (Central Section) to u8 9, Aitrate Ordinary 1 per share to aud San Paulo (Brazilian) New Ordinary I to 15v 16L ivzt, luii bridge wells per events. iu, est Ham per Cents. laS, and 3 per Cents. 102, Wolverhampton 3 per Cents.

114.K. and Leicester per Cents. 102. India Stocks. 34 per Cents, fetched 115J 3 per Cents.

1071 hi. -h P' Cents. 93g and 3 per Cent. Rupee Paper i7, closing at 67J or firmer. COLOKiALGovEnsiiENT.SKCURiTiE-s.

Advances Canada 3 per Cent. Loan and Registered Stock 1 per cent, to 102 4, Natal -U per Cent Debentures li to 117 19, New 111 13, and 3 per Cent. do. 1 to 99 101. Colonial and Foreign Corporation Stocks.

Adraiu-r St. John (City of) New Brunswick 4 per Cent. Debentures 2 per cent, to 103 5. Foreign Stocks. Advances Egyptian 4J per Cent.

Mate uomam per cent, to iwo uerman A per Jent. lS'Jl i to mi 1 ex Turkish Series 1 to 46i Argentines per Cent. Northern Cen Central Railway to 75 Spanish 4 per Cents. (Sealed) to 59 i ex and Argentine Cedulas (Series E) to 41 i. I Railways.

-AdmncM-Isle of Wight De- 1 fened (inverted Ordmarv 2 per cent, to 84 9, Great Defei.red Ordinarv to 66 and Caledonian Ordinary to 153 4 ex div. Dechnes Hull and Barnsley 1 to ML 7i, Glasowand South-Western Preferred Ordinary 1 to si ex Great Eastern to Metropolitan District to 401 Midland Deterred A to 91 North-Kastern Consols to lS2i? Great Western to 171 2 2J, London and Brighton Deferred i to 4. iMuuxm ana jvonu- estern to tjaieaonian Deferred i to 54ft I ex Great Central do. i to 22 North British do. i to 44J and Preferred i to 'Mi 3.

and London, Chatham, and Dover Ordinary to 26i j. Debenture Stocks. Advance Midland and South-Western -Tit nation ner Int. 1 Iv, ftl fl Mettim East London 3rd Charge 4 per Cents. 1 to 29 31, and Great North of Scotland 4 per Cents.

1 to 140 43. Prefeience Stocks. Adv meat London, Chatham, and Dover per Cent. Arbitration 1 to 137 9, and Lancashire, aim r.v,. tv.iiesLeriiem aim uincujn oectiouj per Cent.

Preference Shares to 11 12. Declines Great Central 4 per Cent. Preference 1891 1 to 108 10, and 5 per Cent. 1S94 1 to 108 8. Colonial Railways.

Advances Grand Trunk of Canada 4 per Cent. Guaranteed Stock per cent, to 88 9i, 1st Preference do. lij to 83.A 2nd do. to 59 and 3rd do. to jj, and do.

Great Western Perpetual 5 per Cent. Debenture do. 2 to 134 7. Derlint Canadian Pacific Sinn Shares i of a dollar to fciW.i f. Fokeign Railways.

Advances Argentine Great Western Ordinarv Stock per cent, to 103 5, Buenos A ne. Great Southern Ordinary do. to 155i 6J, and Buenos Ay res and Kosano Ordinary do. i to 805 4i. De- cinex Mexican Ordinary Stock i per cent, to 233 4, 1st Preference do.

1 to 91j and 2nd do. 1 to 38i 9i, Buenoa Fokeign Railway Obligations. Alagoas 6 per Cent. Debentures 1 per cent, to 90 2, Brazil Great Southern (i per Cent. Sterling Mortgage do.

1 to 53 5, and Pineus, Athens, and Peloponnesus 5 per Cent. Mortgage Bonds 2 to S3 5. American Railways. Advanr.es Chesapeake and Ohio Shares to 28.1 Erie do. to 14 4 per Cent.

1st Preference do. to 39! 40i, New York, Ontario, and Western Ordinary do. to 2Si' 9, Northern Pacific Preference do. i to 80; li, Reading and Philadelphia and Reading $50 do. I to t2 do.

1st I'reference do. 1 to 34 4, and N'abash Preferred do. to 24 5L Decline Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Preferred Shares to 63g Baltimore and Ohio Ord inary do. to 73' 4, Central Pacific do. 5 to 54 Denvt and Rio Grande do.

to 23g and Preferred do. to 77i Illinois Central Ordinary do. ito 119j Louisville and Nashville do. to 67J 3, Missouri, Kansas, and Texas do. 3 to 14i ii.

New York Central do. 1 to 144i 5, Norfolk aud Western do. to 18 19L Pre- lerence do. to OSi Pennsylvania S50 do. 4 to 68i Southern Ordinary do.

to 12: 13, Union Pacific do. to 9i, and Preference do. to82i 2 Advances Chicago American Railways (Cikkkncy) and North-Western 5 per Cent. Sinkin 1 und Debenture "I ixwwisiKrain. wi lit auu juetrou, urrana aud Milwaukee 6 per Cent.

Equipment Bonds 2 to i(i, American Railways (Gold). Advances Baltimore ami Ohio 5 er Cent. Consolidated Mortgage Gold Bonds (J. P. Morgan and Certificates ot Deposit) 1 per cent.

to 122 6, Manhattan 4 per Cent. Consolidated Mortgage Gold Bonds to 113 16, Mexican Central 1st Consolidated lucome Gold do. 2 to 19 21, Missouri, Kansas, and Texas 4 per Cent. 2ua Mortgage Gold do. 1 to 69 71, and Texas and Pacihc per Gent.

1st Mortgage Gold do. 1 to 113 18. tfveauas cue naiiroan per uuut. oeuerai men uoia Coupon Bonds i per cent, to 74 oh, and Norfolk and "Western 4 per Cent. 1st Consolidated Mortgage Gold Coupon do.

1 to 94 6. Banks. Advancts London and Brazilian i per shaie to London Joint Stock to 35 6. Briberies and Distilleries. Advances Benskin's la i'retereiice i per share to 5 i ex Courage and -i i iff r-i 1 e.

11 Co. per Cent. Mortgage Debenture Stock 1 per cent, to 104 6 ex Parker's Burslem to 224 3i, aud South African to li 2. Declines City of Chicago Brew- "'K ana -uaitmg i'reterence per share to A Dartford 1 pe'l to ew England to Armstrong, hitworth, and Co. pr share to 4J Baku Russian Petroleum Pieference 1-16 to 1 Henry iiuctnaii aud Sons 4- to b.

ex De Keyser Royal Hotel ireterence ft to 11 12, the Gentlewoman 1-16 to 15-16 1 1-16 ex J. and H. Gwynue Pieference to 5 6 ex I Johns, Son, and Watts do. to 1 John Moir and Son Preference to 9. 10i, Russian Petroleum and Liquid Fuel to 2 S.

AV. Silver and Co. and Benjamin I Edgington I to 1 Spratt's Patent to 134 144 ex i Thomas Tilling Preference to 6 and Willans and Robinson to 10 4. Decline Lipton 1-16 per share to -4 riAASCWU -jAN and investment. Advajices British American Land A Shares 1 to 23 5.

do. 1 to 9 11, Canada Compa iv 1 to 29 31, New Zealand Trust aud Loan to 2 Loudon and Australasian Debenture 44 per Cent. Debenture Stock 2 per cent, to 96 8 ex div. Declines Australian Estates and Mortgage 44 per Cent. 1st Mortgage Debenture Stock 1 per cent, to 104 6 ex Canada North-West Laud Preference Shares $2 to S55 57.

Financial Trust's. Advances Industrial and General Trust Unified Capital Stock 1 percent, to 102 5, and United States and South American Preferred do. 1 to 99 104. 7 1,. vt 4i.

Railway Deferred Charge Stock per cent, to 4. Gas and Electric Advances Metropolitan Electric Supply (10 paid) 4 per share to 17 18 ex aud do. (7 13 14 ex div- Coal, Iron, and Steel. Advances Newport Abercarn Black len Steam Coal 4 per share to 84 94. Rhymney lron to and Shelton Don, Steel, and Coal 6 per Cent.

2nd Mortgage Debentures 1 per cent, to 98 103. SHIPPING. Advance Furness, and Co. 44, per Cent. 1st iUortgage Debentures 1 per cent, to 109 11.

Tea and Coffee. Decline Single Tea 1 per share to Tramways and Omnibcs. Advances Toronto Rail 44 per Cent. Sterling Bonds 2 per cent, to 107 9, Tramways union per share to 9 4 ex div. Waterworks.

Advance Montevideo 5 per Cent. 2nd Debenture Stock 14 per cent, to 103 7. Declines Chelsea Ordinary Stock 2 per cent, to 318 23. East London 44 per Cent. Debenture do.

2 to 156 9, and Johannesburg Water works Estate, per Cent. Mortgage Debentures 2 to 95 8 ex div. pAB i ourse. The following were the official closing quotations 1 BANK RATK. OPEN Paris 3 per cent.

2i Berlin 4i 3J Frankfort 4 4 Hamburg 4j- 4 Vienna 5 4j Amsterdam 2 2 Bt. Petersburg 6 6 IKE MARKETS. Yesterday. LONDON. MARK LANE.

To-day's market from the outset was quite devoid of ineideut, having regard to the present holidays. Buyers reassembled at the opening of business only in small numbers, and what little demand existed resulted iu very slow dealings iu their favour. Wheat English slow, but fairly steady. Foreign fully 6d. to 9d.

easier since Monday week. American sorts show the largest decline. Northern Spring. 30s. 3d.

ex ship.Calcutta Club No. 2, 2Ss. 6d. to according to sample. The past week's arrivals of flour were unusually heavy, shipments being moderate, and the market remains in the same semi-demoralised state, with an easy tendency.

Grinding barley steady, and oats supported, on light shipments. American white, clipped quoted at 16s. Od. to 16s. ex ship.

Maize maintained, round corn being rather tinner on the week. The market for peas and beans remains at a standstill. Arrivals of grains this week English and Scottish Wheat, l.lothjr. Foreigu Wheat 48,320 oats, peas, 600 maize, flour, 92,010 sacks. SEEDS.

Messrs. John Shaw and Sons write that to-dav's seed market wag poorly attended, with but a small business doing. Buyers just now are acting with extreme caution, the orders they send up being much smaller than is usual at this stage of the season. Meantime quotations all round stand at the low level previously noted. Germany is still taking American red from London.

For tares the sale is slow. There is no important alteration in bird seeds, aud mustard and rape seed keep firm. choice new scarlet runners are now obtainable on very tempting terms. Blue peas and haricot beans are held BILLINGSGATE FISH The railways brought 312 tons and three steamers 116 tons. Prices Scottish salmon, 2s.

2d. soles, Is. 3d. to 2s. 2d.

slips, Is. 6d. to Is. red mullets. Is.

4d. to Is. 6d. Dorys, 2d. to 3d.

per lb. lemon soles. 7s. to plaice, 5s. to 6s.

6d. brill, fes. to 10s. turbot, 103. to 14s.

per stone mackerel, 16s. to ISs. per 00 Dutch smelts, Is. to 2a. per basket whitebait, Od.

per quart live cod, 20. to 22s. dead cod, 10s. to whiting, 7s. to skate, 10s.

to lis. per box large plaice (steamer), 32s. to haddocks, 7s. to 15s. per trunk; roker, 20s.

to 2ls. per barrel fresh and salted herrings. 20s. to 21s. per case crabs, 14s.

to 18s. per hamper lobsters, 30s. to 60s. per score; native oysters, 12s. to 17s.

Dutch, 4s. to 10s. French, 38. to 7s. per 100 shrimps, 16s.

winkles, 6s. to Ss. whelks, 4s. per bushel mussels, 4s. to 6s.

per bag bloaters, 2s. 3d. to 2s. kippers, 2s. 3d.

to 3s. per box London-cured haddocks, 3s. to 10s. per dozen. SHADWELL FISH.

Fair supply by water, one steamer from Iceland with 600 trunks of plaice, cod, and haddocks. Fair supply by land. Demand fair. Prices Mackerel, 12s. to 14s.

per pad soles, 110s. to 120s. turbot, 50s. to mixed prime, 40s. to Iceland haddocks, 5s.

to Iceland plaice, 12s. to 15a; Iceland cod, 4s. to skate, ss. to roker, 10s. to whiting, 3s.

to 5s. per trunk; bloaters, 2s. Gd. to 2s. kippers, 2s.

6d. to 3s. per box oysters, 2s. to 6s. per 100 shrimps, Is.

6d. to 2s. per gallon winkles, 7s. to 9s. per bushel mussels.

5s. per bag. CENTRAL PISH. Quotations were as follows Soles, Is. 6d.

to 2s. slips, Is. lemon soles, halibut, turbot, lOd. to brill, Sd. to plaice, 4d.

to 5d. cod, 3d. to skate, hake, 3d. to roker, 3d. to John Dorys, 4d.

to fresh haddocks, live eels, Is. dead eels, conger eels, 4d. per mackerel, 3d. to whiting, 2d. to lobsters, 9d.

to 3s. crabs, 3d. to 2s. Gil. dried haddocks, 2d.

to9d. each smelts. Is. per box whitebait. Is.

per quart fresh herrings, Sd. to bloaters, Is. to Is. kippers. Is.

to Is. escallops, oysters, Gd. to 2s. per dozen smoked cod's roe. Sd.

to is. chicks, 3d. to 4d. per bundle. METROPOLITAN MEAT.

A fair supply of most descriptions was on offer this morning, but evidenced a slow sale. Scottish beef quoted 3s. 8d. to 4s. English, 3s.

Sd. to 3s. lOd American, Deptford killed, 3s. 6d. to 3s.

Sd. Liverpool, 3s. to 3s. American, refrigerated hindquarters, 3s. Gd.

to 3s. aveiage, 3s. forequarters, 2s. Gd. to 2s.

average. 2s. 7d. Mutton: Scottish, 4s. 4d.

to 4s. English wethers, 4s. 2d. to 4s. ewes, 3s.

4d. to 3s. Argentine, 3s. 2il. to 3s.

English lamb, Gs. to 6s. 4d. Veal English, 4s. 8d.

to Dutch, 3s. 4d. to and Irish, 2s. lOd. to 3s.

2d. per Sib. SMITHFIELD POULTRY AND PROVISION. Short supply; very bad demand. Prices Goslings.

Gs. to 8s. ducks, 3s. Gd. to 5s.

Gd. Surrey capons, 4s. 6d. to 6s. Surrey fowls, 3s.

6d. to Boston fowls, 3s. 3d. to Essex fowls, 2s. 6d.

to 3s. Irish fowls, 2s. to 3s. 3d. Russian fowls, Is.

4d. to Russian ducks, 2s. to 2s. black game, Is. guinea fowls, 3s.

6d. to 4s. wild ducks, cock capercailzie, 2s. 3d. hen ditto, Is.

9d. feathered pigeons, Bordeaux pigeons, Is. to Is. 4d. Russian brown hares, 2s.

3d. Russian white hares, Is. tame rabbits, Is. 4d. to Is.

wild rabbits, 9d. to Australian rabbits, 8d. live hens, Is. to 2s. 3d.

each; Italian turkeys, 7d. per lb. large pigs, 3s. 4d. to 3s.

Sd. small pigs, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 4d.

per 81b. COUNTRY. LIVERPOOL COTTON. Spot Sales, 10,000 bales speculation and export, 1.500. Americans, 9,570, in fair demand, but prices are slightly easier.

Brazilians neglected. Egyptians, 300 sold the market continues quiet. dull and without change. Futures are steady, but not active at the full rates of yesterday's close. July-August and August-September, 3 LEICESTER WOOL.

Though business has only been partially resumed, the wool market has a linn tone, with a fair inquiry for all the finest qualities at full prices but all faulty and coarse descriptions are still a very sluggish trade, and prices are extremely low and irregular. There is a good consumption, but very little speculation is going on. Skin wools are in fair demand. Colonial wools sell freely, and prices are WAKEFIELD CATTLE. A very slow sale in all departments, and prices similar to last week.

Beef, 5d. to6id. per sheep in wool, 5id. to clipped sheep, 6d. to" G.d.; lambs, lid.

to Is. Numbers penned Fat beasts, 1,519 sheep, 3,791. TRAFFIC RETURNS. Railways, week Ended Receipts, Receipts, AS UNDER. 1899.

1898. In- Decrease, crease. Belfast aud Northern Counties, March 31 Cambrian, April 2 Furness. April 2 Great Western, April 2 Great Northern. April 2 Great North of Scotland, April 1 Great Eastern.

April 2 Highland, April 2 Hull and Barnsley. April 2.. Lancashire aud Yorkshire, April 2 London and South-Western, April 2 Midland, April 2 Midland and South-Westera Junction, April 2 North-Eastern, April 1 North Staffordshire, April 2 Taff Vale, April 1 Waterford, Limerick, and Westeni, March 31 Bnenos Ayres aud Pacific, April 1 Central Argentine. April 1 East Argentine. Feb 26 Cordoba and Rosario, March 26 Entre Rios.

April 1 New Cape Central. March 11 West Flanders. April 2.... Santa Fe and Cordova Great Southern, April 1 Cordoba Central, March 26 Central Northern Section. March 26 Buenos Ayres and Rosario, April 1 Central Uruguay Eastern Extension.

April 2 Central Uruguay of Montevideo, April 2 Central Uruguay Northern Extension, April 1 Buenos -Ayres, Ensenada, aud South Coast. April 2. Buenos Ayres Great Southern. April 2 Do. Ensenada Section, April 3 Buenos Ayres Western, April 2 Egyptian Delta.

March 18.. Chicago Great Western, last 10 days of March Peruvian Corporation, menth of March net Lynn and Boston, month of Feb. net Mexican, April 1 Northern Pacific, month of Feb. net Western of Santa Fe. April 1 Denver and Rio Grande, month of Feb.

net Mobile and Birruiinrham. 5,506 5,723 9,391 203.0GO 103,835 8,190 95,728 8,147 5,744 109,191 92,162 203,488 917 153,788 17,312 14,709 4,662 9835 29,262 647 4,400 2,027 61S 2,079 5,039 2,155 3,805 24,103 1,792 6,542 CI 7 898 36,554 17,173 314 5,112 484 5,251 472 9.038 353 172,960 30,100 99,797 4,038 8.09S 92 78,715 17,013 8,616 469 7,170 1,426 87.S52 21,339 68.354 23.S0S 187,242 16,246 773 144 143,122 10,066 L5.411 1,901 14,061 648 5,046 884 9,034 801 24,870 4,392 584 63 2,080 2,320 2,766 139 395 223 1,928 151 4,259 7S0 1,515 640 3,720 145 17,681 6,419 1,657 135 6.140 402 714 17 279 19 34,208 2,346 3,173 695 14,137 3,036 $157,275 $13,470 259,350 8,975 8.376 690 85,000 1,000 799,867 $39,514 50,710 8,310 219,082 66,582 9,066 86,000 700,353 42.400 The half year's interest, due May 1. on the Dominion of Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds and Inscribed Stock 1874-75-76 and 1S78-7(J Loans will be paid, on and after that date by the Bank of Montreal, Abchurch-lane. The Porto and New Hamburg (Brazilian) Railway Company has received from the State Government of Rio Grande do Sul the guaranteed interest for the half year ending the 31st of December last.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company announces to holders of an issue of 150,000 1st Mortgage Debentures of the Real Estate Mortgage and Deposit Bank (of Victoria) that, in accordance with an agreement dated November 26. 1896, interest at 3 per cent, per annum for the six months ending April 19 next, will be paid at the Provincial Bank ot England, on and after that date, and that the relative coupons must be left there at least three clear days fcr examination. The Conde d'Eu Railway Company publishes the numbers of the 5 per Cent. Debenture Bonds which have been purchased for redemption and cancelled. The Directors of the Highland Railwav Comnanv 1 announce that the profits of the past half year will not permit of a dividend on the Ordinary Stock.

After pav- John Barker and Co. recommend that, after providing amply for all depreciations aud contingencies and making certain appropriations to the reserve fund, which will then amount to 76,250, dividends be paid on the Cumulative Preference Shares of 5i per cent, per annum, and on the Ordinary Shares of Is. 10J. per share, making, with the interim dividend already paid, 12i percent on the Ordi-naiy Shares for the year ending February 28. The Khedivial Mail Steamship and Graving Dock Company announces that the first half yearly dividend on the 5 per Cent.

Preference Shares of the Company will be paid on and after to-morrow (Thursday). The Broken Hill Water Supply Company states that warrants for dividend No. 24 of 6J. per share, and a bonus of 3d. per share, payable on the 6th have been posted to shareholders on the London register.

The Directors of the Anglo-Austriau Bank state that the balance of profit and loss account for 1898 amounted to 164,773, which the general meeting, held at Vienna, on April 4, has appropriated as follows Dividend, F1.8 per share (equal 6 2-3 per 133,333 reserve fund, tantieme to the General Council, Jubilee donation to the pension fund. 2.500: lalance carried iorwam to new account, 10,428 total, 164,773. Coupon No. 5 can now be presented for payment lest payment less income tax. The report of the Brazilian Street Railway Company for the past year states that the gross receipts show an increase of 2,523, as compared with 1897.

The total expenditure was 44,549, but consequence of the alteration in the mode of keeping the accounts the usual comparison with those for the preceding year cannot be made. Over 1,700 has during the past vear been spent in strenzthenine with cyiinuers columns 01 tne K.ua do Sol liriuge, which uas been charged to capital six of these have been completed. It will be remembered that one pier of this bridge was seriously damaged by a heavy coal lighter colliding with it. in consequence of which the authorities ordered that all the piers of the bridge, 10 in number, should be strengthened, thus entailing a large outlay. The balance of revenue for the year is 3,456.

After payment of Debenture interest for 1898, namely, 2,621, and income tax 41, there remains a surplus of 794. TheDirectorsregretthat.owingtothefinan-cial position of Brazil, added to the low rate of exchange, they have been unable to place Bonds to redeem those of the first series, which matured October 2. 1897, neither are they able to redeem those which matured April 2 this present year. Under these circumstances it is necessary to make an arrangement with the Debenture-holders, and the Directors are advised that, in order to protect the assets in the. meantime, a special meeting of the Company should be held immediately for the purpose of passing a resolution for voluntary winding up.

If this course is adopted by the sbarenolders a scheme for reconstruction, which the Direc tors already have under consideration, will bo submitted at a subsequent meeting. The following is the London and Westminster Bank statement of the liabilities and assets on April 1, 1899 Current accounts and deposits, 26,213.713 acceptances and endorsements as per contra, 173,707 other liabilities, 795,476 paid-up capital, 2,800,000 reserve fund, 1,600,000 31,582,896. Cash in hand at Bank of England, money at call and short notice, 5,310,900 Imperial Government Securities, 4,105,000 liability of customers for acceptance and endorsement. 173,707 bills discounted, loans, other securities, 2.301,806 31,582,896. The following is Prescott, Dimsdale.

Cave, Tuwell, and monthly balance-sheet on March 31: Liabilities Capital account Nominal capital, 2,000,000, in 80.000 shares of 25 each, of which there have been issued 50,988 shares 8 paid, 407, 904 reserve. 203, 952 61L 856; curreut land deposit accounts, 4,954,113 liabilities on acceptances and guarantees, 126.660 sundry liabilities, 100.993 5,793,622. Assets Cash in hand aud at the Bank of England, 737,046 cash at call and short notice, investments; Consols and other Imperial Government Spcurities, 531,353 Bank of England stock, Indian and Colonial Government Securities, oriiorauon oiuuss, rmsn xvanway ueoenmre ana rre- ference Stocks. 364.245 Railway Ordinary Stocks and other Securities, 45,425 941,023 hills discounted. advances to customers, liabilities of customers for acceptances and guarantees, por contra.

I 126.660 bank premises, furniture, 193,735 5,793.622. A meeting of the shareholders of the Debenture Cor- 1 poration is called for the 14tb inst. to consider a scheme proposed by the Director for the effecting ot an arrange ment between the holders of Ordinary and Foundeis' csnares, wnicn win permit or tne more speedy building up of the reserve of the Corporation, and of a more regular distribution on tne rounders Shares. We have received from Messrs. Barsdorf and of the Wool Exchange, Coleman-street, the representatives in Loudon, the tenth annual report of the Chamber of Mines of the South African Republic, containing a most exhaustive statement of all matters bearing on the mining industry together with the annual report of the Rand Native Labour Association aud the proceedings at the annual meeting.

The information is compiled up to the end 01 Uecember, ibUb. Messrs. Capel-Cure, and Terrv, stock and share brokers. 1, Tokenhouse-buildings, Lothbury, have admitted Mr. Edward Arthur Wightwick into partnership.

The style of the firm will remain unchanged. Messrs. J. R. Parkington and Co.

state that the shin- ments 01 port tor March amount to pipes (Great Britain, 3,467 pipes), making 27,183 pipe3 for three months against 26,256 pipes iu 1S98. The sherry shipments were 4.376 butts, making 11,841 butts for three months as compared with 12,601 butts for the corresponding period of last rear. MINING. The following list gires the closing prices of the principal Mining Shares, with the rise or fall on the day: SOUTH AFRICAN LAND Sc. Oosing Closing Price.

Fal) Price. Rise or Fall. 35 -i i 44 An.clo-Fr.Exp.. 3fi Bechuanaland. Erit.Char.ofS.A.

3fl Eastern Invest- IrW EersteFabriek'n Exploration C. 2r Johau'b'gC'nln. Johaunesb'gEst 1 I2i London Paris ft Hoodies i iikn Mashon. Agency 31 li New 3hl 3J 3-32 Oceana lyfc Rhod Ex. te Dev.

7 1 Robins 'n 's B'nk'g 4J fct Air. Gd. Trust 7 2 Uo. Preferred lj lati Concessions 1 Trans. Con.

Land 2 Transvaal Gold. 2 United Rhodesia 13 Willoughby Con 13 Zambesi Exn. 1 li 21 -ft 21 -ri-A 2 -ft lj 1 Si 3 1 51 Gl-r1, 5U-A -1 3 eg i 61 2 42 ft- 21 2 Ill 13 ft 3ft-ft li 6 4 -ft 3H-. 9ft-ft 134 22 -31 -1 3 8 13J ft 122.. Mozambique SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD.

7ft jL'ngl'gte Blo'k 1 3J 7i i iLansriaairte 3 Angelo Apex. Aurora W. Un'fd if Iff. Langlaagte Deep 3 2ft ft Lancaster 4 Bantjes(New) 2A Baruato Sfi ift- Mam Reef (New) 2ft Uaiu U. Roodep.

5 Matabele G. Reels New 44 May (New) 5 Meyer Charl. (Mi Modderfont Do. Extension 2J bonanza 3 43 3 10 6. 3ft.

ButTlsdoorn Est. 9 6 Cen. Rood. Beep 2fi Champ d'Or Chimes (New) Sub. (New) 6i Comet Si-Cons.

Deep 3f Cons. Gold. S.Af. lK. Pref.

240 Croesus (New) IrV Crown Deep i4 Crown Beef 18 Driefontein 5J Durb. Rood'po'rt 6 Do. Deep 3 East Rand 7ri Ferreira 23 French Rand 12 Geldenhuis Est. 8ft Do. Deep 10 Geelong 4 Ginsberg 3 Glencairn 2 Globe Phoenix 3J Gly'n Lvd'nburg 2J Henry Nourse 9 Heriot(New) 7ft Johann.

Pioneer 15 Jubilee 7k Jumpers 63 Do. Deep 5J Eimb. Roodep't i Kleinfont. (N'w) 3rW Knight's Wit'rd 6J Knight's 4J 6i 3J ft Nigel 3ft 4 i Nigel Deep, New 2ft 8.. 5-32 Nurse Deep 6 246..

iPaarl Central 5 Primrose (New) 5 Princess 2i 19 Rand Mines 42 ft Bi Randfontein 3ft 6j Bietfouteiu (Z.) 2 4 If 83-32 Robinson(De ViL )10J 24 1 Do. Deep 12 2 ftRose Deep 101 8ft ft Salisbury (New) 3J 11 Selukwe 2fg 48 iVSheba(New) 1 3J iSim'erfcJack(X.) 6 SJ ftiSim'ertJack(E) 4 4 ft )' 5 ft 2.. 8pes Bona (New) ft 9 i Stanhope ft lTrans.G-M'g.Est 2J 16 Treasury 5j 7i I Van Ryn (New) 3ft 7 ft Village Mu. Reef 9ft 6 Est 1 1 VVemmer Sft ft Witwaters. Deep 2 7 W'olhuter 41 Worcester 3i SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND.

Con. Bui tf out 29.6 30,6.. jGriqualand West 3 De Beers 2CJ 27 Jagersfouu 13 Do. a p.c 106 103 I AUSTRALASIAN GOLD. Aladdin's Lamp A Gt.

Fin. New 183 fi Londonderry 09 189.. Hi 13 76.. 5 6.. 6 256-6 i ft I 84 2.O..

2S -ft 3ftft 4 0.. 70.. Assoc. Gld. Mns.

6g Bur'sBirth'yGift Iff Brit.Westr.Synd. 4 A Trst. ft Coolg'die G. S. 40 CroesusS.Ulnpd.

1 Florence, 166 pd. Gibraltar Con. Golden 6 Gold. Horse Shoe 28 G.Est. of Austrl.

6 -ft 4 7i 28 L. V. Aus. I Mainland Con. 66 Menzies G.

Reef 46 Mount Morgan 61 Mount Malcolm Proprietary 24'fl Norseman fi North Boulder -fi Nor. T. G. of -fi North Kalgurli Paddington Con. lfi ft Peak Hill 7J Cft-f ft.Pilbarra G'dfielda 10 8 0..

Robinson, W.A.. ft 1 3 't; r.c 01 Hainault lft Hampton Plains lft H'nnan's Brown 8ft 26 Hannan't Oroya. 1 'g Hannan's 1 Ivanhoe Gold 9 Kauri G. Estate Kalgurli 7 Kal. M.

ft Lady Skeaton 2r Lake View Cons. 13 Lake View South 1 SoutJi 2 Sft TaiUpu 3 0 36.. Town Pro. W. A ft lfi 1 True Blue 60 Weal th of ti'ns 95 W.

A Goldflelds lf Westralian.lt. St. 8 I Ln. and G. Fin 7 9 ft ft W.A.M.

Tr 66 Waihi 5 13g ft Wentworth Q. F. 7,6 INDIAN GOLD. 5 -i iL Mysore 6 6 8 33 7,0 3 1 8 6.. Champion Reef Coromandel Mysores Do.

Goldfleids Mysore West 41 lft Nundydroog 3ft 84 .4 41 5ft 5ftxd-f ft Ooregum 6'0 70.. Bret 4 76 86.. MISCELLANEOUS Alaska G'ldfields. lft lft vd ft London fe British Alaska Tread 4 4.. Col.

Gold Broken Hill Pro. 2ft Zeal. Explor Burma Col. Gold of N.Z. 1 St.

John del Rey 2S 0 Tolima A 1 Union Waihi 26.. Waitekauri Geld 2ft COPPER. 9i ft Mountain 7 jNatnaqua 3ft 41 N. Mount 3 -eft Rio 41ft iRioTinte 6ft 8i Thareis 8 4 I Utah Cons. 8 290..

Klon. Col. Old. ft Lisbon Berlyn 20 Anaconda 9 71 3ft. 3i 41 ft-Gft.

Iulu Boston Libiola 2 MountLyell 71 Mason 3J tnm Qs. 10s Pirn T4na and Tincroft. OS. a'" Dolcoath 21s. 15.

paid lbs. bd. ls. 6(L, lAst Pool and Agar United 10 Polberro 19s. West Kitty 9g Wheal Grenville llg Wheal Kitty 25s.

New Polbreen 5s. 0s. tt The Anaconda Copper Mining Company has declared a INNKEEPER'S ATTITUDE UPHELD. Yesterday at the Surrey Quarter Sessions, held at Kingston, the case of Viscountess Harberton v. Mrs.

Mary Jane Sprague," landlady of the Hautboy Hotel, Ockham, Surrey, was tried before a full Bench of Magistrates, Mr. G. Cave, presiding. Mrs. Sprague was charged by way of indictment with refusing to serve the Plaintiff with refreshments at her hotel because she was attired in a "rational The cae appeared to excite much interest, and the Court was densely crowded.

The prosecution was conducted by Lord Coleridge and Mr. Percival Hughes, aud the Defendant was represented by Mr. Horace Avory and Mr. Birou. Case for the Prosecdtio.v.

Lord Coleridge, in opening the case, said that the Prosecution was undertaken by the Cyclists' Touring Club in order to test the question whether the landlady of the Hautboy Hotel had a right to refuse to supply Lady Harberton by reason of her appearing in what was called a rational costume. There was no notion of meting out punishment to Mrs. Sprague, who no doubt thought she was acting in accordance with the law but if she were not right in her view she and other innkeepers should be told that their duty was to offer to all who asked for it such reasonable accommodation and food as the hotel was accustomed to supply, unless the refusal was based on legal grounds. An innkeeper was not entitled to select his guests and to refuse to supply a customer who was not guilty of conducting himself in an improper and indecent manner. The learned Counsel quoted a case in which the law had been laid down to the effect stated by him.

Lady Harberton's Eidence. Lady Harberton deposed that she a member of the Cyclists' Touring Club, and when cycling always wore the rational dress. She had brought the costume to Court, and the photograph which she now produced exactly-represented her as she appreared in that costume. On the 27th of October she went by train to thence by bicycle to the Hautboy Hotel, Ockham. She saw Mrs.

Sprague at the entrance to the hotel, and asked Can I have some lunch, please." To which Mrs. Sprasue replied: "No; not in that dress. I don't admit people to my coffee-room in that dress." Witness said I have come from London. I am very hungry, and must have some lunch." Then," said the landlady, you must have another room," to which Lady Hiirberton re plied, I don't care what kind of room I have it in," but she refused to pay for a private room, or anything over the regular tourist prices. She thought at the time that Mrs.

Sprague was trying to cheat her, and did not want to play fly to her spider. She said I am a member of the Cyclist Tourists' Club, and want to be treated on the usual terms," and showed her badge of membership. The landlady said she would rather Witness went away, but she would serve her, if she insisted, in a room at the other end of the bar. itness then, by Mrs. Sprague's direction, brought her bicycle round to the yard, and was afterwards taken through a door and led into a drinking bar, at which men were smoking and drinking, and then into another room, where she saw four men smoking, whom she took from their appearance to be working men.

The room smelt abominably of smoke and drink, and Witness told Mrs. Sprague that she could not take her lunch there. Mrs. Sprague replied that that was the only room she was bound to give Witness, who thereon left the hotel without having obtained refreshment and rode to the White Lion at Cobham, where she was treated respectfully, lunch being supplied without any objeccion being made to her costume. In cross-examination by Mr.

Avory, Lady Harberton said she bad no particular object in going to the Hautboy Hotel. She was out for exercise and pleasure. She was a member of the Rational Dress League, of which she was the Treasurer. The League had not to her knowledge been getting up during the past year test cases auainst obstreperous landlords. She had seen it stated in the papers, but of course she was not responsible for what appeared there.

Her case, she desired to say, was not a test case. She always wore the rational dress while cycling, and had travelled over four thousand miles in that costume. Sho had gone up Regent-street wearing it. (Laughter.) Mr. Avory Have you ever been to church iu it Witness No, of course not.

Mr. Avory Have you ever been to the theatre in it Witness No, certainly not. (Laughter.) When she went to the theatre she went in evening dress, and when she cycled she did so in cycling dress. Promoting the Prosecution. Lady Harberton denied that she was paying the expense of this prosecution.

It was true that there had been a difference of opinion among the members of the Cyclists' Touring Club as to the advisability of prosecuting in this case, but by far the larger majority of them were in favour of the action taken by the Council. She was not wearing a shorter jacket than that shown in the photograph, and had never worn such a thing as a Zouave jacket" in her life. She was aware that the Rational Dress Lcafue Journal had advised the members not to attend that trial in rational dress. She supposed that the editor of the journal thought it was not quite fair to Mrs. Sprague, and that it might influence the Jury against her and in favour of the prosecution.

(Laughter.) The dispute was whether or not Mrs. Sprague would admit her to the hotel. Her objection to the bar parlour was the smells and general surroundings and uusuitableness of the place for luncheon. Besides, she had never yet heard of a respectable woman spending any time in a bar parlour. She did not expect a private staircase, nor did she expect to be put into a bar with a lot of men who were smoking and drinking.

The photogragh of the bar parlour produced in Court did not represent it as it appeared on the occasion of her visit. There were no signs of a tablecloth or comfortable chairs at a luncheon table then, and these were in the photograph. The working men drinking and smoking were not represented, and the fine display of flowers shown in the photograph was not there. It did not look to be the same room. She did not notice one of the men knock the ashes from his pipe when she entered.

The C.T.C.'s Attitude. Mr. Ernest Richard Shipton, in answer to Lord Coleridge, said that he was Secretary to the Cyclists' Touring Club, and that he was well acquainted with the Hautboy Hotel. The agreement produced was that arrived at between the Club and Mrs. Sprague.

It was now cancelled. One of its terms was that the proprietor agreed at all times to receive and entertain members of the Club as ordinary coffee-room customers. Finding that Mrs. Sprague was not inclined to treat lady members of the Club differently from the wav in which she treated Lady Harberton, the Council cancelled the agreement and decided to take action on behalf ot Lady Harberton. Mr.

Avory Has not that action been the cause of serious controversy among the members of your Club Witness It has undoubtedly caused a difference of opinion, but from the letters we have received it has been approved by the great majority of the members. People who write letters are not always most worth considering That is so. The rational costume was not extensively worn at the time of this agreement in 1892. Did the Cyclists' Touring Club publish a handbook called the "British and Irish Handbook and Guide?" They did. 13 this what they say on the subject of women's dress for cycling "Into the discussion on divided skirts, aud the still more heated controversy as to the so-called rational it is impossible here to enter, but it may he remarked that, however suitable gymnastic attire may be for cycling per se, it is not desirable, in the present state of genera! convention respecting diess, for ladies to tour without a skirt for use when off the bicycle That is in no sense an official pronouncement of the Council, but the opinion of the writer of the article, Mr.

F. T. Bidlake, appears. The article is incorporated in the book of the Club, but in no part of the official rules and regulations. Mr.

Octavius Holmes Batty, member of the Bar and Vice-Chairman of the Cyclists' Touring Club, said that he bad known the Hautboy Hotel for some time. There was a bar in the bar parlour, though he did not find it in the photograph produced. He would not like to swear that there were no flowers there, but did not see anything so elaborate as was represented in the photograph. He thought that it was unlikely that food would be provided there. The Defence.

Mr. Avory submitted that there was no case to go to the Jury, as there was no evidence of refusal to supply victuals to Lady Harberton. It was at the moat a refusal to supply in a particular room, and he contended that no traveller had a right to be served with food in a particular room. There was nothing to go to the Jury but a question of taste, and it would be an absurd state of the law if a person were to be indicted for offending on a question of taste. For aught he knew he might have to address a Jury all of whom objected to tobacco.

(Laughter.) The Chairman said the Bench were of opinion that the case must go to the Jury. Mr. Avory, addressing the Jury for the defence, said this case was one of the greatest abuses of the Criminal Law that had ever come before a Court. If the learned Judges who had laid down the law on this subject for the protection of travellers could know that it was being applied to such a case as the present it would be enough to make them turn in their graves. The case was nothing but an advertisement for the Cyclists' Touring Club and of rational dress for ladies.

Mrs. Sprague in what she did had not acted from prudery. She was responsible to the Magistrates and the Police for the proper conduct of her business and if public opinion was not yet ripe to receive ladies in this costume in all circumstances it might be that it would seriously disturb the order and good management of a public hotel if ladies wearing the rational dress were admitted into the public room, which might be crowded with men of all sorts and conditions. He submitted that Mrs. Sprague exercised a perfectly sound and wise discretion in the interests of the good management of her business and in the interests of Lady Harberton herself.

Landlady's Evidence. Mrs. Sprague was then called, and in reply to Mr. Avory said that she had held the license for the Hautboy Hotel for thirteen years. She had never admitted ladies wearing rational costume to the coffee-room unless they brought skirts with them.

The bar-parlour had frequently been used for lunches, and no complaint had ever been received from visitors. When she explained to Lady Harberton that she could not be served in the coffee-room Lady Harberton said I don't care where you put me so long as you give me lunch." When she was shown into the bar-parlour Lady Harberton said: I cannot stay herewith these horrid men drinking and smoking." Witness said I am very sorry, hut it is the only room I have for you." Lady Harberton said I take that as a refusal." Witness answered It is no refusal, because by law I cannotref use. Lady Harberton then left. There were only threemen in the bar-parlour when Lady Harberton went in, aud they did not belong to the working classes. One was an architect who had retired from business and lived in the neighbourhood the second was his friend, a gentleman of independent means, who was staying with him and the third she did not know, but no exception could be taken to him on account of his personal appearance.

Witness was perfectly willing and ready to supply lunch in the bar-parlour at the charges agreed on for members of the Cyclists' Touring Club. No At Eow-street Police Court yesterday Hall Grigor, financial agent, 242, Euston-road, and 70, Finsbury pavement, was charged before Sir Vaughan with obtaining 50 by false pretences from William Augustus Pearce. Detective-sergeant Kane, of Scotland Yard, gave formal evidence of arrest. He said that in 1896, he received a warrant for Grigor apprehension, and at the same tune a summons against him for obtaining 25 by false pretences from Eraest George Henham. He made every effort at the time to effect his arrest, but found that he had left London two days before the warrant and summons were issued.

At ten o'clock yesterday mOfning, accompanied by Detective-sergeant Collins, he went to 70, Finsbury -pavement, where he saw Grigor in a small room. Ow th door of" the room was a plate bearing the words, LTiixia (Limited)," with the name Murphy. Witness said "We are Police 1 hold a warrant for your arrest for having obtained tiie sum of from a Mr. Pearce in July, 1896. I have also a summoi.s, wiiich I will hand to you, for having obtained 25 from rv Mr.

Henuam at about the same date." Grigor said: "Why did not they come and ask me for the money They entered into au agreement with me, and it is only a civil debt." In th room was a young gentleman. Witness said: What is your name, and will you kindly tell me your business with this gentleman (pointing to llrigor)?" He answered name is Kidley, and I have come from answer to an advertisement. I was negotiating with rhisgentle-rnan for a situation as clerk and a deposit of rigor had the agreement (produced) in his hand, and was just filling it up when witness entered the room. There was a great deal of correspondence in the room, consisting apparently of replies to The Prisoner: The business of Urixia is carried on at Xo. 76.

No. 70 is used for my own private business. Does not the correspondence you allude to refer to the sale of Crixia? Witness I cannot say at present. There was no furniture, and no business appeared to be doue. The Prisoner was remanded.

THE DROMPTON JEWEL ROBBERY. William Shinn, 31, bookmaker, was placed in tho dock before Mr. Maisham at AV'estminster yesterday for final examination on charges of bigamy and of burglariously entering the residence of Mrs. Dorothy Selwyn, in Bromp-ton-square, last September, and stealing diamond and other jewellery of the value of over Mr. de V.

Kleury prosecuted. The Prisoner said ho should not 1h legally represented until the trial. In reply to the Magistrate, Inspector Hay ter said none of the jewi llerv had been recovered. Mr. committed the Prisoner for trial to the Old Bailey on charges of feloniously breaking and entering anil bigamy.

Prisoner declined to give evidence anil said he would reserve his defence. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MAIL AND STEAMSHIP NEWS. (From Lloyd's, April 0.) ACCRA, April 4. Cabemla left.

ADEN, April Caledonia, from Romlwy, Oceana, from Sydney for Loralon, arrived, Valdivia, arrived or pusseil. ALEXANDRIA, March 31. -Syrian Prince, from Beyrout, arrived. ALCIERS, April 5. Orient, from Naples for London, arrived.

AN AUSTRALIAN Puu.1', April Umiaura, from Calcutta, arrive.l. ANTWERP, April i. Castillian Prince, from Dunkirk, arrived, nEAD, April 5. Lahn, from Bremen for New Vork passed. BRISBANE, April 4.

Duke of Fife, from London, arrived. BROW HEAD, April -Waesland, from Philadelphia fof Liverpool, passed. CAPE SPARTEL, April 4. Perseo, from Genoa for Buenos Ayres. pAwed.

MLtMBo, March 31. Wakasa Maru, from Japan, China, and Strmls for Marseilles, Umduii, ami Antwerp, left. April Onuttz, from Sydney lor London, and otaliorUshire, from Rangoon, arrived. CI HA EN, April Herman, from Table Bay and Southampton, am! (lamina, from Africa, arrived. DEM ERA RA, April 4.

Breiittor, from London for St. Michael arrived. DJiROt IT, April 2. Peiho, from Mauritius for Marseilles, left. DOVER, April 5.

Radnorshire, from Yokohama for Continent, Dictator, t'roiu Bassein for Amsterdam, and itau Nicolas, from Montevideo for Rotterdam and Hamburg, passed. DUNKIRK, April 5. Waldenshin, from Bnenos Avres. arrived. FERNANDO NOROMIA, April Plata, from Bordeaux for Brazil, passed.

GIBRALTAR, April S. Valetta, ftoni Calcutta for London, and Britannia, from Sydney for London, arrived. Orizaba, trom bunion for Sydney, left. VUle de Buenos Ayres, and Crews Hall, from Kuriachee und Marseilles for Liverpool, passed. JRAV ESEND.

April 5. Tropea. for Baltimore, left. Tor gorm. from Demerara for London Dock, Kaiser Friedrioh, from New York for Tilbury Dock, ami l'osa Maru, from Moji lor Tilbury Dock, passed.

CKEENOCK, April 4. ('Ian Ferguson, from Calcutta via London, arrived. City at Vienna, for Calcutta, and Horace, for Buenos Ayres via Liverpool, left, the Horace having siuuo arrived in the Mersey. HAMBURG, April 5. Horatio, from Liverpool for Cears, arrived.

Clan Ros, from Bombay for Glasgow, leit. HAVRE, April 4. Augustine, from Liverpool for Para, left. KONG, April 4. Ching Wo.

from Japan and China for London, left. April 5. Andalnsian, from Hamburg, and Prina Ileinrich, from Bremen, arrived. Formosa, from Japan ior London, left. Ht'LL, April 1.

Castello, from Bombay, arrived. HI RST CA.VILE, April j. Saciiscu, from Cliiua for Soutll. amptoii, passed. LAGOS, April 5.

Soboand Loanda kft. LIVERPOOL, April j. Sylvania, from Boston, and Batanga, from Lagos, arrived. LIZARD, April Palatia (supposed), from New York for Hamburg, Armenia, from Hamburg lor Philadelphia, aud Crest, froio Philadelphia for Hamburg, passed. MACEIO.

March 30. British Prince, from New York, arrived. MADEIRA, April TauUilou Castle arrived aud proceeded for Cape Town. MARSEILLES, April 4. Karamania.

from New York, arrived. April General, from Ltelagoa Bay, arrived. MELBOURNE, April of Genoa, from the Clyde, and Karlsruhe, from Bremen, arrived. MOJI, April Kauagawa Maru. for London, left.

MOVILLE, April Anchona. from New York for (ilasuow, arrived and proceeded. Dominion, from Halifax lor Liverpool, left. ATAL, April l.Lismore Castle, from Mauritius for South African Ports and Loudon, arrived. NAL PLIA, April 4.

Lusituma, Trom London for Constantinople arrived. NEW YORK, April 4 American, from Liverpool, and K'alllr Prince, from Santos, arrived. 'Crave left. Bo vie, from Liverpool, Amsterdam, front Rotterdam, and Southwark, froio Antwerp, arrived. Majestic, aud New York, for Southampton, left.

OITAVOS, April Amsterdam, passed. Icgeutes, from Rata via for PERIM, April 4. Clan Mackenzie, from Madras for London, passed. April 0. Prius Alexander, from Batavia for Amsterdam, called.

PHILADELPHIA, April 4. Belgenland, from Liverpool, arrived. PLYMOUTH, April 5. Braemar Castle, from Capetown fur London, left. PORT SAID, April 4.

nitnchi Maru, from Japan, China, and the Straits for Marseilles, Loudon, and Antwerp, left. April IslS, from Brindisi, and Adour, from London and Havre for Saigon, arrived. Colconda, from Calcutta for London, and Gull of Bothnia, from Brisbane for London, left. RAT1ILIN ISLAND, April 5. Norwegian, from the Clyde, outward bound, passed.

RIVER PLATE, March SSL Eastern Prince, from New York, arrived. SAG RES. April 4. Bamberg, from Bremerhaven for China, and Dordogne, from Saigon and Marseilles for London, passed. SHANGHAI, April 5.

Baliaarat, from Bombay, arrived. SINGAPORE. April I. Kawachi Maru, from Middlesbrough, Antwerp, ami London for the Straits. China, and Japan, April Moynne.

from Japan for I'nited States, arrived. SOUTHAMPTON, April Sophia, for Batavia, left. April Kaiser hricdrich. from New York for Bremen, arrived and proceeded. Lame, for Hamburg, left yesterday.

Sl'EZ, April 5 Barrister, from Calcutta for Loudon, arrived. SYDNEY, April 5. Moravian, from London, and lowers, from Vancouver, arrived. I'sllANT, April j. Pluenician, from Buenos Ayres for London, passed.

VENICE, April for Port Said, left. VICTORIA (B.C April of Japan, from Hon Kong, arrived. VIGO, April from Buenos Ayres. arrived MIT DEN, April from Kassein. arrived.

YOKOHAMA, April 4 Fan Sang, from Portland (O arrived. HOME ARRIVALS. BELFAST ROADS, April (s). River Plate, and Pemvith (s), Sulina, both for Bristol Lucerne (s), St. John's i.VF).

GRAVES END, April 4. -Medinna (s), Bnenos Ayrei. LIVERPOOL, April 4. Highland Mary (s), Bueuos yrss, April 5. Ouernmura (s), Baltimore.

LYNN ROADS, April (s), Philadelphia. POR I LAND, April Lamiuermooi (s), Odessa for HulL TRALEE, April 4. White Jacket (s). New Orleans. HOME SAILINGS, LIVERPOOL.

April A Rappahannock (s), Newport News PENARTU. April 4. Algoina(s), Baltimore. SHIELDS. April 3.

lames Brand (s), Baltimore. April 4. Oilfield (s), Philadelphia. FOREIGN ARRIVALS. BOMBAY.

April fk India, Newport. BI ENOS AYRES, April nrrv (i (), Japan for Continent HAMBl t.C, April 1. -Weimiugton Hail (a, Rangoon HAV AN A. March 30. Krancisca (s), Liverpool.

i.a rAUMAs. April I leming (s), Buenos Ayres for Deptford. passed. ADEIRA, April 3. -Lord Charlemont (s), Cardiff.

MEL BO I RNE. April 5. -Star of England (s), London. FORI SAID, April 5. Imani (s), Newport for Bombay, (s) the 3 m.

Apnl (s)' HgOW. April 'Rangoon SI EZ, April Indianapolis (s). Manila for United Kingdom Dnlwich(s), Akyabfor nited Kingdom or Continent Courllield (s), Basseiu for I'nited Kingdom or Continent. SYDNEY, April (s), London. FOREIGN SAILING.

ALEXANDRIA, April I. Manitou s), Bristol. WRECKS AND CASUALTIES. The British steamer VV eybridge, from Savannah, which collided olf Dover with the barque Brodrene. since arrived at London, has arrived at Hamburg with bulwark stove and other damages about deck.

The schooner Billow Crest. Portmadoe to Esbjerg with ''DO tons of slate, struck the shore at the entrance to Eriskay Sound early yesterday morning, and will probably become a total wreck. Crew saved. MISSING AND OVERDUE VESSELS The following vessel not having been heard ot sinc the date ...4.4.. i.

1UC (Sk oi New York MGillivray master, which is reported to have sailed from New Vork for Dover on January U), and from Halifax on January -IC, The two following vessels, which have previously been re. ferred to in our summary as overdue, were to-day (April i) posted at Lloyd a as missing The Levant (s). of Getle, Hillste.lt muster, which sailed from Grimsby for Stockholm with a cargo the Iddesleigh, of Charlotte-town (P.r ..11 official No. 9.UU4, Bennett, master, which sailed from st John for Bristol with a cargo of oil ou December is, ls'Ja, and have not since been heard of. LAST WEEK'S WRECKS.

TCk 1 the rePlts nt ships wrecked and totally lost were five British-owned, one being otolith-Western company steamer, which was built in Is), of very mticli overdue the Allegltenv tsl. .4,,.4.,. iM ii, is tile number of ves ft.u!! t' nearly loo. A French banpie totally lost otf Wale four lives were lost loicign. numbered seven tw lost.

A Russian steamer foundered a British i American steamer, on which three perished -an toast; also a British steamer, a British brig steamer ami an were off American "ciman steamer, last three were by collision. A Russian ship was condemned, and one eapsi.ed. Six British- wwl tonnage oi ii, anil two ditto sailing ships tflM tons. Four of the steamers and one sailer were built the 90 two in the so and one sailer All are stated to be missing. Twenty-nine British and forei go steamers were among the collisions, 17 being off the British Seriocs Accident to a Cyclist.

Count P.aul Ghika, a Roumanian gentleman ou a visit to London who has for some time past been staving with friends at Lowndes-sijuare, was riding a bicycle around Hyde-park shortly alter nine o'clock yesterday morning, when a private hansom cab, coming in the opposite direction, drove into the machino and knocked tho Count into the roadway. The driver of the cab at ones whipiied up his horse and made off. 3r. Maurice Straisund, of Wy cliff rod, who was drivin a dog cart, passed at the time, and took the injured gentleman to tho house of a surgeou near by. where it was found that the Count had sustained a broken arm and very serious injuries to the head.

Having been surgically attended to, the Count was driven by Mr. JStrulsund to tiie residence of las friends. was nothing exceptional in this, as ladies frequently hail luncheon there. They preferred the bar-parlour sometimes iu hh tuuee-roum, wnicn was upstairs aim a very large room. Views of Customers.

Mr. Henry Baihell, a solicitor residing in the district, deposed that he hail known the house since 1881. It used to be an ordinary village pot-house, hut was now au hotel. Many of his relations had often stayed in the hotel, and he had seen ladies taking tea in the bar-parlour. He had been a member of the Cyclists' Touring Club ever since it started, had been on the Council, and had acted as solicitor for it on one or two occasions.

He wrote a pretty hot letter to the Secretary about this prosecution, which, ha thought, was utterly perverting the tunds of the Club. Mr. W. H. Berry, architect and surveyor, living at Surbiton, said that he knew the Hautboy as a well-cou-ducted house, in which civility was always shown tj customers.

The bar-parlour was a very nice and pretty room, to which no objection could be taken. Mr. W. Shawcross having given similar evidence, Lord Coleridge addressed the Jury. The Summing-up.

The Chairman, in summing-up, said there were two points for the Jury to consider. Firstly, was there a refusal to supply refreshments, and, secondly, if so, was there sufficient cause? The question of the wearing of a rational dress had nothing to do with the issue, and the public would not submit to an innkeeper dictating whatdress customers should wear. It was incumbent on an innkeeper to supply refreshment in a lit and reasonable place. The Jury would consider whether the bar-parlour was a fit and reasonable place. Of course, guests cuiild not choose their own rooms, but it was only right that the room offered to them should be fit to go into.

THE VERDICT. The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty, and Mrs. Sprague was discharged. The result was received with applause. COUNTY OF LONDON SESSIONS.

CLERKE WELL -Wk nf.s day. (Before Mr. Q.C., Chairman.) Burglary. Georie Oram, US, labourer, pleaded guilty to committing a burglary at the Beehive public-house, Eden-grove, Holloway, an.l to attempting to enter the residence of Robert Evans, a clerk, at Xo. 42 in the same thoroughfare.

The learned Chairman sentenced him to 18 months' hard labour. Oram Better give me penal servitude. I've got nothing to do when I come out but thieving. Cruel Frauds. Percival Rohrrlson, .33, druggist, pleaded guilty to having obtained two sums of" each by means of false and fraudulent pretences.

Mr. H. 0. I Biron, instructed by Mr. W.

Lewis, of the Treasury, pro-I secuted. The offences were committed, one in December, 18H6, and the other in February this year. It appeared I that after scanning the columns of the daily papers Robertson answered the advertisements inserted by people dedrous of obtaining employment. He sugg sted that he was in a position to give them employment, but saidic was I necessary for the advertisers to prove that they w-re I responsible people by forwarding the sum of 1 as a gua-' rantee of good taith and to avoid his getting anyone unscru-! pulous." Twopersons who were in good service actually leftto i come to London aud take charge of places which Robertson suid he could provide for them. Detective-sergeant Hail stone, ot said there were twenty-tour complaints against Robertson from different parts of London.

The addresses he used were letter-receiving shops. He had been iu hunest employment, but at intervals had carried on these frauds. A sentence of six months' hard labour was passed. Acquittals. Henry Bowden, 40, dealer, and Dennis Donoykite, 30, porter, were acquitted by the Jury of an alleged attempt to rob a journalist, named V.

J. Gallagher, of Forest-gate, in a passage in the Strand at midnight, on March 26. Tkoinas Wtdd, 22, hawker, was found not guilty of assaulting Thomas Brown in St. Martin's-lane and Ckarlcs Newman, 24, printer, of an alleged robbery in a puMic-houae in Charlotte-street. (Before Judge Addison.) Acquittal.

Thomas Cl'trij, 2S, porter, was acquitted of stealing a watch from Xooia Khan, a Hindoo pedlar, in Piccadilly. CHARGE OF FORGERY. At the Mansion House Police Court yesterday Henry Hendry, aged 30, clerk, of 18, School-road, Manor-park, and his wife, Maria Eliza Hendry, aued were charged, ou remand, before Alderman Bell, with forging and uttering certain transfers of shares in the Luipaards Vlei Estate Gold Mining Company (Limited). Mr. S.

Myers, solicitor, defended the female Prisoner. Mr. Abrahams, who prosecuted, said that the male Prisoner had been a clerk in the employ of the Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa (Limited), of 8, Old Jewry. In the course of his duties he had to register transfers ami exchange certificates made out for other certificates. In the year 1896 a Company called the Luipaards Vlei Estate Gold Mining Company (Limited) was reconstructed, and tho shareholders in the old Company were entitled to exchange their shares for shares in the new Compauy.

Two years elapsed, and the male Prisoner, noticing that some of the certificates had not been taken up, seemed to have appropriated three or four of theru. He forged the transfers of shares comprised in two certificates in favour of Jane Young a name adopted for the purpose of covering the identity ot his wife. Four hundred and twenty-six shares; were transferred into the name of Jane Young. The female Prisoner subsequently sold in that name the shares through the medium of two firms of stockbrokers, but the husband took the proceeds of the sale. The wife seemed to have acted under her husband's coercion.

The male Prisoner lutimated to the Alderman that he desired to exonerate his wife from blame, ami to take the whole responsibility on himself for what had been doue. Mr. Abrahams, on this, offered no further evidence against the female Prisoner, and she was discharged. The male Prisoner was again remanded. OUTSIDE BROKERS COMMITTED.

At the Mansion House Police Court yesterday Cecil Harrison, aged 32, and George Plummer, aged 48, who have lately carried on business in the City as outside stockbrokers, underwent a final examination before Alderman Green on the charge of conspiring to obtain, and obtaining, 105 from Mrs. of Godolphin-road, Shep-herd's-bush, and 18 15s. from Miss Mary Annie Arix, of Southwark- bridge road, by false pretences, with intent to defraud. Mr. R.

D. Muir, barrister, prosecuted Mr. A Hutton, barrister, and Mr. Beard, solicitor, defended. The allegations were that the Prisoners sent circulars to shareholders of Jubal Webb (Limited) offering them shares at advantageous prices.

The two Complainants accepted the offer and sent money, but tailed to receive any certificates of registration or proot of ownership. The Prisoners were committed for trial, bail being allowed. NEIGHBOURS' GRIEVANCES. At the Marylebone Police Court yesterday a woman applied to Mr. Plowden for advice respecting her next-door neighbours, who.

she said, made night hideous with their noise, and prevented her and her household from sleeping by reason of their shouts and screams of Murder and continuous banging at the doors and walls. Mr. Plowden I must ask the familiar question. Who is your neigbbuur The Applicant They are private people husband and wife. Mr.

Plowden And they have little differences The Applicant Well, they commence early every night, and go on till five anl sometimes eight and nine o'clock in the morning. Mr. Plowden When do they sleep? (Laughter.) The Applicant: The husband told me once that his wife was always attacking him with fireirons, and to protect himself he locked himself in a room, and she banged at the door until he opened it. Mr. Piowdea It cannot last much longer.

The Applicant But it has gone on eight months. Mr. Plowden Console yourself, then, that you are getting nearer and nearer the day of perfect peace. (Laughter.) One or the other must expire at this rate. I cannot help husbands and wives quarrelling.

It is their nature to, very often. The Applicant Well, cannot I make a claim against them I have lost six lodgers through them. Mr. Plowden You may try to recover in the County Court, but I would not advise you to. You will find it a very promiscuous form of action.

The Applicant It might quiet them. Mr. Plowden Probably it would make them worse. I have given you the best consolation I can. It won't last at this rate.

One or other must expire. There is your hope. The Applicant then withdrew evidently dissatisfied. LAW NOTICES FOR THIS DAY. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.

Queen's Bench Division'. Bankruptcy. At Bankruptcy, buildings, Carey-street, Lincaln's-inn. In Chambers. Room w.

Before Mr. Registrar LlNKLATER. Two petitions at 11, three petitions at ll.J, four petitions at 11, and three petitions at 2. Meetings of Creditors. At Bankruptcy-buildings, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inD.

Before the official Receivers First meetings. W. H. Fox. at 11 II.

Bradshaw, at 12. Companies At Bankruptcy-buildings In Chambers. Room 69. At II. Claremont Cycle Manufacturiii" Compauy (Limited At Hi.

Wigton Farmers' Auction Company (Limited). At 11. English Exploration Company (Limited). In Room 86. At 12.

Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company (Limited). In Room 12. National Cycle and Motor Car Insurance Company (Limited). At 33, Carey-street Before the Official RECEIVERS. At 11.

Westralia Industries (Limited) (first meeting of creditors). At 11. Westralia Iurtus-tries (Limited) (first meeting oi contributories). At 3. Kin" Universal Supply Company (Limited) (adjourned first meeting of contributories) Maison Louis Pinet (Limited) (adjourned appointment to settle list of contributories).

Chancery Division At Bankruptcy-buildings. In Chambers. Room At 12 Uiitiali Type Foundry (Limited) (Alexander v. British Type Foundry, Limited). Metropolitan court.

City of London. Cosszx of London sessions. Clerkenwell Criminal trials. Constable Killed. Police-constahle Charlton, of Harwell, Berks, has died from injuries received in an affray on Monday night in that village.

He and another officer had ejected two hawkers, named Joseph Slatter and William Smith, from a public-house, when the men attacked them, and inflicted severe injuries on both. Charlton, who was kicked while on the ground, was injured internally. Slatter has been arrested, but Smith has absconded. 7,570 834 per cent. The Stock Markets to-day have been quiet, there being no inclination to resume speculative business.

As a consequence the tone has been jii a ,1 1 dull and the changes on the day were mostly in the unfavourable direction. vimjuia wtsre steauy per Cents, receded i. India Stocks were unchanged. and Rupee Paper gained per cent. Colonial Government Securities continued to move steadily upwards, a very fair ameunr of investment buying having been in progress, and several advances of to 1 per cent, were recorded on the day.

I he roreign Market was quite stagnant in the arly hours, but towards the close a little Con aiuiiie uuii, inuugu, wjiii me excupiion 01 i 01- tuguese 3 per Cents, which lost I and left off At after being down to changes were unimportant. Russian 4 per Cents, and' Spanish 1 1 per Cents, lost i and per cent, respective r- while Lgyptian State Domain was strong with a rise of and German 3 per Genes, improved j. iurKisli Oroup iionds were rather irregular, the Series showing a gain of while the and were lie same amount weaker. Among South American Loans Brazilians were unchanged, and Argentines only showed an advance of i in the North Central Railway, and a fall of in the (Ytiulas. I'ruguays, Peruvians, and Mexicans were steady, and Chinese, after showing temporary dulness, rallied and closed unaltered.

Home Railway tralhcs, though not coming up to expectations in some quarters, were better than those published yesterday, but lack of business had a (It iiiessinLf effect, and the market closed weak. 7 1 A- jre.it Northern Deferred Ordinary monopolised the greater part of the bidding, and closed with a pain of while Caledonian Ordinary improved but Hull and Barnsley was flat and 1 lower, and Great Kastern receded Districts were weak, owing to the absence of any confirmation of yesterday mniours, and left off with a loss of and other were I to flatter. Isle of Wight Deferred was bid for at 85, and closed with an advance of 2. American Railways opened below last nights eloMUii.but a shade above New York parity.and re- practically unchanged until New York open- Ini'. when quotations rallied owing to a demand for X-4ll oki 4L.

i i 1 .1 close, though irregukr, was generally at the best puiiiisoi tne any. lieartings rose to untanos Knes to, and Wabash Preference but New 1 oik Central fell I'nion Pacific to and most of the others I to 4 of a dollar. Qold Bonds were in some demand, and in places. Grand Trunk of Canada Stocks came in for a considerable amount ta support, having resard to the generally small business doing, and closed i per cent, higher for the Guaranteed, and to 1 for the Preferences, the Preference being in special favour and closing at 84S. Canadian Pacific Shares, after a good opening, were finally weak with ft of 1 of a dollar.

i South American Railway traffics were generally favourable; but business was quiet, and only a few movements were recorded at the close. Argentine Great Western Ordinary was a feature of closing with an advance of 3, and Buenos Ayres Great and Buenos Ayres and Kosano were 4 higher, while Cordoba Central Income Debenture fell and Buenos Ayres and Pacific 1st Preference 1 per cent. Central Argentine Ordinary was well dealt in, but bowed no alteration, Nitrate Ordinary aud San laulo New were dull and receded per share. Mexican Railway Stocks were flat owing to a disappointing traffic return, and receded I to 1 per cent. In the Miscellaneous Market London and Bra-Klian Bank and London Joint-Stock were A trer.

Allsopp Preferred Ordinary was steady Parker Burslem rose per share, and Benskin's "atford Preference while Dartford and New England Ordinary were both easier. Commercial and Industrial Shares were quiet, and nhnwed no important movement at the close. John Moir. Spratt's Patent, and De Kevsers Roval Hoiel Preference rose 4. Bucknall OnlinQ 1 Uussiao Petroleum while Liptons lost'l-16.

1 he only movements in Trust were rises of 3 ill Industrial and General Lnified and United States and South American Preferred. Gas Stocks nd MetropoHtan Sply re I per share. Anglo-American Telerrraphs eiv steady. Chelsea aterworks Ordinary Stock ler-eded 2 points South African Gold Shares, in the absence of cn, i' 1 i Bupport, the dealings being of only a moderate character, experienced a pretty general set-back, but us a rule of only 1-32 to 3-16. Ferreira, Johaiineabar Pioneer, Modderfontein, aa 1 fin! 5 On rl.

f. i.auciiS4fi miuiuiw West Australian Gold Shares were f.iirly good at the onptiirxr nrl 1 44.4. wei hoiud i.i'.jjui C4HVQ44 4.4. -ere at the last mostly 1-16 to 3-16 and for Lake lew Consols -Hi lower. Golden Horse Shoe, on MVSOrCS were 1 14.

1 -i-iii niwiier, Copper Shares RlO Tinto on a little w. re 1 profit lakinsj receded 3-16, and Anaconda -16 wetter, but Coniano torp 1 -16 Enuush Fcnds. Console ner Cents were unchanged at 11 fi iSST fyStjSTS P.r-tish American Land A. inri fVhZ i' xnusn Amencan a ana Shares and Canada Ordinary were nominally 1 higher, and Hudson Bav were dealt but closed iinrbnn.roJ ana a lew others l-lo to t. ajuiju, de.scriptions Exploration gained while most others declined 1-1(5 to 1 Chartered were 3-32 ukf.

De Beers Diamond, on sales said to be on rans account, were 11-16 down, but JSew Jagersfontein were 1 -lri stroncrer. the other hand, were Great Boulder Persever- ance 3-1C, and a few others 1-16 to harder. In maiati Gola Chamuion Reef and 1 I To-day. Previous. 101.70 101.75 103.25 103.40 101.90 101.95 103.6(1 103.70 94.55 94.60 4P.70 4G.70 26.72?.....

26.624 22.70 22.45 60.60 60.82i 247.00 251. 93.80 93.80 26.80 27.10 101.30 C2.60 G2.70 474.00 227.00 3,795.00 3,735.00 4,040.00 4,022.00 1,027.00 1,033.00 755.00 75tf.O0 897.00 896.00 565.00 56ti.00 119.00 119.50 280.00 284.00 22 p.c 23 p.c. 25.21.... 25.21 March 21 6,735 New York. Ontario.and Wes- tern.

March 28 136.347 110,102 Wabash, March 14 284,232 256,372 Mexican National, fourth 26,245 27, SCO week in March 193,378 160,222 331,156 Southern Punjaub, March 25Rs.24,16S Rs.20,348 Rs.3,820 Bengal Central. March 11 19,169 19,487 East Indian. April 1 12,18,000 13,23,000 Delhi Cm bulla Ealka. R3.3I8 1,05.000 2,800 April 1 34,900 Bengal and North-Western, March 4 149,720 Rohilkund and Kumaon, March 4 10,894 Nizam's State, Jan. 1 to March 11 7,91,742 37,700 137,181 9,547 7,83,397 12,582 1,347 8,345 anu nueiva (Spain), month of March Ps.l25,899Ps.l42,619 Ps.16,720 Ms.41,964 icui4iu raiua.

inonin OI Jan. Ms.91,595Ms. 133,559 Tramways and OMNiana Croydon, April 1 London General Omnibus, April 1 London Road Car, April 1 North Metropolitan, April 1 Sunderland, March 31 Swansea, March 31 Anglo-Argentine, March 6.. Barcelona, April 1 Carthagena and Herreriaa Steam, month of March Sociedad Tranviade Barcelona, Ensanche Gracia, April 1 Telegraph. West India and Panama, half month ended March 31 326 319 7 21,412 19.303 2,109 6,712 6,118 594 14,478 12,320 2,158 219 23 253 21 5,529 4,473 1,056 1,186 1.045 141 5,355 5,221 134 231 221 10 2.333 2,309 24 were 10c.

harder, but Italian relapsed 35c, the Greek I Gt.Boulder2, Sh.26-9 27,3. o-' 3 n.i,i 9n At n9m. Gt. Bould. June.

46 50. SSde Oipfc SfcSei? rifi t.q hut Italian 25 ISSSsSE 3 per Cent. Perpetual Rente, money 3.V per Cent. Rente, money 3 per Tent. Perpetual P.ente, account 3-i per uent.

Rente, account 4" per Cent. Italians, account 4 per Egyptian Unified, acco Turkish. Croup II Turkish, Croup III Turkish, Croup IV. 4 per Cent. Spanish Exterior per Cent.

Cuban Bonds, 1S90 3 per Cent. Russian. 189C 3 per Cent. Portuguese 4 per Cent. Hungarian Gold Rente.

4 per Cent. Brazilian, ltssi per Cent. Argentine, 1SS6 5 per Cent. Creek, ls84 Suez anal Shares Banque de France Banque de Paris Shares Credit Foucier Shares Credit Lyonnais Shares Ottoman Bank Shares Turkish Lottery Obligations Turkish Tobacco Shares Private Discount Cheque on London Continental Bourses. At Berlin Italians were and Spanish 5c.

firmer, but Prussian 34 per Cent. Consols fell 15c. Portuguese 20c, the Argentine Gold Loan 30c, and Mexican of 1S88 10c. At Vienna Hungarian Crown Rente were 15c, and Austrian Silver and Paper 5a te 10c. lower.

At Frankfort Portuguese and Mexican was 50c. flatter. At Amsterdam Russian of 1889 and Brazilian of 1889 were i per cent, better, but Portuguese lost Per ceut; 25.27 to 25.31 Hamburg, sight, 20.42; Frankfort, 20.41 Berlin (short), 20.404 Vienna, 120.50 Madrid. 29.23; Lisbon, 35 15-16 ConataotinopJe, 109.25 Rome, 27-21 SL reteralur 93.i0 Valparaiso. 14 7-32 liio de Janeiro, lork, 4.81i Cable Transfers, 4.8(.

sAppiications have been made to the Stock Exchange Committee (1) to appoint a special settling day in and to grant a quotation to Day and Martin, 152,000 shares of 1 eacb, fully paid Stafford Northcote and 16,000 5 per Cent. Cumulative Preference Shares of 5 each; Star company, per Cent. Cumulative Pre- tHenoe Shuns iif IS mi (2) To appoint a special set- fully paid. Nob. 1 to Smelting 350,000 Vendors; 1 Shares, fully paid.

Xos. Corporation, 8 to hi 4.1 YsuV (3) t0 aIi0W the following Securities to be quoted in the Company, Temiscouata nrHfimfc r.r tw; mio l-, 1 oi HWV, anu iu ui com, iui as I rbentHre Bonds. The Stock Exchange (W mjttee have ordered the undermentioned Security to be oted in the Official List Crisp and further 'issue of 40,000 Ordinary Shares of 1 each, fully paid, I'os. 60,001 I to 100.000. tunj; day in A.

Gamage, 25,000 5 per Cent. tive Preference Shares of 1 each, fufly paid, Noa 25,001 to lioksbure Gold Mines, 525,000 Vendors' 1 mMWMEm fully paid. Nos. 1 to 50,000 Robert Reid and 200,000 54 per Cnt. Cumulative Preference Shares of 1 eacb.

1 ine aecrease in tne and mstnot traffics noticed yesterday was due to Good Friday being included in the week. Gifts to Leeds Corporation. At a meeting of the Leeds City Council yesterday afternoon Colonel Harding, the Lord Mayor, announced that Sir James Kitson, in remembrance of his having been the first Lord Major of Leeds in 1896-97, had presented to the Council au elaborate silver loving cup and two punch bowls. Metropolitan Pauperism. The census of Metropolitan paupers (exclusive of lunatics in Asylums and vagrants) shows the following totals Fourth week of March.

1899, indoor, outdoor, total, 106.114. Fourth week of March, 1898, indoor, 67.278; outdoor, 37,337 total, 104.615. Fourth week of March, 1897, indoor, outdoor, 37,458 total, 103,118. Fourth week of March, 1896, indoor, 65,877 outdoor, 38,393 total. 104,270.

The vagrants relieved in the Metropolis on the last day of the fourth week of March, 1899, were Men, 849" women, 207 children under 16, 9 total, 1,065. The number of patients in the Fever and Small-pox Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum District on the last dar of the week was returned as 3,736 in 1899, 3,597 in 1S98, 3,510 iu 1897, and 3.423 in 1896. Messrs. W. B.

Cochrane and of 13 and 14, Cornhill, London, E.C., have issued a little work proving the most successful mode of dealing in Stocks and Shares, which can be Obtained gratis and post tree upon application. lAlYT.i Official List Temiscouata Railway Railway Bondholders-Committee.