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-- -- SS ee 7 ---- PEEL -- ----~--_ -- _ yril, riea of ned wk. main iba, ally ther ure ------ "The Week's Commercial Summary. | | The earningsof the Grand Trunk Raill- way forthe first week of April were . $350,408, an increase of $9,396. ! Stocks of wheat at Port Arthur--and | -Fort William are 3,269,000~bushels 'as | compared with 8,430,000 bushels a year | ago. The stock of wheat of Toronto js 155,- 000 bushels as compared with £172,000 | _ bushels a week ago and 29,000 bushels a | | year ago. i' Packers of hides at Chicagoshow sme | anxiety to sell, and the tendency is to- ward lower prices. but there is scarcely | any change in quotations. Canadian Pacific earnings continues to | improve, the increase for the first week of April being £48,000 over the corres- ponding week of last year. The United States government report ; on the condition of winter wheat sug- | gests a crop of about 306,000,000 bushels, | j, whereas the amount harvested Inst year | was 268,000,000 bushels, The leading wheat markets are more | ¢ active and stronger. European complica- tions had the effect of stimulating the | demand. After the great decline the be- | ginning of the year, » good rally would | Surprise but few. , As to the European crop outlook, win- ter wheat condition in Great Britain, | : France and Holland is reported below the : ' | t t i I c 1 c ° l t ' average because of excessive rains, Field | work in Western Europe has been so de- | layed by rains that the spring wheat area will be greatly cut down, the shortago in France alone being 750,000 acres. | There was a decrease of 906,000 bushels in the visible supply of wheat in the United' States and Canada last week. The total is $7,706,000 bushels as against $9,830,000 bushels # year ago. The | amount afloat to Europe decreased §80,- | , OU0 bushels last week, and the total ia | now 18,160,000 bushels as compared | with 20,960,000 bushels a year ago. The World's shipment of wheat last week Were 3,733,000 bushels as against 4,446, "O00 bushels the corresponding week of last year. -- ial a oo os Me oo q t t c I Hera and Thara. i?