THE DAILY EXAMINER

PREMIER'S TAXATION SPEECH

Taxation to be Imposed Forth- with.

NCLUDED j : w u ed ved LandOm : f ' AX | 7. I . i | ‘ ‘ a at I aie i ay mic D a « P a R } ~ ‘ta or a I . . oO : eX] a , } : $1 20,00 + oo ‘> ‘ ‘ te j v M i ; ‘ e al B m ‘ cmmemumi : : | pe Mi i : j «la $700 1 “ee ;

4 Sit } Dhere 1 practical es i Libera | Now ’ foes 2 expenditur of 8200,600

ane tha side of the Ut ana t taxal Wiestion, W : to spend publ ra In tl ' f ti ‘ | ea ai | r ‘ A : I L crt . “ ss 2 » ti I peat if, I st . ure art put works of i Hea ar and > x { off “9] ‘ y f ‘ to make per \ 4 “¢ f “sar ’ rks predeces ‘ : st g i state } These w k=.wl h a few dollars i ' ’ Kept £ nd 1 r im i ait wrecks | ~ vas scar ’ P i I ir t? t : : Ava 892 and S95 «we reoded r - ev + 4 2° Ww ve a SO4 I t pat ! Uris wet € ere this r,and I k almost toa dwul- : a ba t epend e work These outlay wi metmt r work that th ate ~Govrernn ght have dene during their 12 or 1 vet Hear ar We to t i f + pen wi saw ? ext ami a gs whe as © + net ‘ right ’ ' ver was 1 it . 8 openly e pe it we w i gv, ame ' the hiet eta at ' | ‘ | B g ir 6expenditure was heavy last yea nd will Le large this year, | think for the ext year and for several years thereatter tere w ¢ ry few heavy works requ ot And why ? Beeause the hberal purty var years have succeeded in making the arrears the late Government created In this matter | speak from positive know ledve, and I tell you that the great bulk of the heavy work, that this government ha- had to undertake, will be comp'eted at the ; rf i t tp are t t two, three or four vea Simm py : seary r the k | h repai pa! works that we have rebn I know my enemies wil! eny

Tam not goi gwn ert LOS seertiait tian aceon lie ay THe EXAMINER man says I have simply came up here with a pil and salve which the people will take dow and think a right (Lang ‘ Anil am telling you a pleasant etory merely t your sare, and at which I angh when I go home? I want yon inderatand, genticmea, tha I wl? telhug you the truth ] vear we Ww epend $500,000, but th 6 few Tears ou! expenditure, as I have alreu!y said, will be considerably reduced Take your own listrict, take the East River from Mount Stewart to Charlotte- town, and usk yourselfthis question: How

cn

y will be required to keep the we found

mOn

wharves, which in ruin, in re

pair for the next three or four vears? You | find them in good order and affording iple abipping facilities Bat do not magine that this work has been limited

to this district has been done fron East Poin » W Cape. This policy may have been wrong, but I will do the ean tt ng again, for I veleve t wuat e peop want (Cheer) Of course, 2 6Ubridges and wharves wii lecay, aniatthe end of a number of y ar’, a

ghtiy ed expend re \ |

i. But { hope the tin

~ . yt ‘ . (i er

mentin tht Island required, i Thre years, to make up the

arrears that should have been done i: ee! Ne Ww, I have tried to point out that there is an absolute necessity fora tax. hat you will ask me if » mething cannot he done to cut down the « Apebses orttside if r pebin r&*, (hear, hear,) outside our educational svatem, so aa tomake our tux a# it should be put on, as light az por- Tha a reasonable and right ques- I have already pract cally illustrated

the policy of my

to cut down

von that Government

58 ai! unnecessary expenses I have shown v have made in the cost

1 have pointed cut to

reduction of legislation alone you, when

ou the large we

running

the last elec tion, the large amount we have

saved by judiciows and wise legislation with rezatl to our administration of justice We have practically illustrated that we are working inthe direction the people want us to work in. ButIam not done.

Mr. Chairman; I feel there are some seri 8 Caves that require serious remedies. | Some €3 aman spends more money | than he receives, anlin order to put him- j fi nuet resort to measures he

wiee resortto. Although

i dows inthe past, we do not

nd te et p there We recognize the

‘ct that we have not an overflowing trea-

“a l pence we are not able to pay

every mat

ta? much as we onvht to pay for

the service he gives the State. In my position ae Premier, for instance, which is by nO means 'ca*y One, a9 it requ ree ime. care ami attention, althongh aware that the people of this Provir A Hee iO pay the Premier wel], | recognize the fact that sometimes you must ent urcoat according to your cloth. | will Legin then at my own salary. (Hear hea”, applause) If you are going to be taxed, gentlemen, the man who will he taxed more than any other man in P. E lsland ie the man yon voted for. (Hear, | hear.) I intend, therefore, to cut down *alaries us far as | possibly can. But |!

whilst making that statement, I do not propose to reduce to starvation wages the men who du good work for the government. Let my own salary be re luced, the salaries of ie heads of de partments must also he - uced. Our party has agreed on the | p a that @ general reduction shall be me €, bet the Government and the Execu- = = * €xercite a discretion as to whether ! > any rtie D 5 “ion ehould be hw oe oo 7 Mea , L ave a a man, we intend to pay him; we met reduce bi : © bis salary. Ye we find $700 or

& man is reveiving $600, for that

and not giving good yalne

\—-

amen —_—— -— ~~. —_— ne

leut him down; but I will not re-! all around would be unfair; that the poor

we w luce th un who actually does valuable | maa will pay aa much aa the rich men, work, that | know we could not get done | and there is eomething in that argument. vy a man ealling for less salary. In the! Bat there is a way of getting out of that House of Assembly we will cut down the | difficulty. We have in the hands of the ry case found practic: |} Government a valuation ef every farm in . Ourspeaker and our sergeant-at-arms | P. E. Island, and it is @ valuation not put educed to what we consider a fair j on by men sent around by the Govern- o rat for what they do. I believe | ment, but by the different school districts, «right, and it will help us to make | by the people themselves fer the purpose et. I now come to another | of raising the small sum of money required atter. You have nodoubt heard | by them for running the schools. I do we intend attacking our educational | not propose to take that valuation all ay st vnd cutting off at one fell swoop’ through, but it would be quite possible ail the pplements given to teachers.!to use these valuations as a basis to That is avery important question. T will | classify the farms. Suppose we go over

yn on thie now, but

that in view of the fact

t atate mv own opin

I can sey plainiv,

that the supplements granted have been lecreasing year by year uutil this year they have reached the lowest point they

were ever at [am forced to the concla-

n that supplements are not as popular us they used to b But this matter I will : ype f r discussion We ay rests of education at heart as us a re this country, and I

schoo! teachers of this

vite the

[sland and every Giher person interested inicate with me, giv-

r views and reasons for being

for or against the taking away of the eup | ts These ommunications, it 1s ess for me to say, will be looked upon strictly private 1 have Jately received

I tlerent parts of the country anony

is letters On the matter, and I put them

waste paper basket; but genuine,

siy OmMmMmMmubica nh receive my srefu attention und | heartily solicit exe. But this question of supplements

- tas important to the coufitry as to vns. Out of a total of $8,000, £2,500 is spent in Charlottetown aione, and =sin his district only a few hundred is spent altogether. [I am bound to any particular

line in this matter. I have lietened to

some of the arguments for and against interest, and J] will continue to do eo. But vou muet remember, until a matter of that kind is brought up and the Govern- t make up their minds to take away

is what we call in tentia” wntil the the Governor Now, Mr. Chairmar he reductions { can, there i# still a considerable amount f ney to be made up by the Province. What that amount is every year will depend Ipo the receipts of the Land Office in the iret in tance. I do not desire to spend the whole of the receipts of that department in simply running the adairs of this country. My own individual opinion ie that oer- portion of the Land Office receipts should be-wsed- towards paying off the amount we owe the banks, and we do owe the banks. We cannot carry ou ernment year after year without wing them something, and some amount should be put by forthat. This year we have extraordinary expenditures. We ire, for exampte, building a steamer, and “t pay for that. It is not # fair charge against thia yearalone. Now, we come to

with

he supplements, Latin a “loc is pen Act is signed by

, atier mak ng all

there

tain

vy to

tue Groy

e question that touches the pockets of

every man in P. E. Island, how are we going to raise the money we require? Remember befure what I am going to —pro

pore is crystallized into a statute there may be some alterations made. First re- collect that although this year we will spend something like $300,000, for the ext 2or3 vears we will get on with $250,000 or $270,000, for we will have

lone the bulk of

ntend to save a

the work; and we also considerable amount of money by the general introduction of road machines which are now on their way to the Island We propose giving every electoral district of these machines (cheers) and in future miles of road will be properly and rapidly turnpiked

The Davies tax imposed some years ago, whether

me

rightly or wrongly, was not popuiar, and nothing that Mr. Davies could say or do would salve the pill

well enough fur the people to ewallow

it. Indignation arose on all sides. | believe if the Government had stuck to that tax the country would have

been better off, bat they did not stick to it. There were however some objections to it,

-objections which true Liberals at the present day recognize to be objections, and which [ believe Mr. Davies would—nimself

Lhave removed. _Line—sieat troubie to my

mind Was the taxing of thrift. Ifa man whitewashed his buildings or painted his ences he was taxed for making his place vok better (hear hear). This objection

may have been fanciful, but it took strong hold of the people of the country. What lo we find the people Ww ho have made a study of the question of - taxa- tion say now. They say it is a wrong principle to tax thrift and industry

hear, hear and applause). I: is wrong,

yventlemen, to tax a man because he is more industrious or careful than his neighbor. Smith and Brawn

mav have good farms of eqnal value; but f Smith chooses to get on the spree and let his farm run out, while Brown is care- ful and industrieus and unproves his pro- erty, if # @ wrong principle fur the tax- gatherer to go around and say, Smith, you have a miserable farm, we will only tax vou $1.00, while he says to Brown, you have @ lovely property, and will tax you $10. That was the principle in the Davies Act which the people objected to, and the more advanced of the thoughtful at the present day will admit that there was a great deal of force in the objection The proper system of taxation is that under no

rcumstances should you tax thrift and nlustry. (Hear, hear.) The Davies Act was also unpopular in another way, and hat was the mode of collecting and the ex- pense of collection. The tax-gatherers i the then administration. There was objection raised that point.

PREMIER'S PLAN OF TAXATION.

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on

THE

Now, in looking back into our history I find there was some years ago an old tax called the land tax. Everyone id FO much on every acre of land he iolkaul he went to some one in the township or tothe Provincial Secretary, and paid, and I have yet to learn that at any election on P, E. island any serious objection was ever rais- el to that tax,and it gave a considerable amount of revenue. The man who formu- lated thet statute inadvertently struck on the true Meaof taxation—the improved land was to be taxed no more than the un- improved. Vhatis my idea of it. We propose to send the Assessor to po man’s We intend to let you make your farms as valuablews you can, and your houses as pretty at you like. We will not look at them at alf in the qrestion of taxation (Loud Applause). We propo tu revett to a syatem some

house,

| thing like this old land tax, and J propo e

to slow vou how we can do it.

It can be

| lone so easily that everyone will say,

“My goodness me, it is a wonder they did not think of this before.” ( Laughter.) In the first place, under tlre old land tax, the Government put on 6%. 84. for each

| 100 acres, and out of that raised $14,000 a

year. Bat since that time there are many more people whom you can tax. They ised to tax barren land in thore days, and

of course some of it did not pay up; they

sold it and no one bought it, and they got notax. But now there is not so much] harren land. We therefore propose to put

| a tax of say 2ic. of 3:. an secre; and [ do not think any man will grumble at having to pay 2jc. an aire. Ii will in no instance amount

te a large sum on any one man. At the outside, the tax would not be more than 3c. This would give us three tim« 8 $14,- (00 now, and more, because there ia more land and more people totax. No assessor or valuator would go around, since there would be in every township a man to whom you could pay your tax, and if you pay before a certain date you would geta

| discount; and instead of the collector get-

ung & percentage, as was the case in the old days, it would be left in your own pockets. This system of giving a dis- count to persons paying by a given date is now in ferce in Charlottetown and works very well, We pay in Charlottetown about $56,000 every year in direct taxes. You may argue perhaps that 3 cente

ornate aie pecan

the school valuations and divide the farms into say three classes: lat class, all farms valued at $500 and under, according to school valuation; the second valued at $1,000, and the third at $2,000. The thing is very simple. Say you tax No. 1, name- ly the $500 farm, $1; No. 2, namely, the gl, 000, $2; and clase No. 3, namely the $2,000, $3. These figures are only by way of ex- ample. The great point] wish to enun- ciate here tonight is that the plan we

fave in view is a system based on the old land tax, eradicating com- pletely the idea that a man’s = im-

provements, his thrift should be taxed. (Hear, hear, and loud applause.) We thus propose to geta considerable sum of money. Again,! find that our statute labor, which is supposed to represent a great deal of work tothis country, really represents very little. For instance, in some districts, such as the Afton Road, in my own district, there are few settlers and there are not enough men to do the work, the distance between the houses being too great. On the other hand, in thickly settled districts, where the farmers are well off and the land “flowing with milk and honey,” they have too many men, and they have to hunt for a piece of road to do. Although they are supposed to do 80c. worth, they do not do so. There is thus an inequality, which is not right. In some places the statute labor is insuffi- cient and in others it is too much. Some

peeple think statute labor should be lone early in the spring and others later, but it depends entirely upon

Providence, and upon the spring weather Well, instead of this statute labor, I pro- (Hear, hear). And what will be the con- sequence ?

his. But if the latter wants to work, there is the road machine on which he can get his $1 or $1.25 a day, so that if he pays $1 out he will get perhaps $3 back. By properly working this, it will have the practical effect of doing away with a large

rave to grant yearly for the keeping up of our roads. That grant, outside of al! questions of bridges, ete., amounts to $20,000. That will be greatly reduced by the use of the road machine and the

poll tax, and the work will be better dove than it is now, and we wil! have satisfaction where now exists

dissatisfaction. The Liberal policy is, that it is better todo one chain of road well than todo a mile in @ slipshod manner. Now, these are two important policies and I think they can be carried out without doing any injustice to a single man in P. E. Island. Some one will eay it does not bear on the rich and poor equally. But, gentlemen, no scheme can be devised which will be absolutely fair to every per- son. Hear, hear). Providence has not e~ to any man or system perfection. Ve do not claim that the system propose! is by any means perfect, and are willing through the press, through correspondents, or in any other way to listen to any remoo- strance or any scheme, or plan,which any- one may propound that will rendar more perfect the scheme we have outlined. Now shall I stop there? You gentlemen may say: Oh, you eome from Charlottetown; you were born there and have property there, what will you do about yourself? Will you tax the farmers in the country and leave yourself alone ? That is a que= tion which will be asked from one—end_of the Province to the other. — ‘There is my friend, Mr. Prowse, here, who represents Chariottetown, and if you talk about tax- ing Charlettetown, his hair would stand on-end.- Charlottetown, as I have already said, pays for its own purposee $56,000 in direct taxation. But the farmer at Mount Stewart say, what difference does it make to us what amount people in town pay? You get the benefit of your own taxes, and wedo not. Now, what must be dune? Charlottetown must either be taxed or it must give some reasonable compromise to the country. (Applause.) It is a trouble- some matter to find out how they should be taxed, but the tax must be put on, or they must enter into a compromise. I do not want to send the tax-gatherer around

Charlottetown, but something must be done to equare the account be- tween the town and the country.

Gentlemen, you have trusted myzelf and government hitherto, and I know you will trust me to see that when an arrangement is arrived at, it will be fair to all concerned, that it will not be too advantageous to Charlottetown at the expense of the country. Again, Mr. Chairman, there are other matters that I intend to look inte ia order to make revenue and expenditure meet. The late government for the sake of popularity went into our public offices, our registry office, ani cut down the registration fee from 16 cents to 12 cents. Now, a man who registers his deed gets a direct benetit from the transaction, a personal benefit to himself, and the public get no benefit whatever. We propose to put the fees in the public offices up to such a figure, as to make them paying instead of losing transaction. It is not @ questions of @ tax, it is @ question of a man gettinga plain benefit, and for which he should con- tribute enough to pay the cost of regis- tration. Probably a man does not go to the Registry Office more than twice in hia life. I propoxe something elee. I find that we bave large banking houses here doing a considerable amount of business. It would not do to drive these banks out of the country or impair their usefulnese; but it is reasonable that a small license be put unon banka that do bnsiness jx thiscountry. (hear,) In touch- ing the banks the an.oints would be so small that the 6] areholdars would not know thatthe tax wason. There are also @ large number of insurance companies doing business in this Province. The agents of thése companies take thousands of do!lars out of the country. I therefure Say put on an insurance tax - a reasonable tax (bear) but not large enongh to drive them away. But these companies are now taxed by the towne, but a large proportion of their business is done in the country. From these sources we expect to get something to; help us along. ‘Further, ifa er goes around the country with a little pack or wagon he has to pay the Government $25 before he can do business at all,and if he does not pey that, the License Inspector fines him. ut-from Montreal, Toronto, St. John, 4 London and other cities come a large number of commercial travellers who come here year after year and sellas much in one d.y a6 the poor je Idler does in a year! These gentlemen from abroad pay nothing whatever for their privileges. I do not wish to drive them away from the cpuntry as the present state of trade seems to render them necessary, but I think they should be taxed as well as the ped- diere. It may be argued that we have not the right to tax them; well, if necessary, we can test that question and fight it out, and I think we may derive some revenue from this source, ow, gentlemen, I have said almost all I can say on this question. Ihave pointed out why we have to tax, and I have shown you generally the way we propose to do so. I now ask you if on are satiefied to leave the matter in the ands of the Government that you return- ed on the solemn pledge that we would keep up efficiently our educational system aud our public works? Are you willing, I say, to leavethis matter in their hands, and we will promise you geatlemen, that we will not doanything hurriedly, nor will we put on a tax for more money than we re- auire. My great object i« to make revenne

pose to put on a reasonable poll tax. |

The rich man will pay his } poll tax and the poor man will also pay |

vartof the sum of money which we now |

and expenditure just meet, But, gentle- men, is this all I have to say. IT might,as is done in other provinces say,we will keep clear of taxaticn and establish a municipal system. That was spoken of, I think sometime ago by my friend of the Guar- dian who very probably brought the mat- ter forward for discussion. I might say let every electoral distriet in P. E. Island be a municipality, and say here is your

municipality, tax yourselves. Keep up your bridges, roads, etc. We will give

you the power, now go ahead. But that would mean 4 cowardly evasion by us of the responsibilities of government, and be- sides the country is too small for municipal Governmeat (hear, hear.) It is not nec- ssary and would would simply mean taxa- tion for the people increased by the amount necessary to pay the cost of the municipal machine. We have too much machinery already, which I have been trying to cut down, and prepose reducing still further, I hope the time is not far distant when we can have a session of the legislature only once in two years. This I personally be- lieve to be right, but I admit there are some strong reasons against it. I have laid before you, Mr Chairman, the sad side of the stary, I have shown you the necessity that exists for taxation, and have propounded cur imperfect scheme for meeting that necessity. But gentlemen, this need for taxation will not lasi for ever.

Look at the signs of the times. "See the hand-writing on the wall. Observe Nova

Scotia and Ontario. Note that great con- vention held at Ottawa last summer,when 2,500 persons from a!l over Canada met to form « Liberal policy which will earry the party into victory. (Cheers). What do you think a victory of the Liberal party in Canada would mean to us ? It means that this province which for years has been de- nied fuirplay would receive it. Not many years ago all the great leaders of the Liber- al party met together at the Quebec con- ference. You all remember how they

would give to this Province a largely ir. creased subsidy. Your are aware that we send from this Island one of the foremo:t Liberal politicians of Canada. (Great Cheering). And when the great change comes, instead of Prince Edward Island | being a little unrepresented province,it wil! | have as its champion a man who will fill a place second only to that of the Premier '

of Canada. (Applause.) We will then receive justice. Questions such as our winter communication and claims of dif- ferent natures which have been shelved | time and again, will be pressed by the

| man who is always ready to thrust and |

thrust home. Although we may not get everything, we will get a measure of jus- tice which up to the present has teen den- ied us. I trust that time may soon come, when all questionsof taxation will be looked upon 83 a thing of the past; or if you are taxed again, it will be for something which has not yet entered into our minds, Gentlemen, I ask are the people of this Island ready to fight once more the great battle of Liberalissn, when the Liberal party shal] be triumphant and the question of taxation which I have brought before you to-night shall have become a thing of the past? I place my hopes on that time when the tariff which has year after year been crushing this Prov- ince shall have been swept away. Now, gentlemen, I have delayed you here to-night longer than I should have done, and 1 apologize for it. I can only say that I have appeared before you this evening to carry out a solemn pledge made to my constituent. I have been charged with be.ng afraid to come before my people and tell them plainly what I will do on the question of taxation. answer to that charge is have said here to-night. There is | the question—if you want education and public works carried on you must | give us some little money towards it. ' I thank you, gentlemen, from the bottom ; Of ny heart for your attention this even- i I feel that in. @ldressing you

what [

ing.

am not, as it were in the heat of a political campaign, although _ possibly an incentive in’ the persons of Messrs, Fergusoy or Biake might have put a iittley more fire in my remarks, Forget all the adjectives I have used, and simply ponder over the

few propositions and facts I have laid before you, and [ again repeat that I shall be glad to have any advice or suggestions from any man in thie district or elsewhere that will tend to make our scheme more perfect. If anyone has any sugzestion, it 18 his duty to place it before me, and if he does not do so, he has no one to blame but

himself. Gentlemen, I thank you again fur your attention. (Loud and prolonged cheering.)

SE

PERSONAL.

Geo. F. Owen, Esq:, of Cardigan Bridge, is in the city.

Mr. Brennan, of the Summerside Jour- nal, i8 in the city.

Mr. M. C. McRobbie the well known commercial traveller, is here on a business trip. He is registered at the Hotel Davies.

Mes. E. A. Smith, of Boston, Mass., was @ passenger on the Stanley yesterday. She ix on a visit to her mother.

Dr. W. H. Dongherty, of Cape Traverse, was entertained at supper at that place on Tuesday evening, previous to his depar- ture for Summerside.

The Modern Invalid,

Has tastes medicinally, in keeping with other luxuries. A remedy must be plea- santly acceptable in form, purely whole some in composition, truely beneficial in effect and entirely free from every objec- tionable quality. If really ill he consults

physician; if constipated uses the gentie ‘amily laxative, Syrup of Figs

-—_———-2 eo Basket Batt Marca in the Market Hall to-night. Don’t fail to atten, tect ta

The severest cases of rheumatism are cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier. Now is the time to take it. Hood’s cnres.

The time of passage cf the. Lucania, which arrived at Queenstown a few days ago, is 5 days, 13 hours and 11 minutes, thereby establishing a new winter record.

USE SKO.A’8 DISCOVERY, the great lood and Nerve Remedy.

P.E. ISLAND RAILWAY.

—_——.—

Tenders for Coal.

Sealed Tenders addressed to the under- signed, and endorsed “Tender for Steam Coal,” will be received until FRIDAY, 20th April, inclusive, for the supply of

Six Thousand Three Hundred (6,300) Tons of the Best Fresh Mined Round Steam Coal, for Locomotive use.

Tenders to etate the price per ton of 2240 lbs., delivered as follows :—

Chartres oii cs 3,000 Tons Summerside................. eu 2,200 * Georgetown........ Si aa oie , Be IR issih esas. ee siaiidee tote »», 460- * RMNIN C NONE sates Ccki rarer ccrcnes 250 =

At least one-quarter of the whole quan- tity required at each of the above-named Dtations to be delivered on or before the 1Uth day of July next, and delivery of the whale to be eted on or before the first diy of October, 1894.

The first payment will be made in July, and monthly thereafter. Ten (10) per cent. will be retained from each payment until the final and satisfactory completion of the contract.

The Department does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

J. UNSWORTH, Superintendent. Railway Office, Charlottetown, March 22nd, 1894,

3i

agreed on a scheme which if carried 6éut, |

My”

No Delay In Payment

of claims when insured in the Canada Accident Assurance Company.

AGENT FOR P. E. ISLAND,

E. R. BROW

BROWN’S

stock, CH’TOWN.

TELEGRAPHIC.

SeecraL Despatcues to Toe Examiner

PARLIAMENT OF CANADA.

House of Commons Proceedings.

ee

Orrawa, March 22.

In the House of Commons Mr. Davies’ bill to amend thé Canada Temperance Act was read a first time.

Hon. Mr. Foster was ready to go on with his budget speech, and present the tarifi; but as a number of members desir- ed to get home on the night train, he mov- ed that the House adjourn. The tariff, he said, would come down as the first in order on Tuesday next.

K. G. Burns, M. P. for Gloucester, N. B., has been called to the Seuate.

A writ for a new election in Gloucester will be issued this week.

New Brunswick Budget.

Sr. Joun, March 22.

The Provincial Budget was delivered yesterday. The financial statement was brief., The Premier stated that the bonded debt was increased $43,000 during the | year, and that on current account, includ- ing with current revenue, $90,000, pro- ceeds of town land sales, there was a sur- plus of $19,000.

Huddart Hopefa'.

Loxpoy, March 22. In an interview, Mr. James Huddart, | the promoter of the fast Atlantic mail | line, expressed himself as being moet | hopeful of obtaining all the advantages | and concessious, which were the objects of his visit here.

Gymnastic Exercises.

Amuerst, Mase., March 22.

At the annual gymnastic exhibitiot

yesterday, the following college

were broken: pole vault, 9 ft. 8 in; running higi jump, 5 ft., 7% in.

Salvation Army Campaign.

Loxpoy, March 22, General Booth, of the Salvation army, ‘vill go to Canada this autumn. He pro- poses making a four months jubilee Salva- tion campaign throughout the Dominion and United States.

Recount ia Colchester.

Trvro, March

The election recount at Colchester com-

menced yesterday. The town ballots were

disposed of, resulting in the Liberal- Conservatives losing one ballot.

99

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Died at College.

Amurrst, N. S., March 22. Seymour, the seventeen year-old son of Hon. Hiram Black, died at Sackville Col- lege yesterday.

LOCAL NOTICES.

Advertisemeiats under this heading cnarged for at the rate often cents per line.

We have got to get out of the hat trade before our mantles and millinery arrives. —Paton & Co.

$4.000worth boots and shoes, selling out at ridiculous low prices at J. B. Mac- donald & Co. mar2l 4)

No discount on Paton & Co’s Hats. One 'ow price takes the hat. Every hat got to go.

Some nice lines of sauces and catsups, cheap at Sanderson’s & Co.’s.

Don’t forget those white cotton remnants

25 per cent. lower than regular price.— Moore & McLeod.

For Easter—Ladies’ straw hats, flowers and feathers — to-day at Harris & Stewart’s, London House. mar22

Gentlemen, buy your Easter hats at the

London House. New stock now in.-- Harris & Stewart. mar22 New scarfs, new shirts, collars and

cuffs, just opened—Harris & Stewart, London House, mar22

Great hat sale now on for one week, Every hat got to go. We want the room for our willinery and mantles. Gentle- men, now is your chance.—Paton & Co., the reliable.

Hats, hats, felt hats, soft hats, hard hats, stylish hats, hats the newest, hats the cheapest, hats that will wear well, hats that will make you look well, such hats to be found at J. B. Macdonalds & Co.,

mar21 4i

Clothing, clothing, we have the most, the cheapest, the largest stock made, can- not and will not be undersold. Try us for bargains.—J. B. Macdonald & Co.,

mar2l 41

Dinner sets, tea sets, chamber sets, and a very large number of cups and saucers, lamp3 and lamp fixings. Will be sold cheap at W. P. Colwill’s.

feb 6 dy&wky 3wks.

Over 300 dozen gilt egg cups,the chea est ever offered in this city-—-W. P. Colwill. feb 6 dy&wky 3wks.

That meer- \ schaum:s your pride ‘

Then dont ruin-it with inferior to: bacco. Use

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PLUG CUT. + It will color your pipe im 3 manner that will make it an art

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Return by Special Request

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WILL 0° THE WISP CO.

| For Two Nights Only,

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY,

MARCH 22nd AND 23rd.

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