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VOL. 5.

The tuselvent Act of 1875 and Amending Acts.

In the matter of James Duncan, John Ferguson Robertson, and Robert Robin- son Hedgson, Insolvents.

| peta a to a resolution passed at a meeting of the creditors of the above [n- solvents, duly convened and held at my office in Charlottetown, on Saturday, the sixteenth day of August, inst., notice is hereby given that up te neon of MONDAY, the 8th day of September next, | will receive tenders for the purchase, en bloc, of the-estate of the above named Insolvents and the several respective estates of each of them.

The tender muss be made in writing, and must state, Ist, the amount offered for the joint or partnership estate of the above in solvents ; 2d, the amount offered for the sev- éral estates of each of the above insolvents. The person whose t r is accepted shall be bound, in addition to the amoantof his tender, to pay all costs, charges, and expenses which the Assignee has incurred, or may incur, in respect of the above estate.

The Assignee and Inspectors of the estate are not bound to accept the lowest or any tender.

The terms of purchase are payment in cash upon the execution by the Assignee of an assignment of the above estates to the pur- chaser, or as he shall direct. The estate of the above insolvents, and of each of them, consists 0! shipping, real estate, book and other debts and personal property of various descriptions. The tenderer can ascertain full particulars of the same, by reference to the schedule of assets filed by the Insolvents with me in this matter. Certain portions of said estates have been sold since the insolvency,

ichlars of such parts as have been sold can obtained from the Assignee. The net pro ceeeds of such sales and the securities repre- senting the same shall form part of the estate and shall be assigned to the purchaser.

The estate of the insolvents, and of each of them, is sold subject to all existing incum- brances. Such incumbrances shall be ascer- tained. by the tenderer by searching at the proper offices.

Dated at Charlottetown, P. E. 1., the 18th day of August, 1879.

B. WILSON HIGGS, Assignee.

BRITISH AMERICA

Assurance Gompany. FIRE AND MARINE.

Cash Capital & Assets. $1,176 A946

INCORPORATED 1833.

(ee eee

Head Office, - Toronto, Ont.

Risks taken on all descriptions of Property at lowest rates.

PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF LOSSES. HORACE HASZARD, Agent.

Office, South Side Queen Square. July 10, 1379.

UNION HOUSE,

Queen Street, Charlottetown. P,P. CILLIS, . . . PROPRIETOR.

CHOICEST WINES & LIQUORS. NEW YORK LAGER BEER. LES set at all hours,-with every luxury of the season. Fresu OvysTers received daily. Rooms large and comfortably furnished. CoacueEs from this House meet all Trains and Steam boats. First Class BARBER SuHop.

July 4, 1879—3m

Aug. 19.

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No. 35 Water St.,

Charlottetown.

Prince Edward Island Branch

—OF THK—

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE FIRE. AND LIFE.

INSURANCE CO.

Subseribed Capital, $9,733,332.600 Paid up Capital, - 1,216,666.00

CHIEF OF FICES—Edinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Threadneedle Street.

Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- auce Business are divided every Five Years. The Tables o: Rates are moderate.

Fire Insurances effected on nearly every description of Property, at the LOWEST RATES of Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk.

Lossks settled with promptitade and liber-

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LOOK

At Unusually Low Prices. Meet the

Dress Goods from

Hemp Carpeting fr Tapestry from 59

Competition.

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Charlottetown, June 30, 1879. ————

Hard

HERE!

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BRITISH WAREHOUSE.

As we intend to make a change in our business at*the end of the year, we are now closing out our

Large and Well-Assorted Stock of :

HRY GoopdDs

Which, we are Sure, Will Times,

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6 {cents upwards.

Grey Cottons from 4 cents upwards. Prints from 6 cents upwards.

om 12 cents upwards. cents upwards

Brussels from $1.00 upwards. Ali other lines we are losing out at Prices that Defy

& A. BROWN.

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For CHARMING SCENERY, INVIGOI

day, $10 50 per week. Special arrangements BY TRAIN :—Trains leave Ch’town for 5.25 p. m. p.m. Coaches. meet trains from all

Moderate —distance between 7 and 8 miles

9 o'clock, on Thursday and Monday morning.

July Sth, 1879.—2m. pat. & arg.

eee Aten

\SIDE HOTEL

E ABOVE BEAUTIFUL WATERING PLACE HAS BEEN MUCH Ih this Season and is now open for the accommodation.of Guests. LATING and BRACING ATMOSPHERE, and splendid Surf Bathing, this Hotel has no equal m the Dominion.

enieiaeiaats

PROVED

Terms, $2.00 and $2.50 per made for Families, Pic-nic Parties, Kc.

To get to the Seaside Hotel : get tickets from all points for Hunter River.

Hunter River at 6.20 a. m. ; 10.05 a. m. ; and

Trains leave Summerside for Hunter River at 9.05 a. m.; 12.40 p. m.; and 5.30 ints and convey passengers tu the ‘Seaside. ” , tarough a beautiful country.

BY COACH, DIRECT :—Coaches leave Ch’town Wednesday and Saturday evenings calling for Guests at all points in City limits at 6 o'clock.

" Charges

Returning arrive at Ch’town about Fare, $1.25, distamve 185 miles. Address :

JOHN NEWSON & Co, Ch’town.

TEA PARTY

PIC-NIC + SUPPLIES ! BEER & GOFF’S Lemon, initia, and Pine

Apple Syrup Sold in bottles and by the gallon.

Plain and ~ Faney Biscuits

Sold in Boxes & Bbls. and by the poun d.

Iceing Sugar, Raisins, Currants, Pastry Flour, Essence of Cotfee, Confectionery, Nuts, Oranges, Potted Ham, Drivelled Ham, Potted Tongue, &c

BEER & GOFF

June 23, 1879.

MAIL NOTICE.

AILS for Great Britain will be closed at 10 o'clock, p. m., on THURSDAY in eich week, to be forwarded via Rimouski, and also on MONDAY, the 4th and 18th inst., at 4 o'clock, a. m., to be forwarded ria Halifax. Mails to be forwarded via Summerside and Shediac and also for all places on the route to Summerside and in Prince County, will be closed daily at 5.30 o'clock, a. m., also for Summerside direct, at 5 p. m. Mails to be forwarded via Steamers to Pictou will be closed every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and SATUR- DAY, at 5 o'clock, a. m. Mails for Georgetown and Souris East, and all places on those routes, will be closed daily at 6 o'clock, a, m. Post Office open from 8, a.m., till 9, p. m. A. A. MACDONALD,

Postmaster.

Post Office Charlottetown, } Aug. 2nd, 1879, j

QUEEN INSURANCE c0’Y

OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING,

| grater effected on all kinds of Build- i Merchandise and Produce. Also, on Vessels on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences, Losses settled promptly. GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island

ality. G. W. DEBLOIs, General Agent. Dec, 14. ‘AMINE. for the DAILY EX the Cheapest newsy S xm & mio

_ FOR SALE.

1! Dos fast sailing American Schooner

“JULIA FRANKLIN,”

Of 71 tons Register, with all her apparel, | tackle, furniture, ete., now lying at Lord’s | Wharf. This vessel is built of white oak, is | copper-fastened, and will be sold cheap. Par- | ticulars can be had from the undersigned. THOMAS CASELEY, | Administrator Estate iate Capt. 8S. McDonald. Ch’town, August 9, 1879—eod

BOSTON STEAMERS GARROLL 2 WORCESTER

Passage Rate Reduced to $8,

* CARVELL BROS., Agents. Ch’town, Aug. 1879—1m eod pat ar lm

What About the WN. P,

: E can sell the WALTER A. WOOD ‘American Mower & Reaper this yearas cheap as ever. Farmers in want ef good Combined or Single Mowing Machines this year will do well by calling and seeing for themselves. We have a tew choice single Hay Mowers on hand. HORNE, PIERCE & CO., Agents for P. E. I. Ch'town, June 28, 1879—2aw & w |

BOGARDUS

RIFLE GALLERY

PISTOL RANGE,

26 & 28 Great George St., Ch’town.

$1,000

; in Cash and Property Prizes, of from oNnE to | FIVE bDoLLARs each, for the best shooting. | Range from 70 feet downwards.

J. CARROLL, Manager.

July 26—

MPLOYMENT.—I» every village and

township of P. E. Island not yet a pied, ONE active, intelligent Lady or Gentle- man can obtain a most respectable and v profitable engagement. Address, with

iculars, D. DOWNIE & CO.,

June, 1877—

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Box 1964, Montreal

- cratersiger ietcnretintigl ‘Bonn

~ CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1879

Tarressonrsece.

The Reception.

Mr Epiror,—The papers for the last few dave been tilled up with correspondence, which {1 humbly submit there ought not to have been any necessity for. It was known for some time that the Governor General and his Royal wife were to visit this Island; and it was also known that the whole people, from Charlottetown to North Cape to East Point, and the Island over, would be anxious that they should be received with a right royal welcome. I think in the correspondence it is stated that the late Lieut. Governor Sir Robert Hodgson, left Government House on 22d June; and I should imagine that with his usual thoughtfulness if Government House was not in a fit state to receive the daughter of our Queen and the Marquis, her noble husband, that he would have informed his Government so that all necessary repairs and improvements would be made. There is nothing, however, in the correspondence, to show that he did. Bat there can be no dombt that the Govern- ment House, the property of the poplee of the whole Island, kept up and improved and furn- ished out of the revenue to which they all con- tributed, was the place where our worthy Governor General and his Royal wife and staff should have been received, and where they should sojourn while here. In none of the Province could they have a more pleasing ramble or landscape to look out on, than would be afforded than from the grounds of our Gov- ernment House.

The question is asked why was it that they did not do so? This is not so easily answered. Some say it was the fault of the Lieutenant Governor. Others say it was the fault of the Government. I cannot but think all has hap- pened through the ignorance of whose duty it was to move in the matter. I am, of course, not an authority. But I am of opinion that the Lieutenant-Governor on assuming the Government should have called his Executive around him and stated to them the fact that the Governor-General and Her Royal High- ness would atan early day, no doubt, visit the Island, and that Government House would require internal and external repairs, and that the Executive should have this done and should authorize him, on behalf of the people of this Island, to immediately transmit to our Governor-General and his Royal consort an invitation to be the guests, with their staff; at Government House during tiacir sojourn here. This decision would have been the proper course to have pursued, The Executive representing the whole people, being called on by their head, stating what was required to be done, and he, as their head, carrying it out. If this had been done I humbly submit that all the trouble and strife that we have witness- ed for the pass four days would have been spared. This is how it was done, I imagine,on the occasion of the visit of His Royal High- ness. And I would like here to allude to a circumstance that occurred at the closing of the Legislative Session which closed a short time before the visit .of the Prince of Wales, and then I have done. I remember well the days of the visit of His Royal Higness, the Prince of Wales, and the weeks preceding it. And, although I was never an admirer of the late Hon. George Coles in many of his move- ments as Leader of the Government, I must say that [ admired him on the occasion I ai- lude to. At the closing of the session before alluded te when, I think, Col. Gray, then a member of the Legislature, and I think Premier of the Government, asked in his place that some two or turee thousand pounds should be placed in the Estimates to pay the expenses of the reception of His Royal High- ness, Mr. Coles said he would oppose it, but that he would and did desire that the whole revenue of the Island should be placed at the disposal of the Government of the day so that out of the same a right royal reception should be given to the eldest son of our good Queen, the future King of the Realm. I tell you this as part of our past history that Mr. Coles’ motion was carried by acclamation. Can we doubt that if a similar motion had been made at the close of the last session but that it would have been carried. I do not say that it would have been prudent now, any more than it would have been in 1860, the year of the Prince’s arrival, to spend the whole revenue on the reception ; but no Executive would exce2d the bounds of moderation, when they had the authority of Parliament; and I am quite sure, if a similar resolution had passed this year ne more would have been spent than has been done by our present Executive.

fam, Cear Sir, Yours, etc. A Looxer-On & AN OLp ConsERVATIVE. Ch’town Ang. 21. 1879.

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Confederation in South Africa.

Sir M. Hicks-Beach’s despatch on the subject of confederation has been received at Cape Town, and is expected to be laid before the Cape Parliament, now in ses- sion, during the present week. It is un- derstood to be an invitation tothe Cape and sister Governments to forward the scheme of an United South Africa on lines of the Act, which passed the Imperial Par- liament a couple of yearsago. The question of defence is a main peint, howver, and it is said there is a proposal on the part of her Majesty’s Government to continue for a period of five years an annual grant equival- ent to the total amount which the several colonial governments may contribute for the maintenance of a defensive force in the country.

Rev. T. DeWirr Tatmace’s vacation has been extended a month by his congregation,

and he will not return before October Ist.

= We do not hold OUTTA lves i sponsible for

the statements or Opmions of our corresponde nts J

~ NO. 79, [A Fishing Boat Attacked by a Sea Serpent.

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We received the fellowing frem a cor- respondent at Miminigash yesterday: ‘‘At Miminigash, 16th day of Angust, as Matthew McDonald and James Doyle, two men in the employ of E. G. Fuller, were hauling their trawls they observed an ur- usual commotion on the water near them. ‘Is that a squall? said Doyle. ‘‘Great Heavens !” exclaimed McDonald as the line he was hauling took a sudden surge and parted a hook tearing his hand from one side to the other, and a huge form arose from the sea full 20 feet out of the water. “Quick with the sails, Jim,” cried McD., and the two terrified men spread their canvass in a hurry. McDonald gave the helm to Doyle, who crouching down in the after berth barely showed his head, while Mac, rather the cool- er of the two, quickly improvised a sort of spear out of a long knife, which he lashed to an oar. He describes the fish as a sort of a snake, striped yellow and white, and a mouth as large as the open end of a puncheon, and each time it raised out of the water it uttered a roar like the bellow- ing of a bull. As the boat, with twice as much sail as was consistent with safety, was flying before the stiff S. W. breeze, the monster followed in their wake. McDon- ald though to pacify it with fish, as it was doubtless enraged by being torn by the trawl hooks, so he commenced throwing hake, with which the boat was partly loaded, to the monster, who greedily de- voured them. Nearing the shore they crossed a lobster trawl of Mr. Belyea, and the monster fouled and parted it, half fill- ing the boat at work on it with water. This seemed to infuriate it, and raising itself in the air, it made a rush for the boat. Me- Donald says he thought it was all up with him, but he kept cool, and raising his im- provised harpoon struck the monster in the eye, driving the oar clear in its head, and breaking the knife in the wound. Witha roar of painit sank out of sight, red- dening the water around with its blood. Doyle says he counted 12 sharp fins on it, each surmounted with a sort of horn, and both men say that the fish was 200 feet long. To-day, while repairing their bro- ken line, they took off one of the hooks a large tuft of yellow hair attached to a piece of skin resembling pig skin, which may be seen at Mr. Fuller’s establishment.’’—S. Journal.

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The Empress Eugenie has addressed a touching letter to M. Pietri in which she earnestly protests against any recrimina- tions on the circumstances of a beloved son’s death. She beseeches that no one may suffer either in reputation or interests on her son’s acconnt. Her one and only earthly consolation, she declares, is that her son has died a soldier's death, and in doing a soldier’s duty in the execution of the orders he had received, and which he was deemed capable of executing well and faithfully.

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THE rapid growth of exports of horses from Canada to the United States is shown by the following table of comparative shipments ot horses from Montreal to that country. The figures are furnished by the Consul General up to June 30th of each year :

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e Horses. Value. 1876 214 $ 28,955 1877 2,073 215,331 1878 5,145 395,211 1879 6,632 491,235 Total, 14,064 $1,130,732 — oo

Picrov, Aug. 19.—The wharves here now look lively. A large number of square rigged vessels are in port, and more are arrivi daily. The harbor is gay with flags of the Austrian and American barks, while the mines and shipping facilities are taxed to the utmost. The whole is a contrast to the dullness shown at the Vice-Regal visit, and shows that the sneers of the Grit papers cannot hurt Pictou or its miners. The weather is dull and the day has been stormy. A heavy gale of wind blew in th meorning, but has since moder- ated.

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Hon Mr. Langevin has declined the‘pro- posed banquet by the Conservatives of Ottawa, on the ground that the success of his recent mission to England is to be at- tributed rather to the Ministry as a whole than to himself and the Hon. J. J. Abbott. It is contemplation to tender a banquet to the Administration on the return of the Premier from England.

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WHEN the reaping machine was introduced to the American farmer iu 1850, there were in the twelve states in which it is now mostly used 1,301, 893 farmers and field laborers. In ° 1870 their number was 5,641,830. In 1850, farm hands were paid $8.00, and harvest hands 80c. to $1.40 per day. In 1870 the latter men getting $2.00 to $3.50 per day, and the former $30 a month. It is tolerabiy plain that the laborer is not very badly ‘ruined’ in this case. ,

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The Ottawa ‘‘Herald” has the following : *‘A rumor is current that the members of the Canadian Ministry now in England have succeeded in securing a company, of which Mr. Brassey, the great capitalist, is at the head, to construct the entire line of the Pacific Railway, without any other guar- antee except bonds and land.”

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The New York “Shipping List” says that it j is estimated that Kurope will require fully 300,000,000 bushels of wheat the coming year 'to make up the deficiency in its own crop, of #which the United Kingdom and France will } take three-fourths,

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