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ALMANAC FOR APRIL, 1884.

i MOONS CHANGES. First Quarter, 2nd day, Sh, 4.5m., p. m, #ail Moon, 1l0th day, 7h. 31.6m., a. m. Last qaarter 18th day, llh. 42.2m., a. m., New loon 25th day, 10h, 45 lm., a. m. ie os = ~ememen . _ - eamnenesieiaiaaaiaeetiarinae, T ') Sy 2 4 r . i v oay OF WEEK D2” |Sun !Moon) High Days 5 |rises |sets | rises | water |len’h, |

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_N. J. CAMPBELL,

(Successor to Campbell & Rayden)

Aiviianeer aud Commission Merchant,

SHIP BROKER,

AND INSURANCE AGENT, COR. OF QUEEN AND WATER STS., Charlottetown, P. E, Island.

Importer and Jobber of Choice Groceries and Spices.

General Agent for P. E. Island of the British Empire Mutual Life Assurance Com- pany, of London, England. :

Special attention given to Auction Sales of Lumber, Coal, Fish, Apples and other Fruit, Real Estate, Household Furniture, Bankrupt and other Stocks, and all kinds of Merchan- dise.

Correspondence and Consignments solicited.

Keturns promptly made,

March 23, 1854.

DREsSs MAKING.

N\ {sS TAYLOR and MISS FARROW 4 are now prepared to attend to DRESS MAKING, in every department, at Lord's Hotel, Souris East. Ladies giving oaders will meet with prompt attention.

Souris, April 4, 1884.—1lm

EH. GRANT, Sole Agent for P, E, Island for

THOS. CONNOR & SONS, Rope Manufacturers, ST. JOHN; N. B.

s@ Orders from the trade respectfally solicited,

Ch’town, Feb, 29, 1884.~—lm iicLeod, Morson & McQuarrie, BARRISTERS

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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.

Office in Old Bank, (UP STAIRS). Ch’town, Feb, 21, 1584.

~ SULLIVAN & MAGNBILL, ATTORNEYS - AT-LAW

Solicitors in Chancery,

NOTARIES PUBLIC, &c.

OFFICES— O’Halloran’s Building, Great George Street, Charlottetown,

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IN BERMUDA.

‘Another Interesting Letter from Rev. W. R. Frame.

>

| Tue Governoraof Bermuda is always a | Military oflicer of high rank, and is for the ‘time being Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in tie colony. The present Gover- ‘nor Thomas Lionel Gallwey, is Lieutenant- |General in the Royal Engineers. He holds his appointment from the Imperial Govern- |ment for a term of six years, and receives 'a salary of $15,000 per annum, of which jthe colony contributes $3,500, and also | Supplies a partially furnished residence. His salary may seem large, but it must be remembered that the cost of iiving is much dearer here than in the Dominion, and |hbesides His Excellency dispenses the | hospitality of Government House with no junsparing hand. It would seem strange to of your readers to hear that the

most ‘Judges of the Supreme Court of Bermuda, are also members of the Legislative and Ex- , ecutive Councils. They will no doubt think |that such an arrangement would hardly 'snit in the region of P. E. Island.

It appears to me, however, that their /presence—at least in the Leglislative , Council is of great practical value to the | colony. There is a_ peculiarity about

Bermuda Legislation, viz: that the local

59 | . | —_ fae? s|GENERAL.« INSURANCE AGENT, some of'tiem are constanty expising snd 5

have to be renewed every session—,enerally | with some modifications.

| Now the Judges who assist—who in fact do a large part in making the laws—will, when on the Bench, certainly have the advantage of knowing, without any doubt, what the laws really mean. I may add that the Bermuda laws are for the most part couched in plain, sensible English, and without the ambiguity and circumlocution which characterizes certain of the Dominion Statutes.

I am not surprised that it should be a subject of complaint with Bermudans that | young English gentlemen are sent out to

fill some of the best offices of emolument

British American Marine Insurance Company, Toronto, snd have to be paid by the colony, and

CAPITAL, $500,000.00.

Risks taken on all descriptions of insurable property.

OFFICES—Corner of Queen and Lower Water Streets.

Ch’town, March 17, 1884.—1m eod

NEW SPRING GOODS. J. B.

S now showing an extensive range of NEW PRINTS, bought

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|. before the advance in duty, consisting of,—

650 pieces, in all the Newest Besigns,

20 bales (800 pieces) Grey Cottons,

White Cottons, in the Different Makes,

&heetings and Pillow Cottons,

Powellings and Stair Linens,

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besides hold a seat both in the Legislative and Executive Councll, It is moreover said that some of these gentlemen from aboad are as much distinguished for their need of the salary as fitness for office. This is likely enough, but I suppose the same may sometimes be said of persons at home who have got into office.

There is no doubt that oflicials from the old country, as a general rule, feel but little ‘interest in the welfare of the colony to which they are sent. They are apt to put on airs, despise everything colonial, and look down on the ‘‘natives.” It seems enough that such persons make money out a colony without having a seat in her Councils. Though agriculture is the great source of the country’s wealth, yet nothing is done by _ those in authority to promote or encourage it. There is no importation of improved farm stock, no model farm or plantation, no lectures on agriculture, and no indus- trial exhibitions. The colored plante:: plods on in the same fashion as he did years ago. He pays no attention to the rotation of crops—perhaps does not know what it means. He plants his onions and potatoes in the same plot year after year, and is quite surprised if they do not prove a suc- cess. Now, if the Government were to spend a few hundred pounds annually in

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A Large Variety of Carpets, in &russels, Tapestry, Scotch importing and testing new seeds and plants,

and Dutch Carpets, Stair Carpets, Hearth Rugs,

and Door Mats.

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J. B. MACDONALD.

Ch’town, Feb. 28, 1884.—2aw wkly,

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Ch’town, Feb. 22, 1884.

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of Charlottetown for their

the Citizens my during the late fire, have to

they are prepared to do business.

and also in encouraging new methods of farming, and holding industrial exhibitions, it would prove ef great value to the colony.

A few years ago, when the House of Assembly introduced a moderate bill, look- ing in this direction, it was thrown out by the Council as unnecessary.

I observe among the items of public ex- penditure for last year the sum of £4 17s 8d. isdown for ‘‘agricultural purposes;” but how it was expended no farmer seems to know. I see also that the increased sum of £5 is down in the estimates for the pres- ent year, for the same purpose.

Though no admirer of the sort of gov- ernment which obtains here, yet I am bound to say that, in some respects, its action might be followed with advantage in other quarters. For instance, in the appointing of magistrates, care seems to be taken that only persons of good mental and moral qualification, and of known re- spectability, are called to this high and important office. Then, with regard to the petty offices, there is clearly an eye to fitness in the filling of them, and not as may be witnessed elsewhere—persons thrust in merely because they belong to the rul- ing party; or it may be on account of ren- dering some political service, real or imaginary; or, as too often happens, because they are in need of the office.

The Bermuda tariff is slightly lower than that of Canada. With the exception of liquors and tobacco, the duty on all other articles importec into the colony is only Jive per cent., and besides there is quite a number of articles—apples being among the number—admitted duty free. Tobacco and cigars pay a duty of two pence per pound; wine pays a duty of twenty per cent., and all other liquors, whether malt or spirituous, four shilling stg. per gallon.

There are no excise or export duties. I find that the public expenditure for the year ending March 3lst, 1883, was £28,- 866 12s. 10d. stg., and receipts for the same year, £28,998 5s., leaving on the right side a balance of £131 12s. 10d.

In aid of this revenue the Customs yielded £24,779 15s. 5d., and of the above amount rather more than one half—or £12,851 17s. 41,—arose, I regret to say, from duties paid on liquors. This tells a tale to which I shall have to refer again.

The annual revenue amounts to rather more than £2 stg., or about $10 per head of the population.

The direct taxation is very low, being only six pense on the £100. ;

The public debt of the colony is at pre-

1884,

sent £7,000. It was incurred in 1867 by the construction of the causeway between St. George’s and the Main Island, referred to in my first letter.

| This debt, which at first amounted ito £32,000, has been steadily re- (duced, and the House cf Assembly

| with laudable zeal makes provision for its |gradual reduction every year.

About one-third of the whole revenue goes to pay the salaries of government offi- cials. The total exports of Bermuda are a little over a million of dollars, while the annual imports are fully double this amount. Those who hold that in order to the healthy financial condition of a country it must have the ‘‘balance of trade” in its favor, are greatly puzzled over the peculiar con- dition of trade in this colony.

A writer of some ability from the Dominion, and a strong believer in the above balance of trade theory—who visited here last antumn—wroje a few months ago, that with trade going on at the present rate, Bermuda must soon be in hopeless bankruptcy. Not believing his premises I have no difficulty in rejecting his conclusion.

It doves not necessarily follow that be- cause a country imports more than it ex- ports, or has the balance of trade aguinst it, that financial ruin is inevitable, as it may have other sources of wealth within itself. Now Bermuda is a case in point. From ten to fifteen hundred of the military are stationed here, all expending money and buying the colony’s productions and importations. Then the war ships are also here for about a third of the year, doing the same tling, and besides there are several hundred men constantly at work in the dockyard, all buying and spending

It is, however, from the winter Visitors who flock hither from all parts of the Dominion and the United States, many to improve their health, others to escape the cold, that this little Colony reaps its great harvest. At this moment every hotel and private boarding house is full to the over flowing. Those whe have furnished lodgings to dispose of have also let them out, and even private houses have had to open their doors in order to shelter stran- gers. Many of these visitors are possessed of great wealth and lavish it freely.

All buy more or less, and pay well for what they purchase, as the art of charging is not one of the “‘lost arts’ in Bermuda.

The past winter has been one of unusual mildness. There was not a week that the thermometer did not rise to seventy degrees and upwards, and only once did it fall below sixty degrees. The spring has now fairly set in, and the flowers abound on every side. The shipping season for onions and tomatoes has already com- menced, and an extra boat is at once to be put onthe route between here and New York. The next two months will be the ** busy season ” of the Bermudan planters.

W. R. F.

East Warwick, March 28, 1884.

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IN MANITOBA.

Another Interesting Letter from Rev, W. Wesley Colpitts,

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Srr,—Winter has come and gone, and myself and family are yet alive. The bliz- zards have not blown us away, and the frost has not marked any of us; and if all the winters out here are as the one that has gone, then I prefer this climate to that of P. E. Island.

Several of the farmers have sowed their wheat; others, whose gronnd is not so dry, are about to do so. The land dries very quickly here in the spring. The snow just seems to sink into the ground; and, with the exception of a little freshet in the ravines, not much is seen of water as soon as the frost is out enough to let itjsink out of sight. There is a peculiarity about the ground freezing that I have never noticed elsewhere. Large and deep rents are made, in some instances four or five feet deep and five or six inches wide at the surface. These cracks help in the spring to drain and pulverize the land. The ground does not heave as it does east, and, consequently, fence posts are not thrown out. Fences when made here are usually constructed of oak posts and barb wire, and ere easily and cheaply made. large auger is used for boring the hole in the ground, and, as in most soils there is no stone, fence can be made quickly; but very tittle of the land that is cultivated is fenced at al. The cattle are turned out on the prairie, and a herdsman for the neighborhood, or a trained dog for each individual, keeps the land under crop protected. Pasture lands are usually the only ones fenced, and as excellent pasture is so abundant, few take the trouble. One great advantage the im- migrant finds here is such abundant pastur age, and hay lands to be had for nothing. My horse has had for hay only the wild hay of the prairies, and a horse in better condition I have never owned, and better hay I never fed. It can be purchaser here now for $5 per ton. Some of your readers will remember the years of patient toil that elapsed from the time that they began clear- ing their farms until they had hay sufficient even forasmali stock. Here a man finds his hay fields all ready the day he arrives. The agitation to which I referred in my last is fast diminishing. The CO. P. R. have given reduced rates, and increased facilities fer shipping grain cast, and are making provision this spring for bringing families intending to settle here, and their effects more rapidly and cheaply than ever, and as a result immigrants are already pouring into the country, most of them going west of this Province. This, however, is not to be wondered at, most of the lands here are now owned, though not occupied; eastern speculators got their hands upon them at the time of the ‘‘ Boom” and now expect exhorbitant prices-~

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jcountry lie beyond. There is another thing against this Province. Its liquor | laws at present are a ‘‘delusion, a trap and asnare,”’ and many that have come to this | Province have gone quickly to a terrible i\doom. Away from home inflnence, and in many cases obliged to board in | houses reeking with the fumes of whiskey, without let or hindrance, many an ener- getic man has been lured from everything good and right, and started on the double quick in his march to black perdition. The traveller going west is met upon the bound- ary line and very plainly informed that no intoxicant can be taken across. No licensed rum shop exists in the Northwest, and that toa P. E. Islander, I deem, is, in the majority of cases, no small recommen- dation. Many know well the trials they went through to secure this freedom from licensed rum, and will be glad to know that this is in the Northwest as well. For these and other reasons the tide of immigration is flowing out beyond Manitoba this spring.

Well, the Fenians did not come, and who expected they would? Verily, go from home to bear news! With an incipient rebellion here, and Fenians on the border, 1 suppose our friends east were trembling for our jsafety; but avery slight puncture let the {gas out of the rebellion balloon, and a somewhat harmless resolution is about all ‘that remains. As for the Fenians, that is too old a story to tell now. That scare- crow has had the birds to lay eggs in its pocket long ago. The Farmer’s Convention no doubt did good, and in the end have dis- appointed the few fanatics that at the beginning talked of tearing up railway tracks, and burning down elevatcrs. The farmers are now refusing to be engineered by those who have political purposes to serve. Men of both parties have found their heads, and I think will judiciously combine for their mutual benefit as a class, and will thereby merit the good wishes of every lover of order and good Government.

With kind regards to many old friends on P. E. Island, I remain yours truly,

W. Westey Co.rirrs. Nelson, Manitoba, April 10, 1884.

——- ep Eter en geee ees —_

Scotch Valor at Soudan.

GENERAL SIR ARCHIBALD ALLISON ON THE

HIGHLAND REGIMENTS.

At the anniversary dinner on the 22nd ult., of the Highland Society of London, Sir Charles Macgregor, who presided, pro- posed the health of General Sir Archibald Allison in very eulogistic terms. In replying Sir Archibald said the greatest object of his ambition was attained when he received command of the High’and Brigade in Egypt; and that he wished to propose to them the toast of the Highland Regiments, who, he said, could in these letter days have no reason to complain that they had not their fall share of service. In Ashantee, in Afghanistan, in Egypt, nearly every one

of the Highland Regimen:s had been represented. Lut since the last mentioned operations, by far the

hardest hand-to-hand fighting he could recollect since he joined the army had taken place on the eastern shores of the Soudan, torming the severest trial which British soldiers have gone through for a long time; and there also the Highlanders have taken their part. The enemy was superior in courage, in determination, and in fear- lessness of death to any we had almost ever encountered, One cou'd now see how such Mussulmans, animated by the some spirit, and under the same religious excitement, were in days gone by able to conquer aimost the whole western part of Europe, and threaten even to subdue France. Under that gallant, distinguished, and most able soldier Sir Gerald Graham, two battles have been won—as hard battles as could be fought. In the first, we were entirely success- ful. In the second, at one time and for a _ certain interval, victory trembled in the balance—in fact, it seemed to have almost turned against us when one of our squares was broken. The square of all formations was one of the best to resist attack, but it was one of the worst to make an attack. There seemed little doubt although the accounts were somewhat con- flicting, that the front face of the 2nd Brigade, composed of half battalions of the ‘*Black Watch” and the York and Lancas- ter Regiments, instead of waiting the attack, charged into the midst of the enemy in the most gallant way. The flank of the advance force became thus exposed, the enemy rushed in, and many of the officers in its rear were speared before the men in the front ranks actually knew what had,taken place. The square, composed of three as}fine

regiments as were in the British army, became entangled in a mass of the enemy, and were deiven

back 500 or 600 yards in one throng of fighting, struggling, bleeding, dying men. To those who knew what war was, the rallying from that attack must appear one of the finest things in the history of British arms. When soldiers were once broken in a fight like that usually a panic seized them; they fled, and could not be rallied. The very reverse happened at Tamanieb. They went back struggling, borne down, overpowered, crushed, but there was no panic or flight. No man fled one foot farther than the spears of the enemy drove him. When Buller brought up his brigade on the right in magnificent order, and caused a cessation in the pressure of the enemy, the men in- stantly rallied to the call of their ofli- cers; they re-formed their ranks, they resum- ed the offensive, they joined in the line of the general advance, and there was no pause, no stopping, no hesitation, until, with one united attack the British army swept on and drove the enemy from bis position, and lett between 2,000 and 3,000 of their foes in the dust. As Scotsmen they had reason to be proud of the Highland regiments, just as Englishmen had reason to be proud of the gallant York and Lancaster. In sentiment the two were united, and ali must feel a pride in the way in which their gallant comrades

prices they will not get while so! many hundreds of miles of most excellent

‘tor it,

served their conntry, fought for it, and died

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