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JAPANESE HABUTAIS

25 CENTS THE YARD That's to-day» bargain in the silk department. New plain habutai silks, in a

score of the wanted shades go on sale to-day at

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the yard.

These are the pretty, thin silks for which you’ve been paying 30c and 35c per yard. We have white, creams, pinks, reds, yellows, heliotrope, pur- ple, blues and a dazen others They’re great value at 25c. Come quickly—for they'll soon go at this figure.

ORE & McLEOD.

The Busiest Store on Char!totetown’s Rosies Str et,

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Sue Nahe na & d ee Ser incbutl ile aries | HiGH-fRABE—MODERATE PRICE.

We are proud of our Scotsman wheel.

4 We sell it at $50, by making every , ‘ ecopemy im the marufactury, aud min- imizing tl eptiens to necessary options oaly.

Bvery “cotsmen whee) has electrieally welded p rtsand high grade material, and the finest possible tinish. Like @her Naticnal wheels, it is locally guaranteed,

But the price is $40, when it could easily be $50. It is only $4%

MARK WRIGHT & CO. Ltd.,

ACCURACY IN CONSTRUCTION

as , Has aflot to do with the life and usefulness of a whee!—pleasure and safety of riding it—the Massey Harris is a wheel withowt a fault, mechanically or otherwise—a standard for quality in the littlest detail of its coustruction—it bas grace in every line, smart in appearanee, and equipped with all the good features and imprevements that a criticising public will look for—see the chainless models and the :som- bimed coaster amd brake features. Write for Gatalegue.

WRIGHT & GO., LID. ~~ FAGENTS

ISLAND

Free Boru Masa having to advises the Public, may speak free,”—Evuripipes

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FROM PRETORIA.

Lonpon, May 17.—Donglas Storey, the Daily Mail correspondent at Pretoria, wires thatthe Qper Government is holding back some big news. Fever is actively prevailing here. President Kruger is working night and daye

Latest Boer official bulletin is that the

| relief column has been defeated with great

loss. DISSOLVING BOERS:

Loxpox, May 17—General Rundle is sweeping through the northeast of the Free State and the Boers are dissolving before him and some ere surrendering.

The main force is assembling between Finesburg and Wanburgh ; brt it is with- out close organization.

OPINION IN ARMY SIRCLES.

Loxpon, May 17.~A_ correspondent of the Post, presumably Jobn Stuart, is res ported captured by the Boers at Kraai Pan.

The British public is keenly expectant Mafeking hes been relieved.

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Makes light, flaky, delicious hot biscuits, rolls, mufhns and crusts. Makes hot bread wholesome. These are qualities peculiar to it alone.

I have found the Royal Baking Powder superiog to all others. —C. Gorju, late Chef, Delmontes’s.

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Boer Government Said to be Keeping Something "*- Back — Buller Moving Towards Newcastle— Burghers Beaten—Correspondent Captured.

SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE EXAMINER.

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Loypo vs May 17 - -In the Ci mm ittee

rooms of the House of Comwons

MAFEKING

nounced that Mafeking had been relieved. | Che War Office is unable to confirm the’

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T : Ow y 7 vs ” t p af OSDON, May 17.—A aeepaiéh from

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Co mM nN on Eloff, grandson of President Krugé?; with | — - a ‘. 4% patrol, entered Mafeking. Baden~ Duck bill (2 row ed) Barle v.

1 Powell | killing seventeen and ' several other prisoners.”

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| Loxpon, May 17.—Lord Roberts cen- tinues passive at Kreonstadt. His cavalry is stretching like asemiscircle extending macy miles in length with overlapping

Opened fire. on the Burghers, taking Kloff and

Dissolving Before Rundle.

It seems téat General French’s cavalry had one lively fightafter crossing the | Zand river. A mixed squadron composed | of Scots Greys, [nniekillings, Carbineers, | and Australian Horse took a kopje, and the dismounted Boers sud- [ prevwil that this has already been accom~ jdenly fired from a concealed position, killing many horses and stampeding the rest,

plished, although hours after midnight the War Office stated that news of relief had not been received. The Boers then advanced in over-

A DOUBTFUL REPORT. | whelming numbers and drove the equad-

| ron Offcapturing some. 1

Loxpos, May 17, 3.30 a. sO ee | The Boers robbed the dead and looted "e . ‘theeaddles. Finally a brigade of cavalry Britieh relief columa fought the Boers at | , _ i . | drove them off. Kraai Pan, thirty-two miles south of | S Mafeking on Tuesday last, accord-} a telegram received on | GENER AL ELECTIONS. Wednesday night at Lorenzo Marqzes | _—— from Malapo, 100 miles north of Mafe- |

king.

A Message to Grit New Bruns wickers.

whois inte!ligence is accepted Lere with some reserve, because it is difficult to un- | derstand how news could have been =] Sr.Jomn, May 17—Advices received quickly received in a place 135 miles from | frou. Ottawa by one of the most promi- the scene of the engagement. | nent Grit local managers are to the effect | that the general elections will ce held in October. castle. He appears to be using 25,000 “ Tarte will look after norihern New men sgainst 5000 or 6000. His opera-| Brunswick for us ’—is the most sigeifi- tions will almost certainly result in hie a"? paesage ina letter read at the Royal forceing his way into the Transvaal possi- Hotel, yerterday, by a Northumberland bly in time to co-operata with Lord man to seyeral of his St. John cronies, Roberts’ advance,— although Buller is nog me rss paar

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General Buller is moving towards New-

Obituary.

[Spectra ro Tak Examiner. ]

Hauirax, May 17—J. W. Hcckman, boot and shve dealer here, ia dead. p> a Mr. A. E. Clarke, the popular station agent at Souris, is in town. Miss Ada Macdonald, of Dundas, is visiting the city.

DIED.

In this city, on Thureday, 17th iost., Mary Crockett, beloved wife of Jotn Arbing, in ber 74th year.

{Funeral on Sunday, 20th, at 2 o’clock, from her late residence, Hillsboro’ Street, to People’s Cemetery,

At Little Sande, of con-umption, on April12th, Norman H McLean, aged 20 years and 4 monthr, leaving a sorrowing mother and one sister to mourn their lose,

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—Many of the English papers show in creasing severity in their comments on the nature of the training and jifeof army officere. The London On'look of April 14th says: “Qur cflicers are as braves as lions, butas a rule they are stupid! That ia theconclusion expressed at bome and abroad by correspondents and other on- lockers with the forces in South Africe, and by critics in the couniry. Thus the verdict of intelligent members of the Britisb empire concides, in effect, with the unfriendly verdic. of Continestal critics.”

“I am sorry to disappoint you, young man,” said the great railway magnate to the reporter who had called in fer the purpose of writing him up, “but

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Timothy Seed,

Clover Seed.

Vetches,

Fie'd Peas,

Wholesale and Retail.

GEO. CARTER & 00.

Seedsmen.

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Our Plow — Boots

HOME MADE.— That means made right here in Ch’town, n:t imported ones, that’s the kind that wore you 80 well last year. We're making them just a litt’e better this yeu, und the price is just the ssme,

We have cheaper one’s when you want tnem. Price $1,00 and $1.10, and good for the

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GO#F BROS

The Home Shoe Factory.

\ERUSGEDEGEOESHDESEGESEREOGPEESENDROSE/ 058% a a Choice Line

Confectionery

Received nice haben

CENTRAL DRUGSTORE, A.W, Reddin Phm B.

Central Drugstore.

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Sunnyside.

> ANDULSUSDUUSESERUBDEROETOENSENPUSDES SIND CEMENT! CEMENT!

500 barreis in stock and to arrive. Wholesale prices. CARVELL BROS.

I did met begin at the bottom and werk my way up. I never blacked the boots of the engine wipers and mever carried beer fer the janiter ef the roundhouse. I was kicked through college by my father, inherited e@ for- tune, which 1 invested in railroad shares, and I held this job because | have yotes enough to control it. It is too bad, my young friend. but we can't all be self made men. We would be- - ‘come tiresome.” And he bowed the

Ch’town May 14, 2 a w, 2w.

erebants Bank of Prince Rdward Island.

Collections made on the most reae sonable terms and promptly remitted

for. Deposits received and/interest a!'ow- ed at best current rates.

se , valler out.—Chicago Tribune. 00 WILLIAM ST., NEW YOR, gt '

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