VOL. 5.

BRITISH AMERICA Assurance Company. FIRE AND MARINE.

Cash Capital & Assets . $1,176 49145,

INCORPORATED 1835.

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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. daly 10, 1879.

UNION HOUSE,

Queen Street, Charlottetown. P. BCLS, .....- . PROPRIETOR.

CHOICEST WINES d&> LIQUORS. NEW YORK LAGER BEER.

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FHNABLES set at all hours,-with every luxury of the season. FREsH Oysters received daily. Rooms large and comfortably furnished. Coacnes from this House meet all Trains and Steam boats. First Class BARBER SHop.

July 4, 1879-—3m

Salt! FOR SALE, 1,000 BAGS LIVERPOOL SALT

l. ©. HALL, Grafton Street. Ch’town, Aug. 5, 1879—5i pat '2w

DR. P. W. G, GANNING,

Licentiate Royal Colleges Physicians and Surgeons of Kdinburgh. LICENTIATE MIDWIFERY. RESIDENCE :

Upper Hillsborough St ,-corner Hillsborongh and Euston Streets, Charlottetown.

OFFICE HOURS : 8:30 to 11 a.m.; 7 to 9 p.m. Charlottetown, June 24, 1879.—eod

QUEEN. INSURANCE CO'Y. Sete | CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build- Merchandise and Produce. Also, on

settled 7

eT ARLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island

June, 1877—-

MAIL NOTICE.

AILS for Great Britain will be closed at

10 o'clock, p. m., on THURSDAY in each week, to be forwarded via Rimouski, and also on MONDAY, the 4th and 18th inst,, at 4 o'clock, a. m., to be forwarded via 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 ae ad aa

Post ce open from 8, a.m., , p. m.

. yr A. MACDONALD, Postmaster.

Post Office Charlottetown, } Ang, 2nd, 1879. \

f OMAS COOK, Photographer, ee of Heston, and who was burnt out at ‘Fraser's Corner last March, has re

cently opemed _ A FIRST-CLASS STUDIO At ePage’s Corner,

Op Ww. A. Weeks & Co’s, where he 7 be glad to see all his old customers, and as many new ones as i¢el disposed to assist

him with their With his new im-/ parti provements is varaing. ext work superior ‘to anything heretofore in the city. All

the latest styles of pictures made, Photographs, Procelains, Y Tim-ty pes, and the beautiful Photo-Cromo. Copies made from old Fic- tures, enlarge: or reduced to any desired size, finished in ink, crayon, oil or water colors. Special attention paid to children. po em Frames always in stock, mottoes | nes,

trance next door to Owen Connolly's Queen Street ; also entrance on Sydney Street.

July 23—6in wed and sat

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BRITISH WAREHOUSE.

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST U, 187%.

The Revenue.

Seme time ago our Reform friends took great satisfaction out of the revenue re- turns, contending that there was an excel- lent prospect for a deficit, deficits being dear to them. We are happy to say that there is every likelihood of their being dis- appointed. The Customs revenue returns from the Ist January to the 30th June, in other words for the first six nionths of the calendar year, are as follows. The figures

for the same period last year are appended :

Large and Well-Assorted Stock of

At Unusually Low Prices,

Grey Cottons from

Competition.

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Charlottetown, June 3), 1879.

Meet the Hard

DRY GOODS

Sure, Will

Which, we are

times,

pentane (5 <eeenemen —aee

Dress Goods from 6 cents upwards.

4 cenis upwards.

Prints from 6 cents upwards. Hemp Carpeting from 12 cenis upwards. Tapestry from 59 cents upwards Brussels fram $!.00 upwards. All other lines we are losing out at Priees that Defy

& A. BROWN.

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day, $10 50 per week.

SEASIDE HOTEL

RUSTICS SEACH, P. &.

ISLAND.

\BOVE BEAUTIFUL WATERING PLACE BAS BEEN MUCH IMPROVED this Jeason and is now open for the accommo: lation of Guests, For CHARMING SCENERY, INVIGORATING aud BRACI No ATMOSPH URE, and splendid Surf Bathing, this Hotel has no equal m the Dominion, Term: | Special arrangements made for Families, Pic-nic Parties, &c.

Terms, $2.00 and $2.50 per

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

5.25 p. m. p.m. Coaches meet trains from all points and Moderate—distance between 7 and 8 miles,

BY, COAGH, DIRECT :—Voaches leave

9 o'clock, on Thursday and Monday morning.

July Sth, 1879.—2m, pat. & arg.

TEA PARTY

Pic-NIG SUPPLIES ! BEER & GOFF’S Lemon, Raspberry, and Pine

Apple Syrup Sold in bottles and by the gallon. Plain and Fancy Biscuits

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

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

BEER & GOFF

June 23, 1879.

FURTHER REDUCTION

IN PRICE OF

Albion Mines (Pictou, Wf. 3.) SLACK COAL.

LACK and ROUND COAL can _ bow be

calling for Guests at all points in City limits at 6 o'clock.

obtained at the above mentioned Mines. Slack Coal, only $1.30 per ton; Round |

For orders, apply to G. W. DeBLOIS, Sole Agent for P. E. Island. Orrice : No. 35 Water street.

Ch’town, June 23, 1879—pats} kea h sp2m

DOMINION EXHIBITION

at Ottawa, 22nd September.

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has kindly consented to afford all possible in- | formation. Aug. 4, 1879—

7 KLY EXAMINER, — Per- a ae relatives or friends abroad, and

iring to keep them informed concerning

er Puasa, cannot do soin a better or cheap er way than by subscribi 6 to THe Weex.y Sent, id, to any address

m Great Britain, the United States, or the

Coal, $2.00.

BY TRAIN :—Trains leave Ch’towa for Hunter River at 6.20 a. m. ; 10.05 a. m, ; and Trains leave Summerside for Hunter River at 9.05 a, m.; 12.49 p. m.; and 5.30

convey passengers to the ‘‘Seaside.” Charges

through a beautiful country. Ch’towa Weduesday and, dSatarday evenings Returning arrive at Ci’town about

Fare, $1.25, distance 18) miles. Address;

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JOHN NEWSON & Co, Ch'town.

From Londen to Charlottetown

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FALL TRIP, 1879.

THE SPLENDID CLIPPER BARKENTINE

ETHEL BLANCHE

$42 tons Register, Coppered and Classed 9, Al, in English Lloyds,

Charles Gould, Commander, -OR THE BARK—

MOSELLE,

500 tons Register, Coppered and Classed 9 years, Al., in English Lloyds,

DANIEL CAREW, COMMANDER,

WILL SAIL FROM LONDON

On or About the 10th September,

Carrying freight at through rates to Picton, Georgetown, Summerside and Shediac,

Parties wishing to have their goods deliver- ed here early in the season will do well to for- ward their orders in time, so as not to detain the Vessel.

For freight or passage, apply, in London, to Joun Prrearrn & Sox, i6 Great Winchester Street; in Liverpool to PrrcarRN BROTHERS, Brockley Buildings, 51 South John Street; or here to the owners,

PEAKE Bro’s & Co.

Ch'town, July 29, 1879—4w 2aw

MAGLEAN & MARTIN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Newson's Building, Opp. Post Office,

Charlottetown, P. E. 1.

A, A. McLEAN. D.C. MARTIN, June 18, 1879.—ex 2aw

1878, 1879.

January, $ 747,898 64 $ 895,662 05 February, 948,096 41 2,195,892 25 March, 993,165 96 March Istto 4th 635,919 40 April, 988,424 36 March 15th to

April 30th, 935,007 77 May, 1,059,522 68 $49,888 38

June, 952,758 05 797,356 69

$5,691,866 10 $6,309,727 54

The new tariff came in force on the 15th March, hence the divisions in the returns for March and April last. The above figures do not include the Customs returns from British Columbia, which are obtained quar- terly. They are as follows :

1878.

1879.

British Columbia— QJuarter ending 3lst March,

Quarterending 30th June,

$ 75,138 15 $142,568 73 136,047 29

$211,180 44 $263,727 06 dence the total returns for the whole Do- minion are as follows: First six months of 1878, $5,906,046.54 ; first six months of 1879, $6,573,454.60—showing an increase in faver of 1879 of $667,408.06. This is a most satisfactory exhibit, and when the fall importations begin to come, the figures will doubtless look even healthier.

In his speech at Three Rivers, the other night, M. Langevin gave the following comparative statement of the Excise returns up to the end of May, which we presume is Official :

121,158 33

1878. 1879. January. . . $ 402,774 $ 416,458 February 618,595 1,197,758 March 265,627 775,817 April . 310,307 139,588 May . 373,085 191,584 $1,970,388 $2,721,205

This shows an increase in favor of 1879 of $750,867. Taking Customs and Excise revenue together, therefore, it way be safely contended that the hopes of the Fi- nance Minister, that under the new tariff he would be able, not only to give protec- tion to home industries but to avert de- ficits, are in a fair way of being fulfilled. West India Trade.

The Halifax Herald declares that the West India trade has been rescued from its enemies and placed upon a sound and healthy footing. It says :—

We have cunsulted the Custom House re- turns from the 15th of March, A. D. 1879, when the new tariff came into operation, to the 3lst July, 1879, a period of about four months, just ended,

We have cempared these returns with those of the corresponding period of 1878. The result is startling.

Daring that period in 1878, under Grit rule, there was imported into this port from the West Indies and Demerara the following quantity of sagar :—

Lbs. 2.GH,271

Value. $99,782 During the cor-

responding pe-

riod of this year, justended, there were imported

9,535,313 $262,187

Difference in favor

of the National

Policy for four

months 6.924.042 $162,405 Or nearly seven million pounds of sugar,and and two hundred thousand dollars. It must be borne in mind, further, that the difference in value indicated above, gives but a faint idea of the effect of the tiew policy, for the low prices of sugar in the West Indies during the past year have caused the increase of value to be altogether disproportionate to the increase of amount.

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A correspondent of the London Times advances a novel weather theory. He has studied the subject for thirty years, and finds that dry and wet seasons succeed one another in alternate waves of nearly equal length. Not that this equality of duration is quite absolute, or that the wave of one period is exactly the fac-simile of that of a corresponding period at an earlier or a later time, but there is enough of regula- rity and uniformity about the waves to make the family likeness clearly discern- ible to any eye that looks for it. These periods extend over ihree whole years for each, and the following simple rules will

‘enable any one to work out the several

cycles of years for himself :—1. When the number representing any given year is even and exactly divisable by three, that year is the middle one of three cold and wet sum- mers. 2. When the number representing the year is odd and divisible by three, then that year is the middle of a triad of dry and hot summers. This theory does not work in Canada. Last year was an even one and

exactly divisible by three, but it certainly |

was not the middle of a triad of cold and wet summers.

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NO. 69,

Toronto, Aug. &,

The following isa special cablegram to the Globe :—

Loudon, Aug. 7.-—Mr, Childers, on be- half of the Great Western Railway, has written to Captain Taylor, Chairman of the Grand Trunk, proposing to the Board of the latter company to select one gentleman from five named to act as arbitrator be- tween the two companies in the matter of competitive traftic, which 1t is proposed to pool—the agreement, if entered upon, to endure 21 years. The business of the two roads, it “is suggested, may but managed by a joint committee, to be appointed in equal number from the members of each board, and the arbitrator is to be consulted if the Companies cannot agree upon the arrange- ment for competitive traffic.

GREAT BRITAIN. Lonpon, Aug. &

The Rev. Newman Hall the noted Con- gregational pulpit orator, has obtained a decree of divorce from his wife on account of her adultery.

It is supposed the Irish Volunteer Bill, which failed in the House of Lords last night, was caused by the action of Peers who are great landed proprietors in Ireland in supporting previous questions. The Government leaders approved the Bill, declaring they thought it impolitie to fix et of disloyalty upon the Irish peo-

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The Bulgarian Cabinet has addressed a manifesto to the nation, stating their inten- tention to maintain cordial relations with the Powers and to take measures to secure peace and prevent disturbances.

Seka JEvo, Aug. 8.

A fire has broken out in the Latin quar- ter of this city, the whole of which is new burning. The fire threatens te assume terrible proportions. The fire was caused by an explosion. The Catholic Servians and Jewish districts and commercial quar- ters have been destroyed. One thousand buildings have been burned, including Catholic and Servian churches, and ten thousand persons have been rendered home- less. Damage is enormous. The fire com- menced at 10 o’clock Friday night, and is still raging. 4

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English Foreign Trade.

During the first half of 1879 the value of imports into Great Britain was £172,641,- 723; against £189,647,854 in the first half of 1878, and £195,448,403 in 1877. During the years from 1873 to 1876, inclusive, the value of imports in the first six months varied between £180,000,000 and £190,000,- 000. In 1872 they were £175,641,305,and in 1871 only do we reach a year when the amount was as small as this year. As thie imports in that year were valued at £155.- 052,175, we find that in eight years the in- crease has been only eleven per cent., while the decline from 1877, when the highest figures were recorded, amounts to nearly twelve per cent. The course ef the exports is more remarkable. As long ago as 1871 the value for the six months was £101,637,970. 1t increased rapidly during the next two years, and in 1873 reached the sum of £125,786,557. From that point there was asudden decline. In 1874 the value was £118,800,000; it was 110,000,000 pounds in 1875 ; it dropped to

99,000,000 pounds in 1876, and 95,000,000 -

pounds in 1877. Last year it was only 94,- 660,400 pounds, and this year it is but 88,826,495. So it is nearly thirteen per cent, less than it was in 1871, and as com- pared with the high-water mark in 1874, the decline is upwards of twenty-nine per cent. There is another way of observing the change that has taken place. In 1871 the imports exceeded the exports in value by fifty-two per cent. In 1879 the excess is ninety-four per cent.

Great Britain practices Free Trade only as far as she conceives that her interests are promoted by that system. There she stops short, and begins to apply another policy. When, by Act of Parliament, she prohibits the use ef any but English loco- motives upon English railroads, she can not shield herself from the charge of directly promoting home industry by Government aid, merely by alleging that the legislation in question is of a purely local and domes- tic sort, alien from international relations, and wholly designed for the proper regula- tion of railway lines at home ; for the effect is exactly the same as if this clause had been incorporated in the customs tariff —‘* Locomotives prohibited.” —Chicago In« ter-Ocean.

Lieut-Governor Laird’s family, consisting of Mrs. Laird and six ehildren, together with Misses Owen, Richardson, and D, 8. Richarnson, and the Reverend P. Straith, arrived in Winnipeg from Battle- ford, North West Territory on Thursday week on their way to this Island, where they will remain for the fall, and probably

winter.

It is reported that the Governor-General and the Princess Louise, after visiting the Maritime Provinces and probably Boston, New York, Saratoga and some other places of resort in the United States, will return to Quebec at the end of this month.

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SirS L Tilley will leave Englani for

home on the 23rd inst,

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