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APRIL 12, 1897.

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MR. LEWIS CARVELL.

A reLecram from Toronto announces ihe death of Lewis Carvell, Esq, which occurred this morning at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Adam Weir. Mr. Carvell had been in ill-health for several! years, and his release was not unt xpected, He was born at St. Jobn on the 16:h June 1828, and had well nigh completed his sixty-ninth year. Early in life he became identified with the railways of bis native Province. He was first Superintendent of the European and North American Rail- way, and on the completion of the Interco- lonial Railway, he was appointed to the important and responsible position of General Manager of Government Railways. This position he held until shortly after the advent of the McKenzie administra- tion, when his resignation was, for political reasons, demanded. Subsequently, upon the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway,he was oilered a Divisional Super- intendency; but this offer he declined. Ina 1880 he became a member of the firm of Carvell Brothers, in this city, of which the late Honorable J. S. Carvell was the head; ard he remained inthe firm until 1895, when failing health compelled him to retire. During the years of his activity here, he took a prominent part io movements towards the adyancement of the town and Province. He gave to the City Corporation its admirable system of book-keeping, which might weil be adopted by the Provincial Government ; and he was the leader in the formation of the Charlottetown Board of Trade, of which he was for some tim? President. He was an able man who did his duty in his day and generation. We never knew a man who had a more sincere attachment for hard work, or a higher regard for that which is honorable and just.

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AN EXTRAORDINARY ARRANGEMENT.

Iv ianow announced that the Govern- ment have decided (1) that the plebiscite vote shall be taken for the acceptance or rejection of “a complete Prohibition Bill,” and (2) that it must be * endorsed at the polis by a majority of the electors in each of the Provinces.”

The first of these propositions is not unreasonable. Indeed it is “ much morc like business” than a bald vote on the principle of prohibition would be. But the second is contrary to practice, contrary to the theory of our Federation, and most unreasonable. The electors of all Canada vote for the election of a Parliament for all Canada. Why should they not also vote for or against a prohibitory bill for all Canada? Admitting that it is desirable to take a plebiscite vote ona prohibition bill,—what good reason is there for a departure from the custom of the country in respect to elections ? The Parliament of Canada, selected by the electorate of Canada as a whole, makes laws for all Canada, though the majority in Parlia- ment is made upof alittle knot of un- scrupulous politicians from the Province of Quebec ; and here we have a departure from the practice in elections in order that Quebec or any other single Province shall say whether or not we shal! have a probi- bitory law! We protest against this plan of campaign. It is not fair to the temper- ance workers of Canada. If the people of Quebee are, by the luck of an election held in the ordinary way, “‘ Masters of the Administration,” they ought not to use their power to compel the Government to hold an election in an extraordinary way in order that they may control all Canada in regard to the prohibition of the liqnor traffic. The Government of Canada is not for the Provinces but for the country as a whole; and the Government ot Canada, in arranging for a vote on a prohibitory bill, ought to take the vote of the country as a whole and not of the Provinces. The arrangement is uafair and extraor-

dinary. On behalf of the temperance men of this Province we protest against it. It seems to have been specially designed by the liquor interests and intended to burk the success of the prohibition movement.

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PORK INDUSTRY IN P. E&- ISLANC.

We think the City Council are to be con. gratulated on their action for encouraging the meat industry of the Island. The ap- plicants being gravted exemption from taxation, will proceed at ovce with the construction of an up-to-date packing piant, The plans have been prepared under the guidence of Mr, George Lees, of Chicago, an expert in building and equip- ping slaughtering and pasckivg houses. The house will be provided with all modern appliances and will have a capa- city of 2,060 hogs per week or 100,000 yearly. It is intended that killings be mace dailys winter and summer; and for this purpose purchases of live hogs will be made ir Ontario until such time as our farmers Can grow suilicient number of hogs to keep the plant in constant opera- tion the year round. It will be noted, there will now be open to the farmers a constant and regular market for bogs, summer and winter alike, and they can rest assured tbe product will be put on the be-t markets in shape to command the highest prices.

At present, of the 40,000 hoys grown on this isiand yearly, not 15 per cent are such as to meet the requirements of the best ham and bacon markets at home or abroad. What is wanted is a lean, fleshy, long-bodied animal, deep in the sides, not weighirg over 180 lbs, to 200 Ibs., live weight. For these hogs, we feel] sure that the Messrs. Ratteubury will pay the best prices, consistently with those of the markets abroad.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS,

—The rising hopes of our prohibitionists have been rudely dissipated ~by the Patriot’s Ottawa news,

—It is rumored that Mr.G. A. Sharpe has been appointed Superintendent of the P. E. Island Railway.

~It is a good move to have a sewer on Queen Street. But care should be taken in the construction of sewers that they may in the future form part of a geveral system.

—There is a Grit Government at Ottawa, and there is famine and pestilence abroad, and we have had earthquakes. Now there is to be war. Have we fallen upon the evil hours of the last days?

— Some two thousand applications for consular appointments have been filed at Washington since the new regime took office, which causes the N. Y. Mail and Express to remark that it “is amazing that so many able-bodied American patrio.s should yearn to leave tbeir native land merely to serve their government in for- eign parts.”

— We hear that the ice which has formed about the Petre) is being blown up with dynamite in the hope that she may be available for goose shooting dur.ng the Easter holidays, It has been suggested as possible that the Minister of Marine and our Provincial Premier intend to nse her this spring for their mutual sport. But this may not be true.

—The bounties paid on iron and steel manufactured from Canadian ere since February Jast are as follows, according to a return brought down to the House of Commons: On pig iron, 42,404 tone, $*4,- 809; iron, puddled bars, 4,353 tons, $8,707; ateel billets, 35,757. tons, $71,514. The Hamilton Iron and Steel Company pro duced 3,545 tons of pig and received in bounty $7,090; Hamilton Blast Furnace Company, 1,497 tons, bounty $12,995; Hamilton Rolling Mille Company, 91 tone puddled bars, $183. So it seems that our iron industry is developing under the pre- eet policy.

—Prince Henry of Orleans, who has made a savage attack upon British rule in Egypt, receives in the New York Herald the following sharp reply from Prof. Gold- win Smith: “If Prince Henry of Orleans is inclined to be severe on England, he might remember that she has at least been deemed wortby of affurding an asylum in misfortune to his family. Perhaps he might remember that twice the house of Bourbon owed its restoration to the throne

rtly to her arms. The school of Brit- ish politics in which I was bred was not that of territorial aggrandizement, but I believe it may safely be said that British administration of Egypt will bear the inspection of the civilized world. From

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no quarter have more emphatic tributes to its beneficepce come than from intelligent aod impartial Americans. Fr thirty cen- turies the pyramids have looked down on the miserable o, pre-sion of Jabor of which they are themselves prodigioas monu- ments, Now, forthe firet time, they look down ona reign of Jaw and justice, in which the poor peasant, freed from the lash of the ex'ortioner, may hope to eat the bread he earns. France was pressed by England to take part in the settlement of Egypt and refused.”

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ESTEEMED EXCHANGES

Mentrcal Siar: British statesmen are looking fo Canaca fora large portion of their wheat supply in the future. A good way to ensure this is to tura British emi- pratiou into our Northwest.

Montreal Gazette: The figures of their estimates make it plain that, wi atever the changes in the tariff may be, there will have to be an increase in the total amount of customs taxation paid by the people. The Government cannot go on spending more without raising more.

Montreal Gazette: The Liberals are showing signs of another flop on the Mani- toba school question. Their speakers and papers are rising to condemn the late Con- servative Cabinet because it did not dis— allow the Martin-Greenway act of 1890. Upto the date of the late election they were, outside of Quebec, praising this act as good, and the schooi system it created as the very thing Canada wanted. Mr. Laurier won many votes in the West on account of his repnied sympathy with it,

Montreal Gazette: Mr. Edward Farrer is paying frequent visits tothe Ministers at Ottawa. Mr. Farrer is a commercial unionist and an annexationist. He is the mau who wrote a pampbiet telling U.S. public men how best to strike at Canada. Canada has since been severely struck at by U. 8. public men. Ministers may have legitimate business with him; but the majurity of Canadians would be better satisfied if he was making his confidential] visits somewhere else. He is not Canada’s friend, aud Canadiams can expect nothing but evil from his influence.

PERSONAL.

Dr. Macneill, of Stanley Bridge, is at the Hotel Davies.

Mr. Neil Mackelvie, of Summerside, is among the guests at the Hotel Davies.

Mr. Colin C. Ferguson arrived from Montreal today. He has recovered his good health.

D. M. Preston and Oliver C. Diaper, of Montreal, and G.T. Kidd, of Toronto, registered at the Hotel Davies this fore- noon.

Mr. William Chappell, for some’ time past clerk in Watson’s drugstore, left last evening for Boston where he will reside in future.

Mr. Jas. B. Allan, Charlottetown, Mr. Chas. Farquharson, Lot 48, and! Mr. Angus McKenzie, Flat River, leave this evening for Rossland where ir is their in- tention to reside in future,

In ecnnection with the paragraph pub- lished a few days ago regarding \the twenty-ninth anniversary of the assassina- tion of Thomas D’Arcy McGee it may be yo'nted out that R. R Hodgson, Esq., of this city, was one of seven gentlemen who took dinner with the poet-statesman: on the day of his death. After dinner, Mr. Hodgson, on the invitation of McGee, went to the House of Commons and heard that gentleman deliver his last speech. ‘And a good speech it was,” remarked Mr, Hodg- son when speaking to Tae EXAMINER’S reporter yesterday.

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