tion. the services of a competent engineer must be obtained, Further, they must be obtained soon; for it will not do to have the engineer here in November and

through wiry fields

December, trudging

spring a lot of arable land to be had. St. to his place of residence, partly because a lady had built a Bishop's

and also

Mar ie Was be

residence there because it was

the most central position; for his diocese

in the i itis thought inexpedient to publish just | now. Phursday. fhe following civil cases have been disposed

sentment, which,

‘They were discharged on

of .— Linius B. M,. McMillan rs James Smith, verdict for plainttl, 250. For plainutt | Ke ily, tor defence Howe.

McDonald vs Mr. W. Ellis, judgment cons

fessed for =77. John Bulger Kenneth McNeill, verdict i plaintifi Keily, for defence UK lo ph Gallant ma anothe i John R. Larkins and another, verdict for plaintiff, } $77.50. Por plaintiil Kelly, for defence

: xtended from Georgian Bay to Pigeon and making his observations under the oe eigen tn ohne aa most unfavorable circumstances, as mr. Lordship then went on to give an account Fairbanks did, Again, the city must be a OR al a a she pre vided with Councillors capable of | had great difficulties to co nd with, owing promptly acting upon the engineer’s re- | to the severity of the winter and the cold- | port—capable ot conducting a large enter. | ness and indifference of ne of the set- | prise, Now, we suggest that a meeting |tlers. Many, indeed, wished to have a of citizens be ealled at an early day ; that | resident minister at every settlement ; but | the water question be there thoroughly he thought if he had three wre resident

missionaries and four travelling ones, they

diseussed ; that the City Council be auth- orized to obtain the services of a com- petent engineer as soon as possible ; and that measures be taken to secure the elec- tion of competent men, pledged to water

works and the carrying on of the enter-

prise .

Mr. McKinnon, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, was lately in Montreal. He visited and thoroughly inspected the and obtained a large amount of information bearing upon the and this, we have no doubt, he

water works there.

question ;

would be sufficient for the diocese at pre? sent. He said that the travelling mission- aries were a very important class, for they moved about from one to the other of the smaller settlements which were at a dis- tance from the resident minister. He gave it as his opinion, that the Indians could be civilized if taken when children. Before it had only been attempted to civilize adults after they had contracted idle and roving habits, such as hunting and for theirliving. Observation had to conclude that it was impossible to pers suade the adult Indian to conform to civis

fishing led him

will oaly be too happy to lay before the | eople of Charlotteto To procure re- | ble statisties respecting the amount |

wn, ja hich will by

ply of water, is, Bat it may be | will ni

|

annually be saved to our citi- the introduction of a plentiful we have found out, a easily

Ww

zens,

su

dificult task.

wn that rates of insurance fifty hly esttimated that the saving in

>i

twenty-five to per cent ; and it may

be roug ll, over the whole city,

rom $10,000 to $12,- Rejecting Mr. Fairbank’s estimate | of $100,000 as altogether too low, and | taking Mr, $300,000

this item alone wil yearly amount to oud, ? oa ¢3m-« . f Boyd's estimate o

rks, the interest year-

s the cost of the w ;*il 1 to be I id by the city would : ut $18,000; so that by app! ying the say on insurance to the payment of the interest requil ‘ed, only about $6,000 a year will have been made 1 up. .Then

there is the cost of water by the bucket,

from $2,000 to $3,000 a year, which will

further reduce the amount to from $4000 to S3VU00 a year’ Besides this, there is the immense advantage which the large

outlay of ready money will be to our Citi- |

zens All classes, from the strect laborer | and truckmnn to the merchant aud banker,

the benefit cf it to a cannot well ‘ulated. will be to all those

are now obliged to expend time and money

will feel degree which }

be ca Then there a direct saving who

in procuring large quantities of water

from Spring Park. And last, but not least, there will be a saving of | labor to housewives and servant girls.

Taking all these things into consideration, there is little doubt that the additional

tuxation and the water rates which will | or

have to b vied will be much more than . e , compensated for by the saving in money and in labor. Th the acquirement of ea a pure water, of whieh the poor as well as the rich may parta freely and without fear; the possession of a plentiful supply |

ever at the command of the gallant and | active brigade who have cramped and unable to put forth all their es in the suppression of fires for the

so long been

ror} Sus

ebe want of water; the consciousness that the

fire-fiend has been curbed and the dread of pestilence removed—these things will, of themselves, amply repay all the cost of the waterworks.

——-— >

WRONG BE RIGHTED.

Tue Mackenzie Administration throw the blame of neglecting the interests of Nova Seotia in the matter of communica- tion with this Island upon Sir John A. Me Don: and tacitly de- to wrong.” The ‘ ob- were authorized of this Island in the They were then made the Steam Navigation

LET THE

la’s Government; . right th

arrangements |

cilue noxious Legislature L873.

in the interests of Company and this Island, without refer-

by the sion of

ence to the interests of Nova Scotia The cireumstances under which they were made, are graphically and pretty

correctly set forth by ‘A P. E. Istanpan’ |

in the Halifax Chronicle of the 12th inst. A P. Islander’ m'ght, how- ever, have added a little sensation to his ‘ story,’ by stating that the old contract

|} accommodate e

lized habits. He considered it the duty of the whites to civilize the Indians, as they had depnved them of their natural re- sources of living. The Rev. Mr. Wilson had raised an institution by means of sub- scriptions in England, and a small grant | from Government for education of Indian children. was,

the

twelve This unfor- | tunately, burnt, and the cl hildren dispersed. | Mr. Wilson, however, with great exertion raised fresh subscriptions sufficient to con- struct a stone building, large enough igl satisfaction of seeing his former pupils re~

turn to him.

to |

ity children, and had the |

His plan of education con- |

| for plaintitt $106.

M. McLeod A. Bothe and another vs Wellington N. Warren, judgment confessed for $140, For plaintiff, tiodgson, for defendant McLeod. M. W. Kilbride rs Michael Melsaac,

judgment for plaintiff $68.55, For plain tit! Kelly. Michael W. verdict for plaintiff, plaintiff wks

Morrison, Kelly for

Kilbride vs Peter

$97.11.

Holman es Fer plaintuf Davies and Llowe, for defendant lalmer and Mc. Leod.

Rankin vs Kilbride, verdict for plaintilf-. For plaintiti, Davies; for defendant, Palmer & McLeod,

« s:°@ ¢- oe" COMMER IAL GLOOM,

The following article in the Commercia Bulletin strikes at one of the worst of financial depression gloom of business men.

to our bankers and others

-the depression and

Every one remembers Mr. Croaker, in

|The Good-Natured an.’ Ey verything | was dark and gloomy and suspicious to his

|

|

|

sisted mainly in teaching them such handis |

them to become

crafts as would enable

| steady settlers. There were, besides, In- {dian schoolmasters, who imparted the ordinary rudiments of education, In asks

} T

for assistance,

e:lculation was that,

ing pecuniary

fin every congrega~

tion to which he had lectured, ten persons

would undertake to contribute six cents a week, the funds ai

ample to enable him to provide for the

| support of his fellow laborers in the mission

field and carry on the great work they had in hand. Arrangements will be made for some persons to receive the contributions

that may flow from this simple and unvar-

ni-hed appeal. NOTA SCOTIA AND f. £2. ISLAND. The Pictou Sltanda [ has the follow- | ing :— very considerable t ade is spring ing up between the Eastern part of Prince

Edw wd Island and Pictou, but the only means of transport at present available are the small and poorly built schooners which may be seen at all times anchored in the but these serve the intended pur- | pose very inefficiently. A subsidized steam-

, plying regularly between some point on

harbor ,

1 Little Sands, site places is very favor-

place calle | way between the two

ably located for the P. of the route. The Island either have granted or are about to grant, $1500 to build a wharf at this place, anda pier built in a proper and substantial man-

Govern ment |

' ner would have fully thirteen feet of water

at its end; enough to float a much larger vessel than would be necessary for some time tocome. A steamer plying between Little Sands and Pictou twice a week, and touching at Pictou Island, would afford the people of that part of Prince Edward !s~ land interested in this route, an opportun- ity to sepd their produce toa remunerative easy and convenient manner, having to travel

market in an instead of, as at present, over twenty five miles of bad roads before they can reach the first railway station. No doubt, Pictou would benefit in many ways from the establishment of a steamer on this route, and it is hoped that help will be given tothe inhabitants of one one of the most fertile sections of P. E. Island to develop and obtain a means of

subsidized

fsale of the great quantity of agricultural

produce which the fertility of the country readily promises.’

{nk Negep or A Guarantee Company.— Money in St. John now costs from seven to twelve per cent at the banks, a medium rate Leingeight per cent, while the street rates are, or have been, fully double those of the banks. The higher rates charged

would not have expired for about eighteen months after the new, and to Nova Scotia,

‘ obnoxious,’ arrangemeuts were made. |

But the arrangements did not come into

operation until the Island Railway was opened ; and, conse quently, their unfairness The | wrong is now both seen and felt; and it} The Chronicle pro-

aye

perhaps, cannot be can trips to Shediac cannot, and should not, be interfered with. All that | New Brunswick bas she has aright to, and } we would be the last to advocate the with drawal of any privilege she enjoys. All we | ask is that our own Province shall receive | ihe same fair play. This can be effected by | the Government requiring the Prince Edwi ird | Island Steam Navigation Company to run a daily steamer to Pictou. A small increase of subsidy, if necessary, should be offered for this purpose, and in view of the unquestion- ab:e justice of the claim, it would not be too miuch to ask the Government to take the re- sponsibitity of providing the amount until Parliament has an opportunity to deal with the matter. If the company will not meet the wants of Nova Scotia, perhaps there are men in Pictou and Halifax who will relieve | them of the work and establish a line of | steamers between Pictou aud Charloite- town.” |

to Nova Scotia was not perceived.

can now be righted. Its

pounds a plan.

The contract celled. The daily

|

+) oe oe The rumors of the coming marriage of | King Alfonso or Spain with a German |

Princess are unfounded.

companies

| assumed, | business men from the trouble and perhaps,

express, roughly, the opinion held as to the value of the security offered ; we say ithe higher rates, for the anhcs, which

charge the lower rates, do so on principle, apply them to all paper which they It may happen that these rough

and accept. estimates are sometimes very rough indeed | and that paper which is discounted

(oreight. In other communities guarantee societies make it their special business to | look into the character of the paper offered

at | | A i twelve percent should be done at seven | irs

the Bishop's | tenances, ways and words,

ising from that would be |

| jaundiced view. He ever surrounded | by conspirators, and at every step he trod

was

hopeful, buoyant, magnetic men, who can look difficulties in the faee and laugh at

them and overcome them.

The secret of the success of some physi- cians is not in their skill or their pill, but in their bright inspiring and cheerful coun

s

Vore

the sick people in the world

| |

| | |

|

|

ajor Wright, verdict | | island,

| French Shore, allowing the rate of increase | . .

| to be the same as during the last five years. ily compel a solution of the difficulty, Were i

features |

Ve commend it |

| ‘i | overestimate the

| our revenue is very serious,

| to farming, lumbering,

| ona concealed powder mine. Mr. Croaker | was only a representative of a class of men with whom we are all familiar—a class that | do vastly more to bring about and create the very state of aflirs they dread than any other thing. The} y were never so nu- merous as at present, und never so potent | for evil. Just at the time, too, when we néed people, the very opposite character, |

than half | are dying of |

| | 64,018

imaginary diseases. More than half our troubles are imaginary.

It is just so in business. There are too many croakers. They meet on the street, in cars, everywhere, and croak one another into the blues. Ifa hopeful face makés its ippearance, it is croaked into the dismal | swamp in jive minutes. Men croak to} their wives and children, croak to their

cierK a acquaintances ; wi

ing toeach other, till nothing but one dis-~

nd help, croak to their friends and | ic] all these croak- 11cha sets ail these croa : | those five years the

|

cordant, universal croak goes on all over the land.

It is the opinion of many shrewd and farsseeing m n that if people would leave | off this everlasting croaking, accept the situations, have more confidence in the re- |

| cuperative ¢ nergies of the nation and the |

| productive possib ilities of

'the East part of the Island and Pictou. is at present the great desideratum of! the nhabitants of that section of country bes tween Murray Harbor and Belfast, and a|

1ated just half |

E. Island terminus | | z ce : | She will then, if nothing happens,

for discount, and undertake, at a given | rate per cent, to furnish guarantees for

payment to the banks. surveillance over those who require their guarantee, and

exercise close

a

sometimes which would

not be acceptable at the banks, but which |

necept securi ities

are none the less safe. while making good dividends and even aiding local banks in discounting by plac- ing their funds in their keeping available on short notice, have often helped borrow. ers to procure loans which otherwise would have been refused, and have even done so on favorable terms. The Guarantee Com, panies become, in fact, endorsers, and if, | on the one hand, they charge for the risk | they, on the other hand,

Such companies:

in some cases, the cost, of seeking private endorsements.—S?, John Tel.

save |

| The property of

the country, go to work manfally, and hopefully, patiently for legitimate returns and for the

salutary influenc > of time we should soon

and wait |

| that the Wesleyans are iner

see a vastly different state of affairs from what now meets the view. = <-> Tue New Ferry Boat.—The ferry boat built by the (iovernment has arrived at | last Stl mad the trip 2 ou I Monday t ho The d on the Charlottetown le of th ry 1} large enough for her; and it is expected that the dock on the South lip wrt side will be ready to receive her by the Ist of July. |

coms

mence running. She has net we under,

i stand been named, and we would suggest

as an appropriate,though perhaps inelegant |

not todo it. Should this name be adopted, we might report that the How not to one hundred feet in length and twenty-six feet beam, her en-

cognomen, How

do it is

gine is a single cylinder beam engine, with 59 nominal horse power, The

gives 6

jet condensers, capable of working up to 200.

inder inches in diameter, feet stroke and is fitted with double beat conical valves. shafts are each

eyls

is 30

The 23

-v feet long and 74 inches in diameter. The boiler is a return turbular, having two

furnaces, length 14 diameter 7} feet, dome 3 feet 8 inches diameter and 7 feet high. It has 96 S-inch tubes 10 feet long. There isa donkey engine attached for feeding the boiler, to which a hose can

feet, in

be attached in case of fire. ‘The shaft, erank, beam strap and piston rod, was made by the Nova: Scotia Forge Co.;

of the machinery Foundry

the remaining portions were made at the Acadia fitted up by Acadia Foundry workmen.

The Elfin and. the J/low provide better accommodation than our enjoyed; and upon each wharf,

notio do it will

people have ever when

house of refuge is built

and the fares lowered at least a half, they will, if the boats be properly managed

have little of which to complain.

ed

Much disgust is expressed by the people | of New York, that Indians are allowed to parade in hotels, theatres and streets, with

|scalps of white people worked in their

belts. Among these Indians is Pull Eagle, a stalwart chiet witha hang- dog look, the leader of a party of Sioux who captured Fannie Kelly, now in Washington.

Her husband was brutually murdered, and Mrs. Kelly—a young and handsome woman, had to submit toa thousand indignities at the hands of Bull Eagle and his associate devils during her 18 months of captivity.

the family to the amount

| of $17,000, was taken from her after the murder of her husband, and her three

These guarantee |

| Indians, who have been guilty~ of the

months old infant was impaled on a tent pole by Bull Eagle and his foliowers. Tlese most horrible crimes --- were lately allewed to fondie and ceress little children who were brought into their rooms by foolish,

| unthinking nurses,

The Viceroy of Egypt is about to astonish the world again. fe has resolved to build a railroad along the valley of the Nile to the interior of Africa, and as he has plenty of money and thousands of serfs at his com- mand he will, no doubt. accomplish his purpose. In afew years African explorers will be able to travel in sleeping cars, and

| to write magnificent description: of places

which they will have passed through in the dark.

King Alfonso has resolved to call together the Spanish Cortes, and has promulgated a decree declaring the electoral period open-

and |

| {

| | | | |

} |

j

| creased to §,651,

| ing at the rate of 12)

i the Kirk of Scotland ;

crease 2%, { think merly owing to the fact that

| that we are not far behind the Republic in | ratio | Great Britain gave the decennial increase a |

| we leave the Old Land far behind.

| the Dominion of Canada,

jects of Victoria are rated at 300,000,000.

| island, that fine district of which I have |

written so frequently in the columns of the In 1869 the population of the |

in 1874 it had ins | being at the rate of sixty | per cent. in five years. It must be remem.

}

bered that this astonishing increase |

Globe.

French Shore was 5,387 ;

taken place in apart of the island where

where the people |

there are no magistrates ;

are ing outside the pile of law, without roads schools, or any of the ordinary appli- | ances of civilization It is a conclusive | .

proof that the natural advantages of Wests ern Newfoundland must be very great, when with all the disadvantages referred to, the The

influx of population isso remarkable. chiefly from Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and the eastern portion of | Newfoundland. The effect of old treaties with the French, in regard to fishing privi- leges is to prevent our Government exer-

immigration is

cising jurisdiction over the finest half of the and to leave 865 persons in a state of Barbarism, outside the guardianship of law. Five years hence, there will probably be from 15,000 to 20,000 people living on the

| his rapid increase of population will speed~

this fine district brought within the pale of civilization, and steam communication es- by is difficult to result, when with ali its present disadvantages population is increass |

tablished between it and the capital, or

railway across the Island, it

per cent, in ten years.

|The Convention now deliberating in Paris | regarding the settlement of these difficul-

ties, will, it is to,be hoped. speedily arrive |

at The loss to

to say aaa

of the obstacles presented by French claims |

|

|

a satisfuctory conclusion.

and mining. Once

Western Newfoundland is placed on the | same footing as the rest of the colony it will |

speedily develope into a series of prosper- | and the fine valleys of St. | ong |

ous settlements,

George’s Bay and the Humber will ere be transformed into ‘the pleasant haunts |

THE CENSU3. | 1e census of 1874, including thetFrench |

of men.’ DENOMINATIONAL RESULTS OF Tl i - |

and Labrador, shows that there adherents of the Church of }

Church of Rome,

are

Shore 59,057 cngland, adherents of the Wesleyans, Kirk of Seatland, and 697 Free Church of Scotland, and 468 On computing the census of

35,099 470 adherents of the | adherents of the Congre gationalists. 1S74 with that of 1869 we find that during

Church of England has sed the Church of Rome at the rate of nearly

the Wesleyans at the

increa seven per cent.,

five per cent. > per cent. of

Free Kirk at the |

»

rate of at the rate sevens | and the

rate of twenty-one and a

teen per cent.,

half per cent.

laking the three leading religious denom. | nations of the Colony. it will thus be seen

easing with the - Me

During the five years which have elapsed since 1866 Protestants

greatest rapidity.

have increased by 10,462, and aow number |

| the above kinds of | to styles and prices at

\

Handsome

Sasa Me aa at

NEW AbY URTISEUENTS.

eee 8 ee eee eer eae

Privalé Residence |

PURSUANT to order of the Common | Household Furniture, Horses. |

’ 3 - si — a ST lianas y= n — . i eee j } A? £9 02) a+ 4 i + wasdh mended 14% oe] oy iad ry NEWFOUNDLAND. if y ii VTS. som) | yNsrONARY ENPRRPRISE IN TH CUPRE OUNDLA: | NEW AD SRTISE K ’ bY 9 * a nrory re OF j fa aeipitae ‘ } = lula inte taleiiahtiiiitsnichciemsesiebminiaiitiinaiseicieiniamaliaan ¢ i ¢ i \ 4 ] { ] (Lat * i Cor RT Opened at St. Eleanors on Tues lay NEWFOUNDLAND wilf, prot bably, soon be Gs Wednesday evening, %t!) inst, His | last—the Chief Justice presiding. The; “ one with us” will soon form part of the | MAYOR’ S OFFICE, } ~ Lordship the Bishop of Algoma, lectu ‘edin | following gentlemen composed the firand | Dominion. The following “Census Stas | CHARLOTTETOWN, FP E. ~*- 7 that ‘ DAS AN? Lhe s : . ° 99 . i. 7 . Charlottetown, Jrme M4, IS%o. St. Paul’s Church. is Lordship is travel- | Jury istics "furnished them by ® St. John | i line through the Dominion asking fot Chas. Green, (Foreman,) W oe ig correspondent of the Toronto Glebe will, »| Council of Charlottetown, and 1 under and | HE WATER YQ! ESTION hicuiin ) ble him to co on with t} Colin Wright, D niel Woodside, vonn 1’: | therefore, be specially interesting. | by virtue of a by-law of the said city, re- | . stance tO enaulm iin * Nordham, Archibald Montgomery, w m. The total populati ¢ the Island, ac | lating to the F ire De :partinent, pi ussed 10th | —e } : } } Jar Vo | en ; TT 4} C tal . ‘ ac- ! f the city is, we | noble work which he has undertaken °lT. Eilis, Wm. Reid, James Heffield, | Population © : sii November, 1870, and approved of 2nd | ] i ~ % ? ' } ‘ . . , > Q . run pu } ih y pony ppy to say that the! ure was Ve Patrick MeCabe, John Crawford, Finlay cording to the Census of 1869, was 146,! 536 ; | March, 1871, I hereby notify all persons in) ate | : ” 2 sats " is , ; with pleasure, becoming dally | weak) att Rat l wo ly hope that | Campbell, Reuben Tu; re see the census of 1874 gives 161,586, as the to- | a oe said, : — a iggene , ‘ bald Nin , ) 3 [ear Peter J106 ’ . : : ylace or he storage o erosene : » this Important a \ if re ud Oinoialr, LOUIS Leard, Le tul population, Fro » small section of | | { more d “OG Ut mr | his ery for help w n egether with Fa a} "} From one | other burning or infk: ummable fluids has been he felt that so lon jot fruit i, feoom 1Oth ie the district of Twillingate no return had | providedin said city, situated on the pre- | t | out frui i rimal « cK W onger that . ete a . os eown is without water works | « are 41 th vet {Ie said j ee as geen bec n obtained ; but in the above return, | | mises of Owen Conuolly, Esq., in Ward re 3 Ch eww | | ‘ | ; LUE the ea were, With One or LWo | have included it, estimating its present po- | 1, fronting on Dundas Esplanade: and that ¥ ro ‘ i } 1 rl ! 5 t S i | ti % 1 the ‘ } j | citi us are unto them ’ wo all t wor . rh tt. The Grand Jury made | ; ‘l all perse ns found with over 60 svi allons of a behind i : ‘ ‘ i . | wiula nA , se ap- . ‘ . : ; wor ¢ fire and pe stilence. | preach the = tros] ee ee tha , ‘ 1ents . On BE tere is © very einen ep such ois or fluids on their preiises, or 1 HStaBh Gang . eee th : lia 1 Ene- | ‘ proximation to the reality. Thus it ap-| elsewhere in said city, three days after os } n me _ ' : ‘ n i cime ‘ ‘ ; <ul aan . Nohad eennrdi } it is erally feit that ¢ ees nd had it vices to ta : : pears that in five yeare Newfoundland has | Botton r a of will ao ag ate ; } hire] and 1n- . , ; . : he snic iye-law. Al ees to be paid j Ml . he bucket and of 1 . ‘ nd 1 14. RAD 4, ‘ ovine “eae the ’ : iy es I by t Ck : on _ but m th \ t of | Q Car q ny 4 | aa led q Oo to its population, being at the | the parties storing such oil or fluid. suring property at enormously high Fatesy | td not accept t! V rate of a little over ten per cent, for that) pated this 10th day of June, 1875. heavy burdens which the introductiot Fahew t pout att vn expense ; “ On| period, During the preceding period, | NEIL RANKIN, Mayor. | ue — " e. | «al true , i aac : : . ay ‘ecal se : : pent supply of pure water wil t before he went y furtl he would from 1857 to 1869, the increase was at the Juse 14, 1875.—li ‘ ' - 5 ' . \ } et — } willie » of , , 1. , » cA in re] re ae ; : ‘We must have water is the give a description of the country. Hie said Lhe Q en Joseph Connor, maliciou iy |} ite of nearly twenty per cent. in twe.ive - | I 1 EK ‘ ey . 2 j m . cw ea that it was rapidly filling up ; that a great | stabbing ue bill ,, | Years, so that the rate of increase for the N ) C : prevaliing scntimen:, : : .} be Ries 6 » 0) Jobn M iInnon, Uib | y os : a aaa ” : Weis bel the case, the qu stion is|mumber of settlements, such as roe) oom A a - oe | lust five years has been more rapid than | is being the case, U testh : ie ad ee ‘ bh ll. : y sai 08 =e Shall water be introduced? Arthur’s Landing, Garden River, the Svult | trial, is th of the above cases, the! during the preceding period, owing, no | §i&@oud les, not now shail water ve trou Bs s oa : : cr : On trial, in each of the above ises, D il oe hell water be introduced: St. Marie, and many other places, had a Sadie Serv brotha « wacdionel sauilis | doubt, to the greater degree of prosperity | , MILE undersigned will sell by Auction, to but it is “ How shai! water be Introd , | population from 1000 to 1500 souls; and r ee | t |. we have enjoyed, ‘Th mont: Semeemenie the lowest bidder, on Friday, the 18th one © : ti » : . : he prisoners have not yet been sentenc ed and what will its introduction cost Po at Museoka, which had been laid off into | ~"™ , iJ 4 l ne a | 4 increase has taken place on what is called | June, at 11 a. in., repairing the roads from . : 1s The Gran iry made several other pre- ; » > ‘ arrive at a proper So! lution of this ques | town jots last Fall, there was not this " ' (Ri ie A Lie | the ‘ French shore,’ or western coast of the Marie Railway station to the Post road, sale interests of justice, | to commence near the station. Also, on

the 19th of Ju-e,at 10a. m., the making and repairing certain portions of the road leading from the Portage Road te Monte- cello. Sale to commence at the western cud of the road. Good sec urity required for each esaoy

. MACDONALD, S.P. W. Geo'town, a 14,

NOTICE.

egular mecting of

ie HE 1 Centenary Committee will be

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Secretary.

held

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Side Queen Square.

Apprentice Wanted. .ANTED, at TUE EXAMINER Office, a smart BOY learn the Printing

Busines ss. One from the country preferred.

‘te Laat ei “Stalling * Roland.” travel the ramainder of the season

or aL as follows: Wednesday May 26, leaves culling at A. N. Campbell's, Rollo Baty, noon; thence to Joseph Dinywell’s mniiis, remaining over night; ‘Thursday,May 26th, to Donald MeInnis’, Head St. Peter's Bay, noon; thence to Dingwell’s, near Morell Floating Bridge, remaining over night; Friday,May 28.h, to Patrick Walsh’s, Morell rear, noon: thence to Kenney s Baldwin’s Road, over night; Saturday, | May 29th to Magnus Moars, at noon; hence to Daniel MeDonald’s, New Perth, over Sunday; Monday May 3lst, to Donald

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Forbes, at noon; thence to Johnson Aitkin’s, Lower Montague, over night; Tuesday June Ist to Mrs. Lannigan’s, Sturgeon Bridge, at noon; thence to

William MecKay’s, Murray Harbor North, over night; Wednesday June 2nd to Capt. Wi. Clow’s, at noon; thence to Daniel Sipgleton’s, Peters Road, over nighte Thursday June 3rd to Robert Saunders, Murray Harbor South, at noon: thence to Charles Le Lacheur’s, Guernsey Cove, over night; Friday June 4th to Harvey Bishops .

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Carriages, etc.,

AM instructed by J. to sel! at Auction on

MONDAY, 5th JULY, at llo’clock.

That very handsome private Residence. Grounds, and out-buildings now occupied |

5. Carvell, Esq.)

by hin My known as the ‘* WEST END | HOUSE,’ and situated at the west end of Kent Street, near Government House, | fronting on the Hillsborough River, and | commanding a magnificent view of the | harbor, rive ied bay. The Grounds are beautifully laid cut with handsome lawns, walks and ornamental trees, and comprise | in extent over Four Town Lots, which, | together with the Dwelling House, Barns, | Stables, Iee House, and otner out-buildings coinbine to make it the most ‘desirabiec | residence in the city.

Together with all the valuable House- |

} hold Furniture, Horses, Carriages, Sleighs, | r , | and Garden Tvols, | Catalogues to be had

'on THURSDAY, the O'Connell | Examiner inj . . : . oe Jjand Stands, Office Furniture Subscription

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| 96022. Roman Catholics have increased | . : ‘ i ia cs | w Sa o at oO : ‘nce as in the same period 2,979 , and now number | ." hite ands it noon; thence to Head Lol r 5 cal j} Murray River, over night; Saturday June | 64,018. In th uve years the rate or M-) 5:h to Michael MeDonald’s. Whim Road crease of the Protestant population has | at no 5 thence by oe Bridge to i " | ws Posy “eo aining been 12.22 per cent., the increase of the | Uaniel MeDouald’s, New Pert’, remaining i cds foe 1 ,| over Sunday; Monday June 7th to John ole ( 1 “2 1 d * : "re : oa . oman Catholic population has been 453 | Campbell's, Cardigan Bridge, at noon, rr “a. } per cent. The difference between the |

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the Catholics emigratein great numbers to the U os States from this Colony, and the fewer comparatively of Protestants in- Just as in Ireland, the United States is regarded as the Promised Land of that portion of the Celtic race who have made Newfoundland their homes; and the younger and more adventurous spirits have a strong tendency to setout for this El Dorado, Protestants are thus becoming the leading powers. COMPARISONS.

The foregoing figures prove that the popu lation of Newfoundland is increasing with considerable rapidity, and that should the

cline to try their fortunes elsewhere.

western coast be opened up for emigrants the probability is that the increase will be The increase has been per cent. in five years, or decennial increas: atthe rate of twenty per cent. The last census of the Dominion gave a decennial increase of 12.80 per cent, ahead of the Dominion of Canada. The census of i870 in the United States showed the des cennial increase to be 22.52 per cent., so

still more rapid. ten