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VOL. 3.

T ‘ a THe Datty EXAMINER Is Published evegy Evening. OFFICE: INGS’ BUILDING, CORNER OF WATER AND GREAT GEORGE STREETS, Charlottetown, P, E. 1.

KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION :

Six Months, - : : $2 50 Three Months, : 1 25 One Month, - 0 50 One Week, . 0 12

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aw Advertising at most moderate rates.

Contracts may be made for monthly, quar- terly, or half-yearly advertisements, on appli- cation.

W. L. COTTON, Manager.

PRINGE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. 9.

SUMMER ARRANGEMENT |

MONDAY, APRIL 29th, 1878.

Trains Going West.

J. W. MITCHELL, Otlice Sup’t.

STATIONS. No. 1

No. 3 Iso, 5 | Express. ; Mixed. {)

Mixed

Georgetown |Dp 4.00 pn Dp 7.30 am Cardigan ss 4.20 “es ee po se , ar 5.25 “* jar 9.20 * her tJun | dp.5.35 “ |dp 9.30 * | Royalty Jun. | ** 6.32 ‘* | “10.45 “ Ch’to ar 6.50 ‘* jarll.05 ‘ | P. M. rae PENA dp 6.25 amjdpl1.35 ‘ j}dp5.25 Royalty Jun. | ‘* 6.43 “| “11.55 “ | *5.40 N. Wiltshire | ‘* 7.18 ‘* | “12.50 pm! ‘6.42 Hunter River | “* 7.30 ‘* | “ 1.07 ‘* | **7.00 Breadalbane ae 1? Le Tt ee County Line a) eee eee Kensington “ae? 1 So0 | PSD Su id ar 9.00 ‘* jar 3.15 ‘* lar 9.00 Summersie | lap 9.15 “ |dp 3.45 “ Wellington Pome 1 “400 Port Hill ae + oa U’ Leary ae rs eee “ Alberton “33.00 ** | * 800 * Tignish ar12.40 pm.ar 8.50 ‘ Trains Going East. STATIONS. No, 2 No.4 | No. 6 Express. | Mixed. |mixed Tignish ee i oan ae ‘ «§ jar 7.20 * Alberton « 2.30 asta 0 oc“ 3.13 eer] 66 8.57 se Port Hill © 4.10 “* | £110.22 ** Wellington 4.40 * | “11.10 *

ar 5.15 ** jar 12.05 pm) A. M.

Sammerside dp 5.30 * dp12.40 ‘6 dp6.30

Kensington - oe she oe County Line OER 1 * 167 1 ae Breadalbane 6.32 ** | “* 2.07 * | **7.58 Hunter River | “ 7.00 “ | “* 2.48 “ | **8.35 N. Wiltshire ¢ 9.18 * 1 “328 +76 ar 4.00 ‘* | **9.45 Royalty Jun. | ‘* 7.47 ‘ dp 4.10 ‘ jarl005 Ch’to ar 8.05 a ar 4.30 7 _ dp 8.05 am|dp Se . Royalty Jun. {| ‘* 8.23 ‘ i 4.10 “

. ar 9.20 * ,ar 6.25 “ Mt. Stewart dp 9.40 ‘« dp 5.45 «

Cardigan "10.43

Geo jarll.05 “* jar 7.35 “ ' SOURIS BRANCH.

Trains Going West. : a

STATIONS. | No7 Mixed. | No. 9 Mixed. Souris Op Ble pa | Dp 6.30am. Harmony | *§33r * 1 “© 662 * St. Peter’s “"aee * {‘' £07 “ rell se | as

M. Stew’t Jun. |A i he: OS. **

Trains Going East.

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STATIONS,

No. 8 Express, |N o. 10 Mixed.

M. Stewart Jun} Dp 9.30 am. | Dp 5.35 p.m Morell “50.08 ./$ *G.45...* St. Peter’s 208.95...“ Slee s.2° armony ss) 1.23 e ‘e 8.02 ee Souris Aril40 *“ | Ar 825 “

WM. McKECHNIE,

©. J. BRYDGES, Supt. P. BOL. R.

Gen. Sup. Gov. Railways. Ch’town, April 20, 1875—

en For Sale,

\ ACRES IMPROVED LAND on Lot 5O 33, situated on Donnelly’s Road, within } mile ef Peake’s Station. Fifteen acres are under plow ; the rest is covered with hardwood and rails. _This farm will be sold at a reasonable rate. —Terms: half down ; time for balance made known at sale. Apply. to the owner, JAS. HANDRAHAN.

Aug. 30—2i

DR. WILLIAM GRAY’S SPECIFIC’ MEDICINE, ' ~ The Great English Rem- <6 2 edy is an unfailing cure for Seminal W

all diseases that follow 0s Loss of Memery.

vosthge.’ Sul postage. ° in our pam send

SH ERT'E con te oniese ae

a@ Sold in Charlottetown by W. R. Wat- on, Dr. Dodd, C, D. Rankin, P. G. Fraser at Apothecaries Hall,tand by all Druggists anywhere,

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OTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER. 2,

Daniel W. dob & Co,

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PERKINS & JOB, UOMMISSION MERCHANTS

AND

SHIP BROKERS,

9] State Street, - - Boston.

August 23, 1S78—3m

PROFESSIONAL GARD.

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A. A. McLEBAN,

Barrister and Attorney-at-Law,

Newson’s Buriprne, Orrosrre Posr Orr:cr,

South Side Queen Square, CHARLOTTETOWN, - - P. EL. Aug. 13th, 1878—3m eod

E. G. HUNTER,

—IMPORTER OF—

Italian and American Marble,

AND MANUFACTURER OF Monuments, Tablets, Headstones, Tomb Tables, &c., &c,

Also, Mantles, Centre Table Tops, Bureau and Commode Tops, Wash Bowl Slabs, Bracket Shelves, &c., &c. Granite, Freestone, and Soapstone

done in allits branches.

or PRISES TO SUIT, SATISFACTION CUARANTEED.

B® Designs furnished on application. “@a Next Door to Mark Butcher’s Fur- niture Factory, Kent Street, Charlottetown.

August 7, 1878.—3taw

General Insurance Office.

IRE and MARINE, LIFE and ACCI- DENT INSURANCE effected. Office, opp. Post Office, South Side. HORACE HASZARD,

SURVEYOR OF SHIPPING,

OPPOSITE POST OFFICE—SOUTH SIDE,

HORACE HASZARD, Surveyor. °

Ch’town; Aug. 2—

DR. CLEMENT,

SURGEON DENTIST,

EGS to inform the citizens of Charlotte-

town and vicinity that he has opened an office next door to the Reform Club (rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Caldwell), for the practice of Dentistry. He has adopted the following Scale of Charges, to suit the times, _ to put Dentistry within the reach of all :—

For a full upper or lower Sett of Teeth, $10 00 For partial Setts--each tooth, . . . 100 For Gold Fillings, Kal Recs, EE For Amalgam and all composition fillings, 50

ALL WORK CUARANTEED FIRST-CLASS. In inserting Artificial Teeth, the Best Ma- terial only is used, and a perfect fit warranted in all cases, or no pay. Ch’town, July 6, 1878—pat 3aw ar pres.

WAGSTAPE'S HOTEL,

rEXitk Subscriber having fitted up the Hote formerly known as

THE RANKIN HOUSE,

in first-class style, is now prepared to give comfortable accommodation to

Permanent and Transisnt Boarders.

Tourists and others will receive every atten- tion at the Wagstatl’s Hotel.

WM. WAGSTAFF,

May 25, 1878.

Tinsmithing, Gasiitting, &e..

HE Subscriber thankful for past patron- age, would inform his friends and the public generally, that he is stiil prepared to do all work in his line. TTiasmithing, Gasfitting, and General Jobbing punctuaily attended to. On hand, a lot of Tinware, which will be sold very cheap, wholesale and retail. Also wanted, a good steady man to peddle Tinware-

GEO. E. MILLNER, Cor. Great George & Fitzroy Sts. Ch’town, May 16—

PT: Starch Manufacturing Co.,

CAPITAL . . $25,000,

In Shares of $25.00 each,

HIS COMPANY has been Incorporated

by Act of Parliament during the present session, and one-third of the Shares have been taken up by the leading men of Charlottetown. Farmers holding Stock in this Company will

$1.| have the benefit of the preference in the large

purchase of produce which the working of the Company entails. Applications for Shares to be made to

Messrs. Hyndman Eres,, untill the Di- rectors and Otticers of the Company are ap-

pointed, April 16, 1878—

Tue Datty KXAMINER,

- SEPTEMBER 2, 1878.

POLICY OF THE MINISTRY.

‘We have in this country at the present mo- moment No mpEA of having a system of Free Trade.” —Jlon. A. McKenzie at Toronto.

‘The policy of the Government is deter- mined opposition to the Opposition”.--Pre- mier’s Speech at the Drill Shed.

In other words, the policy of the Goy- ernment is to slander their opponents and

do nothing for the good of the country.

THE OPPOSITION PLATFORM.

A RE-ADJUSTMENT OF THE TARIFF.

To make the duties fall more equitably.

To make it the interest of the United States to accord Reciprocity.

To revive the languishing West India Trade.

To remove the present barriers to the de- velopment of our Agricultural, Mining and other Natural resources ; and gen- erally

To encourage Home Industries with Home Markets for Home Produce.

To promote our Fishing interests and pro- tect the rights of our Fishermen.

Economy 1N DepartTMENTAL ADMINISTRA- TION.

A Representative OF Prince Epwarp IsLAND IN THE CABINET.

THE PLANK ON WHICH SIR JOHN

McDONALD STANDS.

‘* NeirHER AT LONDON OR ELSEWHERE HAVE I GOME BEYOND MY MOTION IN Par- LIAMENT, AND HAVE NEVER PROPOSED AN INCREASE, BUT ONLY A RE-ADJUSTMENT OF TARIFF.

** Joun A. McDona.p.”

‘‘We can well understand that we may raise the duty on woollen, cotton and other goods, but lower the duty on articles of general consumption which we cannot pro- duce, and the volume of taxation may be LESS IN FACT, although it may be raised, at

any given time, higher than it was before.

Ifa man were obliged to pay a cent more for his cotton, and had a cent taken off his tea, it would be found, by calculation, that he was a gainer by the operation.” —Sir John in Parliament.

MR. TILLEY’S PLANK.

Mr. Titiry then took up the public ex- penditure, showing that an average expen- diture of $22,500,000 was ail that was necessary, and the expenditure ought to have been kept within that, instead of an average, as it has been, of $24,000,000. The policy of the Opposition was NoT IN- CREASED TAXATION, as it had been stated by their opponents, but a readjustmerit of the tariff and REDUCED EXPENDI- TURES, These were the planks in their platform, together with encouragement to our manufacturing industries; ship’s ma- terials, raw materials, machinery not made in the country, free; 15 PER CENT. on non-enumerated articles; and an increase of the tariff on such articles as we can pro- duce in the country, giving employment to our people and a HOME MARKET FOR OUR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE.

DR. TUPPER’S PLANK.

**T trust I have satisfied the House tha IT IS NOT « question of high or low taxa- tion, any further than this, that, inasmuch as we governed the country with a small taxation, and inasmuch as we are prepared to govern the country again without those extravagant expenditures made by the pres- ent Government since they have been en- trusted with power, all we ask is, Nor THAT THE TAXATION OF THE PEOPLE SHALL BE INCREASED, because we do not require so much money as the hon. zentlemen oppo- site, as we have shown by our economy in the past, and which we are prepared to practice in the future, but that the money shall be levied in such a way as to FURNISH EMPLOYMENT FOR THE PEOPLE AND PROVIDE THE MEANS OF PAYING THE TAXATION THAT Is LEVIED UPON THEM.”

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THE OPPOSITION CANDIDATES. Queen's County.

§ Hon. J. C. Pore, ) Hon. F. De Sr. Crorx Brecxen,

Prince County.

§ Cornetius Howatt, Esa. / (Epwarp Hackett, Esq. |

. King’s County. » Austin C. McDonatp, Esq. Dr. Mvtrart.

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NO. 388.

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SCATHING INDICTMENT BY SENATOR MAC- | PHERSON. WHAT SAY THE ELECTORS /!

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The following convincing letter is fom | Senator McPherson. He has already challenged Senator Brown, or any member of the so-called ‘‘ Reform” par’ 7, to g.'n- 8 iy his assertions. Ce repeats the cha! @ ige; |

but we venture to predict thet no man of |

the ‘‘ Reform” school will controvert his

his statement :—

To the Hon. George Brown, # ditor and Managing Director of the Toronto. Globe.

Sir,—My attention has been called to the following sentence in an editorial para- graph which appeared in the ‘* Globe” of ‘Thursday last: ‘‘ As to Senator Macpher- gon, as a stretcher he rivals Tupper.”

I am not aware tiat you ever convicted Dr. Tupper of ‘ stretching,” and { am quite sure that that able and hig ily « ‘fied man was never guilty of intentional misre- presentation. ut where a damaging state- ment cannot be refuted it is doubtless often convenient, if not honest, to dispose of it by a “stretch” and call it a ** stretcher.”

Your obvious intention in referring to me was to cast doubt upon the correctness of the statements relating to the increased public expenditure by the present Govern- ment which I have submitted from time to time to the public — most recently during my late visit to the County of Bruce. it these statements contain inaccuracies, I should like the errors to be pointed out specifically. The details were taken from the public accounts. If this is true, if items are not included, except such as are in the public accounts, it follows that there cannot possibly be exaggeration or stretch- ing in the statements. [tems were no doubt overlooked, and omitted, and the truth un- derstated. ‘That was almost unavoidable when the researches were so intricate and multiform, but these omissions were to the advantage of the Government; what- ever may be the sum of them, to that ex- tent I have understated the amount of the expenditure for which the present Govern- ment is responsible. To set at rest, once and for all, the question of accuracy, and and to determine whether i am correct or thw Ministers of the Crown, who have im- pugned my statements, I inade the follow- ing proposition, when speaking on the 25th June last at Kincardine :—

‘* What I have stated.to you touching the increased expenditure is taken from the public accounts. It is unseemly to have members of the Government and myself standing up before the public, the one denying what the other asserts. To put an end to these charges of misstatement and to stop recrimination, I am _ perfectly will- ing to leave the audit of my statements to gentlemen who are qualified for the work, and who are strictly nom partizan. I will name the General Manager of the Bank of Montreal, Mr. Angus; the General Man- ager of the Merchants’ Bank, Mr. Hague ; the General Manager of the Canada Life Insurance Company, Mr. Ramsay, and the General Manager of the Permanent Loan and Savings Company, Mr. Mason. I am willing to leave it to any twoor three of these gentlemen to say whether my state- ments are.correct or not. (Prolonged cheering.) If it were a matter of polities, these gentlemen would. not act, but it is not. They would simply have to deal with matters of account, to see whether such of my statements as the Government may question are correctly taken “°om the pub- lic accounts. Two or three of my state- ments are estimates, but all the others are from the public accounts. Unless the Goy- ernment are willing to come be‘ore the tvi- bunal I have suggested, and prove that iy statements are incorrect, let them fore er be silent upon the subject of “naccurac:-s, so far as | am concerned, and, unless they be silent, I hope that fair-miaded people will not listen to them until they accept my challenge. (Renewed cheering. )”

I think you will admit that a tribunal of audit could not be composed of gentlemen of higher character or better qualified for the work, being,“as they are, experis in matters of account, and in politics non- partizan.

The members of the Government have not aceepted my challenge. Mr. McKenzie stated at a public meeting last year that there was ‘‘a falsehood on every page’ of my first pamphlet.

One would have supposed that he would have been glad te go before a high tribunal and endeavor to prove his accusation, but he has not showed a willngness to do so, and for a very good reason. Mr. McKen- zie well knows that if he went be’ore such a tribunal he would retire discomiited.

Ministers may advance as an excuse for not accepting my challenge the demand which electioneering occuy ations make upon

Well, to relieve them, I include you in it. You area man ef comparative leisure, free from stumping engagements. Yon, moreover, are the real head of the Govern- ment—without portfolio or responsibility. There would seem, therefore, a special fit- ness and propriety in your undertaking to | prove before an independent and competent | tribunal the truthfulness of what has been

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suceced in this yon would do much to prove that the present Government has redeemed the pledges of economy and retrenchment which T accuse its members of having violat- ed. Iwill epitomize the statements which i challenge you to disprove. They are as follows, namely :—

‘That the expenditure for salaries and contingencies of the Pub'ic offices of Ottawa and for Legislation for the three years,

875-76-77, under Mr. McKenzie, was $1,- 500,718 more than the same services cost for the three years 1870-71-72, under Sir John MeDonald. That the contingencies and general expenses of the Department at

| Ottawa and the House of Commons for the

same period were increased ander Mr. Me- Kenzie’s Government $204,116, and that the amount paid to extra clerks during the same period was increased from $16,829 to $100,709,

That the salaries of Mr. McKenzie and his Cabinet for five years, from Noveiber, 1873, to November, 1878, will exceed the salaries of Sir John McDonald and his Cabinet for the five years anterior to 1873 $161,000, and that Mr. McKenzie’s person- al emoluments are $3,400 a year more than those of Sir John McDonald were before 1873,

That the expenditure for the Adminis- tration of Justice has increased under the regime of Messrs. McKenzie and Blake by the enormous sum of $166,631 a year.

That the annual loss on the performance of the Post Office service has increased under the same regime $356,157.

That although the Customs revenue di- minished the cost of collecting it in 1877 was $153,929 more than in 1873, and that if this revenue had been collected in 1877 as economically as in 1873 the country would have saved $172,026. That at the Montreal Custom House alone, where the revenue was $1,145,744 less in 1877 than in 1873, the cost of collecting it in 1877 was $30,- 256 more than in 1873, and that if the revenue had been collected at Montreal in 1877 as economically as in 1873, the coun- try would have saved $50,352.

That in New Brunswick the Customs re- venue between 1875 and 1877 fell off $155,- 220, yet that the increased cost of collecting the diminished revenue in 1877 was $22,- 818, and that if the New Brunswick Cus- toms revenue had been collected in 1877 as economically as in 1873, the country would have saved $52,893 in that Province. That the percentage of cost of collecting the Cus- toms revenue of the Dominion increased from 4.38 per cent. in 1873 to 5.75 per cent. in 1877; at Montreal the increase was from 1.75 per cent. in 1873 to 3.80 per cent. in 1877 ; and in New Brunswick from 5.08 per cent. in 1875 to 8.90 per cent. in 1877. That if the Excise revenue had been col- lected in 1877 as economically as in 1873, the country would have saved $23,361. That the per capita cost of immigrants who came in by the ports of the Dominion— who were the only ones induced to come through the agency of the immi-ration De- ae mentee from $7.76 in 1873 to 7.04 in 1877.

That the expenditure for telegraphing increased under the present Government (a portion being actually charged to WVapi- tal) ; the average for years 1874-5, 6, 7 was $28,498, while the average for 1872-3 was only $24,860.

That the loss by the steel rail speculation, with interest and extra charges, will be in the neighborhood of $20,000,000.

That there was a surplus of revenue over expenditure every year from Confederation to the end of the financial year 1874-5; that these surpluses amounted in the aggregate to $12,010,708, notwithstanding that taxes estimated to yield $2,000,000 were remitted in 1871 and 1872.

That the deficits for 1875-76 and 1876-77 amounted to $3,704,493 (including the cooked item of $343,591 for Intercolonial Railway renewals). That there was ex- pended in 1874, on works not commenced in 1875, $327,552; in 1875, on works not commenced in 1873, $203,546; in 1876, on works not commenced in 1873, $556,596; aud in 1875 and. 1876, on works not com- menced in 1874, $621,669,

That the increased annual controllable expenditure since 1875, ior which the pre- sent Government is responsible, is $2,300,-

000, as per table in pamphlet containing.

my speeches in Bruce, page 14. That the annual amount for interest on public debt, management of debt and sinking fund, was increased between 1876 °and 1877 by the enormons sum of $2,052,812.

That the estimates of the Minister of Finance, set forth in his Budget Speeches of 1874 and 1875 proved alarmingly falla- cious. That for the three years, for which we have returns down to 3@th June, 1878, the revenue was $5,704,424 less than he estimated. That for the same period he estimated that there would be annual sur- plus of $1,000,000, instead of which there have been two deficits, the diserepancy be- tween estimate and result in this case being $5,768,759. That he estimated having an annual increase for 1874 of $1,000,000 in in the amount of deposits in the Govern- ment savings banks, mstead of which those deposits in 1875-6-7 were less than in 1874, the discrepancy between estimate and re- sult being $4,460,585.

That the Mitfister of Finance negotiated loans on unWise and improvident conditions and sunk in the prepayment of interest, &c. , owt of the principal of the loan of 1877 ($12,- 166,666), nearly a million and a half of dol- lars, and sunk in this way, while he has been in office, the colossal sum of $3,862,-

alleged by: yourself and by Ministers in’ re-

spect to my financial statements. If you)

070. That the Minister of Finance, in a speech delivered at Lindsay on the 29th

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