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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. HL.

Winter Arrangement.

ON AND AFTER

MONDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 1878.

Trains Going West.

STATIONS. No. 1. No.3

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MAIL NOTICE.

AILS to be forwarded via Cape Traverse N will be closed at this Office daily—Sun- days excepted—at 8 o’clock p. m. The mail for Great Britain, by Canadian Packet sailing from Halifax on Saturdays, will be closed heze on Wednesdays at 8 o'clock, m. P The mail fer Great Britain via New York will be closed on Thursdays at 8 o'clock, p. m. Mails for all places West of Charlottetown receiving Mails by Railway Train or Postal Car, will be closed daily at 7 o'clock, a. m. Mails for Georgetown and Souris East, also for all places on the route to those points, will be closed daily at 2 o’clock, p. m. Post Office open from 8, a. m., till 8, p. m. A. A. MACDONALD, Postmaster.

Post Office, Charlottetown, } 20th Feb., 1879. }

DR. CREAMER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Kent Street, Charlottetown, (Three doors from Dr. Johnson's).

a@ ENTRANCE BY SIDE DOOR. @& Oct. 15—3m

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H. W.. Vinnicombe

Resident Piano Tuner & Regulator,

: CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE

t | ;

H*s adopted the Dollar system of Tuning |

i six visits a year, at one dollar per visit. ‘Phis system is much more economical and satisfactory than any other, as the cost is less, and the instrument is kept constantly in tune and repair.

A visit will be made to all parts of the Island once a year, or oftner if desired. Pianos tuned by Hamilton’s system of even temperament.

&@ Orders may be Music Store, or at Street.

Jan. 6, 1879—

left at Mr. Mletcher’s » Bremner Bros., Queen

Union Assurance Company, OF LONDON, ENCLAND.

CAPITAL - - $12,500,000.

NSURANCE effected against Fire on all

descriptions of Property throughout the Island.

sa Low rates and prompr settlement of

losses. HORACE HASZARD, Agent for P. E. Island. Ch’town, Dee, 20, 18S78—

QUEEN INSURANCE CO'Y.

OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

Leen te effected on all kinds of Build- ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on Vessels on the stocks.

Special rates for isolated residences,

Losses settled promptly.

GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward [sland June, 1877—

E. G. HUNTER,

Italian and American Marble, Monuments, Tablets, Headstones,

Manties, Cenrre TaBLe Tops, Bureau AND CommopE Tors, WasH Bow. Siass, &c., &e.

Prices to suit, and satisfaction guaranteed. sar Designs furnished on application. “@a

Corner Hillsborough and Kent Streets, Char lottetown.

November 6, 1878.

BROADWAY HOUSE,

BY MACKENZIE.

TSNHE former ‘City Hotel,” now the

Broadway House, Great George Street, opposite the Catholic Cathedral, is now open for Permanent and ‘Transient Boarders.

The rooms have been thoroughly renovated and newly furnished.

The tables will be supplied with the best the market affords, and fares reasonable.

A Suite of Rooms convenient for a small family, together with board &c., can be had in the Broadway House.

Nov. 23, 1878—tf

JAMES HOBBS,

CABINIOT-MABRER, UPHOLSTERER, £TC,,

AS REMOVED from McPhail’s Corner to the premises just vacated by Mr. JouHN Stums.es, Prince Strect, where, with increased facilities, he is prepared to attend to the wants of his customers with punctuality and despatch, and on reasonable terms. CARPETS cut and laid. PArtntinG and Repairing neatly done. Picture FRAMES and Mouldings constantly ou hand, or made up to order. All kinds of Household Furniture made to order, cheap. and good. New Pattern School Desks made at short notice. A first-class article. a8” Don’t forget the place: PRINGE STREET (near the new Baptist Church in course of erection). Charlottetown, Oct. 26, 1IS78—

RANKIN HOUSE,

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I,

J.J. DAVIES - - - Proprietor (Formerly of St. Lawrence Hotel, Picton).

HIS well-known Hotel is now open under

the present management ; and, having been newly furnished throughout, it offers every comfort to the travelling public. Suit- able Sample Rooms for commercial gentlemen.

Oct. 15, 18S78—3m.

WAGSTAFE'S HOTEL,

HE Subscriber having fitted up the Hotel formerly known as

THE RANKIN HOUSE,

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

Permanent and Transient Boarders,

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

WM. WAGSTAFF. May 25, 1878.

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|Report of the Directors ‘of the |

Marine Insurance Company for

Owen, Hon. J. C. Pope, G. R. Beer, Easq., Thomas Handrahan, Esq., D. R. M. Hooper, Esq., Benj. Rogers, Esq.

Tuk Dirkorers, in presenting this their Sixteenth Aunual Report, have to remind the Shareholders that the year just closed has been one of the most disastrous known to un- derwriters for a long period.

This Company has not fared any worse than many others; but owing to the fact that no provision has been made in former years to make a reserve fund out of profits, the loss will be felt with greater severity: it being necessary, in the opinion of your Directors, that a call be made to provide funds to meet the losses already settled.

At the last Annual Meeting it was stated that the profits of 1877, unless reduced by un- forseen causes, would, after paying the losses of 1876, leave a small balance to the credit of the Company.

The allowance voted to the Directors, to- gether with a loss on M. A. Robertson, and some return premiums which had not been calculated on, reduced these profits by the sum of $1,443.05, so that a balance of $1,098.90 of the losses of 1876 had to be paid out of the business of 1878.

Your Directors, knowing that the general depression of business would be sure to be felt by underwriters, have exercised the greatest care in taking risks, and only fifty policies were issued during the past year. The amount of pre-

miums taken in 1878

for new business was Amount transferred for

re-insurances from WO Se ae oaks 9,345 090 Losses settled........ $18,841 89 Return premiums... .. 3,002 05 Expenses of manage- NS 539 87 Amount required for re-insurance........ 8,301 00

Loss ascertained on year’s business.....

3,380 29

$30,684 81 $30,684 81

Loss as above........ $3,389 29 Loss, 1876, as_ before OS EEO TOE 1,098 90 Losses unsettled, say.. 2,200 00 Estimated loss to date, $6,679 19 BALANCE. Assets. _ Liabilities. Claims settled........ $ 7,278.71 Estimated loss........ 2,209.00 Re-insurances......... 8,301.00 Bills receivable........ $10,005.93 Scns > chi akeend 42.17 Amounts to collect.... 24,42 Duncan & Co., balance. 1,028.00 Bal, loss as above...... 6,679.19

$17,779.71 $17,779.71]

The Directors recommend that a call of Ten Dollars per Share be made—payvable on or be- fore 20th May next,—with which they hope, should no other losses occur, they may be able to meet all the engagements of the Company.

ers that this Company was organized without any paid up capital, and that dividends have been paid to them amounting to $76.81 per share, without their every having been called on, before this time, to pay in one cent to- wards carrying en the business.

As intimated at commencement of this Re- port, had a small Reserve Fund been allowed to accumulate, the necessity of a call at this time would not bave arisen, and the © opera- tions of the Company been carried out more

satisfactorily. James DesBrisay, | my A. L. Brows, Esqs., | 22ditors.

F. W. Hatss, Secretary. E> me

The Tariff.

The St. John Sun concludes an able article on the new tariff with this statement :—

“We presume that the active figure heads of the Opposition will at once bestir themsel- ves in misrepresenting the Tariff, but we doubt greatly if they will make much headway. Their following must be largely made up of those who wish no good to Canada; they will find little sympathy among the manufacturers, the farmers, the shipbuilders and ship owners, or the lumbermen and fishermen of New Branswick; still less will they find it among the workingmen who are clamoring for bread. Doubtless, covery man who wishes to see Canada the servant of the United States will be with them, all who would have the labor of Canada make way forthe labor of the United States will act with them, every agent of the United States manufacturers will cry out ; but the people of Canada and New Brunswick who think the fiscal policy of Canada should not be dictated from Washington, will thank God that the country has a Government possessed of the necessary ability and courage to make a bold strife for the freedom of the industries of of Canada.

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GENTLEMEN'S Dress Sutrts—A GREAT BarGatin !—Read the following: Weeks & Co. have received part of a manufacturer’s stock of Genriemry’s WuiTe Suirts, which they will offer on Monday, March 17th, at a little over half the regular price. Everyone should see them, as the low price must clear them off apidly.—sat,tu fri

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Rowen, the little Englishman, who won the walking match in New York and will earry the Astley belt back with him to Eng. land, has dona a good week’s work for him- self. His share of the receipts will be the

snug sum of $21,000, quite a little fortune for a pedestrian and probably the largest sum ever, won in that way.

The Directors would remind the Sharehold-

EDWARD ISLAND, FRIDAY, MARGE 21, 1879.

Year ending 20th March, 1879. | =—————----—

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NO. 546 Correspondence.

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sa” Wedo not hold ourselves responsible for

R. Longworth, President; Hon. L. C. | the statements or opinions of our correspondents

RE ence eeceelpemmen

To the Editor of the Examiner.

Sir.—In a report of a public meeting held in the Athenzeum, on the 14th inst., which was published in your paper of the 15th inst., oue of the speakers—Mr. Themas Baker—is reported as follows :—= :

‘* Mir. Baker said he had very much pleas- ure in seconding the resolution. He thought it one which should be carried unanimoasly. He alluded to the rascality of former Govern- ment laspectors, some of whom had pocketed 50 cents tor each day’s work of each man em- ployed upon the work in hand. He indicated the new Law Courts’ building as one of those in the erection of which this rascality had been perpetrated to the loss of the working man. He strongly favored a Lien Law.”

AsI was the only Government Inspector employed in the construction of the new Law Courts’ Building, this statement must have been intended to apply to me. I beg to state that it is absolutely false and without the least shadew of fourdation, For my services in the erection of that building, I was paid by the Government in the usual way—by a com- mission on the cost of the building—and, be- yond my commission, I did not receive one single cent in any way out of its erection.

By a resolution of Council, the building was erected by day’s work, under my superintend- ence as architect. Mr. James Hodgson was engaged by the Government to do the carpen- ter and joiner work, and Mr, Charles Heartz to do the mason and bricklayer’s work, at a fixed rate of wages per day for them- selves and their workmen, under written tender and agreement. They were paid fortnightly by the Secretary of the Board of Works, by orders signed by me and drawn on the Department of Public Works, and they provided their own workmen and paid them. The stone-cutters and laborers were paid in like manner by the Secretary of the Board of Works, and the plastering, iron work, etc., was let to tender. No money whatever passed through my hands, and ne motive but a desire to injure me could prompt the utterances of a statement of this kind so utterly devoid of truth.

I herewith furnish you with certificates of Hon. L. C. Owen, Commissioner of Public Works at the time, and also of J. W. Mor- rison, Esq., Secretary of the Board, in con- firmation of the above statements, and I trust you will see that it is due to me that you give this letter and these certificates immediate publicity, and that in common justice you publish a complete retraction of the libellous charges which you have published in your issue of the 15th inst. so very detrimental to my character.

Yours, ect., Tuomas ALLEY.

Charlottetown, 20th March, 1879.

CHARLOTTETOWN, March 19, 1879. Tuomas ALLEy, Esq.,

Dear Str,—In reply to your communication of the 18th inst., in which you refer to the published report of a speech delivered by Mr. Thomas Baker at a meeting held at the Athenzeum on the ]4th inst., ‘‘ when he allud- ed to the rascality of former Government In- spectors who pocketed fifty cents for each day’s work for each man employed, and in- dicated the new Law Court bnilding as one of those in the erection of which this rascality had been perpetrated.”

The principal carpenters and bricklayers employed at the New Law Courts agreed to do their work by tender at a stated price per day, and the moneys for those men was paid fortnightly at the office of the Board of Works, to the person who tendered, on presentation of your order as Inspector. Ordinary workmen were hired, as required, at wages agreed on, and at as low a rate as they could be obtained for. The laborers and stone cutters were em- ployed also on the best terms on which they could be had, and those with the ordinary workmen were generally paid fortnightly on presentation of the Inspector’s order, at the office of the Board of Works. I checked the men’s hire, day and hour, and, in every case, the sum paid them agreed with their hire, and the wages for which they were engaged.

Yours truly, L. C. Owen.

CHARLOTTETOWN, March 18, 1379. Tiomas Alley, Esq., Charlottetown.

Str,—-In reply to your note of this day’s date, requesting ‘“‘how and by whom the workmen employed in the erection of the new Law Courts building were paid.”

I beg to inform you, as Secretary of the late Boards of Works, that I paid the work- men employed on the new Court House, with the exception of masons and carpenters, Mr. Charles Heartz receiving from me, by your order, fortnightly, the amount due the masons, and Mr. James Hudson, the -amount due the carpenters.

I am, Sir, Yours truly, J. W. Morrison, Secretary Public Works.

The Moncton Times says : ‘‘ With a pop- ulation of 95,000 souls and an area of 2,175 square mniles, Prince Edward Island has a representative in, the Cabinet, four Sen- ators, six members of Parliament, a Lieut.- Governor, an Executive Council of nine members, 2 Legislative Council with thir- teen members, and a House of Assembly with twenty-nine members ; a total govern- ing body of sixty-three, besides county, town, township and village Conncils. The Island judiciary includes over 600 justices of the peace, three Superior Court judges, three County Court judges and two stipen- diary magistrates, before whom a bar com- prising forty-eight members is entitled to

the system of government there as well as in this Province. All the smaller Provinces are running too much machinery.”

plead. Surely there is room for reform in -