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THE DAILY EXAMINER.

MAY 29, 1889. Our Farmers and Farmers in the United States.

Weare told that the farmers of Canada will become suddenly rich, as soon as the Government of Canada enters into 4 Com- obtains Unrestricted United States;—as

obtain the advan-

mercial Union, or

} Reciprocity with the i 3

goon, that is to say, we tages of the market of 60,000,000 of people and the 60,000,000 gain the privilege of sending their products of beef, pork, corn, oats, ete., and manufactured articles of all

To those who really think in this way, we sub- letter

kinds into our country free of duty.

mit the following quotation from a written by the Dominion Statistician, Mr.

George Johnson, to the Ottawa Citizen, and

ask them to consider well w hether, in view of the fact as stated therein, 1s 80 much to hope from Commercial Union or Unrestrict- ed Reciprocity :

‘“ The New York 7imes, not long ago, insti- tuted an investigation into the condition of the United States farmer, and Bill Nye’s com. ments fairly express the result. The humorist savs: ‘The farms in our State are mortgaged for ever $700,000,000 (seven hundred million dollars). Ten of the Western States, I see by the papers, have about three billion and a half dollars of mortgages on their farms, and that don't cover the chattel mortgages filed with town clerks on farm machinery, stock, wagons and even crops, by gosh ! that ain't two inches high under the snow. That's w hat the prospect is for farmers now. The Gov- ernment is rich, but the men that made it, the men that fought prairie tires and prairie wolves and Injuns and potato bags and blizzards and :as paid the debt and pensions <nd e\ erything else, is left high and dry this cold winte: with 2 mnortgage of $7,500,000,000 (seven thousand five huadred million dollars) on their farms.

‘The New York Times says the farmers otf the United States are staggering uuder a bur- den of mortgage indebtedness approximating nine thousand millions of dollars. The Times further says: ‘ The portion of the money represented by the faces of these n~=t- g wes has not been expended in imo >ving the farms, because the larger proportion of the farms were supplied wilh buildings before the Mor +e5 The money has been spent to enable the farmers to live.’

‘The Chicago Times says: ‘Farm mort-

’ . ean s es are swallowing up millions of

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acres of

id Western States and

eaL land in the Southern a Territories.’

‘ Professor Henry, lecturing in Richmond, Wisconsin, said: ‘* One of the richest prairies in the United States is that of the St. Croix Valley in Wisconsin.’ Of that valley he said: * To-day the richest part of it is almost with- out fences; the majority ot the farm buildings, especially the barns, are poor, and the people complain bitterly of hard times.’

‘‘FPrank Wilkeson, writing in Bradstreet’s —an American writing in an American journal of high character—says: ‘ The apparent pros- perity of Dakota is based upon the expendi- ture of the capital procured by mortgaging the farm lands. The tarmers are spending their farms, mortgages are at 8 per cent. to 10 per cent., and the impoverished farmers have to pay aa additional 10 per cent. on re- newals, so that interest is really 11 or 12 per cent.

‘The Cleveland Plaindealer says: ‘The mortgages on farms in Ohio amount to more than 700 million dollars, and are gradually increasing, and this, too, in an cold, well de- veloped farming country.’

** Mr. Cleveland, in one of his latest mes- sages to Congress, said of the farmers in the United States: ‘ ‘Lheir Jands are declining in value, while their debts increase.’

‘* A report made to the New York State Legislature in 1887 (vol. 2, No. 24, page 16, N. Y. Senate documents, 1887), says: ‘It is an indisputable fact that the farming lands of this State during fifteen years have depre- ciated at least 20 per cent. and many agri- cultural localities are decreasing in popula- tion.’

** A despatch to the New York Tribune of February Sth says of the farmers of New Jersey: ‘ Many of the best and oldest of them say they cannot make both ends meet, and that the outlook is not encouraging. Many farmers have made assignments and others are in the hands of the sheriff.’

** There are scores of just such witnesses. Now, Americans are not inclined to put the worst features of their social conditions in front. They are not accustomed to parade to public view the ‘sore spots’ of their country. Some one has wickedly, but wittily said of them that there are 65 millions of lars in the United States, all industriously engaged in ‘booming’ their country. When, then, they depart so widely from their custom and write about farm mortgages as they de, we must be- lieve that in this instance they are telling, if not the whole truth, yet, a very large propor- tion of the whole truth. We would not have to add more than twenty-five per cent. to the nine thousand million dollars, asserted to be the mortgage indebtedness of United States farmers, in order to get ata true statement. We may take it as proved that United States farmers are in a bad way.

‘*BatI may be told that the farmers of Canada are just as badly off as the farmers of the United States. The testimony as respects the United States ‘farmer is ‘that he is losing by reason of depreciation in the value of his land, and by going deeper and deeper into debt. If Canadian farmers are following in the footsteps of farmers across the line, then the records would show, here as in the United States, increased foreclosure sales, increased enforced sales of farm property. In order to obtain the materials to bring this point to the test, I examined the official Gazettes of the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island for the years 1878 and 1888, and found that there were in the former year 1,176 enforced sales of farm property in the provinces nam- ed. In 1888 there were but 494 such sales. If the farmers of Canada were in as bad a condition as the United States farmers, these records would surely show a larger number of sales in 1888 than in 1878.

** But I may be told that these figures only show that the farmers of Canada are in a very much better condition of prosperity than they were in 1878. They tell nothing of the rela- tive condition of the farmers of the two coun- tries.

**T find the following statement in a Penn- sy!vania paper, Jan. L0th, 1889: ‘ The Sheriff of Berks County yesterday sold ten fine farms in this county, aggregating one thousand acres. During the present winter the same sheriff has sold some twenty other large farms, besides the stock of twenty farmers who have faile!. This indicates that farming no longer psys,as @ similar state of affairs exists in other This sling the Sepia sesh saute sn ¢ deplorable condition of aonendl mers, take refuge in the

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out to Kansas, eh?’ Returned Emigrant— * Yes: was there ten years.’ P. F.—* What did you raise?” R. E.—* Most everything ex- cept mortgages.’

“Oa page 84, Michigan Report, Bureau Labor Statistics, 1887, there is a statement of mortgage foreclosures of farm properties in Michigan. There were in the year ended June 30th, 1887, no less than 1,667 foreclos- ures and 244 sales by levy of execution, or nearly four times more than in Ontario, Que- bee, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Islend taken together, the total popu- lation of Michigan being 300,000 less than that of Ontario alone, and the value of farms about 230 million dollars less than that of the farms of Ontario (according to the latest state- ment of both, in my possession, 1884). :

“ The condition of the farmers of Ontario may be gathered from the reports of the On- tario Government and from the statements of the loan companies. According to the official returns the increase in the area of lands in 1886, compared with 1883, was 1.4 per tent., while the increase in the value of lands and buildings was 1.8 per cent., it thus appearing that the value of farm property has increased more rapidly than the area.

“Checking these returns by the reports of the land companies, 1 find that the Erie and Haron Investment Company report for 1887 that the arrearages were only 4 per cent. of the capital invested ; that they were 22 per cent. less than in 1886; that only two-thirds of one per cent. came back in the shape of property through foreciosure, and that the farmers in the vicinity of the companys

headquarters in Canada had placed in the company’s hands over a million dollars for linvestment. The Canadian Company said, through their president, Ist, that the com- pany had reduced their rate of interest by one per cent. in 1887; 2nd, that the prices obtained in 1887 from the sales of land were 25 per cent. higher than in 1886. The North of Scotland Canadian Mortgage Company re- ported that the amount of real estate which, in 1887, had reverted to the company through foreclosure, was but $30,000 out of $3,000,000 invested. This same company reported in 1888 that there had been again a falling of im the rate of interest obtained ; that while the company had £620,000 sterling of money lent in Canada, the amount of dorveclosed property was less than $40,000. The Canada Land Company reported for 1888 that for the total lands leased and so’ ., the average was 33 per cent. over the estimated value of 18586.”

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Law Case ia Priace County.

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Deportant

AN interesting law case was tried at Bedeque, before Alfred Schurman and Murdock Ross, J. P’s., on the 27th inst. The complaints were laid by L. U. Fowler, carriage manufacturer, against John Arbing, who is selling imported buggies for R. C. McLeod, Summerside. Fowler, who had legal advice, claimed that the taking of those buggies from house to house to sell was an infraction of the law, and asked the defendant to get a license under the Act regulating peddlers. This, Arbing refused to do, and the complainant served three summonses upon him.

Mr. J: E. Wyatt appeared for the de- fendant, and the complainant conducted the prosecution,

One witness was €xamined in each case, who swore that each of them had bought carriages from the defendant on different dates. Mr. McCaul}, the License Inspector, was alsosworn. He said that he told Arbing to get a license or there would be trouble. He had told McLeod this year and last year that it was necessary to have a license to sell those carriages. He also said that he had been advised by the Attorney- General that the kind of goods the de- fendant was selling when taken from house to house came under the act relating to peddlers.

R:C. McLeod testified that he had ap- plied for license for Arbing, but had been advised that the license should be in his (xicLeod’s) own name. He said that he now had license, but did not produce them. He admitted, when asked by the complain- ant, that he had more agents than the de- fendent, but he did not say that all of his agents could sell on the one license held by himself.

Mr. Wyatt contended that the license should be in the name of ihe man that own- ed the goods, and not in the name of the man who sold them. One of the magis- trates got off a joke on Mr. Wyatt by ask- ing him if he got a license to be married, did he think §that Mr. McLeod could get married on the same license ?

After some contentions by both sides as to the ettect of the law, the magistrates gave jucgment for the complainant by fining John Arbing $40.00 for each offence, on default to be imprisoned for the term of two months in each case.

Ose

Personal.

Mr, W. C. DesBrisay is visiting the city.

Hon. J. 8. Carvell, Mrs. Carvell and Mr. Harrison Carvell were among the passengers in the Worcester from Boston to-day.

Mr. D. R. Laird left Boston onthe 27th inst. for Rosario, Argentine Republic, where he will spend one or two months’ holidays.

Ex-Mayor O’Mullin, of Halifax, has gone on atwo months’ trip abroad, during which he will visit England, Ireland, Scotland and Paris.

Mr. R. Fennell, of the tirm of Norton & Fennell,and Mrs. Fennell, returned last even- ing from an extended tour of the New Eng- land States and Upper Canada.

Messrs. Nicholas White, Otto Russell Crabbe and John Munro Campbell, of the P. O. Department in this city, are taking the civil service promotion examinations to-day, before D. Montgomery, Esq., Superintendent of Education.

Says the Chatham World:—W. C. Des Brisay, late of the Summerside Journal, stopped at Chatham on Friday on his way home from Ottawa, to visit his old friend Prof. Smythe. During the day they dropped into Coun. Flanagan’s store, and the professor incidentally mentioned that his friend weighed nearly 300 }bs. The councillor doubted the statement, and invited the heavy weight of the newspaper profession to mount his scales which weighed 250 lbs. Mr. DesBrisay got on and broke thera down, the platform going down with a crash beneath him. Mr. Flana- gan will never doubt the professor's word again. The professor has since been present- ed with a bill for the scales.

If the Sufferers From Consump-

tion,

Scrofula and General Debility will try Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, with Hypophos- phites, they will find immediate a and a permanent beneiit. Dr. H. V. Mott, Brent- wood, Cal., writes: ‘‘I have used Scott's

Emulsion with great advantage in cases of Phthisis, Scrofula and Wasting Disorders. It is re palatable.” Sold by druggists, at 50c. and $1.

Parasols and umbrellas in great variety at | Dnatley Bros., Brown’s Block, my28 2i

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WHOLESALE DRY GOODS. PROPERTY !

\ YE are now showing special lines in \ White TableLinens and Nap- kins, Art @urtam Muslins, Fancy Prints. Crettones, Scotch Tweeds, Pongee = silks, Colored Surahs, Ladies’ Garibalda Jackets, Ladies and Misses’ Aprons.

This Valuable Property will be sold as advertised

TO-MORROW, THURSDAY,

At 12 o’clock, noon.

—TO ARRIVE EX. ULUNDA--

FLOWERS, FEATHERS, ORNAMENTS, EM- BROIDERED LACES, GILT BONNET FRAMKS, STEKL & GILT MILLINERY TRIMMINGS, ete.

Our stock is now thoroughly assorted for the sorting up trade, and all orders will re- ceive prompt attention.

MURDOCKS’ NEPHEWS,

COR. HOLLIS and PRINCE STREETS, HALIFAX. N. 8S. May 24—2w

Shortest Route to Boston,

VIA HALIFA=.

Canada Atlantic Steamship Co,

The Fast, Steel, Clyde-built

STEAMSHIP “HALIFAX”

for Boston,

t@ See Plan showing Building [ggfh. on

Euston Street and Brighton Road.

TERMS, ONE-THIRD Of, JL.

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Balance secured by mortgage for years, bearing interest at 6 per cent.

The Tannery Suilding, Plapt, &e., with or without the nd, will also be sold.

A rare chance to secure Valuable Building Lots.

Sale Punctual_at 12 o'clock, noon.

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Halifax,

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Leaves Noble’s Wharf,

Halifax. EVERY SATURDAY, atd p. m. Passengers leaving Charlottetown on Tuesday via Picton, wrive at Halifax same evening, an can. if they preferit, yo directly on board the Steamer without extra charge.

WILLSELL BY AUCTION, at MeMil- lan’s Wharf, TO-MORROW, THURS.-

DAY, at 11 o'clock, a. m. :— FARES: Cargo of Schooner ** Daisy,” consisting of | Charlottetown to Boston (lst clast)......... $ 9 20 50 Tons Ontario Mine Round Coal, in lots to) Return...........--.-- i ieencscaghehesetasne 16 00

suit purchasers. Terms cash. Through Tickets issued at all Stations on P. E. R. BEAIRSTO,

Island Railway and Intercolonial Railway ; also by the Agents of the P. EK. Island Navigation Co.,

may29 Auctioneer. and on board their Steamers, and at my office, . Re | Charlottetown. : Se ae : ee es an i FENTON T. NEWSERY, i Agent. CHipMAN Bros, General A®ents, Halifax. kk. B. GARDNER, Agent, 34 Atlantic Avenue, Bosto n.

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‘SPRING STOCK

COMPLETE.

AUCTION. Land at Cape Wolfe, Lot 7, R. ARCHIBALD MeNEILL, Auction-

N eer, will sell at Public Auction, at the Court House in Charlottetown,

On Tuesday, 28th of May, AT 12 O'CLOCK, NOON:

43 1-2 Acres of Land at Cape Wolfe, Lot 7, with Buildings and cat om a thereon, lately owned by John Hughes and formerly occupied by Mrs. VanBuskirk.

Terms easy and made known at sale.

Dated at Charlottetown, 17th May, 1889.

CARVELL BROTHERS, Trustees of the Estate of John and James Hughes, wky li

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North Side of Queen Square.

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Boston, Halifax and P. E. Island Steamship Line.

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The above sale is postponed until WED- NESDAY, June 5th, then to take place at

ne the Court House, Charlottetown, at 12 o’clock, Only Direct Line Without Change, \"°™ CARVELL BROTHERS. may28

CHARLOTTETOWN 0 BOSTON.

The Staunch and Commodious Steamships

*@arroll” and “Worcester,”

having been thoroughly refurnished and put into first-class condition in every respect, will, during | the season of 1889, run as fvliows, commencing ; with the

* CARROLL,”

From Charlottetown, Thursday, 9th May, at 6 p. m.

One of these vessels will leave Boston for Charlottetown EVERY SATURDAY, at Noon, and Charlottetown for Boston EVERY THURS- DAY, at Six o’clock, p. m.

Excellent Passenger accommodation. rates.

FARES—First-class Passage Berth in well-

furnished Cabin, $6.50. Stateroom Berth, $2.00 extra,

Lowest Rates for Freight, which is alw carefully handled. en CARVELL BROS., Agents, Charlottetown. HARRISON LORING, Treasurer, R. B. GARDNER, Manager, Lewis’ Wharf, Boston.

DIVIDEND NOTICE. The Merchants’ Bank of P, E. Island,

no IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Half-

yearly Dividend, at the rate of Eight Per Cent per annum, on the Capital Stock of the Bank, has this day been declared payable at its Banking Office, Charlottetown, on and after the lst day of June next.

B der, 7% WM. McLEAN, Cashier,

PORTLAND CEMENT.

RECEIVED PER “ EREMA:”

50 bris. Portland Cement SIMON W. CRABBE.

Ch’tuwn, May 27.— 2aw for 2wks.

Butter Tubs.

» OOC Indian make. ’

CARVELL BROS.

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PASTURE TO LET.

T —The Pasture on Two Fields, ‘ — 6 acres each, next to the Old

Asylum. Apply te

PETERS & PETERS. may6—tf

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OUSE AND PREMISES on Pownal Street, next to St. Joseph’s School. Possession given Ist June. Apply to

THOMAS W. DODD.

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PHOTOGRAPHS.

ELLY & CO., World-Famed Phemeregre

are now ready for business at TANTON’S STUDIO. As we have a fine light we guarantee the very finest work ; and as we are only here for a few weoke, people will make early engage- ments. mayl6

Charlottetown, May 20, 1889. may20—eod tl Ist ju

Water Works Supplies.

RANKIN HOUSE, SIMON BOLGER, Proprietor, Corner Water and Pownal Streets,

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. EK. ISLAND.

000 feet GAL. IRON PIPE, } and # in., "10 coils LEAD PIPE, 4 and @ in., HOSE BITS, ELBOWS and T’s. SIMON W. CRABBE, Walker’s Corner. may17—2w eod

Butter Salt.

83800 BAGS now landing. CARVELL BROS. Agents.

HIS old and well-known Hotel has been thor

oughly renovated and furnished with all

modern conveniences, and now ranks with the first-class Hotels of the Maritime Provinces.

The situation is the most delightful in the city, embracing a magnificent view of the Hills- borough River.

The Table will be second to none,

Free ’Bus will meet all Trains and Boats,

May 23.—2i. Ch moderate.

WiIDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1889.

ail ; ~ [EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, at 10, COA L, BY AUCPION. - leaves Lewis’ Wharf, Boston, for

Wednesday, June dth,

Sets, Brussels, Ta Oilcloths, Rugs, Pictures, and Kitchen Furniture, Crockery, Glassware,

eon will be received until 10th June

to specication to be seen at the house, Fort Augustus.

TING UP OF WATER PIPES in Houses, |

done both cheap and satisfactory.

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LATEST NOVELTIES

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Immense Stock of all the

New Materials,

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Dress Goods & Trimmings,

All Leading Novelties of the Season,

| AXMINSTER. KKUSSELS, TAPESTRY, SCoTCH. UNION

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Maniles aad Cloths,

A Very Large Variety.

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RKINS & STERNS

ARE NOW SHOWING AN IMMENSE VARIETY OF

New Prints, New Muslins, New Sateens, PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS,

New Laces, Glaves, Laced Mits, tibboas & borsets, BLACK AND COLORED DRESS GOODS, Cheapest Cirpets and Oil Cloths in the City, ROOM PAPER! ROOM PAPER!

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PERKINS & STERNS.

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AUCHION SAE ADMIMISTRATOR : og ene wo. 357. Furniture, Carpets, &¢. mecorp 2.29 1-2.

ie sles oe es Standard by Breeding Per- ae formance and Progeny. ON FRIDAY, 3ist INSTANT,

AT 2 O'CLOCK, P. M.:

we FRE of Catchfly, 2.18} ; McMahon, 2.21; + Exeentor, 2.243; Adjutant (breeder's : ratte record), 2.273; Peniston, ?.284; Marcus, Parlor, Dining Room and Bedroom — os |2.291; Arbiter, 2.30, and many other fast Carpets, Pictures, Crockery, Gases are, ets | trotters, incinding the phenomenal Memento,

Atso Cook and Parlor Stoves, isitchen | the first yearling to take a record as low as Utensils, ete. 2.563, and as a two year old a records of 2.32,

ADMINISTRATOR is also the sire of the dams of Lady Emma, 2.234 ; Spectator, 2.26}; Wildmont, 2.284; Ashland Wilkes, 2.29}; ,Cosher, 2.30,

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, BY AUCTION.

GEO. M. HARRIS,

Auctioneer.

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His sons are breeding on, and Enchanter, Reference, McMahon, Hambletonian P:ince (Dubois), Accidental and Adjuster have all prodaced trotters in the 2.30 list ; and Ensign, ‘the son of Enchanter, has produced three in | the 2.3. list.

I AM instructed by the Rev, J. M. McLeod to sell by Public Auction, at his residence,

ADMINISTRATOR, by Rysdyk s Hamble- Princes Street, on

tonian, 10, the great sire of trotters, dam by Mambrino Chief, 1!, the great sire of brood mares, will be atthe stables of NEWTON LARGE from the evening of EVERY MON- DAY till the afternoon of the following WEDNESDAY, commencing April 29th.

TYerms—8#25.00 for the Season.

Mares not in foal will have the usual privi- lege of return the next season. J. A. GOURLIE. ap29—dy eod & wky tl jy 1

FOR SALE.

Pure Finest Building lot to be had in the for painting the roof and spire of St. City, part of the Douse Estate, situated Patrick’s Church, Fort Augustus, according | #* the west end of Richmond Street.

Size of Lot 200 feet by 70 feet, with a water extension of 300 feet. It commands one of ‘the finest harbor views, andis free from dust — heat.

AT li O'CLOCK. A. M.,

All his Household Funiture consisting of Pa:lor, Dining Room, Setting Room, and Bedroom stry, and Scotch Carpets, Rrackets, also tiall Stoves, etc,

GEORGE M. HARRIS,

Auctioneer.

~ENDERS.

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By order of Committe. May 24—2in dly 3i 2aw.

Citizens. Attention ! PURE WATER.

| ao engaged the services of « man who will devote his time to the FIT-

! Terms easy. Apply to

JAMES T. PURDIE. May 23,—dlylw.

MONEY WANTED. —

‘ B°XHE Trustees of the Alberton School Dis- i trict, No. 119, will receive Tenders until FRIDAY, the 3!st day of May, inst., for School Debentures for the sum of $2,400. Tenders may be for the whole amount oF for part, and to state rate of interest. Deben- tures will be repaid in twelve annual instal- ments in accurdance with Public School Acts. R. H. REID, Secretary of School Trustees.

would respectfully solicit a share of your patronage. All work entrusted to me will be

A large supply of PIPES, FAUCETS, ete.. always in stock, and prompt attention given to orders. L. W. HARRIS,

Upper Queen Street.

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