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The Belt.

The championship belt has been won by the East at last. This ornate piece of workmanship was presented to the Reform party as an incentive to the cultivation of the inventive arts among its leaders. It was worn early in its history by Sir Richard Cartwright, when that gallant financier oc- cupied the high position of Finance Minis- ter. It appears that Sir Richard went to England and explained to investors there that under the rule of his predecessors our finances were in an exceedingly healthy

The Rifle.

THE annual competition of the Queen’s County Rifie Association was held at Ken- sington Range on Thursday. There was a fair attendance of marksmen, and the weather was all that could be desired. Owing to the fact that sighting shots were not used, the scoring, although fairly good, was not what it would have been had they been used. © Following are the scores :

FIRST MATCH.

(Ranges 200 and 400 yards—Highest possible score 50.)

condition. Onhis return to Canada he an told the contrary story, and excused him- : z = self by saying that in England he displayed | Corpl Connolly, G A, ST dc eke tice eens. 45 the silver side of the shield, while in Canada | Sergt-Major Grey, Engineers, $6......-- 42 he displayed the brazen side. For this he Lieut Hooper, 82nd Batt, $5........-++: Fr was awarded the belt. Lieut R V Longworth, G A, $4.......-. 5 Since that time the prize has passed CO id oe. ay Ses i: through many hands ; but during last year Pevuk Hae i bon a rats $3. aie aig Sear AO it came into the possession of Mr. Mills. Serot M. Nn 92nd B tt $3 gh aetighipes 41 ; 3 Sergt McMillian, 82nd Batt, $3.......... That statesman, it will be remembered, | Lieut Crockett, 82nd Batt, $2........... 40 undertook to state that in consequence of} Corpl Offer, G A, $2......00600.00ee ee 40 the National Policy, the number of sheep| Pte D Stewart, 82nd Batt, $2........... 40 raised in Western Ontario had de-| Pte Forbes, 82nd Batt, $2:...........++: 40 creased by millions. When the figures} Sapper McIntyre, Engineers, $2....-.-.. 40 were examined it was found that} Gunr Carter, IGA; $2. si. mses - Ras 39 there had never been a million sheep in the | Lieut J A Longworth, G A,$1l...---.-. 3 entire province. So Mr. Mills took the Corpl Heartz, Engineers, 3 pe eee eee seens % belt. Then Mr. Cameron, of Huron, came | CPt Weeks, Engineers, BU oo os get sills to the front. He produced a list of Tories 704

who, he alleged, had been given timber lands in the Northwest at $5 per square mile. It was found on examination thae these lands were never sold at $5 a squart mile; they were leased at $5 a square mile per annum, and in addition a percentage of all the receipts of the lessor. It also turned out that the persons whom he mentioned as having had timber lands granted them. had never received an acre. This entitled him to the belt. But he was not destined to retain the honor long. Mr. John Carlton plagiarized his patent and invented a list of Tories who had seized upon the agriculural lands of the Northwest. He was con- sequently entitled to the coveted distinction. Subsequently Mr. Milis announced that he had seen a tclegram from Sir Aldolphe Caron to the Premier, telling him that Riel must be hanged, to satisfy public opinion. Two days afterwards the gentleman changed his story, and alleged that the telegram was from the Premier to Sir Adolphe; and 24 hours afterwards he stated that it was from Sir Adolphe to the. Premier. The clumsy manner in which the competitor handled the matter should have disqualified him; but the invention was regarded as meri- torious, so he was awarded the belt for the second time. Mr. Blake then entered for the prize and won it with a yarn to the effect that he had never, no never, not even hardly ever, opposed the Canadian Pacific Railway. He had always been its best friend and had only objected slightly to the method of prosecuting the work. Last week the Toronto Globe got away with the prize by declaring that Hon. Thomas White had described Riel as ‘‘a new Saint of the Roman Catholic Church.” This was a fabrication which should have en- titled its owner to the prize for all time to come. But Mr. Blake hada second claim to it, as he had got one off about Dr. Hickey, M. P., and was afraid to attempt an explanation in the presence of the doc- tor and his friends. Mr. Blake, however, has now been compelled to resign the belt to Mr. L. H. Davies, M. P., of Prince Ed- ward Island. This gentleman has stated at a public meeting in New Brunswick that under the Franchise Act the Tories, in one Ontario constituency alone, have added five hundred minors to the list of voters! Mr. Davies has earned the honor well.

The belt has now gone to the far east, and in the interests of truth and of the fair fame of Ontario itis to be hoped it may never be won by anybody in this province again.—Toronto Mail. .

a Sir Edward Watkin, M. P. WHAL HE THINKS OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.

Sir Epwarp Warkrn, in the course of an interview with a reporter for the Mon- treal Gazette, said his only object in coming out to America was to see the Canada Pacitic Railway. ‘‘I suggested the idea long ago, and brought a gcod deal of influence to bear upon the matter, but others took it up and carried out the ideaa good deal more ably, I haye no doubt, than I could have done. I will go on over the line in a day or two to British Columbia.”

‘What do you think of the prospects of the Canada Pacific Railway ?” asked the reporter.

‘** That depends on what use the Imperial Government makes of it. If they use it as a military and postal road it has a great future before it, and Canadians should force them to use it as a route to the East. I am going to see for myself the harbor at Esquimault, which, I am told, is finer than that of Halifax, and, indeed, one of the finest in the world. The Government should make it a first-class fortress, and would do so if properly pressed. If it were fortified, and an arsenal established there, it would form a point d appui. against Rus- sia, and, in fact, everybody. It would be an advanced post in the Pacific, like Gibral- tar or Malta. Such a scheme would be in the interest both of Canada and _ the Empire, and | intend to urge it in Parlia- ment, That is why i want to see it for myself.”

** What do you think of. the proposal to establish ranches for raising cavalry horses in the Northwest ?”

“J think it would be a splendid place for raising horses with the excellent pasture and healthy climate west of Winnipeg and in the vicinity of Calgary. Why, at five years of age a horse would be a year older than in England, it would come to maturity so much faster. We see this ‘in France, where the horses raised in that favorable climate beat our English horses of the same age.

‘‘What do you think of our prospects of an increased immigration next year.”

“Why,” was the enthusiastic reply, ‘‘we have plenty of people to spare and they could not do better than to settle on the fertile belt. There is room there for every- body, a healthy climate, a fertile soil and altogether one of the best places in the world to settle in. It is easy of access by the Canadian Pacific Railway and if its ad-

vantages are properly explained there ought :

to be avery much larger flow of immigrants into it next year than ever before.”

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The traflic receipts of the Canada Pacific Railway for the week ending September 7th were $225,000, an increase of $37,000 compared with the corresponding week last year.

SECOND MATCH

(Ranges 500 and 600 yards—Highest possible

score 70.)

Pts. Lieat, R V Longworth, G A, $7......... 48 sapper McIntyre, Engineers, $6.......-- 47 Lieut Hooper, 82nd Batt, $5..........-- 47 Corpl Crockett, 82nd Batt, $4........... 46 Lieut Crockett, 82nd Batt, $4........... 46 Corpl Connolly, G A, $3....6..5. 0.55.55. 46 Sergt Brodie, 82nd Batt; $3...........-- 45 Mz. Horne; 83::s)4)- - ee andie do nsesisl Gane 45 Sergt McMillan, 82nd Bait, $2......... 45 Pte McJ.cuchlan, 82nd Batt, $2.... .... 44 Capt Wecks, Engineers, $2............., 48 Pte Henderson, 82nd Batt, $2........... 42 Sergt McNevin, 82nd Batt, $2........-. 42 Sergt-Major Grey, Engineers, $2........ 41 Pte McCabe, 82nd Batt, $1.........-.... 41 Major Dogherty, R L, $1....-.......... 40 Corpl Hooper, 82nd Batt, $1............ 39

ALL-COMERS MATCH. (Five rounds, 400 yards—Highest possible

score 25.)

Pts. Lieut Hooper, 82nd Batt................ 25 Sergt McNevin, 82nd Batt............... 23 Capt Weeks, Engineers..............-.- 22 Sergt-Major Grey, Engineers.......... 1. 22 Lieut J A Longworth, GA............. 21 Lieut G Crockett, 82nd Batt............ 21 Sergt McMillian, 82nd Batt............. 20

The D.R.A. Medal for the highest aggre- gate score was won by Corpl. Connolly, of G. A., with 91 points !

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Relief for the Sufferers of the Earthquake in Charleston

Sir,—The Managers of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States have forwarded us the enclosed circular letter with instructions to open a sub- scription list for the relief of the sufferers by the late earthquake in Charleston, S. C. As the disaster which has befallen the people of Charleston is one of the most terrible that has occurred during the pre- sent century, and great distress prevails, we gladly bring their case before the public. Any subscriptions we may receive will be promptly forwarded to Charleston through the varivus agencies of the Equitable As- surance Society.

Yours truly, Warsurton.& SMALLWOOD, Agents for P. E. Island.

Ch’town, Sept. 17, 1886.

Tue EguirasLte Lire AssuRANCE Socrety, No. 120 Broadway, Sept., 1886.

Dear Sir,—The terrible calamity which has visited the people of Charleston, S. C., has entailed greater sutfering than the generosity of the whole nation can relieve. Although it is not fit that the funds of the Equitable Life Assurance Society should be diverted from their legitimate object, even for so high a pur- pose, it is still in our power to use the great machinery of our agency force throughout the world for the. purpose of collecting subscrip- tions for the benefit of our smitten neighbors. We propose at once ‘establishing a central bureau at this office for the receipt of sub- scriptions to a relief fund and the payment of the same, and all regularly appointed agents of this Society are constituted agents of this bureau, They will, undoubtedly, themselves contribute. They are urged promptly to approach all policy holdersin this Society, as well as others generously disposed, and with the least possible delay to obtain and send forward their subscriptions to the under- signed.

Bulletins will hereafter be issued reporting the result of this effort. With our thousands of agents in all parts of this ‘and other coun- tries, it ishoped that the aggregate collected will be large enough to do credit to those undertaking the labor.

Yours truly, Jas. W. ALEXANDER, Vice President.

(Signed)

An Historic Figure Gone.

The death of Simon D’Entremont, at Pubnico, aged 98 years, removes. one of Nova Scotia’s historic landmarks. He was a direct descendant of the Royal House of Bourbon, who was created Baron Pabom- coup and Duke of Pubnico, and married a daughter 6f 7 ir, so famed in Nova Scotian history grandfather and family were exiled from Nova Scotia in 1757, but returned in 1768 as the leader of the straggling band of French Acadians who settled Pubnico. The deceased at one time represented Yarmouth County in the Nova Scotia Legislature, and was the first Acadian who ever sat in an English parliament. He was the oldest Acadian ‘in Oanada, and leaves 136 children, gvand-children and ‘great-grand-children.

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The Detroit Tribune gives the following incident as_a specimen of wonderful self- {control : Yesterday, about noon, in the vicinity of Police Headquarters, a young lady wearing high-heeled shoes stepped on a peach pit,and fell with a sharp splash into the thin mud which covered the Sate | And the only words that escaped her pretty lips were, ‘Goodness me ! ” 5

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The British sealers captured in Alaskan waters are to be released, the seizure being admittedly unjustifiable and giving good ground for a claim for damages.

Simon D’Entremont’s-

CURRENT NOTES.

A fatal dysenteric epidemic prevails at Aven, Iowa.

There have been 45,000 cases of cholera in Italy since the present outbreak, and 14,000 deaths.

Eleven English fishing boats have been seized at Havre for infringing the fisheries laws in the British Channel.

Farmers in the vicinity of Tolono, IIl., have lost twelve thousand dollars’ worth of hogs by cholera, and the disease is rapidly spreading.

Lord Annesley has issued 109 ejectment notices against tenants on his estates in county Down, Ireland. The tenants are suffering for money, owing to the lateness of their harvests.

A band of New York Socialists, the mem- bers of which declare they are organizing for a rebellion, has been drilling regularly every Sunday since last May on the banks of the Hackensack river.

Whitelaw Reid and his father-in-law, D. O. Mills, have been surveying the Owen River Valley, in California, near Reno, with a view to taking up 20,000 acres of land for a wine and grape growing colony.

John Allison, of St. John’s Run, Md., while a passenger on a B. and O. train, lost his hat. He at once jumped off for it, landed against a pile of iron, and crushed his leg so that it had to be amputated. He did not recover his hat.

A bailiff named William Cuffe, who had rendered himself obnoxious by making evictions, was hustled out of Belcarra chapel, in Kerry, on Sunday morning, and was unmercifully beaten by a number of women of the congregation.

The Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union has issued a pamphlet to prove that the status of the Irish tenant farmer has, within the past sixteen years, undergone a marked amelioration, and is not nearly as bad as represented by the Parnellites.

The mayor of Brooklyn, Iowa, has wired DesMoines for assistance. He says the entire business portion of the town is burn- ing up. ‘The fire has.consumed everything from the elevator to the Downing hotel, including the post office, and is sweeping westward.

A few days ago the 14-year-old daughter of David Fry, of Stumptown, Md., was ill and slept sixty-eight hours. She awoke, ate heartily, seemed quite well, and then went to sleep again. At last accounts she had been sleeping ninety-eight hours with- out intermission.

Great excitement has been caused at Chatham by the unexpected receipt of orders from the Admiralty to expedite the completion of men-of-war. Relays of workmen are to be employed day and night if necessary. This activity is regarded as indicating possible complications.

A missionary enthusiast in England wants to raise money to buy balloons for foreign missionaries. They would be handy, he thinks, in escaping from cannibals and other carnal-minded heathens, and at the same time would strike the natives with awe and make it easy to convert them.

San Francisco reporters and detectives attended a materialization seance the other evening, and one of them grabbed the spirit of his sainted mother, and another turned a dark lantern on her. She proved to be an interesting young woman clad in a neat silk gown covered with phosporous.

The luckiest man in New York to-day is Mike Williams. Four months ago he was a bootblack who had never owned $100 in a bunch, Now he owns a house and lot, drives a fast horse, and sports $2,000 worth of jewelry. His bank account foots up $20,000. He has made his fortune by bet- ting on the race track.

A large flock of sheep, which were being driven from Montana into Canada were surrounded by a band of Indians on the Belly River, and urged over its precipitous banks until they piled up, one on another, twenty-five feet deep. In this way 172 sheep were killed, and afterward skinned, cut up, and carried off by the redskins.

A duel was fought at Bohio, on the line of the Panama Railway, on August 15, be- tween two Frenchmen. The weapons weie rifles. . Two shots were exchanged and honor was satisfied, though neither party to the affair was wounded. A negro, who was at work on the canal, however, was struck by one of the bullets and instantly killed.

A white girl employed in a Kingston, Ont., hotel has fallen in love with a colored barber, and is determined to marry him whether he will or not. He, it seems, manifested symptoms of a desire to escape the engagement, and on Saturday he re- ceived a legal communication intimating that he must marry or be sued for $500 for breach of promise. He will marry.

Two French Canadian communities in Massachusetts are reported to be returning to Canada en masse. It is said that 25,000 or 50,000 acres of land will be prepared for them in Lievre and La Rouge valleys, by

.| clearing, building, planting and sowing, and

that then they will return altogether, ‘farmers, doctors, merchants, traders, ete., forming complete communities to take pos- session of their new home in their old country.

A quick-tempered but self-possessed bull got on the railroad track at Madison, Conn.., the other day, and wouldn’t get off when the Newport express came along. This is not the usual chestnut about the bull and the locomotive, for the train stopped rather than try conclusions with the animal, and a brakeman was sent to get the bull off the track. He succeeded remarkably well, but the bull was mighty close to his heels as he skipped over the nearest fence.

The power of Austria, it seems from latest advices, may intervene in 1886 as it did in 1879, to prevent the consummation of Russia’s designs on the Turkish prov- inces, There is little doubt that the fear of that power was as great a cause of the moderation of the Czar’s demands at a moment when Constantinople was all but in his hands, as was the presence before the coveted. city of the English fieet. The Hungarian people are not inclined to see Russia dominant over the races to the south, and may force the dual government which they live under into a course that Austria proper of itself might hesitate to enter upon, Alexander’s abdication may be not the end but only the beginning of | serious trouble, involving, before it is set

Adventurers in Greenland Waters.

ing schooner lately returned from austand The Captain reports that oe his way there in June numerous fields of ice were met with, which at times jamme the vessel so that she could not make great headway. July 3, arrived at Logitopie, on the Greenland coast in latitude 65. The weather was very stormy and the coast also surrounded with heavy ice. Halibut were scarce. From there went to Godthaabt, but was prevented from landing by the Governor of the place, this being a settle- ment containing about 500 inhabitants. He was told that a Danish man-of-war patrolled the coast to prevent Americans from fishing or trading with natives, as the treaty between Denmark and the United States forbade it. They then sailed north in search of halibut, stopping at Hol- senberg, but were driven from the harbor, and seizure threatened if they came there again. Some halibut were found, but the weather was stormy. The Rogers sailed north as far as Cape Amelia in latitude 68, but no halibut were found. The captain concluded to sail for home, being told by the Governor of Holsenberg that the man- of war would seize the vessel if found. The schooner Seth Stockbridge, which sailed June 1 for Greenland was not seen or heard from, and it is feared that she got jammed in the ice and was lost. The captain thinks if she had been on the coast he would have seen her. August 17 he sailed for home, meeting with fine wea- ther but numerous icebergs, and great pre- caution had to be taken to keep from colliding. Stopped at several harbors in the Straits of Belle Isle, making inquiries about mackerel. Was told that none had been seen this season. The Rogers brings 100,000 pounds flitched halibut, and is the first arrival from there this season.

DEED.

On the 16th inst., of hemmorrhage of the lungs, John P. McCarron, in the 23rd year of his age. May his soul rest in peace. :

{Funeral from the residence of his mother, King Street, near Queen, at 8.45 a. m., to-morrow (Saturday) to St, Dunstan’s Cathedral, thence to

the Roman Catholic Cemetery.

APPLES, COAL, &e.

Auction, to-morrow, SATURDAY, Sept.

RY E R 18th, at 10.30 o’clock, at my Auction Room,—

One Carload APPLES—Gravensteins, Hmpei- ors and other choice kinds.

—ALSO—

Immediately after—Cargo 60 tons ROUND COAL, ex Schr. Quickstep, from Glace Bay, C. B. A. McNEILL,

Auctioneer,

WANTED.

VESSELS to carry lumber bet ween P. E. Island and Pokemouche, N.B. Hight feet of water Rates, $2 per M.

0. D. TURNER & CO.

Sept. 17.

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Bank of Ps ik, Island, in Liquidation.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Dividend of TEN PER CENT. (being dividend No. 5) has been declared payable on and after this date, Creditors may obtain cheques for same by calling at the office of the Liquidators.

For Bank of Nova Scotia, GEO. MACLEOD, Mgr., CHAS. C. GARDINER, L. C. OWEN,

Liquidators. Ch’town, Sept. 15. 1886—6i

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STORNS.

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