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PRINCE = EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. 1.

Winter Arrangement.

ON AND AFTER

MONDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 1878.

Trains Going West.

ITCHELL,

py. W.M Office Sup’t

STATIONS. No. 1. No.3 | Express. Mixed, Georgetown Dp 8.10 am; Cardigan ** 8.35 7 M.Stew’t Jun $710.05 ‘a Royalty Jun. “S3.20 ** din “11.40 « newt dp 8.00 am) Dp 3.30 pm tio alty Jun. % $20 *¢ 1x** 3.50 ° . Wiltshire oo Ope * 7" 445 * Hunter River | ** 9.20 -**.| ** 6.08 “* Breadalbane ow te! County Line | oe 8) ame Bet oy Kensington a e “eé 7 ad : arll. - in. ae - Summerside dp 2.40 pm - Welli n “e 3.32 ce Port ill “416 “ Ol! eary “ec 5.33 ce fi ar 6.35 ‘* Alberton dp 6.40 ‘“ Tignish jar 7.25 ‘‘ Trains Going East. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 4 Express. | Mixed. ign | Dp 7,00 am ators - ite a4 oe if 3 se Sie, “ae Wellington *10,48 ** Ar etianska ar 11.40 ‘* pe RT dp 2.30pm) Dp 8.45 am Kensington © 3.00 “| “9,15 * ‘County Line ae. 1. eee ty Breadalbane ** 3.50 ** | *110.08 ** Hunter River ©4928 * | 10.47 ‘* "N. Wiltshire *¢ 4.45 ** | 11,02 “ ‘Royalty Jun. *¢ 5,40 ** | “11.55 “ ‘3 ar 6.00 ** jarl2.15 pm Gh town jdp 256 ‘6 Royalty Jun. se 3. se ar 4.30 ‘ Cardigan “es 6.00 sé Georgetown ar 6.25 “ |

Going West.

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Souris Dp 7.00 Mts tw’tJncl Dp 4.40 ony ** 7.23i| Morell « 5,22 Peters « §,42)\St. Peters | “ 5.54 rell ‘« .9:33)|/Harmony | “ 7.12 Mt.S’tw’tJne} ar : 9. uuris ar 7.35

C. J. BRYDGES, . WM. McKECHNIE, Gen. Sup. Gov. Railways Supt. P. B. 1. R. Ch’town, Dec, 27,1878. WT off

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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. ;

he mail for Great Britain, by Canadian

Packet sailing from Halifax on Saturdays, will

be closed here on Wednesdays at 8 o'clock,

mm. P The mail for 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 town and Souris East, also forall ‘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.

OOD GREY YARN, only 40 cents per pound, at H. COOMBS’.

March 10, 1879 —3in UY THE Y EXAMIN BY 2 latest ere

Going East.

UNDERTAKING, &6.

@7 give close personal attention to all funerals that may be entrusted to him.

COFFINS, CASKETS, &C.,

of various sizes, styles and quality, always on hand, ready-made.

“PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.”

Ch’town, February, 24, 1879.

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H 1 icombe .W.V innicombe, os a Resident Piano Tuner &: Regulator, i i AS adopted the Dollar system of Tuning iB —sIX visits a year, at one dollar per visit. This 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 left at Mr. Fletcher’s Music Store, or at Bremner Bros., Queen Street.

Jan. 6, 1879—

E. G. HUNTER, [ialian and American Marble, Monuments, Tablets, Headstones,

Mantes, Cenrre Tasirt Tops, Bureau AND ComMovE Tops, WasH BowL Siass, &c., &.

Prices to suit, and satisfaction guaranteed. B@ Designs furnished on application. @a Corner Hillsborough and Kent Streets, Char lottetown.

November 6, 1878.

COMMERCIAL |

Union Assurance Company, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

CAPITAL - - $12,500,000.

ooo effected against Fire on all descriptions of Property throughout the Island.

ga Low rates and prompt settlement of

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

QUEEN INSURANCE COQ’Y,

OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL, . . TWG MILLIONS STERLING,

NSURANCE 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 Island June, 1877—

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HE former “City Hotel,” now the

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

A Suite of Rooms convenient for 2 small family, together with board &c., can be had in the Broadway House.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I.

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r¥XHIS 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 commerciai gentlemen.

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THE RANKIN HOUSE,

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

WM. WAGSTAFF. May 25, 1878.

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Mr. Macponaup (King’s, P. E. 1.) moved for copies ef all correspondence, reports and } all papers relating to the ‘practice of mack- | erel scining in the waters of the Gulf of St. | Lawrence. He said it had been the prac. | tice of the American fishermen, for the last | three or four years, to fish on the sheres of | the Lower Provinces with seines, where | they formerly used only hvoks. The use of s2ines was well known to be very destruc- tive to the mackerel fishery, and also to other kinds of fish. Scarcely a vessel now entering the Gulf was without those mis- chievous seines, which were thrown and drawn around, catching not only the coveted mackerel, but. large quantities of the smaller sizes—herring and other fish. Perhaps 300 to 409 barrels would be taken, for from 10 to 50 barrels cf serviceaule fish ; the remainder was cast overboard, dead. The result was, not only the loss of this large quantity of fish, but the frighten- ing away of good fish from the usual grounds. If these evils were not stopped, the valuable fisheries of the Gulf of St. Lawrence would, in a few years, be totally destroyed. The dead fish thrown back into the sea had a most injurious effect, as it was generally understood that fish would not frequent places where they found their own dead. They also made feed for other fish, and prevented them from taking the bait furnished by the fishermen in the regular way. He trusted the Government would see its way clearly to the adoption of such measures as would save from ruin one of the most valuable fisheries of the Dominion.

Mr. Morrtant said that, just now, while the various industries of the Dominion were seeking protection, it was proper that so large and important an industry as the fish- eries should be fully protected. It was a matter of the utmost importance to the people of the Maritime Provinces—espec ially the people of Prince Edward Island— that the practice of purse-seining should be prevented if possible. For the last few years, American fishing crews, with boats and seines, annually visited our coasts for the purpose of destroying fish by hook or by crook. Any one at all acquainted with the practice of purse-seining knew the evil effects of this mode of fishing. In the evi- dence given before the Halifax Fishery Commission, the witnesses all agreed as. to the desirability of putting a stop to seining along the shores. One witness stated, on oath, as follows :-—

‘‘Seining destroys the fishing, as it breaks up the schools of mackerel. Sein- ers take all kinds of fish, big and smail, and they only save the good mackerel. Her- rings, small mackerel and other fish are all killed in the seines, and these are thrown away.”

Another witness stated :

‘*After fifteen years of experience in the fishing business, 1am convinced that sein- ing is ruinous to fishing. Large quantities of fish are killed in the seine. 1 have known vessels to take two.or three hundred bar. rels more than could be saved, and these had .to be tipped out and went to the bot- tom.”’ .

Another witness stated :

‘‘T have been seine-master of American fishing vessels, both in American and Uana- dian. waters, and 1. perfectly understand fishing with seines. The American mackerel fishing has been almost destroyed by using these seines, and it will not take long to ruin our fisheries if the Americans are al- lowed to use them here. It is only within the lasttwo or three years these purse seines, as they are called, have. been used: in our waters. Fish are uselessly destroyed and the schools broken up and driven away by this practice.’

And. so the statements ran through the whole evidence given on oath before the Commission. A few years ago, a British Fishery Commission was appointed. The Commissioners were Mr. Baird, Mr. Le

Fevre and Professor Huxley—men of the highest repute. One of the topics. which engaged their attention was whether any of the me!ods' of catching fish in use in British uskeries invelvesa wasteful destruc- tion of fish, and if so whether it. was prob- able that any legislative restriction upon such method of fishing would result in an increase of the supply of fish. In reply to this query, the Commissioners stated that ‘Tt may be laid down on a broad principle that the produce of the sea is the property of the people in common, and that methods of fishing are fitting subjects fer legislation, so far as such legislation can be shown to be necessary to secure the greatest possible advantage to the whole nation by suppress- ing wasteful or uselessly destructive modes of fishing.” Now, ere was a case in point. The practice of muckerel-seining Was most wasteful, and uselessly destructive. Legis- lation with the view of preventing it was loudly called for, and, representing, as he did, a constituency largely interested in the fishing business, he hoped that some

thing would be done during the present Session to remedy the evil complamed of. The American fishermen themselves ad- mitted that their own fishing grounds had been almost ruined by seining, and it appeared that they were now determined toruin ours if possible. He was aware

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Mr. Brecken said, ‘before the question was disposed of, he would like to address a few words to the House on the subject now under consideration. The fishery question was one of great importance to the Do- minion, and of yitalimportanceto the Lower Provinces. It appeared that under the fishery article of the Treaty of Washington, Article 18, the Americans: were admitted within the three mile boundary, to fish in common with British subjects. “Under the Fishery Act, passed 31 Vic. chapter 60, sub-section 7, section 13, drag nets, trap nets and fishponds, were prohibited, except under special license. It would appear that these purse seines did not come with- in the category of either drag nets, trap nets or fishponds. His apology for occu- pying a few moments of the valuable time of the House, was that, since the Washing- ton Treaty, these seine nets had been used by Americans on our coasts. It was looked pupon as such a destructive mode of fishing that the fishermen of Prince Edward Island would rather see the fishery award thrown into the sea than that the Americans should be permitted to fish with these purse-seines, within the three-mile limit as the boun- dary, as this House was well aware, from which the Americans were excluded undir the Treaty of 1818, and where lay the most valuable portions of the fisheries. He had under his hand evidence, taken before the Halifax Commission, of American fisher- who acknowledged that this mode of fish- with purse seines was most destructive. The Americans had almost destroyed, through this means, their own mackeral fisheries. The French had greatly injured their cod- fisheries by the use of these seines, which were thrown around a school of fish, then drawn up, and sometimes there would be hundreds of barrels of | fish taken in the nets in one haul, and probably not twenty barrels utilized. One reason, he under- stood, why these purse-seines were 80 ‘des- tructive was that, as they were trawled, the meshes became taut, and there was no escape for the smaller fish. Large and small were alike killed, the small fish were thrown overboard, and, becoming decom- posed, they poisoned the waters. He had conversed with men who were engaged in the fisheries, and they had assured him that, unless some steps were taken to pro- hibit the use of purse seines, in five or six years these fisherios, now a mine of wealth to us, would be comparatively valueless. Whether, under this treaty which had been entered into, we ~could legislate or not, it was not for him to say; or whether the proper course would be to open up negoti- ations with the Washingt:n Government. But this was certain—that it was one of the most important questions that cduld pos- sibly engage the attention of the House. The export of fish now from the Dominion was to be counted by. millons of dollars,and that great source of wealth, properly fos- tered, would rank foremost among the re- sources of our Dominion. .

. Mr. Hacker said the use of the purse- seine had been brought about by Ameri- cans, and had proved a commercial success. The fishermen themselves, however, were opposed to this mode of fishing. He thought that; in speaking of the value of the fish- eries, they need not refer to the ‘intrinsic value of the fish. In the Province of Prince Edward Island, there were 8,000,or. 10,000 persons engaged in the fisheries, and some- where about 30,000 persons were depend- ent for their support upon this calling. Then, the fisheries of the Gulf must be the means of supplying the people of the Do- minion of Canada with Ash for a number.of years. Having such valuable. fisheries <n the Gulf of St. Lawrence, it was the duty of the Government to use every means to preserve them intact, so that they should remain not only a means of bringing wealth ito the country, but also a means of sup- plying a very important article to our peo- ple. He considered it was also the duty of the Government to. preserve the meaus of training our young fishermen for the nicr- cantile marine. The people of Prince Ed- ward Island were opposed to purse-seine fishing which was of a most destructive character, and it had been proved by ex- perienced men that the fisheries of the Gulf of St. Lawrence would be rendered un- profitable if this continued. He trusted, if the Government could not introduce any legislation on the subject, that they would enter into negotiations at once with the Washington Government, with a view to bring about measures that would preyent this mode of fishing in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Other industries are asking for protection, and what the fishermen wanted was a fair field and no favor.

Mr. Pors (Queen’s, P. E. 1.) said he was not aware that there was not any corrers= pondence in the hands of the Government to bring down, but there was plenty of evi- dence before the Halifax Commission, to prove the statements made by the gentle- men who had spoken upon the subject, par- ticularly those from the Maritime Prov-

inces. It was, however, a. very im- portant subject, and had been, and. still was, under the serions consideration of the Government, © who

appreciated the, value- of the fisheries, and would do all in its power to protect them. The Commission had ~ established the fact that the practice now prevailing of using the seines would, if persevered in,