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The Richmond Bay Railway.

Tris is one of the matters about which Hunt, to Ottawa in

An item in the supplementary

R chara M arch last estimates, as published by Toe EXAMINER

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a few days ago, shows that, in respect to it, at least. | We are informed urged

by Mr. Hunt in support of his claim for

ve has been successful

that some of the reasons

the Richmond Bay Railway were :—

|. That the rsilway will give easv access to the great oyster groun is of Canada,— Rich mond bay. About 30,0 0 barrels or ovsters

y taken ont of this bay With a rounds, most of this

are annua railway terminus on the g a utity would be shipped to Summers'ce and Shediac, and thence the Intercolonial. The f it thus « rile ‘ted would, in one year, pay the of the branch. Under present ib ‘range nents, fishermen are su) ‘ct to great hardshios in landing and getting their fares to Summerside. Carts have to be » their boats for the oysters, fre

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cost

market in

driven out ti ' P he

quently ia celd and icy water. Chen, they have to be earted distances ranging from four to fourteen miles, over very bad roads. he through freight from Richmond Bay to Mon treal and p ints on the loterevlonial Railway, would not be more then five cents per barrel in exveas of the present throuzh fre ight fiom Summerside, thus making the oys’er worth at

least tweaty cents a barrel more to the fisher

inen an they are under present arrange- ment »

bu $. Around Richmond Bay are fine farming icts, remote from railway facilities, With :bout Compton’s Shore woull run to Beach Point, rvening places, and al

ise Lot 13. ca lir rh it Grant

distri a railway

fer. y stertme:s

terminus

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Ovater Cove and ° } i

to Mclutosb’s ~hore

iniver, »wer Lot 16, ete and these bvats would «lso be used fer towing oyster buats to and from th oOys'é groun is.

2 The farmers of Freetown, Kinkora, Cape Traverse, Hunter River and other inland places get their supplies of mussel nu i by ail from Summerside This harbor is abeut exhansted, and new ground will rave to be looked for. There is abundance of mud in Richmoad Bay cf

a supe ior quality to that taken ia Suammer- Bile Chis is a matter of great importance to far vers, and they must «ppreciate the ad vantages of a rail« ay t ‘ppl 4 Richmond Ray. Chere is no protit to the railway in hau ing mud into the country at the low rates charged

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forit The advantage is looked for in the p sp rity of the peuple, by reason of the iner. ased yield of the farm produce, as a re-

sult of the application of the mad, the produce

being in turn carried to market over the rail- Way. 4. Ag-in, the distance from Compton's or

Crasweli’s Shore to Melpeque Harbor is only twelve miles by channel course. This harbor ted to by hundreds of fishermen, miny of whom would avail themselves of the prox mity of the railway torun up and ship

f jus facilitating trade and giving

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their fat employment to the Intercolonial Railway.

To skilfully urged by Mr. Hunt, the Government have Parlia- iment are, we believe, very much surprised t that ] the vicinity, and the trade of the country

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these strong arguments,

yielded. Our representatives in

the fishermen of Richmond

b ‘yond,

o learn

2a» PAy

the Gulf the farmers of

; are aiiu

», are about to obtain a boon which

they aever thought of applying tor! ‘T his one fact brings into strong relief the

huze blunder which was made by the peo- ple of Prince Edward Island when they

sent s X useless Grits to represent them at

Ottawa.

Mr. Hunt certainly deserves, and will undoubtedly receive, very great credit on accouut of his successful mission to Ottawa.

Natural History Society.

Carnivorous PLaNnts was the subject of he instructive psper read by Mc. L. W. Watsou before the Natural History Society, e meeting held yesterday afternoon. Mr. Watson did not confine himself toa

re description or enumeration of the plants of carnivorous habits. Beginning with the lowest forms of animal and vege- table life, he pointed out thetr similarity in composition and nutrition, aad contended that a similarity in mauy important func- tions of the animal and plant can be traced even in the higher forms, where the differences are most apparent.

Astypes of carnivorous plants the Dio- nea, ies of Nepenthes, our native carnivorous plants, the round-leaved Sun- dew, Crosera rotundifolia and the pitcher plaut, Surracenia purpurea were minutely

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City Council Meeting.

The regular monthly meeting of the City Council was held last evening. Present His Worship Mayor Haviland and Council- lors Morris, | Taylor, McCarron, Eden, Large and Douse.

After the trausaction of some preliminary

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business, Mayor Haviland submitted the correspondence received since previens meetings.

Haszard WX R sit ynibury’s let informed the Board that if the sum of $620, which | sum, it is alleged, 1s due John Murphy for |

keeping the pumps and wells in repair dur ing the year ending April 12, 1890, is not paid immediately, they would begin a suit against the City. Laid on the table.

The requisition of the Water Comm's- sioners asked for the further issuing of de- bentures to the amount of $10,000, for the purpose of defraying the cost of Jaying ad- ditional service pipe aud extending the waterworks, The request was granted, the debentures to bear interest at 4 p. c.

The letter of Mr. A. B. Warburton ask-

ed that Grafton street east be opened up snd extended to the causeway across the marsh leading tu the Driving Park. The

request was ordered to be complied with, subj ct to the approval of the Recorder.

Mr. Alfred F. Tomlins, late clerk to the Stipendiary Magistrate, asked that the Board grant him a pension in consequence of his health having broken down while in the service of the corporation. Laid on the table.

Mr. Charles Higgins complained that manure heap near his residence on Rich- mond Street west, was detrimental to the health ot the people in that neighbourhood, ana asked that it be removed at.once.

The application of the Salvation Army forthe use of the Market Hallun the night of Monday, 2nd June, was referred to the Market Committee.

A petition from the Police force, for new uniforms, was handed over to Police Committee.

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asking

the

Foliceman Harris, Doyle and Campbell were put in nomination for the vacancy in the sergeantship of the force caused by the promotion of Sergeant Cameron. The first uamed was elected.

Councillor McCarron gave notice that at the next meeting he would move for a re- consideration of this matter.

City Marshal Cameron was appointed icting Sanitary Officer for one month.

Councillor Byrne asked the Public Pro- perty Committee if it was their intention to have the upper story of the City Hail com- pleted.

Councillor Eden said he did not think it was, as there was no sum in the estimates for the work.

William Dillon was appointed Assistant Market Clerk and Janitor at a salary of $350 a year. An amendment that the salary be $300 was defeated.

Councilor Morris reported that the Pub- lic Property Committee had leased the old engine house on King Street to Mr. W. F Robins for $75 per year, with the privilege of purchasing for $900.

It was decided to see what could be done

in the way of abating the nuisance near Mr. Bolyer’s premises on Water Street by b ring. Councillor McCarron tendered his reigna mas a member of the Street Committee. Councillor Byrne spoke strengly against the practice of voting away the city’s money without notice of appheation for such being given previous to the meeting, and gave notice that at next meeting he would move for the establishing of an ordinance provid ing for the keeping of an Order Book wherein each miember shall give notice of his intention of applying for a money grant, specifying the purpose for which the grant is desired, some time previous to the meet ing at which the application is to be made, in order to give members time to consider what action to take in the matter.

Council adjourned.

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The Duke of Connaught.

It is in many ways a matter of regret that the circumstances of the Duke of Con- naught’s visit to Cansda do not permit of any extended official courtesies. Duty re quires that His Royal Highness sha'l be in Kogland on the 21st Juve, and ail his ar- raugements have to be governed by this fact. The party, which includes ihe Duke and Dachess, Sir John MeNeill, Colonel! and Mrs. Cavage, and Dr. Kilkelly, with the usual retinue, are expected to arrive at Victoria, B. C., on the 23rd inst., and will leave the coast for the east on the 25ch. On the oyerland journey a stop four a few

' deseribed. An interresting account was] hours only will be made at Banff and Win- given of the capture of its insect prey by|nipeg. Frow the latter city they will pro- tue Drosera, of the detention of the insect | ceed to Toronto by rail, thence to Niagara, hy the viscid secretion of the glands until! and back by rail to Kingston, where the it is surcly theugh slowly enveloped by the | steamer wili be taken for Montreal, the in- enfolding leef. it was sBhown that the] tention being to arrive there on the 5th or captured insect undergoes a true process of | 6th of June. From Montreal, where they digest z acted on by a solu- | will bethe guests of Sir George Stephen, ent s nb, similar to pepsin or the} the party proceeds to Ottawa, where they active u e of the gastric juice in an-j will lanch with Sir John Maedouald. ims's. As the spinesaadleaves are fuliy | Leaving Ottawa they go to the Lower St.

excited only by substances capable of being digested by the plant, the

inference was drawn that plants possess a

epecies of instinct or intelligence, This inference evuked considerable discussion afterwards. The paper was illustrated

with specimens and drawings, aad was read to an intelligent and appreciative audience.

Mr. G. F. Owen will, in about a month, read a vaper before the Society, on P E. Island, one hunrded years ago, with special reference to Natural History.

-The House of Commons had a little talk receatiy over the $75,000; it spends v reports of ita own de-

anoua: ¥ OD printin

bates. Wind comes hivh at the Capital Ss me KM =SUYYESTiONS Were nade during

the best modes of wcoethes loguendi with which too maoy members are affleted. Col. Amyot suggested that the proceedings in committee

the discussion as to

#liing the

sheuld not be « flictally reporte l, and Mr Ellis wanted the Jansard abolished, but Mr. Rufus Pope capped the climax by suyg-

me vat

prin'ing his own speech.

iting tl of

every member should pay for The Montreal Gazette remarks that this would, no doubé, work well in reducing the talk, bot it woud

come very hard upon Messrs. Ca ey and M ‘Lu! en, whose sessional iilowance would have to be quadeunled il hey were to b2! i frou sncial as weil as puiljtical

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Lawrence fora few days’ fishing. At Que bec, on the llth, they will be the guests of the Govetnor-General, and will sail on the Allan steamer Sardinian on the 12th of June.

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— The Hollanders propose a European combination against the United States as a retaliation for the antagonism shown by the latter country to European trade. If it were possible to carry such a combination into effect the result would be disastrous, not only to the American farmer, but American trade generally.

to Last year the j value of the farm preducts exported from | the United States to Europe reached the ; enormous sum of $532,000,000.

| —Mr.McKinley, when openingthe debate } in Congress on the tariff bill that bears his ‘name, saidthe increased duties on f rm products were meant to give the United States farmer the market for the #25,0990,- G90 worth of farm products now imported into that countrys and then he added: ** This isa domestic bill, not a foreign one” It is plain that Congressman Mce- Kinley does not read the Charlottetown Patriot and the Toronto Globe. If he’ did, he would know that his bill 1s a measuie of retaliation against Qanada for suiting her national needs.

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The MeHisley Bill. MCKINLEY SAYS THAT IT IS A DOMESTIC, NOT A FOREIGN BILL

Mr. McKinley explained his tariff bill in the House of Representatives, on the 7th in ln the last political campaign, he \ id, the tariff has been the abserbin qu tion befvre the people The brill had nm ibojished the internal revenue tax, as the Republican party had pledged iteels clo In the eve wt that that abolition was LECes- | sry to preserve the protective system, be- | cause the committee had found that the} abolitiou of the one was not necessary to,

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the preservation of the other. The bill re-| commended the abolition of all special taxes and the reduction of the tax on tobacco and

snuff, and it removed the restrictions on) the growers of tobaceo, With these excep-

tions, the internal revenue law stovd as at | present. If these recommendations were avreed to, internal taxation would be re duced a littie over $10,000,000. The com- mittee also recommended a provisicn re- quiring all imported articles to bear a stamp or mark, indicating the country in which such articles are manufactured. ‘The reason that actuated the committee was that it had become too common among some of the countries of the world to copy} some of our best known brands and seil | them in competition with our own home- | made product.”

The next provision recommended was one extending and literalizing the drawback sections of the law. Under the existing statute, any citizen of the United States could import any article, pay duty on it, make it intoa complete product, export it and the government refund 90 per cent. of the duty paid onthe raw material. The committee recommended that hereafter the government should retain only 1 per cent., instead of 10 per cent. This gave to the people of the United States practically free raw material gpr the export trade.

It was asserted by the minority that the bili would not reduce the reveaues of the goverument, but on the contrary it would increase the revenues. ‘This statement was misleading. It could only be valuable on the assumption that the importations of the present year vader this bill would be equal to the importation of like articles under existing laws. The instant duties were increased to a fair protective pvuint, that instant the importation diminished, and the revenues correspondingly diminished. No one shouid dispute that proposition, li the bill couid become a law, the revenue of the government would be diminished from $50,000,000 to $69,000,000.

The agricultural interests of the coun- try had received the earnest at- tention of the committee, and every relief which could be atforded them by the tariil had been recommended. The minority said that a duty on agricultural products would be of no benefit to the farmers. ‘The majority thinking differently, had advanced the duty allalong the line. If gentlemen reflected upon the difference in the price of labor here snd abroad in the production of wheat, they would perceive how near we were (if we had not indeed reached it) to the danger line, so far even as our own home market was concerned. The farmers had come to appreciate that the time was already hore when the American agricultur- ist must sell his products in the markets of the world in competition with the wheat produced by the low-priced labor of uther countries. Their care must be hereafter to preserve their own market, fur they must be driven from the fore:ga one uuless, by reducing the cost of production, they could compete with unequal conditions. Under the duties fixed by the bill the annual im- ports of $25,000,V00 of agricultural pro- ducts would be supplied the peuple of the United States by the American farmer, and that $25,000,000 distributed among the farmers would relieve some of the depression prevailing and give them confidence and courage, and increased ability to raise the mortgages on their farms. [Applause. ] During the twelve years of reciprocity with Canada, the United States had bought much more than it had suld. What Canada wanted, what other countries wanted, was

afree and open market in the United States. What the United St.tes wanted,

if it ever had reciprocity, was reciprocity with equality, reciprocity that was fair, re- ciprocity that was just, reciprocity that would give her her share in the trade, or the bargains she made with the other coun- tries of the world. Whenever the United States had trade reciprocity or low duties, it had always been the loser. But he would

not discuss reciprocity. This was a do- mestic bill; it was not a foreign bil. [Ap- plause. |

Passing to the consideration of the free

list, Mr. McKinley said that the commitice had taken from the free list and placed on

the dutiable list 18 articles, 10 of which were articles of agriculiure. If the same

quantity should be imported this year as was imported last year, this would increase

he revenue $2,400,000. it had taken from the dutiable list and put upon the

free list 48 articles which last year paid into the treasury $61,500,000, of which $58,- QOJO,0UU0 was irom sugar uione, ieee ed What was the compiai the bill ?} Was it that it would stop exportation and} nterfere with our foreiga The} foreign markets were as accessible under!

it against

ore} market 2

the bill as under the existing law. They | were a3 accessible under the bill as they

would be under abselute free trade. The! bili will put no burden, no tax-|

ation, no restriction on American products that went out of the country. Nor did the; committee despise the foreign trade. It! would encourage and sustain it; but what neculiar sanctity hung about the foreign that did not attach to the domestic market ?| Why should we pass over the best market | in the world—our own market? Notwith-! standing al] these croakings, however, we sre NoW exporting more products than at any time in our history. Our exports hud increased 35 per ce@mt, more than the ex- vorts from free trade Great Britain. While reat Britain bad, between 1870 and 1830, ' ost 13 per cent. of her commerce, the United States had gained 22 per cent., and with the same aid to shipping “that Great Brita gave, the ships of the United States would piougi every sea under the Ameri- can flag in successiul competition with the ships uf the world. [Applause.} We have enjoyed 29 years of continuous procvection —ihe longest period since the fcundation of the government—and found ourselves in greater prosperity than at any other time. a Oe

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Carniverous Plants.

Mr. Watson's paper on this enoject bee | fore the Natural History Society was of a | inest Interesting as well well as highly

: sharactel it was delivered in a clear and excursive style, and the many |

points of interest were finely illustrated by dinple diagranis.

he closerelationshipexisting between the jower forms of plants and animals was first shown, and this identity of base structure traced up into the higher forms: thus the peculiar animal Ike habits of certain plants were partly accounted for, A fall and beautiful account was then given of the structure of various carnivorous piants—- | Dionzea, Drosera, Sarracenia, Nepenthes, etc. The complicated structure of t lel? peculiar organs for capturing insects, thet digestive properties, and their

semblance of intelligence, were The talented essayist had studied his subject faithfully, and, with the true instincts of a naturalis®, considered it inall its relations to the great questions of biology aed philosophy, thus giving breadth, life and consistency to the whole well-studied discourse. A unani- mous vote of thanks was given the essayist, an animated diseussion of various points raised eutered into by Messrs. Me- Swain, Newson, Dr. Leeming, Hon. D. | Laird and other gentlemen present. B.

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Another Epidemic.

The latest epidemic is reported from Tennessve. Despatches give perticul ars. of the ravages of a disease called spotted fever near Franklin, inthat state. ‘The disease is unusually fatal, nine out of every ten persons attacked dying. The fever had a brief run in Summer and Webster Counties ibout two months , but disappeared Last week it re-appeared, and within 48 hours had taken tive lives. Since then a dozen more have died, and the people of the stricken district have about concluded to abandon it forever, as this is the fifth visitation of the fever. Farms and ali kinds of stock can be bought for a song.

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The origin of the disease is not known. It comes without warning and goes as sud-

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