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Sharlottetown, June il, 1877. REPORT ON FISHERIES. The subject of the Fisheries is, at pre- vested with more than ordinary inter » the Commissione: ru assemble in Halifax, when the amount of compensation due for the liberty granted to the American fishermen to fish on the Dominion coast, will be fully discussed. Any pecuniary compensation which might be regarded as adequate, would not be so satisfactory as if the Commissioners were to agree to recommend the free admission, into the United Dos minion products, which are now subject- ed to an almost prohibitory duty. The Americans have, certainly, no reason to complain of the Dominion tariff as bear- ine on their exports to Canada, United

Stutes. of certain

States products are udmitted either free or at a very moderate duty, against which our neighbors make no complaint, whilst our export trade is partly hampered by the fiscal exactions to which it is sub- ected.

The report now before year 1876 is a very bulky volume. We expected to find embodied in it a masters ly exposition of the whole subject to which it relates, but we have been disa- poisted. This unhappily characteristic of a number of the reports made by the heads of departments, under the present administration, that they present striking! evidence of want of capacity on the part of those whom we should reasonably ex- pect to posess fair qualifications for the offices to which they have been respective- The last census, which

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ly appcinted. has been so very long in preparation, is singularly deficient in a clear elucidation of the whole subject. It is an undejested body of interesting matter which requires to be presented in a somewhat readable and attractive form—a task tor which the directors of the busiuess have fouad themselves utterly incompetent.

The gross value of the Dominion fish- eries during the past year has beea $11,- 147,590. During the fisical year ending 30th June, 1876, the total value of fish, and products of fish exported from the Dominion has been $5,501,221. The best customer has been the United States, to which we have sent to the value of $1,- 475,330, Next comes in point of quan- tity exported to the West Indies—ard then follows Britain. The trade in this article in Prince Edward Island, for the past year, has amounted to $494,967. The value of mackerel ob- tained here has been $203,064. That discripticn of fish takes the lead, and next to it comes codfish, valued at $115,- 910, and the next is herring, valued at $37,165. The Island’s best customers has been the United States, to which has been exported fish to the value of $112,- 486. To Great Britain the Island has sent the article to the amount of $35,s 222.

The County of Queen’s has three ves- sels according to the returns before us— in the trade, and that of King’s, five. Prince County has four handred boats in the trede, manned by 1342 men; Queen’s, manned by 1178 men; and

Greats

285 beats, King’s 306 boats, with 1311 men— mas king in all 991 boats, having 3,831 fish- rmen. The appendix contains state- ments by Mr. John Clark, Overseer for Prines County; Mr. Isaac Tompson, Overseer for Queen’s, and Mr. Martin, Overscer for King’s. We cannot, at preseat, refer particularly to the facts and suggestions contained in the report of these gentlemen. Myr. Clark refers to the great extent to which the Dunk River is infested by poachers who hail from Summerside and Middletown, and who, armed with spears aad disguised, set the wardens at defiance’

The river fishings of the Dominion have been greatly injured by the enor- mous quantity of sawdust which has been allewed to accumulate and ret on the spawning ground. If the river fishings

are not to be entirely destroyed, stringent result will be reached in less time than the | ynere the ceremonies were carried on in

laws must be enacted to ; revent the whole-

sale destruction occasioned by this nuiss py. Toronto Globe’ states that it wil} | ance, which is practised with impunity be represented at the Commission. If so| Fresu Bedeque Uysters, by in ulmost all sections of the Provinces.) jt must be the intention to admit the Press, bushel; or served up at all bours, stewed Even where laws exist for the prevention a matter about which there has been some fried or raw, at ‘The Confectionery, Lunch

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‘asa rule, enforced. Mill owners should ‘be compelled to prevent the mill offal | There is one part of the report before | 3 which is pot only written with marked bility, but which indicates a pretty

from falling into the mill streams.

‘(horouch knowledge of the interesting abject to which it relates. We refer to

iat portion of it which deals with the uch culture establishments of which Mr. Wilmot has charge. There are in the Dominion seven establishments of this kind—one in Nova Scotia, two in New Brunswick, two in Quebec, and two in Ontario, and we ean imagine no reason why there should not be one in Prince Edward Island. One of the establish. ments in Ontario and the one in Nova Scotia have been in operation since 1879.

erected in 1873 and 1874. It must, therefore, be understood that these lately constructed have barely had time to be pl.ced in thorough working order. The total vivified eggs now on hand, and the

conveyed to the rivers and lakes of the Dominion are highly satisfactory. The number of young salmon, salmon trout and whitefish, which has been distributed amounts to 14,340,000 ; and the quantity of ova in the course of hatching is 14,5 175,000, making a total of twenty-eight millions five huudred and fifteen thou- sand. In looking over the reports on this department, we have not observed that the Island has received ANY PORTION of the stock which has been distribated. We should like to know the reason why Prince Edward Island is the only Colony which has been omitted. Seeing that the salaries of our officials are, for reasons which the people of this Island are bound to know, under those ot any other Pro- vince connected with the Dominion, we are not at all surprised that our rivers should be deemed of no account in the distribution of silmon fry. Yet we con- tribute a due proportion to the mainten- ance of the seven fish trading establish- ments. Let us have a little light on this subject.

TUE HALIFAX FISHERY COM- MISSION.

The Halifax Commission, which is to meet on the 15th inst., will be thus consti- tuted, according to the Toronto Globe :— The British Commissioner is Sir Alex- ander ‘Tullock Galt, K. C. B., for some while Finance Minister of Canada. The Commissioner for the United States is Judge Ensign H. Kellogg, of Massa- chusetts. The thiri Commissioner is M. Maurice Delfosse, Envoy Extraordinary of Belgium to the United States Government. The United States Government has aps pointed the Hon, Dwight Foster as agent io advocate its claims before the Commis- sion, and the British agent will be the Hon. Francis Ciare Ford, the British Charge d’Aft.ires at Carlsruhe, ‘The case for the British North American possessions has been for some time in course of preparation by legal gentlemen of high standing, in. cluding Mr, Doutre of Montreal, Mr. Wea- therbie of Halifax, and others.

The Hon, L. Davies of P. E. I. and Mr. Thompson, Q. C., of this city, are among the legal g ntlemen employed. It is sup- posed that after meeling and organization the Unitei States Commissioner will pres sent the views held by that country, and that then an adjournment will take place to enable the represetatives of Great Brit- ain to make a rejoinder. A despatch !rom Washington to the New York 7ibnne throws some light upon the position that may probably be assumed by the United S:ates before the Commission.

No formal statement has yet been pre- sented by Great Britain embodying the amount of compensation which she will claim. Its claim on this subject will be based of course upon the number of the American fishing vessels, the yearly product value, &c. ‘The American agent will naturally seek to cut down this estimate as much as possible, and the old question of the rights of each party under former con- ventions and international law will have to be discussed in order to ascertain how much Great Britain actually conceded under the Treaty of Washington. The Americans urge that their vessels being built stronger and larger than those of the Canadian, and chiefly used for deep sea fishing, the abrogation of the three-mile limit is not very important, and ought not seriously atfect the question of compen- sation. The articles coutaming these con- cessions continue in fo ce for ten years, may then be terminated upon two years’ notice, so that if Canada is dis-atistied with the award the arrangement may be abro- gated. ihe questions arisiag are also

‘numerous, and the work of the Commise.

'sion so considerable that it is questionable ‘whether, even with the utmost energy, a

six months allowed for the making up of | the case of each Government,

| doubt. —St. John Telegraph,

The others, except one at Neweustle, were / has been going on, according

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THE WAR.

If the dispatches telegraphed to this side of the water are to be believed, the ‘Turks and the Russians are enacting the parts or- iginally enacted by the Kilkenny cats ~— fierceness. News from Russian sources is

teat has been inflicted on the Ottoman troops by the children of the Czar; fortifi-

tions carried, and all this with surprising'y little loss of life on the side of the victors, and an equally surprising great loss on the part of the vanquished. ‘fF course the Curkish version is exactly similar, the name

of the triumphant army only being all that changed from ‘Tartar to Us»

manli; but all the Russians claim to have done the Turks insist they them. At the rate the slaughter to them

selves did.

remarkable accounts, there ought to be

worthy of the name must have been caps tured and recaptured at least a dozen times —all this, of course, if the despatches are to be believed, but here comes the hitch. On the face of them a good deal of improb- ability is apparent; it is plain that they are frequently concocted to serve the purpose of the belligerent in whose favor they tell, and accordingly everything is magnified —a | skirmish swells into a pitched battle by the; time the news of it has travelled from Cons | stantinople to London; an outpost carried bya handful of men becomes a citadel stormed galiantly with much loss of life, and so on to the bottom of the list. No wonder that the average reader becomes confused and gives up in despair any attempt to understand fhe movements of the armies in Asia Minor—at present the scene of most of these dou'tful conflicts —and turns for relief to the Danubian prin- cipalities where, at all events, there is not the same amount of cutting and shooting going on, and where the Russiins are con- fessedly getting the better of their oppon ents. The war, it must be acknowledged, isnot up tothe mark, Afterall the hub- bub made about crossing the Pruth, cons’ centrating on the Dinube, preparing to to pass the river in the face of the enemy. and all the rest of it, it is disappointing to have to wait so long for a decisive battle. Really they managed these things better in France and Germany, and it is time the Czar and the Sultan realized that the gen. eral public want some genuine fighting on a large sale; something to equal Worth

some miles’ distance and petty skirmishes between Cossacks and Basbi-~Bazouks, — Chronicle.

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TURKEY S CHANCES.

The Vedelie is one of the most important Austrian military organs, and for this the fact is significant that il is the only German paper we recive which Qeclares itself clear- ly and decidely against Tur key. Iu its issue of the 27th April we meet with the follow- paragraph, in a long articie on the chances of Turkey: ‘‘ The struggle will no doubt be q long, and, perhaps, an ever-changing one; but, since Turkey will be compelled to undertake all at once the defence of its en- tire and long stretch of boundary from the Adriatic to the borders of Persia there can be no reasonable doubt as to the How can a state so morally and spiritually

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degraded as Turkey, dependent for its ¢ fence upon forces drawn from a population of hardly fifteen miliions of souls, make a successful stand for any iength of t me against a state ofeighty million souls, which

has besides the co-operation of Monte- negro, Greece, Roumania, Persia, and will. perhaps, have thal of Servia (for a treaty of

peace is casier broken than made), and will be favored in its military by the insurrectionary spirit of vest of the Balkan peninsula, Tow can Turkey, whieh has no resource but its own shattered strength, prevent that its death- blow be struck. We say, ifs own shattered strength, for even Eogland will shrink from the verdict of the present aud future ge:- erations, and give up a ciuse which the civilized world has utiery repudiated, — Tablet.

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Masoyic.—The dedication of the Masonic Hall in Halifax, on Thursday last, was one of the grandest Masonic displays ever wits nessed in that city. ihe evening previous the hotels were crowded with Freemasons and their familles, who took part in the celebration. The different Lodges assems ‘bled at the Drill Shed at 2 o’clock, and jieemmed in procession. They marched

through the principal streets to the Hall,

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| MANITOBA AND THE NORTH. WES. | o

It is already quite apparent that the

amount of emigration to the North-west during the present summer will be very Those who have already arrived at or in the vicinity of Winnipeg can not be much short of 2,000, and the stream is con-

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_stantly increasing in volume. Under these circumstrnees it is well to bear in mind what classes of immigrants the Prairie Provinee needs and what classes it has no room for. A little good advice, if carefully acted on, will save a worid of disappoint- ment and discontent, Those who go to a place for which they are entirely unsuited, either by training or previous occupation, | have to a large extent themselves to thank for the subsequent hardship they have to endure, for, as a rule, it is quite possible | for all to obtain a sufficient amount of in- | formation to enable them to form an ‘approximately correct idea of what is

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the following sound advice:-—

‘The immigration of past years has possessed fur too little of the agricultural and far too much of the would-be ‘genteel’ element. Time an again have we warned al! those in search of a ‘soft job’ against com ing to Maniloba. !t is doubtful whether there is a less promising field for such peo- ple than this Province. Our population is already surcharged with ‘talent’ of that sort, hence possessors of that commodity are bringing their wares to a glulted mar- ket. As well as for agriculturists, of whom there cannot be too many, there are legiti- ute openings on every band for capitalists, and tien of inuscle willing to apply it where ever it may be in requisition—whether in the field, backyard, sewer, or on the rail- way grade—can find employment In consld- erable numbers at fair wages. The fewer of all other classes that im- migrate to Manitoba the fewer rueful ones there willbe. A great many young men, principally farmers’ sons, start from their homes in

the Eastern Provinces for this |’

ing up the first think offering that will af- ford them an honest living, but inwardly persuading themselves that stepping upon Manitoba's soil will be stepping into some- thing much easier and more immediately profitable than that to which they have been accustomed. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred dissappointment is in store for them.

The Free Press also states that 500 men are wanted on Section 14 of the Canada Pacific Railway, 500 on the Pembina branch, and the same number on Section 15. The wages of these laborers is two dollars a day, board being procurable at four dollars and a halfa week. According to the same authority, those who have a little capital and wish to procure farming land can have itin abundance Thousands of acres are to be had yet within one day innipeg for from two to four dollars an acre, while at greater distances it may be had at the original Government price of a dollar anacre, The distribution of the half-breed reserves and the growing abun-~ dance of the necessaties of life render the preseat summer more favorable to immi-. gration than any previous one has been,

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A BRIDGE DISASTER,

Lonpon, June 6.—Sixty persons were drowned at Bath by a bridge over the Avon giving way during an agricultural show to- day.

LATER.—The Bath and West of England Society's centenary was celebrated at Bath to-day. The Wedcembe Suspension Bridge fell, and about 100 persons were precipi- tated thirty feet into the Avon. Eight bodies have been recovered, and it is feared others have perished. Many are injured.

Another account represents the disaster to have been much more serious, The de- tails are not sufficient to say whether it is exaggerated or not.

StTitn Latrr.—A despatch from Bath gives the following additional particulars of the accident th: ry to-day: About half-

this morning, on the arrival! of a train load of excursionists on the Wey- nouth branchcfihe Great Western railway to attend the agricuitural show, between one and two hundred persons, belonging mostly to the well-to-do farmer class, rushed upon the toll bridge leading from the railway platform. The bridge was wood- on, of light construction, and narrow, about thirty feet long, and fbetween thirty and forty fect above the river Avon, resting on posts morticed into stonework at either end, and without centre support. The bridge snapped inthe centre, and the two ends were wrenched clean from the sides. The Whole mass, with the people, was plunged in the middie of tle stream, which was about seven feet deep. Boats from the shore were immediately at work, rescuing the living and searching for the dead. The number kilied and wounded wil be report- ed later.

Biri, Evening, June 6.—It is now esti- mated ,that twelve persons are killed, and fifty-one injured, some fatally, by the fall of Wedcombe bride.

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Tus City of Yarmouth, N. S., celebrated its 110th anniversary on the 9th inst, There will be a meeting of the B. I. Son ciety this evoning at 8 o’clock at St. Dun. stan’s Reading Room. iinet a.

Lise Svir.—The libel suit of Wordsworth versus Blackadars, in Halifax, has been set. tled by an apology from the defendants,

Surcipe,— A young man, named Thomas Cowan, of Windsor, committed suicide at his father’s residence, by cutting his throat,

F. & M. Association. —The first meeting of the Farmers & Mechanics’ So-operation Association will be held in Scott Hall on the 29th inst.

<2 ~~ Law Society,—The first meeting of the Law Society of this Island will be held in

scarcely a thousand men on either side left | persons the Manitoba * Free Press’ gives|the barrister’s room in the New Law Court

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on the 26th inst.

nt RE ea Taman Tus evening, in Victoria Division, the Sons of Temperance are promised a des. cription of J. B. Gough and his Halifax Lectures, by Councillor Millner.

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DAILY EXAMINER

SUBSCRIPTIONS to the

solicited. ‘Terms: Six months, $2 50 Three months, 1 25 One month, 46 One week, 12

Payment strictly in advance.

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Libel tie biede Mr. AnNGLIn’s Resienation. ~The Clerk of the Crown in Chancery having received notification of the resignation of Mr. Anglin, member for Gloucester, N. B.. a new writ was issued and despatched yesterday to Nomination for a new elec- tion, Monday, the 25th.

FISHERMEN AND MIL". OWNERS.— We di- rect your attention to the following from the fishery Overseer of Queen’s County, which has been for some time needed :-— All persons setting Weirs or Fish Traps in the Streams and Waters of the Island with- out first obtaining speciai license; also any Millowner allowing saw dust or any other

Mill rubbish to be thrown into tha stream, will be prosecuted as the Jaw directs.

Nuisance. —A cat in the prime of life was caused to expire, some six or seven days ago, near the south-west corner of Hills- boroug Square. The animal is so exceed- ingly dead thata pedestrian will become acquainted of the fact some twenty

thirty yards away from the pump very near to which this rotten cat flesh is speedily changing todust. This nuisance has been allowed to remain in the street for a week, The inhabitants in that part of the City have been daily expecting some of the City authorities to come and take it away.

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H. F. Penarey, Esg., Dominion Public Works Engineer, arrived on Monday evens ing last, and on Tuesday in company with P. Sinclair, E-q..M. P.,and Mr, Cun- ningham Railroad Engineer, went to Mone tague tosee about the working of the dredge there. On Wednesday they went to Victoria Harbor at Wood Islands, in- spected the breakwater at that place, and saw where the dredging is required. When the Provincial Government have expended the amount voted for extending the pres. ent work, when about 590 feet of a break. water on the Opposite side is built, and when the dredging is done, it is supposed that there will he ten feet of water in the channel at ordinary tides. On Thursday Mr. Perley went West to Prince County, and after visiting the Public Works going on there he intends returning by Shediac on Saturday, June 8.— Patriot.

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AN Inreresiinc Event.—Gen, Warner, the popular U. S. Consul at this port, was made the recipient this afternoon of an elegant testimonial, presented by a number of his friends in St. John. The testimonial was in the shape of a silver casket, having @ red granite base, silver mounted, It is altogether twenty-two inches in height. The base, in front, has a silver plate, bear- ing a suitable inscription; while on the re- verse is a plate with an engraving ofa fishing scene,—‘‘The Last Struggie of a Salmon.” At each side is a wreath of flowers in silver. In the front of the c.sket is the city coat of arms; On eitber side the Briti-h and Amer- ican shields, and on the reverse. General Warren’s monogram ~ all beautifully done in gold. Above these are four fishing scenes at Grand Falls. Fern and spruce wreaths encircie the casket, The cover is of solid silver, and is surmounte4 by a moose tepping over snow in the forest. At the

spresentation, which took place at the Vic- toria Hotel, appropriate remarks were made on behalf of the gentlemen who originated ani carried out the affair, ana General Warner replied in his usual felicitious styie. — Globe.

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