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OFFICES :
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Vechaots’ Bank of Halifax Building, Sum-
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SS Company, of England,
4 lity of London Fire Insurance Co., — of England, HAS REMOVED
His Office to his New Building,
@ lor. Queen and King Sts.—Up Stairs.
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TSURANGE OFFICE.
Ween Insurance Company, OF ENGi.AND. CAPITAL, rEN MILLION DOLLARS.
A lancashire Insurance Company
CAPITAL, FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS
lusarance effected on all kinds of property current rates. Losses settled promptly Mad equitably.
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DESBRISAY & ANGUS, General Agents. Ufice—South Side Queen Square. . 'town, Sept. 15, 1882. re ~ —
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4 Bank of Nova Scotia
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April 26, 1883.—wkly tf
ATTORNEYS - AT-LAW
Neliciters in Chancery,
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Sa” Money to Loan,
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BOSTON TEAM,
STEAMERS: Carroll, 878 tons, Capt. Brown, Worcester, 855 tons, Capt. Blankenship
NE of the above FIRST-CLASS STEAM- ERS will leave
Charlottetown for Boston THURSDAY AF sonia AT5 P.M.
and most pleasant trip to Boston. Accommo- dations on both steamers are splendid.
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P. E. ISLAND Steam Navigation Co’y
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Commencing Wednesday, 16th May,1883,
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Leave Pictcu Landing for Georgetown on Thursday, on arrival of trainat2 p.m. —
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Leave Summerside every day (Sunday excepted) on arriva: of Train from Char- lottetown, connecting at Shediac with Trains for each of the above named places ; aud at St, John, with steamers of the Interna- tional Company and Railway for Portland and Boston, Also leave Charlottetown for Sum- merside. every Monday morning at | o’ clock, Returning, leave Shediac every day (Sundays excepted) on arrival of day train from dt. John, for Summerside, connecting there with Train for Charlottetown. Also leave Sum- merside for Charlottetowa every saturday evening, about 5 o’clock.
By order As 7) BW. HALES, Charlottetown, May 15, 1883. Secretary.
For Sale or to Let.
COMFORTABLE HOUSE, with Stable and one acre of Land, situate near the
Mount Fdward Road, at present occupied by Mrs, Harley. Apply to
WILLIAM DODD. Ch’town, March 29.
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| Letter Prom Wiiliam Murphy, |
Req., C. C.
S1r,—In your issue of the 23rd, a writer; | , o , -3
siguing bimself ‘*‘ An Etector,” says that the ‘Chairman of the late Finance Committee did his best to have a tax of $1.50 imposed upon the rate payers.” I beg to inform
you that there is no truth whatever in this!
statement. No member ‘of the then Finance Committee, or majority of the Council of that. day, so faras [ know, advocated a rate of more than $1.25.
‘* Elector” also says that the ‘Chairman of the late Finance Committee and never will vote for one per cent.” How did he arrive at that conclusion? Is he a Has he cast my Horoscepe as he is thus enabled to foretell my future acts! Having economized the expenditure, we were able to reduce the rate of $1.25 in 1881 to $1.10 in 1882; and on several occasions during the past year, it was stated, at the City Council and out of it, that if we had the introducing of the Estimates this year, we would frame them and further economize the expenditure, so as not to require any higher rate than one
; per cent.; and at the last meeting of the
City Council, when the rate of one and
'one-twentieth was being laid on, 1 moved
an amendment that it be only one per cent., but was voted down by those who had been elected to vote for one per cent., and nothing more,
The best test of the management of the finances of Governments, Cities, or Money Corporations, is generally considered to be the value of their securities; and, judging by this stangard, our citizens have not much cause to complain of the late Finance Committee; for they sold debentures at par, bearing five per cent. only, a circum- stance which, | believe, had never before occurred since the City was incorporated.
I am, Sir, Yours respectfully, Wa. Moxpuy,
May 24, 1883.
Diamond Cut Diamond.
Sir,—A writer in Tue Examiner of May 2ist, over the signature of ‘‘ One Per Cent.,” and whom I have reason to believe and do unhesitatingly assert, is none other than the late representative of Ward Four, makes some strictures on City affairs,which I would not have deemed worthy of notice, had it not been for his low, mean, cunning, aud ancalled for remarks in regard to our worthy Mayor. That gentleman might not have received as_ finished an education as some; but is, nevertheless, a man of fair abilities, and good, sound judg- ment, of sterling integrity, upright and honorable in all his transactions, highly respected in the community, and whose word is his bond, With such a character our chief magistrate can well afford to pass unnoticed any remarks made by such a questionable person as the author of the letter referred to.
It is well known that this same indivi- dual, when he was in the City Council, shortly after Mr. Hooper was elected Mayor, boasted that he would make it so hot fot him, that he would be glad to re- sign before three months. But he failed to accomplish hisends. Since the residents of Ward Four have had the good sense to elect Mr. Ladner, and our citizens to return Mr. Hooper by acclamation, as Mayor, for a second term, it ill-becomes such a noted person as the rejected Councillor to assail either of the gentlemen referred to, who have already, in conjunction with the majority of the City Council, honestly and economically administered the affairs of the Corporation, since their election. The un- truthful remarks made by the writer of the letter in question, in reference to the pledges
| of our City Councillors, is too barefaced to
need a reply.
Ihave only to observe, in conclusion, that my duty asa citizen required me lo unmask the hypocrisy and deceit con- tained in the letter of the unfortunate ex- Councillor.
Yours, etc., CITIZEN,
May 24, 1883.
“One Per Cent. Again.”
Deak Srm,—‘‘An Elector’ attempts a reply to my communication of Monday last. It is not even an honest attempt, but rather an effort to divert attention from the misdoings or neglect of the present Civic Board. None of my charges are denied, and his insinuation that I was a member of the Street Committee at some previous period, is not to the point, and simply shows his complete failure as a ‘* guesser.” Lama taxpayer, and | am ashamed to admit, assisted in electing the men who now compose the majority of the City Council. I shall never do so again, for | have been grossly deceived.
‘‘An Elector” says that ‘* the defec- tive state of the platforms ought not to be charged against the men who govern the city at present,” but against their predecessors, who, according to him, had some peculiar notions of repairing the etreets. But what has the repairing of the streets, which all spring have been in} excellent condition, got to do with the state | of the sidewalks ! This is one of the evasive modes of reply adopted by ‘‘ An Elector.” Is there not at present a Street Committee, and have they not employed men who have for some time been slash-ing away at the sidewalks? They have the same powers as were last year enjoyed by the Street Committee and City Surveyor through whose activity the platforms were kept in good order, and the best of meterial used. But while they may possess the same powers there is another indespensible quality in which they are sadly wanting, viz, material ; they not only lack energy but also ability, and are of as wretched a quality as the rotten plank with which they are
| Patching the rotten sidewalks.
The ‘‘taunt” about Davy’s Lane is a
never did |
LETTERS FO THE EDITOR. | *pplicable; avd the potent influence of the
;
}senior wember@or Ward 3 is plainly visible jaa this ** c'assie resort.”
| :,'The statement that the Chairman of the | former Finance Committee (Councillor | Marphy) ‘never did and never will vote |for one per cent,” is simply untrue. Will i** An Elector” deny that, at the recent |Special session of Council, Mr. Murphy strove to substitute one instead of one and one twentieth per cent! Will he deny |that when the former Esti:iates were sub- mitted by Mr. M, in 1882, he assured us that, in the succeeding year, only one per cent. would require to be levied !
My reason for alluding tu the ‘‘ Ladner patent” is obvieus. An invention of the kind, which will be remembered in the years to come in bereaved homes, surely merits that the name of its author should also be transmitted to posterity.
But, Mr. Editor, ‘‘ An Elector” doves not attempt a refutation of a single one of my charges. Will he deny that the present majority were elected upon the oné per cent, ery! Will he deny that at their inuumer- able pre election meetings they agreed to reduce the salary of the Stipendiarg,Magis- trate! Will he, in brief, denyuthat..the present Council have proven themselves false to their constitutents, and that, they stand before the people as ‘‘ the party of broken pledges. ’”’ -
Your’s truly, One Per Cent.
Ch’town, May 24, 1883.
Cape Woife.
The gentle sky of a clear May evening was bowing tenderly over the level wilds of the western country as we left that incor- rigible mud-hole, O'Leary Station, and made our way down the road to Cape Wolfe. When right clear of the Railway, the land improves, rising into low swells, where the skirts of the deciduous forest is fast retreating before the smile of cleared farms and thick crowded homesteads, Half way through to the West Shore we met a belt of swampy land which runs north and south nearly the breadth of the Island, In part, it is covered with shaggy spruces and gnarly ashes- and tattered cedars; but, in places, nothing except the poisoned leaves of the calico-bush cover the barren nakedness of nature.
As we looked on these barrens in the holy calm of declining day, we wondered why nature should allow such deformity of her features. Yet, sometimes ‘neath her most repulsive aspects, she hides her richest treasures. And so think many of the people here; for fragments of the drift stones from thé8e barrens: weight their persons day and night.
The gold fever is striking hard here. You wouldescarcely mect a man but had his pocket full of dirt, which he supposed to contain inestimable riches. We saw one man wko had his barn underpinned with the ‘‘quartz,” as he called it; and he looked on that rural edifice asa building whose foundations were gold. A well was being dug on the Haliburton Road, and a bed of the conghomerate struck, which was sup-
posed to be a continuation of the ** seam ”’ at the “Cape. ~ The fragments were carried away piece-meal. Men loaded
their pockets with them; and in the dusk of ihe evening an individual was seen to ap- proach with a bag, fill it with the treasure, and, balancing it over his shoulder, retreat, like Issacher of old, a strong ass crouching beneath two burdens. Farmers anticipate selling theif farms for the price of Ducal estates; and the humble trader at muddy O'Leary expects to see his future pathway strewn with shining gold.
The West Shore district is dry, rolling land—the swells slightly increasing as we approach the coast. Where it is still un- cleared, a magnificent growth of | reck naples attests the fertility of the soil; and here and there a towering elim adds its princely beauty to the forest scene. Ail along this shore splendid clear settlements face the sparkling sheen of the Gull; and the plow is turning sure gold from the soil.
The rock about Cape Wolfe is mainly an irregular and thin bedded, dark red, mica- cious sandstone. It is interstratified with irregular, lenticular magses of calearious conglomerate, varying in thickness from six inches to more than eight feet. These do net occur in any regular stratum, but are distributed through the whole thick- ness of one hundred and fifty feet of rock seen about bere, being rather more abund- abt in the: lower parts. There are also a few thin beds of red shale. These beds are exposed in a beautiful line of cliffs, varying from thirty to seventy or eighty feet in height.
The beds of calcarious conglomerate are those said to be auriferous. Prospectors fondly term them ‘quartz’ ; but they are merely an agglomeratiop of mud, sand and carbonate of lime, sometimes stained with brown hematite, and contain less quartz in their composition than ordinary red sandstone.,
We found a great play upon scientific terms up here. A mass of commbinuted silicious particles is usually termed sand; but at Cape Wolfe it beeomes ‘* disintegrated quartz.” . Black sand is found on every shore and in every stream in Prince Edward Isiand; but here it is exhibited as a curiosity to the wondering visitor, who is informed that the lustre of its shining fracture is the glitter ot included gold.
We wandered along the shore under the shadow of ihe magniticient red cliffs, in a vain search for some trace of the precious metal. We examined every little rill that poured its crystal cascade among the rugged rocks ; and, as far as our limited means per- mitted, searched the bed of a considerable stream, called the Spout, without finding a sign of anything valuable. Indeed, we have yet to find the man who has ever seen the ylitter of gold here, It is asserted that ithe gold is obscured by iron oxide so that it is invisable. But Professor Burwaeh, who is an accomplished and experienced analyst, informs me that he has mate
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