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The Franchise Bill.

By this Bill, the Electoral Franchise! Booker «s British Consui-General to reside

wili be wideved in ali the Proviaces of Canada—except Privce Edward Island The Governmeut have therefore made a move ip the direction of complete elector- We ret that the not yet sufficiently ad- vauced all the privileges we iu this Isiaud possess—the

reg rt

the en) ryrmeus ot

al freedom. Provinces ior

are

more sO as, Unless Some special provision

in their behalf be made, a number ol persons in our toxns will, under the) operation ol the Bill, be disfranchised ior Demivion Eleciious. We hope, however, ;

that some such spec ial provision will be

made. Unless it cin be shown that he} has proved himeelf uoworthy of the trusts imposed upon him, it will be

wrong ard unjust to deprive any mat} , j furmer years. |

of his right to vote #s in *Once a voter

principle founded on rizht anu establish

alwavs a voter” is a

ed by the best consti We hope the rights of all our voters will

by Parliament of

be respecte dl the

Canada.

The Mctecd-Ra:iway Case.

True Examiner's telegraphic advices to-day contety Important anvueuuce ment that the Si prem Court of Canada yesterday reversed Judge Henry's judg- ment jn the MceLeod-Railway case, aud

ihe

set aside the award of $36,000 which was given Mr. MeLeod as compel sation lor the injuries sustained by hin: in the ac- cident cn the Islaud Railway in August 1880.

The grounds,we are iuformed,on which the Supreme Court of Canada set aside the judgment or the Exchequer Court 6re :-—

(1) That the control and nianagement

of the Prince Edward Island Railway |

being vested by statute in the Minister ol Railway and Cavals, Queen can- pot be made lial Je because the same was uuskilfally and negligently arranged.

(2) That pegligeuce cannot be imputed to the Queen ; and she is not answerable for the negligence of Her servants

The other judymeots in the Railway cases will, as a matter of course, be sei aside also, inasmuch as they all rest on the same basis, aud were to abide the re- sult of the McLeod case. Shine ca Trade of the Dominion.

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The value of gocds entered for con- sumption in the Dominiou in* the six movths ending December 3lst, 1882, was $62 763 486, upon which a duty ot $12.248 231 was colle ted. Exclusive e! British ud the Northwest Te:ritories there was entered tor con- sumption, of duttable goods $46,197 904, of free goods $15.678,401, aud of coin aud bullion $197.492 ‘The chief items of import were as tvllows :—

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CURRENT NOTES. Water has been found at Regina. Leprosy is spreading in New York City. Gen. Von Moltke is ill, but his sickness i; not considered serious,

The President has recognized Wm. Lane

at New York.

A Washington special says the Govern- ment has sent Federal detectives to watch the Philadelphia convention.

Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Mackenzie have taken ; assage for Eogland by the ‘*Circas- sian,”’ which sails on the 19th Mag. | Lt seems after ali that the Caneda Pacific

Railway Company has contributed to the revenue directly the handsome sum of about S400 O00.

Joha Connell and wife were drowned in the canal as Dayton, O., ou the 26th inst., , while trying to save their daughter from the saine death

A new cotton company was organized yesterday, to build a millat Magog, Quebee, with a capital of $1,000,000, They will

THE DAIL

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Mr. McLeod's Case. Orrawa, May 1,

The Supreme Court of Canada yesterday reversed judgment in the cas» of Mr. George MeLeod, Cashier of the Union Bank vs. the Queen, claiming damages for injuries received in an accident on the P. EK. I. Railway. The decision given, held that the Crown was not responsible for damages for accidents on Railways owned by the Government. Judges Henry and Fournier dissented from the decision. gTue Chief Justice, in giving his decision, hoped the Government would recognize Mr. Me-

Leod’s claim as a matter of grace.

A Sill Rejected,

Mr. Caludal’s bill fixing the rate of in- terest, was yesterday rejected by the House of Commons,

\@ nyprloy 1,280 hands. An endeavor is being made to extend and

| Ediaburgh. Lord Provost Harrison esti | mates the cost of £100,000.

Advices from Sydney, New South Wales, ‘sate the Legislature has resolved to con- i tinue the San Francisco mail contract tor two years on modified terms.

The late English Government paid off $90,000,000 of the national debt. The pre- sent has paid off $102,500,000, and hopes this year to pay off »40.000,000,

Av English manufactarer was lately fined $460 for an infringement of the factory act. the Losseector had found forty-five women he mill seven minutes after the hour for

ciosing. »

The preamble of the bill providing for an ‘ppr priation of 5,090,000 francs for an expedition to Tonquin declares that the French Governwent dees not contemplate

n agressive or warlike enterprise.

Fitzharris, known as ‘Skin the Goat,” will be placed on trial, on Monday (to-day) as one of the principals in the Phceuix Park murders. The trial of Timothy Kelly has been postponed until Wednesday.

The Mayor and City Council presented lan address of welcome to the Princess | Louise last night, to which she made a suit- jable reply, saying that she would, in future | years, bo proud to be counted among their | truest friends.

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The London Times asserts that the Bri- tish Government is in possession of snffi- cient evidence to warrent a demand upon the United States Government for the ex tradition of Tynan, who is alleyed to be ‘Number One.”

A special frons Wesson says, at Rockport, 19 miles east of Beauregard, the cyclone did an immense amount of damage, and many persons are reported killed and wounded. The list foots killed and as many wounded.

Over two hundred and fifty lives were let by the recent cxsclone in Mississi; pi, Georgia, and South Carcelina, and neariy one thousand more or less seriously injuved. The destrue'ion of crops and property of all kinds is unparalleled.

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The reduction of the minimum tariff for televrams in Great Britain from a shilling to sixpence is expected to greatly increase | the volume of telegraph business and even. | tually becomea paying move for the goverr- | ment, which own the telegraphic service of the kingdom.

Rerurns made to Parliament shows that the duties paid by the Canada Pacific Rail- way Company oa articles imported by it since the date of its contract with the geov-

ernment to ihe 28th February, 1883, amounted to $399,842. A return of the

value of goods exported from the Dominion for six months, from Ist July to Ist Janu 1883, shows a total exnort of 872,236

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Iron and steel - $7,003. 312 Cotton monufactures 4,235,715 Coal and cok: 3,267,751 Grain 623,193 Flour and meal 856, i199 Fancy troods 1,041. '87 Leather aud ma "es 1,058,835 Provisions - 1,229 197 Silk - 1,474,074 Sugar ahove No. i4 : 78,241 Suyar equal to No. 9 d not

ahove No i4 1,282,9 | Sagar below No. ¥ },222 Ov Woollen manufactu: - - 5,434,301 | Wood and manu ' 1.320, 1 Tea from the United st 13,25. |

The value of exports from the Do-

minion in the six meuths « ndivg Decem-

ber 3lst., 1882, was:— Not

Produce Produce

of Canada of Canada

Product { mine, ~ | 858,234 < 88,616 Produc’ of fisherie*, 5,062,066 23,918 Product of forest 18,52, 466 §59 709 Anima's apd produ 1,684,626 690.672 Agricultural, 11,493,234 6,161.974 Manufactures, 1,*61,452 372,672 Miscellan: 31,.°6! 71,265) Total, ; 3,989 $3,266 821

reach- of

bn and ballion v total

The exports ¢ {eo ed $105 100. mm: ” a graud exports of S62 9: 910.

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ster Tern Supreme Court of this Pi ili« opened this mornity There are several s tobe made for} new trials, ete Mir. Petere has been ail! the morning moving | a rule nisi for a} new trial in the Scrimyeoa -Connolly cas

tried at Georvetown 1

Henry Lat

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Febrnary last.

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was sworn in as

ywort eK a High Sherif of Queens County; Micha 1} MeCormack, Eeq.. as High Sheriff of King’s |

County; and William G Strong, Esq., as High Sheriff of Prince County

James Curtis, Esq . having been appoint- ed Depu'y Sheritf «of Queew’s County, was also sworn in, and immediately after wards assumed . Curtis for many | years held this p +h he filled with satisfaction to th ec, and we are happy to congrat: on lls re-appearance in public life

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A riot broke ot 238th, between Greeks and on ac | count of ceremonit Several | persons were killed and many wounded, including a number of police. British troops and sailors, with gatling guns, sur- reunded the Greek church te protect The Greek consul took refuge on board the gonboat Toulon. It European residents geveral maseacre by

Said Arabs s.

Port

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reiigious

were saved from a

sailors

UO'Herlihy and Kennedy alias Feather- stone, brought from Cork, weve arraigned | In. eourt Saterday and charged with having becn et gaged in the dynamite con- |

‘piracy, "Bhey were rowatded for a week, |

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| presence at tne Oper ing of the most repre -}

|ferm be so fremed as to enable us to con- | tinue to accept help from America, at the i’ | game time avoid affording a pretext to the it. | BR

. | the national movement in Ireland.

is stated that the | way only the landing of British | | moderation,

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E'ght thousand coal miners, several hun dr_d cigar makers, and a large number of -ymen plasterers will quit work next} Vuesday (to-dav) unless employers convede their demands. The miners’ strike is against a redu of half a cent per bushel: the cigar makers want a dollar per 1,000 advaiice, and plasterers an in crease from $3 to $3.25 per day.

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A telegram from Qu’Appelle says that a detachment of Mounted Police were sent to the end of the line tm anticipation of Indian troubles. has yet been com- mitted. but the chiefs threaten to stop work on the C. P. R. between Cypress Hills and fedicine Hat. This threat 1s looked upon,

however, as a scheme to eall attention to! }

No overt ac

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their grievances. The Indians complain of bad treatment, and say those at Cypress Hills put in a drexdful winter, and are now

in a lamentable ceudition.

The distress in the Western Islands and

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cot is widespread, and the} Lord Mayor of London bas issued a second | AP} eul for aid for thes ATVIRGE pe ple, In

» letter from the Rev. D. Machi-non, of | Straith, in the Island of Skye, it is d| that there is haidly a crofter in the Island vho has either corn or potatoes, but v of them could ultimately repay a pecuniary an if there was money to lend them. Ti

inter has been so stormy that the pP ople

stat mal | 1 w could not pursue the lobster fishery, and the

yoO'ato dis ase, following a bad herring fish- ing, completed the famine

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A cablegram from Charles S:ewart Par- London, to James Mooney, President} of the lrish American Convention :—** My Convention of Irish-American assembled being impossible necessity of my remaining here p the Criminal Cede Bill, which re enacts permanently the worst pro- visiops of coercion, and, if passed, wil leave constitutional movements at the merey of the Government. I would ask you to lay my views before the Conventior, L would respectfully advise that your plat-

sentative opinion ever owing to the

to oF 8e

ritish Government for entirely suppressing In this can unity of movement be pre- served both in Ireland and America. I have perfect confid-nce that by prudenc, and firmness, the cause oi will continue to advance, and though the cheius bear heavily upon us at | present before many years have passed we shall have achieved those great objects for whieh through many centuries our race hes striyy kel.”

improve the buildings of the University of |

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' McLeod.

* Skin the Goats” Triak

Dustin, May 1. The trial of Fitzharris, the cab driver, at the Phoenix Park murder, was commenced yesterday.

Widespread Censpiracy. Lonvox, May 1. In the House of Commons, last night, Mr. Trevelyan said the Government had evidence of a widespread conspiracy in the County Mayo, Ireland, and two merchants were arrested in Clifden.

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Extradition of Censpirators.

Lonpon, May 1.

Negotiations are pending for the extra- dition of three members of the dynamite party from the United Stats. Other demands will follow.

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Weather Builetin.

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Probabilities for the next 24 hours for the Waritime Provinces.

Toronto, May 1-11 a. m.

Moderate to fresh westerly to southerly winds, fair weather, not mmuch change in temperature,

HOTEL ARRIVALS.

RANKIN HOUSE.

April 26—H D Price, Montreal; C-E Mec- Pherson, Toronto; Jas Biliman, Halifax; M C McRobbie, st Jonn; D A McInnis, Rolio Bay; A D McCormack, Souris; Jas Lear, Halifax; J A Morrison, do; M Matinson, New Glasgow; R Briadaill, Halifax; P Maitland, Montreal; J A Leaman, Truro; F C Chandier, Montreal; ET McKeiver, Montegue; DC Martin, city; M B Dike, Bangor, Maine; Allan Finlayson, Pictou Landing; Malcolm McLeod, Belfast. 27—M B McDonald, Souris; Hugh Hood, Mon- trea!; Frank McKenzie, New York; T ‘Laite, Montreal; I’ W Messenger, do; ‘it E Conlin, Manchester, Erg; RJ Logan, Montreal; John P Lee, do; J H Treen, uxfurd, N 38; W C Blundell, Montreal. 28—S Rubia, st J hn, N 8; Arthur A Sandeman, Montreal; John Hora, St Joho; A Stewart Scott, Montreal; * H Barr, do; F H Foster, st 'ohr. 30—M C MeRobbie, $t Johu; WC Ford, Moutreal; W H Smith. do; M tnblin, do; Capt Allan Finlayson, Vernon River Bridge; K Booth, Montreal; J W Hughes, County Line Station; John Melntosh, ellarton, Pictou Co; J G Mollidge, Antigonish, N 8;J A Leaman, 'iruro, N 38; J C Moynes Montreal; W P Horrie, Portiand, Me; AC McLeod, Park Corner.

SHIP NiWs. PORT OF CHARLOTTETOWN. ENTERED,

April 30.—sch Spring Bird, Cow Bay, coal ; Bennie Kate, Port Caledonia, coal; Bounty Pictou, coal.

May J.—Alert, Pictou, coal; Spirit of the Day, Pictou, bal.; Sunrise, Crapaud, potatoes.

CLEARED.

April 25.—sch Alice May, St. John’s, Nfld, produce, by A Keanedy & Co.; Sphinx, St. John’s, Nfld., produce.

April 30. —sch Gazelle, Pictou, oats ; Spirit of the Day, Halif.x, produce; Emma, Boston, potatoes by Carvell Bros.

May 1.~-- brigt. Zera, Shemogue, ballast,

OUTPORTS. New London, April 27.—eld sch City Point, for St John’s, Nfld., produce, by James T

Montague, April 27.—ech Excel, for Boston, potatocs ; enteredsca Lady Franklin, Halifax, ballast,

Crapaud, April 27.--cld sch Florence May, for Shediac, potatoes; Magdalen, do, oats. Entered, Mary E lrio, do, do.

Murray Harbor, April 26.—entered Neil Dow, Halifax, mcése, 25— Fish Hawk, Guye- boro, limestone; Sea Slipper, Halifax, bal.

GENERAL.

Halifax, April 28-sch Katie, Flowers ¢ ove, Nfld., via Georgetown.

North Sydney, April 28—ar sch Domicion, Muilimas, P. E. I

Vinvard Haven, April 25,—sch Royal Home, New York for P. E. I.

New York, in port April 24.—Lucy Pope, McPhee, une.

Ar at Savannab, barque Edith Carmichael, McEachern, New York.

New Or:eans, April 26.—cld barque Gulnare, McDonald, Limrick.

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BSE RMD.

In this City, on the 29th of April, Anabella, beloved wife of John Manally, in the 35th year of her age. May she rest in peace.

[Funeral will leave her late residence Upper Great George Street, on Wednesday, at 8 20 a, m.]

In this City, on the 28th April, Anne Morrison, wile of the late Patrick Corrigan, io 53 years, leaving one son to mourn his

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TO LET « A DESIRABLE DWELLING HOUSP, three-stery, brick, with good stable ac

commodation, on Prince Street, opposite St arene : : Paal’e Church, Possession given May Ist.

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McDougall, Pictou, coal; |

snares testi ati AOTC TOLEDO ALLE I He AMIN BR,

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PE. ISLAND FUBLIURE HAREROOMS,

The Best always the Cheapest.

French Parlor Suits, in Raw Silk.

American Parlor Suits, Plush and in Hair Cloth.

Turkish Parlor Suits, in Silk Plush.

French Bedroom Sets (all designs) in Walnut.

French Bedroom Sets, in Ash and Walnut.

Cheffioneers, Sideboards, Book Cases.

Smoking Chairs, Camp Coairs, Common Chairs.

Iron Turning done to order as well as can be done in the city.

Planing, Sawing and Wood Turning done to order. ae cc

ALL WORK WARRINTED TO BE THE BES?. = Undertaking Department complete and cheap, Pp Call and examine my stock before buying else’ = ¢& where. oy bd co

MARK BUTCHER. =

Kent Street, Ch’town, Api il 30.—im tes

Fine Bedroom Sets Very Cheap.

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LOBSTER PAGKERS’ SUPPLIES

Bankrupt Stocks

Y AUCTION, comme ; DAY, May 2, at seven ve tinving every evening until] the clos d out, at the Auction Room. ‘e " to Stevenson's, Queen §

assortinent of Bankrupt Stock, te

GLOTH, SLOTHI

Shirtsand D

and @ great. variety of other ary Great chances for bi ica

inate : os ha aah oan oe -"

aey* Private Sales during 4. Auction prices, & th, A, M

Ch’town, May 1.

CARLOAD (83 bris received tu vay.

) BIGHT YRrgoy April 3).—?i

OW LANDING, GROUND,

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April 30 ~~

70 BRLS,

CARVELL Bp

SPRING, [883. SPRING.

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10,000 cases (1 Ib.) TALL CANS, 2500 * ‘© §6FLAT CANS, 500 boxes TIN PLATES, 200 ingots REFINED TIN, 50 pigs SOFT LEAD, 5 bars COPPER (1} and 14), 600 coils ROPE (6, 9, 12 and U thread), 10 bales MARLINE, 20 puns. MOLASSES, 30 beis. SUGAR, 25 bris.s. HARD BREAD, 200 chests and haif-chests THA, 100 suits OIL CLOTHING, 750 bris. FLOUR (Choice Superior), 125 brls KILN DRIED CORNMEAL, 100 bris. MESS PORK, 200 bris. PRIME MESS PORK, 300 HAMS (Smoked and Green), 50 brls. MESS BEEF, 100 tins LARD, 25 tubs BUTTER,

Now in Store end to Arrive, at Lewest Vbolesale Prices.

HORACE HASZARD.

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TURK’S [ISLAND SALT.

Ch’town, April 28, 1883,

To arrive, in a few days, per brigt.

** Kitty Clyde,” a few thousand bushels coarse Salt, which will be sold low ex ship.

FORACE

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HASZARD.

Ch’town, April 28, 1883.

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ENSUSANCE.,

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The undersigned represents the following first-class Insurance Companies : The Great Western arine Insurance Co. of New York,

ASSETS, Jan. 1, 1933,

$967,810.5 INCOME, 1882, Do ,810 4

625,722.90

ammonite saiee”

The Nova Seotia Marine Insurance Association, President, HON. A. G. JONES. Vice-President, J. 8. MACLEAN, ESQ.

Hulls, Cargoes and Freights insured at lowest current rates in the above Compasies,

The Fire

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Association of London, FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.

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Insurance CAPITAL,

The Northern Insarance (eo. of London and Aberdeen, CAPITAL,

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FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS.

The orth American Life Lasurance Company,

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FRED. W. HYNOMAN,

Ch’town, April 24,— 5: law wed

SPRING {MPORTATIONS |

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JOHN MACPHEE & CO.

RE OPENING a large ani varied AMERICAN STAPLE AND FANSY

Dry Goods, Millinery, &e.,

Ex steamships “ Brantford City,” Peruvian” and *Pryesian”’ trom Loudon and G asyow,

PRICES LOWER THAN EVER WHOLESALE AND iRETAIL.

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STOCK OF ENGLISH AND|

JOHN QUIRK.

April 27.

JOHN McPHEE & CO,

E ogland.

The Loudoa ani Laneashire Life [nsurance Company. | ° |

first of May.

Steam Navigation Gompg SPECIAL GEKERAL 7 a

| A the Sharcholders of the Prince Bde |isiand Steam Navigation Ce 4

| held at their office, corner of Great Gen te Lower Water Streets, on TURD EVENING, the FIFTEENTH day of /next, at the hour of seven o’elocs, p jme purpose of takiny into c 3 ; 7 | expediency of increasing the Capital Stock

' the Company, in accordance with vial Act of Jucorpom ation, and other matters.

By order,

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Ch’town, April 30, 1883,

FOR SAI

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CHV1OR LOT of Childrens’ € i just arrived, Also, one Single Drs Wagon, nearly new, at is

HisNRY COOMB: Upper Great George 8 April 28. —61

SALT FOR SALE

2000

Georgetown, April Zs,- 3i

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———ae i SACKS = Al. Alea, aft ply of ¢ oeral Merchandws,

385 BYES LANDING 70M

100 boxes LOYAL,

Ch’town, April 2°,—pat 2i

WANTS, LOST, POUND, dt

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| (*@ DOZEN Warner’s Kidney Cure and Pill, 6 at Dodd’s Medical Hall. —_ [mal we | prResu GARDEN SEEDS. opening # | @ day, at Dodd’s Medical Hall. : {mal 2w is 7 ‘ sa ee : ___ ent OST—On Monday evening, hetweet } 4 Acedemy of Music and the Fxanoet | Office, a Silver Bracelet, The finder wil?

| rewarded by leaving the same a this off. : { W ANTED IMMEDIATELY—A om for general hi usework,

EXAMINER OFFICE.

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siaaliatil aati oa i i No le ‘A ANTED—A BOY for General Wa Apply at the Revere House,

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7 ANTED— One Volume, Peters’ Repo” Apply at tis office. (ap 28 Sine

{LERK WANTED.— we by the 150 / May, a Clerk who hes had seme ence in a Drug Stvre. Apply st ee letter, stating terms, to O B. at Crapaud, (ape whly tl on” Hi OUSE TO LET—On villshoseeil _ near King Square, cont rooms, with garret and -@llar-kitche®

session Ist May. Apply to Jone Bah

fp ELEGRAPHY.— L-di o desirous of ‘earning Telegr@phy. o

do by attending the te:im cue

For further formation

to M. B. McInnis, Rocklin Homes’ sit

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y°O LET—The shop at present coon W. H. Hutcheson, adjomimg the

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of Dr. Jenkins, Upper oa {at

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to ARCHIBALD \\ HIVE.

[= LET.—Th»t handsome snd

cottage on Weymouth occupied by Mr, George cpposite residence of Dr. tn May next. Apply # HAsZArb.

NUR SALE CHEAP.—A quantity k proved bunchcs of the foilo¥ ; and White Ra: pberry Plants, Black Currant Pianta, | Goose (growing,) also Straw berries.

April, 27 1883 —2aw, wily Ruseet User's OLv Sranv

PHILIPS, Sydney Streets oF

ILIPs rev, Orit a t ‘ /

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