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TIME TABLE NO. 1.
Winter Arrangement.
ON AND AFTER
MONDAY, DECEMBER 30th, 1878,
Trains Going West.
STATIONS. No. 1. No.3 see _\ Express. {| Mixed. Georgetown Dp 8.10 am}
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; \jar 9.55 “ M.Stew’t Jun dp10.05 “ Royalty Jun. “ane * sn **}1.40 oe Ch’town dp 8.00 am} Dp 3.30 pm Royalty Jun. oo |" aoe N. Wiltshire “2298. % io oe Hunter River ~ oe et Breadalbane “Tor | * Bano County Line a 1 a Kensington (| “ae 0 1 eae. i, : ar11.30 ‘* jar 7.00 ‘* Summerside j \dp 2.40 pm Wellington "2a Port Hill * 4.16 O’ Leary ies ae .
~3O Tignish jar 7.25 ** Trains Going East. STATIONS. No, 2 No. 4
° Express. | Mixed. Tignish wane Al no “7 45 SS O’ Leary ce 8.47 «é Port Hill **10.05 ** Wellington **10.48 ‘*
id ar 11.40 ** Summerside dp 2.30pm) Dp 8.45am Kensington es 3.00 “e &. 9.15 “sé County Line " 3.40 rs 9.57 = Breadalbane ** 3.50 10.08 Hanter River “4am ** | “ter ** N. Wiltshire sé 4.45 ee “11.02 sé eyes Lea Ch town dp 255 Royalty Jun. a ro -
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©. J. BRYDGES, Supt. P. B. I. RB.
Gen. Sup. Gov. Railways Ch’town, Dec. 27, 1878. : p ne arh pres kea sp sj ap 61
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the Assessment
ESROADWAY HOUSE,
BY MACKENZIE.
HE former ‘‘City Hotel,” now the
Groadway Uouse, Great George Street, opposite the Catholic Cathedral, is now open for Permanent and ‘Transient Boarders.
The rooms have been thoroughly renovated and newly furnished.
The tables will be supplied with the best the market affords, and fares reasonable.
A suite of Rooms convenient for a small family, together with board &c., can be had in the Broadway fieuse,
Nov. 23, 1878—ti
RANKIN HOUSE,
CHARLOTTETOWN, P. BE. 1 3.3. DAVIES - - - Proprictor (Formerly of St. Lawrence Hotel, Pictou).
de 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 commercial gentlemen,
Oct. 15, 1878 —Sm
QUEEN INSURANCE 0'Y,)
OF ENGLAND.
CAPITAL, . . TWO 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—
H. W. Vinnicombe,
vesident Piano Tuner & Regulator,
F : AS adopted the Dollar system of Tuning
—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 visté 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. *
war Orders may be left at Mr. Fletcher’s Music Store, or at Bremner Bros., Queen Street.
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THE RANKIN HOUSE,
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WM. WAGSTAFF,
May 25, 1875,
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Protection versus Free Trade.
ye a r ° ditor Of the a SURE.
Sim,—At the present moment there is, undoubtedly, a great deal of unnecessary | excitement in this community cn the sub- ! ject of the new Doininion tariff, now before | Parliament at Ottawa. I use the words *‘unnecessary excitement” advisedly, be-! cause i am one of those antiquated person- | ages who believe that no country can pros- | per that exports all its surplus produce in a} raw, unmanufactured condition. I also be- | lieve that nothing but the most perverse | and suicidal policy (such as that pursued for | the last 10 or 12 years by ou> legislators | can prevent this young Dominion of ours from becoming, at no distant day, a very respectable manufacturing as well as agri- cultural country. To attain this position, however, encouragement must be given to thuse willing to expend their capital in establishing manufactories and providing a market for a portion of our agricultural production at our own doors. England, herself, built up her magnificent manufac- tories in this way, and thus became, in pro- cess of time, ‘‘ the workshop of the world” and the ‘‘ mistress of the seas.” Surely it cannot be very wreng in us, a young coun- try, to follow as closely as possible in the footsteps of our illustrions predecessors ! Ai all events, we mean to try the experi- ment; we willdo what we can to secure success, and leave the result in the hands of Divine Providence, without whose blessing ** the best concerted schemes must fail, and never can succeed.”
My object on the present occasion is not, however, to encumber your columns with a lengthy disquisition on the subject of Pro- tection vs. Free Trade; but simply to direct your attention to the subjoined extract of a letter, showing what, ia the opinion of the writer, the abandonment of a Protective policy and the substitution of a Free Trade policy in its stead, has done, and, unfortu- nately, is still doing for our good old Mother Country, God bless her! The writer of the letter alluded to is an Ameri- can gentlemen now in London, and was ad. dressed to a banker in St. Louis, U. 8. A., a short time since. It is written with great apparent frankness and honesty, and will well repay an attentive perusal. The fig- ures, he says, are given froia official sources.
Yours, ete., A Moprrare Prorecrionist.
Ch’town, March 29, 1879.
% “* ~ ‘Imports into England from the
United States for the year
SOE 64s Phir teen «ta tenn £77 ,825,973 Exports from England to the
United States for the same
ES 6 ike hettine aniline 19,855,893 Imports into Englaud from the
United States, for the year
Sethi: Lnckiniitiendedaniinkeahiod 89,070,000
Exports from England to the United States, for the same WONDOE ios 5 os os ca eee ae es 14,600,000
‘** It will be seen, from these figures, that we sold England in 1877 four timesas much as she sold us, and that in 1878 we sold her five times as much as she sold us. This enormous balance of trade against England amounts, for the two years, to $660,000,- 000. This balance has been adjusted by by the United States taking back govern- ment and other bonds, and thus liquidating abroad this amount of foreign indebtedness, otherwise England would have had to have paid every pound sterling in gold. But this adjustment of trade balances, through the medium of bonds, has now been about exhausted. Very few bonds remain here, and the bulk of them are held for perman- ent investment. Under these circumstances the United States must not only retain all her cvin, and the annual out-put of all her mines, but she must draw coin largely from this side. The articles imported from the United States into England are such that she cannot dispense with—food supplies, cotton and ether essentials upon which her very life is based. How, in future, she is to pay for them is among the problems to be selved. Last year the balance against her was $330,000,000. Her whole known accumulation of gold amounts to $650,000,- 000.
** Two years would exhaust this_amount, unless she can either diminish her purchases from us or increase her sales to us. She can do neither; we buy of her less every year by $25,000,000 to $30,000,000, and
sell her every year from $40,000,000 to$50,-| .
000,000 more. These figures are official, and of course trade balances always regu- late in the-end the respective amounts of coin each country is able to held. Gold in former years centered in England -because all nations were indebted to her. This con- dition of things has been reversed. The total trade balance against England in 1877 was £142,007,000, or $710,000,000. Her statesmen and her people went wild over the abstract principle of free trade. All the ieading commercial nations have flooded the markets with every conceivable article her people require, cheaper than she can either manufacture or produce them. The consequence is hundreds of thousands of her population are out of employ, and she has fallen from the greatest commercial power in the world te a position where her very existence is threatened. If she does not change her whole internal policy, and
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regain her lost trade.
go back to protection, and roorganize her |
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government, and make all her colonial pos- sessions a part and parcel of her empire,and all her laws as fully operative in Australia and Canada as they are here, she will never They will be so long in doing this that in the meantime part of her coin must go to the United States. None of England’s statesmen have the cour- age to utter a single word against free trade so strangely is this craze still fixed in the minds of the people. * * *
‘*The unity of the British Empire must soon become a measure which England will feel compelled to deal with. The disturbed
conditions in Victoria and the dead-lock be- iween the legislative counci! and legislative assembly, and the appeal for assistanee to
the imperial parliament through a special etubassy, is only one instance ef the many difficulties that exist and will continue to arise in the English colonial system as now organized. Victoria has also passed a tariff levying a duty on all articles imported frem England. The United States is supplying Victoria and the other provinces in Aus- tralia with large quantities of hardware, agricultural implements and locomotives, and is taking this trade out of the hands of England and her own colonies. An official report by Frederick Brittain, of Sheffield, under the title of ‘‘ British Trade and For. eign Competition,” recites, among other most valuable and impressive statistics, that the United States is shipping to Australia six dozen American saws where Sheffield now ships a single saw. I mention these facts to show that, as we become large ex- porters and draw trade from England to ourselves, we will, with trade, draw gold.”
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Meeting at Pownal.
Pursuant to notice a very large and in- fluential political meeting was held in Pownal Hall on Tuesday evening the 25th inst.
Mr. Alexander A. Moore was appointed chairman and the undersigned secretary.
Mr. Nicholson was the first to address the meeting. He spoke of his reluctance in becoming a representative of this dis- trict, and thanked his supporters present for the confidence they had placed in him. He voted for the want of confidence in the late government, being guided by the vote given his colleague in September. He con- sidered that it was only right that we—the electors--should have the privilege of say- ing whether or not the present Government bas our confidence. The School Act re- quires to be amended. It has been the means of closing a large number of our scheols. If there is a deficit—which he be- lieves there is~-the Assessment Act will re- quire to be continued. But with the pres- ent principle of the act he did not quite agree. The Ballot Act must be amended. The registration of yoters must be done away with altogether. He concluded by saying that we must bring our expenditure within our revenue without resorting to di- rect taxation.
Mr. Montgomery spoke next. He com- menced by saying that since he was last be- fore the electors his views have in no respect changed. He endorsed the policy of the present Government, and will give Mr. Sullivan an independent support. He,in a very able manner, showed the unpopularity of the acts of the late government. The had placed some acts on the statute boo. which were so obnoxious to the country that they dare not put them in force.
Joseph Dixon next came forward, and announced his intention of contesting the election in the interest of the Opposition, He had consented to become a candidate reluctantly, as he would much rather see his friend Mr. Moore in the field. For Belfast to elect two men to support Sul- livan, he thought an unprecedented thing. Hs maintained that the late Government been unfairly dealt with. They should have had another opportunity of amending their Acts. He claimed to be author of a number“ of letters on the School and Assessment Act, an@ also of one respecting our share of the Fishery Award, all of which were signed
“* Belfaster.” . Messrs. R. Smith and F. Haszard —e for some time in defence of the late - exnment, both of which speeches were well received.
Mr. Sutherland (Davies’ partner) also spoke in the interest of the Oppositien. He waxed warm when he referred te the ‘‘Pub- lic Schools Act,” and clearly proved to the satisfaction of all present that he knew nething about it.
Thomas Crane spoke at considerable length. He opposed the policy of each of the candidates, and would support no man who would not promise to erase the Assess- ment Act from the Statute Book.
After some lively discussion, the follow- ing candidates were nominated, each I think having about the same supporters : Jose Dixon, proposed by R. Smith and Jo
Haley; John McKachern, proposed by George Dickieson and J. St. C. Moore ; D. Moutgomery, proposed by George Beers and Alex. McRae ; James Mishel. proposed hy John Acorn (miller) and John Cullen. Mr. McEachern refused at present to ac- cept the nomination.
- After the usual vote of thanks was tend- ered the Chairman and Secretary, three hearty cheers were raised for each of the. candidates.
Joun N. Roserrson, Sec’y.
March 26, 1879.
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Surrogate Calvin, in admitting the, Van- . derbilt will to probate, said the testimony of the contestants raised a strong presum tion that they were more insane than Commodore.
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