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(iiewn, May 25, 1874.

~~ Seen nae ~ See Sen Ss Se ee

\ ‘ ‘ VORS N ! hility

S} : i policy of tl Dor ‘ is and striki t t great poet's assert Sinve the day that Alexar Mi ted the seals of off a * Vv +} por i t I Per (

n ‘ e t - ind tl I a) . s the \

vv at , n tl x week 1 the tine jay the | a } v :

‘ pe \ u “tn l for 1 3 3 At tog Oreas res ret { i , Pa ; é pledz wu x } ' ‘y . i: }

Ou prised ’ ‘ie be! t inet Messrs. 1 it is said to retir retreat to the j fiuel rh I of Minist nies Wade retiren ssity. Mr. Jones i ly enter the Cal Montreal bast I DPD I ion’s 1 \ { de hele

’ I ba i v } made t bb heip hig TI f tl rier 3 a ty ' many mem son why the

ae " att i ‘) ae not, A 1¢ Wi he fj » the ‘

How mod i

ean er than t . t I t sf this ias i ehange- rb] (y } i of the country

—_— ———_— THE WIRE FENCI

‘Tur wi t i> does nh snswer the ] I , . < 1t tended. This is admitt But can it not, Without \ ‘ t aadiional out

VW be mad g ¥\ t Simply pu iditional wires tl i 4 those now wirt trans’ t thar t pre ! ng along ¢ i. wel t n ‘ s k ep nics \ i “rummer t

i [ { feo t ; r and h ;

The & t ' sider ' +—_- _—T ] ‘ TRIF

THe Pp ( , Baxster

ie. asthe 3 st In (

e ‘ there tire t t ident s ‘ poe will I nti

er = r to oom ! er Io «he in t i t tl Presi- dent's id peace maint

—3 > = THE A VNONJTES

The Czar c seonrages the emigrati t 4 eo Mennonites | trom hin ‘ i nn ites belong to German) ‘I ttled in’ Russia on

condition t exempt from

military serv b his ndition has lately heen vioiated ud they determined to emigrat ] ie zar ui lately signi- fied his int Vf raniing them spe- eial privileges under the n military

eeryice act, in the hope of retaining the sect in hig territories =. Cremation a t@ be Wished.

co 3suge 4 s devoutly

. mooring ground alongside the steamboat |

THE PACIFIC RAILWAY.

Tue Pacific Railway Bill was read a

DISAPPOINTED CROAKERS’!

Cuikr among the “ disappointed croak

ers” of this Island, are the Hon. Benj. second time in the Commons on Tuesday Davies and Mr. John Caven. The Min- last. Hon. Dr. Tupper then showed in 'nterior has net yet been able what particulars the scheme of the late

them with an office | Gevernment is superior to that of the

inder the Civil Service of the Dominio. | present Administration He said that Consequently. th rouking is continuous the most that the Iute CGiovernment ex ly m wafe pected to burden the country with was The objeet of the last-named croaker’s | $30,000,000, and 52,000,000 acres of lesire is, we are informed, the Post Office | land, with an annual expenditure of $1,- » Charlottetown He is impatient to | 500,000, The lowest calculation of the see A. A. Macdonald put “out”? and! present seheme showed it would cost John Caven pu in.” Mr. Macd nald. | $84,000,000, and 54.000.000 seres of

land, with an annual expenditure of $12,- Under. the old the

liability was definite; under the present

it cannot be denied, gives ample satisfac lik to the duties of his office.

500.0 0, scheme

tion ¢ is unremitting in his He is P iinstaking, obliging, and thorough

He is the

and consequently he is

the publi ‘i ittention scheme the liability was indefinite, and

would injure our credit. In connection

ly competent right man in the right place with this scheme elso, Government in- tended granting a bonus of $3,000,000 to

daily becoming more and more popular.

If it could, however, be made to appear from Ontario

and

companies extending lines

roads to Lake another

that he contro's the Examiner, “ how Nipissing, happy” would Mr. Cavenbe. Surely Mr $3,000,000 from Nipissing to the mouth } ) ouid J Lave e. ou by dt. .

|of French River, By adopting the pro-

posed water and land route the Govern—

Laird might, in that ease, exercise sufhi- rocure |

cient authority at Ottawa to : Mr Macdeesid’s expeleien ; and not. | ment would expend $6,000,000 in saving ] edonald’s expulsion: and — not-

withstanding a protest of ‘* public opin- thirty wil of travel in getting to Lake ion ’°—give Mr. Caven charge of the | ©'perior. This was the amount of the

Post Office in his stead !! accomplishments of this mongre! scheme. ‘os ce a st

The hone that all this might be succes. | He showed the danger and absurdity of a

schenre which would compel us to abandon

fully aecomplished accounts for the croak. |

‘nc chorus raised against the Examiner | OUF Own territory for half the year and

and Mr. Meedonald by the Herald and | t’avel through a foreign country, when

the Patriot. The simple faet that Mr by the addition of $2,000,000 we could ‘ rie t SII pit i na a * Ad

avenc > Jine tt ot > ow ] ] . i a cor € hrough o wo Macdonald does not contro] the EXamin- have a complete line through our o

ER—that he does 10 any way

the

not interfere with its | Country; and by having to use the Amer

management wil be sufficient to defeat

tempt which has been made to procure

we hope, i i nefarious at | by six hundred miles: He urged the »efurious at-| —- Hes

| Premier to give up the bonuses to Nipis-

| sing and French River, and construct a

the dismissal of a competent and popular |

' Pie ttle inte Witeiten en Beit official, and the appointment of an aban- line immediately from Nipissing to Fo

doned journalist to an honorab'e and im= | on projected lines to extend from Montreal

| minion.

ican lines the journey would be increased |

| we will build a branch line from Pembina

| Garry, which would reduce expenditure | ;

| late Government, the pickings would have

portant position in the Civil Service. By ; ,

the declaration of Mr. Letellier (Minister | © Nipissing. He pointed out that the of Acriculture) that “in the tntercet of | Present scheme wonld allow the whole line ie seed eotaiunt of Ga Denintes an 1 ee by foreigners, whil the | » Civil Service ehould be die. | former Government were particularly | cil cemetnd fox incamncity. snincendest PUMNY We provect: this He declared | se wie trent that dhe Minlater that under the present cheme it would |

is Mekatlen sane he: Setliied tn seated take twenty-four years to build the Brit

. |: ’ : , the Bae. ale s

the crouking of the disappointed eroakers | #sh Cejeunnta ond 7 a CT et j they only caleulated to spend a certain eu | amount there each year, He closed an

THE SCHOOLMASTER

VOT ABROAD, | effective speech by showing that the re-

; | resources of our couatry and its national Eacn branch of the Legislature has in |

n officer called a Law Clerk. it is to see that duc

would respectfully suggest that the Legi

its employ ee oe i nom manship, justified the speedy construction Whose duty | rio . ae . the vari through our own territory of this great

enactments are it legal form. og ee } Trarwey , | , : } , * ‘ | the excitement of accession to unexpect d lat: Council employ also 2 Grummar Mee | power, (‘lerk, whose duty should be to see that esolutions emanating from that ;

English,

an officer would hold no sine-

the resources of the country

gust body ire erammatical

That suc!

in

RAILWAY ACCIDENT. ! > ——.

Tue SN Journal

NWiOWINe nimerstcte

reports a

serious and well nigh fatal accident?’ se ete: Wrtaheinn ee on our railway on Wednesday last. It} Hon. Mr. Walker appears that two employees of the road | Phat the Legislative Council is} were severely injured; that Richard | sirons mveying to the Hon. Robert ae €

i ia me. on his ;etirement from | Huet. Esq., and four ladies, narrowly s Brat Legislature, an expres- | escaped; and that three platform cars were | sion of esteem for him as a gentleman, } } 1 - 9 ppreciation of the great public ser. | Completely wrec ced. The accident was | vice which he has rendered to this Province ; | occasioned by a plank which lay across | ind the Council assures Mr. Haythorne, C4) — cd cid on hn wncleah 6 cena. bennaiie chin

that while regretting the loss which i/s | C@° Of the raus at a crossing, opposite the members sustain, in being deprived of his | house of Mr. John Hogg, near Traveller's | valuable assistance and advice, THEY cher-

Rest. Who put the plank there, or how |it happened to be there, is not known.

} . ie Dope ‘

unhappy Council seems to have | | It is said that a cart which passed over a

been in a hopeless puzzle about its own

ae short time before the accident, misplaced

personality ; the plank, and that the

utterly unable to de- driver neglected |

cide between the conflicting claims of the |

|to put it back in its proper position. | But

reason for

singular and the plural pronouns, impar- the liy But ahove

decided to give € ich its turn. whatever the cause, there is great |

perhaps, Honors

(srammoar

thankfulness that the results

We trust that the occure |

their

are were not fatal.

| rence will “ Warning to our

+o operate as «“ UNDUE INFLUENCE." |farmers. The greatest possible care | Tue following letter was recently read | should be taken that the track is left “all |

clear ’’ at the crossings. Negligence,such

The chiro

graphy of this ‘‘ precious document ”’ is

in the House of Commons.

as probably caused the accident to which |}

: E : | Nida kin Le CC deteibn welieance 2?end |

said to be singularly like that of the Min- | ¥° ™**": ! criminal negliger and

: ‘ ir . : ; | punishable by a heavy penalty

ister of Militia, whose name is subscribed | PU™ hable by a heavy penalty 4 ‘ ——_—-

to it There must, however, be some THE PICTOU ROUTE

mistak No member of the present ex- | —

: } 1 . } ~ > SSF S ; is essively pure and superlatively noble Mairs AND PassFnGeRs from thi Government at Ottawa could possibly city to H ilifax are still del iyed four | have fallen so low as to exert “ undue in- | 20urs (a little more or less) at Pictou.

fluence *’ at eleetions. Oh, no! The This is a grievance which we had hoped letter must be a forgery :— to have seen remedied during the current Ball's Creek, Feb. Sih, 1874, | Summer. Tocoal their steamers at Char- |

| lotcetown would doubtless be 2 great loss |

ito the Company. | ¢ |

| Otherwise we should urge upon them the

My. Dennis Eagan, North Bar. Dear Sir, ernment @x] {is every man init

ers. This!

—] must inform you that the Gov- Steam Navication pe ver y to

the case,

Mills

s empic

the Svdne

ceed | expediency of altering the present arrang- | for N. L. McKay . ; iat ment; and having their boats leave Char | Ne WILLIAM ROSS lottetown for Pietou at eight or nine in Minister of Militia the morning, instead of at five We may remark that Mr. Eagan, to -_

THE HAMPSHIRE

whom the letter was sent, is an official | FLOOD

» Postal Department

om >

There is something awful in the details | which come to us of the flood near North ampton, Mass. The course of the flood |

We re Mr. through that narrow Mill River Valley, | Laird’s attempt to disfranchise one-half feapng conte on Soiree sh ~

and can only be imagined, but which no

pen can adequately describe. Twenty-five

acres of water fifty feet deep suddenly let

loose and seeking egress through a narrow

; and destructive power that the imagination fails to realize.

A “LOST LITTLE GAME."

are pleased to learn that the manhood and intelligence of this Is land, for an indefinite period, has been defeated. Haviland, the clause in the

In the Senate, on motion of Mr

new election populous valley, had a

law which provided that the qualification

shon'd

|

of voters at Dominion elections To confine this immense volume of water a | ;

be raised to that required in the election

ot Legislative Councillors, was thrown |”. ga a ar aoe with the most reckless criminality. The |

out. It ishardly probable that the Come f hi . . | wall was only four feet thick at its base, |

Vir, Laird) ale low one of the most important bills of the le

Session to iA

nons will (just to pleas . i mon | (just to please | tapering to about a foot at its top. It was | | as flimsy a structure of its kind as was ever | built. Instead of being solidly constructed |

'

| where the force of the vast sheet of water |

y over till next year; and,

therefore, it is likely to pass— minus the

clause so obnoxious to Prince Edward | was concentrated, there was only an em-

Islanders. Nevertheless, the young men | bankment of earth and a feeble stone | . ? . 5 . .

of this Islond, and especially of this city overflow. One theory is that this embank- |

| ment had heen honeycombed by muskrats ; | but, be that as it may, it is nevertheless | certain that the structure was miserably | weak and the only wonder is that it has | not given way before Another common rumor is to the effect that when the dam was built there was a | strike among the workmen, and, inasmuch W 48 it not a mist ai to bring the new | ™ the strikers unsuccessful, a ey | intentionally weakened the reservoir in | corapleting it. The destruction of life is set down at 200 | | persons, and property $200,000. There is | | a sorrowful satisfaction in reflecting that it | |is no worse, for had this mass of water | | broken from its continement in the night | time, not less than 5,000 or 6,000 would | have been engulphed in its fatal embrace. . John News.

wil fully appreciate Mr. Laird’s con- to punish their opposition in the late elec-

temptible endeavor at onee

them tor

tions and to de away with their influence

politieal contests,

fotnre

“ena +

{ MISTAKE

were

steam dredge to Charlottetown before the

On

Wednesday evening last, the Princess of

wharf at Summerside was dredged ?

| Wiles was aground there for two hours— to the annoyance of passengers and loss of The | Steamer was heavily laden with freight;and arriving here at three o’elock inthe morn- | — | ing—it was next to impossible that she

ithe Steam Navigation Company.

Joux MaNninG says ‘ Newspaper edveis, | tising impels inquiry, and when the article | | offered is f good quality and ata fair price, | the natural results is increased sales; and | (80 will the public say after a visit to the _ wholesale and retail store of Messrs. Robert | Orr & Co, Queen St. In making the Dry | Goods business a speciality, they will be, _ better enabled to regu ate their prices, and | | furnish # great assortment at the lowest | possib e ratec. The establishment is well _ worth visiting, if only for inspection. lin |

, could fulfill her engagements by leaving

for Pictou at five. Jt was, we think, a (great mistake to take the dredge away from Suminerside before the Steamers’ We trust the mistake may be rectified with- out delay

berths at that place were dredged,

80

Tue total value (first cost) of Island pro-

duce shipped last week from this port amounted to $47,459.40.

| been

| crease the subyentions to an extent which

| growth, if controlled by patriotic states- | | more from the member for Lambton of re»

: ? . | or of his own abhorrence of the but the present Government, 1n |

|

} ii

had projected a seheme that would,

in his opinion, embarrass beyond remedy, |

| “vote it straight ”’ is

| in the fisheries.

| however, is not equal to that ta'en on the

| engaged in the fisheries are, in Prince

| bold enough to say that he proposes to ins

WMACKENZIE’'S RAILWAY PATCHWOKK

YR

{From the Toronto Mall

There is a Pecksniftism about the Do.« minion Premier which never sits well upon one in high position. Mr. Mackenzie rare, y makes a set speech that ‘he does not drag in his scorn and contempt of shams, implying, if not directly asserting, that he is morally a much superior individual to the ‘rest of mankind who fill high offices. In his speech on the Pacific tailway resolutions he harp.d for some time upon his favorite string. Such selfsgiven characters are al- ways open to the gravest suspicion; and certainly in his particular instance Mr. M>ckenzie only afforded too much reason | for the belief that he would not have been |

‘ ‘ ‘ : so assertive of his own superior virtue if he

were not laboring hard to put adecent face upon avery dark transaction. Itisa highly culpable piece of business on the first Minister's part to make a pretence of doing that which he has no intention of doing. It is the most arrant hypocrisy to talk of respecting treaty obligations, when one’s respect for them is only a matter of paper and printer’s ink. Far more honorable of Mr. Mackenzie would it have been to say he had determined upon abandoning the Pacific Railway altogether, than to mark outascheme on paper which is an airy nothing. In fact, what an honest Minister would have done would have been to come down to the House and said, “ Gentlemen, we are satisfied this” project is too far ads vanced for the present resources of the Do- We are aware that we are under treaty obligations with British Columbia to build a trans-continental railway, but, look» ing at the matter as we do, we must frankly say to you that we propose to back out of the obligations which a previous Parliament imposed upon the country. Meanwhile, to Fort Garry, and within a year or two commence the construction of a railway bes tween Thunder Bay and the Red River; for the rest, them go.’ This would at least have been honest. Mr. Mackenzie's affected regard for treaty obligations is a and a

let

delusion snare, and a transparent

hypocritical pretence. A through line is

no more in his category of things to be at- tempted than is a railway to the moon. rhere are good fat jobs in the two lines we

have named Under the scheme of the

small indeed. but Mr. Mackenzie is

almost belief. Let us hear no

staggers spect for the pledged faith of Parliament, shams of His Pacitie Raiiv

the politician. y policy,

we may be pardoned for using the word,

in itself ona of the hnugest shams ofa

sham age |

There is one feature in the scheme de- | veloped in his speech by the Premier to | which attention has not yet been directed, | and which is certainly one of its most ex, traordinary features. The portion of the |

line he wholly abandons is that which is by

all odds the easiest of construction and the |

It is the snpremest folly » of the | |

least costly. talk

Saskatchewan as part of a great trans-con-

using the water stretches

of

tinental line of communication. It is worse than folly when one calls to mind that the | route between the Red River and

le vel,

where there would be little else to do than

entire

Edmonston is a fertile country

| i | easy grading and laying the sleepers and the rails. From ten to fifteen millions of dollars would in all probability build entire that portion of the road which the Premier, with a fatuous disregard of the necessities of our position, and of the near future of this country, throws overboard wholly. If there is one portion of the railway calcus lated to be more valuable to the Dominion | than another, it is this very portion Here are the future homes of millions of thriving settlers. Than the soil of the Saskatchs ewan there is none richer anywhere. Does Mr. Mackenzie suppose that it will be pos. sible to open up this fertile territory to | he penetrate it with the We ask him this question in the

settlement unless

railway ? light of

American experience. Certainly |

' our cousins south of the border line would |

not thin folly. That the Premier should have fixed such a policy and asked his followers to to

of perpetrating such a piece of |

is evidence of no. thing else than that he felt under the ne- cessity of doing something different from

| his predecessors, and it followed almost as a |

matter of course that he did that something wrong |

_ mom

\7HE FISHING TRADE OF PRINCE)

EDWARD ISLAND.

[From the St. Joha Telegraph, May 20.) Although the people of Prince Edward Island are engaged in agricultural pursuits

| toa greater extent than in any other single branch of industry, yet there is a consider,

able number more or less actively engaged The fishing grounds round the Island are probably as productive as The quality of the fish |

any in the world. caught i: also good, the mackerel being considered superior to those taken else- the

|

The cod, | |

where on American coast. Newfoundlana banks, and the herring i*

generally Large | quantities of shell-fish ara every year caught, and the art of preserving them is beginning

of an inferior quality

| |

| wall had been built years ago, so slight | to be pretty well understood by the fisher- | | that its bullders may justly be charged | men and others. Prince Edward Island

ovsters are famous all over the continent for their size and flavor. This branch of | the business is yearly becoming more an

more lucrative, and forms a prominent | feature in the general trade of the Island. Salmon fishing is not prosecuted to any |

| extent, on recount of the absence of large |

rivers. The fishing season commences as soon | as the ice leaves the shore, and continues till the approach of winter. The business | is principally conducted by means of open boats, there not being more than twelve or | thirteen schooners engaged in fishing alto- gether. These ranging from eighteen to thirty feet keel. There were last year about 1,500 boats en | gaged. They are owned principally by | men of capital, engaged in other branches of trade, who fit out the boats, furnish supplies, and pay their hands so much per |

month,

boats are of various sizes,

Each trader's boats has a rendez | vous called a fishing stage, where the sup.

plies are kept, the fish cured, barrelled, | and made ready forthe market. There are | 180 of these stages scattered along the | shores of the Island. The leading traders County, Senator Howlan, Messrs, Hall and | Myrick, Carrol and Larkin. There are | about seventy others in this County who | employ a considerable number of hands. | In Queen’s County, Hall & Myrick, Churchs

ill and MeNeill do the largest business, | but there are also others who carry on a

respectable trade. In King’s County, D,

Davies, Esq. M.P., and Messrs. McFad-

yen and Knight are the best known. | These names represent the largest amount

of capital invested in the fishing ; but they |

| Legislature,

| of selection more varied.

| Yet each of

| lations, and which yields no commensu< | rate advantage in return for the very cons

| united, the one formed, though not to be

|The money saved from the support of lo-

| practicable.

| nees though, truth to tell, the amount of

| local capital, but we have every reason to

| when a gieat improvement is contemplat-

| the country, but all, would reap immense

| ous parts of the Island, | and Pisquid that important branch of in-

give no approximation to the numbers of

sma'l traders, who, owning from one to a dozen boats, are scattered all along the coasts and do a thriving business. There are about 3000 men employed in these boats, their wages averaging something like $2) per month, independently of their board. Their supplies are furnished them by the traders, and formerly these fisher-

men were invariably in debt, but of late years there is a decided improvement ap- preciable in this particular, and in meeting their annual liabilities they are ahead of many of the other laboring classes

The product of the fisheries for 1873 was as follows :—

24,(.00 barrels mackerel.

17,000 do herring and alewives.

20 000 quintals codfish,

12,(00 Ibs baked sounds.

8,000 Ibs preserved shell fish.

10,000 barrels oysters.

Of these there were exported —-

22,000 barrels mackerel.

10,000 do herring and alewives.

13,000 quintals cod.

13,000 ibs sounds.

6,000 do preserved fish. 8,000 barrels oysters.

The salmon caught during the year only amounted to $7,500 worth. The entire yalue of the produce of the fisheries up to the 3lst December, 1873, as contained in the official returns, represents the respeca table sum of $113,269. Boston,St. John,N. 3, St. John’s, N. F., Halifax and Bermuda, constitute the Island fish market It will be seen by the above figures that the fish. ing business of the Island, although not prosecuted as energetically as it might be, is nevertheless not in the languishing con- dition that some have supposed. Besides those actively employed in the business, there are about seventy barrel factories, giving employment to between 800 and 1000 men, as well as x good number of boat building establishments; so, it is safe to say, that there are over 5000 men, either directly or indirectly, dependent on the Weare indebted to Robert Gordon, Esq., of Alberton, Prince ‘ounty, for much valuable information on

fisheries for subsistence:

this subject. It is to be regretted that the Islanders should catch so small a por- tion of the fish which swim by their very doors; for the annual yie'd of the (iulf fisheries can only be received by millions of

dollars, a very large part of which is taken

by foreigners. NION OF THE PROVINCES

THE | VARITIME

From the Toa 0 Globe, May 15.

We are pleased to see a movement com~ menced in Nova Scotia for the union of the thre ation.

Maritime Provinces of the Confeder-

lhe idea of having all these under one Lieutenant Governor, and one Local is so reasonable, that the won- der is, not that it has now been suggested, but that it had not been carried long ago There may be difficulties in the way of such

a union being accomplished ; but we fail to see that they can be either very many or very formidable ; but the good to be there> by secured is so that it will at

once occur to every intelligent observer.

iwnanifest

The expense of local government and legis- lation would be very much reduced, while there would be a greater likelihood of a higher class of men being selected for the Local Legislature, as the number required would be very much smaller, and the range As things are at present, these Provinces are very small,

and their local expenses consequently un- While 180,000 square miles of territory, and Ques | bec a great deal more, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island have only 49,494 square miles among them ail. Ontario has a population of a million and a half, while all the Canadian Provinces on the seaboard have not 700,000 all told. the three has to keep upa

fairly heavy Ontario has about

local executive and legislature at an ex~ pense which is formidable to small popu-

siderable outlay. If these Provinces were called large, would be respectable in size, and strong ina numerous, energetic and ins telligent population. This new Province would, from the very first, occupy such a position of influence and power as its separs ate component parts could never secure.

cal legislatures and the different parapher- nalia connected with local rule, could be employed to develop the great and varied resources of the united Province, to bring into itacontinuous stream of settlers, and to accomplish many other useful improve-~ ments which are now either not thought of, or thought of only to be rejected as im- Large as the business of these Provinces is at present, we have no doubt it would be immensely and speedily increased as soon as the union spoken of had been completed ; while, if there is any truth in the homely illustration of the late Mr. Howe, that “ the narrower the pit. the fiercer the rats fight.’’ we might also ex- pect that there would be an inprovement in their mode of conducting public busi-

dignity displayed by the “locals’’ of our large Provinces is not such as to justify any of them in easting a stone at their smaller brethren,

There would very likely be some diffi- celty in settling which town should be the

believe that this would not be an iusupers able difficulty. The men of the Lower Provinces have too much thought, and too much good, sound sense to allow any difficulty of that kind to stand in the way

ed, and one from which not one section of We shall watch this move- ment with much interest, and be exceed- ingly rejoiced when it has been brought, as we sincerely hepe it will be at no diss

advantage.

tant dey, to a successful issue. - a SHIPBUILDING IN THB East.—Shipbuilding is extensively engaged in this year in vari. At Mount Stewart

dustry is in a peculiarly flourishing condi- tion No fewer than nineteen vessels, some of them of considerable size, are being built in those two places. The following is a list of the vessels at and near Mount Stewart Bridge. Those building for Messrs. Peake, Gillan, Duncan and Bourke are the largest:—James Ross, one fer himself ; John Fletcher, one for John Gillan ; James Coffin, one for John Gillan; James White, three for Longworth & Co. and self, D. Eagan, three for Wm. Welsh and self; J. E. Bourke, two for J. Duncan & Co., and self; Edward Coffin, two for Peake, Bros, & Co.; Coffin & Glover, three for Peake» Bros. & Co.; Ronald McDonald, three for J. Duncan & Co,— Patriot

-oe

Arcupisnop TacHE. —On ‘Sunday afters

noon fhe Ijth inst., addresses were de- | livered at Montreal to Archoishop Tache, |

apropos to his action in the north-west troubles. His Grace, in reply, spoke of his loyalty to the British Crown, and his eudeavors to promote such ja sentiment

among the people of Red River.

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VEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NEW INVENTION,

———$—$_—

THE NICKEL FOUNTAIN PER

PATENTED IN England and the United States of America.

With one of these Pens twenty lines may be written with one dip of ink; the action of the side cuts is so uniform and perfect that writing is made tar easier than with Stee! Pens of the ordinary style.

The Fountain Pens possess much great er elasticity than any Metallic Pens hitherto brought to public notice; the points are smoother, aud entirely free from the serious points to be found in most Steel Pens, such as unyielding stiffness, cutting into thin or rough paper, corresion and its consequences.

Those parties accustomed to the use of Quill Pens will be greatly pleased with the pleasant action of the Fountain Pens ; and to those using Steel or Gold Pens, the Patentee feels confident, from the great success he has met with in Europe and the United States, that his Nickel Fountain Pens wi!l be used in preference to all others.

The NICKEL FOUNTAIN PENS are supplied by Her Majesty’s Stationery Department, London, to the different

offices of H. M. Government, and are in

use by the principle Mercantile Houses Britain and the |

United States. li

Montreal to Charlottetown,

and Bankers in (reat

two dur-

as Subscribers intend runniug vessels between the above ports

ing the Summer,

Tue Laodamia, {6 tons, will leave Montreal about the Ist JUNE.

calling at Summerside, and will be fellowed by another vessel a fortnight later.

We shall thus be enabled to supply our | customers with FLOUR. at Cost, Charges |

and Freight. HYNDMAN BROS.

Cl’town, i%th May, 1874 —4i

We would also inform the Trade that we have just received our usual Stock of

TEAS. GLOCERIES, &e..

per recent arrivals from Great Britain.

Also, to arrive per Lady Rodney, from London, 50 Chests TEA, warranted good. HYNDMAN BROS. 74.

Ch’town, May 28, 18

WANTED). 500 Bushels good Black Oats,

For Seed. G. C. CARMAN

NEM ADVERTISEMENTS. IPO

| 235 Notre Dame St., Montreal.

Hyndman’s Building, 11 Queen St., | Ch’town, May 20, 1874.—2i

FLOUR! FLOUR!

pret received, per steamer HADJI, from | Mouatreal, 50 BBLS. very choice, Ex- | tra and Superfine FLOUR. BLATCH, McKENZIE & Co.

May 25, 1874.—3in isl pat

Tenders for Packet Service.

ROoOUCTE NO. 1. Between Charlottetown, She- diac and Cascumpee.

Route No 2. Between Souris, Grand River | and Charlottetown.

Route No. 3.

Between Charlottetown and Montague Bridge.

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Route No. 4.

Between Charlottetown, Mur-

ray Harbor, and Cardigan |

Bridge, calling at Murray River.

Route No, 5.

Between Charlottetown, Bell | Creek and Wood Island.

Route No, 6,

Between Charlottetown, Head of St. Peter’s Bay and New London.

CoLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, May, 16T4. | YEALED TENDERS will be received at | this Office until MONDAY, the First day | } '

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JUNE next, from any person or persons willing to contract for the Packet Service | on the above mentioned routes, during the present Season. The vessel to be fast-sail- ing and substantial, over 30 tons burden registered tonnage, having good cabin ac- comodations for passengers, and being sufti- ciently equipped and apparelled, and subject | in al] things to the approval of the Govern- ment. Each tender is required to name the | age, tonnage, rig,and accomodations of each vessel tendered, and also the sum for which the Tenderer. will engage to perform the whole term of service; and further, the signatures of two responsible persons as se- curities. All freight and passage money. to be the property of the Contractor for the service.

Trips on Routes No.1, 2, 3, and 4, to be

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