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, % Tus Darty EXAMINER. NOVEMBER 12, 1883. . Fiditorial Notes.

Things change in England as well

as inher colonies. Time was when sheep stealing constituted a capital offence. But tempora mutantur. For

stealing 39 ewes, valued at £120, the property of the Duke of Rutland, a laborer of the name of Lucas has been sentenced at the Leicestershire sessions io uine movths imprisonment! ‘This case is mentioned as a striking illustra- tion of the difference between the law as it is and as it was.

—The Maritime Register reports that British steamsaip owners are much ex- cited over the question of government

inspection of passenger steamers. They submit to the surveys ordered by their own government with good

grace. They appreciate the importance of them and outside of their business as ship owners would feel highly indignant were the public not protected in this manner. They hold, however, that this one survey is sufficient; and it seems evident enough that to demand a new

certificate for practically the same work and the same kind of survey is absurd. It is a bad_ restriction

upon commerce to make too hard and unnecessary inspection laws, and as long as a steamer is equipped and in the condition which the safety and comfort of those on board requires, nothing further need to be done.

—Foot and Mouth Disease is just now the terror of British stockraisers,—whose anxiety is not relieved by the knowledge, lately acquired, that the disease may be communicated to human beings. The case is reported of a cowman who got some of the saliva, etc., of acow coughed into his mouth, and who was almost immediatetely taken ill, and has now been nearly nine weeks in a most dis- tressing condition. His mouth has been one mass of ulcerated sores, whichappar- ently have been continued throughout the

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blow, the mails are not carried on time, passervers complain be- cause of the ithdrawal, at this juncture, of tho-e steamers. Who's

to be censured? ‘Ihe withdrawal of the steamers was ordered by the inspectors. Che inspectors were employed by the Government, under the provisions of an act of Parliament, to pass judgment upon steamers. Suppose the Government declined to act on his orders, aod as a consequence the steamers foundered and valuable lives were lost, would not the public hold the Government respon- sibleand relievel:he inspectors fromblame? Of course the public would. But, hav- ing tollowed the instructions of the inspector, and having as everyone will admit, done their best to supply the want of the steamers, the Govervment

is relieved from blame in_ the matter, and the Inspector is to be held responsible for our

loss and for the outrage which has been done to our Steam Navigation Company. That some malignant influence actuated the Inspector, or that he simply wanted to give a practical illustration of the extent of his arbitrary power under the law, regardless of the consequences to us, is evident from the fact that he never thoroughly inspected the steamers, and that the steamers, under their care- ful management, have never yet failed to do good service until the close of navigation. Of course the matter will be investigated and the mystery solved if possible,

—The Montreal correspondent of the Toronto Mail, in a letter dated the Sth iust., says ;—

‘There were several cheering signs in the financial and commercial horizon here to- day which put business circles in good spirits. Asis always the case here on the fourth of each month, an immense number of commercial notes were to be retired in the banks, but as the date this time fell on Saturday there was an additional day’s notes coming due this morning, which made the amount much larger than usual. After the closing hours of the banks a visit to the Montreal, Merchants’, Com- merce, Molsons, Ville Marie, and Jacques Cartier elicited the gratifying news that a greater clearance of matured paper never

whole interior of his body, and now he is breaking out in similar ulcers on the legs and feet. Three medical men have attended him ; and they say that he has undoubtedly been suffering from a form of disease communicated by the infected cow, and presenting the worst features of the so-colled foot and mouth disease in cattle.

—We understand that the sons of the late Daniel Hodgson intend founding a scholarship in memory of their father. It will be of the value of $125 a year, tenable for three years, and open only to natives of P. E. Island. In order that it may be within reach of all classes of the community, it will go in rotation to McGill College, Montreal, Laval Univer- sity, Quebec, and King’s College, Wind- sor. The first competition will be in June next—the order of the Colleges in the first instance will be decided by lot. The full details are not yet arranged,

and may not be for some weeks, as it will be necessary to correspond with the |

took place in banks in the city than to-day. In the Merchants’ the manager, after en- quiring at the wicket, said that ont of over five hundred notes which came to maturity this morning he had not one left to go to protest. The manager of the Montreal Bank, where of course the greatest number were on hand for retirement, did not specify how matters stood beyond saying

that bills had been very well met during business hours. All the other managers, like the Merchants’, assured

your correspondent that they would not have a single note to protest, and all con- sidered that such a gratifying result showed unmistakably that business was sound. The buoyancy and substantial rise on the local Stock Exchange is another evidence of the right kind that confidence is rapidly re- turning, and that much more active times are in store for the country. Every com- mercial “man here says Sir Leonard Tilley struck the right key when he said that there was no cause for alarm or gloomy apprehensions on any account. Matters connected with the cotton over-production, as the Minister remarked also, are settling

|down very fast, and the outlook is said to

be most encouraging. Again, it is stated

authorities of the three Universities.|in the press here this evening that the Full particulars will be given as soon as|great Hudon mill will resume in three the necessary arrangements are com- | weeks, and that it was an error in shutting

pleted. In the meantime, we may be permitted to express the thanks of the community, and to congratulate his sous on the selection of a memorial worthy of one whose life was to his fellow citizens an example of practical usefulness and goodness,

—It is amusing to note the great in- dignation and alarm expressed in the United States at the bare thought of England clapping a duty on United States wheat. To levy contributions ranging from 20 to 100 per cent. upon

British goods imported into the United States, to take sixteen cents off the price | of every bushel of grain and potatoes, | twenty dollars off the price of ever horse, 75 cents off the price of every ton of coal purchased here in Canada for the Boston aad New York marxets— such a policy as these examples serve to illustrate, is all right, is eminently proper | --on the part of the United States. | But the British markets must be abso- | lutely free and open to their productions. Of course they are too far away to use for slaughtering purposes as those of| Canada were used; but they are useful! in getting rid of a large surplus of wheat, and no restrictions whatever are to be placed upon the import of wheat by Great Britain. So the British Fair

Trade Association “takes up an absurd and untenable position.” British Government were to adopt the policy of the Fair Trade Association, how the United State’s farmers would howl against the British tariff, and how

loudly it would be remiaded that Free Trade is the right thing—for Fingland !

—Dr. Jenkins rightly guages public Opinion as to the withdrawal of the “St. Lawrence” and “Princess of Wales,” but wrongly, we think, assumes that

tne Government is to be blamed. Were Dr. Jenkins employed as a physi-| cian in an important case, and his em-| ployers declined or failed to carry | Gut his orders, he would feel his employers, and not himself should be held answerable to the result. But if his faithfully carried

'down some of the departments therein of | manufacturers.”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,

Sir,—Everybody is complaining of the stoppage of the Navigation Co’s. steamers, and grumbling about the very imperfect substitutes supplied by the Government, which give no satisfaction as to mails and passengers or freight. In regard to the latter there is a probability of very serious trouble if matters are to go on as at present. It is right and proper, in the interests of the public, that the company’s boats should be prevented running on the ground that

: | they are unsafe; but it is questioned by many Y}competent persons that they are unsafe.

On the contrary it is confidently asserted that the boats were never in better condi- tion than they are at the present time. Now, sir, the public want to know the rights of chis question, if the Government have taken off the boata through the mis- representation of parties interested or otherwise, they have made a grave mistake, one which seriously affects the welfare of the people of this province, and the sooner the mistake is rectified the better for ali parties.

I propose that a public meeting be called, | with delegates from Summerside, to en- quire into the matter. Let Mr. Sloggett, Uloyd’s Surveyor (than whom there is no man whose ability and integrity are more

unquestionable), carefully inspect the boats And, if the|and report to the meeting, and let Mr.

Lord attend to represent the Department. We want a full and complete explanation of the whole business which at present wears an aspect Unfavorable to the Govern- ment. Yours, eic, J. T. JENKINS.

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Our Advertisers.

G. W. Howlan announces that the huil and materials of the ‘‘Minnie Gordon” will be sold at auction at North Cape on the

| 16th inst.

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British Mariye Insurance. — Mr,

that | Chamberlain, president of the Board of

| Trade, intends in next session of Parlia- *| ment to propose sweeping reforms in the T| law now regulating marine insurance, } — employers | pbject is to prevent the practise of over- out his instructions, insering and he therefore intends to bring

his

and as a cousequence, the case proved ina bik which will embody the principal |

fatal, he, and not his

oe be justly open to censure. | ny judgment of the public in the case of | ‘he steamers should, we hold, be based |

S pe same just principle.

employers, (that marine jusyrance should never be the

source of profit to tag jnsurer. The pro- posed bill will probably forbid shippers in- suring in excess of value by means of what are called ‘‘honor policies,” and in the

The trade| event of false’ declarations will absolve received a@ serivus | underwriters from all responsibility,

{ be 21,329,329 bushels.

Foreign News Notes.

Gov. Butler has nominated another colored lawyer, a republican, by the way, who worked and voted for Robinson, as district court justice

General Batler claims that his defeat was due to the free use of money and fraud on the part of his opponents. He annovnces his determination to sift the matter to the bottom.

It was on fresh representations of the British Government against the Cuban re- fugee Maceo having been last summer sent from Pampeluna citadel to Estella goal, where his health suffered, that the Madrid Government consented to send him toa fortress in the south of Spain.

A %t. Petersburgh despatch says:—At a meeting of Nihilists recently, both Socialists and Terrorists were represented, Measures to be adopted against the Government were discussed, and the views of the moderate party prevailed. Proporals made by the Terrorists in favor of acts cf violence were rejected,

The state of the Cuban treasury is so em- barrassed that the council of Ministers has authorized the Captain-General of Cuba to borrow five hundred thousand dollars io gold until the home treasury can advance more early in January. There has been a heavy fall here in Cuban funds and Cuban bank shares.

In spite of the taik about Mr. Irving’s mannerisms and ungraceful movements, he is winning as much admiration on the New York stage as he has long enjoyed in England. His impersonation of Louis XI, in his third appearance in New York, is spoken of in the very highest terms as a great effort of genius.

The secretary of the British Legation at Pekin, after careful study of the matter of population in China, has annihilated the romantic tales of the crowds which are sup- posed to find scarcely room enough on dry land for habitation. Large districts of the empire are very sparsely inhabited, and in all the empire possesses but 250,000,000 in- habitants, that being a large enough num- ber, but small for China.

Singapore, on the Straits of Malacca, is connected with Johore, a town fourteen miles inland, by a telephone. On August 27, the day of the Java earthquake and voleanic eruption, anyone taking up the telephone-tubes was assailed by a noise like the roar of Niagara. Communication was impossible, and even listening at the tubes was painful, as sounds like pistol-shots were audible at intervals. Java is more than 500 miles from Singapore.

British News Notes.

Prince of Wales was 42 on Friday.

British imports for October increased £1,682,000, and the exports increased £261,000 over October of last year.

The total force of police and constabulary in England and Wales is, according to the recently published ‘‘Judicial Statistics,” 33,173, being a larger number by 1,141 than in 1880-81. :

A Dublin despatch says a plot has been discovered to tar and feather the Lord Mayor while attending a meeting of the University Philosophical Society at Trinity College to-morrow.

At a meeting of the Irish National League in Dublin, Davitt denounced the proposed system of expatriation. He urged the league to organize vigilance com- mittees to frustrate it, and to send dele- gates to the United States and Canada if necessary, A motion to that effect was adopted.

The Times says it is not probable that Gen. Pryor will be debarred from giving O'Donnell all possible assistance short of taking a public part in the conduct of the case. More than this cannot well be permitted under our legal system. Without disparaging the ability of American lawyers who offer their services, the prisoners case will not suffer in the hands of his English counsel. Gen, Pryor says he has not ap- plied to be admitted to court to take part in O’Donnell’s defence, and does not pro- pose to do so.

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Home News Items.

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Mr. E. Meredith was unanimously chosen by the Liberal-Comservatives of West Huron to contest the constituency at the coming election for the Local House and 4 committee was appointed to wait upon him and request his acceptance of the nomina- tion,

The Winnipeg Times says: ‘‘In the Nortwest business is still dull, but we have undoubtedly passed through the worst, Farmers have been too busily engaged in fall ploughing to send their wheat to mar-

et. In a week or so marketing will begin in earnest, and money will become easier.”

The Toronto Globe continues to make fish of Sir John and flesh of Mr. G. W. Ross, relative to the unseating question. Both were unseated by an election court, because men held to be acting for them bribed. But Sir John is blamed for the action of his indiscreet friend, while Mr. Ross is condoled with. This is Grit justice.

The November report of the Ontario Agricultural Bureau shows that the crop of fall wheat is considerably under the esti- mate previously made, particularly in the western half of the Province, the average yield being low and the average yield poor. The spring wheat crop this year is 1,676,545 acres, and the produce will Last year’s produce wag 40,021 20] bushels. The average yield of fali wheat per ave Jast year was 26.3 busbels aud of spring 16.% bushels, This year the average of fall wneat is 10.54 bushels and spring 16.75 bushels. The} season was tvo wet for maturing a good crop of marketable barley. This year’s crop is 18,690,380 buchels and the average yield per acre 24.67 bushels as compared with 24 - 284,407 bnshelslast year andan average yield of 28.6 per aere, The oat crop is large and fine; the total produce was 55,484 bushels or 38.9 bugbels pex acre, as compared with 50,097,997 bughels or 36.4 per acre last year. Corn, buckwheat and heaps were so generally destroyed by frosts of Septem- ber that it is impossible to estimate their

pone Thousands of acres of corn and suck wheat were thoroughly ruined, even iu distritts most favorable to their maturity.

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EXHIBITION WERK !

EK invite the Citizens and those who may be visiting the

Town, during the week of Exhibition, to the ins\pection of our immense stock of \

WE HAVE JUST PLACED UPON OUR SHELVES

THE CONTENTS OF

Two Hundred and Sixty Bales and Cases,

OF

ENGLISH, AMERICAN, AND CANADIali,

DRY GOODS,

Comprising everything necessary for Heusehold and General use.

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Varieties complete in every Department at the

Frices for Cash.

UPWARDS OF

Fifteen Thousand Grain Bags,

And a Large Stock of Very Choice

CHINESE AND INDIAN TEAS,

Wholesale and Retail.

GEO. DAVIES & CO.

Charlottetown, Oct. 6, 1883

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LOOK OUT FOR BARGAINS !

WwW. & A. BROW?M & CO.

AVE now opened 140 Cases and Bales of New and Fashionable Dry Goods. 100 pieces Ulster Cloths, bought at half price. 100 pieces Mantle Cloth, bought at half price. 1,000 Wool Squares, very cheap. 50 boxes Silk Fringe,

Very Lowest

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200 pieces Winceys,

30 «6** = Shirtings, 25 **° Silk Plushes, 500 ‘* Prints, 50 ‘ Velveteens, 100 ‘* Scotch Tweeds, 30 ‘* Silk Velvets, 50 «6‘* Worsted Coatings, 50 ‘* Frillings, 50 * Scarlet Flannels, 300 Jackets and Dolmans. At twenty per cent less than prices of former years.

Also, One Hundred Cases and Bales Canadian Marufactured Goods, Very Cheap. All Goods we are seiling very cheap this Season.

Whelesale and Retail, 60 PIECES CARPET DAILY EXPECTED.

W. & A. BROWN & CO.

Ch'town, Oct, 6, 1882.— dy wkly,

NEW FALL GOODS

asinine caieates J. B. MACDONALD’S.

fam now receiving New Goods for Fall and Winter. :0— -— Ladies’ Dress Goods, in all the newest fabrics. Ladies’ Mantle Clotlis, in the newest makes. Ladies’ Mantles, Shawls, Silk Velvets, Ve'veteons. Brocaded Silks and Satins. Ladies’ Straw, Plush and Silk Hats, Feathers, Flowers, Ribbons, Woollen Squares, Scarfs, in variety. IN THE GENTLEMEN'S DEPARTMENT; A heavy Stock of Cloths, in Beavers, Worsteds, T weeds and Fancy Coatings. Readymade Clothing, for Men and Boys.

Underclothing, Fiannel Shirts. Also Parks’ and other makes Cotton Warps, at the lowest cash prices,

J. B. MACDONALD,

Ch’town, Sept. 13, 188%.—wkly pres he Queen Street

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Office, Charlottetown.

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FURNITURE, Opposite ie

EDSTEADS, Chairs, Tables, Washstands, Sofes, Lounges, Parlor, and Drawing Room ' Bedyoom §xjts, Looking Gissecs and Mirrors, Window Furniture, Picture Frames and | OR? iep*! ~ .

gicture Mouldings Pt JOHN NEWSORN,

Ohariottetown;, lun, % 1RRR.- IF

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ALE.

For the Benefit of Wiiom it May Concerr,

O be sold by Pubjic Auction, at the North Cape of thie Isiand, on

Friday, the 16th cay of November

FALL AND WINTER GOODS.

. instant, at the hour of two wel ck in the

afteru Ou, the

full and Materials

—OF THE ~ Barque “ Minnie Gerdon,”

640 tons Register, of Chatham, New Brung. wick, as sire now lies stranded.

ALSO THE CARGO, CONSISTING OF 385,711 feet Spruce Deal, 79,158 feet Scantling, 45,993 feet Boards, 28,904 feet Deal Ends, By order of the Port Warden and Sur. veyors GORGE W TOWLAN, i ‘ ageut Tignish, P E.1., Nov. 10, 1883, [nol pat her ne pio tl sale

Holloway’s Pills and Ointment, —

W* have received a consignment of the above medicines from Professor Hollo- way, and offer them «st ususl prices, We warrant these medicines genuine, as they have been shipped to us from Professor Hollo- way’s Establishment, 78 New Oxford Street, London, England,

APOTHECARIES HALL COMPANY, DesBrisay’s Corner, Charlottetown, P. E. I, Noy. 10-—2i wkly Im

WINTER Flowering Plants.

CHINESE PRIMROSE,

Red, White and Pink,

FOR SALE BY Herbert Haszard,

, Queen Square, near Po:t Office,

Ch’town, Nov. 7.—2w eod why 2i

Anthracite Coal.

Hourly Expected per Sehr. “Angola.”

}100 TONS ANHRACITE COAL,

Chestnut s‘z°, good quality, Cd

©. LYONS,

Acadia Coal Depot, Peake’s No. ? Wharf, Ch’town, Nov. 6, 1*83, 6) ;

WAATED.

WIEVERAL VESSELS, 60 to 150 tons regis- kT ter, te load Prince Edward Island pro- duce for Newfoundland and West Indies.

ALSO; Two (2) Vessels, about 200 tons register, to load for England,—- -

AND one (1) about 250 tons, for United Kingdom or Continent.

Good rates and quick despatch.

JOHN F. ROBERTSON, Clrtown, Sept. 26, 1883,—pat eod

PUY THE DAILY EXAMINER, the Cheapest and Newsieat paper ™ the

Prawinnn,

WANTS, LOST, FOUND, de.

OST—Ten days ago, a Gold Ear-Ring, The finder will he rewarded by leaving it at Tae Examiner Orrice, faold

ANTED—A situation in a Grocery, by alaiof seventeen, who has had one aud a half years experience at the business, Apply at Tas Exawiner Opric.

(nol) din pd UILDING LOT FOR SALE, at Head of Queen Street. Charlottetown, Cost, in 1577, $420. Will be sold for $200, Apply to Joun Coombs, 18 Queen Street.

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ry°O LET—The Double Tenemen: Dwell- ing House, known as the “ Frapklin House,” with Stable and Icehouse, Posses- sion given immediately. Rent lew, Apply to W. L. Wellner, [no6 3i

DRIFT—On or about the 19th instant, a

rait of Sprace Logs drifted from itg mvorings, three miles south-west ef Cape Bear. Anv parties having found the same shall be rewarded by notifying McLure Bros, Murray River, King's County; or David Small, Harbor Master, Charlottetown. “ {n

ITUATION WANTED—As Auctioneer, two days in each week, and every night, for the winter, gt low rates. Apply at this otlics. [nod

FEW PERMANENT and TRANSIENT BOARDERS can be accommodated in the House corner of Weymouth and Dorches- ter Streets, on reasonable terms. Very con- venient for Railway travellers.—L, B. Mo- MILLAR, [oc30

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OAKDERS,—Mrs. Robert Rodd, has re-

moved to the house of Mr. (. Hearts, Euston Street, where she can accommodate number of Boarders, on reasonable terms.

rH v4 ; 16. f0c30 NOR SALE~A Stewart Cooking Range, in use one year. Good as new, Hig hty recommended.—H. J, CUNDALL. fool?

YO LET and possession given immediately i the two story Dwelling Housé, corver of

i treets. Apply on the ER nd Fig eee Sls. fet