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Tue DAILy EXAMINER, |

DECEMBER 28, ISSO.

PERVERSENSSS.

NoTHixa can be more perverse than the policy of the Opposition in opposing the building of the Canada Pacific by a com pany. .

Mr. Mackenzie, who was in possession of the facts bearing upon the cost of the line in 1874, 1875 and 1876, said, ‘‘ That it would cost $40,000 per mile,” and that ‘* He did act expect any conmercial ad- vantages would arise from the building oi the road for many years to come.” In 187%. after having had five years experi- ence as Minister of Public Works, he esti- mated the cost of constructing the line from Dhunder Bay to the Pacitic at $89,- ne ¢, adding the 650 miles of the Eastern section, $121,000,000 in all,—-that is all cash ; and then the road would not be more than a mere ‘ tramway.’ ”

Mr. Biake, last session, made the follow ing estimate of the cost of building the road fromend toend: For the Eastern section, $32,500,000; for the central section, that is from Red River to Kamloops, $42,500,000, and for the Western or British Columbia section,945,000,000, or $120,000 001 for the whole road. ;

Now that it is proposed to build the line by a company at a total cost of $52,000,000 and 25,000,000 acres of land, nothing can be more diametrically opposed to the in- terests of the Lower Provinces than the policy of the Opposition, which is to go back to the plan of building the road by direct Government agency,—-a plan which has been hitherto pursued because no other was possible. Even to build the middle section as Mr. Blake proposed last session, it would eost, according to his own esti- mate, $42,500,000, while the total sum of money required under the terms with the Syndicate for building the whole line, from Calender Station in the east, to the Paciiic coast in the west, will be only $25,000,000 for subsidy, and $28,000,000 to complete Government contracts.

In $1876 Mr. Mackenzie offered 310,000 and 20,000 acres of land per mile to any company that would underiake the con- struction of the whoie line.

As late as 1879 he stated in Parliament that it wonld be better to give $12,000 and 20,000 acres of land per mile, than for the Governmet to continue building the rail- road as proposed by the Minister of Nail- ways. Now that a Company has shown it- self willing to take a much less figure than the Wpposition leaders were willing to give, we find Mo. Biake and others of the Oppo-

sition stultifying themselves by an outery } against the Syudicate scheme. But Mr. |

Blake does not wish to be held responsible

fer his utterances in the past on the subject building the Canada Pacific, and informed

Parliament of this in his late speech.

The Opposition Press cannot claim that Mr. Blake has pursued a high-minded or honorable course with regard to this great question. We think that the man who prepares and delivers an elaborate speech ona subject, and in less than one short year repudiates the whole of that speech, is not to be credited with being sincere in any of his parliamentary or other political utterances.

Not only is the Leader of the Opposition epen to the charge of insincerity in his speeches, but by his act of last session inj introducing a resolution to abandon the | eonstruction of the road in British Colum- | bia, hie showed that he will even goso far as to break faith with a Province.

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Mr. Mitcheli’s Dismissal.

We learn from the Patriot that Mr. William Motehell has been relieved of the duties of his ‘office as Agent of Marine and Fisher es, for atwo fold offence:

Jat. He is a Grit.

2nd. He did his duty without fear, favor er aifection

Astohie being a Grit we do not take sutiicient interestin Mr. Mitcheil to verify the statement of the Patriot concerning his politica! opinions.

With reyard to his mode of doing his) duty, we have a very strong opinion— which we have no objection decidedly to express. For some years charges have been frequent- | iy forwarded to the Department at Ottawa, | complaininy of the manner in which the business of the Department was conducted in this Province. Yielding at last to many complaints, the Governor General issued a commission, directed io Mr. Johnston, of | Halifrx, a gentleman of experience and ability, to enquire into the charges so often preferred. Mr. Johnston arrived here in Se tember, and Mr. Mitchell had full notice of the charges against him and‘ ample time te prepare for his defence. He/ had, in fact, everything his own way. Every witness he wanted examined was expense. He condueied the whole proceedings. No lawyer torinented either him or his witness- es with aw.ward questions or cross-examin- tions. He fyled supplemental statements, and just such documents as he thought would help him, and during the whole in- vestigation no one appeared in opposition to him.

We understand that Mr. Johnston simply reported the evidence. He evidentiy felt that comments by him were eutirely and altogether out of place, for the evidence! was suiicient to impress upon the Gevern- ment the absolute necessity for removing Mr. Mitchell.

_ The Patriot says that he “‘ did” what he 1s pleased to call ‘“‘his duty” without ‘“‘favor or affection.” This is notoriously not the case. There was an individual to whom Mr. William Mitchell showed the greatest ‘‘ favor’? and for whom he enter- tained the deepest ‘‘ affection,” and that was Mr. William Mitchell, the part owner of the schooner Lois Jane. It was simply

amazing to see how his ‘“ affection” for the owner of that veasel deepened when- ever sea curriage was required, and this deep ‘‘ affection ” showed itself in the form

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of an extravagant estimate of the value of the freight he could charter her for, having first taken care that tenders were not called for. To advertise for tenders seemed to him so unnecessary that it was not until he had received peremptory orders from Ottawa that he would do so. And then it was discovered that other vessels could be procured to perform the work for S130, which the Lois Jane received $250 for. But that was not all. Without calling for tenders Mr. Mitchell, the Agent of the de- partment of Marine and Fisheries, entered into a contract with the very same Mr. Mitchell, part owner of the Lois Jane to carry coal from Pictou to Georgetown for ninety-five cents per ton. Mr. Charles Has. gard and Mr. J. E. McLéan, were willing to perform the same work at seventy-five cents per ton, only Mr. Mitchell would not permit them. But what is more to the point the railway department were actually paying for the carriage of coal from Pictou to Georgetown, at the rate of sixty cents per ton, at the very time that Mr. Mit chell was paying himself ninety five cents ! !

When these facts were proved, could thie Government do anything except remove from office a man who was not ashamed to make use of his position as Mr. Mitchell did? He was Lound by every principle binding upon an honest man, by every rule of decency, to guard and protect the inter- ests of the Gevernment, whose agent he was. From his very position he became

acquainted with a knowledge of facts which »

others could not know of, and he was thus enabled to award contracts to himself at prices far exceeding what others were wil- ling te perform the work for. An honor- able manu would have abstained from making use of this knowledge to the dis- advantage of the Government and to fur- ther his own private ends. With Mr. Mitchell it was otherwise. ties overcame his sense of what was fitting and decorous, and he awarded himself 35 cents per ton more than the railway de- partment paid for similar work. It was because he did this, and acts similar to this, that the Government arrived at a decision which we are certain will be acquiesced in by all honest men-—-that Mr. Mitchell’s usefulness had ceased to exist and that his removal from office was imperatively called for in the public interest.

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HOTEL ARRIVALS. OSBORNE HOUSE. Dee 27—C McLauchlan, White Sands; H Alberton; John ‘I’ Keefe, do; J O Arsenault, MP P, Egmont Bay; John Cairns, White Sands; Walter Matheson, Campbelton; Oliver 'T' Stewart, Red Point; Jerome Gallant, Alberton. ROCKLIN HOUSE. Dec, 27---Daniel Simpson, Cavendish; James

Laird, New Glasgow; M Haslem, Springtield; |

James A McKie, Bayview; Wm McKie, New London; D Campbel!, Montague; Wm Camp- bell, do; John U Garret, Stanley Bridge; Hon John Lefurgey Summerside; Robert stewart Strathgartney; D McKay, New London.

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NOTHER OPPORTUNITY will be LX otfered to those wishing te secure good PICTURES at low prices. 1 will positively close out, without reserve, at the

Queen Street Auction hooms,

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Thursday Afternoon, the d0th Uecember,

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Gnromos and Uiesgraphs.

Also a few new Clecks and Silver Watches, A positive clearance will be made at any

ne W. D. STEWART.

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Dec. 28,

Life Among the Hills |

COLORADO IR 1888.

| H. FLETCHER, Ese, will deliver the ey). tirst of two Lectures on the above sub- ject, in the Hall of the Y. M. C. A.,

Hunt are so stupid that they need no com- {en New Year's Eve (FRIDAY, the 3!at inst.)

ment. will not be offered, and even if offered he would not accept the oflice of Agent of the Department of Marine and Fisheries for this Province.

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New Manufactory at Halifax. Wes are pleased to note that some of the Capital of Haligonians is to be employed in the establishment of aa Cojton Factory at Halifax. Now that her people are begin- ning to turn their attention—partially at least—away from the import business, and away from the investment of their money in: foreign countries, to the promotion of home industry, we anticipate, for Halifax, a very prospervus future. EXTRAORDINARY ! Two Hardworking Mechanics Con-

demned to Jail for Prosecut- ing their Trade.,

ALLEY VS. DUCHEMIN AGAIN.

Jupce Prrers, to-day, made an order for the committal of Messrs. Albert and Queen's County Jail, for working at their trade as Block- makers, in the old homestead of their father.

They had been previously driven from their shop erected on the site of the old factory in which their father’ and them- selves worked as goed citizens for upwards of thirty years, and were compelled to turn their dwelling house into a workshop.

Now they are driven from it—-to jail.

Gorrespaioence.

se We do not hold Ours Iyer responsible fe - the statementa or opinions of our correspondents.

To the Editor of the Kxaminer.

Sir,—I see that you advise Mr. Davies to call another meeting so that he may undo the wrong he has done to his followers by his in- advertent or wilful deception in suppressing part of section 11 ef the Vanada Pacific Rail- way contract. I think Mr. Davies should be ashamed ever to face again the electers whom he deceived.

Yours, &c., PUBLIC OPINION. Dec, 28, 1880.

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J'o the Kditer of the Brammer.

Dewar Sir,—Thanks for your exposure of the deeeption practiced by our leader. But for it I might have heen tempted to sign the petitions which are being carried areund, The suppression of the very provision which showed that what he was saying about the Company being able to ‘* grab” all the good land in the Northwest was iacorrect,is, to me, inexplicable. Mr, Davies must, of course, have erred in ignorance; but even that is, under the circumstances, unpardonable.

Yours, LIBKRAL. LS a OP

SARAH BsrRNUARDT AND THE Perea CUBES. — The preachers of the United States have been making things hot for ** Telegraph's Sara,” and she in return expresses her opinion of a few of them in comparison with actresses and acters in this way .—‘‘ What, for instance, is the difference between the calling of an act- ress like myself and that of the mountebank Talmage, always on the scent for the freshest

bit of scandal? This single but important |

difference: That I support myself by inter- preting to ‘people the grandest thoughts of the gaandest men who have ever lived, while he gains his living by pouring into the public ear his own verbese nonsense. But though in this sense his profession is certainly the same as my own, [ can scarcely consider him a hon comarade,”

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Mr. Hunt has not been offered, he | Phe second Leeture on the same subject will ibe given in the Market Hall on WiDNES-

WAY, the 16th JANUARY, before the Ladies’ Tormperance Benevolent Society. Funds to go to the relief ef the poor. The first Lecture will give a description of the physical appearance

of Celorado—peculiarities of the country— eharacteristics of the people—mineral in- dustry — moral status of society—lifein mining cainps, &c, Parties wishing to hear all about Colorado should attend both Lectures. Admission 25 cents,

_ FLOUR!

kent Mills, Superior Extra.

BOR SALE HERE, or on Cars a$ George- town. Apply to JAMES BROWN & CO., - Water Street, Ch’town,

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Dec. 28, ’S0.

Pedestrianism Challenge,

' DO HEREBY CHALLENGE any five _men on P. E. Island to walk me fifteen miles heel-and-toe, each man to walk three niles, for $25 aside; or [ will walk any Pedes- trian in the Maritime Provinces from fifty miles upwards, for any sum of money. I also will make bet of $100 that I will walk 50 miles in pine hours, heel-and-toe. Whoever accepts either of these challenges will please

answer by press. JOSEPH

Dec. 28, 1580,

P.E, island Railway.

TENDERS FOR SLEEPERS,

R. LEGGETT.

CNEALED TENDERS, marked ‘* Tenders ) for Sleepers,” will be received by the undersigned at the Railway Office, Charlotie- town, until 6 p.m., SATURDAY, the 8th January, 1851, for the undermentioned Sleepers :— Between Georgetown and Mt. Stewart, 13,000 * Mt. Stewart and Ch’town.... 13,000

“ Mt. Stewart and Souris...... 6,000 ‘* Reyalty Junction and S’Side.. 18.500 ” Summerside and Tignish.... 40,500

Forms of Specification and Tender can be had on application at any of the Railway Stations, or at the Railway Office, Charlotte-

town. Superintendent. Railway Office, Charlottetown, Dec. 24, 1880 | 1, pat pres her ar ne sp sj kca pio till date

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F you want a CHEAP SOLID SILVER- CASED WALTHAM WATCH, go

GE you want a SOLID GOLD CHAIN NECK LET, go to G. G. JURY.

hy you want a nice COLORED GOLD or . PLATED SET of JEWELRY, go to G. G. JURY.

PF you want a WEDDING SET or EN- GRAVED SOLID GOLD RING, go to G. G, JURY.

“F you want a handsome American Eight- Day or Thirty-hour CLOCK, go to

G. G. JURY,

North Side Queen Square, Opp. Post Office. Dec. 22, ’80—I1m 2aw wf

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under | Mr. |ihe auapices of the Ladies’ Social Committee

to G. G. JURY ae : * {new and popular Polo, as also in al! the other

+ | . ‘ . * 3 >” Or) Danielle’s ‘‘unique and rapid system.” Par-

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POSTPONED!

ro OPENING THE MK ATING RINK lias

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WAKEFORD. Secretary.

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Dec. 27, 1880.

CONCERT!

IN

ST, JAMES’ HALL,

Wednesday, 29th Secember,

PART

| Lgl tas aie ..., Quintette Club 2. Song (Scottish) ...... Mr. A. McKinnon

3. Duet (Pianv)....,.dliss Morrison and Prof. Earle ‘*Scotland Yet”.......Mr. Caven se Uk baie bai eo ..+... Mr. Montgomery

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| 4. Song—- ’ I > din ty { ?, Nneau |

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oO el ; . . . 7. Duet (Piano and Violin)..... Miss B Maclennan and Mr. W. C. Harris B, BOW co 0s ends ce oc cee ee Miss Palmer

‘ . ,? —~*fome and meet me, Darling, Mr. Willams Arthur Peters

‘ : 9, Song

ae en ere . Mr. PART BELCOND,

dose kek aie a deena .. Quintette Club g—** Man the Life Boat,”...... Mr. A.

3. (Piano Solo)-—‘‘ Fantasie sur Faust,”

Miss Bertha Gray

7 ° wora

& GO: 6s ae ....,.Miss Bourke

5. Song —*‘* Rocked in the Cradle of the SO és. ce shld kaso ...Mr. Reid

OG. Feet a5. 53 ch ai eee ee

‘Ballad from Prides of Venice,” Mr. Williams §. Duet (Piano). .Miss Dunn and Prof. Earle 9, Song.................. Mr. Montgomery 10. Song—*‘ Hundred Pipers”....Mr. Caven

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Doors open at 7.30. Concert to commence

at 8 o clock.

i ry : Tickets to be had at the

i Watsen, Dr. Dodd, C. D. Rankin, J. Mac- |Eachern, W. }. Stewart, W. & A. Lrown & Co., and at Apothecaries’ Hall.

Dec, 22, 1SS0—3i w tu w

CHRISTMAS

ENTERTAINMENT!

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B. «. Church, Prince Street, sy the Choir and Sunday School, assisted by several ladies and gentlemen.

A choice programme, consisting of Solos, Duetis, Quartetts, Glees, Choruses, &c.

The Committee expect this to be the best Entertainment they have ever held,

Entertainment will commence at sharp. Don’t fail te secure tickets,

Admission 15 vents; two for 25 Children 10 cents.

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SALE POSTPONED ¥. M. ©, ASSOCIATION,

THE ANNUAL SALE

NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES

WILL TAKE PLACE ON

Thursday Lvening, the ath December,

SEVEN

5 o'clock,

cents,

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AT HALF-PAST o'CLOCK.

By order. F. S. MOORE, Dec. 23, 1880— President.

‘Assignment Oi Debts,

MYOTICE is hereby given that ail the AN Books and Book Debts of ALBERT Srmp- son, of Charlottetown, merchant and grecer, and all sums of meney due him, have been duly assigned to me, and that payment of; same is not to be made te any ene else unless anthorized by me, W. H. AITKEN,

Chitown, Dee. 24, 1880—3w 2aw, pat Sw 2aw

TERPSIGHORE HALL.

PEXYHE subscriber, thanktai for past Javors,

hereby gives notice that her Dancing Classes for the second and last term for the season, will commence on TUESDAY, the 28th inst. Instructions will be given «luring this term in the Amazonian March (wiiich is well adapted for a Skating Rink} and in the

| Dances usually taught, and according to Prof.

ties requiring private tuition can apply on ;auy day or hour for information and terms.

| A JUVERILE CLASS will be opened on ‘SATURDAY, the 8th January, 1881, and be ‘continued during the term on Saturday’s and |‘ luesday’s,—from 3 to 5 p. m. on Saturday’s, }and 4 to 6 on Tuesday's, or any other days or |hours that will be convenient for parents and /pupils. In this Class the Deportment and | Damb Bell Exercises will be carefully taugh*. E. BURRIS. Dec. 23, ’80—2i th m, pat 2i oaw

done is a

the EXAMIN PRINTING ROOMB,

CITIZEN’S been -- owing to

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Now offers the Balance of his Large Stock of :

BOOTS AND SHOES

Keduction of 10 to 25 Per Gent! FOR CASH ONLY.

Ladies’ button Grain worth $1 50, for 31 10 “6 Laced " wi 1 30, for 1 1G 6 of 7 P 1 25, for 1 OO Button Kid, Prunella, and Fine Kid

__ Shoes aud Slippers 25 p. c. off.

Woman's Strong Laced worth $1 00, for 80 cta, Prunella ' i 00, for 75 ets.

Misses’ and Children’s Laced and Button, 20

per cent. re luction,

Misses’ and Children’s Tie Shoes and Slip-

pers, 25 pel cent. reduction,

Mens Elastic Side and Laced Boots, 15 per

cent. reduction

Men's Long Boots, 10 per cent. reduction.

Boys ‘es sf lv sé re

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Bargains in job lots to wholesale cash buyers. Dec, 22, 1850 --lm 3aw butialo, Buffalo. SPLENDID LOT OF BUFFALO

LA ROBES, lined and trimmed. A few JAPANESE ROBES.

BEER & SONS. Dee. 1, 1880—Im

STILL AHEAD.

A GRAND ASSORTMENT

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VICTORIA MIXTURE, » 25c. per lb.

MecCORMICK’S MIXTURE,

Spiced Chocolate Sticks, Fig Paste, Jujubes, Barley Sugar Twist, and other varie- ties too numerous to mention,

[ keep the purest and most delicately- flavored CANDY to behad in the Dominion.

B. BALDERS?TON.

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BEST VALUE

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READY CASH,

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Men's Overcoats, Ulsters, Heelers, Sacque & Shooting Coats,

Pants and Vests, Underciothing, Serge, Wool, Wincey and Cotton Shiris,

Ties, Braces, Liven and Paper Collars, Tweeds,

Tailors’ Trimmings, &c. F. LEPAGE & CO.

GLASGOW HOUSE.

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