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Stowaways. — There were thirty-seven _StoWawéys on the steamer Beta which arrived at Halifax from St. John’s on Tuesday. When ,the steamer was coming into the dock the ‘men jumped on the wharf, ran up the street, aud escaped.

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Charlottetown, May 8, 1889—eod wky | Never had a preparation a more appropri- ‘ate name than Ayer’s Hair Vigor. When the capillary glands become enfeebled by disease age, of neglect, this dressing imparts renewed life to the scalp, so that the hair assumes much of its youthfal fullness and beauty.

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To Suoutper Tur Biame.-~A Belleville, ,Ont., despatch says that the result of the in | vestigation by the Grand Trunk authorities ‘into the cause of Saturday’s mishap is that . the conductor, engineer and brakeman of the timber train have been dismissed. ny

Dyspepsia causes depraved blood, which, in time*wtfects every organ and function of the body. A’ a remedy for these troubles, noth- ing ‘ean approach Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It | Vitalizes the blood, strengthens the stomach,

STAR MERCHANT TAILORS, a ae and corrects all disorders of the liver and kid- The Original and Peerless Artists of Our Day, »* fe | More Immicrants.—The Rev. J. F. Kitto,

——_——_x)-—-_——-——- rector of the Royal Church of St. Martin-in- HE ABOVE HAS BEEN A SETTLED FACT FOR YEARS, and to keep before the- Fields, London, Eng., arrived in Toronto the public what is so well known to every good dresser in this Proviuee, may accompanied by 130 immigrants, sent out by seem superfluous. But as a good dinner tends to give a quietus to the disturbing | bis a. Most of the men are fine strap- ‘influences within the inner man, so a thorovgh knowledge of vur capabilities will give P!8 fe lows and good « oe The major- a quietus to anyone who may have had the good fortune of being dressed by us. The Bae west, thirty being bound for sun rises and sets, and it appears to the ordinary judgment that the sun revolves around | ' _ the earth instead of the earth revolving around the sua ; so we, through the immense | Deltaxp von Lanon.—Helifax advices re- strides we have taken in our art, would appear to the uneducated to be moving around | pott @ great demand for labor in Nova Scotia. our many friends, instead of they moving around us; like the sun imparts its warm Many hundied French and Italian laborers rays to revive drooping nature, so we are the benefactors of our people, by aiming high are arriving to work on the various railways and attaining to a STYLE and FINISH in our Garments, which cannot but commend uniler construction. One hundred men ar- us as the MERCHANT TAILORING PHILANTHROPISTS of our day. ‘arrived at Halifax on ‘I uegday from Newfound-

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CORNERING Mo.Lasses.—A Montreal de- spatch says: “‘ The attempt to ‘“‘corner” the molasses market has been successful so far. The price in the city is being kept up, and though “it is a cent cheaper in Barbadoes, there is very little likelihood of the market here being affected, or of the article being any cheaper for some time to come.”

: m—Me.. Thos. Schurman, who lives within a mile of the east end of Summer- side, informs us of a rather peculiar circum- stance. For the 25 years that Mr. Schurman has been in possession of his present farm, there have been 21 feals born, and all save one were of tae female sex. This spring has added two more to the list. —Farmer.

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Commercial News.

A summary, prepared by Mr. Eugene Coste, of the geological survey, places the value of the mineral productions of Canada at $16,500,000 during 1888, which is acon- siderable increase over that of 1887.

We hear that an official will be sent to Boston, from the Department of Marine, to inspect the steamers of the Boston, Hali- fax and P. E. Island Steamship Line, ac- a cording to regulations.

The law prohibiting the netting of salmon

‘in non-tidal rivers in New Brunswick will henceforth be in force. The measure has the approval of the local government and isintended to prevent the threatened ex-

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some of the foremost stockholders at the ‘uanaal meeting of the Canada Pacific Rail- wayCompany, held not long ago, there seems to be no little rivalry and animosity be- twem that company and the Grand Trunk Raiway, and the ill-feeling will not sub- sidefor some time.

No successor to the late President of the Bark of Nova Scotia, Mr. John 8. Maclean, has been appointed, but Mr. John Y. Paysant has been tendered a seat at the Bosrd of Directors, which he has ac- cepted.

A ring in copper has been formed on an extensive scale in France, but now it ap- ‘pears it has not proved a success to its or-

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Newfoundland Codfishery.

A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH—-WEALTH OF THE FISHING GROUNDS — METHODS OF CATCHING THE FISH,

Newfoundland has long been cele brated for cod and fog—the latter, despite all that

has beeu written to the contrary, unjustly, as it rarely extends farther than about forty leagues west of the Banks, where it is

‘generatcd by the combined action of the

Gulf Stream and the Arctic current. Cod fishing of greater extent than the world has ever seen has been prosecuted in Newfound- land for the past three hundred and eighty- four years, and we gather from the most trustworthy sources of information that the fishing grounds show no signs of exhaus- tion. The island was discovered in 1407 by English navigators; but the first, and for many years the only persons who reaped the rich harvests of its seas were the hardy fishermen of the Basque provinces of Nor- mandy and Brittany. It was not until 1540 that we have any record of the pres- ence of English fishermen in Newfoundland, at which time vessels from London, Bristol, Sideford and Barnstaple are said to have been engaged in fishing on its banks. In 1578 England had fifty, France and Spain each one hundred and fifty, and Portugal lifty ships employed in this fishery. In 1610 Lord Bacon declared, in view of the rapidly increasing extent of its wealth in fisheries, that Newfoundland contained ‘richer treasures thanthe mines of Mexico and Peru.” In 1698 there were caught, cured and sent to the foreign market no iess than 265,198 quintals of cod. In 1763 this number had increased to 348,294 quin- tals. In 1815 the catch exceeded 1,000,- 000 quintals, and in 1881 it reached the magnificent total of 1,500,000 quintals, since which date it has varied but slightly. The total value of the Newfoundland cod- fishery in this latter year was $6,406,645, and the number of persons employed in catching and curing exceeded 53,000.

The cod are caught in various ways. At first, and for a very considerable period afterwards, the only mode of cap- ture was the primitive device of hook and line, the bait consisting of her- ring or caplin. This method was at once the least expensive and the least remunerative. But slow and uncertain as it undoubtedly was, the quantity of fish taken by its meaus was proportionately almost as large as in later years which have witnessed the intro- duction of so many improved methods. Even at the present time, the hook and line is extensivelyused by the poorest fisher- men in the island. is most deplorable, jigger is also very largely used by these people who, by its means,asall confess, wound and destroy almost as many cod as are taken. The jigger consists of two large sized fish hooks bound securely together by the shanks, and in this ferm let into the mold of a caplin (a sprat-like fish). The Jead is so run as to allow the hooks to pro- trude from the caplin’s mouth. To this cruel contrivance an ordinary fishing line is attached at the tail of the leaden fish. The jigger is asedjinterchangeably with the hook and line, but it is most frequently re- sorted to when, as is often the case, the cod refuse the natural bait. It is thrown overboard and allowed to sink to the bot- tom. Itis then withdrawn the length of afathom, when the jigging begins, i. e., the line is continuously jerked. This jerk- ing gives the leaden caplin an extremely life-like appearance, which irresistibly ar- rests the attention of the unfortunate cod, who rush at the supposed caplin, and coming into violent contact with the pro- truding hooks, perish or are frightfully torn and lacerated in the attempt to seize it. They are caught or wounded in every part of the body, and the spectacle of a jiggered cod as he is helplessly upborne from his natural element and transferred to the fishing boat is both ghastly and sick- ening. The wounds inflicted upon the fish that wriggle off the jigger are usually of too severe a nature to permit them to live, and it is not at allan uncommon thing to find them dead upon the sea-shore. This form ot cruelty to the cod, as well as those other forms of cruelty practised when capturing the seals in Newfoundland, to which ?Lady Blake recently referred in the Nineteenth Century are a standing disgrace to the Legis- lature of the country.

A third means of capturing cod is the bultow ar trawl-line as it is gener- ally called. It is a very long, stout line, from which hooks are- suspended at intervals of about a fathom. These hooks are baited with caplin or herring, and the trawl is sunk to the bottom in the deep water, the resort of the largest fish, which the trawl-line is designed to catch. The lines are secured by buoys and anchors. The bultows are visited frequently for the purpose of removing the captured fish and baiting the hooks afresh. These lines are frequently half a mile in length, and they contain many hundreds of hooks. They are used extensively on the Great Banks of Newfoundland and also round the shores and at the entrances of the bays.

The next method of codfishing is the seine. This is universally used in New- foundland and Labrador, but only during the earliest part of the fishing season, when the cod approached the shores in pursuit of the caplin in immense sehools. The seine is a net of very considerable length and depth, heavily loaded at the foot in order to sink it rapidly. A seine boat crew numbers from four to eight hands, includ- ing the master of the seine, who is also helmsman and eaptain. When a school of fish has been sighted the seine boat is manned and the seine placed in the stern ready to be shot at a moment’s notice. As soon as the school risesto the surface and breaks water the seine is quickly shot around them, after which both ends are drawn to the boat, thus enclosing the fish. The catch, which is frequently immense, is removed from the seire and placed in the boat by means of dip nets which re- semble in all but name, the common land-

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caught than can be taken ashore in the boat at one time, the remaining fish are placed in what are known as ‘cod bags” —immense cabbage nets—and securely moored until they can be taken ashore to be dressed and cured.

The cod-trap is the last but most scient- fic device of the hardy Newfoundlander to secure his valuable prey, which we have to notice. It is wholly composed of nets and is placed in ‘oe run of.the fish near the shore. Waucen set it appears thus:

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All the nets, A, B, C. D, E and F, are placed perpendicularly in the water, the foot being sunk to the bottom by means of leads, and the head supported on the sur- face by floats represented in the diagram by the thick lines. The space G represents a net which forms the bottom of the trap and is always suok, Net A is called the leader, and, as is shown in the-di m, extends from the body of the trap to the land H, where it is secured. The cod, in pursuit of the caplin, which always strike for the shore, strike net A on either side, and being thus thwarted, immediately make for the deep water. In doing this they ‘‘ follow the leader,” in a two-fold sense, and unconsciously pass through the narrow entrance 1, into the trap, where they are retained in safe keeping until re- moved by the fishermen. The position of nets E and F is such that the fish, when once enclosed, rarely find their way out again. In this manner thousands of quin- tals of cod are taken annually in Newfound- land and Labrador; and, although some- what expensive, the cod trap is by far the most successful contrivance yet adopted for the capture of what has now become, in nearly every part of the civilized world, an indispensible article of human food.

Frep, E. J. Luoyp.

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Rey. Mr. Wadman’s Mission.

| Rev. Mr. Wadman will leave Victoria, '(B. C.) for Japan about the Ist July next. The motives which prompt Mr. Wadman to make the new departure are best ex-

| plained in his own words to his congrega-

tion. I presume many of you have heard me say, both privately and publicly, that I would like some day to engage im foreign missionary work. i cannot recall the period in my life when I did nwt have this burning ‘desire in mysoul. Even before my conversion to God and my call to the Christian ministry, I felt a longing to help my fellow men struggling amidst the dark- ress ot heathendom. At midnight I have again and again awakened froim a sound sleep and found myself instinctively pray- ing, ‘*O God! open up the way and let me go.” Four years ago, influenced by such a feeling, I wrote a letter to the Mission Board of the church and offered myself for Japan, giving them my pledge that when- ever they felt I could be of any service to them in that distant field I would certainly go. Since that time considerable corres- pondence has taken place between the authorities and myself, until I re- ceived a very urgent communication, en- quiring if I could be ready in a few weeks to go to Japan and take one of the classes in the Philander Smith University at Tokio, besides the control of certain evangelical Ov account of my pledge, and influenced by the conviction that it was God’s will, I could not but answer him in the aftirmative. I am sorry the appoint- ment came just when it did. I wanted to stay with you another year. Had formed plans for work among you, and was conti- dently expecting to be able to prosecute them with your co-operation and Heaven's blessing. Some may think it a little unfair for me to leave before the three years’ term is up, and to go so suddenly, but when it is known that in my correspondence concerning taking charge of this church, before I ever came to British Columbia, } told my friends that I was under promise to the Mission Board and did not know when I might be called away, and when it is fully understood that such 4 pledge was really given, I cannot see how it is an act of unfairness. You all must know what it will meas for me in the way of sacrifice. I go thousands of miles farther away from home and kindred and many other pleasant associations. But I go because God calls; I go because the Master goes with me. lk would like you all to pray for me, as I shall for you.”

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Personal,

We regret to learn that Mr. Roche Provincial Librarian, is unwell.

Principal Grant’s Hamilton address on lm- perial Federation is being published in pam- phiet form.

The will of the late Sir Thomas Gladstone, brother of the ex-Premier, bequeaths an estate valued at £254,079.

Lady Randoiph Churchill will presently appear as the authoress of a book concerning the ways of Russian society.

Dr. Bourinot is an acknowledged authority on constitutional subjects, and no man outside the House and few in it could better gauge the reasuns influencing the votes of the mem- bers on the question of the disallowance of the Jesuits’ estate act. He plainly attributes their action to the re that the matter was one for the Quebec Legis ature to determine, a view in which he evidently concurs as the.

true constitutional position.