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The Value of Q@ur Home Markets.

Orvosrtion papers decry the value of the home markets, and argue as if the posses- sion of the United States market were a sine qua non of Canadian prosperity. They contend that the measure of a country’s advancement is its foreign trade. They say that unless the blue books show that every year there is an increase of foreign trade, the country is on the road toruin. The following article, from The Trader of Tor- onto, is, in our opinion, a good and suffi- cient answer to this contention of the Op- position press :

“We have repeatedly stated in these columns, that so far as Canada is concerned, her export trade is but a small item in the business total. Commercial Unionists would make us believe that our entire prosperity hangs upon the or of our surplus farm products in the markets of the United States, while free traders contend that until we can have a free exchange of products with the entire world we shall never really know what prosperity means.

“Tf these gentlemen would but consider that our own people consume nine-tenths of all the agricultural products we raise, and that barely one-tenth of the whole is export- ed, they would surely realize that the very best market that our farmers can possibly have is the one right at their own doors. One of the best and most forcible illustrations of this fact that we have seen came before our notice a few weeks ago inthe shape of an article, published in the Telegram of this city, on the meat consumption of Toronto. <Ac- cording to these returns, which are taken from the official records of the cattle market, it appears that

‘ During the past twelve months a total of no less than $4,347 head of cattle was entered for local consumption, Striking a rough average of 1,000 pounds for each ox, this represents a total of 8,347,000 pounds of beef, or $4,217,350 worth consumed in the past year, This gives to the city a daily con- sumption in beef of something like 231,087 pounds,

‘Mutton is also very largely in demand judged by the fact that in one year 55,766 sheep were slaughtered for local consumption, and this reckoned at an average of 60 lbs. per animal gives a total ia the year of 3,345,960 pounds, worth $1,672,980, or a consumption of nearly 10,000 per diem. Of hogs there were 40,160, valued at $500,000, consumed in Toronto, besides lambs and calves of which no reliable record has been kept, but which are consumed in great quantities. There are 20,000 pounds of lamb eaten in Toronto in one day—sueh is the demand of the retail men to have the market supplied at any cost. Of poultry the consumption in Toronto is also exceedingly large, and this is where the local farmer gets the pull. The poultry sesson ex- tends from October to March, andin the week preceding Christmas it is estimated that the wholesale houses and commfssion men handle as much as a ton every day, the supply com- ing from farmers who reside within a radius of twenty miles of Toronto, while extra large quantities are taken by the city retailers from country storekeepers who take birds in ex- change for articles of their stock-in-trade.’

** The significance of these returns will be better understood when we compare them with the combined export of such produce from the Dominion of Canada to Great Britain and the United States. The official figures for the year ending June, 1889, show that we exported 60,000 head of cattle, worth $4,992, - 161, to Great Britain, an average of $80 each, and 37,360 head, worth $488,366, to the United States, at an average of about 313 each. Of sheep, Great Britain took 43,477, worth $303,000, or an average of $7 per head, while the United States took 307,775, worth $918,334, or an average of only $3 each. Of hogs, England took none, and the United States only 1,033, valued at $4,448, or about $4 apiece.

“A comparison of the above figures will show that in these three important articles of food the home market of the city of Toronto alone consumes almost as mach as our entire export to the combined markets of the United States and Great Britain. -

**{t shows also that the home market afforded by the one single city of Toronto con- sumes more than four times the amount of these oy than we export to that illimit- able market of 65,000,000 in the United States about which Mr. Wiman and his followere in Canada make so much ado, and without which, according to the Globe, this country cannot possibly exist.

**But Toronto, although an important centre of population, is not by any means the largest Canadian city, nor isit the enly one which consumes the product of the Canadian farmers in large quantities. When we come to think of the -cities of Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Halifax, St.John, Kingston, Belleville, Brant- ford, Guelph, St. Catherines, Stratford, Wood- stock, London, Hamilton, Winnipeg, and the hundreds of towns and villages which time and space would alike fail us even to mention, all of which are consumers in,proportion to their size of the products of the surrounding Cana- dian farmers, we stand astonished at the insig- nificance of our foreign trade in agricultural products when compared with what is used by our own people tt home.

‘Before such an army of bona fide con- sumers for Canadian farm produce, the so- called market of 60,000,000 in the United States (who export annually over $500,000,000 worth of similar produce of their own, which they cannot themselves consume), fades away almost into insignificance.

“What our adian farmers want is not the markets of the United States so much as more consumers right at their own doors, and this can only be obtained by a continuance of the protective policy which has already done so much to stimulate our manufactures and build up our towns and cities.”

The last sentence of this extract is ap- plicable, particularly, to Prince Edward Island. We want, most of all, a big city or two in Nova Scotia and New Bruns- wick, What the recent great increase of the population of Toronto has done for the farmers round about it is here shown. We know what the comparatively small increase in Moncton, Amherst, New Glasgow, Hali- fax and St. John has done for us. The policy which is best calculated to promote the growth of manufacturing and commer- cial towns in the Maritime Provinces is the right policy for Prince Edward Island.

Montreal Journal of Commerce now esti- mates the wheat crop at 15 million bushels, but a small portion of which will grade No. 1 hard. Of 700 car-loads sent to Minneapolis only 14 cars were of the higher grade, although there is a larger — than usual of No. 2and No. 3

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Death of an American Captain.

Capt. Charles Lee, of schooner Orient, whose sudden illness was referred to in Saturday’s Examiner, died at Souris on Monday morning. On his arrival there on the Thursday previous, the American Con- sular Agent, C. C. Cariton, Esq., at once had him landed and taken to comfortable lodgings, where he was attended by two medical men, who did all in their power to alleviate his condition. The crew, all of whom seemed very much attached to their captain, were also in constant attendance upon him. Owing to the storm, Mr. Lee, son of the deceased, on his way to the. Is- land, was detained at Shediac over Sunday, and also on Monday, as the Island steamer could not cross that day on account of the severity of the gale. The remains of the dead Captain were brought to this city by last evening's train, on their way to Glou- cester for interment. The late Captain Lee was a man well and favorably known along the Island coast. He has been in the Bay every season for the last thirty years, and was one of the most successful mackerel killers out of Gloucester. He was sole owner of the Orient, besides holding a large number of shares in other vessels. He leaves a widow and one sen and daughter, who have the sympathy of many a P. E. Islander in their sudden bereavement.

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The Late Storm.

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Referring to a report published in THe EXAMINER « few days ago we have the fol- lowing additional particulars from the Halifax Herald: The barque spoken by the Government steamer Acadia was the Metmerby, of Liverpooi, England, with one million feet of lumber, from Quebec for Liverpool. The Metmerby encountered the heavy north-east gale of Tuesday last, was throm on het beam ends, lust deckload, some lower sails and wheel, is waterlogged and badly wrecked up generally. The timber broke through into the cabin ; they lost all stores, water and everything in the cabin, ineluding the captain's clot) ing, charts, etc. There is a small fishing schooner iaying by the ship in case of any- thing happening. CaptainGordon, of the Acadia, supplied them with some neces- sary stores, and a tug is expected tu leave Pictou to-day and to tow her in.

The schooner Nutwood, of Sonris, had a sharp run of it in Monday's gale. When the storm began she was well down the north side of the Island. Before rounding East Point she lost her seine boat and tore away her fore- sail. She made out, however, to reach Souris without further damages. Capt. Lord says such tempestuous seas have not been witnessed on this coast for years as were experienced off the North Shore in the late gale.

Just before dark on Monday evening a large brig was seen off Cable Head. She was at one time very nearly ashore, being in only about thirty fathoms of water, but she man- aged to get ont again into deep water, and was last seen heading for East Point. Any vessel that would run ashore in that vicinity in such a storm would run great risk of being broken up, as the seas were breaking fully two miles from the land.

A schooner named the Corporal Trim, belonging to Hon. Peter McNutt, Mal- peyue, was to have left Chatham on Thurs- day last. She has not yet reported.

A small fishing schooner from Caraquet went ashore at Fish Island during the storm of Sunday The men on board (three) were landed safely at Malpeque yesterday. Reports from Malpeque state that a quautity of doals, etc., have come ashore there. Some vessel is in trouble. —ell ee

The Condition of Ireland.

Dvusin, Oct. 7.—Persons,who take an interest in the prosperity and welfare of Ireland will be gratified to learn that the situation is not so bad, after all. Reports from the Green Isle show that in analysing the different kinds of crops it is found that the acreage under cereals is less by 200,000 acres this year than last. There is a de- crease in oats of nearly 19,000 acres, in barley of 3,000, and in bere and rye of some 1,300 acres. But as a set off in some measure to this diminution, there is con- siderable increase in the acreage under wheat over that of last year, amounting to some 4,000 acres, and beans and peas were much more extensively sown. In green crops the increase this year over last is very cousiderable. There®are nearly 3,000 acres under beet and mangel wurzel culture, 3,520 acres under cabbages, 228 acres under vetches and rape—more than last year, while potatoes show a decrease of 6,433 acres, turnips of 2,552 acres, and parsnips, carrots, and other green crops, as com- pared with last year, a decrease of 5,353 acres, Flax also has this year greatly decreased as compared with the previous year, there being a de- crease in the acreage of no less than 17,000 acres, a matter much to be regretted con- sidering the high price given for it this year. Of the 96,871 acres of flax sown in Ireland this year, 95,981 acres are in the province of Ulster. The part of the report that speaks of the live stock is truly very encouraging, and shows a marked increase in the prosperity of the country. The stock of horses and mules has increased during the last year 11,369, and when compared with the return of ten years ago shows an increase of nearly four times the number. In 1881 there were in all Jreland 574,746

horses and mules. To-day there are 615,741. The stock in _ cattle over that of last year reaches the

large number of 146,579, which, com- red with the statistics of ten years ago, is fully double. Sheep also have largely in- creased in number during the present year, the increase this year over last being no less than 534,618, and during the last ten years the increase over former years is more than one million. In hogs the increase over the returns of last year amounts to 189,609, while the increase since 188] reaches to the very iarge number of nearly 500,000, Poultry have also largely leenatit throughout the country, the increase during the last five or six years reach- ing to considerably over a million and a half. There are this year 554,592 more than last. It will thus be seen that on the whole the present agricultural condition of the country is emin- ently satisfactory as compared with some years past.

The grape harvest in Essex county, Ont., is said to have been a most soccessful one for the raisers. The crop was large, and the prices good.

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News Notes.

The Jews in Sebastopol have been ordered to leave the city.

The United States agricultural depart- ment reports a material decline in cotton prospects.

The population of New Orleans is 241,- 995; Buffalo, 254,457; New York State, 6,981,934.

The German government is said to con- template legislative action to stop emigra- tion of men liable to military duty.

The British government denies that fever prevails to an alarming extent among the Grenadier Guards at Bermuda.

The new C. P. R. steamship Empress of India is expected to leave Liverpool on her trial trip around the world on January 16, 1891.

A plentiful supply of good water has been struck on Sir John Lister-Kaye’s farm at Langdon, N. W. T., which isa matter of great importance to that district.

A corn agent of Pesth, Hungary, has failed, with liabilities of 1,000,000 florins. {t is believed that other failures will follow. The trouble is due to the pcorness.of the harvest.

Boston complains that all the fast steam- ships go to New York, and that the service to the Hub is inferior. The fact is that ocean traffic settles into the most con- venient grooves without much regard to the feelings of cities.

The largest vessel, with one exception, ever built in the United States, is the new stesmer El Sol, built by the Messrs. Cramp at thir Delaware yard. She is 400 feet lony, 48 feet beam, 33} feet deep, and 4,300 tous. She is exclusively a freight boat, and will ply between New York and New Orleans. She will have four masts and be schooner rigged.

A British Columbia paper speaks of a new era that has opened in the shipping history of the Fraser River, and marked by the safe arrival at Westminster of the good ship Titania, of the Hudson Bay Com- pany’s fleet of merchantmen. This the in- itial voyage of a regular freight service jointly between the two ports of Van- couver and Westminster and the great markets of British Europe. It is only the the thin edge of the wedge that is to open up the vast shipping possibilities from the various channels of provincial and especial- iy mainland trade with the English ports. Since the old days when the Hudson Bay's forts were the points of distribution for the trade of the mainland, until now there has not been a shipment direct from England to the mainland of unbroken bulk. For- merly Victoria has received and re-consign- ed the imports, as well as enjoying the honor and emoluments of being the lead- ing centre of all parts of the province for homeward bound ships of Europe. The Titania will take a return cargo of salmon and furs.

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Mr. E. Hackett, Inspector of Fisheries, was at the Osborne last evening, and left for Souris this morning.

Mr. Fred. S. Hanford arrived last evening, poeines model of the Chignecto Ship Rail, way, which may be seen at the Board of Trade rooms.

W. UW. Findley, Esq., is here from San Diego. He is ona businesstrip. Theclimate ont there evidently agrees with him. His health is excellent.

His Lordship Bishop Courtney arrived here last eros and left for Summerside to-day. While in Charlottetown His Lordship will be the guest of E. J. Hodgson, Esq.

Arthur Mellish, A. B., son of J. T. Mellish, Esq., of this city, has been awarded a scholar- - of $250 at Harvard University, Cam- bridge, Mass., where he is pursuing his studies.

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ves FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL SES.-

SION of the Grand Division, S. of T., of P. E. Island, will be held at Summerside, on THURSDAY, the 30th inst, commencing at 10.30 a. m.

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A Public Temperanee Meeting will be held in the Evening.

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Horse and Harness AT AUCTION.

WILL OFFER AT AUCTION, on the Market Square, on FRIDAY, the 17th inst., at 12 o’clock, noon, a nice Horse, either for driving or light expreis. Also, a set of Harness Terms at sale.

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