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= jealously of Timothy Warren Anglin, and the latter never fails to take opportunities to injure Mr. Costigan politically. The members of the Government did not take any part in the debate,with the exception of Mr. Langevin. ‘They afforded the young and rising members an opportunity to dis- cuss the great question. Mr. Cameron, a member of the Opposition whose splurges af- forded amusement to the House, accused Sir , John of stealing the brains of the Opposition. Sir John was very happy in his reply. He rose in his place and said, ‘‘ Does the hon. gentleman accuse me of petty larceny?” This reply, together with the applause which followed, so disconcerted Mr. Cam- eron that it was some time before he re- covered himself sufficiently to resume his speech. The Senate will take up Mr. Mosseau’s resolution next week, and per- haps some further interest in the matter will be manifested when Mr. DeBoucher- ville—who now holds a seat in the Senate —will speak. The resolution will then be placed before the Governor-General. In the meantime, Mr. Letellier will feel his position uncomfortable. It was frequently atated, during the debate, that the people of Quebec had condemned the action of Mr. Letellier, but that Mr. Turcotte had been secured against the wishes of his con stituents, and by improper means to sup- port the Joly Government.

CANDIDATES On Behalf of the People’s Gov- ernment, CHARLOTTETOWN :

A Palse idéa.

We fidd that there is abroad an impression to the effect that the members and officers of the Local Legislature received half the full sessionai allowance for their services during the recent eight days’ session. This is not the fact. They received half pay for the time they were actually employed. Fancy Mr. Davies receiving but one dollar and a half for his five hours speech. Is it any wonder he refused to take the money ?

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Meeting at Summerside.

JOHN LEFURGEY AND THOMAS KELLY NoMI- NATED BY THE CONSERVATIVES.

ADDRESSES BY THE CANDIDATES AND THE LEADER OF THE GOVERNMENT.

(From our own Correspondent.)

A meeting of the Liberal Conservatives of this District was held in Ludlow Hall on Thursday evening, for the purpose of dis- cussing the political situation and nominat ing two candidates to represent that party at the coming election. A large number of electors were present at the meeting, which was one of the largest and most influential

ever held in this place. The meeting was vLamana {called to order by James Campbell, Esq.,

who was appointed Chairman. Mr. Camp- bell stated the object of the meeting, and requested a patient hearing for the speak-

ers. Mr. Lefurgey, one of our late repre- sentatives, was the first to address the

GEO. WASTIE DeBLOIS, Esq.,|meeting. Mr. Lefurgey gave an account

Hon. NEIL McLEOD.

of how he, at the last election, was brought

Provincial Secretary and Treasurer. {out in conjunction with Mr. McMillan on

LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVE

the Free School question ; of the settle- ment of that question, and the reasons for passing the Assessment Act. He said that

COMMI j | FE ROOMS the late Government, of which he was a §jmember, had given the country a good

School Act, and that that Act was work-

Terlizzick's Buldiag, Queen Street, ing satisfactorily. That to keep in opera-

tion money had to be raised to do so. He

OPEN EVERY DAY, SUNDAY’'S | gid not repudiate tha Assessment Act; but

EXCEPTED.

thought that a saving of from $20,000 to Sa ($25,000 could be made, and thus lessen

reasons for leaving the Davies Government,

THE DAILY EXAMINER. the taxes. Mr. Lefurgey gave his|

Tat expensive marble mantles have been placed in the new Lunatic Asylum, at];

— —= == [claiming that that Government had not MARCH 22, 1879. the confidence of the people, and that the | Legislative Council elections, as well as the

elections held in the Belfast and Cardigan

Districts, were sufficient proof of this. He

also stated that Mr. Davies knew before the

House met that he and those whe resigned

heir seats at the Council Board would op-

the expense of the Government, while only | pose him on the floor of the House. Mr. wooden ones were required by the specifica- Lefurgey was loudly applauded on resum-

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tion, which the contractors were bound to

ng his seat. Thomas Kelly, Esq., was nominated as a

supply. Liberal-Conservative candidate. Mr. Kelly That thirty-six expensive register grates|in his address alluded to the School Ques-

are put in a building which is being heated |t

by steam, at a cost of sixteen thousand four

hundred dollars. I

ion, and said that it was utterly impossible or Mr. Sullivan to interfere with the work- ng of that Act. As for himself, he would eave it where it was—that he would not

That no tenders were called for the sup-|touch it except to amend it and make it

ply of those grates, and no requisition made to any person for them; no architect’s cer-

work more satisfactory. He said that there were persons who cried loudly that the Free Schools were in danger, and defied any per-

tificate of their delivery at the Asylum ; in] jo to name a case in which the Catholic short, no evidence in the Public Works} population had not accepted that Act in

Department in regard to them, save the payment of $774 to the Burrell-Johnson

yood faith. He referred to the Assessment Act and to the cause of the election. He said he could not see how it was that there

Iron Co.—the same Burrell-Johnston Iron was a cry raised because a Catholic led the Co. being contractors for heating the build-)Government of the country. He named

ing with steam. That it is now freely admitted that these}. grates have been supplied from the estab-

eases where in Catholic countries Protest ants held the position of Prime Min-

ster; and because Mr. Suliivan was

a Catholic was no reason why

lishment of Messrs. Dodd & Rogers, the/he should not vccupy that position. Burrell-Johnson Iron Co. acting in the During his remarks, Mr. Kelly said that, if

capacity of agents or middlemen for the t

elected, he would not support any Govern-

nent—no matter by whom led—which did

Hon. Thomas Walker Dodd, for which SeT- | not give a Registry Otfice to Prince County. vice they have charged and were paid 4} He also expressed himself in favor of the commission by the late Government—of | abolition of Imprisonment for Debt. Dur. which the Hon. Thomas Walker Dodd, of | ing the delivery of his address, Mr. Kelly

the firm of Dodd & Rogers, was a member

was repeatedly applauded.

Mr. Lefurgey was there put in nomina-

and Provincial Secretary and Treasurer, | tion to run in conjunction with Mr. Kelly.

and the sworn guardian of the people’s|The nominations were then put to the rights. meeting and carried by a large majority.

That the payment of this money was

Mr. Sullivan, being present, was called

upon for a few remarks. He said that he

made on the 4th of March while the motion | yas happy to meet such a large audience as of want ef confidence in the Government] the one now before him, and that as he oc- was pending in the House of Assembly, and cupied the position of Leader of the Gov-

after the Hon. Thomas Walker Dodd afore-

ernment, it would, he thought, be neces- sary to state the platform upon which he

said, and the Hon. William Dunbar Stew-|)24 appealed to the country. He had read, art, stood condemned before the people of|he said, in one of the newspapers since his

this country. Verily the whole transaction is rank and smells to heaven! !

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Mr. Stewart’s Horse-Hire.

Massrs. Davies anv Dopp preserved an ominous silence, at the meeting the other night, respecting the amounts drawn out of the Public Treasury without the consent of Parliament, to defray Mr. W. D. Stewart's travelling expenses. One hundred and forty-five doilars and ninety cents (3145.90) expenses in two months, for horse-hire alone—or at the rate of $875 per year—is an item worthy of consideration these dull times, when a Province is running into debt and people are being unduly taxed. Mr. Stewart only charged the tax-pavers of this Province one dollar for every trip he made to the new Lunatic Asylum, which is about two miles from his office. But this is not much for a $1,600 per year Commis- sioner !

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Mr. Whear's Little Jobs.

Tuer has been no explanation of the large amounts paid by the late Government to Mr. John Whear. Many other carpenters sup-

arrival in Summerside that the electien

would cost $10,000. Mr. Davies, in Char- luttetown, at a meeting held there said that it would cost $6,000; here it was reported that it would cost $4,000 more than that. He showed that by holding the elections now that money would be saved, and that the present election would not cost $6,000, nor anything near it. Mr. Sullivan stated the policy of his Government, in an able and exhaustive speech, reviewing the acts of the Davies Government in clinging to eftice when he knew that he had not a ma- jerity in the House, neither having the confidence of the people.

It would be impossible for me to give you a description of Mr. Sullivan’s speech. It was one of the best ever delivered here by our Island politicians. Mr. Sullivan was listened to attentively. There was quite a difference in the way in which he was received by the electors of this place than the last time he addressed them.

A vote of thanks was tendered the chair- man, and the meeting adjourned in an or- derly manner.

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The Burmese Troubles.

The origin of the trouble between the Burmese and the British residents at Man- dalay is that the latter protests and refuses to give up to slaughter two Royal Princes and families,refugees at the Residency. The Kingof Burmah, mad with drink, and urged by fanatics and reactionary party, threaten

ported the Davies Stewart Government; but

Mr. Whear was a Grit, the other mechanics) syres on the were, for the most part, Liberal-Conservatives. Don't you seo how it is?

to force the Sea Such hostile mea-

~ of the Government is be- lieved would be the signal for ageneral mas- secre of Europeans. —

IMMIGRATION, Great GeorGce STREET; CHARLOTTETOWN, Qlat January, 1879.

My Lorp,—For the abruptness of a self introduction, I can only plead the recent utterances of Earl Derby, and his sugges- tions as to one of the best remedies for the ‘present tride depression in England. Please accept the thanks of an humble Can- adian for the idea you have flung into the field of thought. At this time, it 1s, In my |opinion, well worthy the attention of the statesman of England and Canada. Ido not understand much about the Poor House system of the Old World; and, therefore, will not presume to express an opinion upon it. LIopine, however, that, socially and nationally, the outcome is not what a high civilization could desire. At the end of sixty years of hard work, mental anxiety and scant living, the choice between en- feebled exertion and the dernier resort of

verty, isa hard one. rth Great Britain and Ireland there are thousands whom your country can spare without loss. To the Dominion they would be an acquisition ; and if, like Muses, aged parents only saw Pisgah’s heights of even prospective comfort aud plenty in this country for their children, would it not well repay the perils of a trans-atlantic voyage, and the hardships of a few years of pioneer life? Lands—rich, fertile, easy of acquisition and cultivation—we have in abundance ; but, to turn our broad acres into ‘* swelling gardens,” the ‘‘sweat of the brow” is required. We have room in the Dominion for many millions of our British countrymen and countrywomen. Here they could earn a comfortable living and relieve your ‘‘ overstocked labor market” of pressure to which it is unequal. You do not want poor-houses in England; the mines, forests, rivers,and streams of the Do- minion need the men, women and children who, with you, my Lord, are in a fair way of ripening into material for national char- ity. Your idea has my warmest approval, and I trust I will be excused for obtruding upon your Lordship’s attention the ob- servatiun that the present is a most oppor- tune time for the discussion of the question you have raised. With a countryman of my own for Governor General ; one of the Queen’s favorite and popular daughters for his ‘better half” ; an Irishman, laden with our best and kindest wishes, just away from us; the Atlantic, by the aid of steam, turned into a ferry between two continents —with these aids and patronage ought we not to have increased immigration. Delicacy forbids me to speak of your Lordship’s in- fluence in this important matter. To change skies is not now-a-day’s necessarily to change flags. Beehives have their time to swarm; the hive of human industry in- dustry in England requires expansion ; and when you ‘‘speed the parting” emigrant, Canada will bid him ‘‘welcome.” We want the honest and thrifty sons of toil for whom you can fmd no profitable work. Here agriculture .comes first ; and it is at once honorable, sure, and worthy of a freeman. For your surplus population, therefore, my Lord, Canada offers an inviting field for energy and_ indus- try. To-day the British Empire is not England, Ireland and Scotland only ; they but constitue the heart of a nation upon which the sun never sets. The strength of British power in Canada is an important element of Imperial concern. I do not look at it in its military aspects only. With the history of republics you, my Lord, are far better acquainted than I am. Not long since our neighbors across the line made a desperate effort at separation, and will that effort be renewed at some future day, and shall we have a South, a North and a Cali- fornia, west of the Rocky Mountains? Far distant it may be, but in such an event the mistress of the worid ought to be strong, and her immediate power in America ought ta come from Canada. To this end, we want population. With India in a pacific mood, and Australia growing as she is do- iug, England need not fear the face of any foe. How immense the strides of progress from Cesar to Victoria ! For immigrants we promise hard work and its fruit. What these are, I will illu « trate from observation. Some 38 years ago, a small colony of gelic-speaking Highlands came to this Island; their broad-topped Scotch bonnets were the first I ever saw; they settled on forest lands in rear of the early occupiers ; not a house or a barn was there on the 50 or the 100 acres they had to lease; they fished; they felled the forest; they ‘“‘howed” the potatoes and oats into the ground in the spring; and went to oc- casional service during the busy season, with their reaping hooks and scythes, and received their scantgwages in kind. To-day these people and their children are in comfortable-- if not affluent circumstances; neat churchels,chapels and mansessurreunds them; free schools, steam ferries, and commodious Warns afford at once facilities for education, intercourse between town and country, and the safe housing of the products of the soil; sheep, cows, horses and pigs—in fair quantity—dot each pas- ture field ; easy driving wagons in summer —in winter, cosy sleighs, with fur cover- ings ; money, in some cases, in the Savings Bank ; sons and daughters in the teaching profession, spending their evenings, not on the earth or plank floor, but in neatly carpeted parlors—these are some of the changes I have seen in so short a time in Prince Edward Island. ‘*‘ Ab wno disce omnes.” ‘* At home,” many of these peo- people and their children would probably be cofters, tenants at will, or discontented tillers of the soil. Send ts such people to Canada.

My Lord, excuse the intrusion of a hur- riedly written letter upon your attention, and allow me to remain,

Your Lordship’s Most obedient Servant,

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“EALED TENDERS will be received by the Board of School Trustees of Charlotte-

town, at their Secretary’s Office, until

Monday, the 7th Day of April,

next, at twelve o’clock, noon, for the

Erection of a Wooden Building,

as an addition to the Wing of the new School Building on Western Kent Street.

Also, for the erection of a Fence to enclose the grounds in connection with said School Building. Tenders to state the price of the Fence at per foot.

Plans and specifications to be seen at the office of Thomas Alley, Esq., Prince Street, Charlottetown.

Tenders to be marked on the envelope, ‘* Tender for work in connection with Schoo Building.”

Good and approved security will be required |

for the performance of the Contract. The does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

ISAAC OXENHAM, Secretary of the Board of School Trustees of Charlottetown. Office of City School Board, March 22nd, 1879. tapr7

To the Electors of Charlotte- town, Common and Roy- alty :

ENTLEMEN,—Having been nominated

at a large and influential meeting of the Liberal-Conservative party as a candidate for Charlottetown, Common and Royalty for the House of Assembly of this Province, in con- junction with your late representative Mr. George Wastie DeBlois, I solicit your support and influence in behalf of Mr. DeBlois oa my- self at the approaching General Election.

Should you do me the honor of returning meas your representative, I shall consider it my duty to guard your interests in Parlia- ment, by advocating such measures as will most conduce to your prosperity.

In times like the present, of financial and commercial depression, I will advocate mea- sures of economy and retrenchment in every branch of the public service in order to re lieve the taxpayers as much as ible.

Believing that the interests of the mechanies require some consideration at the hands cf the Legislature, I shall deem it my duty to ad- vocate all legitimate measures that will tend to promote their welfare.

I have the honor to be Your obedient servant, NEILL McLEOD. Charlottetown, March 21, 1879.

To the Electors of Charlotte- town, Common and Roy- alty :

G ENTLEMEN,—Having, at a large and influential meeting of the Liberal-Con- servative Electors of Charlottetown, Common and Royalty, been nominated a Candidate for your suffrages at the coming General Election, I have accepted the nomination, and now solicit your support for myself, as also for my colleague, the Honorable Neil McLeod.

In the late Government, as a Free School man, I performed that which I considered to be for the true interests of all classes, by assist. ing to place on our Statute Books a thorouyhl non-sectarian School Act. This Act, althoug it may —like most others —require amendment, has, I am pleased to believe, proved generally acceptable to every class and creed in the Province, and all now cheerfully agree that its non-sectarian principle must be kept in- violate. :

I rejoice that the harsh line of religious party differences has been obliterated, and that all denominations can henceforth stand shoulder to shoulder for the purpose of strivé ing in unison to carry out such measures of economy and retrenchment in the Administra- tion of Governmental affairs as the changed as- pect of commercial and other business matters in the Province have rendered absolutely necessary.

Should I have the honor to be returned to the Assembly as one of your representatives, an object of mine shall be to meet all reason- able and honest endeavors that may be made to lessen the burthen of taxation, which, in the present state of general financial depres- sion, is undoubtedly necessary; and to aid any legitimate legislation that may tend to the well-being of every class in the commun- ity. and particularly of mechanics, who, as a body, through their own magnanimity, have notin the Assembly a representative from among themselves,

I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, a G. W. DeBLOIs. Ch'town, March 20, 1879.--he pres ar ne 2i

13,620 MORE SINGER SEWING MACHINES

SOLD IN 1878 THAN IN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR.

In 1870 we sold 127,833 Sewing Machines. sé 1878 é “ 356,432 sé “<

Our sales have increased enormously every year, through the whole period of ‘‘ hard times.”

We now Sell Three-Quarters of all the Sewing Machines Sold in the World.

Waste no Money on ‘cheap’ Counterfeits.

s@ Send for handsome Illustrated Price List.

ROBERT YOUNG, South Side Queen Square, Sole Agent for P. E. Island, Ch’town, March 18, 1878—2aw tf

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