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VOL, 9. BRITISH AMERICA

Assurance Company.

FIRE AND MARINE.

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Cash Capital & Assets . $1,176,491.45,

INCORPORATED 1835,

Head GOilice, - Toronto, Ont. * vine

)Risks taken on all descriptiofis of Property at-lowest rates.

PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF LOSSES. HORACE HASZARD, Agent,

Oflice, South Side Queen Square. Suly 10, 1879.

UNION HOUSE,

Queen Street, Charlottetown. Pp. P. CILLIS, . . | “PROPRIETOR. CHOICEST WINES & LIQUORS. NEW YORK LAGER BEER.

ABLES set at all hours,-with every luxury of the season. Frese Oysters received daily. Rooms large and comfortably furnished. Coacues from this House meet all Trains and Steam boats. First Cl:ss Barper Sitop. July 4, 1879-— 3m

LORNE HOTEL, TRACADIE. BEACH, NORTH SHORE P. E. I.

This new and pleasantly situated Hotel is now open, and will be found the

Best Summer Resort ON THE ISLAND.

{t can be reached from the City twice a day inv Rail to Bedford, or by carriage; ” distance 13 miles, or one-and a-half hours’ drive.

s will find that every care has been jtaken to provide for their comfort 7 and pleasure,

‘PRICES MODERATE.

gar Special Arrangements may be mad:

or Families. SYRUS TAY,

MANAGER, MAGLEAN & MARTIN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Newson’s Building, Opp. Post Office, Charlottetown, P. E. 1.

A, A. McLEAN. BD. C. MARTIN. June ¥$, 1879..—ex 2aw .

DR. P. W. &. CANNING,

Licentiate Royal Colleges Physicians and Suryjeons of Edinburgh.

LICENTIATE MIDWIFERY. RESLDERCE :

Upper Hillsborough St., corner Hillsborough and Euston Streets, Charlottetown. OFFICE HOU RS : 8:30 toll a.m.; 7 to 9 p.m.

Charlettetow n, June 24, 1879, —eod

QUEEN INSURANCE CO.

OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING,

NSURANCE: effected on all kinds of Build- I i Merchandise and Produce, Also, on Vessels on the stocks. :

Special rates for isolated residences,

Losses settle promptly.

GEORGE MACLEGD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island Jane, 1877—

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PHOTOGRAPHS !

MUGFORD, Sole Licensee for Lambert’s Patents for

Permanent Photographs, for City and » ‘ ueen’s County.

‘THEY NEVER FADE, "as the old Photographs do. ALL THE OLD SORTS HALF PRICE

RICHMOND STREET, Opposite London House — David Wilsorg: OlL Stand.

P. §.—To rhe TRADE. —Photogra hers wish- ing to supply their Customers with Permanent

Pictures, can get their Printing and Enlarging done at reasonable Prices from their own Negatives.—Sample, 25 cts, 35 cts, 60 ws

‘town, May 16, 1879—3m law dy & wkly

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At Unusually Low Prices.

Competition. Charlottetown, June 30, 1879.

day, $10 50 per week. To get to the Seaside H

5.25 p. m. p.m. Coae Moderate—distance between

9 o'clock, on Thursday and Monday morning.

July Sth, 1879.—2m. pat. & arg.

—AND—

PiC-NIG SUPPLIES !

—AT—

BEER & GOFF’S

Raspberry, and Pine Apple Syrup

Sold in bottles and by the gallon.

Plain and Faney Biscuits, Sold in Boxes & Bbls. and by the pound.

Lemon,

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Iceing Sugar, Raisins, Currants, Pastry Flour, Essence of Cotfee, Confectionery, Nuts, Oranyes, Potted Ham, Drivelled

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BRITISH WAREHOUSE

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Meet the Hard

TEA PARTY |

Ham, Potted Tongue, &e BEER & GOFF

June 23, 1879.

~ FURTHER REDUCTION

IN PRICE OF

Albion Mines (Pictou, N. 3.) SLACK COAL.

LACK and ROUND COAL can bow be

obtained at the above mentioned Mines. Slack Coal, only $1.30 per toms Round

Coal, $2.00. For orders, apply to G. W. DreBLOIS, Sole Agent for P. E. Island.

Orrics; No. 35 Water street.

~ TENDERS.

TEXENDERS will be received by this Depart- ment at Charlottetown, up to the 8th ot August next, for carrying the annual supplies to and bringing the empty oil casks of the pre- vious year from the Lighthouses, a list of which can be obtained at the Departments Office, The vessel must be of good class, well found, and not less than forty tons register. Address to the undersigned, and mark on the outside, ‘‘ Tenders for Carrying Supplies. * Tne Department is not bound to accept the lowest or any tender. WILLIAM MITCHELL, Agent of Dept.

Dept. of Marine, Charlottetown, { he 30, 1879—her ar pres sieod tl Sth

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As we intend to make a change in our business at the end of the year, we are now closing out our

Large and Well-Assorted Steck of

Lee. GOODS

Which, we are Sure, Will} Times,

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Dress Goods from 6 cents upwards. Grey Cottons from 4 cents upwards. Prints from 6 cents upwards. Hemp Carpeting from 12 cents upwards. Tapestry from 59 cents upwards. Brussels from $1.00 upwards. All other lines we are closing out at Prices that Defy

& A. BROWN.

SEASIDE HOTEL

RUSTICO BEACH, P. E. ISLAND.

PANUE ABOVE BEAUTIFUL WATERING PLACE HAS BEEN MUCH IMPROVED this Season and is now open for the accommodation of Guests.

For UHARMING SCENERY, INVIGORATING and BRACING ATMOSPHERE, and

splendid surf Bathing, this Hotel has no equal mn the Dominion, Term: Special arrangements made for Families, Pic-nic Parties, &c. otel : get tickets from all points for Hunter River. BY TRAIN :—Trains leave Ch’town for Hunter River at 6.20 a. m. ; 10.05 a. m3 and Trains leave Summerside for Hunter River at 9.05 a. m. ; 12.40 p. m.; hes meet trains from all points and convey passengers to the ‘‘Seaside.” Charges 7 and 8 miles, through a beautiful country.

BY COACH, DIRECT :—Coaches leave. Ch’town Wednesday and Saturday evenin gs calling for Guests at all points in City limits at 6 o'clock.

Terms, $2.00 and $2.50 per

and 5.30

Returning arrive at Ch’town about Fare, $1.25, distance 154 miles. Address :

JOHN NEWSON & Co, Ci’town.

FIRE! FIRE!

TEYRGUAS COOK, Photographer,

tormerly of Boston, and whe was burnt out at Fraser’s Corner last March, has re cently opened

A FIRST-CLASS STUDIO

At LePage’s Corner, Opposite W. A. Werxs & Co’s, where he will be glad to see all his old customers, and as many new ones as feel disposed to assist him with their patronage. With his new im- provements he is turning out work superior to anything heretofore made in the city. All the latest styles of pictures made, Photographs, Procelains, ‘Tin-types, and the beautiful Photo-Cromo. Copies made from old Fic- tures, enlarged or reduced to any desired size, finished in ink, crayon, oil or water colors. Special attention paid to children. <A large assortment of Frames always in stock, mottoes and motto frames. Prices moderate.

Entrance next door to Owen Cornolly’s (Jueen Street ; also entrance on Sydney Street. July 23—6in wed and sat

CAIN ADA.

w!EALED TENDERS, addressed to the

undersigned at St. John, N. B., and en- dorsed on the envelope, ‘‘ TENDER FOR NE “4 LONDON WORKS,” will be received unti

Saturday, the 16th day of August next,

i for the construction of Works.at NEW LON.

DON, Queen’s County, P, E. Island, accord- ing to a Plan and Specification to be seen on application to Dr. McNeill, Stanley Bridge New London, from whom forms of tender may be obtained.

No tender will be consideréd unless made on the printed forms supplied; and, in the case of firms, except there are attached the actual signature, occupation, and Post Office address of each member of the same.

To each tender must be attached the actual signature, occupation, and Post Office address ot two solvent persons, residents of the Do- minion, willing to become sureties for the carrying out of the conditions of the contract, as well as the due performance of the works.

The department <loes not, however, bind it- self to accept the lowest or any tender.

By order, HENRY F. PERLEY, Engineer in charge. St. John, N. B., July 29, 1879— a pres h sp eod i

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CHARLOTLETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1879,

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NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

MONTREAL.

Montreat, Aug. 4. The four market is quiet but steady. The excitement over the supposed loss of the steamer ‘‘Canada,” which left here on an excursion trip to Quebec on Saturday and started on the return trip at 6 o'clock yes- terday but has not yet arrived, has been intense : Rumors of her being burned and only 37 saved were current, until telegrams were received this afternoen that she had broken her shaft in Lake St. Peter. She arrived to-night all safe.

A meeting of a private charavter was held this afternoon to consider the propriety of presenting a testimonial to the late Lieutenant Governor Letellier.

Ortrawa, Aug. 4.

Hon. Dr. Blanchet is expected to return to Canada abeut the Ist of September.

Thirty-seven tendors were received for the Manitoba section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The lowest tender is said to have been in the vicinity of $580,000.

Hon. Mr. Langevin is expected to return to the city to-morrow.

The contract for the transportation of 4,900 steel rails, now arriving at Montreal by the ‘‘Sardinian,” was on Saturday closed by Hon. J. H. Pope with the North-West Transportation Co., represented by Mr. Henry Beatty, the Manager. Mr. Beatty left town by the p. m. train for Mentreal to make immediate arrangements.

TERRIFIC STORM IN ENGLAND. Lonpon, Aug. 4.

The severest storm known here for years raged in various parts of England, espec- ially in the valley of the Thames, on Satur- day night. The storm was attended by hailstones, some of which were five inches in circumference. ‘The damage to crops in places around Londen amounts to thou- sands of pounds. The storm has caused immense injury to the crops. The damage by rain, hail and inundation will be irre- parable this season. he loss of live-stock is serious. In the Great Park of Bedford- shire the hay crops were swept “away and many cattle were drowned. Newmarket and the neighborhood was flooded. The rain fall in Buckinghamshire is estimated at seventy tons per acre. Damage by floods and lightning is also reported from Cambridge, Norfolk, Guiiferd, Leicester, Bath and Monmouth.

THE ZULU WAR OVER. Port Dunrorp, July 13. } via Lonpon, Aug. 4. § Cetewayo, when leaving the battlefield of Ulundi, told his chiefs to look to, their own safety, and to seek terms of peace as best they could. His army is broken up, the nation is dispersed, and the King a fugi- tive. Zululand will probably be divided into three or four separate principalities, each under the rule of an independent Noble. Cetewaye’s brother, Oham, will re- ceive his own territory under this arrange- ment. Lonpon, Aug. 4. The dispatcbes of special correspondents in South Africa agree that the capture of Cetewayo is all important, because as long as he is free he will remain the centre of conspiracy and mischief. General Wolseley, however, has no intention of pursuing him with British troops, as the nature of the country renders such a ceurse impractic- able. His policy rather is to stir up the neighbering tribes against the King. Agents have been sent to the Swazies and Amatongas with this object in view, and 5,000 cattle have been offered to Oham if he will capture his brother. One telegram even says thas a price has been placed upon Cetewayo’s head,but this seems an exagger- ation. General Wolseley in an address to a number of chiefs on July 12th, informed them that he _ had no desire to take any of their terri- tory, but Cetewayo was a fugitive and coi ld never more be king. Gen. Wolseley had summoned all the native chiefs to meet him at Emangwene, about nine miles north of Umlatoosi River, July 19th, to hear his final words of settlement. The chiefs who were present at the meeting July 12 declared that the Zulu nation had now no head and they wished to have no more black kings, but would prefer John Dunn for king. They promised to bring all the chiefs of the coast districts to the Emangwene meeting, but these tribes do not constitute the most warlike part of the nation.

MIDNIGHT DESPATCHES.

: Saratooa, N. Y., Aug. 4.

About 6,000 invitations have been issued to Bankers to attend the National Conven- tion which meets here to-morrow.

PererssurG, Va. Aug. 4.

On Friday a double murder occurred in Sussex County, which resulted in the death of a mother, and her infant. James Rose (colored), a farmer, of the above named County, came to Petersburg on Friday morning. During his absence his house was visited by a woman to whom he was fer- merly married but afterwards forsoek to take up with another woman named Maggie Finns, by whom he had a child. The forsake. woman was accompanied by a negro man. On arriving at the house the man shot Finns through the head, killing her instantly, while the infants head was chopped of with a spade by the enraged woman. This double murder was first dis- covered late on Saturday when Rose return-

ed home.

NO. 65

Correspondence.

ms We do not hold OUT Re les ve snonsibl for

; ° Sant ° 7 hy staements or Oninions Oo} our corresponde nts, ° *

Letter rom the Inspector.

Souris, August 4. Editor Hxvaminer.

Drak Siz,— Here, while on a tour of in- spection of our Island Fisheries, a copy of the Examiner, of the date of Ist inst., has fallen inte my hands and in it i find a letter from ‘‘Cedfish, North Lake,’ commenting op a communication signed 8. D, I’., that 1 have not yet seen. Having the strongest objection against rushing into print on trivial pretext, I would not, and should not, have noticed the letter—notwithstand- ing that my name is mentioned—had not ‘Codfish” brought forward in the form of an opinion, a belief that has been frequently putin the shape of a question to me during the few briei weeks | have held oflice ; ‘how can our Island (inland) fisheries be- long to the Dominion Government when we have never legislated them away /”

Will the enquiring public pardon a mere layman like myself trying to make the mat- ter as clear as I can to the general public ?

The explanation is more historical than legal, that is to say than Legislative.

Let us go no further back than the Nor- man conquest—that base of rock from which the British Constitution, under which we live, has, in the course’ of cen- turies, grown. By right of conquest, the kingdom of England became the personal property of Norman William,—field and forest, fish, fur and feather, land and water, and, (as was said by another William, the Lion of Scotland), ‘‘ all above ye earth to heaven, and all below ye earth to h—1” were his own individual and personal pro- perty. The Nerman was liberal and gave away most of his realm of England. Some- times he gave away his rights of water ‘and forestry, and sometimes he did not. Where he did not give thera away, those rights of conquest still belong to him, or, at least, to the Sovereign his successor.

Now, pray, observe that no assumption of power, short of a revolution, can abro- gate the Rights of the King, unless by the king’s consent. Twice, it has been done as, for instance, by the Barons at Runny mede, when they extorted magna charta, which dvcument (if my memory serves me; expressly deals with the question of forests and streams. But, asa general thing, the Crown, like our mutual friend Jack Fal- staff, renders no reason on compulsion. It follows that a right of the King, not ex- pressly conveyed away by the King, re- mains a right inherent in the Crown.

An inherent zight is not lost by being held over until a convenient season shall occur to exercise it. 1 could bring forward a familiar illustration that would be readily understood by everybody, but as it is rather too familiar I refrain. Suffice it to say, that in the settlement of Colonies—the King never divests himself of his land, highways, and rarely or never,—‘‘ hardly ever ”’—of his waterways. I know but one instance in this Province where the owner ef lands, through which runs a salmon stream, claims that his ancester had a grant of the soil of waterway from King George.

Your correspendent from North Lake, is therefore right when he says that our river fisheries do not belong to the Dominion Government. They do not. They belong te the King (Queen. )

Why then does the Dominion Govern- ment make regulations for these waterways if they do not belong to it! It does so because the Canadian administrative power acts in the matter, not in virtue of special] legislation, but as the King’s ‘‘ steward of streams” or ‘‘ water-bailiff of the Crown,” and, as such, exercises ‘* jurisdiction of the King ” in like manner, as the steward of an absentee proprietor administers the freehold of his absent master. And thereason thatthe Do ninion, and not the P. E. IL. Government now admunisters,is that an agreement written in general terms, and called the British North American Act, to the effect that Canada, and not P. E.1., should act as steward of the Crown in Imperial matters, was agreed to by the parties concerned, and to this agreement P. E. I. voluntarily set her hand and seal.

This explanation is rather long and some- what pragmatical, but it may serve asa subject of research.

Before closing, let me put another matter properly before the public and ‘* Codfish ” (of whom we may safely say, in the words of Trinculo, ‘‘ This is no fish but an Island- er”), namely, that the Fish and Game So- ciety, although not adverse to, is ouiside of and not in any way afliliated with the action of the Dominion Gevernment in re- gard to the Island fisheries. While per- sonally pleased to see any number of gen- tlemen associating with the laudable object of protecting our much-abused Island streams, my duty, as a public officer, clearly points out to keep myself altegether inde- pendent of individual or associated influ- ence. Yours, truly,

J. Hunrer Dvevar, I. of F.

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The sanitary authorities in Ireland are beginning to put the law into operation with the view of preventing the spread of infection caused by the custom of holding wakes. A man has been prosecuted by the Dublin Public Health Committee for hold- ing a wake on the body of a child who died of small-pox,

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