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protection. A very. safe policy, |

and if you stick toit for any length of time, not very different from that of the Liberal-Conservative Party. (Applause), But Mr. Dav ies Wenton ino that and he amplified

tection. He found some dreadful things and he used VERY STRONG LANGUAGE

in condemning them. He found there was ‘ rmous larguity,” as he called it,

existing tari? ot Canada, of a daty

of lj cents & pound on cleaned rice, and |

only 3-10 of a cent on uncleaned rice im- |

in the

porte i, and this was one of the changes, | One is just as hard to fiud as the other.’

he assured the people, would be made is, |

the tariffof Canada if the Liberal Party | were tv come into power, (Laughter), That duty of 1) cents on rice realized the

enormous sum of $73,000 in 1895 CI am quoting his owa figures), and if amouated | to the sarge sum of 14 cents per head on every man, Woman and child in Canada That is one of the great changes he will cf fect in the tar:tf laughter). Mr. Davies then | took up the question of cordage and kero sene v ie and which he said it were terrible to con template. The duty on kerosene oil iS less thau 14 cents per head of the population. He next came to a subject of very great im- portance, namely,

which he described as in qui ous, |

THE IRON DUT RBs.

This, he said, wrested from the people a Jarye amount of nyoney ame znting to mil- liens, and they were tniguitous in a very of the term, in the way that

eeone Sen wreuny Sense

he uses terms. Without going into a description of these iron duties, we musi bear in mind that the press tele-

grams of the last tour and twenty hours have brought news which appears to glad- @en the hearts of the Liberals al! over the Dominion, and a Mw te ee effect that Sir Oliver Mowat is going to help Mr. Laurier (if Mr. Laurier is strong enough to he'p himeelf) after the election. (Laughter ani applause). Sir Oliver Mowat will take a seat in the Senate al- though there is no vacancy and alihough Mr. Laucier is notin a posit oa to put hin in, and is not very likely to be for many a Jong year. (Laughter) The charming Sir Oliver Mowat has said -o many nice good things for Laurier that the Liberal Party feel in their hearts they havea right to fal! down and wor-hiphim and do everything to please him. But if ne is actually going to enter the Administration, what do you

think will be the load Lhe wll carry when he goes over? Iron bounties. (Hear, hear). Not mercly the duties that Mr.

Davies condemns so strongly as being so burdensome on the people, not merely the

duties the Federal Government exact, not merely the Dominion bounties, but the the Province of Ontarno has added addi-

tional) bounties over and above those of the Federal Government. (Applause). This is the Libera} Party who go the people of Canada and ask them to support them as free traders, and in anotber breath say they wiil not give “undue protection” | (Laughter). Why, their great biz tittle statesman, Mowat, for whom thev say so many good things, would carry to their party the weight of thee great iron duties ephanced and increased beyond what Sir Sohn Macdonald, Sir John Thompson and Sir Charles Tupper ever said they would be. (Applause). Had I time I would go back a iittle and tell yon what I dare say many of you have not entirely forgotten, that the Liberal party have had in their platform in 1891 the big plank of UNRESTRICTED RECIPROCITY.

We heard a great deal about Unorestrict- ed Reciprocity on that occasion. Mr. Davies said that was the policy that would make the people ot P. E Island rich. Sir Richard Cartwright said it would increase the value of all the farm Jands ia Canada by $10 or $1I per head, and it would in- crease the value of every horse in Canada $20. I: was intended to adopt this policy of Unrestricted Reciprocity. I think you will bear me out when [ say that in that campaign of i891 my frierd, Mr. Blake, and myself, in contest.ng the County, took

no middle ground on that question. We told the people that this poliev of Unrestricted Recipro-

city was a bad one. We showed up al! the evils that would follow in its train, and I think we satisfied the people of Queen’s County that it was a tad policy that reduced their majority from 1,000 to 360. (Applause, hear, hear.) Duriag that campaign it began to leak out that the Hon. Kdward Blake, the Leader of their party in the Province of Ontario, did not believe in that po'icy, and he refused to become a candidate in that election, because he wou'd not support the policy of Usre- stricted Reciprocity with the United States. I made that statement at a mecting a@ E'do. during that can piign. Messrs, B ake aud Davies were there,and Mr. Dav es spoke after me, and said it was entirely witsout foundation. “Ferguson is entirely wrong,” he said; “Mr. Blake would take no position like that. Mr. Blake dectined to run his election because he was in bad health; he did not d.ffer at all with our policy.”

I repeated that it was true and Mr. Davies said ke would produce the proof. He brought the proof at the next meeting, submitting a telegram addressed to him by Sir Oliver Mowat in which he assured Mr Davies that Mr. Blake in his address to the electors of West Darham on retiring from the representation declined their nomina‘isn in that election and stated that he had not discussed any politica) question whatever in that contest. Of course Mr, Davies had the better of me. Here was the telegram signed by Mowat. I was from 1,000 to 1,500 miles away, and I was not in a position to do anythiog but accept the explanation. What did we find? Searcely was the election over and the ballots counted when out came the address of the Hon. Edward Blake to the electors of West Durham in which he pointed out, step by step, their policy and

wound up by saying he would prefer going down to his little boat in

silence rather than support Unrestricted Reciprocity, a policy ian which he did not believe. (Great applause). That was kept back during the elections and it came out afier thee'ections were over. (Applause)

The facts became known and the people of Canada found that we bad made the discovery. The Litera! Party abandoned their policy of Uurestricted Reciprocity with the United states. They cannot al- together deny the advocacy of it; but on every occasion they will deny, most indigaautly deny, thet they ever advceated Com” ercial Uuion. Mr. Davies spoke at that Mid tle- ton meeting to which [ have alrealy maie reference, and he said that,—~ - “Commercial Union may be 4& good thing or a bad thing, I will not now discuss it; bat that

tiey has never been advecated by the viberal Party or by any authorized mem- Ler of the Liberal Party.”

Now, with regard to jast confront Mr. Davies statem2at with an extract from @ speech made by himse’f at the Cape Travaree meeting on August 24th 1887 ig Which he made use of the following words:

“ The idea that we would be disloyal to the British flag under Commercial Union was humbug. He, wanted to live under the flag as well as anyone, but he wanted a flag under which he could Jive. (Ap- plaure). The key-note should be struck in the banner Province. Commercial Union means a uniform tariff from the North Pole to the Gulf of Mexico. The Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 he was pre- pared to accept, but ne was afraid the Anericaag were unwilling to concede it. As Commercial Union seemed more easily attained, he was prepared to support it because he believed it would secure to us wealth, peace and happiness.”

The-e are the words of Mr. Louis H. Davies himself, and when we come tocom- pare this statement with that of his Middle tou statement, that commercial union was

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never supported or advocated by the L’ber- al party, or by any authorized member of the Liberal party, we must conclude that his memory is very bad or that he rules himself out of being an authorized mem ber of the Liberal party. (Applause.) While

the Opposition party have been wandering |

asd wabbling on the trade question in ali these different ways, the Liberal-Conuserva

tive party have atood, during twenty years, |

tirmly aod strongly on the

PLATFORM OF THE NATIONAL POLICY.

It became painfullapparentto everyone

in Canada aod the United States before the |

institution of the National Policy, that the |

protective policy was ruining this country. | jation.

The state of the country was deplorab'e in 1878. I could read from the words of Sir Richard Cartwright himself, in his budget

speech, delivered in the House of Commons in 1878, in which he de- plored the state of the country. We

were, he said, poor and not able to buy much, and the reductions in the rev- enue and in the volume of our trade were extraordinary. The Liberal Conservative Party nailed the flag of moderate protec tion to its mast in 1878. Thev went to the country on that policy, aad the people of Canada, from the Atlantic to thie Pacific appreciated the new policy adopted under unusual circumstances, an? they supported it. [In 1882, the Liberal-Con servative Party again went to the peop'e of Canada with the same old flag and the same old National Policy; and the peopl: of the Domirion again sustained them Again, in 1887, the Liberal-Conservative Party went to the country, and so strom: was the National Policy in the «ffction- of the people of the country that it en abled the Party to obtain power in th. face of the racial and other questions that bad been raised by the Liberal Party ir Quebec over the execution of Riel. Again. in 1891, the same banner was unfuried. and once more the Liberal-Conservativ: Party was victorious. And again in 189

same old flig and the same old policy modified, it is true, from time to time, a cording to the ever-changing circumsta: ces of the coustry—whenever ans duty has seemed to have outlived its ase fuine:s or has ceased to foster any grea industry, we have cut offthe mouldering braches But wherever neces*ary w have given moderate protection, not to en- rich combines, but to develop the inda- tries ot our country, and to cause Canada, as you say in one cf the inrcriptions on the wall to-night, to be ‘* Canada for the Canadians.” (Loud applause). REDUCTION OF TAXATION.

But before I leave this question I want to put before youja few simple facts on the trade questions. It is stated that we ure a a very heavily taxed people, The result of the Government’s policy is to bear ns

down with taxes. If you will take the trouble to !ook over the figures yon wil! find we are taxed about three dollars per

head. 1am speaking of the general taxation and customs taxation—less_ thar: the people of free trade England. But this is not all. We maintain a rea- conable duty on articles we manufacture ourselves, and we have thus protected home industries. This has enabled us to provide ample means for revenne pur posse and the carrying on of needful pub- lic works

The Liberal - Conservative Government have, during four years, taken forty mil-

lion dollars off the people by taking taxes off the neces- saries of life. I will

; ; . + } — by anv disruption among our friends. I; could do it because, said he, “thank God, | they make to. keep down boodling an

raid to them, I wanted to bring this about by means of conciliation. I felt for Sir Mackenzie Bowell. He was an honest maa and a statesman, and [ sat by his side in the Senate for two years and observed his actions and felc he was a good and able ; man.But [ felt atthe same time that Sir | Charles was as gooda man and a still ablerman. (Cheers;) I lent myself to the work of conciliation and | gentleman whom I believe should be working for the good of the country in the Cabinet. I succeeded along with some other gentlemen iu bringing about concil- There never was, however, any breach between Sir Charles Tupper aod McKenzie Bowell. There was not such good feeling between Sir McKenzie and some other gentlemen of that Cabinet as there should have been. When he was re-constructing the Cabinet he offered me a portfolio if I would help him and leave our former colleagues out. [ advised him not todo it. In the inte-- esta of Canada and the Party I[ eaid [' would not be a party to disruption. With the aid and jnfluence and advice of Sir Charles Tupper, who was now more fully in touch with us, having lately come int» the country, I felt they could be brought back into the Government, therefore I re- fused to accept a portfolio until an offer, had been extended to these gentle- men. [ said, if they refuse I wiil stand by you and do the very best [ can | for the good government of the country. Phe gentlemen returned. Harmony was! restored in every respect, and the Govern~ , went went-on with ita work. OPPOSITION OBSTUCTION,

Mr. Davies says we did not introduce | the Remedial Bill until the end of Febru: ! sry, and it was not real a gecond time, intil the 17th of March. It was intro-! luced on the llth of February—that is what he called the end of February—and | most valuable work had been put inSbefore then. The debate on the! add ‘ess had taken place. This is usually | @ lung debate, and an important one, more | 9 this year thao ordinarily. This debate j was completed, the Budget Speech given, ' and the debate on that concluded, and this was along and important debate. I do not say Sthere was time lost on it, be- cause before au election it is necessary to

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uave very full discussion of the trade questions in the Budget debate. The Remedial Bill was iutroduced on

the Ilth of February, alihough its final consideration was not reached uatil later. A great deal of time was lost be~ cause the Liberals said that we had met for the purpose of passing that Remedial! Bili aud not for any other business, and they refused to allow business to be ad- vanced stage by stage as 1s always done when the time is ecowomized. One matter after another was brought up, but they refused to allow busmess to proceed. When we moved to go into supply they met us with a motion to adjourn, and day atter day and night after night time was lost on the question of supply, and we were beaten later on in getting the Re- medial Bill through. When it was intro- duced and reached its second reading it gave rise to lunfi discussion, I do not complain of discussion with the Speaker in the chair. It was a necessary and im- portant debate and I do not charge against any man that he did wrong when be took reasonable time to place his views on cord on this important subject, but [ say when the bill was read a second time there still remained five weeks, and one week was enough if the House had done its

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point out in a few -words what these articles are. In 1842 the duty was taken | off tea. The removal of the duty on tea | has from that time down to the present | saved the peeple of Canada in taxes $11,- 034 089. Up to that time, during the Me- | Kenzie administration and during the first few years of the National Policy and Conservative Administration, we had a | duty ontea. But in 1882 this duty, paid by the poor and rich alike, and often more by the poor than the rich, was removed and the saving bas been over eleven mil- lions of dollars. In the same year the duty was taken off coifee and the amount saved to the people of the Douiuvion by that is | $832,5!8. In 1887 the duty was taken off | anthracite coal and the amount saved in taxes was $6,044,355. In 1882 the duty was taken off tin. This is a most import- | ant itemto us, who are so largely engaged in the lobster industry, and son | I hope we are going to have other im- | portant canning industries. The amount saved by this was $1,465,103.

In short, we have taken off duties amounting in the last five years to $19,- | 891,995. The duty on bill stamps was | taken off in 1882. They still have that | duty in free trade England. The saving | thus accomplished was $3,267,388. The / tax on newspapers was taken off in 1884, | and $613,864 in taxes saved there. In 1899 the duty was taken off molasses, or | reduced, and this amounted to $335,775. | The duty was taken cff window glass, | amounting to $185,980. Altogether, the grand total of duties taken off the neces- saries of life, and articles auch as news- | papers and bill stamps,is $43,631,027. Alto- yether about twenty-seven of the essentials of life have been taken off the dutiable list Curing these years under the National Policy.

THE CRISIS.

‘My friend, Mr. Davies, said a good deal | with recard to the crisis in January, and he said a vumber of things which I will not characterize as being actually incor- rect or untrue, but to be explaised by that extraordinary faculty he ‘Sas for paraphrasing the sayings of other people, and at the same time thinking he ie doing justice. (Langhter.) He said some seven | of Sir Mackenzie Bowell’s colleagues hal separated from him and explained that they did it because he was an old foo! and an inibecile, and that in consequence of their action a great deal of delay occurred, and in consequence of that delay the

Zemedial bill was not passed. I do not think there is any considerable number of people in this city who will believe or aceept very much of that, The unfortan- ate crisis that occurred in January, and which was mostly due to misunderstaad- ing, consumed one week of time. When the House meton the 7th of January, after an adjournment, this question had presented itself, and on the 14th of Janu- ary the Government was again reconstruct- ed and there had been lost just seven days, only four of which were working days fur the House of Commons. So there were only four working days lost. (Applause. )

HIS OWN POSITION.

It is due, I think, speaking to you for the first time after my return, that I should explain my own position at that time. The Leeder, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, is a man for whom [entertain a great dealof re- spect—I might say affection; but I felt in my heart that there was one man in Canada and one only more fit to lead the party to victory and that was Sir Charlies Tupper, But I

| country to address himself earnestly and

| intermerminable | No sooner did

| the obstructionists could speak on that

| would go in and speak again, and time

| supplies had been voted.

| running until the lst of July, and as a

| launched this troublesome question on

arena of Dominion politics. They | had brought up a __ troublesome question _—_—‘for the people of Canada and ever since there has been

best in perrecting the details of that bill. When a majority of the House—a consid- erable majority ~had declared in favor of that bill, I say It was the duty of every man who loved his

carefully to the perfection of the details of that bill and do what he could to make it etter, and if it was defective he should try to remedy the defects. I will not say that the bill had no defects. Day after day and night after night speeches were made, the Hou-e go into Committee than a member would move that the Committee rise and then

there would be a motion to the obstructionists

and then adjourn and again

was waste }: not in relevant discussion but in in obstruction, until finally the time had so passed and the 15th day of April had come, and it was then apparent that no time was left to complete the remain ing clauses of the bill. ‘The e were 80 or 90 clauses still to be considered, and no The conse- quence would be very serious to the country were Parliament closed on the 24th of April without money being voted tocarry on the various services, So the Government was forced to abandon the bill, and try to pass such necessary supplies as would keep the public service

result of theextraordinary conduct of these gentlemen the Remedial Bill was not passed, and other important measures could not be advanced.

THE LIBERAL PARTY BLAMEARLE.

It was the conduet, in the first place, of the Liberal party in Manitoba that

' fighting over it. Elements as widely differ- ent as possible combined in condemning the Government for having sent the ques- tion to the court. Mr. Tarte would rise and move a resolution, and Mr. Dalton

McCarthy would speak and _ vote in favor of it. Men who pro- fessed to ~ hold views exactly oppo-

site to each other, were one in their policy of striring up opposition on the question. They had saddled a diffleulty on the Gov- ernment, and demanded why not manfully take that difficulty upand settle it. When the bill came befare the House what did we find? We found that in the Gpposition there was every shade of opinion. Me- Carthy objected, not because it was pre- mature. He said everybody who had eyes to see andears to hear knew the facts. He opposed it because he wanted to extirpate the French Janguage, and force a certain kind of schools on the people of every creed and race. That was the view he took, and Mr. Geoffrein and Mr. Tarte opposed it becanse it did not go far enough. They wanted the Parlia- ment to pay Over & part of the reveoue of Manitobafor the support of separate school. They complained because Catbolic- would have a voice as to whether their cuildren should go to the public or separate schools, They said that was interfering with the

bringing about a reunion of these |

Laurier did?

we have no Orangemen among us, the Liberals,” Tius we have the Liberal party using those shameful tactics, one section inciting the people of Quebec to demand more than the law and constitution would allow them; another wing trying to raise sectional end racial feelings by poin ting oe tdem that the Government were | giving away to the hierarchy i: Quebec. Thus by iaciting prejudices as widely sep- | araated as these to fight together to pre- , Venta settlement they are trying to drive the Conservative party from power. That

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corruption. That isthe way to decid A GOOD HOPE.

From this platform on, Thursday last Mr. Davies said that for the first time ir & great many vears he went into the con test with a good hope of success. But you

kenzie and Blake and Laurier were carry- ing the banner of victory from the Atlan- tic to the Pacific, and that the Tories were going to be downed on every side. Then in 1891, he had

is their whole otject. So intent and so anxious are they for power that they have resorted to all kinds of schemes. They have resorted to this obstruction, to all ' these different methods and means of ob- struction in the hope of gaining the sup port of the Protestants on the one side,

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and the French Catholics on ihe other. In one place they cry out be- cause we have gone so far, and

in another, because we have not gone far enough. This shows what kind of men they are and what kind of meu their leaders are. You remember some months ugo—some time in last year—thata young {rishman named Shortis shot some people

in the town of Valleyfield, in the county of Beauharnois. He was tried, found guilty and sentenced

t» be hanged, ani the Governor-General acting within the lines of the Constitution, commuted the sentence to imprisonment for life. Two of the mem shot were French-Canadians, and a very consider- able feeling existed between the Irish there and the Freoch-Canadians with re- gard to this matter. The French people became excited, and held meetings, reviv- ing the memory of the Riel execution. Not- withstanding the plea of insanity, demagogues aroused them to a white heat. What do you think the Hon. Wilfred This man, of whom so many grand things are said, this beautiful white man of the Liberal Party, the Leader of that Party! (Laughter). He takes Israel Tarte and goes to Beauharois and plants him as a candidate, and tries to get him elected on the ground of the commutation of the sentence of Shortis. The law they said favored an Irishman, and his se tence was commuted, and there not being many Irish in the county of Beau- harnois, Mr. Tarte went down and tried to make political out of it. Mr. Tarte had been driven out of every respectable con stituency, and never showed himself « second time after being once elected. He is now the candidate trying to defeat the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Bergeron, on the question of whether it was proper to com- mute this centence of death on this man Shortis,

SCANDALS.

The Opposition bave issued a campaign sheet and it is devoted to scaudals—some terrible things done by Conservatives. There is the McGreevy scandal, the Curran Bridge scanda', tie Soulanges Canal and the Tay Bridge anda number of otLer things. There are a great mary charges against Sir Adolphe Caron and Hon. Jobn Haggart. Lwant justto say this: Mr. Haggart is the only gentleman who is now a member of the Cabin:t wo is charged with wrong doing.

Mr. Haggart is charged with some con- nection with the Section B contrast of the Canada Pacifi: Railway in 1879, many years before he became a member of the Parliament of Canada. That charge was never preferred until the 21st of September L891, at the close of a six months’ session After Parliament had been in sess‘on all summer investigatng one charge after another, Parliament refused to go into committee, and from that time to the pre-

sent it has never been referred to by a member of Parliament, and Mr. Hag- gart has always been ready to meet it. He has been elected four or five times to Parliameut, since the alleged wrong doing = and

no man has ever bronght it forward since Mr. Lister did in 1891, when Parliament could not wait to investigate the charge. | am going to deal with this question in this way. I do not claim during the time the Conservatives have been in power that every one of their men have been pure, that there has beeu noth~ ing wrong. I make no such claim. If such a thing could happen, you would calculate you had not human beings, but

perfect angela, Task you is there anybody

in this community who wotld undertake to handle $48,000,000 of money, and _fiad that nota dollar had gone wrong, that no rervant had misappropriated a dollar, and that no contract had gone wrong. It is plain, so long as we have fallible human beings something will go wrong, acd [ do not claim that the Liberal-Coaser- vative party has not made mistakes, The best politicians make mistakes ; the public records show it. And Ido not contend that the Liberal party are all lack sheep —that they are all corrupt. I take no such position, There are honorable men among them. They have good and bad, as we have. The best test is how do they treat their boodlers? I ask you to look at what the Liberal Consqgvative party have done. Sur Hector Langevin held an exalted position, bat charges were made against him. No- thing was proven to seriously affect him, but something had gone wrong in the de- parlmeot under him and he was pashed out of the Liberal Coaservative Cab net.

He had to get out. In the same way charges were made against Sir A lolphe Caron. These charges have been proven. His opponents did not come to confront him still they insi-t in making these charges and have filled a great deal of this wholesome, this,beautif .! pamphlet with aspersions agaicst Caron which they had not the manliness to come for

ward and support. But Carou has left the administration. He is not a member of the Government.

I ask you, gentlemen, how the Govern~ ment acted in the case of Thomus Mce- Greevy. He had been a valuable public man. But the moment the was found to be connected with tho-e transactions, Sir John Thompson was the man who rose in his place and moved that his supporter should- be expelled from Parliament. (Cheers). When the member for the Niagara District, (Mr. Rykert) was found to be mixed ap in some disreputable tran- saction, he also was expelled. I say that whenever the government fourd a man who was connected in any way with fraud or corruption he was immediately put aside. Have the Liberal Party a record like this? Lovk at Mecier the late leader of the the Grits of Quebec; he who plundered over $300 000, most of which was spent to help the Liberals in the Dominion Election of 1891, and after all this he was returned as leader of the

rights of the Catholics, that they had ro right to have any voice in the matter. And then we have Mr. Laurier declaring in Chicoutimi that when he came into power he would see that his compatriots in the

province of Manitoba should hav: their.

did not want to bring the change about

rights restored to them, and he eaid he

party and he died in the Liberal ranks. A club in Quebec is called after him, and a monument is being erected to perpetuate thenameof the man whowas without doubt the greatest bood!er the country has ever

fixed on, the Liberal party were secure the reins of power. He declared that he himself was going to be elected by 1860 of a majority. He now says that for the first time in many years he is going in with the idea that the Liberals are geing to be suc- cessful. (Loud applause.) I feel almost sorry to have to puncture his hopes. From what I learn from the accounts that have come to me, I feel. that the Conservative party are going forward tothe greatest victory ever achieved in Canada. (Loud applause.) I feel that the people of this country, whether French or English, Catholic or Protestant, no watter what race or creed they belong to, are intelligent enough to record their votes in favor of the party that will stand by them and their rights, who are marching steadily forward to build up our industries and make

world. (Great applause.)

Short. stirring addresses were then de- ivered by Dr. Jenkins, Mr. Hackett, Mr. IHunt, Mr. Martin and Mr. A.C. Me- Donald.

The meeting broke up at twelve o’clock amid cheers for the Minister and cheers for the Candidates. es

Supreme Court.

Tuesday, May sth.

Burdett, appellant, ys. Alchorn, res- pondent. Ross appelant, vs. Alchorn, respondent. Smith, appelant, vs. Al chorn, respondent. Rotchfort, appel- lant, vs Alchorn, respondent. ‘These were four appeals from four convictions made “by Hedley V. Pal- mer, J. P. for Queen’s County, for alleged malicious injury to property, and were heard together. The Court, after hearing the evidence of the re- spondent, stated that there was no evidence whatever to sustain the con- victions, and therefore it was unneces- sary to call on the appellants for their defence, and convictions were quashed with costs against the respondent. Attorney General Peters and Stewart, Q. C., for the appellants, and Morson, Q. C., for the respondent.

Wednesday, May 6th. Peter Doyie, vs. Felix Martin and ano.—Mr. W. S. Stewart, who was summoned as the agent of the defend- ants, was examined and discharged with costs. McLean, Q. C., for plain- tiff. Hugh McInnis and wife ys. the City of Charlottetown. — Mr. Mathieson shows cause against rule for a non- suit. McLean, Q. C., with him. Haszard, Q. C., for the city.

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PERSONAL. _ Rev. P. J. Hogan, of Tracadie, was in the city last evening.

= dward Hackett, Esq., Tignish, is a guest at the Hotel Davies.

Mr. J. H. Myrick is here from Boston. He is registered at the Hotel Davies.

Mr. Dennis Murphy, of Souris, is in the city, He is registered at the Davies.

Wm. Campbell, Esq., Sea View, is in town, He is registered at the Hotel Davies. Rev. Dr. McMillan, of Cardigan, arrived in the city last evening, and left for home again this afternoon,

Richard Hunt, Esq., Chairman of the Sum- merside Town Council, is among the guests at the Hotel Davies.

Mr. F. X, Berlinguet, architect for the new St. Dunstan's Cathedral, arrived here Jast evening, and registered at the Queen, Meesrs. Henry and Samuel Lowe, of this city, retarned last evening from a trip to Bostov and New York.

Messrs. H. A. Bayfield, T. A. McLean, jr. and Colin and Wm. Ferguson, students at McGill University, arrived home last evening:

O., WAS ® passenger in the western ex- press last evening, on return from a busi- ness trip to Nova Scotia,

Mr. James Barrett of this city, left for Buc- touche yesterday morning to see about his schooner, the Confederate, which is being re- paired at that place, ahd also to purchase his supply of lumber from the mainland.

Mr, P. Paguet, of St. Hyacinthe, Que., one of the contractors for the new Roman Catholic Cathedral, arrived here last evening, accompanied by his foreman, J. B. A. Pay- ette, and the latter’s son, They are register- ed at the Queen Hotel,

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F. E. Island Fish Report.

_ Lobsters and herring good. Malpeque her- ring light, owing to windy weather. Alberton herring reported fairly plentiful in all sections this district, and schooling at North Cape. Lobsters were taken in fair quantities whose gear was in order.

Cee P. E. Island Electric Co

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Stockholders of the above Company will be held at their office in Charlottetown on WEDNESDAY, the 13th day of May next, A. D. 1896, at the hour of 12 o’clock, noon. Dated 27th day of April, A. D. 1896. JAMES WADDELL. ap28—246 t) dtte Superintendent.

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