THE DAILY EXAMINER.

MAY 14, 1887.

Election of Water Commis- sioners.

The

Ts important matter is now to be con- Candidates will be nominated on take

sidered.

the 30th inst. and the election will place on the 6th June. All the proceedings in respect to the nomination and election will be taken just as in the election of the Mayor of the city, os select and elect the right men is 4 duty of the utmost consequence ; for upon

the result of the election depends the effi

cient and economical construction and management of the water works. Among those whom we have heard sug-

gested as eligible candidates, and able and discreet men to undertake the business, are Chomas Handrahan, Wil A. Weeks, W. E. Dawson,

William Dodd,

Lewis Carvell, liam Heard, W

. > , ° ‘os r (,eorge R. Beer, George

Peake, Lemuel Poole, Charles Palmer, John Ings, F. T. Newbery, Owen Con- nolly, William Findley, H. J. Cundall,

John Newson, Doctor McLeod. lack of

Certainly there is no capable

But will they run /

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Arbor Day.

men

‘‘Some day in May should be set apart by the ‘lrustees of every school throughout the Isiand for the purpose of planting shade trees, making flower beds, and otherwise improving and beautifying the school grounds.” (Sec. 83 Regulations Board of Education. )

Tue Superintendent of Education has named Wednesday, the 18th inst., the day set apart by the Arbor Society, as the day

be observed by the schools throughout the Island for planting shade trees and making other improvements to their school Should the school

tricta find this day unsuitable, any other

grounds. any of dis-

day in May can be chosen according to the above regul ation.

There are many ways suggested for celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee, and we think if special attention were paid this year to the work required to be per the Arbor Society,

formed by citizens

of Charlottetown and the Island generally, would be contributing to a more important, more beneficial, and more lasting celebra- tion than any yet suggested. If the energies of our citizens were on the 18th inst. bent on assisting the Arbor Society tu improve and beautify our streets and squares, they would, no doubt, be able at future years to look back with pride on the result of the efforts put forth by them in Queen Vic- toria’s Jubilee year 1887. Sir William Youngs Will

Tue wil! of the late Sir William. Young has been filed in the Probate Office, Huli- fax, and for several days has been the chief topic of conversation in that.city. The

estate it valued at about $350,000. Sir William kas bestowed about one half of this l.rge sum on works of charity. He founds

a benefaction to be known as ‘“‘Sir Williain Young's benevolent and charitable fund, by which each of the following societies of

Halifax receive $10,000, viz.: The North British Society, Infants’ Home, Deaf and Dumb Institution, School fur the Blind,

Home for the Aged, Protestant Industria! School, Visiting Dispensary, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Charitable Irish Society, and the Halifax Sailors’ Home. The private bequests are numerous. Dalhousie College and Wil- liam Young, grandnephew of the deceased, are residuary legatees, and as such will each receive about $70,000. Besides this the fortunate namesake is given $12,000 tuo buy a farm. No praise can be too great for such unstinted muniticence. While at once an able statesman, a keen lawyer, an and impartial judge and thorough business man, Sir William was a true lover of literature and art, and a most bene- volent and generous hearted man. Such a close to such a life is truly magnificent. The true benefactors of our country are few ; let us keep their memoies green.

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+ Ao te Memorial Service.

\ SPECIAL service in memory of the late Bishop of Nova Seotia, was held in St Joha's Church, Crapaud, last Sunday. A very large congregation was present. The hymns sung were very appropriate and the whole service was deeply impressive. The rector, in his sermon, spoke of the late Bishop's life and work, his powerful intellect and rare scholarship, the difficulties that met him at the outset of his episco- pate,the obstacles that again and again were overcome y his idomitable zeal and deep sense of duty. The firmness and determin- ed spirit of the deceased prelate, his unim- peachable integrity, the energy and ‘vigor which he dispiayed in furthering the best interests of the Church, his loyalty to her teachings and to Catholic truth has placed his diocese in the first rank in the Province of Canada. The church endowment fund, the fund for aged clergymen, the fund for widows and orphans of the deceased clergy, the Board of Home and Foreign missions, the establishment of the Synod -— the many handsome and churchly edifice found in every part of thes diocese, the high standing of King’s College, the growth of the church in the diocese, the

mereased number of the clergy and the} growing liking for unadulterated and un-| diluted Bible Truth as held by the Church | of which Bishop Binney was ‘so exalted a dignitary, are some of the evidences that | God was indeed with him. In the hearts! of all the clergy who knew him there is a| deep feeling of reverence and love, and though grieving over their loss are resivned by the thought that, **Right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of His Saints.” The sermon concluded with a compirison between’ the Church in other provinces and the feeble state of the church on the Island and an appeal to all, while being warned of the uncertainty of life, to show more Zeal and love for the church, to put forth more earnest Christian effort, to do every allotted work that God's name may be clorified and stuly syed:

'cent.; formerly 35 per cent.

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‘THE DAILY EXAMINER, - ~~

Changes in the Tariif.

Tue following are the changes in the tariff as announced by the Minister of Finance in the course of his Budget speech Figures showing the duties formerly levied are also given :—

Shoe blacking, 30 per cent; formerly 25 pet cent,

Harness and leather dressing, 25 per cent; formerly 25 per cent.

Laundry blueing, per cent.

Advertising calendars and almanacs, 6 cents a pound and 20 per cent; formerly $1 per hundred,

Braces, etc., 30 per cent.

Buttons, Vegetable, ivory. horn position, 10 cents per gross and 35 per cent. All other, 25; formerly 25 per cent.

Buggies, farm waggons, farm, railway or freight carts, pleasure carts or gigs costing less than $50 ten dollars each and 20 per cent Costing $50 and less than $100, $15 each and 20 per cent; and all costing $100 and over, 39 per cent; formerly 35 per cent.

Common thread on spool 25 per cent; for merly 20 per cent.

Jeans and C, 25 per cent. Printed or dyed cotton fabrics, 324 per cent. ; formerly 20 and 274 per cent.

Demijohns or jugs, churns and crocks 3 cents per gallon,

Earthenware, stoneware, Rockingham, white granite, iron stoneware, cream, colored and all not elsewhere specified, 35 per cent.; for- merly 30 per cent.

Flagstones, sawn, etc., $2 per ton.

Glass, carboys, demijohns, bottles, decan- ters, and flasks and phials less than four ounces, 30 per cent. ; formerly 30 per cent. Flasks and phials four ounces and over, tele- graph and lightning rods insulators; former- ly 25 and 30 percent. Jars and glass balls and table ware, ten cents per dozen ; formerly 25 30 per cent. Pieces of gokd and silver leaf, 30 per cent. ; formerly 25 per cent.

Sewing machines, $3 specific and 20 per ent ; formerly $2 and 20 per cent.

Sole leather, 3 cents per pound; formerly [5 per cent. Japanned patent or enamelled leather, 25 per cent. ; formerly 20 per cent.

Licquorice root paste, two cents per pound ; formerly 15 per cent.

Floor oil cloth, five cents square yard and 20 per cent; formerly 30 per cent. Oileloth, ive cents square yard and 15 per cent; form- erly 5 and 10 per cent.

Paper hangings, brown blanks, 2 cents, white grounded and satin papers, three cents; single point bronzes, seven cents; colored bronzes, nine cents; embossed bronzes, eleven cents; colored borders, narrow, eight wide, ten cents, bronze borders, narrow, 15 ents; wide, 18 cents, and embossed borders,

30 per cent; formerly 25

or com-

trie

20 cents per each eight yards in all above cases; formerly 30 per cent. Paper, calendered or not, 25 per cent;

tissue paper for manufactures ten per formerly 224 per cent.

Pickles in bottles, forty cents; in bulk, in vinegar and mustard, 35 cents; and in brine 25 cents per gallon; formerly 25 per cent.

Sauces and catsups 40 cents per gallon, and 20 per cent; formerly 25 per cent.

Plated knives costing under $3.50 a dozen, 50 cents a dozen, and 30 per cent; all other electro plated ware, 30 per cent; formerly 30 per cent.

Plumbago, ten per cent, manufactures of plumbago, 25 per cent; formerly 20 per cent.

Salt, coarse, ten cents; fine in bulk, 10 cents; in bags or barrels, 15 cents per hun- dred pounds; formerly 8 and 12 per 100 Ibs.

Sand, glass, flint and emery paper 30 per cent; formerly 25 per cent.

School slates one cent each and 20 per cent; formerly 25 per cent.

Cigars and cigarettes $2 a pound and 25 per cent; formerly $1.20 per lb., and 20 per cent.

Valises, satchels, carpet bags, pocket books and purses ten cents and 30 per cent; formerly 3U per cent.

Twine of all kinds one cent per pound and 25 per cent; formerly 25 per cent.

Varnishes, etc., 20 cents per gallon and 25 per cent ; formerly 20 cents per gallon and 20 per cent.

Potatoes 15 cents per bushel.

Tomatoes 30 cents per bushel and cent ; formerly 30 cents per bushel.

Vegetables, not elsewhere specified 25 per cent ; formerly 20 per cent

Mucilage 30 per cent. ; cent,

Newspapers partly printed,25 per cent. ; for- merly tree,

Photographic dry plates, 15 cents per square foot ; formerly 30 per cent.

Shirts, cotton or linen, $1 per dozen and 30 per cent. ; formerly 30 per cent.

Veneers of wood, 10 per cent. ; formerly free;

Colored fabrics woven of dyed thread of cotton or jute, or both 25 per cent. ; formerly 20 per cent.

Artificial fertilizers, $6 per ton ; formerly 20 per cent.

Maccaroni and vermicilla,2 cents per pound; formerly 20 per cent.

Watch actions and movements, 19 per cent. ad valorem ; formerly 20 per cent.

All fabrics wholly or in part of wool, worst- ed, or alpaca, goat, etc., 74 cents, pound 20 per cent; formerly 224 per cent.

Barrels containing pork or other salted meats, 25 cepts each ; formerly 20 per cent.

British gum dressing, sizing cream and ena- mel, one cent per pound.

Shirt collars, 24 cents per dozen, and cuffs four cents per pair, with 30 per cent. addi- tional ; formerly 30 per cent.

Gas meters, 30 per cent, ; formerly 25 per cent.

Glue, per cent. 4

Oranges and lemons in boxes not Jarger than two and a half eubie feet,-25 cents per box ; half boxes 13 Gents eaeh; in cases 10 cents cubic foot ; in bulk $l per thousand; in barrels 55 cents per barrel ; formerly 20 per cent.

Tarred paper half cent per pound ; formerly 40 per cent per 100 Ths.

Spectacles, 30 per cent; unfinished parts, 25 per cent., mosses 15 per cent ; formerly 25 per cent.

Chopping axes, $2 per doz. and 10 per cent. Broad and ship axes, adzes and hammers weighing 10 pounds over, $3 per doz. and 20 per cent ; ail others and hay knives and four and tive prong forks, $2 per doz. and 20 per cent. ; formerly 30 and 35 per cent.

Hoes, garden rakes, two and three prong forks, picks and mattocks $1 per dozen and 20 per cent ; formerly 35 per cent.

Shovels and spades, $1 per dozen, and 20 per

cent;

20 per

formerly 30 per

three cents per pound ; formerly 20

Mowing machines, harvester reapers, sulky | and walking ploughs, and other agricultural implements specified, 35 per cent.; formerly 35

Grape vines costing 20 cents or less, 5 cents | each. i Gooseberry bushes, 2 cents each. Raspberry and blackberry, } cent.

Peach trees, 4 cenis. Rose bushes, 5 cents,

Seedling stock for grafting, 10 per cent.

Wrought serap iron and scrap steel, being waste or refuse; wrought iron or steel that has been in actual use and is fit only to be re-manufectured, $2 per ton; formerly free.

Ferro manganese, ferro silicon, special steel | blooms and crop ends of steel rails for the | manufacture of steel rails, $2 p*r ton.

.. lron in pigs; iran kentled and cast se trv 84 ptr tory imbrly BY per tty om

Iron in slabs, blooms, loops, puddled bars or other forms less finished than iron in bars and more advanced than, pig iron (except casting) $9 per ton. e

Bar iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not less than one inch wide, nor less than three eighths of one inch thick, $11 per ton; formerly 174 per cent.

Round iron not jess than than three-fourths of one inch in diameter and square iron not

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charged, as to e iabie all who desire it to secure the most ample protection. a

The following table shows the position it has already taken amongst the companies soliciting the patronage of our people. The figures in the table are taken from the advance report of the Superintendent of

‘insurance and include the experience of

less han one inch wide or less thanthree-eighths | of one inch thick; round iron less than ¢ of one |

inch and not Jess than seven-sixteenths of one inch in diameter, $15 per ton; formerly 174 per cent,

Rails or other plate sheared or steel, not specially enumerated or provided for, 30. per cent, rods, strips, or stee] sheets of whatever shape, and on all iron or stee! bars of irregular shape of section; cold rolled, cold hammered, or polished in any way in addition to the

ordinary process of hot rolling or hammering,

there shall be paid one-sixth of one cent per pound in addition to the rates imposed on the said material.

Rolled iron in coils or rods, less than seven sixteenths, of one inch in ediameter, and bars and shapes of rolled iron, not elsewhere pro- vided for, 25 per cent.

lron or steel rolled round wire rods, under half an inch in diameter, when imported by manufacturers for use in their factories, 5 per cent,

Iron and steel wire galvanized, or not smaller than number five gauge and not large- er than number fifteen gauge, 20 per cent.

Wire and spring steel, copper or tinned, number nine gauge, or smaller, 124 per cent.

Malleable iron’ castings, not elsewhere specified, $25 per ton, provided the duty shall not be less than 30 per cent; formerly 25 per cent.

Cast iron, vessels plates, stove pipes and irons, hatters irons, tailors irons, and cast- ing of iron, not elsewhere specified, $16 per ton, provided the duty shall not be less than 30 per cent; formerly 25 per cent.

Cast iron pipe of every description $12 per ton; formerly 25 per cent.

[ron and steel axles, parts thereof, axle bars, axle blanks or forgings for axles, with- out reference to the stage of manufacture $30 per ton, but not less than 35 per cent; for- merly 12 per cent.

Engines, boilers and machinery, viz., fire |

Monday, May 29rd, Tuesday 24th May,

engines, |

engines, 35 per cent; formerly 25 per cent.

Locomotives and other steam boilers and machinery, composed wholly or in part of iron or steel, not elsewhere specified, 30 per cent; formerly 25 per cent.

Portable machines, portable steam engines, threshers and separators, horse-powers, por- table saw mills and planing mills, and parts thereof, in any stage of manufacture, 35 per cent; formerly 35 per cent.

Locomotive tires of Bessmer steel in the rough, ten per cent,

Boiler tubes or flues or stays of wrought iron or steel, 15 per cent.

Wrought iron tubing, plain and threaded, coupled or otherwise manufactured over two inches in diameter, 15 per cent,

Other wrought iron or steel tubes or pipes, 30 per cent,

Scales, balances or weighing beams of iron or steel, 35 per cent.; formerly 35 per cent.

Skates 20 cents per pair and 30 per cent.

Wire rope of iron or steel not otherwise provided for, 25 per cent.

Sledges, track tools, wedges and crow bars of iron or steel, 1} cents per pound, and 30 per cent.

Hardware, viz., builders, cabinet makers and carriage hardware and locks, 35 per cent; formerly 30 per cent.

Muskets, rifles and other firearms and sur- gical instruments 20 per cent.

Nails and spikes, wrought and pressed, galvanized or not, and wrought iron or steel, nuts and washers, and horse, mule or ox shoes on¢ and one third cents per pound.

Horse shoe nails, hob rails, wire nails.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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To the Insuring Public:

GENTLEMEN, —It is usually considered to be sufficient for people to pay fully in advance for what they purchase as they want. In fact, in nothing else but life insurance has it been considered to be otherwise, while to prove the necessity of paying largely in excess of what is neces- sary to cover current insurance all sorts of pleas are set up, and all kinds of abstruse reasoning or unreasoning are entered into to prove that life insurance cannot be safely given unless Companies have an income from their policy-holders direct or from their reserve investments three times as great in each year as is necessary to cover the insurance risk taken. Without going further it will be sufficient for me to state the .self-evident fact that, if a Com- pany selects its risks with proper care, it is only necessary that it secure in advance of assuming such risks an amount of money to cover each one of them somewhat greater than has been found necessary in the past to cover the worst experience with similar risk.

| have shown in previous letters that the theoretical American Exchange table has proved to be more than sufficiently high in the United States, where mortality is very much greater amongst insured lives than in Canada ; and that the Homans table which is our Canadian standard table, has proved in the experience of our oldest Canadian Company to exceed its actual experience during the years from its 25th year to its 39th year of age inclusive. I have shown it to have been during these years 36 per cent. greater than its actual experience on the average, and 18 per cent. greater in its worst year. This should be conclusive proof that with proper care in the selection of its lives, any Company that provides for pay- ment in advance year by year of a sufficient premium to enable it to hold in hand at all times a sum equal to, or in excess of the full theoretical cost of insurance makes every necessary provision for safety in this regard.

This the Federal Life Homans plan.

It is equally true that a company that keeps its provision for expenses and death claims entirely separate having made more than ample provision for the risk assumed at the beginning of a term of a policy may

does under the

| properly apply the unused provision for

death claims to lessen the premium falling due at the end of the policy term. This the Federal Life does under its Homans plan.

By following this practice, which past experience has showu to be abundantly safe, the Federal Life has attracted an amount of attention; won an amount of confidence and secured an amount of business never heretofore achieved by any company at the same age,

in the same period of time, in any country®

amongst the same population. The Federal Life gives insurance that is as safe as that given by any other company

Diy, mere pity er Reale, ame

Provided that on all iron or steel bars, |

all companies, placing over 500,000 of new insurances in the year 1886 ;—

Amt of new Increase of

insurance insurance

| Name of Co. taken up. in force, | Canada Life $4,591,250 $4,582,384 ' Confederation 2,431,375 1,658,760 | Dos. F. 552,000 373,000 | Federal 3,109,000 2,380,223 ' North American 2,444,584 1,475,938 {Ontario Mutual 2,364,250 1,460,181 | Sun 2,456,625 1,466,225 British Empire 1,436,500 927,450

| Londen and

Lancashire 1,180,750 526,653 | Standard 1,292,75 880,193 | AStna Life 2,382,493 1,152,925 | Equitable 2,536,875 1,518,009 Mutual Life 1,827,355 1,586,475 New York 2,692,5 1,898,573 Travellers 579,600 22,485 Union Mutual 695,500 135,616

It seems as if an error has crept in here, for the increase of insurance in force here given is almost equal to the new insurance placed, making no allowance for death claims which were $446,068, besides matur- ed endowments, surrendered and lapsed policies.

From the foregoing table it will be seen that the Federal already leads all the companies in Canada except one, in the amount of insurance written and the gain of insurance in force. At its present rate of increase it will soon lead the van.

Very respectfully yours, H. SurHERLAND, Supt. of Agencies. For The Federal Life Assurance Company.

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Tuesday Afternoon, May 24, at 2.30 o'clock.

Three (3) Khepresentations (only) — OF -

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Special Notice.

The sale of $1.00 Reserved Seats will commence on Monday, May léth, at 9a. m., at the Diamond |

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For full particulars see programme, now reads, ' May Mi—mo wed fri

AUCTION

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T° be Sold by Auction. on the Market Square, on TUESDAY next, !7th, at 2 o'clock, #ll the

Pews and Pulpit Raiiings. formerly in the Bible

Christian Church, Prince street, Charlottetown, suitable fur country churches. '

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SATURDAY

RIVAL OF NEW GOODS

a AP THR and Summer Stock now Complete. — Every

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FINEST DISPLAY OF PRINTS IN CHARLOTTETOWN,

New Materials and New Shades in Dress Goods,

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