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The Provineial Budget.

IT is to be regreited that the first budget

‘rederick Deters was speech of the Hon. Frederick Tete

rnished w emall criticism plentifully garnished with small ¢

and bad rhetoric. Those who hoped to

ee hear the financial position of the Province

described in clear language, those who ex-

p ition of the

yy which the Government propose to rid the Province of fiaancial difticulty aust have been woefully disappointed by a the deliverance of the premier. The major

portion of the speech is a criticism of s

pected to obtain & careful ex

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of tke smaller items of expenditure of the late Government. For instance, twenty dollars had been paid to Mr. W C. Des- iting for the Provincial

Beisay for typewr that

delegates while they were in Ottawa ; was wade the subject of the premier

nanciation. Only half the amount o! the lo printer |

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small account of a certain Ontar had been paid, because the printer had doubled his order, and the balance was the printer—left to be

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al the suggestion of paid in this year: the premier warm over the enormity of this offence. Mr. Longworth, of the Land Office, wes paid a small sum to cover his expenses, 'n

a iis sidition to his salary, while on his collect ing tours throughout the country : this tact was dweit a heinous departure from the Reasonable men will infer from the very pettiness of his charges that the McLeod

Administration was not, after all, so very

up i as

line of right action.

extravagant, deceitful, Cishonest and cor- rupt as the premier tried to paint it. Reasonable men will say that Mr. Me- {e0d’s clear and explicit explanation of the circtmstanees in which each particul sr little item was involved was hardly necessary.

There was one matter, one only, which wecthy the Premier's criticism, viz : the amount paid for the consolidation of the laws. The value of a lawyer's services is subject upon which the Hon. Frederick Peters ought to speak with authority. But Mr. Peters discredited his statements on this point by his extreme language respect- ing the other points. When the Loader of the Opposition reminded the House that our statutes were in a state of the wildest confusion, and that the Halifax lawyers who consolidated the laws of Nova Scotia had charged three or four times more, in proportion to the work performed, than Messrs. Morson, McNeill, McDonald and McLean, he did much to discredit the un- supported declarations and turgid rhetoric of the Leader of the Government.

We shall not say much respecting the Premier's estimate of revenue and expendi- ture. Itia to be noted that he expects to get only $60,000 from the Land Office as a result of his 12 per cent. discount. This proves that he, himself, is impressed with the strength of the Opposition’s contention that few, except wealthy defaulters, will be able to take advantage of his communistic give-away policy.

On the other hand, there are a few very peity reductions of salary, etc. (ur capable and energetic Superintendent of Education — the head of the most important department of the Government—is to be discredited by having a slice cf two hundred dollars taken from his salary; and the salary of the ven- erable and respected Secretary of Educa- tion—long in the service of the Province— is to be eut down. We hear nething about a reduction of the Legislature, nothing about a comprehensive scheme of economy and reform ; only a few paltry deductions from the salaries of capable, hardworking officials.

The essential difference between the liauncial policy which the Leader of the Government denounced as a policy of drift, and the policy which has been exhibited in the Budget, the Land Bill and the Loan Bill, consiats in the fact that the Premier and his colleagues are in the Government boat rowing as hard as they can towards the cataract of ruin. They propose, in the first place, to throw away twelve per cent. of the amount due the Land Office, and to close up that revenue-producing institution altogether. They propose, in the second place, to incur a debenture debt of $185,- 000 at a time when not more than forty or lifty thousand dollars are due the banks, — to pay an interest charge of $7,000 tu $8,000 a year while $3000 to $4000 a year will pay the banks ; to saddle the Province with a mortgage debt, without providing ways or means of, eveu eventually, paying it off. They propose, in the third place, to make no essential difference in respect to expen- dituras—the~ probability being that they will, with heavier interest-charges, incur a larger ordinary expenditure than their pre- decessors.

With the Legislative Council at their back, surely they might propose and carry out @ better financial policy than this!

The first call of this Province is for con- stitutional retrenchment and reform. But the Government has responded by offering

—contrary to the first principles of busi- ness—a discount of twelve per cent

paid their money promptly,

THE DAILY

to customers who have played the laggard with their payments while the uttermost farthing has been exacted from those who

by closing up an tmportant source of revenue, and by submitting a measure under which a per-

| manent debenture debt will be laid upon ithe shoulders of our tax payers

The end—the result—of this policy is not far. We know what happens to & | mortgagor who makes no provision for the

" , | payment ol his debt, who has no resources

i but those which were insufficient before the i} debt was contracted : his property will, ee Unless the fatal policy of be changed, Prince

will have

ilong. be gone. the Government Edward Island lost its independence as a Province aud be absorbed by Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, after the same manner as &

mortgaged farm is usually absorbed in the

soon

farms of its neighborhood.

The one pleasing feature of the state ment made to the House of Assembly Fri- day evening is ths assurance that the Gov- ernment propose to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors in respect to the em- ployment of a professor of agriculture Judging by his remarks concerning the herd of Durhams on the Government Stock Farin, the Premier himself might, with ad vantage, take some lessons from the succes sor of Professor Shuttleworth.

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Botany of P. E. Island.

Tue glory of our Island Province is the richness of The rolling beauty of our hills wrapped in the leafy birch, and sturdy

its veyvetstion.

dumes of maple, and beech, and warrior osk, and queenly elm, and the quieter grace of velvety green fields that dip their checkered borders into the bursting blue of the summer wave, are ever the subjects of our admiration and delight. But, beneath the forest shadows, and in the tangled web of the meadow’s greenness, there are a thousand flurel gems that drink nectar from our balmy airs, and light the flash of their starry beauty in the cloudless beams of our summer sky. Uhese are each worthy of stuly and ad- miration, and they, altogether, go to form the rich, vamed, resplendent wealth of our Island's flora. How few of us are at all acquaint-d with the numberless beautiful native plants that crowd our wildwoods and dells,

This present season the Royal Society of Canada has formed a Botanical Club for the study of the entire flora of Canada. A secretary has been appointed for each Province, and every assistance will be given to those who engage in the work of discovering new plants and adding to the present lists. The secretary for the Island is Mc. Francis Bain of North River. All who wish to join the club shouid send their

names to him. Persons not acquainted with botany = can give valuable assistance by preserving any rare plants which they «may find, drying

the same between sheets of soft paper, and sending them to the Botanical Secretary for determination. Such collections may be left at the drug store of L. W., Watson, Esq., who will forward them them to the Secretary. All new “‘finds” will be duly re- corded to the credit of the collector. The P. E. Island Natura! History Society has at present a list of more than 459 Island plants. Any discoveries beyond the com- pass of this list will be considered worthy of honorable mention, aud the industry and taste of the finder thus brought the notice of the foremost scientists of Canada, We trust that our friends will devote some of their leisure to this interesting study during the glorious summer weather of the present and succeeding months, when a ramble in the fields and woods is a pure delight. Let not the opportunity pass to learn something more about the childhood's home. The beauties of the ticlds, the jawels at the cot- tage door, that gave us joy ip childhood and sweet thoughts in maturer years—let us not neglect them now, when all Canada is awake to their study; but let us try and place our Island first in this delightful de-

partment of scientific pursuit. ee —-POOCO-

The Financial Situation.

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Ir is very many years, says Mr. Henry Clews, of the New York banking house of Henry Clews & Company, since we have witnessed such a disorganized condition of financial relations between this country and Europe as has recently developed. Such is the distrust prevailing at the foreign centres that numerous bills heretufure considered good drawn here on European houses have become, in a large measure, unnegotiable; and the consequent scarcity of negotiable exchange compels a continuation ot the shipment of gold lony after the balance of our accounts with the outside world has ceased to rule against us. A condition of things more calculated to check business and enforce Iquidation in foreign commerce could hardiy be conceived. Even if there were no real reas n for this distrust towards bills of exchange, this sort of discrimina- tion is calculated to cripple importers and exporters in ways that can hardly fail to disturb confidence and produce embarrass- ment, which is dangerous treatment under present conditions. It is undouotedly a gratifying evidence uf strength that we have able, without any signs of suffering

to so long endure the withdrawal of the European banking balances which are usually allowed to rest here, and to pa

them off in cash without a wince; but whan our export bills become unsaleable because of the distrust directed against the foreion houses on whom they are drawn we 88

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counter a kind of gold drain of a much more serious nature; and yet nearly all the Jon+ shipments, amounting to nearly 20 millions, | have been of this forced char- acter. The total exports of gold to Europe

this year amounts to $70,000.000 p there is reported “abu ‘d WU, and still the country.” abundance of money in

8. or T.—Victoria Division meets to.

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PROVINGIAL LEGISLATURE,

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AFTERNOON SESHION. Sarurpay, July 4.

The Leader of the Opposition moved the second reading of the bill to incorporate the Charlottetown Woolen Mills Company.

Mr. Farquharson moved that the bill be read a second time this day three months.

House divided on the amendment:

Yeas—Peters, McLean, McMillan, Far- quharson, Sinclair, Forbes, Macdonald, Montgomery, Matheson, Warburton, Mc- Williams, Cummiskey, Robertson, Under-

ay—l4. : ee ~MeLeod, Bentley, Shaw, A J Macdonald, Clow, Gordon, J E Macdonald,

SK: togera, A Mcleod, a Ce Macdonald moved the third reading of the County Courts Amendment Act, 1878 The bill was read a third time and passed, a

Mr. McKay asked the Commissionerfjof Public Works if the inspectors on the co®- tracts let on Rocky Point Wharf and the contract of the extension to the block at McPhee’s Bridge, West River, have beeu dismissed, and if so, when and for what reason, and who have been appointed in their place; also whether it is the intention of the Government to open a road bet ween the New London road and Cavendish Road at or near Laird’s Mills.

Hon. Mr. McLean declined to answer the first question ; the other matter would be attended to.

Mr. Shaw asked the Commissioner of Peb lic Works to Jay onthe table any corres- pondence, or the report of any investiga- tion, or wll papers relating thereto, that led to the dismissal of the Inspectors of the Cardigan Ferry dock, previous to the appuit.tment of Mr. Donald Stewart and Mr. Donald Sigsworth.

Hon. Mr. McLeod replied that there is no correspondence.

Mr. N. McLeod moved the second read- ing of the bili to incorporate the Watchman Publishing Company. House went into

The bill was reported agreed to.

Mr. Clow asked the Commissioner of Public Works to lay on the table of the House a detailed statement of tenders re- ceived for the packet service between Char- ILttetown and Murray Harbor (North aud South) etc., with the names of the diffsreut parties wno have tendered, the amount of

ment of contract. Hon. Mr. McLean replied that a copy

soon as possible.

House took recess.

THE BUDGET DEBATE.

Hon. Mr. Sinclair resumed the debate on the Budget, considering the grant of $300 to Dr. McNeill, and contending that to borrow money by debentures is neces- sary, and that the estimates of reveuue and expenditure woull be met.

Mr. A. J. Macdonald justified the pay- ment made to Dr. McNeill, showing that he had a strong claim, and that th date government had s good ground fur its ac- tion. He said that the Government were astray to the extent of $56,000 in respect to the indebtedness of the Province.

House adjourned,

Notes and Comments. |

-— The Presbyte:ian Witness condemns and repudiates the cry raised against Sir John Thompson because he is a Roman Catholic.

—Signor W. C. Bevan, of Malaga, Spain, the head of one of the largest business con- cerns of that country, is in Totonto with the object of establishing a trade in Canada. Signor Bevan says Canada is attracting great attention in his country, at the pres- ent time,

— The papers of the Upper Provinces highly commend Mr. John MacLaan, M. P., for his tirst Parliamentary effort in be- half of the proposed tunnel; andone of THE EXAMINER'S correspondents at Ottawa States that “‘the consensus of opinion among Islanders here is that the Island and the tunnel stand in a better position to-day than ever bafore |”

—The Empire's Ottawa correspondent writes, July 1:

“The evening session was almost entirely taken up with a discussion about the merits and demerits of Prinee Edward Island. The trouble — _ Mr. Cockburn rising to a question of privilege and repelling a charge that he had been actuated iagneneaie in his statements regarding the Garden Province made last week. This brought to his feet Mr. McLean, one of the Conservative members from the Island, who made one of the best first speeches ever delivered in the Honse, and as well gallant detence of his province Mr, Lean will be heard from again. He h: s evary (uality necessary in a great public speaker, and was deservedly the recipient of many hearty congratulations.”

— One of the best pieces of workmanship yet done on our streets is now being com- pleted, under the superintendence of Mr. George Douglas, on Upper Queen Street. The street and sidewalks have been care- fully graded and the mniddle of the street macadamized so as to be perfectly dry and tree from ruts, _ Altogether, the work done on our streets this year is commendable and reflects credit, not only upon Mr. Douglass and Mr. Taylor, but upon Coun- cillor Douse and the City Council, A con- tinuance of the present policy will, in the course of a few years, result in a marked improvement of the Streets of Charlotte- town. We hope to see something done, ere long, in the direction of permanent sidewalks. Plink sidewalks are a continual

expense, and are always more su : the village than the - y. Sgestive of

Supreme Court.

Saturpay, July 4,

William Mahar, breaking and entering

with intent to commi guilty, mito felony. Rot

William Mahar and Willi housebreaking and larceny. "Guilty. = . ena, July 6. reaking and enterip Ciarke’s wareh i mt therefrom. Guilty. ee ae

John T. Connolly » breaking and entering

the premises of Archibald White and mid ae therefrom, Now oie ae

Norman Valley,

Sullivaa—ll.

committee, Mr. Cummisky in the chair. ;

on the 5th jast., Mrs.

At Charlottetown, of a son,

Johu H. Loagworth, of Port Arthur,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

AM instructed by the Executrixes of the | Estate of the late Sophia Burdett (widow of the late Richard Burdett, Ks quire, “ Rocky Point), to sell the Business Staad aud Property at said place,

On Wednesday, 22nd July, 1891.

The above property consists of Ten Acres ef Land in a good state of cultivation, bweil ing House and Shop attached, large Ware

House, be

house, Public Stable and Coach sides other smal'er buildings, all ia goorl repair.

‘The above stand is adapted for carrying or a Lumber and Coal business as well as genera: trading, as it is adjacent to the wharf at Rocky Point. °

There is a Brickmaking site on the premises.

This place ia 4 resort for pleasure seekeis during the summer mouths,

Terms—15 per cent. day of sale; balance ou execution of deeds.

fam instructed to sell the same day the Stock in Trade of the late Sophia Burdett, consisting of Earthenware, Crockery ware, Dry Goods, Groceries, Shop Furniture, Un ce superior Cows with Calves.

Household Furniture, consisting of Sefas, Sideboards, Chairs, Tables, Bedsteads, Stoves and other articles too numerous to mention.

Terms for Furniture and Stock— All sums under $5, cash ; over that amount, 4 months credit on approved notes,

Fr. H. HORNE, Auctioneer. jy6 -dy 2i (ms) wy 2i pd

Charlottetown Board of Trade,

YHE GENERAL QUARTERLY MERT- 1 ING of this Corporation will be held at the Board Room, Cameron Block, this city, on the Evening of WEDNESDAY, the 8th of July, at 8 o'clock.

B. D. HIGGS, Secretary.

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Strawberry Festival.

each tender, and which has been accepted, | and if bonds bas been signed for the fulfil-

would be prepared and laid on the table as |

HE Ladies of ZION CHURCH intend holding a Strawberry Festival and

Fancy Sale

On Thursday, 9th July,

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Admissivun 10 cents.

o'clock.

Doors open at 2 jone29

Lorne Hotel, Tracadie Beach.

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} OOM3 at this House can be had on appli B.% cation to Mr. C. A. Hyndman, Brighter, Parties going there must take their own Bed- ding, etc. You can put in a geod time for

,& little money this summer at this place.

LUMBER BY AUCTION, asia sisi CONNOLLYS WHARP, aint tee

Monday Evening, July 6th.

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THOUSAND HEMLOCK BOARDS, 5,000 2 inch ' Plank, 5,000 3 inch Deals, 20,000 2x3 inch Hardwood, in Ash and Birch, 12,000 Pine Boards, 40,000 Clear Cedar Shingles.

Sale at 6 o’clock, p. m. E. H. NORTON & CO, Agents.

EXTENSIVE SALE BY AUCTION.

Horses, Cows, Carriages, Farming Implements, Household Furni- ture, Hay, Oats, ete.

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I AM instructed by the Executors to the

Estate of the late Justice Peters to seil by Auction, at his late residence, Sidmouut on WEDNESDAY, the 8h day ot July com. menciug at 11 o'clock, a. m. ; — ,

Horses, Cows, Carriages, Sleighs, Farming Implements, Hay, Oats, Coal, Wood and Household Furniture.

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FORTY BUILDING LOTS BY AUCTION,

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Thursday, July 9th,

COMMENCING AT 1} O'CLOCK, And Continuing Till All Are Sold.

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‘JHE owners of the Cahill Estate have in- structed us to sell by Auction, on the

Premises, on THURSDAY, July 9th, at 1]

0 clock, the beautiful Field at ‘the head of

Prince Street, which has now been plotted off

into 40 Lote, comprising the handsomest and

most desirable Building Lots now available in

the City, and — on Prince Street and Mal.

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‘These are beantifully sit will be sold at prices to suit ‘the oa “8

: Buy oan oe homes in a healthy and pleasant TERMS—25 ;

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RUSTICO BEACH, P.E {

= . io HIS beautiful and well-known Summer Resort will For particulars address

for Guests and Visitors on JOLY Ist. Terms JOHN NEWSON & CO.

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