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RM Five DeLLars é¢. hie >. $ ve, > short <x ¥ 7 7. ; : 7? . Terms ‘ 42iS is true Liberty, when Free-born Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”’’—Lvxrines. StxGie Cortes. Two Ckw: = - Cee = ns LE LI EES w - \ z=) TS. YEW sh ‘ j RN 1H 4 i> i 1} r Waa a : + ao - ; s a : ae ee tee . ~~ h i, a iy j rel VW dt Nel OW 4 [> ISLAN som RSHAY jt mH vihen cm : 4 un i ( i3 nL y 4 (} ‘ | k |) J v Wi ¢ \ ARD S Fal A, 5 U ais WA INE ] 1. [S81 \ OL, Q Ni 9 ly ss " Tek 7 hae r " , ? | en . - >. . . . apiatemmatannenenenny Uitte > $_.. _ . ~ ~~ ~—— = - i a “ ss i 2 , branch line or lines of the same, may be seld Pa ! . ) ecias cad MORTGAGE SALE. i 2 mm | te such company er individual at hall price, or TG PURGREASERS OF TELEGRAPH ig NEWS TH 4 Da ILY EXA M! NER U : }CT : : ($l per acre in cash. In case the lands ap- PECEURAPHIO NEVO. ae Cuan ek ’ Piece arte? Piva | plied for be situated within the Canadian Pa . puato-gisesate rome full (be nad ih settaon als tee Court Heus oF ere? s Prince | |#ific Railway Belt, the same principe shall GREAT BRITAIN AND ERELAND. | JUNE 14: 1881. senmty, On ASSL. at the hou of Cetie| DEPARTMENT OF dame ne ton anthhis hall ot anain-peeneueinae TU RAP [TUN tei Faly, A, 0. 186t, 86 she hour of twelve DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, | | section is concerued—that is to say, the. one- 4 Coux, June 1). | Impertant Fishery Gase scene’ UE Nike Gantatuedl te" Gb Roden | Ovrawa, 25th May, 1881, |balf of each even-numbered section may be The rieting here on Thursday night} . . Power of * ale coutaized in an laden- , sold to the company er individual at the price originated = = pélicl smelting eight

ture of Mertgaye bearing date the fifth | day of October, A. D. 1875, and made be- tween Willam Lhomas Mill and Amelia his wife of the eve part, and Jehn| Brecken, Frederick De St. Croix Breeken | atid Rebert Robinson Nedgson, Trustees, | of the ether part, —

LL that tract, preee or parcel of land |

situate, lying and being en Let or Town. } ship Rumber Lighteen, m Prince Ceuaty, in| Prince Edward islana, bounded and des-j eribed as follows: Commencing at a stake} fized on the shore of ludian River; thence by | a line running § uth twenty degrees west until ‘it meets the bouudary line dividing Lots or! Townships Namber Highteen aud Nineteen ; thence running iue east on said division line ‘fer the distance of thirty-two chains; thence | by a line ruening north twenty degrees east} entil it reaches (ndiaa “iver aforesaid, asl fellewing the course of the River to tie piace ef commencement, making and including tifty- six (56) aeres of land, be the same 1 little more or less.

Alse, all that other traet, piece er parcel

land situate, lying and being on Let or

ewsbhip Nuarmber Twenty-five, in Prince Gounty aforesaid, and bounded and described as fellows, that is te say : Commencing at a @take fixed in William #fac}urdy’s eastern boundary line a: tie south-east corner of Joshua Bardisg s Let; from thence running south fex the distance of forty-four ehaius; thence east eleven chains and fifty links; thence merth forty-four chains; thence west eleven ebains and fifty links to the aforesaid stake er

laee of commencement, making and including

Rity (50) acres of land, a httle more or less,

jog the soutiern moiety ef one handred aores of Jand, and being beurded on the nerth by the certhern moiety thereof known as Joshua Harding's let; on the east by —— Gay’s fland ; on the south by Keefe’s land and on the west by the said William Mac Murdy’s lead.

Alse, all tuat other tract, piece or pareel of land sitnate, ly ing and being on Let er Town- ship Number Nimeteen, and bounded and de- scribed a8 follows, that is tosay : commencing at a square stake fixed in the south-west anzle @f land iu the occupation of Peter Gillis ; themeé running north six degrees and forty- five minutes east fourteen chains and two links; to division line between Lots 19 and 15; thence along said line weatwardly twenty- six chains and sixty-nine links, te the en- trance’ of Barbara \Veit River; thence along the course of the said River to the place of Beginning. ceaining twenty-mine acres and ferty perches, be the same a little more or less.

Alaa,p)) thatether tract, piece or pareel of laud, situate | ying an@ being on Lot or Towx- ship Number Eighteen, and beunded and deacribed as follows, that is to say: commenc- ing ata stak« set on the shore of Kichmoad Bay, in the eceutre of a road on the line of Lets 15 and 19, thence nerthwardly along said shore such a distance as shal] make fiteen ehains and sixty-five links (15 chainsand 65 links) ata riglt angle frem said divisien line, thenee north cighty-ninée degrees east, or par- allel with the said- division line forty-eight ehains and jifteen links (48 chains 15 links) or to lands the property ef the said Witham Thomas Mi!!, thence south twenty degrees west to said division line, thence westward along said division Jine to the stake at the place of commencement, containing seventy- eight acres o! land, a little more or less.

Also, all that other tract, piece or parcel of land, situate on Lot or ‘own- ship Number Twenty five, (25) im Prinee County, and bounded and des- eribed as fvliows, that is to say: commenc- iag ata tak: set im the north boundary line of land in possession of the Widow Keeff or Lawrence Malone, being tle south east angie of fifty acres of land the property of William T.. Mill, frou: thence by a line rancing north twelve chains and fifty links, thence east nine chains and {i ity-five links,or to the east boun- dary line of land in possession of William Gay, thence soata to the tirst mentioned land, thence westerly along said land to the stake at the place of commencement, containing eleven and nine-teuths acres, a jitile more or jess.

Also, all chat other tract, piece or parcel of land, situate lying and being on Lot or Town- ship Number Nineteen, in trince County, beunded as ‘follews, that is to say : commenc- ing at the south east angle of land in the pos- session of Neal McDonald, from thence run- ning west » ong said land, twelve chaihs and twenty links (i2 chains 20 link) or to the southwest angle of said laud, and from these two points running two parallel lines south thirty-one (31) ehains, or to the seuth bound- ary line of plot G., containing thirty seven (374) and cue half acres of land, be the same 4 little more or less.

For furt>er particulars apply at the effice of Masars. lepeson & MecLgon, Solicitors, Charlottetown and Summerside.

Dated the 26th day of May, A. D., 1881.

JOHN BRECKEN,

FRED’K De ST. CROIX BRECKEN,

ROBERT ROBLNSON HODGSON, Mortgagees.

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May 21. tu-th s jour 2i

For Sale or to Let.

(EXHAT Freehold Property, with a front of eighty feet on Powual Street and eighty- four feet on Sydney Street, the House con- taining 16 large rooms and two Kitchens, Can be turned into one Dwelling by unlock- ing adoor. Apply on the premises to MRS. BOSWALL.

March 12, 1881—f

_~-- Lace en

Bens. F. Grarron, Srory B. La Hareeet E, Pave. Late Commissioner of Patents.

PATENTS.

PAINE, GRAFTON & LADD, Atterney»-at-].aw and Solicitors of American and Fereign Patents,

412 Firru Straext, Wasutnetor, D. C.

Practice patent law in all its branches in

the Pat-nt Office, and in the Supreme and Circuit Vourts of the United States.

7 HEREAS circumstanves have rendered

ib ext edient te effect certain changes in

the policy of the Government respecting the

administration of Demmion Lands, Public Notice is hereby yiven :—

$1.25 per acre to be paid in cash. The colpany er individual will further be protect- ed up to the extent of $500, with six per cent. interest thereon till paid, in the case of ad- vanees made to place families on homesteads,

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"TI", b> yiat ne 7 ré } . > 10% : 1, The Regulations of the I4th October, | under the provisions of section 10 of the am-

i3a7 ate eeeiulen al dalle 7 ee cn j 1879, were reecinded by order of His Excel- | endments to the Dominion Lands Acts herein:

lency the Goveraor General in Council, en! before mentioned.

he Z0tu day ef May, instant, and the follow- ing Regulations for the disposal of agricul- tural lauds substituted therefor :

2. The even-numbered sections within the Canadian Pacifie Railway Belt—that is to say, lying within 24 miles on each side of the line of the said Nailway, excepting those

|which may be required for wood lets in con-

nection with settlers on prairie lands wichin the said belt, or which may be otherwise specially dealt with by the Governor in Coun-

cil~—shall be held exciusively fer homesteads and pre-emptions. The odd-numbered sec- tions within the said belt are Canadian

Pacific Kailway Lands, and can only be ac- quired from the Company,

a. The pre ewptions entered within the said belt, of 24 miles on each side of the Canadian Pacitic Railway, up to and including the 31st day of December next, shall be disposed ot at the rate of $2.50 per acre; four-tenths of the

; purchase nioney, with interest en the latter at

the rate of six per cent. per annam, to be paid at the end: of three years from the date of ; entry, the remainder to be paid in six equal | instalments annually from and after the said date, with interest at the vate above mention- ed ou such pertions ef the purchase money as may from time to time remain unpaid, te be paid with each instalment.

4, From and after the 31st day of Deeember next, the price shall remain the same—that is 2.50 per acre—for pre-emptions within the said beit, or within the corresponding belt of any branch line of the said Railway, but shail be paid in ene sum at the end of three years, or at such earlier peariod as the claimant may have acquired a title te his homestead quarter section,

5. Dominion Lands, the property ef the Gov- Government, 24 miles ef any projected liae of Railway, recognized by the Minster of Rail- ways, and of which he has given notice in the Official Gaz-tte as being a projected line of railway, shall be dealt with as to price and terms, as follows:—'The pre-emptions shall be sold at the same price and on the same terms as fixed in the next preceding paragraph, and the odd-numbered sections shall be sold at $2 50 per acre, payable in cash.

6. In all townships open for sale and settle: ment within Maniteba or the North-West Perritories, outside of the said Canadian Paci- fic Railway Belt, the evenenumbered sections, except in the cases previded for in clause two of these Regulations, shail be held exelusive- ly for homestead and pre-emption, and the edd-numbered sections for sale as pub- lic lands 7 The lands described as public lands shall be seld at the uniform price of $2 per acre, cash, éxcepting in special cases where the Min- ister of the Interior, under the provisions of sectien four ef the amendment to the Domin- ion Lands Act passed at the last session of Parliament, may deem it expedient to withdraw certain farming lands from ordinary sale and settlement, aud put them up for sale at publis auction to the highest bidder, nm whieh event such lands shall be put up at an upset price ef

$2 per acre.

8. outside of the Canadian Pacific Kailway Belt shail be sold at the uni- ferm price of $2 per acre, ‘to be paid in one sum atthe end of three years from the date of entry, or at such earlier period

ire € mptions

is as tie claimant may acquire a title to his homestead

quarter-sectien.

9. Exception shail be made to the previs- ions of clause 7, in so far as relates:to lands in thie Prevince ef Maniteba or the North-West Territories, |yimg to the north of the belt con

taining the Pacific Kailway lands, wherein a person being an actual! settler on an edd-num- eered section shall have the privilegeof pur- chasing to the extent af 320 acres of such sec- tion, but no» more, at the price of $1.25 per acre, each; but ro Patent shall issue fer such land until after three years of actual residence upon the same.

10. The price and terms ef payment ef odd numbered sections aod pre-emptions, above set forth, suall pot apply to persons who have settled in any one of the several belts dea- eribed in the said Regulations ef the 14th October, 1579, bereby rescinded, but who have not ob’ ained entries for their lands, and who may establish « right to purchase such odd-numbered sections or pre-emptions, as the case may be, at the price and on the terms respectively fixed for the same by the said

tegulations. Timber for Settlers.

Ll. The sytem of wood lots in prairie town- ships shall be continued—that is to say, home- stead settlers having no timber on their own lands, shall be permitted to purchase woed lets in area not exceeding 20 acres each, at a uniform rate of $5 per acre, to be paid in eash.

j2. The provision in the next preceding paragraph shall apply also to settlers om prairie seetions bought from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, in cases where the only wood lands available have been laid out on even-numbered sections, provided — the Railway Company agree to reciprecate where theonly timber in the loeality may be found on their lands.

13. With a view to encuoraging settle nent by cheapening the cost of building material, the Government reserves the right to grant licenses from time to time under and ix acgord- ance with the previsons of the ‘Dominion Lands Act,’ ‘te cut merchantable timber on any

covered by such license, shall, for the time being, be subject to the eperation of the same.

‘Salesaf Lands to Individuals or Corporations for Colonization.

vidual applies fer lands to colonize, and is wil- ling to expend capital to contribute towards the construction of facilities for communication between such lands and existing settlements, and the Gevernment is satisfied of the good faith and ability of such company or indi-

odad-pumbered sections in the case _of lands outside of the Canadian Pacific

leta. sent free on receipt of stamp for postage. septs

‘Railway Belt, or of

the Belt of any

lands owned by it within surveyed townships;/ and settlement upon, or sale of any lands}

{5, Imevery such transaction, it shall be absslately conditional :—

(4.) That the compamy or individual, as the may be, shall, in the case ef lands outside ol she said Canadian Pacific Railway Belt, within three years ef the date of the agree- ment with the Gevernment, place twe settlers on each ef the odit-numbered sections, and also two on homesteads on each ef the even- numbered sections embraced in the scheme of colonization,

(o.) That should the land applied for be situated within the Canadian Pacitie Railway Belt, the company or individual shall, within three years ef the date of agreement with the Gevernment, olace two settlers on the half ef each even-numbered section, purchased under the provision contained in paragraph 14, above, and also one settler upen each of the two quarter sections remaining available fer homesteads in such section.

(c.) That on the premoters failing withiv the period fixed, to place the prescribed num- bee of settlers, the Governor in Council may cancel the sale and the privilege of coloniza- tion, and resume possession of the lands net settled, or eharge the full price of $2 per acre, or $2.59 peracre, as the case may be, for sach lands, as may be deemed expedient.

(d.) That it be distinctly understoed that this pelicy shall only apply to schemes for colenization of the publie lands by Emigrants from Great Britain or the European Contin- ent,

case

Pasturage Lands,

16. The policy set forth as follows shall govern applications fer lands ter grazing pur- posea, and previous te entertaining any appli- cation, the Mintster of the Interior shall satis- fy himself of the good faith and ability of the applicant to carry out the undertaking im- velved in such application.

17. Prom time to time, as may be deemed expedient, leases of such Towaships, or por- tions of Tewnships, as may be available fer grazing purpeses, shall be put up at auction at an upset price te be fixed by the Minister of the Interior, and sold te the highest bidder —the premium for such leases te be paid in cash at the time ef the sale,

13, Such leases shail be fer a period of

twenty-one years, and in accordance other- wise with the previsions of Section eight of the Amendment to the Dominion Lands Act, passed at the last session ef Parliament, here- inbefere mentioned. 19. In all cases, the area included in a lease shall be in proportion to the quantity of live stock kept thereon, at the rate of ten acres of laud to one head of stock; and the failure in any case of the lessee to place the requisite stock upon the land within three years from the granting ef the lease, or in subsequently maintaining the proper ratie ef stock te the area of the leasehold, shall justify the Gev- ernor in Council im cancelling such lease, er in diminishiag proportionally the area con- tained therein.

20. On placing the required proportion of stock withi: the limits ef the leasehold, the lessee shall have the privilege of purchasing, snd receiving a patent for a quantity of land covered by such lease, on which te construct the buildings necessary in cennection there- with, net to exeeed five per cent. of the area of the leascheld, which latter skal] in ne single case exceed 160,900 acres.

21. The rental fer a leaseheld shall in all cases be at the rate of $10 per annum for each thousand acres included therein, and . the price of the Jand which may be purchased for the cattle station referred to in the next pre- ceding paragraph, shall be $1.25 per acre, payable in cash.

Payments Jor Lands.

22. Payments fer public lands and also for pre-emptions may be in cash, or in scrip, or in } olice or military bounty warrants, at the optien ef the purchaser.

23. The above provisions shail not apply to lands valuable for town plots,or to coal or other mineral lands, or to stone or marble quarries, or to lands having water power thereon; and further, shal! not,of course, effect Sections 11 and 29 in each Township, which are public school lands,.or Sections 8 and 26, which are Hudson’s Bay Company’s lands.

J. 5S. DENNIS, Deputy Minister of the Interior.

Linpsey RvUssEL, Surveyor General.

P, i. Island Pottery.

FE\HE above Company has en hand a large

z quantity of

MILK PANS,

FLOWER POTS, BUTTER CROCKS, BEAN POTS, MOLASSES JARS, PRESERVE OCROCKS, and other Ware which they offer at Wholesale @Gnly.

Samples can be seen at the office of the undersigned—Corner Queen and Water Sts. aw No sales at the Works. Every description of Ornamental Flower Pots, Garden Vases, etc., made‘to order, Also, Bone Dust for sale.

FRED. W. HYNDMAN. ‘May 21, ’81—2aw

FOR SALE OR TO LEY.

“oo

j8, 3i_oaw

14. Iu any case where a company or indi-}

vidual to carry out such undertaking, the!

| HAT Valuable Freehold Property, situate

on Sidney Street, and owned by the

‘heirs of the late M. W. Skinner, Esq., con- sisting of Dweiing, Stable and Coach House. Also, a VACANT L@T, suitable fer a Gar- den, adjeining the above.

' "The Howse contains 1 large Shep; 7 Bed-

rooms, lining Roem, Parlor and Kitchen.

Inspector of Weights aud Measures. Apply on the premises to ap29 MISS SKINNER,

|

The Shop is at present occupied by the

The Only Place to bet the Genuine HASZARD'S THPROVED

persons concerned in the Dumeraile dis- turbance at the races. What’ followed was the result ef an attempt to reseue the prisoners which gave the mob a favorable oppertunity fer attacking the police. The feeling of the roughs against the police and soldiers is shown by the frequent bruta! assaults upen individuals feund alone.

Lonpon, June IL.

TURNIP SEED!

—Is AT—

F. LePiGe & CO’S.,

SIGN » == BIG TURNIP,

GLASGOW HOUSE, D3 QUEEN STREET. June 9, '$1—wkly, dly and wkly pat

BRITISH

WAREHUUSE,

Queen Square.

7 E have opened and are now showing the largest and cheapest stock of

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

DRY GOODS

to the Public.

ce em tee

Complete in Every Department

\

Ever effered by us

Selected by @ne of the Firm on

the Very Best Terms.

We off-r them at unusually lew prices to all who may faver us with a call. e@ A superior article of TEA always on!

hand. W. & A. BROWN & CO... May 30, 1881.

TO LET!

OR @ term of years, with the right of purchase, several Building Lots, pleasant- ly situated at the head of Upper Hillsborough Street. Apply to

P. DesBRISAY.

June 8—2aw tf

Lobster Packers’ Supplies.

20,009 (1 Ib.) Cans, in cases, 48 each,

250 boxes Tin Plates,

40 ingots Retined Tin,

30 pies Lead,

f bars 1} and 14 Copper,

5 bales Marlive,

20 kegs Bex Nails, 126 coils 12 thread Manilla,

20 bags Nos. Land 2 Navy Bread, 300 barreis Flour,

30 chests and half chests Tea,

50 barrels Sugar,

50 puns Molasses,

50 barrels Mess Perk,

30 do Prime Mess Pork, 1) do —.Jowls,

10 do Beef,

50° do Herring, for Bait,

50 suits Oil Clothing. For sale by

HeeaACce HASZARD.

Ch’tewn, May 6, ’81—im eod.

WANTED.

A YOUNG MAN to take charge of a small Furniture Factory at Nerth Sydney, Cape Breton. None bat a soher mam need apply. Apply to EDWARD McDONALD. North Sydney, May 30, ’81-—im {ju 2

New Scoich I weeds, NEW CANADIAN TWEEDS,

NEW WORSTED CLOTHS, A SPENDID CHOICE,

Which we are now making up to order FIRST-CLASS STYLE, AND GUARANTEE A Good Fitiing Carment,

BEER & SONS.

May 2,1881—eod.

- The Revised NEW TESTAMENT (Authorized Editions.)

A full supply in different binding. Prices from 20 cents upwards, at

MORRIS’ BOOKSTORE.

Post-paid on receipt ef the price. Summerside, May 20, 1881,

The Times, remarking on the growth of lawlessness in Ireland, says ene experiment whieh is the most ebvieus and certain to succeed, remains untried. If ene mob of Fenians, or Land Leaguers, or ef what- ever ether title, were just for once net suffered to have its ewn way; if its appeal to feree Were met and evercome, and if the meh were dispersed and forbidden te re- assemble, the consequences might be harpy in the extreme. One victory of the law would be the sigmal for cthers. The ob- jections to such an experiment are obvieus, but net cenclusive.

New York, June Li. A Cork despatch states Bisltrop Fitzgerald

et Skibbereen, says reports of «troubles there and at Schull are greatly exaggerated

and that the rioters were-roughs and reek-

less boys whe had no conneetien with the

Lend League. »>

Lonpon, Jnne 1

A meeting of 1200 postal telegraph em-

pleyes, «of Londen, was held last night. Resolutions were passed calling a national eonreren gt int telegraph clerks te be held in Liverpool in three weeks, and pledging the meeting te abide by the decision ef that conference. Auvether resolution unani- mousiy passed agreeing te strike if that covrse ef action should be deeided upon, The meeting resulved te take immediate steps to bring abext a total cessation of ever time work, which appears to hea grievance, as alse is.a recent statement made in the House eof Cemmons, by Right Hon. Henry Fawcett, Postmaster General, that over tiue work is often’ woluntarily submitted te, and that when volunteers are not fertheoming it is fairly a'loted by ballet. Netices have been pested preciaiming Skibbereen, Balleydeheh and the sur- reunding districts, and forbidding | all assemblages. teinforeements for troeps have arrived at Skibbereen and Skul! to prevent further disturbances.

Vhe ‘Standard’s” cerrespondent~ at Liverpool says: At daybreak, on Sm- day, 200 meu marched te. the prisen.to which MeKerritt and Reberts were taken), ostensibly “te reseue the prisoners. A policoman gave the alarm and tle wardens assembled armed with loaded carbines and revolvers. The party then separated,

The News understands that’ Hon. Lionel Sackville Wess, “British Minister at Ma- drid, will succeed Sir Edward Thornton as Minister the United States,

Cork, June 12.

Abenut 15,000 peeple assembled, to-day, in Millstreet, County Cork, but made no attempt to hold a meeting. A large force of military and pelice was drafted ter ser- vice in the town. . The peeple formed a precession and marched throngh the streets with bands playing and banners flying. There was no speaking except hy a priest, who advised the people to quit the tewn quietly. The Bishop of Ross, addressing his congreyation, ‘to-day, strongly depre- cated resert to violence. Theis case, he said, weuld be eventually righted by viger- ous eonstitutional action.

Selomon Alexander Hart, pauster ard librarian of the Royal Academy, is dead.

Liverpoot, Jane 12-~-Midnight.

Sines the attempt to reseue McKerritt and Reberts, sentries have been placed around the prisen and wardens armed to the teeth are patrolling euiside.

THE FRENCH DERBY. Panis, June 11.

The race for the grand prize of Paris took plaee to-day, and resulted in anether vic- tory fer an American horse. J. R. Keeno’s Foxhall was the winner,with Mr. Lefevre’s eh. c. Tristan, second, Count Leyrange’s b. c. Albion third.

The contest was a close and exciting one, especially near the finish. Tristan joined Fexhall at the distance, and both ran a grand race. Foxhall, staying longer, won by a head.

a 2 ee

Thomas was & earpenter, bit ewing to a dullness in trade, he engaged as footman at the “ big house” in the village. On the day of his engagemeut his mistress, hay- inga lady visitor in the drawing-room,

rang the bell for the foetman. ‘‘ You will show this lady the front door, Thomas,’ she said. ‘‘ Yea men,” — re-

plied Thomas, and bowing te the lady, he requested her to follow bim. On eoming te the door, he epened it, and the lady was abeut to pass out, when Thoutas, tap ping her .on the shoulder,remarked:. ‘‘ This is the deer, mem; guid pitch-pine in’t framed twa an’ a half inches thick, with raised mouldings, wad eost about twa poond

ten, mem.”

2 > o—-

SUS ae A Mexican at Las Vegas, New Mexice, | tied his wifefirmly tea beard, thus helpless against a fence, took a posi-|

leaned her

tien 50 feet away, and used her as a target fer rifle praetice. He did net hit her, his object being to frighten her by embedding the bullets in the beard clese te her head and bedy. She fainted under the frightful ordeal.

~<«4ee>---—

THE report that Secretary Blaine and offices is declared to be totally unfounded,

Presidency.

Minister Lowell are abeut io exchange’

| A case of considerable impertance,to the jlebster jacking industry was heard to-day lat the office of Marine and* Pisheriés, Do- minien Building, befere fispector Duvar, whereia Edgar Sawyer, Eeg., was charged by ene of the fishery wardens with canning lobsters in spawn in the mew factery at North Restice. The case grew eut df evi- dence elicited in an enquiry by the Taspec- ter inte the circuimsiauces under which sev- eral ca: tieads of lobsters belonging to Rus- tico’ Frenchmen wer’ reeeatly Seized in Charlottetown market, As the matter is ef interest te all engaged in the canning busi- neas, we give the substance of Mr Duvar’s decizion. He said :—-

“This. ia an important case, affecting the public interest, end as I netice in Court a representative of the Preas, { ge inte it at seme length, with the view of ceaveying infermatien te others cencerned. i

The eharge, in general terms, brought by # fishery warden in the discharge ef his duty, is that lebsters bearing eva are hab- itually canned in defendant's factery.

The cefenee is ignorance *efethe law ; also that defendant received no netice; with aside issne that to step taking lebstors in spawn would be to step the factory.

T fail to discern any lachesseouthe part

ef the Department. A gentleman of the defendants apparent business ability in entering on a new industry is pre-supposed toknow all abeusit. The defence of igner- ance of the law is therefere net tenable in this case; neither is that plea wsually ae- cepted in deferee. As regares the alleged alternative thst the factory must be clesed if the regula‘ions be enferced, if is within my. ewn knewledge that certain factories in this Province manage te conduct their busimess and yet eenform to the law. My persowal knowledge, hawever, is not evi- dence. 1 shall net eal) on either the com- plainant or defendant t.adduce testimony as te the possible elesing referred to, for the teasen that the question ef profit and less dees net come within the range ef the Act. The defendant buys his lobsters ‘from the fishermen, by tale, at BO cents per hun- dred, or half a cent apiece. In Teeeviving two or three thousand lebsters afi a time from the beats, the brightest vigilance ceuld yet prevent a few undersized and in spawn frem-being counted in, and an officer who tesk advantage ef “that acci- dent wenld be hateh and unjust. This case however is different, for the conrplaint is that 200 lobsters in egg were on the tables at once.

if one of Mr. Sawyer’s fishermen were to offer him half a cent as fair payment fer a theugand cans of lobsters he wevld prebably be astonished ; and yet the em- ployer who permits his fishermen te bring one lebster in spawti to his factery, is simply paying a premiam of half aeent for the destruction ef 1,000 futnre cans, or three thensand lebsters at three te a can. Te my uncominercial mind it, is net con- ceivable how gentlemen who have invested thousands ef dellars iu faciories with a view to the permanence ef the industry can effer seduetive premiiums of half cents te destrey it. The complainant asserts in this ease, (but net having astually counted them was unable to swear to the exact number) that there were in the factery en the merning of the eighta of June, 200 Ivbsters in spawn, Taking each mecher-fiah, as . resenting the average number of 3, young, we have certeinly half a million of lebsters destroyed as the résult ef that one morning's fishing at that one factery. Now as the tetal catcl: ef lebsters in Prince Bdward Island waters last year was esti- mated at about seven. millions, here we have, in one morning, by the inadvertence or recklessness ef one factory, one-feur- teenth of the entire industry of & Province, fet. a whole..year, not only ‘‘ooing” bunt gone, at the remarkably low figureot one dollar! This strikes me as something worse than wautori—as atre- ciens—as utterly appesed to the ben@ficent designs of Nature’ Howerer prolific lob- sters may be (aifd it is hy no means known that they are exceptionally prolific,). their reprodnctien cannot keep paee with such whelesale slaughter. Unlike gasperanx and seme ether fish that are supposed to come te maturity in two er at most three years from the spawn, the lobster is e ereature of slow growth, | requiring several years for its develepment. Henee the necessity of loeking « few years al to prevent the utter extinction of this great industry upon our eoast.

By See. 15, 3. s. 7 of the Fisheries Act, 31 Vic. Chap. 60, shellefish come sithin the jurisdiction of the Act, and thy Regula- tions under it, as fish. By Sec 1 ne per- son is allowed to “possess” any fish whereof the catching or killing is prohibit- ed by the Act. The Order-in-Couneil of date of the 13th of March, 1879, I quote at length, namely :—

“TS the Prevince of _Prinee Edward Island it shall be unlawful at any time te fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or any

‘female lobsters ik spawn or with the eggs

attached; soft-shelled; or any young lebsters of lesa size. than nine inches is length, measuring from head to tail, ex- clusive of claws er feelers; and whea eaught by accident in nets or ether fishing ores atus lawfully used fer other fish, they ‘be liberated alive at the. risk andseust of | the owner of the net or ather apparates, jer by the occupier..of the fSshery,—on devolve the proof of

either of whom shall such actuul liberation. ’

Ly Section 16 of the Aet the penalty for ‘all offences not otherwise provided’ for is

and it is further asserted that the former 820 for each offence. And by stib-sectios will not leave the Cabinet during Garfield’s 2 of the same section 16, “* the eontravem-

tion on any day of any of the provisions of