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The Daily Examine | vesioiosiony ceinienns indorsnicnis a ot congratulate them upon the action one of their representatives on this occasjon.

. on Comment is, ‘perhaps, unnecessary. We cannot, nevertheless, refrain from ex- pressing the regret of Mr. Yeo’s constitu | ents that occasion should be given for, P __| the publication throughout the length and

Tre LocaleLegislature will meet for!) eadth of Canada of such a damaging the despatch of business in & week from paragraph—placing them in such a false to-day ; aud suggestions as to the legisla position before the public. tion desirable and necessary are now iD ie order. A number of bills have been proposed, some of which have already been discussed in the Legislature and} — Mr. A. B. Warburton has written thrown out or dropped, others of which/a second letter to the Scotsman, in will no doubt receive the careful consi-} which he sets forth to the farmers of deration of all good representatives of | Scotland the agricultural capabilities and the people. advantages of P. E. Island. Well done!

As this will be the last session of the; _. [he Herald tries to shift the issue present Legislature, hon. members will, from the questioa now pending between no doubt, be on their good behavior, | he City authorities and violators of the and permit no reasonable and practicable} Soot Act to a question as to the “worth- demand to remain unsatisfied. There] icssness” of the Scott Act. It. won't are, of course, a good many minor evils sacceed. The Sect Act is eow laws it to be remedied ; but the major one ts un-/ is the duty of all good citizeps to respect doubtedly the Legislature itself. Our! the jaw; and it is the duty of the Police local laws need revision, consolidation,|., enforce the law. When another emendation aad improvement; but the | Scott Act election is pending, it will be greatest need of all is a local source of|time enough to discnas the question laws commensurate with our popalation raised by the Herald. and our means.

Two chambers with forty-three mem- bers appear ridiculous when we reflect that there are here little more than a hundred thousand persoas, including men, women and children, and when we reflect that the great Province of Ontario, with millions of people, has but 7 ; =

Whereas, The Washington treaty has expired one chamber. and there is no prospect of the immediate negotia

This i itt } ll: but party | tion of another treaty ; therefore, ' ‘ Chis is admitted hy all t party Resolved, Thatin the opinion of this meeting

jealousy and personal selfishness has all ¢persons interested in*our fisheries should heretofore stood in the way of the neces-| 40 sil in their power to secure the enjoyment of sary reform. May we not hope that} Resolved, That we ‘believe @ law should be vow, just before they appeal to the|{ie“transportation of bait, ice or supplies to country, honorable members will sink | American vessels. their party feelings; compromise their) — The Toronto Mail points out a political differences, and agree to carry | noteworthy fact in connection with the out some reasonable plau under which| religious aspect of the division on the the Legislature may be redaced forth-| Landry resolutions: there is no Irish with. Catholic representative on the Liberal Perhaps, the simplest, easiest andj side of the House, while on the Govern- best mode of accomplishing the retorm}| ment benches there are eight, Messrs. dsired, would be to provide that one/ Bergin, Burns, Costigan, Coughlin, Cur- member be elected, where now there are} ran, Daly, Hackett and McGreevy. All two. By this means the House of] these voted against the motion, and this, Assembly would be reduced te fifteen] better than any amount of irresponsible members, the Legislative Counci! to} talk, indicates the true feelings of their seven ; and instead of forty-three repre-| people oa the Riel question. Of Scot- sentatives, we should have twenty-two,!tish Catholics in the Commons there are or twenty-one less than at present. Each| four, Messrs. Cameron (Invervess), Mac- member now costs the Province for in-}dougall and Thompsov, who voted with demuity and allowances about $200 ajthe ministry, and Mr. McIntyre, who year; and if the number of members) stood by Mr. Blake in his support of its were simply lessened by twenty-one the} assailants. anoual saving would amount to $4200,/ _ sir Charles Dilke made a great or a capital sum of $84,000. If, more-| oratorical effort at Chelsea a few days over, the two Houses were merged in| 455 The speech was mainly a fierce one, all the incidental expenses of one] syack upon the Whigs, and furnished would be saved. These amount to about} spyndant evidence of the close alliance $2,000 a year or a capital sum of existing between the speaker and Mr. $40,000. : : Chamberlain. He referred at great The total saving under this plan would length to the Irish question, discussing be about $6,200 a year—equal to a Mr. Gladstone’s attitude to the Liberal capital sum of $124,000. party, and expressing himself as strougly This is not a large sum but it is worth | opposed to the land purchase scheme. saving. Better—much better to save it| He said that if the laudfords were to be than to take it out of the pockets of the | compensated for the loss of the land, so tax payers ! every one should be compensated for any Some few difficulties taalle the way | loss entailed by the concession of Home of the consummation of the plan; but}Raule. “Ihis was impracticable, and he they may be easily overcome if only our | preferred settling the difficulty by giving local politicians will agree co work patri-| the Irish people full management of all otically together for the good of the| purely Irish affairs. Province.

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- Editorial Notes.

—The fishermen of Yarmouth County are warmly seconding the policy of the Government as to the exclusion of Uaited States vessels from the Canadian fishing grounds. At a meeting lately held in Port Maitland, the following resolutions were passed unadimonsly :

—We are confirmed in the opinion that the Grits are playing false with Mr. John McKeozie by the long satirical produciion of the Pioneer, in which Sir John McDonald is portrayed as “ exult- ing’ over Mr. MecKenzie’s recantation, aud “great excitement” is sid to pre- vailat Ottawa on account of it. There is evidently no truth in the production— itis a forgery; and we thay fairly con- clude that there is no truth in the letter of repndiation over Mr. McKenzie’s signa:

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A Challenge.

Tue Patriot informs its readers tha! the Ottawa correspoudent ofthe Halifax Chronicle “lets a little gleam of light” upon what the Tory members from the Island at Oitawa think of the Sullivan- Ferguson delegation. He says enquiry among the Tory members of the House of Commons from P. E. Island shows

hat they i mm pé rith the Lf iti i wr =o = 8) ne with ~ ture, The Grit party are biting their 8s uch Messrs. Sullivan andisioer nails off because of Mr. Me-

a oe ee ares 2 Kenzie’s defection and the incontrover- believe Messrs Sateen and Fe. inal tible reasous he has given for the course would ale =f a) 7 : a he has taken ; and they scruple at no act ' meet ith aay encouragement calculated to cover their quondam triend from the imperial Government ip their aod supporter with ridicule and con- demauds upon the Dominion.’ Now. hostien

wedo not hesitate to charge that this “little gleam of light” which the Patriot delights in, as the utterance of “One Tory .member,” at Ottawa, is utterly false aud misleading; and} Mr. Thomas Stratton, M. D., retired we challenge the Patriot and his| deputy-inspector-general of hospitals and Halifax contemporary to produce the fleeta of the Royal Navy, died suddenly

po a during Monday night at his residence in ae a member” to whom Valletort-place, Stoke. Deceased was of ue! ude,

7 * they have truth o0} ¢yjj habit, and although he has not com- their side, they will accept our challenge. plained of serious illness lately, suffered to No “Tory member” from the Island]a certain extent. He was not under any at Ottawa would, we believe, place him- | medical care. On Monday evening he re- self in the confidence of a Grit news- tired to rest as usual, nothing unusual! paper correspondent, and it it uring menees in nie eonesonee or manner. be in their power te waase the “ one esierday morning his daughter went to

T cats id sa mae his bedroom to call him, but received no ory member’ who said he did not | newer On entering the room she found

believe the Island delegates ‘ would} him dead. Dr. J. Rolston was quickly in meet with any encouragement | attendance, and considered deceased had from the Imperial Government,” let} expired several hours before the discovery them do so. Failing in thus giving away | of his death, and had evidently died quietly

Sudden Death of a Naval Officer at Devonport.

eir * T ”» » th ‘T ave | during his sleep. The cause of death, it is their ® Fery __Seinet, See public Rave believed, is an affection of the heart. The deputy-coroner for Devonport (Mr. A. Gard) will hold an inquest this evening.

Mr, Stratton entered the navy asa sur- geon on December 19th, 1837, and in the following year was sent out tothe Lakes during the Canadian Rebellion, where his conduct as a young medical officer won him the esteem and respect of all around him, and prompted his friends to prophecy for him a career of note. He served as sur- geon throughout the rebellion, and on Jan. 30th. 1847, was promoted to the post of staff surgeon. He was then appointed to the Canadian Immigrant Fever Hospital, His promotion to fleet-surgeon took place on May 13th, 1859, and he retired from the service on June Sth, 1867, with the honor- ary rank of Deputy I[uspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets. He has not taken part in municipal or public affairs since then, although his genial and hearty dis-

no alternative but to conclude that this socalled “little gleam of light” has emanated from a Grit source, and is therefore destitute of the essential elerment—Truth.

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How a “Shirker” Managed.

Under this heading the Ottawa Gitizen of March 27th. has the following item:—

Le An amusing incident of the vote taken on Mr. —e S motion expressing regret that Riel had we exe ‘uted, was the alacrity with which Mr. i. M. P. for Prince County, P. E. Island, made ee from the Commons Chamber, and conse- cad vee dodged the vote, Mr. Yeo was present ment that oo Sir Hector Langevin’s amend- the clerk dechen ty 08 be now put,” but when and left the “( ared the result, he immediately rose Liberal pe namber, The vigilant whip of the this oud ane wy the Lower Provinces noticed capturing th ©¢ in pursuit but did not succeed in § the hon. gentleman, who, it is rumored,

ocKed hi a? a an ind is not very” in room No. 6. Conduct of this

the people: wh aboail ee faity robteremiatives of : 1 to give Qn, independent + aoe qhrave p ed

— won him the friendship of many. » Stratton was an author of ability. He

has written a large number of essays and p pers upon medical subjects.— The Western News, March 17.

[Dr. Stratton was, some years ayo, a resi- dent of Charlottetown. He was attached to the Hydrographical Survey under Admi- ral Bayfield and Captain Orlebar. |

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The Garrison Arsillery.

Ir is pleasing to learn that the P. E. Island Brigade of Garrison Artillery again carry off the lion’s share of the honors com- peted for under the auspices of the Do- minion Artillery Association, among which are the two leading prizes, viz : The Gov- ernor General’s prizes for general efficiency and for shifting ordinance, No.2 Battery, capturing the first and No.1 the last named. The prize for general efficiency is awarded to the Battery obtaining the greatest number of credits for Company Drill, Manual and Firing Exercises, Gan Drill, Discipline, Answers to Questions on the subjects of Gunnery, Artillery Material, &¢., by the officers and men, and the appearance and state of the clothing and accoutrements. The credits given for each of the foregoing branches is fixed by the Inspector of Artil- lery. The time made by No. 1 Battery in the Shifting Ordinance competition is looked upon as simply wonderful by those who are competent to judge of such mat- ters, and we heartily congratulate Sergt. Palmer, who was No. 1 of the detachment, upon its great success. ’

The General Efficiency prize was cap tured by No. 2 Battery, notwithstanding the fact that at least two of the competing Batteries had, at the time of the inspec- tions, the advantage of continuous drills and discipline, being for some time pre- viously in charge of forts and doing gar- rison duty. The Toronto Battery, which took the second prize, was quartered at New Fort, Toronto, where it had every advantage in the way of drills and daily inspections, while the Island Batteries had nothing but the evening drifl, with very limited time, in consequence of the late- ness of the season when the orders for the annual drills were issued. Under these circumstances our Island Batteries are to be doubly congratulated.

The prizes won by the Island Brigade are as follows :—

The Governor General’a Prize for Gen- eral Efficiency..........6.» Cup and $75.00

Do do for Shifting Ordinance ‘* ‘* 25.00 And the following individual prizes for shooting with 32ib, smooth-bore guas : Sergt. Weatherbie, No. 3 Battery, Gedrgotows 22.6.5 658 A 8.00 Covel. ier, Bes b..cccaccncces stieW 5 00 cpenr: Bil ood TS: Boa aS 4.00 or NE TOU ©. ; oods cededeisc sce ee eee |e a ee eee 3.00 * Aithee, Ba’ hk. ict Guna 2 00 Ben Owes, Na: Bi... sss ee coca 200 Corgl, Conley, Bee 1. ack... veectees - 2,00 ON eee ee binder aues 330.00

<nvene-neeeigiitti ilies tinge Men of Enterprise.

Unper this heading the Hast Boston Ad- vocate of the 13th inst., publishes the fol- lowing sketch of Mr. Walter F. Bark, accompanied by a very good likeness of that

gentleman :

“This gentleman represents the enterprising and successful mechanical element in the busi ness of this place. Mr. Burk was born in Prince Edward Island in 1811, and came to East Boston when quite young. He was educated in the Chapman School. For some years he worked at the ship-builders’ trade, and afterwards engaged in the wharf and bridge building, for several years as foreman for Mr. Wm. A. Norton. <A few years ago Mr. Burk went into business on his own account, and he still carries on wharf and bridge building as a contractor. Mr. Burk has been prominently identified with Republican politics in Ward One. In the years 1883-84 he 3erved his ward in. the Common Council, and in 1884 was a representative of the city government on the board of directors of the East Boston ferries. Notlong since Mr. Burk purchased Mr. Aadrew Hall’s handsome cottage house, No. 253 Lexington street, where he now resides, In affairs of public interest this gentleman takes a prominent part. Heis pepeler in a large circle of friends, who appreciate his admirable qualities of mind and heart.”

Mr. Burk was born at Bay Fortune where many of his relatives and friends re- side, about 45 years ago, and left there when very young to try his future in the neighboring Republic. He is a cousin of C. Howari Dingwell, of the P. E. I. R.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,

The Gillis Case.

Srr,—The writer of ‘*Vindex,” in your issue of Wednesday last, endeavors to whitewash the murderer of poor Callaghan, and itis evident that he has undertaken more than can beaccomplished. His at- tempts to palliate the horrible crimes of a monster like Gillis, will be read by an in- telligent public with that abhorrence which they deserve. ‘

The letter hails from Black Bush, It may have been copied there, but it savors so. strongly of a certain law office in the Cameron Block in this city, that there can be but one opinion as to its birthplace. To bring about this dangerous miscarriage of justice, some one has blundered—some lawyer has “‘stultified” himself, and it is the merest vanity for him to suppose that people will pay any respect to his opinions of right and wrong.

Yours, &., OBSERVER,

Reply to ‘‘Vindex.”

Str,—I have read the letter signed ‘*Vindex,” in yesterday’s Examiner, and I should say that it is strange that your cor- respondent did not append his genuine name to his letter—a letter in which he asks your readers to pay no attention to anohymous writers,

itis well kaown that Gillis’ attorneys sent a tition to His Excellency the Governg® General, asking for mercy on behalf of the condemned man. The people do not know what statements were contained. in this petition, but as a result they do know that Callaghan’s murderer escaped the gallows. Neither is i generally known that this petition was received at Ottawa and acted on while a letter from the same firm of attorneys wes on its way to the Governer- Genera! withdrawing certain of the state- ments, or properly speaking, mis-represen- tations, which were in the original petition because these statements could not be sub- stantiated. The Governor-General having acted before the retraction was, received, conld not, of course, withdraw the com- mutation, notice of which had been re- ceived by the Sheriff of Queen’s County.

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I do not wish to charge the prisoner's attorveys with any wrong; on the contrary, | expressly exonerate them, because I be- lieve the fact to be that whenever they dis- covered the errors in the petition they immediately wrote the Governor-General, but owing to the delay in the mails the contradiction arrived too late.

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AVING Accounts with the undersigned, same being past due, will please take notice that settlement, either by cash or note, must be made forthwith or they will be handed over to their Attorney. BEER & SONS, March 29th, 1886—mar3l 2wks eod wy Imo

Board of Civil Service Examiners.

OTTAWA, 17th March, 1886. HE Civil Service Entrance Examinations wil commence at Halifax, N. S., St. John, N. B. Charlottetown, P. E. L, Quebec, Montreal Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, London, Winnipeg, and Victoria, B. C.,on Tuesday, the llth day of May, at 9 o'clock, a.m. Forms for making application may be had from the under- signed until Monday, the 18th of April, and the same must be returned duly executed not later than Friday, the 30th idem, P. LESUEUR, Commissioner and Secretary. April 1, 1886—oaw

. NOTICE.

PUBLIC MEETING will be heid at Strang’s HalJ, Cape Traverse Wharf, on SATURDAY AFTERNOON next, at 2 p. m., to consider the question of the construction of a bridge across the Cape Traverse River, near the Wharf, and other local requirements. The members for the local electoral district, and Commissioner of Public Works are respectfully requested to attend. By requisition of inhabitants JOHN BELL, J. P., ISAAC CLARK, J. P. Cape Traverse, March 27, '86 ~anl 2i :

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MILITARY GONGERT,

Under the Patronage of His Honor the Lieut.-Governor and Mrs. Mac- donald,

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MARKET HALL, Monday, May 3rd.

HE Committee are sparing no pains in order that this may be the event of ithe season. Mr. 8. N. Earle, Musical Director. Particulars later. HENRY BEER, Lr.-Cox., Chairman Com J. D. SEAMAN, Secretary. March 31 —3i

MAL. CONTRACTS,

ENDERS addressed to the Postmaster

General will be received at Ottawa until noon on FRIDAY, the 23rd APRIL next, for the conveyance of Her Majesty’s Mails on proposed contracts, for four yeare, from ist July next, over each of the following routes, viz :—

BELFAST and GARFIELD.

BLOOMING POINT and TRACADIE CROSS.

MILTON STA!IION and NORTH MIL- TON.

Printed notices, containing full informa- tion as to conditioas of proposed contracts, may be seen, and blank forms of tender may be obtained at the Post Offices at which the services commence and terminate, or at the office of the subscriber.

F, pk StC. BRECKEN, Assistant P, O. Inspector. Post Office Inspector’s Office, Charlottetown, P. E. I., March 12, 1886.

LMG, A. LEGTORE COURSE.

‘PNAE third Lecture of the winter course,

before the Young Men’s Christian Agso- ciation, will! be delivered by MR. T. A. LEPAGE, of the Prince of Wales College, in the

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Thursday Evening Next, April ist.

Subject : ““PAUL—A Study of Character.” Chair to be taken at 8 o'clock. Admission, 10 cents.

HENRY SMITH,

Secretary. March 29, 1886—t1 dte

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