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Ji Pays to Bay at PARKINS

As business in our millinery department is rushing, we w ouldlike you to leave your or ‘er early as possible if you N Saturday i

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Wait your hat

Children s

Have vou -ev-n the Coats, Collars, UHar~. ‘I ms, Hoods, Pinstores. | ant-’ Cloaks and

\Taderwear in our lap:rtment. We finest stock of & in the city.

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‘<irts. H e oa hougnt your's yet, if oO we woulc like to show you our line

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LADIES’ UNDERW2AR

SA’ DAY

lt will soon be time for you to think about chayging your winter Underwear for someth- ing lighter in weight. We weuld like to remind you that weare showing our new sum- ier underwear at prices rang- ing rom 5c to $1,65 per gar- ment.

Remember the old rule—-«“No trouble toshow goods,”

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THE MILLINERY LEADERS

Children’s have the n4 wear

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APRIL & “1899

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HILLSBOROUGH BRIDGE.

| Tae Legislature of P. E. Island hae

i

performed its part--the bill will pass asa

| matter of course—-in reepect to the pro- posed Gelfaet and Murray Harbor Railway and Hijl«borough Bridge. I+ has author- z+4 an expenditure ot $!2.000a year— equal toa capiial sum of $400,000. We il new see what the Parliament of Canada will do about the matter. The

cosstruction and maintenance of the pro-

posed railway and bridge will make up to

those who live eouth of the Hillsborough, mn partet jeast, what they have lost in > past twenty-five vears, and afford the

eans Of com munication which that part

of they country needs. We are therefore

glad to see the undertaking in a fair way of

accom; l#hment, even though it mvolves

an anoual Province of

payment by the

$12,000 ayear. If the people see value

forthe money they wiil not grudge its

payment,

While this te true, the people—all who take ihe trouble to think about the matter —mustagree with tne Opposition that the Legielature ought not to have been coa-

sirained to“ go it blind.” Notwithetand~

ing all the recent delegations to Ovtawa— one of which slove coet the taxpayers

$750 —the Goverement bad not a «crap of

information to supply, except a big and more or less idealistic plan of the proposed It that definite agreement with the Dominion Government has All that can be raid that upto the point of $12,000 year, Dominien authorities have the Province completely at their mercy, and that vo ex:ase has now been left the Federal ad-

ministration for not at once proceeding

bridge. is evident no

been made.

the

with the work.

In cf the . fact that it is agreed and admitted tbat this Province has an equitable claim upon the Dominion | Goverument for

view

a large sum of money, the Opposition’s proposition that the pro- vincial share of the expenditure oo proposed bridge should be deducted from

the

the amount of this claim was reasonable

But the Provin:ial Government

SBeCU) LO have made no effort to this ead; or :t they bave, they failed utterly to induce

the Federal Minis ters -

io makethe co

cession. Tie grant of $12 000 ayear t» the Dominion Government is to come

of the Pro. vincial taxpayers,—even though the Pro

directly out of tke pockete

vincial UWovernment has an equi able claim wvpon Canada for upwards of | $2,000,800! Thisis hard. It is unfsir and wrocg, from a business point of view. Yet it is a remarkaile fact that the Government and their supporters in the Legislature would not look at, let alone discuss, a proposal that the capital sum of

$4.0,C00 required to provide the annual

subsidy of $12,900 a year, shou!d be tak-

en out of the amount justly owing to the

Province by Canada. They literally | nooctei down Mr. Shaw’s reaclution

amendment, which reads as follows : —

“Resolved, that inasmuch as the Fede.

| “‘rs] Goverument owes this province large “sums of money amounting to upwards of

32.(00 000 for cle

i “morial dated the 18th d ‘

118 18 as fet forth in a me~ y of March 1898, and signed by A.B. Warburton, Prem er

| “of P. E. Island, J. W. Richards, member “of the P. KE. Island government and H.C.

THE DAILY BXAWINER

“McDonald, Attorney-Geueral, |“E. Island, the goveroment of this pro- i vince shall be empowered to receive and | *acce pt from the Domioion government in | ** part payment of anid claimsa sum not “exceeding $400,000 to b> applied towarde “the censtruction of a combined railway “and traffic bridge acroes the Hillaborough "River from & point at or near Charlotte-

“Lo toa point ator near Southport, “said sum to be expended on terma as may “be agreed upon by the Dominion Parlia- “ment and the Legialat ure of this “vince.”

vn

pro

They ruled this resolution out of order

and used the whole

brute

force of their prevent it spread upon the journals of the House. do them justice, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Campbell, Mr. John A. Macdovald. Mr. A. J. Mace donald, ané others is fou zht

their

majority to from being

To

Opposition, stubbornly aud vigorou to gain the Legis! like a bear garden,—two, three, and four

ly

point. For a time ainre was

members standing and shouting at the

put chait

sume time. Two motions

carried by 1 Campbell

declaiming and protesting.

were

and declared he

man while Mr. was on bis feet

O

j rity eventually carried the day.

course the The

Party in re-

mi conduet of the Government epect to this matter cannet but be condemn- ed by the tax-payers whose intereate the Oppcs tion strove to conserve and defend, if the people do not condemr the Provincial Goveroment for failing to make an ar- rangement with the federal m:nisters up- on thetines of Mr.

We sball, indeed, be greatly surprised

Shaw’s resolution in amendment of their) proposition to teke $12.00) a year out of the pockets of Pro-

vincial tax-payers

e+e e

HCSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

Dr. year

Bianchard’s report is short tbis : He says:

“The number of patients on the ro!l on the Lat of January, 1893, and eighty-four. We close the pear wiih a@ population of one hundredand eighty- three, & decrease for the year one.

“Twenty-five males and fourteen females have been admitied, making the total sumber uoder treatment two buodred and tweuty—three.”

“Fifteen males and thirteen females heave been discharged, and six males and ' six feraeles have died, leaving under care

land? treatment at the present time, ninety~ |

: , seveh males and €ighty-e1x females, a

to:a!l of ene hundred and eighty-three.

“The deaths which tock place were due | to the following causea, viz: Four to con- sumption, three to chronic diarr! o>, two to epilepsy, two to apo; lexy, and one to the exheuftion of mania.

‘The precentage of rec cases admitted is 18, Andt of deaths on the average numbe is 6 i.

“The amoan’

yveries on the i€ precentag* r resident

natients

realized trom

form and suncries cold amounted to $917. $4. This sum has beén paid to the Sec retary of the Board of Trustees.”

These paragrapns with an acknowledges mentto the press for papers supplied gratuitously and eiatiatieal tables, make up the report,

The chief point to be noted in this re port is that upwards of ove bundred and eighty lunatic patients, with all the offi cials and attendants, continue to be “crit bed, cabined and confined, within the walls of a building which was, years ag», pro

S

aouned to» small, The cry of the moat

has been raised in vain. It has fallen upon the dullears of an incapable administra

tion which has so incumbered the Province by debt that public needs must either go

unsatisfied or the debt be increased.

etc., of P.

wa:on? hun rd}

helpless of God’s creatures for more room |

|

| NOTES AND COMMENTS.

—It seems not unlikely that some of the Liberals working tn the Brockvi'ls electioa will goto the peri entiary.

—The Burrel-Johnson Yarmouth have been close! and ali the haudsdismissed, We presume that Yar-~ mouth has become so rich uoder Liheral Government that the proprietors aud #l the workmen are able to retire.

Thon works at

—The St.John Sup de ge ren the value

37,225,000 compared with $4 838,

fect safety to vessels and cargo, the San remarks jastifying al! the claims that have been made regarding ibe port of St. Jona.

—Mr. Herbert Speneer, H.C. Maepherson, author of Adam Smith, says: I much trom your sketch of '

writing to Mr. of a biographs learned Adam Simith’s

have

life and work, It presents the estential |

facts in a lucid and interesting war i Er ecix ily _ om i glad io see tbat you have

usisted upon the individuslistic charac ter lof his teaching. It is weil that his | authority on the side of individualiem | sould be put forward in et davs of | rampant socialism, wi he great mass | of legislative measures extend pu . ic ;*gercy and restrict private agency ; the f SE¥G0 sates of euch measures being blind } the fact that by emall steps they ar wringing about a state in which the

citizen will have lost al! freedom,”

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—We wish to state for the information i< the many persons writing about tie Fruit Gr owers’ Association of Prince

2 Eiward Island that the payment of one dollar and en srolement by the Secretary, Mr, Peter McCourt, of Charlottefown entitles anybody to See with all the

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OVERDUE. hands for colleciont,

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ACCOUNSS

will pass into other

x Businese

Every article in our store is on sale at reduced prices for (ASH ONLY.

MARK WRIGHT & CO., Ltd eeeceeaeeanrareaaeece |

of goods exported from St. John i- cl re 10 | . > ' 768 for |

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rights and privileges of the Assoc’a- DIED. tion. Besides every inember without extra poy, receives On the 23 inet, at Brackley Pout Rosi,

the Canadian Horti culturist, organ of the Frait Growers Ae “sociation of Ontario, togeiher with the invaluable re-

the mon bly | Geardon McGongan Rodd, aged 2

and 18 days, son of J. W. and Bessie

| ioe on horticulture and entomology So much depends ‘ | | issued by th? Ontario Government the blood that cl ana ca

| yearly. As the eubscription price 7

lof the Horticulturist slone /* $1.00 it perilia many different diseasenare cured (will be seen that it is worth any ody’s —_ | while to join the P. EB. [sland Frat’ Grow

fers Aseocistion O dd Lines ?

tue seaton 897-98 There we re, inciu i. and ever jeog. A faw left, ive rent cnlors §

ing the Farness liae, 61 sailings, compar- nizes. Low pilecs to clear ae

ed with 57 last seavon, and ibe tonnage ot | ihe Y. W.C. T. Unior entertainment in | ae r eer a +

vessele wae twuch larger this season, This | the ¥.¥.0. A.H.'', Tueed-v evening FANCY FLOW EQ POT a

recurd shows a gratifying increase in| nex',is nad ot th- Flower Mission in ' ’ S. ee 2 »} ; -arri ith ; ‘tiem wail lacieiy rT i”.

business, which wae carried on with per~ counection with their Socieiv. Admission FANCY JUES —men A>

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