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THE DAILY EXAMINER.

APRIL 20, (897.

SEAT OF THE WAR.

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Tose who are engaged at the beginning of the present war between Turkey and

Greece have ail about them thay from which they may obtaio the energy avd bravery of in- piration. Macedonia was the centre

of the operations of Philip and Alexander the Great. Its bistory da‘es back to five huo@red years before the Christian era. It was, in its palmy days, mistress of Greece, It is a country in the southeast of Europe and north of Greece. Its most, ancijent name among the Greeks seems to have been Emathia, and subsequently Macetia or Maxetia, the people being called Mace- te. The name Macedonians was first applied to them by Herodotus.

The chief town and sea port of Mace- donia is Salonica, in the bay of which, as our despatches of to-day announce, a Greek steamer has. been sunk with all on board. The town was first called Thernia, from the adjoining bot springs ; and subse- quently Thessalonica, after the daughter of Philip and wife of Cassander, of Mace- donia. The Atheniaas occupied 1 432 B. C. Afterwards it became the chief Macedonian naval station. It was sur- rendered to the Romans after the battle of Pydna, 168 B. C., and became the Imperi- al capital of the L[llyrian provinces. It was during this period that St. Paul preached to its inhabitants. The Saracens captured itin the year 904 A. D., when had a population of 220,000. The Normans from Sicily took it 1185, Boniface of Mountferrat and the Venetians

in

successively obtained possession of it during

the 13th century, and the Turks finally

captured it,with the adjacent country, in the

year 1430. At present its population amounts to only about 70,000, of whom 20,000 are Jews, and as many Greeks, and its trade has greatly declined under Tur- kish rule. Judging by tne news of to-day the starofthe Turk seems to be still in the ascendant. But it does not always follow that he who obtains the first advan-

tage in the fight, or draws the firat blood,

wins the victory. I So Ey ~ —e AN IMPERIAL HOLIDAY.

Sim Water Besant suggests, in Corn-

hill for April, means of fosteri.g Im- perial sentiment. As one of these means we says,“ let us develop and eustain such a sentiment by the formation of a nationa! holiday which all our colonies with ourselves shall celebrate in such a way a8 may most easily impress the day acd its teaching upon the great mass of the people. They will demand, I dare say, processions, shows, pageants, bands of music, songs, feasts andspeeches. In the pageants, in the songs, in the speeches we shall celebrate the glories and the victories ef the race ; we shull remember the great days of old; we shall acknowledge the great days of the present.” Sir Walter suggests St. George’s Day, Shakespeare’s birthday, and the day on which the great poet died. The Montreal Gazette favors Dominion Day, and says that in connec- tion with the Diamond Jubilee celebration an admirable opportunity will be afforded for giving the day a good start, and mak- ing it all over the Empire what the Cana- dian Parliament purposes to make it in Canada—a holiday forever. It is at a more favorable time of the year than St. George’s Day so far as weather is con- serned=and this is a consideration by no means to be disregarded—and it appeals to all nationalities. During the reign of Her Majesty ail the colonies have made enormous strides, and the Empire has become a reality insteadof aname. In this, a3 in some other things, as the Gazette remarks, Canada has given the Empire a lead, and it only remains for Sir Walter and others of tre same opinion to awaken the Old Country toa sense of its opportunities and responsibilities.

—Hon. Mr. Fisher, Minister «f Agricul- ture, is following closely in the footsteps of bis predecessors in the depariment, ard is receiving the unstinted praise of all the Liberal organs.

THE DAILY }XAVINER, CHARLOTTETOW

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MR, HOUDGSON’S POSITION.

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Tur Patriot, in a labored article, va‘nly the dismissal of Mr’

George Bagnall from the P. E. Island Raj!

attempts to defend

way in order to make room for an active supporter of the Laurier administration. Our contemporary fails to see that the points we urged were, first, that a capable (flicial had been dismissed without jrst

cause in order to make way for a sup- porter of the present Governiment; and, secondly, that the person who succeeds Mr. Bagnall had formerly been in office and

and had been kept in office by the Liberal

Covservatives for nearly sixteen vears, or until he, ot his own free will and accord. resigned to further his own interests. We drew from the fact. that Mr. Hodgsasn had been the successful applicant tor Mr. Bagnall’s position the inference that Mr.

Hodgson (taking his conduct of 1897 as the criterion) cculd not himself have objected had he been dismissed in 1878 in- stead of being retained bythe Conservatives. These points have rot been answered by the Patriot. The fact that Mr. Bagoall was accused of partizunship andthat he was summoned before and went. through Cham ber, did not make Mr. Bagnall! guil'y of conduct unbecoming a public official. | In fact we have not heard of any report frem Mr. H. James Palmer, the Gommissioner in the case, and whether he reported for or against the charges is unknown to the pudlic. As regards the Patriot’s state- ment that Mr. Hodgson did not write one line of the pamphlet abont Sir Charles Tupper,—as we never said that he did we fail to see the force of the denial. Mr. Hodg- sop may rest assured that he stands out a strong example of the treatment accorded by the Liberal-Conservative Government towards public officers. How. different that treatment was to what is now being accorded by the Liberal Government at Ottawa towards the public officials, we

leave Mr. Hodgsoc to judge for himself,

the farce of a trial before the Star

always keeping in view what was aceorded to him.

—This is election day in Nova Scotia. The Opposition “have made a spirited campaigo. But it will be wonderful if they sbould succeed against the combined influences of both Dominion and Provin- cial Governments. The Dominion Gov- ernment has even delayed the tariff in order that their friends in Nova Scotia may not be embarrassed by it.

—The Loudon Times, commenting on ‘the appointment of Mr. Doster, ' by {the United States Government, to take charge ofthe fur seal inatters, expresses surprise and disappointment at what it terms the reopening of the Behring Sea question. Mr. Foster, on his attention being called to the Times’ editorial, said he reciprocated surprise that a responsible journal should, upon such an‘unsubtantidl basis, arraign the United States for an intention to impeach the Paris award and strike a blow at the principle arbitration. The conduct of the United States in the past hundred years, he said, challeages comparison with that of Great Britain or any other nation on the subject of arbitration. As’ to the Paris award, Mr. Foster said, our Gov-

ernment has shown no_ indisposition to accept it in good faith, nor in the recent action of the

President, if the entrusting the seal ques- tion in its present statas to his (Mr. Foster’s) direction any indication of the intention of the President to evade its consequences. But the Times is mistaken in ite assertion that regulations for the preservation of the seals isa closed ques- Lion, as is evidenced by the sending to the Islands last year, by both Governments, of eminent scienists to study and report upon the preseut condition of the herd. “The expressed object of the Paris arbi- tration,” Mr, Foster states, “was to pre- serve the seals from extinction, and both Governments are pledged to secure that end by all needful measures. If the scientists can see the herd is in danger of extermination, action by the Government is demanded. These are questions which cannot be settled nor their adjustment pro- moted by unfriendly criticism of indivi- duals or of the motive of the American Government or people.”

ESTEEMED EXCHANGES

Harper’s Weekly: The Divglev Bill as It has passed the House of Representatives is probab!y the worst tariff bill that has ever been drawn.

Chureh Evangelist: The estimates for 1897-8 were brougatdown last Thursday by Mr. uelding. As compared with the estinates of the present fixeal year, they show an increase of $2.959 317. Amongst the ecouc mies is @ Smalier vote to the militia, 1o the monnted police force, and a reduction of the interest psd on deposits in Government savings baoks from three and a half to three per cent. This hardly fulfils the Governmeft’s promise of. re- trenchmest and economy.

Montreal Gazette: Mexico threatens to retaliate on the United States for imposing Dingley bill duties on her produets bv patting a probibitory custon~ levy ou hogs and heg products. If Mexic..’s action in this regard is followed by resuits simis lar to those that were noted iu Canada after a suil protection duty was imposed on pork and pork meats, she will have reason to be satisfied with one phase of the Dingley tariff’s work, | Canada’s big packing trade began its boom the year after protection secured the home market to the home producer. There have been mi!lions in it, too,

An influx of U. 8. commercial travellers is reported from Toronto.* They appear: to expect that business will be good for them under the new Laurier tarift. Their political friends.at home do not, however, intend that business will be yvod for Canadian drummers in the United States. The Dingley Bill is not in the interest of this country’s trade.

Alex. Hartney, of Innisfail, Ontario, has received word that he has fallen heir to his share of $1,569,000 through the death of his noéle in Glasgow, Scotland, where the property is. Besides Mr Hartney, there are two heiresses, Mrs. Lamb, of Midland, and Mrs, James Hartney, of Aurora. They will leave shortly for Glasgow to secure the property.

The low water in the great lakes of Canada that caused so much discussion last summer, it would seem, may soon cease to be a canse of anxiety. Mr. Ken- nedy, the harbor engineer, reports that the level of lake Ontariorose ten inches during March, and is now six inches higher than at this time in 1895 and 1896. Those who dreaded that the waters were permanently lowered did not allow enough for the varia- tions of nature. ,

Henry White, the American Charge d’Atfairs in London has 4délivered to Sir Thomas Sanderson, parliamentary secre- tary of the Foreign Office, a despatch from the American Secretary of State, couched in decided terms, urging that the indis- criminate butchery of seals in Alaskan waters should be stopped immediately,and quoting the opinions of American aad British experts who examinéd into. the question last-year. Thedespatch asks ile British Goveyument to arrange an intet- national conference cn the question of Alaskan sealing.

It is explained that the enforcement of the Newtoundiand bait act would do immense damage to French iuterests. The French fleet require to have their herring bait by the lst of May at the latest, but by the operation of the bait act it is forbiddeu to puta seine in the water before the middle of May. A protest has been sent to the Iuperial Goverament by the French consul, and it is understood that the Sz. Pierre authorities have asked the howe Government to send warships from France to protect.their interests. The St: john’s man said the St. Pierre fishery was a nursery for seaman forthe French navy and that the British Government would be glad of a justifiable pretext to hamper the business.

Pouice Court.—This forenoon William Joyce and William Ellsworth were ar- raigned on a charge of larceny and were again remanded until Thursday next. James Robertson, a countryman, was fined $2 or 10 days.

Ciotuixe ox Fire—This morning, while undergoing trial in the Police Court, the clothing of James Robertson took fire. It seems that Robertson, before coming into court, had been smoking, and that he put the pipe into his pocket before the fire was out, Hence the conflagration.

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