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) ; Tae Darty EXAMINER. |

JANUARY 4, 1884 |

Editorial Notes.

—It was announced last evening that the next lecture ofthe Y. M.C. A. course, will be delivered by the Hon. Donald Ferguson, on a subject of the first im | portance to P. E Island, viz: “Agricul tural Education.”

It was well said by the Marquis of | Lort e, al Glasgow, that “Canada is iu- dependent in form and reality, but if she should be threatened by any great power her position would be a fdangerous one without England to back her up.’

—The literature of the season has been greatly enhanced by the poetical contributions of Mrs. VecLeod. We have great pleasure in calling attention to her poem on the “Old Year and the New,’ which we clip from the Presby | terian and print in another column.

~The Prince of Wales has been ad-| mitted to the rank of Grand Master and Past Grand Master of the Mark degree ia Masonry. A spe ial Grand Lodge was called for the installation which took place in the presence of five hnun- dred of the leading Fremasons of Eug- land, including the Prince’s brother, the Dake of Albany.

~-The St. Paul Pieneer Press takes this sensible view of the boundary dis- pute:—*The agreement between the Manitoba, Ontario and Dominion Gov- ernmeuts to reter the disputed boundary question to the Imperial Privy Council is an eminently seusible one. The pumerous riotous disturbances that have occurred, owing to the rival claims to authority over the territory in question

have wot been of a_ kind = to increase the respect of the outside world for the law-abiding character

of the people; and it is high time that somethiog should be done to settle the matter once for all. The fact that the question is to be referred to the Imperial Goveroment will doubtless give weight to the final decision, since the suspicion, whether well-founded or not, that the Canadian Supreme Court has a leaning toward centralization would tend to weaken the authoritive effect of a judg- ment by that body.

—Mr. L. H. Davies, M. P. had a fine audience in the Y. M.C. A. Hall last evening. Naturally, we are all very much interested in great men; and when the persous and speeches of the

great men of the British House of Commons are described avd recited our interest is intense.

Such was the feeling with which we listeaed to Mr. Davies’ narrations of what he had himself seen and heard in the greatest House of Assembly in the world. The men referred to in the lecture were Disraeli, Gladstone, Bright, Lowe, Dilke, Healey, Sexton, and some others ; and the passages in their speeches which were cited, were judiciously selected and well delivered. In strict justiee, Mr. Davies should, we think, have mentioned the peculiar circum- stances uuder which Disraeli’s policy was strong and his domestic policy weak, The fact is, if Disraeli had not exerted his whole strength to overcome the intrigues of Russia, the map of Europe would not have been as it is to-day ; and Great Britain would inevitably have been involved io a war in which her best blood would have beea spilled. The juncture in which Disraeli adopted a spirited foreign policy, and saved Europe, was pot one in which to deal successfully with domestic grievances; and this, we thiok, Mr. Davies should have pointed out because he was careful to do full ja&stiee to Gladstone. By the way, the description of Gladstone would have given more pleasure to admirers of this grand Christian statesman, if it bad |

not been couched in the language iv) which Milton deseribes Beelzebub. But we must not be too critical The

object of a lecturer is to interest and please, as well as to instruct ; aud in this Mr. Davies succeeded.

—A deputation lately waited upon the Finance Minister to urge the amendment of the patent laws. A correspondent re- ports that they represented to the Minis- ter that at the preseut time, millers aud otber users of machinery are liable to be imposed upon, owing to the issuing of patents to a vumber of persons for what is practically the same invention, and urged that greater care should be taken to protect the bona fide inventor and the person who purchased in good faith the right to use an ivvention. As matters stand, a manufacturer or miller may purchase a patent right from « patentee and iu a few days be called upon to pay

damages for infringing somebody else’s patent. It was contended that the system of models should be

abolished altogether, and wo patents issued except for articles that were wholly independent in style and charac- ter, as it was absurd to keep on graut- ing patents for every petty combination that could be produced. Complaint is also made that machines are imported in parts and put together under the cover of Canadian Patent Acts. The Minister promised to lay the matter before his colleagues,

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A few days before Christmas the editor of London Truth received anonymously 6,000 new sixpences with a request they should be distributed at Christmas among the 5.000 children in the London Hospitals and Workhouses with the toys subscribed

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Dundas Notes.

THE! D IN BERMUDA.

ey ‘we Pt ecden teste Diptalltice again THR BRAUTIFUL WEATHER, tis rint, which we nove switt cause rome

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Christmas with its festivities would have)

: ; m . | passel off very quietly here, cmb mr oo

The Farmers’ Work is Never Done, | micried wack aucis which aigited at Don. ao -

SOME STATISTICS. |

——_—_~ decked in its holiday garments, and a good |

‘sapply of clothing, boots, shoes, scarfs, |

lovers of the game of Bacchus, and terminated Sin,—As the weather is an ever-fruitful | groveries of all description, and other eins)

jin a war dance. The store owned by C. E. Pratt, Esq., is theme, | shall begin with a word about it. | Geck the shalves and windows of this cheap Its owner is a genial obliging |

tirst class store.

entleman. Jermuda | 8

WINTER.

It is now the winter season in

at least so the people tell me—for I} Rev. Mr. Hinson has been dangerously ill) would hardly know it otherwise 1 2 | recently; but, through good attendance, is| Islander’s idea of winter is inseparably | {4st recovering associated with cold and snow and ice and There are a good number here thinking of | sleighing and often deep drifts. tut such | voine out to the Pacific countries in the spring | ia not the Bermudian’s winter. His 18 | to better their fortune, net on account of the | cooler, with more wind and perhaps more N. P.. asthe Patriot editor remarks. rain than summer.

We welcome Tue EXAMINER amongst us, The winter, so far, has to me seemed janj wish it was semi-week!y in lieaof weekly. wonderfully mild. While at present you | wt K . are no doubt enjoying your warm winter} * obliging postmaster, 8, McDonald, Esq, tires and likely feeling the frost and the | With the tr weekly mail, is kept busy, and) Y a would require to be better paid for his | new Hewes, ve a here wi h our windows inde fatigabie services in atte nding to his office wide open, and delighting in the summer-| 4+ oy) pours. like breezes.

As yet I have experienced no inconven- ience from the absence of a fire. The weather just now reminds me of the last of June im P. E. Island, with this exception, that the night here is nearly always warm. | There has been a considerable of rain on | several days during the ‘ast few weeks, but| fuel for the coming winter.

KS, it came mostly in ‘sun showers,’ and was ti , ‘ : : . very refreshing Even the north wind. | The semi-annual school examination of this

tranve as it may seem, appea | district was held on December 31st, and the . yy ’ ern ) a .

; > : Sy oe, Ve inhabitants were highly pleased with the pro- having had the cold taken out of it in cross-

warm, gress made by the pupils during the Ist six ing the gulf stream. You may waken hest-} months. The school has been very prosperous | iy every morning to listen to the early

: tinder the management of Mr. Malcolm J, music of the birds around your window. | MeLeod (teacher), and four of his pupils were HMoW ARE FARMERS EMPLOYED IN WINTER. } 8u cessful at the Normal School e:t ance}

. ; , | examination of 1853. Some of your readers will think that they | nae:

must have an easy time, as they have no| A Debating society has been organized in roads to break or fuel to provide; but the this vicinity and large bum bers attend; the farmer here considers that he is a very bard | sabjects discussed being chiefly on agriculture. wrought person. In asense not applicable; Mr, Frederick C. H. Richards hai gone to in P. E. island, the farmer's work in Ber- | spend the wiuater in Boston with his friends; muda is ‘‘never done.” and Mr. Peter Pracght, jr., has returned from

To him, winter brings no rest, so far as | Micneséta, U. 8., and says “‘there is no place tilling the soil is concerned. He is either | like home.” preparing his fields, or planting, or tend- ng his crop, or gathering it in. There is aot a month in the year .in which he may not sow some seed. The thrifty farmer— or planter he is called here—who keeps his land im good condition, can take three erops of potatoes from the same plot in one year, and also two crops of some sort from the remainder of his farm.

His Early Rose potatoes, planted in Oc- tober, are looking strong and healthy, and will be ripe early in January; and other species will. be dug in April and May. These new potatoes always find a ready and profitable market in the United States.

The onion is the most important and valuable crop raised in the Bermudas.

The seed is sown from the Ist to the middle of October, in large beds. The soil on which they are raised, and which re- quires to be richly manured, is now being prepared and the onion plants removed from the beds and set out six inches apart, in rows about a foot from each other. They will be ripe by the last of May.

KIND OF PRODUCE HE EXPORTS.

The principal exports are onions, potatoes, tamatoes, arrowroot and beets. If the “planter” had a little more enterprise he could profitably export a much larger variety of products. There is no wheat raised in Bermuda, and no oats except small quantities which ate mown down

Quiz. Dundas, Dee. 26, 1883. —~—- > Notes from Alberry Plains. Christmas has passed «ff as usual, and the inhabita:ts are now busily engaged in hanling

The matrimonial fever visited this com- munity, an@ one of the most eminent young men fell a victim.

The Weekiy Examiner is beyond doubt the most popular of Island papers, and the people look eagerly forward for the mail on Friday, so that they may read the latest news and also the interesting story ‘‘Foul Play.”

A Visiror,

Jan. Ist 1584.

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Belle Creek Notes.

SHIPMENTS— IMPROVEMENTS WANTED.

PRODUCE

} As the shipping season is now over and | winter again set in, I give you the principal | exports from and the imports to, the port of Belle Creek for this season, which are as follows:

Sehr. ‘‘Black Tulip,’’ (packet) Bears, | master, exports—1876 bush. oats, 3069 do. | potatoes; 440 M. Shingles, a quentity of hemlock bark, 126 cases eggs, 143 cases lobsters, 10 bags wool. Imports—sch “‘B. T.,” 20 bags salt, 14 chests tea, 102 bris, flour, 5 bbls. sugar, 4 puncheons molasses, 4 casks kerosene oil, 20 kegs nails, 10 cases merchandise.

Schr ‘‘Alpha,” McDougall master, ex-

te _..% t& . when green for fodder. Some Indian corn mba pe odes ome os od is raised, but only for homeconsumption. | ...05 ai 1 - ‘ "3 ae iecedle -ae All sorts of garden stuff can be easily and|9. qe’ ra pe cl oo lice fac lakater

. y ‘do flour, 50 tons coal, supplies for lobster

successfully raised, but scarce any is €X-| faciories. etc. About 700 bush. oats and ported. Frwit does not abound in Bermu-| a9 push ehetess were taken ahen be | da. The only kind exported is the banana, | youg en Leatn siti! .

and it in very smal] quantities, : There are no apples, nor pears, nor| I hope now that the Government will plums grown; but in the absence of these |open out Gray's Road to the shore, and there are grapes, and lemons, and sweet | grant money for a road on the other side of oranges—the latter very fine, and at present the river as well, for the people are going to make a big posh. The road at the

becoming ripe. There are some other fruits at of less importance, such as the mellow pome- | present time is a disgrace, and the shipping of thai place is done here.

granate, etc. The strawberry, which could A few hundred dollars spent on the

be easily cultivated, so as to produce every

year from January to June, is to be seen in| Breakwater more than at present, would

comparatively few gardens. make a convenient shipping place for large- sized vessels. Hoping the General Govern-

ment and the Local will do something

towards it this session,

[ remain, yours, ete., PROGRESS.

VALUE OF EXPORTS.

From the official Trade Returns for 1882, now before me, I find that there were ex- ported, principally to New York, 220,379 boxes of onions (of 50 lbs. each) of the value of $305,000. Also 40,508 bbls. potatoes, valued at 194.436, Your readers interested, can easily calevlate the rate per barrel, and they will conchide that potato raising in Bermuda i: more profitable than in P. & Island. There were also shipped in 1882 tomatoes to the value of $38,000.

The total vajue of exports for 1882 was somewhat over half a million dollars;—in sterling money, used here, £105,500.

To your readers this sum will appear very small as covering the whole of the exports facolony. It must, however, be remem bered that the colony itself is very small, witl ecacce 14,000 inhabitants; and, fur- ther, that the above amonnt is the product, or, more correctly, part of the product of only 2,200 acres, which is all the land at present under cultivation. ,

It may be thought that the farmers here should be rich, having no winter to con- tend with, and being able to raise two and three crops in the year, and to ebtain such high prices for them. But ths Bermuda farmers have their complaints, and in my opinion as good grounds fur some of them as their brethren elsewhere. Instead of b. Mackenzie, actually receiving over $4 per barrel for! W- E. Dawson&Co, their potatoes, as the returns show, more | A¢@™ Murray, than half this amount goes for freight and ene W addell, commissions to merchants and agents, and ye rom. ; middle men. Some of the farmers bitterly | 5 ‘Ww. Doda : complain of oppression by the merchaats,| 7 © Rolins and say that combinations exist both here and | w. H. Stewart, in New York, by which the profits of the | John F. Robertson, crops are made to turn into the pockets of | McLean & Martin, the merchants and their friends.

Pet r Halloran, Bat there is another side to the story.| EZ W. Taylor,

Dec. 31, 1883.

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Our “Advertisers.

Joseph Taylor calls for tenders for the building of a breastwork at the eastern end of Cumberland and Dorchester streets.

A public meeting for discussing the pro- posed civic grant for exhibition purposes, and civic affairs generally, will be held in the Market Hall next Monday evening.

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To David BR. M. Hooper, Esq., Mayor of Charlottetown.

‘iR,—We, the undersigned, citizens of Charlottetown, respectfully r quest that you will be pleased to convene a public meets ing, to consider the advisability of giving a civic grant, in aid of the proposed Dominion Exhibition, and also to discuss civic affairs generally. Daniel Gordon,

Dodd & ers, W. P. Colwill, _

J. C. Spra_ue, Patrick Monaghan, William Dodd,

R. Cameron,

Mark Wright & Co., Beer & Goff,

Perkins & Sterns,

Geo. Davies,

Nerman J. Campbell, W. & A. Brown & Co., Warburton & Conroy, DesBrisay & Angus, John Dorsey,

James Byrae,

Theee who complain most of the merchant | Heury Beer, Thomas B Riley, have allowed themselves to get on hia|! 8. Alchorn, = Younker, Offer & Co,, books, and when selling time comes, he J. D, Macleod & Co,, A, N. Large,

wants his pay, in fact he hss a claim on the| 0" W- Orabbe, A. McNeill,

Macleod, Morson & Macquarrie.

In compliance with the within ‘requisition, [ hereby call a meeting of the citizens, to be held in the Market Hall, on Monday, the

crop, and it must often go for what he chooses to give. Thus “tthe borrower is servant to .the lender,” Happily the Legislature at its last Session, passed an Act abolishing imprisonment for debt, 2 which will tend largely to do away with the 7th of 'anuary, instant, at seven p. w,

credit system. W.RE DAVID R, M, HOOPER,

fur by the readers of that paper.

MEL IN Fu Ew, J AWN

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THE CHARLOTTE EPOWRN

FLOUR, FEED AND PROVISION,

STORRS,

South. Side Queen Square, near Queen Street,

AVE to announce that they have on hand the following goods, which they are pre- il pared to sell at reasonable prices and in quantities to suit purchasers:

Flour (Superior Extra, Strovg Bakers and Patent) OATMEAL, CORNMEAL, BRAN, SHORTS, OATS, CRUSHED FEED, either Oats and Barley or Oats, Barley and Corn, APPLES,

which wili be eold by the barrel or by the pound, at rates very little over barrel prices.

Ch’town, Dee. 18, 1883.

WINTER

SELLING VERY CHEAP FOR CASH, AT THE

JON HOUSE.

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Men’s Gloves, Mitts & Scarfs. Nien’s op Coats,

Men’s Uisters,

Men's Fur Overcenis, Men’s Reefing Jackets, Men's Woo! Underciething, Men's Fianne! shirts, Men’s Cardigan Jackets, Men’s Fur Caps,

Ladies’ Cloth Sacques,

Ladies’ Cloth Ulsters,

Ladies’ Fur-lined Circulars,

Ladies’ Astracan Jachets,

Ladies’ Fur Caps and Yuffs,

Buffalo Rebes, Japanese Wolf Robes, Blankets.

Horse Rugs,

Railway Wrappers,.etec

ss GEO, DAVIES & CO.

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Our Store Closes Kvery Evening at Six p. m (Saturday Excepted).

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Carpet Department :

In this Department we are doing a very large trade, in Axminster, Velvet Pile, Brussels, Tapestry, Scotch Hemp and Twine Carpots, Hearth Rags and Mats. The reason is we buy from the very best British markets, keep the newest desigus and styles, and sell at a small advance on cost,

Grand Assortment of

Silk Plushes, Velvets and Velveteens, 100 boxes to choose from, at prices lower than ever before off »red,

Mantle

These goods are selling rapidly.

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Department:

They are the best and newest mukes and grand value,

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Cloth Department:

The 200 pieces Job, Jacket and Ulster Cloths have been selling wonderfully fast. The prices are very low ‘or the quality. v _ A large lot Seal Cloth from $3.50 to $8.25 per yard, pieces Oiicloths (English), from #-yard to 34-yard.

WHOLESALE & RETAIL. W. & 4. BROWN & CO.

Chitown, Nov. 23, 1883.—dy wkly

Daily expected, 30

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XMAS & NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS,

070 Just Received, a Large Assortment of

JHWEHLERY,

CONSISTING OF Gold and Silver Waltham and Geneva Watches, Colored, Gold and Plated Sets, Ladies’ Chains and Lockets.

CENTS’ GOLD, GOLD-PLATED, SILVER AND NICKEL LOCKE'S AND CHAINS,

Silver-Plated Ware, Eight-Day and Thirty-Hour Clocks (American styles), Spectacles and Eyeglasses. wa Call and be convinced that my Stock is the Cheapest and Best in Char- lottetown.

Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, etc., cleaned and repaired, All work warranted,

G. G. JURY,

North Side Queea Square, Opposite Post Cffice Charlottetown, Dec. 18, 1883.—2aw mu th wkily lor

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ity of Charlottetown,

PENDERS.

VEALED TENDEKS will be seceived at Ss the City Chrk's Office, until noon of

Saturday, the 12th January, imetant, fcr the building cf a Preavtwork on the e. et corner of Cumberland and Dorchester St eete, according to a specification to be ee n at this office,

The Council do sot bind themse’ver to acce; t the lowest or any tem er,

bs order JOSEPH TAYLOR, City Durveyor, Jan. 4, 1884. —3i

APPLES, TEA, Eto. | Y Auction, MONDAY, January

2 o’vlock at my Auction Koom, Street,

50 «barrels Ne. Lt Winter Keeping Apples, in prime order,

25 Halt Chests Prime Té4,

2) boxes GRAPES.

To close consignments,

7th, at Qucen

_. M NEILOG, Auctioneer, Ch'town, Jan, 2, inca —*: {vs

For the Beat af All Concerned,

PEW be seld by PUBLIC AUCTION at the

APPRAISER’S OF FICE, Water Street, on SATUKDAY next, January 5, at 12 o'clock, noon,

| CASE BOOKS

damaged per brigt. *‘Al;heta,” and sold pur- suant to survey and order of c nd«mnation by the Port Warded,

Among the books are: The Bock of Deer, Life of St. Columba, Hanna’s Life of Chal- mers, Burton's History of Scotland, Scott's Complete Works in 100 vols , and other Stan- dard works,

A. McNEILL, Auctioneer Charlottetown Jar. 2, 18°32. Bi,

Dominion of Canada, Province of Prince Edward Island.

IN THE SUPREME COURT.

Merchants Baak of Halifax, Plaintiff, and Frank McDonald, an absent or absconding debtor, Defendant. Owen Connolley, Plaintiff, and Frank McDonald, an absent or abseconding debtor, Defendant,

¥ virtue of Her Mojesty’s Writs of Attach- ment, to me directed, issued out of this Honorable Court fh the above Writs:—TI here- by give notice to all persons within the said Island, indevted to Frank M-Donald the above-name! defendant, to pay the g«veral amounts of such indebtedaess to me without delay, pursuant 1o the provisions of “The Absent Debtor Act js 7%,’

HeEVYRY LONGWORTH, sheriff, Sheriff's Office, Queen 8s Co,, Dec. 31, "83. |j4n2 2ins,

SHiP AND HOUSE BUILDERS,

~ Will fiod every r quasi e for the trade at

Duchemio's Steam Factory,

Beer’s Wharf,

Always on band, a ccmplete stock fof

Ship’s Blocks, Deadeves, Steering Wheels,

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Mouldings, in groat variety, Cornice, Base, Panel, Dior and Window Finish, Spouting, Conductor and Handrail, Newel Posts, Balus- ters aud every description of Turning,

Fret. Circular and Jig Sawing, Planing and Moulding turned out neatly and with dese patch

Satisfaction guarantecd,

Don’t forget the place, Beer's Wharf near Mec Millan s Coal Depot.

Aibert Duchemin.

Ch’town, Jan, 2, 1884, —wkly 6i,

WANTS, LOST, FOUND, de. En OsT—On Thursday, the 3rd instant, be- tween the old Protestant Burying Ground aod Spring Park, Malpeque Koad, a GIRL’S BLUE Sk&KGE CLOAK, Pived with red. The finder will please leave it at Tue KXaMINER OFFICE, [jan4

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ANTED—A good general SEK VANT.

No washing. Apply before two or

after seven p. m. to Mrs. O'Meara, Pleasant Street, [jan3 ANTED—A COUK, by Mrs, Charles Palmer, Weymouth St. {jan3 2i

VA AetE TO RENT about Ist April, a ' House coutaining seven or eight rooms within 5 minutes walk of the post office. Enquire at this oflice. {dec29 4in, 7 ANTED TO PURCHASE.—A pair of med.um sized Spowshves (second hand)

Apply at this office, [dec?7.

ANTED—To Lease fora boom of years, a Cottage, centraily lovated, Koquire at this cffive. [dezl tf

rgw LET—Wareh ees to bet on Lerds Wharf, Apply to W. W. CLakxe. {deo

fa LET—Part of House opposite Kailway Station, Enquire at this cflice. {del®

OAKDERS,—Mrs. Bobert Rodd, bas re-

moved to the house of Mr (. Hearts, Euston Street, where she can accommodate nwaber of Boarders, on ryasounble terms

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