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WINTER COMMUNICATION An Interesting Debate“in the Senate.

SUMMARY REPORT.

A very interesting debate took place in the Senate a few days ago.

How. Mr. Hayrmorne ‘‘rose to call the

ttention of the House to the means pro- vided for the transport of passengers between Prince Edward Island and the mainland, and the charges demanded there- for--and to ask the leader of the Government in this House, whether any tariff of charges had been published, and if so, whe:hers copy thereof can be laid on the table.”

Mr. Haythorne censured the manage- ment of the Northern Light for having the boat laid up in Souris whilst navigation was still open, and the Postmaster, for with- drawing the specia) train running in con- nection with her; and, while admitting that the service at the Capes has been im-

roved under the Marine and Fisheries a adinenas and the supervision of Captain McHihianey, he coniémaed the regulation which relieves the Government from all responsibility for damages to baggage, for the imposition of a special fate of three cents per pound for baggage weighing over thirty pounds, and for the charge of $7 to persons haaled over in the boats.

SznaToR Montcomury referred to the im provements that have lately been effect- ed, particalarly the boathouses, and said that ‘* when a passenger gets there he finds @watm room to wait in; the boata are thoroughly dry when taken out, and the service is prompt and well performed. I have never crosaed the Straits with as great comfortasl did thistime. We had a heavy snowstorm for an hour and a hali or two hours after wa started, and when ii cleared of we found that we were going as straight for our landing as if we had seen ital) the time shead of us. As far asl caa learn, every one that has croased under the new system has been porfectly satis fied, so far as the comfort and. convenience of crossing are concerned, ”

Roaferriag to the former contractors,Sena tor Montgomery said:--“I would like to sty, with reference to the old contractors, that Captain Muttart has been a loag time in the service, and has been very inadequately paid. He was very kind to passengers, and every person who had much to do with him thought very highly of him. If the Govern meat could see their way todo it, 1 think the coustry will be very such pleased if sume little remuneration were granted to hi aad to Captain Irving in recoguition of their services.”

Sin ALBXANDER CAMPBELL replied. He sail the special train was withdrawn be- cause of the great expense of running it ($9,000 to $10,000); but as it was almost unmediately replaced, he did not think there was much csuse for Senator Hay- thorne’s complaint under that head. He said the Government had spent $156,000 oa the Cape Traverse Branch Railway, and hai guaranteed to the New Brunswick and P. &. island Railway Company $113,000 in order that railway facilities might, as soon as possible, be adurded between Cape Tor- mentiae and Sackville. In addition to this, large sums were annually paid for the Northern Light and for the summer aer- vies; so that the postal revenue from the Isiand bears no proportion at all to the amount of mouey expended for improved facilities for transport and mail service As to the winter service at the Capes, the Government have adopted most of the re- commendations of the Spesial Cominittes of Parliament, and the result is, as acdmit- tel by Senator Montgomery and others, great lmprovement in the service. In referenca to summer communication, the recommendation that in connection with the railway to Capo Tvaverse and the braach now in course of construction on the mainisnd, piera should be constructed at both Capes, anda steam ferry established for the conveyance of the mail and passen- gers in tho summer season, im accordance with the report of Mr. MeLaod, Civil En- gineer, Sir Alexander remarked: ‘* The tailway on the mainland has not yet got down to the water; it is within two or three miles of it, and when it gets down it will be time to consider the matter. Out of seven recommendations made by the Committee of the Lower Houve, one is not yet possible, and of the otaer six we have complied with five of those recommended, and which my hon. friend endorsed. That is doing a good deal towards mesting the views of the people of Prince Edward Island,”

As tothe tariff of charges,at the Capes it might be too high. ‘lam not, he aaid, ‘tf @ posttion to pronounce on that, but it is a tariff capable of being revised at any time and made reasonable. But what the hon. gentleman says was demanded of him, for crossing does not seem to me to be « large sum for the service. Looking back to the time when Parliament sat in Que- bec, and when we had to eross the St.

.\wrence, less than a mile (whereas the crossiug between the Straits is eight miles. ) I, and many hon. gentlemen round me, constantly paid from $4 to $5 for being crossed in a canoe over the floating ice. We hed four or five men pulling a wooden conoe, with great labor, requiring con- siderable dexterity anla good knowledge of the navigation to keap us away from or to cross the floea of ice, and I do not know that any member of Parliament thought four or five dollars too large a sum for the service. If there are many poor people who cross the Straits of Northumberland in the winter season, perhaps the tariff should be revised. From a memorandum, furnish- ed by Mr. Smith, Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Sir Alexander read :

‘The passenger tariff by the Northern Light route is $3.00 each ; Berth, $1 each ; Bree -kfast, 40 cents; Dinner, 50 cents; Sup- per, 40 cents

“The charge for Pessencora crossing by the Capes’ route is $2 esch, when they have astrap and travel outside the boata When passengers desire te be hauled in

one of the three usual mail boate the charge is $4 for each passenger ; but if extra boats are hired for the purpose of hauling pan- sengers, then the charge is $7 each. The cust of hiring an oxtra boat and crew for the ronnd trip is $25. ” Cwenty-five pounds of bagyage is allow- ‘to be taken by euch passanger free of Chitge} when it exceuds that weight three Contes per pound extra ig exacted.”

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including gratuities to the crews, was more than under the present arrangement. The men now receive good wages for their ser- vices, and gratuities are not allowed, and if passengers pay the crows anything addi- tional for hauling beyond the regular fares, such payments are made without the know- ledge of the Department.

Six Alexander also read the following extract from a letter from Mr. Richard Sloggett, Lloyds Surveyor, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, dated 22nd Febru- ary, 1886, to Mr. Smith, Deputy Minister of Marine, relative to the ice-boat service, which will show his opinion{of thejmanner in which that service has been conducted be- tween Cape Tormentine and Cape Tra- verse :

“TI have very much pleasure in stating that your representative down bere, Captain McElhinney, is doing his work admirably. The mails arrive almost daily, and generally early in the day. The arrangements are excellent, and I hear every

erson speak in the highest terms of the Captain,

have not been up myself, but many of my friends have paid a visit to the Capes to see and inspect for themselves, and Ihave heard only one opinion expressed.”*

Referring to Senator Montgomery’s re- commendation of Captains Muttart and Irving, Sir Alexander said :

“My hon. friend from Park Corner speaks of Captain Muttart who has been long in the ser- vice. He must mean that fhe was longa con- tractor; he has never been in the public service. I would be very glad indeed if anything couid be composted that would meet my hon. friend's wishes in that respect: but I am afraid I cannot hold Out any promise. if Captain Muttart has had bad times he is like all of us who are in the pursuance of private business and private gains. [am afraid the Government can hardly do any- thing for him."*

Senator Carvgct spoke strongly on the improved condition of things between Uape Traverse and Capo Tofmentine. The boat houses were, he said, a very great hoon; and the arrangements made by Capt. McBihinney make a very great im- provement. The men now have comfort- able quarters in which to wait uatil the proper time has arrived for them to start. He said :—

“*f may say that before leaving Cape Trayerse, I was in the boat house for an hour mingling with the men, with nearly all of whom 1 am well ac- quainted, having crossed some forty times in the last flvVeorsix years. They were all satisfied with the arrangements, and said they were the best they had ever had. These men, instead of having to take the boat at the shore, or near it, and haul it to the board dce, are put iu comfort- able sleighs and hauled out by teams as passen- gers, so that when they get tothe board ice they have not exhaasted a portion of their strength in hauling the boat over a mile and a half of rough ice. Onthe other side, having crossed, they are put intoa sleigh and driven to another comfort- ; able house where they get warmed and can change their clothes and sleep if they like until the return voyage commences. The boats are well equipped with oars and boat hooks. No in- toxicating liquors are allowed around the place. i know that in former years when men have been

cumstances, when the time arrived that the

could cross, they were not worth half as muc

because of the lives they led in the meantime. That is now a thing of the past. Capt. McHihin- ney has done wonders forthetime he has been there; and so far there has been a very great improvement, all of which, I think, the mover of this motion will endorse publicly, as he has done to me privately.”

Bat, said Sanator Carvell, ‘‘we were a long time in the Union before we got these improvements. What we want now more than anything else is small steamers, one to be kept on either side as auxiliaries,” and “further we ought to have a boat with supplies of necessary and useful articles in case of accident, like the one that occurred last winter.” The couriers “never start with less than three boats, but they take no supplies,” and ‘‘supposing | they are overtaken in a storm and kept out all night, the supplies required would readily suggest themselyves—rubber covers, fuel and food which could be put in a con- densed form—and should always be kept ou nand.” As to the charges, Senator Carvel! said that when drawn over by the former contractors he had never paid less than $15, ften $16 and sometimes $20. Besides this, he had never—with one exception— hesitated to give the men, and there were tive of them, a gratuity of $1 each—and a bottle of something to warm them on land- mg on the board ice. But this year he was agreeably surprised to find that he was charged only $10, and that was, owing toa mistake, $3 more than the tariff rate.

Senator Howt.an referred toa remark of Sir Alexander Campbell, to the effect that the Island contributes less revenue to |

the Dominion Treasury than she receives | from it. Sin Atex. Camppett said he did not make that statement. He said the Post Office revenue was smaller than the expen- diture.

Hon. Mr. HowLan—I am very glad to hear the hon. member’s explanation. It is continuall

dinned into the ears of the Prince Edward Island- ers that the Dominion is giving us more than we pay. I say thatis nota fact. Isay it cannot be substantiated. You do not inthe Public Accounts get at the revenue which is contributed by Prince Kdward Island. When we were a separate colony, we had a direct tariff and a direct revenue and it could be seen at a glance what the amount of our revenue was. I assert, and I challenge contradiction, that Ex cent. of the importations into Prince Edward Island are bought directly from travellers who are the representatives of firms in London, Hamilton, Montreal, Que- Halifax and St. John. This is a fact which every business man who under- stands the question will substantiate. Therefore when you take from the Public Accounts of this country the statement of revenue derived directly from Customs and Inland Revenue, I say it does not show the amount that Prince Edward Island contributes. I assert that Prince Kdward island pays more into the Treasury of the Do-

tract the cost of transporting passengers, | pay

of the men, it is too small. He thought the captains of the boats should receive $100 each per month at least; that the coxswains should receive $75, and the men $60 each.

SenaTor Carvel concurred in what Senator Howlan said respecting the pay- ment of the men. The service is a very difficult one, and those who perform it are entitled to more wages than they receive. He also hoped that the amount of luggage which each passenger is allowed to take without charge, will be increased.

Sin ALEXANDER CAMPBELL promised to mention the suggestions to the proper department, and said ‘‘we want to make the service effective and the charges reasonable,”

PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS.

The number of immigrants reported to have settled in Canada during the calendar year 1885 was 79,169.

Dr. Jenkins has given notice of motion for copies of correspondence between the Marine Department and captain of the Northern Light relating to the discontinu- ance of her trips during the mouth of February.

A question asked by Mr. Blako elicited the information that 46 balf-breeds, 81 Indians and 2 whites were committed for trial in connection with the Northwest rebellion, that 18 half-breeds were tried for treason-felony, one for murder, and one for high treason; 11 were discharged en bail and 8 on promising to appear for trial when summoned to doso. Of the Indians, 44 were convicted mainly for treason-felony, 3 were acquitted aad the remainder dis- charged. One of the white prisoners, Scott, was acquitted, and the other, Jack- son, acquitted on the ground of insanity. ,

Awful Distress in Ireland.

NOTHING BUT MOSS AND SEA GRASS TO EAT — YOUNG GIRLS NAKED WHILE THEIR CLOTHING 13 BARTERED FOR SEED POTATOES.

The British Government has placed gun- boats at the service of Mr. ‘Toke, in his work of relieving the distress among the inhabitants of the Islands along the western Irish coast. _ Indescriable distress has developed among the people inhabiting the Arran Islands off Galway who, besides haviag hardly anything but moss and sea- grass left to eat, are without fire and often without clothing and shelter. It is not rare tofind girls 17 and 18 years of age kept in énforeed hiding during the day because horeft of every thread of clothing long ago bartered for seed potatoes and roots to feed smaller children with. Fish- ing luspector Brady recently went among the miserable people of Arran to distribute relief furnished by the organization of Irish Police. His funds ran short, and he still had so much pitiable wretchedness to relieve, he appealed to Mr. Bussy, who is charged with the distribution of the fund raised in America, and begged him to divert a part of his store for the benefit of Arran. This Bussy was permitted to do and he reports in order to save the lives of scores of the people now dying in starva- tion in these western Islands, it is impera- tive relief on a large scale at once be or- ganized.

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The Exchange Bank.

The Montreal Gazette remarks that had the Exchange Bank appeal been taken to the Privy Council upon the judgment of a court of Ontario, or any other of the pro- vinees in which the law is based upon the principles of English jurisprudence, the final result would, it seems, have been in favor of the Government and against the claims of the contesting creditors. That is the plain inference to be drawn from the judgment of their lordships. In coming to a decision on the ease they were guided solely by their construction of the two codes of the province of Quebec, drawn up mainly on tho principles of the old French law. English law and English precedents were set aside as inaplicable in cases arising under our system, and de- ductions drawn from works on French law of the time of Louis XIV., employed in the elucidation of the questions at issue, The sections of the English editions of the code bearing on the subject were treated as translations of the French vorsion, ° the judgment turning largely on the meaning of the word ‘‘comptable,” which no single word in English seems capable of conveying to the mind.

Capt. Gerstel of the Austrian army, was tried by court martial fora slight offence and convicted, as a matter of form. A light sentence was imposed upon him. He heard the sentence with composure and bowed respectfully to. the court, then drawing arevolver and placing it to his head fired two shots and fell dead upon the spot.

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minion than she gets from it. However, that is beside the question. Whether we pay more or} pay less has nothing to do with the question | vetore the House. The Island is now a province of the Confederation. [t was admitted on certain |

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terms and conditions which have not been carried out. Isay that Prince Edward Island has not been properly treated. We are told that changes have been made in the mail service; that boat houses have been erected and that certain other things have been done and, as a consequence, there 1s greater security to life and property and Her Majesty’s Mails. is is proof, if proof were needed, that until recently the service was neither safe nor satisfactory. lt is the duty of the Gov- ernment to make the mail service efficient, be- cause it is of extreme importance to the whole community that it should be so. The question has beon asked—how many people cross the Straits in Winter? Whatever the number may be, one thing is certain—no man crosses there unless he is compelled to do so; butif you take the summer season, when there is open navigation, you will find that the travel between the Island and the mainland is as great as between any other two Provinces of the Dominion. I should be very glad if a reeord were kept of the number of persons crossing and the p to which they belong. I ventare to say that it would be found that more poems from Ontario and Quebec cross the Straits in the winterthan from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Hon. Mr. CARVELL— Many times more.

Hon. Mr. HowLan—Therefore I say it is as | important for Ontario and Quebec as for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, that the improved means of commnnication which we seek should be furnished. The ple of Prince EKdward Island are dissatisfied with the existing state of aifuirs and are determined to have better means of communication with the mainiand.

Senator Howian paid a high compiiment to Captain Arthur Irving, and said his long and successful services ought to be recognized, He had been guilty of aa} indiseretion which he could not.defend. But his reputation as a boatman was second to none, and he regretted that circumstances

evented him from being placed at the of the sérvice this year, As to the

‘* How does the blood reach the heart ?” was one of the questions written out on an examination paper at Vassar College. And one of the flyest of the fly girls wrote the answer: ‘‘ Ice cream ; oysters and cham- pagne ; box of bonbons; Sunday night calls ; no gas; one chair.” She evidently had met the ‘‘ blood,” and he was hers,

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Advices from Annam state that anarchy prevails in that country, that bands of robbers aro scourging the land, that the people have gone into revolt against French authority, and that the rebels have attack- ed the French near Hue, and are advancing in number upon Quintone.

Per -- -—

In a divorce case the other day, at Chicago, a lawyer argued that if a woman on being married, misrepresented her ‘‘age to her husband, she was just as liable as a man selling a horse and representing it to be of a certain age, when it couid be proved that it was older.

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There is a negro girl in Athens who claims that she has a frog in her arm that travels up and down her arm from her wrist to her shonider. She says that another woman conjured her when she was young, and the frog has been in her arm ever since,

Since Grant’s tomb ‘was located at River- side Park, property in the vicinity has ad-

House for Sale,

ITUATE on King Street, opposite the residence of P. Blake, Keq. ‘the build- ing is in thorough repair and contains, on the first floor, a froat and back shop and two large rooms ; also, a large kitchen built on to the house, fitted with many conveniencies— pump, wash boxes, &c, and a good large pantry ; second floor, four large rooms ; third floor, four large rooms ~- both flats having nice halls. The house is well finished throughout, and very convenient. The cellar is frost- proof and contains a large brick pantry with cement floor. A water pipe conducts rain water to the cellar. Outbuildings are large and convenient, Possession given from 15th April. Apply on the premises to the Subscriber, MRS. JAMES STANLEY.

March 12—pat

SEED WHEAT

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TEA, FLOUR, HERRING,

75 chests and half-chests of TEA, 200 barrels choice FLOUR, “Kent” and **Danube,” 10¢ barrels LABRADOR HERRING.

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Liberal-Conservative Committee Rooms

Cameron Block (entrance next door East of Jas. Paton & Co.'s.)

N R. JOHN ROSS, who is acting for Committees, will attend to filling up

voters forms, &c. Open day and night. March il--2i

BEER BROS.

FQUEST and immediate settlement of all accounts due the firm of

W. W. BEER.

March 10, 1885.

St. Patrick's Day.

HE ANNIVERSARY OF IRELAND’S PAT- RON SAINT will be celebrated in Charlotte- town,

On Wednesday, 17th March,

by a Procession of the Benevolent Irish : Society, from their Hall, Prince St., toSt. Dunstan's Cathedral, at 9.45 a. m,

In the evening a Literary and Musical

ENTERTAINMENT

WILL BE GIVEN IN THE

MARKET HALL.

Doors open at 7.15. Entertainment to com-

mence at 8.

Admission 25 cents. Reserved Seats 50 cents; Tickets to be procured at the various Drug Stores, and at the Diamond Bookstore.

St. Patrick’s Day has been proclaimed a Public and Civic Holiday. : :

Return Tickets will be issued from all Railway Stations to Charlottetown on 16th and 17th March, good to return on 17th, 18th and 19th March, at

rer JOHN HENNESSY,

secretary. March 5.-—eod wkly,

Prime Codfish.

5 QUINTALS choice Table Codfish, sell- ing at $3.50 per 100 lbs,

FOR SALE BY

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The Charlottetown Water Works Co.

OTICE is hereby given that the Stock

Book ia the above Company has _ this day been opened, and that such Stock Book is now in the office of KR. R. FitzGerald, Soli- citor, in the Cameron Block, Charloitetown, Prince Edward Island, where any person or bedy politic or corporate can subscribe for shares in the above Company, under the Act or Charter incorporating the same.

Dated this 24th day of February, A. D.,

1886, ALEXANDER McKINNON, R. R. FITZGERALD,

for Incorporators. Feb. 24—dy 20i

Kent Street Grocery Store,

Op. the Rocklin House. R.« Re BELLE,

BKALER in CHOICE FAMILY GRO- CERIES, CANNED GOODs, FRUIT, FISH, &. As my stock is all Fresh and First-class, selected by a gentleman of many years’ experience from the best assorted stock in the city, I can ntee satisfaction to all, and would respectfully solicit a fair share of pablic patronage

S Orders by mail will receive prompt atten-

on.

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SEED WHEAT BEST WHITH BOSSIAR,

FOR BALE OHEAP,

vanced rapidly, unimproved twenty-five foot lots aelling for’ 915,000 cache

perro iat

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Ask to

1,200 pairs Corsets, cheap.

them.

March 5, 1886.

Gilray’s Patent Lace Curtain Stretcher.

JAS. PATON & GO, MARKET SQUARE,

FFER special inducements to purchasers of Howse Furnish- ing Goods, during the month of March.

Carpets and Oilcloths should give us a call.

nounced the largest and cheapest in the city, and entirely new.

100 rolls Carpet, in Brussels, Tapestry, Scotch and Hemp. Oilcloth, from one foot to twelve feet wide.

Those in

A special lot of Bleached Sheetings and Pillo Cottons, slightly damaged, will clear off at a bargain,

see them.

Grand value in White and Grey Cottons, Shirtings, Print Cottons, Cretonnes, Table Linens, Towe!’s and Bed ‘lickings,

need of Our stock is pre-

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FLOUR!

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Brussels Carpets. Price $t 60, reduced te $1.15. Price $1.50, reduced to $1 05. Price $1.25, reduced to S5cta.

Tapestry Carpets Price 90cts, reduced to G5cts Price 65cts, reduced to 45ets. Price 55cts, reduced to 35cts.

COTTONSI

Print Cotton at cost. {f you requive Carpets, now is the time Was imported last year.

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Ch’town, March ], 1356.

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FLOUR!

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4 ‘ TJ ILL clear out his stock of Carpeta at Tremendous Reductions :

Scotch Carpets] Prise $1.25, retuced to 85cts. Price $1.10, reduced to 75cts, Price 99cts, reduced to 6dcts,

} femp Carpets, i 10, 1°, and 14 Cents.

Floor Oilelotbs, Lace Curtaina, tc., at lib- era! discounts.

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COTTON S!

39,000 yards Grey Cotton at cost; 29,000 yards White Cotton at cost ; 20,000 yards

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