[TERMS Five Do~uars a YEAR,

NEW SERIES.

Che Daily Examiner:

is issued every evening by

The Examiner Publishing So.

From their office, corner of Water and Great George Streets, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island,

—RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION—

Aix m B., cancun cddune diedeeiincsacn. $2.50 Se WUENB soo cents cis bs betbs conte. 1.25 Gans GOURD «000 600400000 bheeenenaeknes 50

Advertising at moderate rates.

Contracts may be made for monthly, quar- terly, half-yearly, or yearly advertisements, on application.

ALMANAC FOR JULY, 1887,

MOON'S CHANGES. full Moon Sth day, 4h., 21.7m., a. m., W. Last Quarter 13th day, 2h., 44.6m., a.m., S.E. New Moon 20th day, 4h, 37.5m., p.m., S.W.

First Quarter 27th day, 10h., 17.8m., a.m., E. (below horizon.)

DI ay OF WEEK! |Moon' High! Day's M rises|sets | rises | water} len’h h mh m aftr’n;morn!h m

] Friday 4 18/7 49 4 O} 7 20:15 31

2 Saturday 19) 49,5 9 8 22 30

3 Sunday 19} 48'613, 912; 2

+ Monday | 20) 43) 7 12] 9 50) 28

5 Tuesday | 21) 48) 7 56/10 40) 27

3 Wednesday | 2 47) 8 4511 40, <6

7 Thursday | 22) 47; 9 2211 58; 2

8 Friday 23) 47) 9 Stjaft 33) 24

9Naturday 23) 46|10 22, 1 11) 23

10 Sunday 24; 46/10 4s) 1 47; 2: 11 Monday 25} 4511 8 227) 2 12 Tuesday |} 28) 44/11 36311) 18 13) W ednesday 27| 44\)morn| 4 6) 16 14 Thursday (se aowaseh 15) Friday |} 29) 42) O 28) 6 20 l4 16/Saturday | Oy 42;1 OT 12 \7 Sunday ; 3h} 41] 1 38) 8 23) 10 is; Monday | 32) 40) 2 20) 9 11) s 19 Luesday | 33) 39) 3 15) 9 59 6 20; W ednesday 34) 38) 4 12/10 38 + 21/Thursday 35} 37| 5 20/11 23} 2 22) Friday 36, 36) 6 32)morn) 0 23) Saturday 37| 351 7 461 0 5|14 58 24 Sunday 38; 3419 1950) = 5 25, Manday | 39} 32/10 15) 1 27} 53 26| Tuesday 40} 31/11 20/214) 51 27) Wednesday 42) 30/aft 41| 3 06) 48 23 Thursday 43; 28) 151) 414) 45 29 Friday 44, 27'3 01535) 4 30 Saturday 45; 26; 4 5} 6 57} 41 31] Sunday 7 26) : 4,14 40

-BroR-

BOSTON.

SUMMER ARRANGEMENT

THE PALACE STEAMERS

OF THE

INTERNATIONAL S.S. C9.

Leave St. John for Boston, via Eastport and Port- land, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6,00 a m.

Aliso leave St. John at 7.30 every Saturday night for

BOSTON DIRECT.

Fare from Charlottetown to Boston, $6,50, 2nd class ; 30.50, lst class. For tickets and other information apply to G. ASHARP, F. W. HALES, PrP BL Roe P. E. L Steam Nav. Co. or to your nearest Ticket Agent. April 18, 1887—eod wky

L. ARTHUR & CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

RECEIVERS OF

Mackerel, Butter, Cheese EGGS, Poultry, Potatoes, Fruit & Vegetables.

142, 144 Commercial Street,

BOSTON, MASS. May 18, 1887.4

COAL MINES.

OLD SYDNEY MINES, VICTORIA MINES, ALBION MINES, PICTOU, ROUND, NUT, CRUSHED. Orders for cargoes now granted. N. B.—The Albion Crushed is suitable for lime

burning. CARVELL BROS, Agents,

Ch'town, June 24, 1887—pat 1 aw 3wks

CARD.

THE EXAMINER PUBLISHING COM- PANY,” having lately added to their stock of type and material for Job Printing, are better than ever prepared to execute or for Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Handbills of all kinds, Visiting or Business Cards, &c., promptly and cheaply, in the best style of the art.

None bunt first-class workmen are employed in their office; and, as they import their printing Tapers direct from the manufacturers, they are able to fill allorders on the most favorable terms.

The continued patronage of the public is

espectfully solicited. Ww. L. COTTON,

DAILY EXAMINER.

“ This is true Liberty, when Free Born Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”—Evrirwes.

SincLE Corres Two Crews.

CHARLOTT ETOWN

HEPARE FOR HOT WEATHER

——AND

s3UY FROM——

—

New American Muslins, New Prin’ ed Batists, New French Muslins, New Printed Cottons.

A BIG DISPLAY OF LACES.

Book Muslin, Victoria Lawn, Bishop’s Lawa, Check Muslins.

Embroideries, in Allovers, Flouncings, Edgiags, Inser- tions, &e¢,

A Big Stock of Gloves and Hosiery.

Linen Collars and Cuffs, separate or in sets.

_ Corsets, direct from the makers and at the lowest

price,

—

If you want a Seaside Dress just see our stock of — Cheapest and Best Goods for the purpose to be ound.

ies ener sign: Malattie catia

Perkins & Sterns

June 7—dy & wky

a

SD

Wall Men HY these Presents thal

ThE STAR

TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT

Is the right place to “et your Clothes made.

Because we give Good Value and a Fit that beats the world.

Our Estab!ishment is new but our Cutters are the oldest at their business in the Province.

We can give a style and finish to our garments that others cannot attain to.

ee O----

WE BIO WW

Because we know we are right «nd care not what our competitors say. We are bound to knock them out in Fit, Style, Fin'sh, Price, &c. Come and see us, even if you don’t buy. We want to show rou

our Fine Stock of Tweeds, Worsteds, &c.

MCLEOD & M°KENZIE,

Queen Street, opposite Watson's Drug Store. JAMES McLEOD, late of C. Robertson & Co. J. T. McKENZIE, formerly Bruce & McKenzie, late of New York.

Charlottetown, July 5, 1887—eod & wky

SUMMER BEVERAGES, &6.

ov

AND RETAIL.

This

WHOLESALE

<a <comecumm ():

Montserratt Lime Juice, in pint and quart bottles.

Lime Juice is imported from the Island of Montserratt, and is)!

guaranteed to be the best and purest in the world.

West India Lime Juice, in bottles and on draught. We import this in casks and bottle it ourselves, and it has given first-class satisfaction.

Lemon and Raspberry Syrups.—As we import these from one of the best houses in the Dominion, we guarantee them

to be equal, if not superior, to any other Syrups in the market.

Fresh Fruit. —We are receiving Oranges, Lemons and Apples, every Boston steamer, and wiii have Pears, Grapes, Strawberries, Watermelons, &c., in their season.

Confectionery.— Having a very large stock of good, whole- some Confectionery, we are prepared to give extra value in this line.

Tea Committees will find it to their advantage to give usa call before buying elsewhere.

a

BHEHR + GOH #,

QUEEN SQUARE AND KING SQUARE STORES. |

Ch’town, Nov. 16, 1886.

Ch’town, July 9, 1887—eod wky

Perkins & Sterns

_P. E. ISLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 23. 1887.

‘THE DAILY EXAMINER.

4 U LY 23 t 1 887 ; NOTES

Ofa Trip to the North-West and British Columbia.

These people, as | have already stated, are not without their good points. Some of them are excellent men of business and their shops would do no discredit to any white man. We visited one of the princi- pal ones, and were received by the pro- prietor, who showed us all over the establishment and then invited us upstairs to his private apartments, where we had tea with him. We all sat round a table, and the tea was brought in on atray. It was served in small cups, without milk or sugar, and was not bad, Certain heavily sugared sweetmeats, like candied fruits, were handed round. On the wall of the room I noticed a picture of Her Majesty (Jueen Victoria. 1 spoke a good deal with a rather intellectual looking Chinaman, a friend of our host, who, like ourselves, was there as a guest. He gave me to under- stand that there were among Chinese—as as among other nations—both good and bad; that only the depraved among them smoked opium and frequented the dens of which I have spoken, and that these people were looked down upon by the better class.

The impressions | formed of these peo- ple were, on the whole, rather favourable. | think they are somewhat unjustly treated, and while I do not go so far as to say that they are desirable acquisitions to society, my experience dves not lead me to the con- clusion that they are one and all the de- graded wretches that many represent them to be. I frequently noticed that in houses whose proprietors I should have thought would not have tolerated John on any con- sideration, the front door was opened by one Chinaman and dinner served by another. In short, I do not see what the people of Victoria would do without them. One could express these sentiments in Vic- toria only at the risk of one’s life, and it is the knowledge of the fact of my being 3000 miles distant that alone gives me courage to record them here.

But I must not linger too long over this delightful little place. We bade it fare- well on the morning of the 13th August, after a most enjoyable visit of three weeks.

We drove over to Esquimalt, four miles distant, in order to take the train at that point for Nanaimo, whither we were bound. Esquimalt is a straggling village with noth- ing particular to recommend it but its fine harbour. Here are stationed the ships of war, and here, too, is the celebrated Gray- ing Dock, which we duly inspected.

The occasion of our visit was the formal opening of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, which, like the Graving Dock, has an extra-provincial notoriety. The length of this line is 70 miles, and its con- struction is principally due to the enterpris- ing zeal of Mr. Robert Dunsmuir, who is

coast. On this occasion we, together with a few gentlemen from Victoria, were Mr. Dunsmuir’s guests. We left Esquimalt at 10 a. m., and at Cowichan, which is about half way, the last spike was duly driven home by the Prime Minister, with all the ceremony attendant upon such occasions.

Near Cowichan isa large Indian Reserve, and at one of the way stations the Premier was presented with an address by the chief men of the tribe. The indians of the Pacific Coast are quite unlike those of the plains or any other of our eastern Canadian tribes. Not only are they more civilized than the Crees or Blackfeet, but they evi- dently come of a different race. To my mind there is little doubt of their Mongolian ancestry. At Cowichan | had a good oppor- tunity of comparing them with the Chinese navvies, who mingled with the crowd dur- ing the delivery of the address. As one looked down on the upturned faces, one could distinctly trace a genera] similarity of feature between the Indian and the China- man, clearly indicating a common origin, though the Indian, j:robably in imitation of the whiteSman, professes a great contempt for John.

During my stay in British Columbia, I never saw an Indian who was not clad in civilized garments. They earn their living like other people, and altogether are quite superior to their brethren east of the Rocky Mountains. The common word for Indian in British Columbia is ‘‘ sywash,” and the squaws are generally called ‘* Klovtchmen.”

When in Victoria | saw some very inter-

esting ‘* totems,” which are carved all over with quaint devices, not unlike Egyptian hieroglyphics. Like our red men these In- dians seem to have no record of the distant | past. We reached Nanaimo about one o'clock, and the whole party were welcomed with much enthusiasm; for, in addition to the ‘honor of the Premier's visit, it must not be forgotten that this was the occasion of the arrival of the first through train from Vic- toria,and, as such, amemorable event. After ‘addresses and the singing of the National Anthem by several hundred children, which raade us feel at home at once, we proceed- ed to the coal mines, and several of us, in- cluding the Premier, descended the main shaft, going down 650 feet into the bowels of the earth.*

We remained below some minutes watch- ing the men at work, and then returned to .the upper world, where, thanks to the hos- pitality of the civic authorities, an excel- lent dinner awaited us.

In the afternoon we drove over to Wel- lington, six miles distant, where Mr. Duns- ‘muir’s mines are situated. We remained there some time, and were much interested in watching the coal coming up. I was not a little amused at seeing a number of white men, who are, as a body, very strongly op- posed to the introduction of Chinese labor into this country, sitting idly at the pit’s

*This is the saaft in which the terrible explo- Sicn occurred a few weeks ago, whereby 150 miners losi their lives, among them being several of our ou the occasibn of which I write.

the Sir George Stephen of the Pacific}

mouth and watching the Chinamen, whom they themselves had hired at a fraction of their own wages, toiling like horses, do.ng their work—they receiving some $35 a day trom the capitalists and paying the China- men $1.25 or so-—pocketing the difference, and all the while cursing the Chinese!

We left Nanaimo for New Westminster the same afternoon by Mr. Dunsmuir’s tug ‘* Alexander”’—that yentleman accom- panying us, The sun was setting as we stood out to sea, and his rays lighting up the landscape, made our last glimpse of Vancouver Island a very beautilul only jess beautiful than the mainland hills towards which our faces were now turned, while in order that nothing might be want- ing to complete the scene, Mount Baker stood radiant in the souther. sky, catching and reflecting back to us the Jight for some time after the sun had disappeared below the horizon.

We were due at New Westminster at 9 p- m., but in consequence of some ditliculty in finding the buoy atthe mouth of the Fraser River, it was midnight before we arrived. ‘The delay was unfortunate, as the New Westminster people had arranged their torchlight procession for 9 o’clock,and

one—

in the interval of waiting many of the torches had burnt out, and numbers of people had gone home. ‘This we heard

afterwards. ‘To my mind, the torchlight procession was perhaps the finest of the whole trip. Certainly nothing could have surpassed the enthusiasm with which the Premier was received here. I think if it had been any greater he could nothave sur- vived it; su possibly, afterall, the delay was wisely ordained.

Next day we drove about and saw the decorations, which were most artistic, es-

one of whom represented ‘* Halifax”’ and the ether ‘** Port Moody.”

The Provincial Penitentiary is a striking building with a fine approach, and the **Cead Mille Failthe” in large evergreen letters over the gateway was much appre- ciated !

While I was aware that the mainland had been originally a Colony distinct from Vaneouver Island, with a governor of its own, I did not expect to find the sharp di- vision which exists to-day between the two sections of the Province. One observes everywhere a_ certain jealousy between them. Especially is this noticeable at New Westminster, formerly the capital of the mainland Colony where, empty and bear- ing evidences of its unoceupied condition, stands their old government house, a silent memorial of the glcries of the past.

As an illustration of this jealous feeling between the mainland and the Island, I

ed in New Westminister, the day after our arrival, that our delay of the preceding night was the result of a deliberate design on the part of the Island people to the reception.

On Saturday evening,I drove over to the City of Vancouver, a distance of 13 miles. To anyone who cares about seeing big trees, | recommend this drive as ailording

trees, which must be seen to be appreciat- ed. They are of enormous girth and with- vut branches for perhaps half their height, rising 250 and 275 feet straight into the air. The vista is superb. along the way seemed to be of proportion- ate size. 1 saw ferns for instance 14 high.

The largest tree I saw in British Colum- bia was at the upper end of Vancouver jtuwn site. About forty feet or more been cut down, and was lying on the ground hollowed out. Into this hollow tube we walked, and, standing upright, I was just able with an outstretched cane to reach the top. A few feet fromthe ground the trunk measured 42 feet in circumfer- ence. It was, therefore, about 13 feet six inches in diameter, and was 510 feet high. This last measurement I did not verify, but it ison the word of a member of Par- liament and, therefore, admits of no dis- pute.

We found Vancouver almost wholly re- built,with the exception of the Churches of which I could see no trace.

Vancouver occupies a more desirable site than appears from the water approach. The ascent from the water’s edge, though gradual), is considerable, and affords a com- manding view from the upper portion of the town,

Speculation in town lots was at fever heat during our visit ; and I heard during my few hours stay a good deal of conversa- tion suggestive of St. Matthew’s calling be- fore he became an apvustle.

I left Vancouver by the noon boat for Port Moody, and, separating from my com- panions, drove back to Nev Westminster by stage.

On Monday morning, the 16th inst., we bade farewell to our hospitable friends, and embarking on board the steamer Rithet, sailed up the Fraser to Port Hammond, a station on the Canadian Pacific Railway, twelve miles above Port Moody, where, after receiving an address, we took the train and started on our homeward journey.

Teet

by a professional gentleman who had come there for the purpose.

At Agassiz, 58 miles above Port Moody, we took our last look at Mount Baker, which is seen perhaps to better advantage from this Point than from anf other in British Columbia.

At Yale, we visited an Anglican sister- hood which has lately been established at that place. Yale is completely surrounded by monutains, walled in, as it were, and one cannot exactly see how on earth one got in, nor how one is going to get out. We laid over for the uight at North Bend. Kamloops, where it has not rained for two years, I was told, is without exception the dustiest place I ever saw, if one may judge of the character of a town from the vicinity of its railway station, which, I admit, is un-| fair, We ran along the deep canyons of the!

Thompson, passet thy Shushwap Lakes and

pecially one arch supporting two little girls, | Railway to the end of the track,

may mention that it was commonly report- |

mar:

the amplest gratification of his tastes in this particular. For the last six or seven,

miles, the road is one long avenue lined by |

The vegetation |

.s Lad

At Stave River our party was photographed ,

31

ant A

VOL. NO. 52.

Eagle River, and crossing the Columb‘a, rested for the night at Revelstoke. Next day we climbed the Selkirks and Rockies, and descended the latter to Banff, where a halt was made for the purpose of allowing vs to visit the hot springs,which we aceom- plished satisfactorily and then proceeded on our way east.

We ran very fast from Banff to Calgary, making all of 50 miles an hour. We pass- ed the latter place in the night, and ar- rived at Regina on the following afternoon, having stopped at Moose Jaw to receive an address. The country about Moose Jaw had

suffered terribly from drought. The sun scemed to hive barned up everything, and there was no shade for man or beast. I

myself saw from the carriage windows a man lying at full length on the road side, devoting his energies to keeping his head in the shadow of a telegraph poie, in the

accomplishinent of which purpose he was slowly describing acircle on the prairie !

We remained over night at Regina,

starting next day at noon for Winnipeg. The Premier received addresses at Wolsely, | Broadview, Whitewood and Virden.

| The Lieutenant-Governor accompanied |us to the eastern boundary of his territory, and if hearty cheers and still more hearty shakes of the hand are any evidences of a people’s good will, Mr. Dewdney must be a popular man.

At Brandon, that evening we had an im- ‘mense torchlight procession, accompanied by a general illumination of the town. There were two large meetings held and | much enthusiasm exhibited on all sides.

In the morning we took a special, and as ithe guests of the managers of the road, ran jover the Manitoba and North Western which at ithat date was 155 miles from Brandon. Addresses were presented at Gladstone, Nepewa, Minnedosa, Shoal Lake, Birtle, ,and at the end of the track. This railway jserves a beautiful country. Really, 1 am inot able to say which looks tiner—North- |Western or South-Western Manitoba— ‘both were perfect gardens, strange to say,

jcomparatively unaffected by the dry |weather, which did not begin to make it-

iself seriously felt until one had passed the 'western boundary of the Province of Mani- i toba.

We arrived morning.

On Monday we went out to Stoney Moun- tain, 13 miles from Winnipeg, to visit the Penitentiary, and also to inspect Warden 'Benson’s herd of Butfalo, which are weil |worth seeing. Most of these animals are ‘crossed, but among them is to be seen an joccasional Simon-pure. They are compar- atively tame. As we drew near they were japproaching a pup in the form of a semi- lcircle. Engaged in the menial office of | drawing water for the cattle, was an old In- dian in a prison suit with the number ‘ 103’ pasted across the seat of his trowsers. This gentleman was none other than the renown- ‘ed ‘** Big Bear.”’ | The prairie intervening between Winni- peg and Stoney Mountain is the finest | saw anywhere in Manitoba or the North- West.

The next day, the 24th August, was memorable as being the hottest lever ex- perienced. The thermometer marked 108, and the wind was like the blast from a fur- nace.

On the 26th, we drove over to St. Boniface aud visited Archbishop Tache, who received our party most cordially, and showed us all over the convent, college and church. In ‘the churchyard, surrounded by a slight picket fence, is Louis Riel’s grave.

The same afternoon we started for Pert | Arthur, which we reached next morning |The Premier here received from the civic | authorities the utmost kindness and aiten- |

at Winnipeg on Sunday

undone to do him

tion. Nothing was left honor. | We had the usual address—a trifle long,

|perhaps—-a sail up the Kaministiquia, |'where several more addresses were pre- sented, notably one by the Indians, and a reception in the evening. The Northern Hotel is an excellent one, and altogether it seems to me that Port Arthur must be an extremely pleasantly place in which to spend one’s summer holiday. Were I not a married man, I dare say I should have noticed the number of pretty girls that grace this town, which doubtless would have tended to contirm my favorable im- pression of it.

We left next day by the regular train, and reached Ottawa in safety on “he morn- ing of the 30th August, having throughly enjoyed a delightful trip of which the fore-

going is a most inperfect outline, written largely from memory at odd moments in the midst of engrossing duties, and sub-

mitted to my Island friends in the hope that they will not too closely criticize my efforts to afford them a better acquaintance with the western portions of our Great Dominion.

s P,

Ottawa, June, 1887. Bi ME. 100 Bbls. No. 1 Extra Plastering Lime

IN STORE, HORACE HASZARD,

Ch’town, July 16, 1887—2wks eod

ES2q * i837, & EK. KENNY, Geods and Sh pping,

NALIFAX, CANADA,

7

Bry

' & &. KENNY, (Fo & MAHON)

Shin femers and Brokers, Ganeral S mmission erchanis, i6i GRESHAM HOUSE,

Bishopsgate Street, LONDON, E. C.,

England, Scott's and Vaughang Codes Marob 29, 1887,