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the King, he could not say; but he would ask if they to take an Opinion to give gn advantage to one class of men over another ; for the titles should he investigated,

Hov. COL. SECRETARY said, the bon. member would never get any lund purchysed in that case. Where were they to be iuvestigated ? If in the Courts of law here, they would decide against the hon. member's opinion; and should the decision be in favor of it, the proprietors would carry the matter to the old country ; and the time that would be taken up would make ao endless affair of it, and the whole bill bad better be thrown out at once, ‘The tenantry, too, would be tired waiting for it; and the peace and harmoney that now existed with reference to the Land Purchase Bill, would be disturbed. The hon, member did not think of the tribunal before which he intended to have the titles tried.

Mr. COOPER replied, before a Court of Escheat and inquiry. That was allowed in other countries; and what was the reason it was not here, he could not say. They ouzht to know whether there was a party of members in that

. ’ } | Assemb]y——the representatives of the the people—who were

determined to have justice done to their constituents.

Hon. COL. SECRETARY said, that justice to his con-; stituents, he believed was the desire of every hon. member, | bad been successful. Sut the hon. member | would not take the opinion of the Crown Law Officers, | ment might some but he would have an! opinion of his own, that the original titles were forfeited. | well ad opposed | of the Royal Gazette, that he had seen notice given to persons

as well as of the hon. member himself. nor of Her Majesty's Government ;

They knew that Her Majesty's Government h violent interference with the original titles, Government would not purchase laud from parties who ¢ not show good titles.

‘Ir. COOPER said, they had never had an opision of Law Officers in the Island or in the o'd country on the subject. They should be w lling to eall the Crown Law Udivers of England to give an opinion respecting the con- ditionof the grants, and the titles; because it was done by | the Crown Law Officer, when the Government took his opinion relative to the Worrell Estate.

Hon. COL. SECRETARY said, of course that officer was perfectly right, because he was not required to investigate the original grants; they were not specilied in the Land Purchase Bill.

The Hon. SPEAKER said, they were reviving the old question of escheat ; but brought before the Mleuse under a new name, and called a court of Inquiries. He woald ask the hon. member from King's County, Mr. Macintosh, one| question, whether the conversatiou which took place in his! own house between him, and James Dingwell and himsei/ (ilon, Speaker) respecting the purchase of the Worrel bsiate, Was private or not,

Mr. MACINTOSH said, when the land question was under discussion last year, the Hon. Speaker knew that he) had never broached what bad passed in privacy. He regarded the conversation alluded to as private.

The Hon. SPEAKER said, he never felt at liberty to diseuss publicely what had passed in private; and for that reason he had asked the question. Now, they had the revival of the old question of escheat ; but it has been decided on in two sessions of the present House, and what was the use of agitating it now? Did he (Mr. Cooper) suppose that he could obtain a majority of the House to support him in that resolution. He might suppose it ; but he (Hon, Speaker) did not believe he would. It was only another proof that he was an enthusiast in that subject; and he was disturbing the minds of the people of the country. It was ridiculous in the exiremé ; it was shameful. The hon. member (Mr. Cooper) knew that he could not carry the measure. They had heard | over and over again the same opinion, and that party saying, they must have free Jand or a court of escheat. Many by that means were hoping for what would never be realize but it was a miserable time for them. at the third session of the House that question had been | brought up. At the opening of the session he thought the | hon. member had taken counsel] in time; inefact, he hai repudiated the idea of escheat, and adopted some other mode | of beuelirting the country; bat still he had returned to it | again, He (the hon, Speaker) bad not had an onportunity | of speaking on this question ; but his views were weil known. | That was the ouly way they could confer a benefit and boon on the people of the Island in relation to the land, was by | inducing the proprietors to sell their lands to the tenantry ; that was the only course. ‘The bill before the committee was | supposed to impose a tax on the country; but he did not |

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suppose that the Government would run the country into debt | .}) ' 7 ; nuteae eo . . . re - . a jabie toa Court ot Hecheat. He never had heard him iD | manage s f th yovernment i: nd whi “h cost the former to weet the amount that was required on that Bill. No;) + In| management of the Government land, whic

he trusted they would make a better bargiin than they had | i

were! If the hon. member (Mr. Cooper)

Government of this [sland should not buy up any

‘that the } sho knew that its title

| portion of land till they

to flatter the hon. men j him to propose that it be tu ‘he saw nothing to prevent t | proprietor were apxious to sell his land to the

Bill, and

veafed in the present that front being done. Government,

a good title to it, but should they say, the title must be tried by a legal court, the proprietor wight refuse to submit to

have such a trial. The long agitated question of the fishery reserves had been a long time kept from a legal tribunal, because it was supposed that such a trial would have serious effect upon the public; and various attempts bad been made to bring in such a Bill as would settle that vexed question, but none had succeeded ; yet all parties adbered to the icea

and that the! in arrears, that they were required to pay the same ould | with, and that persons whose bonds and warrants were due,

that a Bill was necessary, and that the question could not be left to the courts of law. However, it was found by modern views and new opinions that it might be entrusted to and so far ag such trials had gone the crown With just as much consistency might the titles of Jand be tried in a court of law; and the Govern- day find themselves in such @ court; for the tenants might become refractory on the Government as as on the proprietors. i

a court of law ;

It was only in the last number

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were required to pay the same. The House, then, found that the people were holding back, —that their debts were overdue. The House did not know the reason why they did so; but the people might come forward and say, “ Mr. Commissioner of Crown Lands, you have no right to these lands, they belong to us;” Whether the right was given up or not, they might raise a clamour about it; and so a clause of the nature proposed should be incorporated in the Bull before the committee. If a proprietor bad every confidence in the security of his title, he would submit it to the investigatioa of a good trial. He ventured to say if one estate were tried as in the ease of the fishery reserves, it might settle the matter.

Hon. COL. SECRETARY said, that was just like the logie of the hon. member last year; the speech was all to enable the hon. mertber (Mr. Cooper) to go on and deceive the people. The notice that the hon, member (Hon. Mr. Palmer) bad read from the Royal Gazette, was only that the bonds were due, and that the parties were to come and pay them. Was that any very serious affuir? But what was his (Mr. Palmer's) conclusion from it? Why, that the people might be dissatisfied with the Government, and that the grants might be disputed. That, bowever, was only the opinion of the hon. member, Mr. Palmer. That hon, member knew very well that the proposed amendment could not be carried, and if carried, it would defeat the Bill; yet he thonght by supporting it, to be popular with some people ; but the people of the Island knew the hon. gentleman too well for that. He said, he saw no reason why that clause should not be incorporated into the-Bill; but this was not a Bill for regulating the purchase of Jand from the proprietors, but it was a Bill to extend tke provisions of the Land Pur- chase Bill from £30,000, to £150,000, and it was not for

the proprietors, bu: for the people, who provided the money. |

The other Bill provided for the investigation of the titles as far as the learned member for Charlottetown wisbed, who had given his opinion befure, that the Legislature could not in- terfere with the original grants. It was all nonsense to think of interfering with them; no court here would entertain such an opinion. The hon. member, Mr. Cooper, had advised

:|the tenan's to resist the claims of the proprietors, apd if |ttey succeeded, the proprietor would be bound to take the |

ease into the Court. 8S with such a case; bathe lost it. The Judges took no notice at all of a fuilure in the conditions of Original grants. As to the power of the House to incorporate the amendment into the Bill, no person disputed it. If there was a desire on the part of the majority to incorporate it ia the Bill, they would do it; but the thing was altogether opposed to the prineiples of the Bill; and if incorporated in it, the Bill would be defeated.

Hon. Mr. PALMER said, the hon. member was not war- ranted in saying, that anything he hed said when he Jast spoke, was to induce the people to think that he was favour-

that House or out of it, state any such thing; nor had he heard that he (Hon. Mr. Palmer) stated it was inconstitu-

done in the case of the Worrel ate—ti fortun: . . oe . 3 in the ease of the Worrell estate—the most unfortunate | tional or illegal forthe House to interfere with the original

estate in the Island.

It had been the great obstacle, and} grants bad been made the principal argument by those w pposed | . »s : : : the Loan Bill: sins he a hy ae uate ra opposed | expediency of it. They knew that the Crown had a right to! was introduced. The ten-pence duty which was formerly out he Knew Dy eXperien at whe by ED a EK ‘ ; ; ‘ : * we ’ y exper , Yj} establish a Court of Escheat at any time it pleased ; but! collected on wine and spirits, and which belonged to the

His objections to a Court of Escheat, was the in-

ahaa } nertéc law , ’ wA ores . ° “pe ee ak property, they ' uid get more trouble With | owing to the great lapse of time and other circumstances, it would be ; iVaie or wo | 0 ake by ; : aa a. "3 oe an ~— - ry what they would make bj | would be inexpedient to do so. Those were the grounds on ut to re urn to the awendment proposed to the Biil;) which he had opposed a Court of Escheat; and he had never

he would repeat it, it was nonsensical in the extreme. A| late speaker uf the House, Dr. Jardine, had pronounced it «| mere chimera; and he now, as an old man, pronounced it}

departed from them. Last year when the hon. member (Mr. Cooper) moved that the House go into commitiee on the land

question, he had given his sentiments just as disinterestedly as |

. > > a. YY = . ° ——* ° the same; and he believed the hon. member (Mr. Cooper) be did now, and voted against bis motion. But what he rose

could not carry it in that House. The proprietors would |

a few minates ago to state was, that there was nothing un-

F . ' iad “oe a cate ; 2 t. : not sell their lands to the Government, if they suid, ‘ We} parliamentary in the proposition offered, or in the amend-

will question your titles.”

of land ; and the titles had been examined and seen to be

really good, before his son paid for it. Certainly if the)

i es ment of the hon. member for King's County (Mr. Cc : Mr. YEO said, that in London he had purchased one coal ‘ wee ve eae

but that he could not see why there should not be a court by which it could be carried out, and that-it was nothing more than perfectly consist nt that the question should be seitied

2 ‘ 1 1 ; } . ° . . Goverumont bought land and paid for it, they would see that| jn some form or other. Perhaps another mode might be ad-

they had a good title to it. Let the Government seareh for | records and see whether the titles were good before they |

purchased land. Le did not consider that the members of the House were judyes of such tuings. Hon. COL. SECRETARY said, the hon. member was

of Escheat.

igiven his opinion on the subject.

opted with less expense than the one proposed, namely, a trial by Jaw, which would be just as good as n

The hon. member for King’s County was per- feetly right when he said, that no Vrowa law officer had ever The Home Government

still adhered to his opinion | on wil

had been investi-

‘gated, then he (Mr. Palmer) said—though he did not wish t rber——that it was perfectly lawful for

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who would give so much for it ip the expectation of receiving

that; yet if there were a proper court, he might submit to /

me poor feltow id go into Court |

one by a Court |

7 ta measure of escheat. If the hon. member (Mr. | sum nearly eqaal to the whole debt of the Colony, ang Cooper) thought proper to support it now, he (Hon. Col. | actual y paid into the pres of the ane While maki Secretary) would not. a statement respecting (ne amount pei to public Mr. COOPER said, it was entirely unfair to have a| may not be amiss to remind the public, that in order to Townships ia the Island ; when | gerve their own views, the Tory party in 1848 actually

urt of Escheat for two d ; ; ora on titles of the others were just as bad. When those town-' ap Act to increase the Land Tox, for the special purpose of ships had been escheated, further proceedings were delayed, | paying the Jaicutenant Governor an additional salary of £509

mn cons the parties engaged in them bei interested | per annum; and at the same time they were conspiring tg is he een. “Peode of the er ide and having land of Seocive the [gland of its constitution, es will appear be a similar quality, should be placed in the same position ; but | following extract from Sir A. Bannermau’s Message to the now there was a vast difference between them. What took | Assembly, dated March 4, 1852 :— place in the Island in reference to the land, was @ disgrace} “ The Lieutenant Governor has to acquaint the to the Home Government; end he always thought, the | that the Despatch alluded to was forwarded to the Se Ministers aided it themselves, and wished to have it covered | of State by his immediate predecessor, under the belief thas up; and that when they got Governors to come to the Island, | it would be unwise to concede Responsible Governm and oppress the people of the Colony, they then thought unless accompanied with a measure to limi the Franchise ty they had power over the rights of the people. There was /a closer assimilation to a right of voting exercised in the oth no such thing as Ministers giving a decision at law ; they | North American Colonies, where it is confined io Freeholderg were no court; whenever a case came to a point of law, it' alone, by limiting the country consutuencies to freehold was referred to a Court of jurymen, :

Hon. COL. SECRETARY said, still it was very simple an anoual rent of 50s., twenty years ovcupation, and im. in the Despatch of Her Majesty's Secretary of State, that provements thereon amounting to £300 currency; to raigg

he refused a Court of Escheat, he said :-—- ‘ “ Seeing, therefore, that the rights of the proprietors could not be sacrificed without manifest in‘ustice, I feel that it will be my duty steadily to resist by all means in my power ninth Bill, which secures the tenant against landlord caprices, measures similar in their character to those which were ré-| besides many other measures of the greatest importance, cently under the consideration of Her Majesty’s Government.” | 1t may be necessary, on another occasion, to show what wag The hon. member (Mr. Cooper) bad admitted on several | done by the Treasurer under the Tory administration—to occasions that escheat was not expected, and was glad that say a little on the management of the Glebe Land Pund— sowe other means could be employed in order to benefit the | and to give a general summary of offives held by the Family people. If he had adhered to that, and given attention to the Compact. All, however, shall be taken from the records of purchase of lands, he might have been of great assistance in| the Assembly, and not garbled statements such as issue from settling the minds of the people, avd_his advice would have the Prolector and Istander offices, to deceive the people. been beneticial to them. R. Lairp, Reporter. coer : (To be continued.)

their number to 19.” + As an offset, the Liberal party gave Universal Suffrags —an increased Representation—Free Education—the One

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Sm,—I noticed in the Is/ander of Friday last a communica- tion signed ** Echo,”’ in which, as 1 conceive, most ubwarrant- able liberties are taken with my name. which reference is made to me is as follows :— ‘

‘« Report says, that Barnard is hard at work trying to bri Lord out, hoping that he may help to put a few more jobs in his way as that which M‘Craith very justly found fault with, where a large sum of money drawn from the pockets of the town folk went into the hands of the disinterested Towa Councillor, and very little done for it.’

In reply to the above false and calumnivus assertion, J beg to state that neither ‘‘a large’? nor a small ** sum of money’’ was ever ‘‘ drawn from the pockets of the town folk” for my benefit, without the most ample service having been rendered for it. I have no recollection of Mr M‘Craith having found fault with any job done under my superintendence, unless it was, the fitting up of an office for the use of the licensee of the Weighing Machine. This was done in the fall of last year, when the deve were short, the weather broken, and it was almost impossible to procure workmen to do the work at the time it was required. From a desire to serve the City Government, but greatly to my own inconvenience, T consented to let two of my journeymen work a certain number of days at the fitting up of the office in question, at the same wages per diem as I myself had been paying them. The men worked constantly and faithfully while they were at the **job,” but.frum unforeseen and unavoidable drawbacks, a longerspace of time was occapied in the completion of it than was at first con-

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As the following article from the pen of an occasional con- tributor anticipates much that we intended to say on the subject of our public expenditure, we give it the most promi- nent place in our columns — premising that we shall enlarge, as soon as an opportunity offers, upon several of the topics herein recalled to our notice.

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE UNDER TUE PRESENT AND FORMER GOVERNMENTS. To tue Eniror or THE Examiner.

Srr,— Having, previous to the late election, seen astatemtnt of the salaries recently published under the patronage of the | Protector, I take the liberty of forwarding for publication a true statement of the salaries paid to the different officers under the Tory and Responsible system of Government, together with a few observations of my own on the state of affirs in 1848 and 1856. I shall leave the publie to judge who is right, the Protector or your obedient servant,

| » OT S54 N j ° . ° ° June 27, 1857. INCOLA templated. Now,I leave the public to judge how tnuch of the : P jucge FORMER SALARIFS. : . PRREBE BARA 4g | OT for the work went into my pocket. While my men were Lieute nant\oreroor, a . : Eferie® a eye 0 jcngaged upon it, their service was lust to me, ata time when i>Speec 80 O O° Assistant Secretary. 150 0 0 thut service was much required, and of the wages which they | 5 Do- as Clerk to Ex- Private Secretary, 109 0 © {received not one penny accrued to my benefit.

22 ecutive Councit, 225 0 O ‘Sreasurer, 300 0 0! Ihave, perhaps, taken more than due notice of such an unm | =C Do. as Clerk to Le- Assistant piceenreh 100 © O}principled slanderer as the anonymous correspondent of the | == gislative Council, 1445 0 0 Uo lector hecise Na- 0 Islander. If he is not as much a coward as a slanderer, when

Por indexing Journals, 30 0 O vigation Laws, $00 ON ttack in I advise him to end hi i to billed aud. © 6 Agemteat, 160 @ o ‘he attacks me again I advise him to append his real name

Coliector of Impost, 2 200 0 © Attorney General, 350 0 wy) his Communication. , : | Customs & Naviga- 625 0 0 Solicitor General i00 0 0} I remain, sir, yours truly,

} tion Laws, § ‘i Surveyor General, 0 0 Q| Charlottetown, July 6, 1857. SILAS BARNARD.

Att'y General, includ- Chief Justice, 600 0 0}

ing fees 16 4 Masterof the Rolls, 560 0 0} “a °

Chief Justice, 1150 0 0 Clerk of the Crown, 169 0 6) + : . :

Coen arte Crewe: 216 1.6 “AnjiuntGes. sittie)® 25 010] New Bamest~Os Friday last the new Bridge over Wheat

Aojutant Gen. Militia, 75 0 Q Road Correspondent, 100 0 Olly River, at the Oyster Bed, was inspected and passed, in the

Road Correspondent, 40 0 @ Clerk to Executive and ; a ‘

Solicitor General, 2 3 4 Legislative Councils, 120 0 ° presence of a large concourse of people. This is the third ex-

De paid by Council 150 0 0 a : . Regiethet, > Jeg 0 0 tensive bridge erected by the present Government, costing Assistant, 109 0 © over one thousand pounds each, and they are all a credit to ——— | . ‘ - £4718 7 2 £5755 0 0 the Colony. The Wheatly River Bridge and Fyfie’s Ferry

| Bridge are built of cedar, are both draw-bridges, and are over a thousand feet in length. They are situated in the district owner ‘7 he neue Estate — ee ener Hel represented by the Hon. Col. Secretary, and in the constraction stnae. 3 > al e it wi seen that the | : : ‘ . sslatie evan sare Es chavs Yneluded, aad not amount to | . Ke ae aren ay ee The ae near so much as was paid before Responsible Government | ridge, one of the most important public works erected im

King’s County fur many years, is likewise a draw-bridge,

| Besides the above there is a sum of £550 paid for the

built on the same principle as the Queen’s County bridges Imperial Government, but ceded to the Colony at the change just referred to, and all three have been erected under the of Government, smounting last year to over £3,000 sterling, | would more than pay our present Civil List; aud when the {louse refused the supplies in 1850 the Tory Goverument actually paid the Civil List out of this fund, thereby showing that the Assembly had no control whatever in the matter. | Mr. Haviland, when Colonial Seeretary, received, (indepen- | dent of his pension as Naval Officer!!! of £180 sterling morning last, having accomplished the object of his mission. per apnum, and his fees as Master in Chancery), £850 ‘He cate ie per Ne ie ecteitentie) Shien Wiel currency yearly ; and if we add to the £141 Gs, paid during eiitiall - 7 salt aia a nals

the same year to the Lieutenant Governor, it does not) ericton, si oung visited the Legislative Chambers, and appear for what, we have a sum total of £992 6s. paid for Teceived a high compliment at the hands of the House of doing the work now performed by five individuals, who, in | Assembly, then in Session. As soon as he made his arpoar the earrnen a ieee ee me late nen © OFF | ance on the visitors’ benches of the latter, the Hon. J. H. respondent, receive £880, being the exact amount received |, , 1

by iM r. Haviland alone, if we _ we de the £30 paid for in- Gray called the attentionof the Honesto the fact of his Pees dexing the Journals, which is now done by the Clerk of the | sence, and suggested, that, as Mr. Young’ was President of Council. A change in the road service was loudly called | the Legislative Council of a sister Colony, it was due to bis

for. The office of Road Correspondent was formerly held | position to invite him to a seat in the body of the House.

‘superintendence of Mr. John Doirant.

Tae Hon. Dr. Younc.—This gentleman, who has been, for more than a week past, ona visit to New Brunswick, om business connected with our public affairs, returned on Saturday

quite mistaken. The Act that this Biil referred to, had a} 5 oaks . Paahine ey pleas . : 1 3 : could institute a Court of Escheat when they pleased. Those by Mr. MacGowan, and it is notorious that poor people were | This suggestion was prompt!y approved of on both sides of the

eaechetiiates safeties eeeteeamenmiade mes | were the grounds on which he bad risen to speak on the hon. | often obliged to take goods from that gentleman in payment | ; , - MemDer, Mr. £00, W2S) member’s (Mr. Cooper’s) amendment, agg not with the view | f i

; ; : § (ar. : » t Wi or their orders, or sell them at a discount of 20 per cent. | different frém thatintended by the hom, member, Mr. Cooper. | of asserting to the country that he |

Waat the hoo. member, Mr. Yeo meant, was to see that the) pot; ; it mi ‘ Bin ib . , ‘notion of Escheat, and that it might be granted now. That) faction; and road orders being paid in cash, the work is

deed was perfect.

favourable to the

sense was put into his mouth by the Hon. Col. Secretary

Mr. COOPER said, there was a great debt of £100,000 | with the view of accusing him of a desire to deceive the

sterling to be brought upon the Colony to purchase land ;

if it was an error to purchase Jand formerly wiles investigating the titles, it would be so still. He repeated his opinicn that it would be a piece of error and fraud fer the Government to purchase any land without investigating the titles, and wish to have the purchasers of it duped iustead of themselves. He did not think the House could go into the point respecting the opinion of Ministers; but let the Governmeut get an opinion from the Law Officers of the Crown, and not from Ministers.

Mr. MACINTOSH said, as the Hon. Speaker had put a question to him, he would.ask him one in return.

& court of escheat.

original grauts.

Hon. Mr. PALMER said, the proposition of the hon. member for King’s County, (Mr. Cooper) thoagh perhaps not one whieh he wonld bave suggested himself in a Bill of that nature, still he could not altogether agree with the opivion of some hon, members, that it was out of place or unconstitutional. Le could not see that it required a separate Bul, as had been said it would; and it might as reasonably be ingrafted on the present Bill as brought in by a separate one.

t| little as he (Hon. Col. Se

He wished to know the difference between a court of inquiry and He believed they were both the same ; yet he wished to see if his opinion on the subject was not differeat from that of the Hon. Speaker. He (Mr. Macintosh) aid pot see bow the Government would purchase those Townships which had no grants, without investigating the

country might thick ef him es they pleased, but what he

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wanted was, that his words went forth to the country as he | holders—not responsible to the people—for less than one- ‘half the work done by men who hoid office subject to their not at all surprising to find the Islander retailing this little

| Ilouse, and Mr. Young was then led into the House by Mr. Gray, introduced to the Speaker and all the members, and &

£60 extra for this service bas given general satis: | | seat set apart for him in the body of the House during his done at a cheaper rate, and a large saving to the country stay in Fredericton. :

\effected, besides four times the work is done now. The re- | a

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d| country ; but he deseived the couatr I a i . , y on any question 48) yenue ia 1848 was only £17,792 Gs. ld while that for the| Over worthy contempora f lander wonderful se ‘ oot : > 9 , y porary 0 the 1 hasa . eretary) or his partisans did. The) Jast year was £40,662 16s. 93d., consequently uuder the | "it ‘

taste for the marvellous, in proof of which we give the following.

Tory Government a larger amount was paid to office-| J wre ate | o’er true tale’? from his No. of Friday last. Indeed, it i

Hon. COL. SECRETARY declared that he had not per-; approval. The fees paid by the Colonial Secretary and Re- | bit of news, for almost every issue of that paper contains “ ®,

j eens them. The lon. member did not say, he was opposed | gistrar in 1848 amounted to £222 ‘to escheat when he was on his leg: be‘ore ; but from what he amounted to £559 4s. 41.—a sum little short of the present | stated on the notice in the paper, that the titles might be| actual cost of the two offices. It may be said, as is often |

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should be up bays and rivers. lating to the fishery reserves was brought intoa court of law and the decision was in favor of the Government.

suid that the titles were good, and the land had been settled

forfeited that might be inferred. He (Hoa. Col. Secretary done by the Tory party, that the Queen's Printer gets £1,00

thought the Escheat question had now ied set at rest. Thoe| per eiuke wes i 7 7 P maed Bey Seen oe was uo doubt that Her Majesty's Governwent could at any |The charges are much lower than those made by Mr. Has-| por time establish a Court of Escheat; but they would at the zard when be was Queen's Printer. same time know what they were going to bring into it—their |ktiow there is now much more printing to be done, But the hon. member weut farther when he was | without taking into consideration the Customs and P on his legs before; he said there was another reason to try Office Blanks, (a large item in the expenditure), formerly the titles a = account of the cece on the fishery re- paid for by the Imperial Government. The debt of the serves. Now, they were given on a different footing alto- Colony in 1848—the year from which the above statements | ; i i in gether ; aud parties disputed whether their claim for them ei? aga to £27 454 lis. 3$1., while that of the peovtagerad for sfyrncher Seis cae tet tas asi Some years ago, a case re-| present year is only £22,803 14s. Od., against which there they had got amongst rocks as they found they could

was ® question of tit! Her M Bat this and about £10,000 due on land sales; in the same year fog uestion of titles. Her Majesty’s G t had less than £1,506 atic ‘le in 1856/ , jesty’s Government had less than £1,500 were paid for education, while in 1856 entalan! en teahiebed saaiiet.- Wi

and though some of the grants could not be found, yet Her the same year (1848 3,000 i rd chan “erm : ; year ( ) only £3,000 were voted for the Road | ch Majesty's Goverament said, they weve satisfied that they bad Service; last year the sum oS ee ee ee as been givea. So it was vo use to afford encouragement to go an increase in the Road aud Schoo! Service of £19,500—a

lis, 2d.; in 1896 they | whale of a story ”’ about some thing or other :— :

«<4 Wuarz—or a Srory.—A Whale, upwards of 60 feet ‘long, lost its reckoning and got ashore on Mor Island, Riche ras : ; ys ago. The fortanate captors, it is This, they well know, is not the fact. | said, have extracted from it owt 400 gallons of oil, worth 5s. allon. ° All intelligent persons! _‘ It is reported that as the men cut into the fish, they were, even | alarmed by a strange jabbering in French, and that as daylight ost Zot entrance they discovered a po boat, and four men et ‘the oars. One of the men who could speak a little English, | ‘stated that they belonged to French St. Peter’s ; that having ‘made rather free with a jar of brandy, they all fell asleep @

conld not see each other, but concladed.

handle their oars freely, and were waiting patiently until the

and darkness should clear away.

ts ‘The stranded whale and oil are certain facts, but, in oof

it is quite a8.

credible as an old witch-woman as mt in the shape Ing

, are ever 50,000 acres of laud belonging to the Government,

Io

; over £13,000 were paid under the Free Education Act. shot and eate®

id was over £11,000, showing by her grandson. If true, the French Government will, 9 ‘doubt, reward the liberators handsomely.” ae

| not less than 40s. ; and Leasebolders, possessing 50 acres ag

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