i il - Five DottarRs A YRAR. — NEW SERIES, , ‘ _ Av ALLY ‘ , ever eveuing, by . . ‘ l ‘ ‘ 7 : >}? } Q P ; oe Examiner Publishing Qo. s !. Mt r 4 yvater and as ' ‘ ts, Uhark itetown, i ard isiana, RKRiPTION ; ‘ ’ ee £0 ‘bh ‘ 1 25 tine h, " * ” u 50 ~@ A lvertising at most moderate rates, Contr y made for monthly, arte ialf-yearly or yearly advertise- ue , ALWANAS FOR OCTOBER, 1884. MOON S CHANGES, Full Moon, 4th day, 5h. 47.5m., p. m. Last Quarter Lith day, 10h. 16.7m., a. m, New Moon 18th day, Sh, 18.9m., p. m. First Qoarter, 27th day, Oa. 41.9m., a, m, » dan ‘San ‘Mvon|High | Days DAY OF WEA . a ’ MI rises sets | rises |water len’h, a mum hm = aft’n morn; hm liWednesday 6 35 36 3 55) + S211 23 @iTharsdas 3t) 4 26] 8 43) 99 2 Priday 6} 32) 457 9 26; 26 4)Saturda; ‘| 95 2910 G 22 5 Sunday 9 23 6 3,10 19 6; Mouda iv 6 6 il ll 27 16 Ti Tucai a; iz' 24) 7 24aft & glWeduesday | 13, 2zl 8 14] 05 9 g Thar. da; 14} 20 9 10) 1 39; 6 LD Friday hi Iviio 1b! 2 $2) 2 j] Saturday 7 Try 16 3 38 10 d59 [2' Sanday Ls l4inern| 4 a” 56 13, Monday ig iz; @ 2s 6 Fi 53 14 Tuesday oti hie 73 50 15| Weluesday 23 9' 2 +6 8 25 46 1g Thursday _ at 7; 3 40, 9 9} 43 17 Fri tay ( 25] 51445' 948) 40 18 Saturday 27' 4,5 471024) 37 19) Sunday | 2 , 49 10 58 34 20’ Moaday | 2 0, 7 50 11 32 3 2} Tuesiay | 3114 58) 8 43!morn 27 22} Wednesday | 32 561944 0 6| 24 23) Thursday 33} 56410 35' 040, 21 24' Friday 35} 53.11 22 1 16) 18 25 Saturday 36 Sl aft 6) 1 53| 15 26 Sunday |; 33, 48) 0 40 2 42 12 27 Moaday , 41; 47! 1 20, 3 37 9 23 Tuesday 42" 56 152 4 43) 6 29 Wednes lay | 43) 46) 2 23, 5 53} 3 30) Thurs lay 44) 44, 2 53,7 9) v0 31| Friday 45|4 42] 3 24,8 9) 9 59 Pale RAILWAY TIME TABLE. (Charlottetown Time.) EXAMINER | GOING W e. a H Ae MR, yr Bw. CR won sce wee 647 91328 427) I de ae bees 747 1055 6547 Pr. M.° ee uke Sas inte T@4 i COO. es ccs wor 6607 37 a . tome, nee: ce. abs eee lu30 415 EEE EON 1205 657 RS ae 1242 747 FROM WEsT. se AM AM ER es rene 202 647 Fic, eennbone lt 240 737 Port 1 jie theee 415 1025 Gen OPTIVE. .. v8 6i7 1207 - | depart......542 122 657 imate. ooo ons ckss eee wee 7 30 Haate: Lee oss ale ca 702 232%..84 Caarivt Wi ccuasvxwaus 802 507 1007 @CINU EAST, Pr. M. A. M PROS TWH. |... 55. ccee beater on 417 7@ inane ail SPE «one 5 dl; 33 Ga ; aed, 527 902 St. Peter's sec nebateceaecuoe ae See Pr. M. Souris, Keebcekscdcdbaceneecl A. I ee aw buen a 538 Sa7 Cardi. hs cscneeeedaeenceds ceuent 629 1022 OWE . oc venbeessseunn ees 647 1047 FROM EAs A. M, Pr. M. OO vcccndiendeorkoeanel. sien 647: 217 We ROUOPS. . oo vébbecdeucbleiiwes 752 400 ae ) AOD. cocecces 842 517 on tewart, { Gepart.....--- $47 542 JMATIOSTOIOWM, .. 0... cccccoce cess ‘ NOW. coc cckvectas osecee. 727 332 IED. coc ccccevesesseseeunees 745 3457 meee Geowart. .... . scnndk aera: $842 512 CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. . O’DWYER, Couwissiod aid General Merchant FOR SALE OF P, B. I, PRODUCE. 289 WATER STREET, Si. Johns’ Newfoundland, In connection with the above is Captain English, who is well known in P. E. Island, who wili take special charge of all consign- ments, and will also attend to the charterimg of vessels for the carrying trade of P. E. 1. The firm is one of the oldest and most reli- able in Newfoundland Retarns guaranteed to be prompt and satisfactory. Parties wish- ing to procure Labradore Herring should send their orders in time. Nept. 6, 1834. —till 3lst dee, ‘S84. L. ARTHUR & CO, GEN HRAL Commission Merchants, 12] ATLANTIC AVENUE, (ROSS MARKET) BOSTOW, MASS. Eggs and Produce a Specialty. Mety 15, 1884 ~whly tf «a svt > - . v ar £3 i This is true Liberty, when Free-born Men, having to advise the Public, may speak iree,”—Evniriwes, HARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAN! Or. Toombs, PAYICHA AD SURGLOR, | Mouut Stewart. Charlottetown, Oct. 20—Im whly 6m aiCLedd, Murda & MeQuarrie, BARRISTERS | —AND— ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.. Oilice in Old Bank. (UP STAIRS). | Ch’town, Feb, 21, 1884, SULLIVAN & MAGHRIGL, ATTORNEYS - AT-LAW | Solicitors in Chancery, | NOTARIES PUBLIC, &c. OF FICES— O’Halloran’s Building, Great | George Street, Charlottetown, Gai Money to Loan, i | W. W. Scutivay, Q. C. | Caratsr RB. Macnerut | Jan. 16, 83, | W. WHEATLEY, Wueatritey & Soxs, CHARLOTTETUWN, P, E. Istanp) (Ov Commission Merchant, 269 BARRINGTON STREET, lett dt Maen: De. s@ Special attention given to the sale of | P. E. Island produce. April 24, 1884. Ss. WEST & RENDELL, | Commission Merchants, St. John’s, Newfoundlaud., Consignments solicited. Libera] advances made. July 25, 1884.—2aw 4m APPLES, APPLES, APPLLS, CHARLES DONALD & CO., 79 Queen St, London, E. C., Will be glad to correspond with Apple Grow ers, Merchants and Shippers, with a view to Autumn and Spring business. They willalso give the usual facilities to customers requiring advances. aug) MONCTON ; General rLUUH. = FLOUR. 125 bris. CHOICE PATENT, 379 bris, SUPERIOR EXTRA, for prompt delivery at Charlottetown or Summerside. 20 bris. No. 1 PILOT BREAD, 10 bris. THIN FAMILY, KOR SALE BY J. A. CHIPRAN &« co., | Corner Pownal and Water Streets, | Ci’ town, Sep 5 WANZER © cs Sewing THESE CELEBRATED MACHINES RECEIVED KICHEST AWARDS At all the leading Exhibitions of the World, Only Gold Medal in Canada, 1883. | J. F. WILLIS & CO., Sole and only authorized Agents for P. E. 1. jy30 ——— | Machines. ‘ YY) { Y YON WLECTRIG GLOSS . NOR cleaning Solid Silver, Nickel, Brass, Copper and Plate Glass) Quick! Sure! Permanent! No dirt, no trouvle, no labor. Being entirely free from grit and acids, it cannot injure the most finely burnished eur. | face. It is the only preparation ever pro- duced that will polish brass or copper with- out the use of acid. Nothing approaches it for removing grease and finger marks fiom ' Brass, Copper, Glass, etc ; while for cleaning |Nickel on Stoves it is especially useful, Retail price, 25 cents per bottle. MICA WASH.—This wash is the only! thing of the kind cver invented. A stove may be as handsome asa jewel and shine like ebony; but smoked mica lights will spoil it all, Day by day mica becomes scarcer and higher in price, and an article that will clean and preserve it is valuable to all concerned, Try this wash once, and you wiil always use it. Retail price, 75 cents per bottle, The above nouschold necessities are manufac. tured by The Electric Gloss Co., Philadelphia, U.S.A, and sold by every respectable Drug gist, Stove Dealer, Hardware Merchant and Dealer in Canada, The Canadian trade supplied by JOHN T. REED, 105 Water Street, St, Jobn, N. B Aug 6~6 n eod THE EXAMINER JOB PRINTING OP PLO | Sash and Door Factory. Bao po tones Copan witha Mi tit tortteiveratyst-coageextendea Printing Types and Material to him while in business in Charlottetown, begs leave to inform his old customers and the public generally, that he, in company with Mr, William Rogers, bas appointed Messrs. B. Williams & Co, Lumber and Coal Dealers, Pownal Wharf, Charlottetown, our agents, who will keep constantly on hand a full supply of Mould- ings, Window Sashes, Doors, etc., at LOWEST CASH PRICES. All orders entrusted to them will receive prompt attention. LEA & ROGERS, Monaton, N. PR, a Hert &. 2a STANDARD LIF ASSURANCE UU. & T the 57th Annual General Meeting of the Standard Lite Assurance Company, heid at Edinburgh on ‘tuesday, the 24th of April, 1883, the following results for the year ended 15th November, 1553, were rc- ported :— 3,038 new proposals for life as- surance were received the year for $ 9,754,085 38 2,561 proposals were accepted, assuring 7,239,048 13 The total existing assurances in force at 15th November, 18 82, amounted to (Of which $7, 753,031.15 was reassured with Other offices) The claims by death which arose during the year amouot- ed, including bonus addi- tions, to i The annual revenue amounted at 15th November, 1882, to The invested funds at same date amounted to Being an increase during the year of $6,936,302 91 2,462,226 59 -~ 4,267,546 00 29,503,416 00 JOHN LONGWORTH, Agent for Charlottetown. | trade suppiied by THOMAS KERR, 1 tor of A, Oh'town, Agiyawe J, 1 jen, 9 G4 oP 1,062,645 °° | spoctable whol sale and retail grocer and -OF THE— Latest Invention and Best Deseripiien, and we are now prepared to print, under the Careful and Skiiful Surervision of Mr, J. W. Mitchell, BILL HEADS, BLANK CHEQUES, NOTES OF HAND, HAND BILLS, LETTER HEADS, RECEIPTS, POSTERS, : DODGERS, &e, On Short Notice, in Good Style, AND AT CHEAP PRICES. Superb Baking Powder, (Manufactured by Holister, Crane & Co., 9) Broad Street, New York.) | YT UQUESTIONABLY the purest and most wholesome Baking Powder mad’, Gro- | cers ave authorized to grantee every can to | be full weight, and p -ively pure, Ask for | the ‘Superb ” an’ take vo other, Put up in 3, 4 and I-ib, tins, and for saie by every re- Canada, The Canadian general dea‘er in JOHN T. REED, Rew Watches, hew Clocks Mew biccmeters, Rew ‘theraiomeiers, Rew Spectacies. Just eceived und Offered Cheap. Old Stock Cheaper than ever, to Clear. EK. W. TAYLOR, NEXT TO WATSONS. feod wkly.]} Matchless Flour —AND— OTHER BRANDS, AT REDUCED PRICES, AT BEER & GOFF'S, New Raisins, New Currants, New F’gs, Giiecn Grepes, WHOLESALE AND RETASL, - AT— BEER & GOFF'S. = JAVA and Other Kinds, FRESH ROASTED, FRESH GROUND. Pure and Cheap, —AT BEER & GOFP'’S. APPLES Oo | ane Sale by the Barre), Cheap, at BEER & GOFF'S. GRAND BAZAAR! UNDER THE PATRONAGE CF His Honor Lieut. Governor Macdonald wee oe THE MEMBERS OF JOSEPHS SOCIETY PURPOSE HOLDING A BAZAAR In the Market Hall, es Nov. 2th and (3th, the proceeds to be devoted to the FEnlarge- ment, and Improvement of St. Joseph’s Con- vent on Pownal Street. Si. provided, and various kinds of amusements. Admissicn, Ten Cents. issned from all stations on the P. E 13th November, yood to returu up to and in- of attending bazaar. Ch town, Oct. 10, 1S°4—3 aw RIS 1376: COLD MEDAL FAR & STATIONERS THROUCHOUT THe WORLD Old, Suecessful, Trustworthy, PURELY MUTUAL, No Stuckiolders, Dividends Annually. ORGARIZED 1845. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANGE G9. Cash Assets over $55,000,000. McLEAN & MARTIN, 105 Water Street, St. John, N. B. Aug 6—6m 60d Ch town, Aug 27—2m 2aw wily An abuodant Refreshment Table will! be Return tickets at one first-class fare will be Island Railway to Charlottetown, on the 12th and cluding November 14th, to parties desirous . THURSDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1884, jhe Cruise of the Neptune. The narrative of the cruise of the Nep- tune in Huds n’s Bay is exceedingly in- terestiig. The voyage was one of ¢xplora- tion. Its object was to test the navigabil- ity of the bay—to find out w! ether or not it is a ssfe route for the commerce of the ri pidly developing Northwest. Chis experimental trip was made in the best season of the year for the purpose in- tended. Asea route to be of use, cought surely to be clear of ice in Augnst and September. If vessels cannot navigate it with safety during those two months, is it hikely that it will be more open at any other season of the year! Let us see what was the experience of the navigators of the Neptune in August and September. Off Stupart’s Bay belts aid strings and floes of ice were mef. One floe was tourteen miles in breadth, and the lice was between six and sixteen feet thick. On this part of the vessel’s route there was /so much ice that it was considered danger- ous to sail the ship at night, and conse- quently fur two nignts her commander con- sidered it right to lay her te. At an- ‘other part of the route the ice ex- tended as far as the eye could reach, and several vessels were drifting about, com- pletely helpless, in the pack. The shoals were all covered with solid ice. Ouxve cake was found to be forty-two feet thick. In ‘another part of his narrative Lieut. Gordon speaks of whalers that had been sawn out lof harbor on the 7ihof June, but which were unable to proceed on their voyage on aceount of the ice. On the return voyage in September the strait was by no means clear of ice. Near Nottingham the floes were sufficiently large to impede navigation and bergs were to be seen; although not so numerous as they were a month before. It is said more than once that the season was exceptional, We regard this as rather fortuna‘e for the purposes of the expediudon than otherwise. Aronte which is to be the outiet of the commerce of a large com- munity muct be uniformly safe, and every ecmmercial nian must be able to caleulate with a very near approach to accuracy the time it will take the vessels that sail by it to complete the voyage, and it is also necessary that insurers should know the | precise amount of the risk they take. Asa ‘chain is no stronger than its weakest link, 's0 @ sea route must,in a very great measure, | be judged by its exceptional seasons, How far the cxperience of last suamer in Hadson’s Bay is exceptional remains to be proved, but from the facts which are | pow in the possession of the public, most tioughtful men will conclude that unless the average season is very much better than that of 1884, it would be the height of imprudence to make any preparations for adopting it as a commercial route.—Mon- treal Herald. > The Chinese Question. New questions arise almost every day (at the Treasury Department concerning the law respecting the emmigration of Chinese people in the United States The latest point raised is one of the most interesting The question which Secretary Gresham 3s ‘now called upon to settle is whether a Chinese merchant doing business in San Francisco |efore the Anti-Chinese law was passed, who shall now go to Victoria, in British Columbia, can afterward return to San Francisco without going back to China and getting a certificate, as required by law. Of course if the Secretary ruled that he could not return without the cer- tificate he must either go to China and get it or else a rule must be made allowing the Chinese Consul at ports visited by such Chinese travellers to give the neces- sary certificate. It is thought that Mr. Gresham may so decide. The Collector of Customs at San Francisco, who insists that a certificate must come from China, is acting under a recent decision of Justice Field in the Cireuit Court. This law evidently causes many hardships to in- dividuais. It is stated at the Preasury Department that there is absolute:y no way of avoiding the application of the law to the two educated Chinese women rec-ntly brought to San Francisco by the Presby- terian Missionary Board, The law requires them tv have a c:rtificate, and their excuse for not having it 1s that they and the people who brought them did not know of the law. They will be compelled to return to China to get their certificate, thus making three trips across the Pacitic instead of one on account of the ignorance of themanagers of the Presbyterian Missionary Suciety. cmeaegialaialadineencaeengiicin The discovery of natural gas in the earth in Western Pennsylvania is a singular feature of recent discovery. Hundreds of companies are being formed, says the Philadelphia Record, to develop leased properties : ‘‘The search for natural gas deposits is now prosecuted with as much energy as the original quest for petroleum.” The gas is used for making iron, producing steam, for cooking, heating, and lighting purpeses, and is thus made to take the place ef coal and more costly fuel. As there is a large area of gas-preducing territory, extending south-westward and north-eastward from the oil tields, there is no reason to doubt that the supply will be maintained for many years. ‘ie. ln the eastern cities of the United States competition grows continually keener be- tween live stock and dressed meats of cattle slaughtered in Chicago and the west. Car- | casses can be shipped in the improved re- | frigerator cars with less cost than the live SINGLE Copizs Two CENTS. VOL 15—NO. 139 The British Navy. ENGLANDS NAVAL FORCE COMPARED WITH EUROPEAN COUNTRIES—AN ADDITION 1O THE FLEET. Another powerful ship of war, belonging tu what is technically known as the “ Ad- wiral” class in our ravy, waa snecessfrlly launched at Chatham oa the 22ud inar. Now that the condition of the British navy is commanding most serious attention, the addition of the Rodney to our naval strength is especially satisfactory. The event indicates the progress that is being made in this class of first-class armor-clad vessels which severally bear grand old names, femous in the naval history of the nation, ‘The five sister-ships of the Rodney are the Collingwood, the Howe, the Cem. perdown, the Beubow, and the Ans p. The Rodney was preceded by the Colling- wood, commenced at Pewbri ke more than four ye rssince, and lannched in Novem- ber, 1882. ‘Lhe displacement of the R drey is 9,600 tons, and the engines, of 7 b00 horse-power, will realize a speed of fifteen kuote. THE ARMAMENT OF THE SHIP consists of four 134 inch breechloaders of 63 tons, half a dozen 6 inch breechloaders, and several machine guns. The ship is constructed of steei and has two screw propellors, and the armor is wrought of compound plates 18 inches thick. The two barbette towers are polygonal in form, their armor being on the slope. The muzzles of the guns will be always visible over the edge of the barbette, but the breech end will drop below the summit during loading, which will be performed uncer cover, The broadside guns will not be protected by armor, but wiil be shiclded from a raking fire by a maseive ermored screen extending hom the barbette towers to the side of the ship. An wunder-water deck of steel will afford protection to the citadel fore and aft, and ihere will be ar- mored comm-nication between the bar- bettes and the protected part of the ship belows, An armord belt will shieid the water-line in the central part cf the vessel. The ships of the ‘*Admiral”’ class wil have no sails,a military pole- mast alone being carried for signals and for working the Nordeufeldt guns. The squadron of ‘‘Adwirels” will be costly. The energ»tic LPFORTS OF FOREIGN POWERS must at last awakeu those who are respon- sible for the state of the British navy. There must be no false economy, no delay, or lethargy. When the entire squadron of ‘‘Admirais” is ready for the pennant they will constitute merely a portion of the fleet that must be afloat in the near future. Recent experiments have proved that invulnerability is a chimera, as modern artillery bas pierced and broken the thick- est plates. Despite ail these results, the necessity to keep ‘‘peggirg away” is im- perative. The Italia, Lepanto, Dandolo and Duilio could ‘‘drive our admirals off the water, or sink thei in battle,” but the knowledge of the vast power of these vessels belonging te the Italian government will not prevent the construction of the six barbette ships. The DP uilio carries four 100-ton guns behind 22 inches of armour. The Betbow is intended to carry two 17- inch 100-ton guns in each barbeite, and ten 6-inch guns on the broadside, the armour being 18 inches thick in the central belt, 12 inches on the barbette towers, and six iuches on the transverse screens. The two GREAT GUNS TO BE CARRIED in the Benbow, one in each barbette, will! possibly exceed the specified weight of 100 tons each. The French will, we are re- minded, goon have, in the Admiral Baudin, the Requin, the Formidable, the Caiman, the Indumptable and the Terrible, a first- class equadron with which our Admiral would be unequally matched. The naval expenditure of other powers has increased forty per cent. while that of England has diminished, and the admiralty “‘in vain beseeches the treasury for the extra mill- ions which sre wanted to make us safe upon the sea; and to restore that naval supremacy, withont which, Great Britain must soon sink to the rank of a second-rate power.’, Insufficent attention has been bestowed upon the ‘hideous and deadly torpedo.” Our torpedo service is utterly inadequate, Other nations are aware of the necessity for as perfect a torpedo fleet as science cay invent and modern mechan- ism supply. Unarmoured light cruisers,— swift, heavily cquipped and unsinkable— should be numerically increased, and a word must be uttered relative to the supply of traiced men, who, it is asserted, are ‘falling off alarmingly.” The new lne of battle ship is a weiceme eddition to the British navy. —Army and Novy Gazette. antag lattice The farmers of the Western United States ere reported as selling their wheat freely av present low rates, The reasons given for this courre are a jack of storage facilities and their urgent need of money to meet their maturing bilis. Loans rate high, and many of these have been incurred in the purchase of new and costly machin- ery for agricultural] purposes. Very many of the rural population of Montana and Dakota are represented as hard pressed ,and general trade is seriously affected by the conseq'tent scarcity of means with which to purchase. => — Every mail from British Columbia brings accounts of troubles one way or another with the Chinese population. They feel the effurt that is being made to drive them out of the province, and are always pre- | Stock, and in perfectly fresh and good con- dition, As aresult the great ca'tle maik. lets of Brighton and Watertown have been! |gialually diwinis!iog in importanee, and it) is estimated that now fully two-thirds of |the beef consumed in the eastern states is- slaughtered in the weet and brought | \through dressed and packed in refriger- | ators. British farmers are fe livg the effec's Agents for P. E. Island. of this same competition from both wholesa’e murder. America and Australia. peared to resent it. They are also con- stantly at war among themselves, and au undercurrent of ill-feeling prevails among the Chinese inhabitants. Grave trouble is anticipated. The police are extra vigilant, and several arrests have been made. ‘The cause is believed to be jealousy among the different societies. Fears are entertained that the trouble will end in bloodshed an: Several encounters hive |