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Those who have used SOVEREIGN COCA WINE Speak of it in highest praise as a tonic sleep producer and vitalizer Simson Bros. & Ce. Manufacturers 8! — Flower and Garden Vegetable Seed — HASZARD & IVIOORE Want Good Results and Low Prices IF YOU t ria : NOBBY BROAN Dressing for all shades of color- ed shoes, DANDY dressing, For tan colored shoes ; ELITE Dressing for fine black boote— no acid. Gilt Edge, Egg Finish. “Dia- mond” and “Boulevard” dress- ing at Stamper’s Corner, FOR SALE A Lot of half an acre of land in Pownal Village. Excellent site for dwelling house, business stand or summer residence, Beautiful situation ; good bathing, shoot- ing and fishing. For further particuiars apply at the law office of undersigned, London House Building, Charlottetown JOHN T. MELLISH. 1 wy4i 123 THE DAILY EXAMIN ER, CHARLOTTETOWN, MAY 27, 1897 eta TELEGRAPHIC, SPECIAL DESPATCHES TO THE EXAMINER. NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL Mr. Borden's Able Speech, MINISTERS FAIL TO ANSWER OP- POSITION ARGUMENT. The Yote on Tupper’s Amendment. ee te Orrawa, May 27.~—-When the House of Commons went into committee yesterday Mr. Borden, of Halifax, in a stroug and well reasoned epeech, replied to the start ling constitutional declarations made by Mr. Davies on the previous day. He showed that the Minister of Marine had got two things mixed. He pointed out that the bearing of the German treaty on Canada had been half a dozen times acknowledged by Mr. Davies himself and his leaders, and closed by asking where was the noble contribution which Mr. Fielding claimed to have made to the Em- pire. As much was given toa score of eountries, No Minister rose to reply. Mr. Foster waited till the amendment was read from the chair. Then he asked whether the Ministers had nothing to say in reply to such an argumentas Mr. Borden bad pre- sented. Was there no member of the gev- ernment with an explanation to give? Had all been struck dumb that no infor- mation could be dragged from them as to the meaning of the clause which they asked the House to vote ou? Could they tell the House yet to what countries it ap- plied or on what basis they proposed to determine whethera country had a euffi- ciently low tariff to get entitled to these speciai privileges. Mr. Foster failed to get any answer to his questions. Whether it was proposed to apply the comparison to the whole tariff of both countries or to that part which applied to goods interchanged. He assail- ed the Ministers strongly for taking powers which wonld enable them to make a com- mercial union treaty with the United States without any further permission than this bill afforded. Men in the Government seats would dearly love to go back to the commercial union platform in spite of their present loyal pretences. After dinner the discussion continued and the amendment was losi by a vote of 42 to 74, After the votes were taken there was a lively scene in which Mr. Foster and Lester figured. The latter had to with- draw an offensive remark, TURKEY MASSING TROOPS. Significant Action of the Porte, Lonpox, May 27.—Despatches from Vienna say that the Turkish government bas mobilized 50,000 additional troops who are now in reedineas to advance into Thessaly and thet the government is making active preparations for a Turkish administration of the province. Loxpox, May 26.—The Athens corres- pondent of the Standard reports an inter- view with M. Ralli in course of which tie | Premier said that he was very grateful to | England for her firmness as this might | Tesule in saving the corn crops in Thessaly valued at one million pounds, os ———— HON. DR. BORDEN’S CASE. ‘ Fraser Likely to Succeed, | Toronto, May 27.—The Star says that Dr. Borden’s health will compel him to resign his portfolio as Minister of Militia. Rumor names Mr. D. C. Fraser, of Guysboro or Colonel Domville aa his suc- cessor, the former being the favorite. tverenennrnenennnt 2 A HANDSOME 3 Dining Room W here the walls and ceilings are made dainty and attractive by our unique designs and rich and beautiful coloring in wal! papers, is an incentive to a fail- ing appetite. At no time ot the year does your room need a new dress es much as when Spring comes Out in her new garb and shames the dingy room where Winter ‘has left its impress in smoke and dust. Leok at our new and loyely stock of wall papers. GEO. CARTER & C0. Wall Paper Importers. 3 Dove eorenveneene arene erro nOnennOeOnONN WALA LbiddbidsdbddbdsdsddsdSiddddsdbddbdddddddddsdddddddsddsddd ta treet ee eee en THE GREECO-TURKISH WAR The Truth Will be Known When Cor. respondents Return, The London correspondent of the New York Sun savs: “The war correspondents are beginning to returs. Ove of them has just arrived. He was on the Turkish sice. Although he enjoyed the eccentricity of going to the war in a landau, the vehicle was seized by the geverment for an am- balance. He describes the trip as being the most interesting, hazardous and un- comfortable ia his varied experience, He says the truth concerning the Turkish part of the war will not be known until the correspondents leave the country. He aide: “The war was a small affair. If not an opera bonffe war, the Greeks have at least made it largely theatriial. The battle resulted in few prisoners. fewer wounded and still fewer killed. Ifthe Turks had permitted the correspundents to send the figures the trivial character of the war would long ago have been apparent. The whole war has been used by Turkey asa medium to assert a new position among the European nations. Long after it was apparent that the Greeks had no rand, Turkey continued to pour men int) Macedonia and Ths aly. Turkey haz seen little Greece success- fally defy the concert and wage war without permission, and she means to profit by the example. She feels her power and strength, and imagines that her former docility was a grand mistake. She means to hold eyery inch ot Greek territory gained in the war and intends to throw dewn the glove and challenge the powers to take it up. This is the most serious situation Europe has seen in nearly thirty years. It may pass off harmlessly if the timid sultan dismisses his present advisers, but it s ems to me that the temper of most of the men of the ruling class was altogether in sympathy with this newly developed spirit of independence and pugnacity on the part of their country. WOn every side Iheard Turkish officers boast that Turkey meant to keep the land bought with Turkish blood and those Kuropeans who hold relations with the Turkish government told me that Turkey has been crazed by the new power she feals thrilling her veins and means to assert a new relation toward the rest of Europe. The Turkish army isthe most admirable peasantry I ever saw. The soldiers are the most docile, tractable and easily governed men imaginable. They are brave to the last degree, love to fight, are in- different to death and carry fearful wounds without a groan. It isa hal‘-clad, half fed army of calm but fanatical heroes. But the Turkish side has its grave faults and these will be told when the correspon- dents escape the censor’s hands. Than we shall hear how the Turks disgraced the Greek dead on the tield of battle; how the Turkish government has emptied every captured Greek town of its valuables and how inhumaneven the patient Turkish private becomes when there is a chance to loot for himself. I know that looting is persistently de- ined, yet I saw it with my owneyes. When C was at Larissa my servants and friends were continually buying loot of the soldiers, and I saw enough to believe that practical ly every soldier hid loot under his coat. An attempt was made to rob my own house, given me by Seyfullat Pasha. Two houses, one occupied by a fureign military attache and the other by @ correspondent were rob- bed while 1 was there. I saw with my own eyes miles of pack loade of the contents of houses of the captured towns and villages seized by the Turkish government. What the government left the soldiers tcok. I saw the Greek dead stripped of their trou- sers and turned face up,according to Turk- custom, to putthem to shame. The present denials, therefore, merely delay exposure. He added, however, that when the rude character of Turkish soldiers and Turkish civilization are taken into account, it must be confessed that good conduct of troops was truly remarkable and Turkey showed herself extra desirious to get credit for good behaviour.” ee te ee See LATEST NEWS BY WIRE AND MAIL. Moxtreat, Mav 25.—Forty wheelmen, members of the Montreal Bicycle Club, had their wheels seized by the Canadian customs last nigot when returuing from Plattsburg. They had neglected to take out proper certificates in Montreal. Eacte Lake, Id., May 25.—At the openiag of the affernoon session of the Presbyterian general assembly John Wanameker eulogized Queen Victoria, | calling attention to the fact that‘ Her Majesty the Queen attends the Presbyteri- an chureh while residing in Scotland and in some measure belongs to our body, from whom all her Scottish chaplains are appointed,” and that “the assembly send greetings to the most illustrious sovereign aod the subjects of her gentle, generous and righteous rule over the destinies of the empire upon which the sun never sets.” Loxpox, May 25.—The Emperor and Empress of Rugsia’s jubilee present to the Queen will be a magnificent set of emeralds valued at twenty thousand pounds. The Queen's favorite jewels are emeralds and pearls. During the first twenty years of her majesty’s reign she wore Queen Char- lotte’s fam ous pearls, the finest in Europe, which were then officially valued at ong hundred and fifty thousand pounds, These, ho wever, liad to be surrendered in 1857 to King George of Hanover, as ii was then proved that they ought to have passed to bis father, King Ernest, when Queen Charlotte died, and they now belong to the Duchess of Cumberland. —_———_- a P, E. Island Fish Report. Georgetown—Catches of herring good, tut of lobsters poor. 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