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  MCLEETN
  ON G0\lT'S RECORD
Comprehensive Review of Governments lilorli W
During Past Four Years. Oyster 'lndustry
to Another $l00,000.
llo_'ll.riil’t on Roads now and Everybody Satis-
_Agreement Eqiviiient
fied with the Expenditure. ` i
ln the Legislature last evening the
l-lou. John McLean spoke on the Bud-
get and took the opportunity to review
the work of the past four years and to
reply to criticisms of the Administra-
tion. He claimed that the arrange-
mont entered into with the Dominion
Govemment in connection with oyster
areas would ultimately be worth
another $100,000 per annitm to f.he
Province. He referred in enthusiastic
terms to the services rendered by the
Provincial Engineer. both wltli regard
to the oyster arena :ind the roads. and
said he had more _than saveil his
salary in tho economies he had effect-
ed. He i-inlil that he did not believe
it wcnldhe possible to get three bet.ter
men to illi the portfolios in the Cabinet,
than Premier Mathieson, Mr McKin-
non and Mr James A. McNeill. it ever
there was a Government that could
go hack to the electors' and feel satis-
fied with its record, it was the present.
Hon. JOHN McLEAN continued lils
speech on the Budget on Wednesday
evening. Ho said he thought it lils
duty. as it member of the Government,
that he should give an expression of
his views on its record during the past
four years. He would first go back to
the time when the Government took
charge of the affairs of the country.
The first duty of the Government was
to ascertain exactly where the country
stood financially. and in doing this
they followed precisely the method
that was adopted by the Liberal party
when they assumed the reins twenty
years before-they employed outside
men who were not interested in the
province nor in the Government. and
theeejlpen prepared a full statement
of the liabilities right up to the time
when the, __Cons_ervstl_v,eS came into
power. Whatever criticism might be
applied to any circumstance in con-
nection with the Government, it was
now fully settled that they assumed
liabilities and debts left by their pre-
decessors to the amount ot' $1,072,000.
The late Government had been going
into debt at the rate of between
$40,000 and $45,000 a year, and at the
last election they could give no assur-
ance that the debt would be reduced.
or that there would be even an en-
deavour to reduce it. The speaker
then proceeded to deal with the var-
ious promises of the Government :it
the last election and the manner ini
which they had been carried out. One
ol’ the first promises made the people
was that the Government would make
the revenues and the expenditures
meet, and if they had done nothing
hnt that alone he would have coil-
sidereil they had dons very well ia-
iieed. But the Government did. noti
rest there; they had done a great deal-
more. They went up to Qttawa,` laid'
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ofland _with (ood 'ilwelltns HUP"
ada out building, will no mio ross
initiate., Appl _.to A. n. niiononsid.
seotiipoi-t-. i mst-iii-mind.
1
Dominion Government in such a. man
the claims of the province before the
ner that could not fall to beleffectlve.
a
SIIT llllllllll .lillll lllST|llEllEE PLEITEE lllll PHEPTHES
BACK Ell_ll_ll_ ”llilME" lll l_._E_lilSllTi|llE Ellll__lCT|l|T|ES
t
Germ_an Report Stated.
(Special to the Guardian.)
LONDON, 'April 21.-Siu Edward
Grey, foreign secretary, appeared on
nd came back with the s lendid sub- the ministerial benches in the House
' D
sidy of $100,000. In 'regard to the
Agricultural Department, the province
had been granted,$2ti,000, which. had it
not been for the interest which the
Premier and his associates who went
to Ottawa had taken in the welfare of
the people, would have bcen $6,000.
Then the Premier had also brought up
the oyster business und hnil handled it
so satisfactorily as to have the control
of it locally; and while it might sound
preposterous he felt coiiviitcod that
this wits in itself equal to another
$100,000. ’l‘hc proposition had been
that the Domiiilou Government should
take charge ol' the oysters, cultivate
them and protect thenl. and charge
all expenses to them, and then give
the island one hall' of the netproceeds,
which would have been a very small
amount. That was a matter of great
importance to the Island and would
be of great benefit to the people, who
appreciated it accordingly. ln speak-
ing with reference to the claims of
the province, the Leader of the late
Government made the statement that
it was useless for them to try to get
any extra amount from Ottawa. and
although they were pressed by the
present party when in opposition to
of Commons today for the first time
ance set at rest the German rumors
that he has been at various places
on the continent on every variety of
diplomatic mission
Sir iidwaid brought back a very
ii
be acquired in the open air with no
other care on his mind hut: landing
salmon. ’l‘hls is exactly what he has the King and his “dv'S°"” M' as We" 'inet meeting has been coiled for
been doing while on his vacation.
ETLTHT iIlllll]|lllS
UEEEH SITMMETT HITMES
here He was Fishing Sal- Resolution Adopted, Voiun All Transatlantic Steamers
mon and Acquiring aTan
and Renewed Energy, not
on Diplomatic Mission as
cohol During War and
scribed to by all Members
,of House.
The PREMIER yesterday aitemoon
ing resolution (seconded by Mr Rich
ards, Leader of the Opposition), which
was carried --
Resolved 'i‘hat wo. the Legislative
Assembly of the Province ol' Prince
nmistakable cont of um on his (ace Edward Island in Legislative session
,md restored energy that could only convened gladly avail ourselves of
the obllortunlty to follow the illus
trious example of Hia Gracious Maiesty
tlic affairs of Government as of the
conduct of the war, in voluntarily ab-
staiiiiug from the use oi’ intoxicating
liquor as a beverage during the con-
since the Easter recess. His appear- in the Legislature moved the follow- _trans-Atlantic trade have been noti-
tlnuance of the present war. And we
heartily endorse and strongly urge
upon His Ms.jesty’s loyal subjects of
this island to join in promoting the
objects of the “Provincial Patriotic
Abstinence League " and give it their
FU  earnest support and co-operation. As
L evidence of our individual sincerity
and sympathy with this movement we
(Special to the Guardian.)
OTTAWA, April 21.-The Minister
of Militia received offers from wealthy
(lanadians to use their summer homes
as convalescing hospitals for wound-
put forward those claims they never ed Canadians invalided home from the
made shy attempt to collect a dollar.
l-le thought. the_country would give the
present Governmentcredlt for urging
those claims and also for carrying out
front. They include Sir Wm. Mac-
Kenzie’s home on the Victoria County
Lakes, Sir Rodolphe Forgets at St
lrene, Que.. and D. Lorne McGibbon’s
the promises mails. The next thing _af Sl- ASB'-T16. Que- The Militia D998"-
was to effect changes in the road act In
and put the Public Works Department
into a proper business-like shape. To-
day the people were perfectly satisfied.
with the Act and would not f’or a
ent has appointed a comnlittee to
act in conjunction with the R d Cross
in looking after invalids. it is made
up of .Lie;|t.-ColauoL.Mamisei-l, -Lleut.~
Colonel Hallack and Li t-Col el
eu . on
moment think og going back to the Jacques ofthe Headquarters Staff.
former state of affairs. Under the
present Act every cent spent is ac-
counted for, wlille under the previous
Government the very opposite was the
case. To-day not a cent was spent
for which good value could not he
shown, and the Commissioner of Pub-
lic Works did not have-very much
trouble with complaints of money mis-
appropriateil so far as the road were
concerned. in regard to the public
works. this Department had been
thoroughly reorgsnlsed, and some of
the newspapers had found fault with
the Govemment for the number of
employees they had in the department.
PlTEPlllllll§ Til HENEW?
llllllllllEilES EIGHT
(Special to the Guardian.)
BERLIN, April 2l-A despatch re-
ceived from Athens says Great activ-
ity has been noted among the British
forces on the island of Lemnos, which
lies west of the entrance to the Dar-
dnnelles. Troop transports are arriv-
Wihen Professor Shaw. the engifltier. ling daily at Lemnos from Alexan-
vas brought here it was titoiight by
he Opposition that it was an imposi-
ion to have a man in the Department
drla, Egypt. The censorship is more
rigid. Alla indications point a strong
CTZTOR against H18 T)nf'dl'iil€lT€B nf. ull was gtlll for more and ag Lloyd Gegrgg
_ a
with the salary he was receiving. em-ly dnte_ _
subscribe our names to the annexed
pledge formulated by the above-named
organisation. `
" RESOLVED FARTHER: That this
resolution with the names of the sub-
scribers hereto be entered upon the
records of this House."
All the members who were present at
the time subscribed their names to the
Resolution.,
'SUMMARY
__ (Special to Thc.Guardlari),,
LONDON, April 21.-The British ex-
peditionary force in France which at
the beginning of the war consisted of
six divisions, has been increased to
more than thirt'y-six divisions or
roughly speaking 750.000 men, accord-
ingto a statement by David Lloyd
George in the House of Commons this
afternoon Th bancellor d that
en in battle had been filled and the
army was adequately equipped. He
reiterated the need of a greater supply
of munitions declaring that during the
battle of Neuve Chappelle more am-
munition had been used than in the
whole South African war which lasted
nearly three years. Interesting in-
formation also was given that the out-
put of munition factories had been in-
creased more than nineteenfold since
the outbreak of the war but the call
tarlly to Abstain from Ai-
Endorsing Patriotic Abstin-
ence League. Pledge Sub-
. e C adde ,
the place of every man who had fall- ‘
Ordered Not to Leave Port
Without Orders- Ships
will be Used as Transports
if She Eniers War.
(Special to the Guardian.)
ROME, April 21.-Events are mov-
ing satisfactorily and decisive action
by Italy may he expected at any mo-
ment. All Italian steamers engaged in
fled not to sail' for America until
special permission is granted by the
minister of marine.. They will be used
as troop transports if Italy enters
the war.
The minister of war was summoned
to the royal palace last: night and
conferred with King Victor Emman-
uel for several hours. A special cab-
Thursday afternoon.. What action is
to be taken can only be conjectured.
JlPlll Will lllS|ST
llll EH|lll'S lIllMPlIlll|IE,
WITH HEH l|EMlllllS'
(Special to the Guardian.)
T0l{_IO, April 21-The crisis which.
has come in the negotiations with
China ,as to the acceptance of the de-
mands of the Tokio Government has
been followed by a protracted confer-
ence of the Cabinet. The semi-ofilciali
press expresses the belief that Japan
has brought the unsettled clauses of
her demands down to an irreducible
mininunu, and that in the event of
further procrastination on the part
of China,-she-probably will press for
it reply within a given time.
UNITED STATES
EITIZENS HET|lllll
(Special to the Guardian.) _
WASH1.\'G'l’ON, April 21.-'gre can-
cellation of sallings from aly to
HON. L. L. JENKINS’
VTGOROUS DEFENCE
. . » 11:- AIII1
Of Administration. Scuthingly ilritlcises Oppo-
sition Leiider’s Puerile Fuultflndlng and His
Analysis of Public Accounts tiontrusting Pre-
sent Progress with the Stagnation and
Deficit Regime of the
Present lirltlcs.
HON. L. L. JENKINS spoke on the
Budget debate on Tuesday evening,
replying to some of the criticisms of
the Leader of the Opposition. in the
first place, he said, the Leader of the
Opposition in replying to the Premier
had made the statement flint the debt
was greater today than the last ilscnl
year that the Liberals were in power.
In doing so he quoted the public ac-
counts iip to the end of the fiscal year,
and in this connection he tolii only
part of the truth, which was worse
than an untrutli. He iild not tell them
that during the last two months the
Liberals were in power they ran up
a deficit amounting to about $85,000,
and during those two months field two-
bye-elections, in which most oi' the
money was squandered in three or
four sections where they tried to hold
on to power but were turned down.
If the money squandered in these dis-
tricts had been as carefully handled
as the present Commissioner of Public
Works had used all the money pass-
ing through his hands since he was in
office, those districts would have been
in a position today that they would
not require s dollar. The money was
paid for work never done. The Lead-
er of the Opposition had also forgot-
ten to tell the House that the Liber-
als left behind them liabilities to the
amount of about $83,000. He had
made the statement that the teachers
were not paid their last moiith's sal-
aries and that was how the present
Government had got their surplus.
But he did not also tell iliein that the
Liberals had left $23,000 oi' teachers'
salaries unpaid for this Government
to pay, and left a deficit and tried to
make the people believe that they
went out with a lower debt than the
.Conservatives had today. The debt
they left when they went out totalled
altogether $1,072,000. Tho Leader of
the Opposition had made several ex-
travagant statements, and the speak-
er would say this much for him, that
in making those statements lic had
said he “ was not sure; he thought he
was right." it would seem that that
gentleman was paying foo uiucit at-
tention to Dominion politics and left.
somebody else to prepare his state-
the United States may cause the
States to take steps to aid the home |
coming of Americans. In the absence;
of appeals so far the State Depart-i
ment officials expect they will ar-
range transportation via France for,
England.
fhcre was not a man. said the speak-
ir. who did more or better work tliaiii
Mr Shaw, or who was a more earnest,_ 0
energetic and conscientious worker.
He earned his salary over and over
again, and as the Commissioner of
Public Works hail remarked in his
ment a good deal of money by his
competence and efficiency. Mr Shaw
had made plans for oyster beds, and
this lie thought required a man oi' ex-
'ceeding ability. in the first place, to
\ (Special to the Guardian.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 21.-An
fllclal statement issued today by the
war office says it is now known defin-
itely thst six torpedo boats attempt-
continues to hold the opinion that the
consumption of liquor is interfering
with the work he promised legislation
to deal with this matter. The figures
made public by Chancellor as to the
size of the British army in France and
ed to penetrate the nsrdaneiies Mon-‘ the expenditure of ammunition has
ious announcements concerning the.
effort on Monday night by vessels of
the Allied Fleet to run the straits
and the above despatch fails to dis-
make the plans. anil in the next place was
to get them into proper working order.
So far tis agriculture was concerned.
he did not think it was necessary for
lilni to say much. There was perhaps
not u farmer on the island who illd
not appreciate the great advancement
which the Department of Agriculture
hail made possible in agriculture in
the province. lion. Mr McKinnon.
Conimlssioner of Agriculture. had
dealt comprehensively with his Depart-
ment and had shown them the enor-
mous improvemenfs which had been
made in this direction. He referred to
the magnificent buildings in Charlotte-
town and Summerslde, which had been
acquired by the Government. and the
great assistance which they would
prove to the farmers of the province.
He also spoke of the short and long
courses, which had made it possible
for the young men of the island to
acquire rlglit at home all the educa-
tion in the principal lndustry of -the
country they needed, instead of having
to go to Truro, as formerly, where only
limited numbers could be accommo-
dated. He said that an agricultural
building would also in the near future
be erected in Sourls, and the people
would greatly appreciate this depar-
ture. There was nothing that the
Leader of the Opposition or the Op-
position press could say that would for
s moment blind the country to the
improvements which had been 'brought
about in the agricultural conditions in
the province within thelast four years.
Those improvements were overwhelm-
lngly obvious. and every farmer was
perfectly aware of them. Coming now
to education, the 'Leader of the Opposi-
close what the result of the attempt
w i
Ulllll-BE MUITSETTEH
[ll Slllllll Tl] Hlllli
(Special to the Guardian.)
CAIRO, April 21.-A Young Egyp-
tian merchant named Khalil, who on.
April 8 made an unsuccessful at-
tempt in Cairo to asses-lnate Hussein
Kamel, Sultan of Egypt, was today
sentenced by a military court: to
death by hanging, _
THE WEATHER,
TEMPERATURE,
TIDE, MOON. ETC.
(ipeclll to The Guardian)
TORONTO, April 22.--Maritime:
Fine and a little higher temperature.
THI WEATHER.-Yesterday was
fine and bright.
The highest temperature recorded
yesterday was 39 deg. above zero and
the lowest was 87 above. The lowest
of the previous night was 32 deg.
above. At 9 a.m. yesterday it was
86 deg. above,--and at 9 p. m. it was
31 above. _
The tide will be high this afternoon
excellent speech he saved the Depnrb _day night. There has been no prov-` caused great surprise in England,
where the opinion was general that
only about half that number of men
had reached the front, especially as
there had been no signs of decrease
in the number of men training in this
country. Many new men had already
been under fire as the Germans were
making repeated attacks to recapture
Hill 60 near Ypres which the British
took on Sunday and have, according
to Fielil Marshall French’s report,
been repulsed with great loss.
There has been activity at many
other points along the Western front
and Berlin. which is more communi-
cative than Paris, says the Germans
have made progress in the forest of
Le Pretre near St. Mlhlel, and re orts
D
the repulse of French attacks in other
sections from Champagne tb Alsace.
The Russian advance in the Carpa-
thians has already come to a full stop
for reports from that region speak
only of attempted attacks which were
repulsed both in the mountains and in
the direction of Stry. The Austra-
Germans have made an outfianlting
effort to support the latter move-
ments. lt is stated from neutral
sources that the Austrians have vir-
tually evacuated Bukowlna.
. The British have had to deal with
a raid against Indian territory on the
Northem border of Peshawar Valley,
undertaken by four thousand men in
command of a fanatic Mullah. After
a few hours fighting in which the
British suffered 70 casualties. the ral-
ders dispersed. fn Mesopotamia the
British defeated the Turks and have
occupied Nakhalla from which place
nt: 2.ll4.snd tomorrow at 3.45; lt the Turks fled last week. The Turks
*°m°"‘°" m°U““¢ It -5-35 Slim are also being attacked from the
Saturday at 6.86. _
The sun lets this Afternoon at 6 A8
Black Bea, the Russian fleet having
lion--nie snooker did not now ana tomorrow so ess; it i-an és- "¢.““ "°°“ °“° °“‘* “°*P‘°F°‘1 ¢°“
whether ‘hewes eamest or not--had mm-g-_0q_ margin; gg 4_5; mg 5”",-_ Turkish supply vessels and bombard-
tl‘l¢d W °|'°l\° ‘U lmP\'°".T°“ #PU TT" dagnmornlug at 4.58. ‘ ` ed Arlthava. From every lids comes
schools were. going down, simply be
cm” M ,om dm mm, "wma __ Mm mow rim _thil mofnlde at no" oi activity in no sir fiooi which
aeoiiiitoe. ' one had only to moot my ab", ,M , M, mm on www, lil" been bvlr bomberdlnl towns and
teacheffto-day' and observe in his hy' A rn mn ‘t .Me ‘_m_ military stations behindwthrlinep of
‘e0ur\t°D\ll¢°. *N Nil vrvfelllon of Th, Lg q,,,,.,,,,. 0, th, mo, ,ip the armies. 'rho Britton claim to huo
gl§*;,*1;}“'"§§d*“;’,' ,§§‘,:‘,§n“_,°,°`,§',‘°,h'; on rhunesv. Am-ii non ot use ':i:ii;_¢;_nLtuo ammo -initio amor
teacher of rg! no. 'rliore was not
tetliunitonvlttlvrnl mes ‘ ° Y'  »
'NIU IGI Ch I tiodl' Ill be thi
Mlnlrtfa I.lnl||tlt_\\,¢ttt'oi lmuritstism. of _  -_» _ ,I _ _ ‘ ours andhfty-nine minutes. Mlnlrils Llnimont Guru New-algta
\
ilt is learned to-day. He visited Field
P. E. I. lllllilllll L
lIllElllT Til PHTTVITTSE
(Speclil to The Guardian)
HALIFAX, April 22.-The Prince
Edward Island Heavy Artillery which
recently arrived here were inspected.
to-day by Colonel Thacker, the Fort-
ress Commander. He complimented
the men very highly on their drill and
appearance and said they were a cre-
dit to their province. They will be
stationed at the citadel for some time
and will take over the movable arm-
iimenf.-
llll|T|SHiSUUlllllllll
[TEE llEW Tllllll Bill
(Special to The Guardiln)
NEW YORK, April 21.-The British
squadron off New York was strength-
ened to-My by the arrival of a pow-
erful crulser. Within three hours of
its arrival it held up a big steamer
off the New Jersey coast opposite As-
bury Park.
(Special to The Guardian)
PARIS. April 21.-With the impor-
tant Vosges crest in their possession
the French are now operating along
three different rivers in Alsace in
their efforts to flank the German right
wing by reaching the Rhine. Along
the Fecht, Lauchand and Weisbech
and in the hills on both sides of these
streams are raging daily hand to hand
conflicts which are neglected in the
official communications but which in
their totality will have an important
eifet-&_ on the result of operations in
the estern theatre of war.
While it is impossible to state de-
finitely the disposition that is to be
made of Kitcheners army when it is
finally assembled on French soil. the
belief is growing here that a large
part of the British troops will be used
on the Aleutian frontier. it is known
that this phase of the operations has
been thoroughly discussed by Lord
Kitchener and General Joffre.
'rho British War Secretary made
another of his secret visits to France.
Mlrlhall French at the British head-
quarters then motored by night to the
town where General Joffre and his
staff are located. Kitchener return-
ed to England immediately after his
conference with General Joffro. .
1 is ,i` L- as`\..~~.»\qw` ev..
ments for him, and it wus no wonder
he qualified his assertions by saying
he was not sure, for he knew that the
sources of his information were not
reliable. He had shut his eyes to the
fact that this Government, while re-
ducing the debt as they had done :inil
showing a surplus every year, had
paid various old bills their predeces-
sors would not or could not deal with.
one of which was twenty years old,
contracted in the erection of a wing
to the Asylum. The Liberals had re-
duced this man almost to poverty and
refused to give him what was only
his right, an opportunity ~to prove his
claim. The Conservative Government
when they came into power realised
the injustice which the man had suf-
fered for so long, and allowed him to
have his claim tested, with the result
that he was paid. That was one of the
many debts left for this Government
to pay off. Besides paying depts, how-
ever, the present Government had
done a great deal for the farmers of
the province, having acquired a splen-
did building in Charlottetown and
another in Summersiiie, which would
mean a great deal for the advance-
ment of agriculture in the province.
in the three years in which the (lon-
servative Government had been in
office they had succeeded in erecting
permanent steel bridges to the valuo
of $111,000, whereas the Liberals in
twenty years had not done half as
much, the value of their bridges be-
ing only $40,000, and some of those
bridges they left were in a deplorable
condition. The Leader of the Opposi-
tion had stated that the present Gov-
ernment had not fulfilled their pro-
mises to the people. li' the Leader of
the Opposition were in his place at
that moment, the speaker would ask
him to name one promise the Govern-
ment had not fulfilled. They had kept
every pledge made, and hail reduced
the debt beyond the most sangulne ox-
pectations of any elector in the is-
land. He had also criticised the Com-
missioner of Public Works. Mr. Jen-
kins thought the Commissioner, in his
address, had dealt fully with these
criticisms, and had also given to the
House a statement of the work of the
Department such as had never before
been presented. l-le hoped, and was
confident. that the good work which
the Commissioner had done during the
past few years would continue; and
with the assistance which he would.
receive from the Engineer. a capable
pains-taking man and au untirlng
worker, a great deal would still be ac-
complished. The Leader of the Oppo-
sition had also criticised the roaiimas-
ters and the present road system, and
the Opposition press had done every-
thing in its power to injure the sys-
tem; but it had lived and prospered ln
spite of their efforts to "down" lt. At
one time the roarlmasters were not
paid enough, and now they were paid
too much, said the Liberals. lt was
very dlfilcult to know what would
please the press of the Liberal party.
The roadmllters today. said tho
speaker, did not go around the
country helping their favoured friends
to escape the taxes. He thought that
the roadmasters were doing their ut-
most in the performance of their work
and the Opposition could not galnsay
the fact. ’1‘lii= Leader of the Opposi-
tion had maile the statement that tho
roads toiiay were not in as good condl.
tion ns in 1911, Ho (Mr. Jenkins) had
travelled over most ol' tho roads, and
he knew that there were roads which
bud been put into shape since the pre-
sent Government came into power
that never linil a dollar spent on them
during the Liberal regime. Every
year the roads were being made bel.-
ier, and any man who drove over
them would know the difference. The
Leader of the Opposition had referred
to the North River Bridge and stated
that the Liberals made the contract.
It was easy to make ii. contract. but it
was another thing to, pay for the
work; and if the Liberals were lu
power today the bridge would not have
been built. Mr. Richards had better
he mute in reference to that bridge.
for the last year in which the Lib-
erals were fn power sixty feet fell out
of the middle of it one nlglit, when two
young men who were crossing over it
came within an inch of losing their
lives. With reference to agriculture.
the Leader oi’ the Opposition had
made the statement that the Depart-
nient had gone down since he left.
That was a. matter that could be left.
to the people to decide on, andhe
thought that the Commissioner "of
Agriculture had dealt pretty com-
prehensively with that criticism. The
speaker would say, however, from the
standpoint of a fe.rmer,that in the lalit
three years or tour years agriculture
bad made enormous strides; and with
the establishment of long and short
course it was not to be wondered at;
that the young men of the province
were taking an increasing interest ln
the soil. and in the raising of better
stock. This was due to the agricultur-
al grant. The speaker referred to
the mudscow, which would prove of
lnestimable benefit to the farmers. Ha
thought it was one of the greatest
blessings to the people. Another class
oi' people who were deserving of help
were the fishermen, and the system of
eiiiicaling thi-.se fishermen in their
hiisiness. leaching them to cure their
fish, and helping to secure for them
markets in Central Canada. in Mont-
real, Toronto, Ottawa and even as far
West ns Wfnnipc-g, would be a. great.
step in the direction of advancement.
Fish could be carried in cold storage
and landed in Montreal. by means of
the Cor Ferry, twenty-four hours af-
ter shipment. This would be s. boon
undreamed of before by the fisher-
meut. He was sorry the motor truck
project last year did not materallse
owing to the war, but he hoped to see
is soon. He was also anxious to see
a branch railroad built out in North
Rustico. in regard to the estimates,
he might say that since the Govern-
ment had been in power the sur lus
had always exceeded the PreniT;r's
estimate. Tliere was no better sign
oi good and sound management than
this fact. Today, owing to the good
work of the lslanil's reprcaentatlveli'
and tho influence of the local Govern-
ment there were three or four wharv-
i-s on tim \\'est River. Hon. Mr. Jen-
kins concluiled by expressing tho op-
inion limi the people of the country
would appreciate nil that the Govern-
ment had ilone for them during the
pnst four years.
BIG THEATRE BURNED.
PAlllS. April 20-A liavas despatch
from Madrid says the Camedia Thea-
tre, ono oi' the tint-st and most aris-
tocratic playbouses in that cit.,,_ was
destroyed by ilre yesterday.
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