sd e*s You xe Cota |} F.ouse t 9 it w you bave it tomorrrw ? ape, if it dosen’t burn down. ppo-se ioes I now avpout surance l nave oe mpanies | N aii Ww prompt in | and « y O8s8es * A small premium w make your | { G. | C. (Brow Insurance Agent ([" Charlottetown PAE DAILY EXAMINER. | } PAC IO ROM o t - VEULMBER 8, 1897 GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE. Tue exemies of Great Britain have been striviag to foment a quarrel with France on account of some “ line-fence” dieputes The effort is Great Britaia and France out in Africa. not likely to be successful. have adopted the reasonable and vroper alternative of appointing a jvint commis- sion to investigate and settle the matter. Neither country can very well afford to go to war with the other for the sake of a few acres of territory amid the wilds of Africa. France bas much to lose in a quarrel with Great Britain. England is ber principal customer. The French exports to England during 1397 will approximate 1,118,000 ,000 , francs; her imports during the same period will be about 500,000,009 francs. Moreover, the French quite understand that by antagonising England they would be furthering Germany’s policy to their owo detriment. Suppose that which is most unlikely,—suppose that the French were to eucceed iv ousting the British out of Egypt, what would they gain? Nothing Indeed, they would lose in every way. It is truly remarked by the Empire, of Lon - don, that many sagacious Frenchmen would lixe to see France adopt the policy advocated by Gambetta~—a working alli- ance with England; and it is absolutely certain that a Franco-English-Russian alliance would form an irresistible com- bination which could alone approach the question of a proportionate reduction of those crushiag military burdens which are now draining the Jife-blood of Eurove. Apropos of thie matter, we learn that Prince Mestchersky, editor of the St. Petersburg Grashdanin, lately visited Paris tv enliat French support for his idea of a Franco- Russian~German coalition against Great Britain. But he was con- strainei to return bome and to report that everyoue in Paris whom he addressed on the subject declined to consider the scheme. Not only so, he received an intimation of the fact that no rappproche. ment between France and Germany wil! be possible, even through the intermediary of Russia, so long as the question of Alsace - Lorraine subsists. @2*e+a vou AN ENLARGED TRADE. Tae trade returns for October, which appear in the Canada Gazette to hand today show that the trade of Canada is experienc- ing a very considerable boom. From pre- sent appearances the exports this year promise to be the highest ever known, while the imports and duty collected both show increases over same month last year. The figures for the month are: Exports, $13,355,997; entered for consumpt:on, $10,060,851; duty collected, $1,684,261; as compared with exports, $14,732,545, en- tered for consumptigo, $9,291,888; and duty collected, $1,577,928, for October 1896. The total imports for the four mouths of the fiecal year were $43,051 ,322 as ag’ ost $41,976,130, an increase of $1-, 175,252. It is in the exports, however, that tie great expansion of trede has taken place, the increase during the four months being vo leas than $15,485,220, the details being as follows «— 1896. Produceofmines... 3,445,248 Produce of fisheries 5,022,245 Produce of forests, 15,550,295 Anioals and dairy 16,057,0%1 Agricul:ural........ 6,570,730 Manufaciures....... 3,414,999 Misce!laneous..... 189,658 1897, 5,014,246 4,751,477 16,315,651 21,788,541 13,965,519 3,779,758 125,198 50,250,164 65,740,384 Theee figures show a gratifying de- velopment ot our export trade, particalarly | in respect to the products of the farm and | the mine. This development is largely a result ofthe polity purcued by the iate | goverament, of opening up the country and establishing « great dairy industry. i } gence of Sir Lous } gin and whiskey forsale by public au ' [eae pe nuence, THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 8, 7 ° IN ITS TRUE COLOURS, Tue (Guardian is striving to divert the odium of the Dewinion Government’s sale of liquors in thie cit¥ from the Government to Tue Examiner.—because we advertized Every reason- The determination of the Guardian to stand by sale and denounced it! able map must smile at this effort. the Laurier Government it, however, | sufliciently appareat. Having cent an editorial representative to a grand “ At ** , . | ; Home atthe Ciub, where wines and liquors were freely offered, and baving expatiated there io the ministerial efful- Davies and Hon. Mr Biair, and having attempted to shield the Goverpment m the force of l me ExaM INER’S sm as to the importation in to thie Province of a quantity of contraband t bas fairly earned the title ofa thick and the Laurier Tarte Administration. It = Guardia t rier Aid useiess 3 : boast any ionge>r a it its The mask of hypocrisy has been torn frim its face. Its falsity to total abstinence has been revealed and it appears in its true colors as the paltering and truckliag organ of our Liberal Government. ——_ 9 © @¢ @ —___—______ -___— THE MAIN POINT ADMITTED. a ee REFERRING to the recent auction sale of liquors in this city, by the Dominion Government, the Patriot remarks : “Atthe same time, we think it unfair for the Government officials to bring liqu ore seized outside the Province to be auc- tioned at Charlottetown. If the seizure had taken place bere, then the auction would be placing no more liquors oa the market than the importers intended.” This is an important admission. Upon this point The Patriot is in exact accord with Tue Exaniver. Charlottetown ought not to be made a dumping ground for liquors forfeited and confiscaied in other provinces. ~-_<-?- + NOTES AND COMMENTS. —_——— —A heavy business in wheat has been one of the features of the last week’s trade in Ontario. One Toronto buyer, we are told, took 60 cars of No. 2 red on a stngle day. The activity of the wieat trade ail over the province gave a tresh ‘mpetus to the circulation of bank currency. —President McKinley is relieved of one source of anxiety which rested heavily upon his predecessor. The gold balance in the United States Treasury is making steady increases. It is now $157.396,030. The rise in the price of wheatand heavy exports have worked the change so long desired, —A despatch tothe Montreal Star re- ports that J. G. Milne, a brother of the piper hero of Dargai Ridge, Patrick Milne, who lives near Vaucouver, in British Columbia, aday or two ago, speaking of the brave lance-corporal of the Gordou High'anders, whove name is in every mouth, said: “I bave just received a letier fromm my brother Patrick like a message from the grave.~ It is dated from Haw! Pinde. He says: “The reason for my be- ing shifted here is the disaster which he- fel. the British truops in the Techi Va‘ley. The regiment that was garrisoned bere- are off to the seat of war, and we are settled down bere to do duty in their place I suppose you see in the papers about theee frontier fights, which are constantly occuring. Ours isa lucky corps, and there are a fewof the fellows here who have got a medal of some sort. We have every reason to believe “that we will go up again if this affair should prove any- thing great. “The commander-ia-chief isan old Gordon, and so I think this accounts for our being a little favored.” The rest of the letter deals with family matters. Mr. Milne saya: “The idea that my brother Patriek, is Irish on account of hit name is erroneous. He is oneof six children, and was born at Ardoyne in 1872. Oar father is @ small farmer of Watersise Newburg.” —-o-<—— you NEED Hood’s Sarsaparilla ® if your blood is impure, your appe- tite gone, your health impaired. Noth- ing builds up health like HOOD’S. Seen YOU year, best are made by— Mark Wright & Co., Lt THE HOME MAKERS. on. | ee sleep or ought too on some kind of a bed every night in the There’s comfort and! satisfaction in the right kind) Is a Copy of Prince Ed- of spring and top MATTRESSES, ROBERT BURNS. a lecture in St. James’ Hall, last evening, by the Rev. Mr. Fullerton. The lecturer ably and el.quently analyzed the merits of the poet as an interpreter of Mav and Na- ture Het; oOinted Out that the main difter- ence between the poetry of Buros and that of Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly and other poets was that, while they portrayed nature Scotiand’s bard was ayain the sul) ct cf | | i | } | apart from man, Buros invariably por- | trayel it 1D convection with | man — or woman, The warmth of the love of Burns for God, and Mav, and Nature was shown by reference io several of his poems which were quoted Witlb preat ¢ ther { | he lecturer copnle nded, amid applatst, thet Burns was the great- t lyrica st o poets. The vote ot thanks was moved by the! Hon. H. C. McDonald, seconded vy Mr. D. | A. McKionon, M. L. A.. and conveved to i «cturer by the President of St. James’? | brary Socce-v, Mr. D. Stewart, who oc cupied the Chair, ote 8 BRITAIN AND ITALY, May Co-Operate la the Governing of the | * ™o idan, The correspondent cf an English news- paper wriles froin R ine as follows :— Whether in the near future the trade of ! he Soudan wil! attain a volume sufficiently arge to nourish two railways sucn as that of the Nile Valley ania possible k 4884/a~ Massowah line is a question eXperts findsome difficulty in answering of band. In the meantime the Tribune | takes acvantage of the present occasion to expound its views of railway policy in Northeast Africa, If, it says, the English | juvurnalists who made their way from Berber to Suakia had been able iv examine | tue line by Massowab, Adi Uryi, Arresa, | Mai Mafaleb, Gaseh »nd ‘lomat they would bave pointed it out to their countrymen as the real competitor of the Nile valley route —at least, for the trade of the Blue Nile | basin, if not for that of the basin of the | White Nile. As for the customs difficu!- ties, they were largely overcome by the | treaty of 1891, Althouga Kassala and the rich province of Taka will henceforth zo toesrick Egypt the idea of a common trade route which would not forcibly divert the commerce of the Eastern Soudan from its natural chan- nels—that is to say, from Massowah — might furnish a basis fora closer under- standing between Italy aod Englaad with regard to their African policy—an under- standing which, eliminating the petty sources of past disagreement, would | strengthen and somplete the programme | possessed by the two nations in the | Mediterranean. } Which even | Admirable as are the efforts made by | England to reach the confluence of the two Niles, it may be doubted, the Tribune | suggests, whether England alone will be ! able to cope successfuily with the hostility of the natives without airiving at a com. | promise deleterious to the iatereris of | Egyptian commerce. Fate has willed that the difficulties of England in these regions should be identical with tae didii- culties of Italy. An impartial examina- | tion of the question shows that the dis- comfiture of Iialy was ax mucha result of her own weakness as of her abandonment by the Anglo-Egyptians, and that the re- sult of ltaly’s discomfiture weighs more heavily today upon the African policy of | ngland thao could bave been expected or toreseen. Ia viewofthe French expedi- tions which are about to meet, if indeed they have not already met, at Fashoda, is not, an Anglo Italian understanding worth ¢ msideration? Would it not exercise in- calculable intiience upon the Ethiopians and their chief ? e— ~ - SIRI IIRL III LITE LITE | = Again We Call § g i Your attention to the fact that we have a Carload | of winter keeping apples to hand, which we are selling very low for cash. Seeded Raisins ‘ S le Everybody is delighted with : ___ SANDERSON & 00. ee them, no trouble, already seeded, stemed and cleaned , ready for use. The | include | Kentucky’s Ee }leworth Cal), Ph, 1)., oe ] ne Red, vilment Chapple; “The First American Congress,” by Barry Bulkley; “Christmas in Merrie Knglaud,” by I yon W av ne ; | *When the Christmas Beils Ring,” Ring,” bv Louise Crocket Henderson. } and there | W. Potter Co., 91 Bedford Street, Boston, THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE, The December number of the National Mayazine has been received. The National Improves with every issue, and the number before usis the best that hae eome to hand up tothe present time. This being the Christmas issue the conteyts have a special bearing upon the holiday season, but not to the exclusion of o'\her interest- ing matter. . The illustrations are of the best description, and the rea ling matter is the choicest. The table of “The Brook Farm by Arthur W., Mammouth contents Experi- 1 urbe}: “Tn Cave,” R. ment,” by of John Discombe,” by Francis Lynde: “An Afternoon with Ruskin,” bey Joe M. Tice excellent series of articles treating of “Christ and His Time,’ are continued: is aiso another instalment of the nteresting story dealing with the atartin a ; ; “son f“*The B Breeze. here hoice poems, and the various FOme Chit The W. ow eS are ntwood > W el] malat ained denattmen S ar Oe ee es rs Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. Absoluteiy Pure POYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. flusical and Literary itertainment owen | Niacin ST PETER'S NEW HALL On Tuesday, December 14th PROGRAMME. 1, Been }-COte wcrc: .... Emerson (10 voices). 2. Cello Solo— “Cavatine” ...... Schmidt Prof. Viopicombe. R, ecavtaansdeatecses a 5 fica ce The Hon The Attorney Geveral 6 Vale tee, cc tisa Miss Cotion. NNN, TOR cients Messrs. Payne Bros. 6: TI cakiss-seetecsentae Miss Mellish. Weoonl Balas sc) 3 dacs Sesh db ass bcc Rev. Mr. Manifold. S. Voonl Qeatiek sii hii a T he Misses Earle andthe Messrs Earle ©; RRR isch anicicidetent cds 62 Th eHon. The Mavter of the Rolls. BG. Vee WS 6 oo Ades Dee ae Mr, Cloud Hill. 11. Violin Sclo—“Ox Minuet”. ...Haydn Prof. Vinnicombe. De Sites ss itn ie Fisk Mr. T. A. McLean. 13; Woeal Belestietos. ..icd. ci bh... Miss Sullivan. 14, Male Quartette...... an Ma On Wik tus coe Rev. T. H. Hunt, Messrs KE. Earle; J. Owen, C. Karle. GOD SAVE TAR QUFEN, GLLLLGLGGGGLLG A Most » Appropriate Christmas Gift To Send to Friends Abroad teehee Feet eee ee Qe + ee eteeee nw “ese. ward Island Illustrated. WIBBGGBALGHLS Application to Parliament. _-— Public notice is hereby given that appli- cation will be made to the Parliament ox Canada, at the next session thereof, for an Act changing the name of Ths Dominion Building and Loan Association, to that of The Dom!nion Permanent Loan Com any. Dated at Toronte. this 17th day of Novem- ber, A. D., 197. 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