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THE DAILY EXAMINER. |
NOVEMBER 22, 1880.
Southport Ferry.
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A narGr part of the invaluable space ot | Patriot of Thursday is given up to 4
meerning the Southport Ferry.of
the statementc . wen
which the following is the central and most notable point
‘Mr. Bentley, the org anizer of the present method of conducting the terry, ace mmpanied by Mr. Ferguson, M. P. P., Senator Howlin and John P. Nicholson drove down the whart with a double team. Did they take their place to await their turn? Not they. They drove like the * heroic veterans of the Light Brigade past the long line of farmers’ tewms aboard the boat and were ferried across with all the despatch sach illustrious individuals to. That some pvor country man was squeezed out of his turp to cross by these dead-heads never cost them a thought
The facta are (1) that Mr. Ferguson was
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not in the carriage referred to; (2) that Me. that Mr. Paimer, the Eaglish engineer em- ployed by the Local Government to rep rt
ihe proposed Hillsborough Bridge,
Bentley was not in charge of it ; (9)
upon accompanied by Mr. Bentley and others, went over the river to inake observations as to the lecality of the proposed bridge, and (4) that business important his driver
as his time was limited anl his passed the line of carriages ard crossed ‘* out of turn. ’ necessary to waste space over make any eX- Ludeed, We
It is net such a pet'y matter, or to plan ition on of it have no doubt that every one interested in
account
the ferry will be tov glad to know that practical measures are being taken to over- come the hindrances which now present themselves to the travelling public, tv make any fuss because Mr. Palmer crossed out of his turn in order that he might make all his observations before darkness set in.
As t» the ferry during the present think it will be admitted by every observant and reasonable man that the officials in charge
conduct of the
season, we
exert themselves to the utmost to moet the demands of the traflic between Charictte-
town and Southport. We have heard only
praise for Captains’ Bovyer and Macdoug sll. t is said, on all sides, that they are cour- teous and ubliging—that, consistently with their duty to the Government and the pub- lic, they meet the wishes and further the interests of their passengers. We believe that they do what they can to relieve the glut of traflic caused by the prosperous farmers of the south during the season in which produce is marketed.
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More About the Fgg Trace
Tue Finance Department of the Cana- dian Government have issued a commer- cial bulletin in which they tabulate statis- tic; from which the fvcllowing conclusions are drawn :
1. That as regards the imports of eggs into the United States and Great Britain, the latter country demands about six times as mip) «¢ the former ;
® That the Customs valaation in Great Britain is one cent per dozen greater ;
3- That the distance of Canada from Great Britain is not a bar to successful competition; and
4. Thatasea voyage across the Atalntic in the cool latitudes traversed by ovr ocean steamships does net preclude the successful prosecution of the business.
It will be seen that Rassian eggs are ship- ped to Great Britain from the Black Sea; tha: Portuguese and Spanish eggs cross the Mediterranean and Bay of Biseay ; that Ger- many gathers eggs from various parts of her Empir2 and transmits them by lengthened land and sea voyages to the certral market.
It will also be observed that quantities of eggs from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong and China, find their way to the Uuited States markets and compete there with the home produc*,
To the prima facie evilence of the official returns may be aded the results of actual shipments made from Canada to Great Britain since the adoption of the McKinley tariff. These shipments have been made from Mon- treal and Halifax and by various patties. Zhe results in brief are these :—
1, Eggs may be sent across the A tlantic with pertect safety during the entire season without cold storage of any kind. The tes- timony of both shippers and carriers unites on this point and seems to place It entirely beyond doubt. The eggs are carefully stowed in the cool portions of tue vessels below the water line, or between decks, where an cquable temperature of about 50 degrees is maintained, and they armive on the other side in good condition. Some of the steamers wre provided with huge ventiltors, which maintain a constant volume of fresh, cool , air.
2. The eggs are packed either in compart. ment boxes or in cases with hulis, saw-dust, or tine chopped straw, andif then carefully handl- ed the percentage of breakage is almost wi. The cases contain from 30 to 120 dozens each, and are stowed away compactly and freights | charged upon the ten measurement of 40 cubic feet of space. Use company instances a carriage in which the breakage was found to be only 6 egys in 180 dozen. A movement is now on foos to have all the egg cases made uniform, ia which case the rates of freight could be more satisfactorily arranged. These cases are not returned by the carriers and have to be disposed of in Great Britain, It is quite probable either that a means of dis- posiag of them can be arranged whereby the total cost need not be charged against the eggs carried, or that a much cheaper form of case can be made sufficiently stropg to carry for one trip. In fact a firm of case-makers in Ontario 18 offered to produce cases at a Cost of 17 cents each, instead of 59 or 6) cents paid for cases used in the United States trace.
3 The freights atpresent rule at 15 shillings sterling per ton measurement, or, counting 1% cases t» the ton and 30 dez2ns tothe case, less than one cent per dozen. This is probub'y the lowest rate that can be quoted. The cost of placing eggs upon the Boston and New York markets would not on an average be much less than this.
4. Shipments already made have, so far as reported to the Department, netted a return quite as favorable as could have been obtained in the United States in years befure the Me- Kinley tariff became operative, and have
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An examination of the price lists shows that, for similar qualities, eggs in Great Sritain have rated higher than in the United States. From enquiries made, it is ascertained that to command the best prices in Great Britain the sive and quality should be particularly attend- ed to, Large and well assorted eggs are dis- placing the smller kinds in the English market, and France and Denmark owe the strength of their egg exports to Great Britain largely to this cause. Two andjone-half pounds to the score is the lowest weight that can be reliel upon to secure A superior positiou in the English market, and if a greater weight than this can be attained, still better results will follow,
From information just received from Great Britain, through the office of the High Com- missioner, the following wholesale prices ave given as indicating the state of the mirkets about the middle of October, the prices being per great hundred of 120:—
In Liverpool—Best French, 93. to 103 ; Danish, Os. to 10s ; Irish, 9a. to 10s.
lu Glasgow—Home, 10s. 2d.; Continental, Js. to 9s. Gd.
la Bristol—Irish 10s,; best French, 9s. 81. to 10:
Iu Dublin—-Ordinary, 9. fo 9s. 6d.; Sel- ected, 10s, to 103. Gd.; Smaller, 8s, to $s. Gil.
In Belfast —Large t2s.64.; Small, 10s. 10d,
The Army and Navy Auxiliary Stores, Londor, which carry on a very extens ve trade in poultry, gune, eggs and provisions of all kinds, buy three qualities of eggs, for which they paid at that date as follows; —Best Kngtish, 153.; Sel-cted French, 133.; and Seconds, 103. 61. The wholesale prices ae lower from March to June, after which they begin to harden, and are highest from Ustober to Decembe-.
Religious Services.
Don't forget the Railway Gospel meeting to-morrow afternoon in MeLeod’s Ha!l at 4 o'clock. Strangers always welcome. Lesson : Isaiah 35-10 —** They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” \
The gospel meeting in the ¥. M.°C. A, Hall to-morrow afternoon frem 4 tod o'clock will be led by E. W. Gorton, E-q., the travelling Secretary of the general Association. A cordial invitation is ex- tended to ail, and young men wll receive a special and hearty welcome.
Services in Zien Church to-morrow will b2 conducted by the pastor in the morning at 11, and in the evening at 7 o'clock. Morning prayer meeting at 10.15. Sabbath School and Bible Classes will meet at 2 30 p. m.
Methodist Brick Church—10 a. m., pub- lic prayer se. vice; ll a.m. Rav. W. W. Brewer; 2 p. m.. children’s service; 7 p.m., tev. John Read; 8.15 p. m., united evang- elistic meeting.
The united evangelistic services in the Methodist Brick Church are still continued and to which all are cordially invited.
The Long Distance Telephone.
Ithaca aud New Haven are now connect- ed, and Mr. A.S Hibbard has in mind a novel test exhibition for this winter. He will try to have the Cornell and Yale glee clubs give simultaneous concerts in Ltahca and New Haven. The twe concert halls will ne connected by telephone. and then the Yale club will sing, aud both the Ithaca
and New Haven audiences will hear the music simultaneously. Then the Cornell club will sing in ithaca, and the New
Haven audience will hear it as well as the vue 400 miles away when the singing is taking place. Spice would be added to the entertainment if a joint debate be- tween the Yale and Cornell navies could be arranged on the Yale-Curnell boating dif- ficulties.
Me. Hibbard, at bis home in Morristown, received reports by telephone from New London during the last Yale-Harvard race. For the beneiit of his guests, he rigged up a couple of tin shells, each with its eight oarsmen, and by changing the relative posi- tions of the boats at each report he kept his friends in high excitement for twenty- three minutes. At the end of the race the cheers for Yale frum the spectators on the banks of the Thames could be distinctly heard in Morristown.
Personal.
Captain Yates, of Boston, is visitiog the city. He is registered at the Hotel Davies.
Mr. W. H_ Jackson, special agent of the Sun Life Insurance Company, Montreal, is on a business trip to the Province. He is at the Hotel Davies.
Mr. Yates cables to the New York Tribune from London:—Accounts of the Queen’s health, though satisfactory, still dwell on the fact that she is net so active as last year. Every year she does less and is more fatigued, and it is said by those about the cvurt that, though in all essentials she is strong and hale, she feels and acknowledges regretfully that she is able to do less each year. Her Majesty fortunately avoided taking cold this year, and this is ia her favor. She is now unable to take any walking exercise, and is more apt to get chilled when driving.
At the annual grand baz var in aid of the St. Patrick’s Asylum, Ottawa, which neually lasts for a fortcight,the proceedings are varied by the introduction, on alternate evenings, of concerts, eperettas, tableaux vivants, ete. The opening concert on the 12th inst. was under the direction of Mrs, J. A. J. McKenna, and her mother, Mrs. Ryan; and the Ottawa press spoke io very high praise of theaffsir. These ladics were assisted by some of the leading talent of the capital, aud we observe on the programme the name of Mr. W. C. Des- Brisay as contributing one of the numbers. Mr. McKenna is Secretary of the Asylum, wh’ ch is ope of the principal Catholic charities of Ottawe, and celebrates this year the twenty- tifc anniversary of its fonndation.
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Srrawsernies In Novemper.—The St. Jobn Sun says: A ripe strawberry picked on Mr, MeCallum’s place at the mouth of Quoca harbor on the 16.hinst., has been sent to the Sun cfiice by E. V. Rourke, who says there were other ripe berries there at the time.
Bostox Comepy Comeaxy.—Another large audience was present at the Lyceum last evening, and the drama of the ‘White Slave” and the farce of the ‘‘Rough Diamond,” gave unbounded satisfaction. Miss Grey repeated her former very successful impersonations in beth pieces, and Me. Webber was doubly welcome in his funny characters. His sorg, the *““Culored Band,” was heartily sateen and in response to an enthusiastic encore he sang anew medley which was very clever, some of the sougs being dove-tailed together ina very ingentous maaner. A}l the com- pany were first-class in their respective characters. ‘This (Saturday) evening, the romantic Lrish! drama ‘Aline, the Rose, of Killarney,” will be played for the first time
demonstrated the fact that a profitable trade can be carried on in eggs to Great Britain suc to an extent which is practically unlimited.
in Charlottetown,
K. D.C, is Guaranteed.
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dailies contain an open letter from Rev. A.
Macdougall, D D., late pastor of the First ; Presbyterian Church in that city. The following is an extract :~
“To my loving brethren of the preshytery of St, Jehn, L say your labors will j in vain. ‘You cannot crush the power of the word of God. You cannot crush the spiritof the age —the spirit of a living, loving father—the spit of a living and ever-comiog Christ. Your ereeds and dogimas are not powerfu! enough to fetter the humen mind and crush into slav'sh obedience the human heart, fo the spirit of Him who hath said, ‘If ye con- timue in my word then are ye My disciples in- deed, and ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free,’ is rending the creeds, giving ‘their tatters tu the merry winds’ and bestowing upon those who accept Him as their special :eacher *a liberty which tyrants cannot grant.’
If the presbytery of St. John wishes to have my views upon the fundamental ques tions ia theology, said presbytery can have them through the public press, as I prefer to deal openly in the matter, and not to place myself atthe mercy of even a committee from the presbytery of St. John.
Furthermore, if the presbytery of St. John does not fcel disposed to meke use of the public press, then Iam prepared to meet the said presbytery ia avy public building in the city, there to state and defend my views io presence of and agains’ the members of sail presbytery, and to make the matter easier, | am prepared to furnish for the occasions the beet building obtainable for the purp se in the city of St. John.
Yours truly, A. MacDoveaLt.
St. John, N. b., Nov, 19
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Germany's Grievance.
Military concription is being enforced in Germany with more than usual stringency, and the social st agitators are improving the opportunity to arraign the system which in- voives the leceration of every family tie, and uncer which the working classes are the principal sufferers—the ai my affording a digni- tied refuge for the ycunger sons of the arisive- racy, Who wenld otherwise tied it diflieult to exist, A Cologne ccrrespondent of the London Daily News says it is a pitiful spectacle to see the equads of German con- scripts at the various stations awaiting en- forced transportation frem home and friends. They look more Jike convicts on the way to jail than recruits for the army of the empire, and as they are surrounded by throngs of weeping and wailing relatives the erneliy of the system forces itself on the mind of the observer, Just now these conscripts are being diiven to the mi itary depots in droves from all parts of Germany, and sadness reigns in every village and hamlet. Numerous arrests have been made of persens seeking to’ escape military service, and the steamers for Great Britain and America are closely watched by the police. Each succeeding election shows that the socialists are gaining strength throughout Germany, and at the present rate of progress they may have a majority in the reichstag within five years. Herr Bable declares that the final struggle between social- ism and militarism cannot be long delayed General disarmament, he says, is the only thiog that can avert it.
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Local Notices.
Big bargains in underclothing to-night at Prowse Bros,
Two Men in a Boat—This very funny work is for sail at the Diamend Bookstore.
Covking Figs for sale by the pound at Beer & Goff's,
Patronize Prowse Bros. if you want good value.
Those wanting reefers and overcoats will save money by cailing at Prowse Bros , the Wonderful Cheap Men.
Christie’s Soda Biscuit, fresh and crisp ; just received at Beer & Goff's.
Bigger than ever—The bargains at the Diamond Bookstore will be bigger than ever.
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ResorNER.—The last St. John Telegraph contains a reply from Rev. Geerge Bruce (Moderator) to the letter of Rev. Dr. Mac- dovgall. It appeats that a newspaper war is it-evitable.
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Tue Poraro Trape.—The Pictou News reports that severe] Island schooners are loadipg potatoes at that port.
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CancettepD Tuer Potwies —One day last week four insurance policies were can- celled in Pictou, N. S , because their holc- ers stored kerosene oil on their premises.
A. E. JONES & 60.,
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Barrington street, Opposite A. Stephen & Son,
HALIFAS,N.S.
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ARKENTINE ‘“‘EREMA,” 3200 Tons ees. Al at Lloyds, will sail fer Liverpool, England, on or about SATUR- DAY, 29¢h iust., and will carry Starch, Canned Meat, etc., etc.
Apply to the Owners, PEAKE BROS, & CO,
For Liverpool
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We guarantee to make BLANK BOOKS 20 per cent. cheaper than any other firm on PB. EB. Island. Get prices before placing orders. Spe- cial Reductions on Sets of three or more EBooks
TAYLOR & GILLESPIL,
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A PROMINENT CLERGYMAN, whose name | am at liberty to reveal on apptication, . wiites as follows :—
Mr. A. J. JOWNSON :—
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_EVERY BODY'S PILLS are sold on!y in boxes at 25 cents each, and will be sent by mail on receipt of price. Sample free on app'ication. Prep»red only by
ARTHUR S. JOHNSON, Pharmacist,
Corner Kent and Prince Streets, Chailottetown.
An Interesting Item !
REDDIN BROS.
HAVE RECEIVED THEIR
Xmas Steck of Fancy Goads SARLY THis FALL.
They are now open an? ready for inspection. No trouble to show the goods. They comprise a better selection, larger variety and lower prices than ever before. Ladics’ and Gents cases, German Goods, a lirge consignment cf Fancy Goods from Si'ber & Fleming, London, togetiuer with a splendid assortment of Meer- chaum and Briar Pipes, Cigar Ceses, Card Cases, Cribbage Boards, ete. tEDDIN ERGS. nov2!—-2iw t] 20th dee, then cod
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LYCEUM, CHARLOTTETOWN.
H. PRICE WEBBER, Manager,
Supporting the Favorite Actress,
EDWINAGREY,
Will Appear as Above.
This (Saturday) Evaniog, Nov. 22,
The Romantic Irish Drama,
Aline, the Rose of Killarney,
ives - ae ‘ . SELK Admission, 25 cents. Reserved Sexts, 35
cents. Tickets for sale at the Diamond Book- ~<a) VEE store Doors open at 7.15. Overture at 8 SHA Ey h PR. o'clock. nov22
SPECIAL VALUE AND LARGE 1 VAREGEY,
BOOKS, GLASSWARE, &e.
& UCTION SALE of Balance of the late Rev. Mr. Smallwood's Library, Glass-
ware, etc., on MONDAY EVENING, 24th
inst., at 7 30 o'clock. Cc. I. MORRISON,
Auctioneer.
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Merchants’ Bank of P. E. Island, Ch’town, Nov. 17, 890. {MT OTICE is hereby given that a Half { Yearly Dividend, at the rate of Eight Tats Cent, per Annum, on the Capital Stock lef this Bank has been declared, payable at its
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th | Banking Office on and after December Ist, TRS BRAND OF FLOUR js superior fq BOON: Oe beter of the Bears.
“Kent” or ** Match!ess.” Always for | WM. McLEAN sale at vur Store. Try a Barrel and you wil novl7—ti eod Cashier use no other. ae
Also For Sale—The best quality of BRAN, | bs S cS SHORTS and CORNMEAL, ete. a a 4
A. HOBNE & CO. i “oe ace ace VE HE®E on MONDAY, 24th of ee : Nevember, will be de. patched Ch'town, Oct. 9, 1899—dy law vky ae wailing for regular sail. ——— |ing day, probatiy sailing fr PO LET.—One half of a Double Tenement On Tuesany Brealan the sath imate House On Sidney Sireet, acicining the resi- tgenabte } io re sag ene ee ee ee ee ‘her to make another trip, if possible, before clese of navi-
Gres immediately. App'y to Francis P. Mec- JARRON, ocd | Qatton. nov20
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Viourning Goods,
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Dolmans, Jackets and Uleters, LADIES’ JACKE’
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Underclothing Very Cheap.
SHIRTS and DRAWERS
Seale: | Tite we
Scotch, English & Canadial
CARPETS.
The LARGEST and BEST ASSOBE MENT on the Island. CURTAIN POL¥S; Blinds with Sprimt
rains in Curtains.
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an ear'y settlement of us. JAMES PATON & co.
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All orders
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a who have not received legal 1 please call at the ** London Ronse their bil s receipted by Miss Wright. |
Wright will receive my careful
ONS owing Mrs. R. i ol jotice. ‘and ‘
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