> re TS } ndthe road from «9 6 ° » gr f ‘ : en . oad ; ¢ ry VATE! rilway Ww i ha 06 ¢ 1 i e va yt tine is exte trom Lake iperior a ward ke Superior eastward; Charlottetown, Dee. 27, US%5, | i \ ‘ i ’ entie- ee ats a } ‘ t sts by — ’ ’ oF ‘ mm ’ | | BREACHES OF PUBLIC f 1/7, | { ty n s ¢ mor ina nal \ +—Very : a : ; ‘ i N entlemen By the Terms of Union the Govern know WwW rember the | pene of the Dominion is bound to provide | ’ { 4 at x 3 t & Pe hs 1} : 1 i i i i iof them I res ls a pas s to be tha th 1 nliemen ! } forinedt Pence the ‘ es i } _ oo f the D me ind ines \ » @2 - i nG WHOSE om Saleen WINTER AND SUMMER,—thus wy . ue the Tels CONTINUOUS ‘ v t w y rt d "o i the « i ef COMMUNICATION WITH THE IN. | 4 sagen oe PERCOLONIAL RAILWAY AND t ‘ { . ve : 7 . , ry 7 i nf \ rHE RAILWAY SYSTEM OF THE : — he Opy DOMINION.”? Upon this understand t 3 it sing of fa 3~ , , » of false stories with | ing the people consented that this Island t ‘y of the late Governs chould become part and parcel of the Dos lear, hear ] Now, gentlemen | inion of Canada, The public faith ot e provision that wemade was that (his . a “ La Raiadl te mpany Ww to get thirty millions of | the Dominion Was solemn y pledgec ¢ y to be given them as the road pro~ | earry out the agreemert, and the Union rressed to give them fifty millions of : = o wad oe i in | Was consummated Several months Jater es of land as the road progressed, in ite blocks, ithat the Domimon of | aq advertisement calling for tenders to nada was to sep fifty m ym acres Stal te on tae 7 : rk + rrovide a first-class steamer to ply be ) nate ocks Sir Hugh Allan | PF’ t ' ; py ited i the Company of which he | tween this Province and the mainland men I Pre lent calet ed during wiuter, app ired in the hewspap t x it t! e of 1 along the = " . \ t t this nd | ers; and if a vessel such as that specifii- 8 1 be i i e; and we iin the #dvertisement had been put on, it nt to gis mat : ae ol ee i Iving | the peoy would have been satisfied that ut } =e) | : ia ‘

y \ ald nde the Government of the Dominion intend- at w t n, got for the | od to perform the conditions of its agree lai of e kept : in i _

’ at Gud a ed cents an| ment with this Island in good faith. s would » been fifty millions) But when winter came, a steamer, the j h er he ae , let — y , : .— = nf maximinium speed of which is five miles ty 1 s we W to advance in ; : ; ‘ s subsidy and all the interests upon it/an hour—and which is atterly unfit to heers i se), s » that we Ww vuld mn progress through ice—appeared have tl way built by these gentlemen, os : . vivancing att me thirty miliions of | upon the scene Phe pt dg of the Di liars the we of constructing this minion wus broken. ‘Continuous com- TAY ii ow the certainty of that , : oe : ; - : unicatLo was, of course, not Kept up. | irty millions been recouped, and return- munication — : : I I ed to the ple of Canada by the sale of! No valid excuse was offered Some Gov. fty millions of acres of land. How a ernment official had b!undered,—this was great scheme was wrecked my friend will | |, eo a tell you; and I! will only say this to you | @il the satisfaction the people could get. it bitt momntment tk » "V . \ ° ° - Reuadhorrce te SS Their hopes were again raised. Mr, s it must | t disappointment to) _ : oo :

‘ man that is anxious for the develop- Sewell contracted with the Government nent of the counts ind to see its growth to perform the service. But his boat was Dominion—that this scheme did not a ‘ :

ga ughe \d is built to Brit. | 20t built, ind he refused to sign the con- i Mt that ro IB VU LO DHDPits : ; ( mit nd the Pacifie,this Dominion | tract. The Government, instead of pro- oe . and not one wuring a suitable steamer from Newfound- great Dominion: until bound by the iron), F . : : : . we hound Nova Scotia | laad or elsewhere, did nothing. Again bay, . ¥ Meni . « i c nd New lrunswick by the Intercolonial | its pledge is broken, and again there is no way. Vv 10% ominion in fact. | . ns ‘ ee, _ : : a Dom a ta r ; r isonable excuse, sig Mr. Sewell failed, ud hoped, gentlemen,—it was naturally a | — : : le of m -I hed hoped, old as Iam, | is all that can be said. In the face of rs eT oon wa haen a rex O see } 1; “ r > iat I would have been spared to see. the public and solemn engagement of the THE FIRST TRAIN CROSS FROM ONTARIO TO pRIT- | Dominion Government to provide “ Effi- | - ” cient steam service for the conveyance of | » eas } hons ight have ad ' } a a ; i — bas “| mails and passengers,” and to place the | n permitted to have seen the union take : phy ' place 1 then ieed, gentlemen, as a_ Island “in continuous communication with | , who had something to doin the | the [ptereolonial Railway and the Rail- n ( it union, and something to : ie . io in the joining of these creat provinces, | ¥2Y system of the Dominion,” we have i » certainly cheerfully said—/ for nearly a month been almost without now lettest thy sery meet in ae : : is ; ' ; — dey ‘n' communication of any kind whatever. ace, as i¥v i have seen that this great ; oe y was one great Dominion. (Cheers.), Duringall this time the weather has been ‘ . » the oo r i a ° not discuss, ‘or the reason I have comparatively fine,and the straits compara- given to } the abortion of the present;.. |, , -4 verpment, which has been substituted | tively clear of ice. Only on two or three our great and, | may say our wise and | days was it so stormy that a properly con- i : " a ge , - . 3 striotic schen i i Wi Sa (ois—tha + ‘ > : ; oy that! structed steamer could not have crossed i ado not be tha this scheme, as an- yuunced by Mr. MacKenzie a year ago and re-crossed. ; rage eda [he people of this Island have been 3 Ww the thdrawal of the pros . : ? n. Wekno rfeectly well that Mr. | wronged and cheated. It is their duty

ine, W » has Come into that government,

not more than a yeara ienounced that

ro

| to protest —in forcible, but dignified lan-

| guage—against the treatment they have

heme, saying that it was an impracticable |

neme, an exXtrava nt scheme, and far|r ceived, W e trust the Loeal (,overn- evyor the means ‘ his country: s yo | 1 7 . ' :

yond the means of this country; saying | »,, nt, the Loeal Legislature, and the

that British Columbia was merely a mountains, and intimating that British ( imbia, if she did not choose to accept what and wou the first scheme, might go out.

believe, gentlemen, we wiil see at the next session a further abandonment on the part of the present government,of the plan, ‘3 it ind as it is,—and God knows what they are going to substitute nstead of it. (hear, hear.) Well gentie- we went out, we resigned in conses 1ence of the cry that was raised against us

} Oils

was Ollered,

sment ol

Was

‘ impertect ‘

Then

sea of |

large, will give expression to

p ople at

| their just indignation.

1 insist upon the ful- |

WueEn this Province entered the Union.

the railway, then in course of construction,

beeame the property of the Dominion.

Government. If the people do not receive

1

From that date all res sibility ec et. | : ; ve fi pchintmaran —— | teemed lady in this Island. ed with it devolved upon the Dominion |

Newcastle holds the reins of governme! ‘, and weakness and vacillation characterizes

And it 3s,

the civil serviee of the nation

90 ant | we heli ye, not heeause Messrs Me ec is nie. Cunningham and = Strona h

f deing good work and giving ilway

be

incapable o satisfaetion to the people that our ra

is so seandalously mismanaged, but

ind Comp ny

THE SULIVAN ESTATE, 4 ROMANCE OF TIIE SEA, |

A letter over the signature “ A, B.| a vLucky AND PRETTY LITTLE WOMAN RIGH- |

Warburton ’’ app ired. in’ the London | TREN DAYS IN A BMALL BOAT AXID EMS ’ 1 : oe + | PESTS, SNOW AND ROCKY ; Times of late date. Ut is a plain and | EST8, SNOW AND RCCKY ISLES

forcible statement—made in a quarter | ; ee ; ’

; ci: ’ bile _| On the steamer Mikado, which arrived in

where it will do good—of the facts and | this port on Saturday last, came Captain

ficures on which the Commissioners | Groves and his wife and two children—one

based their awards inthe Sulivan Estate.

eause Messrs, Mackenzie Mr. Warburton has rendered the Island | le and careless ‘the interests : , ‘ are incapable and careless of | i ij | 2 Service We have much p'easure in > the neonie. Mr. MoKeehnie, 18 Wu os 9s . . | oF the people Ir. M ve | republishing the letter inthe EXAMINER: be remembered to his sredit, represt ited, | | ‘ 1 lute Sin me we s;ugo aletter appeare not onee, but m ny times, the avs YS Ted in the fimes over the signature of

necessity of t rovidlt piant for our |

railway, if the obligations the Governs

ment in respect to it were intended to be

pe rformed ; but, to the shame of the Grovs ernment, his representations } issed heeded.

The kee} ning. When, in 1873, they took posses- sion of the foad (and the Province too)

they knew that the people expected trains

Government is bound, of right, to

» the railway open and the trains ran

They should, therefore,

have provided the necessary equipments.

and summer.

having lain idle one winter and being of

ino practical utility another, the Govern-

broken faith with the people,

people's

Again, by the terms of Confederation

ment has

and deserves the censure,

the Dominion is bound to defray the ex

penses of t Penitentiary for this Island, The Local Government is yet, we be- lieve, defr ty lug tl Cc ¢ xp nse of ke { ping |

our criminals, and, in the third year after Confederation, there is no sign of a Peni- tentiary. This may be counted a small matter; but it is one which should have

been attended to — and if the DominionGov-

ernment were atall mindful of its duty it |

would have been attended to long ago.

Is it, then, not time that the people of this Island raised a protest ? remember that this is an important-—a vital matter. For ifthe Dominion Goy- ernment be now permitted to shirk the

performance of one, or two, or three of its

duties to this Island, it may in time shirk all of them. We may be assured that it will never fail to collect

it may neglect to maintain Telegraphic com-

the Customs and Excise duties: but

| munication with the Mainland, or to pro-

vide Quarantine and Marine Hospitals; or Lighthouses on the same principle that it now slights its promises respecting the winter steamer the railway and the peni- tentiary. It may say“ the Island is small,

|and its people not worthy of much at-

Government.

tention, for they have not raised a protest against the studied neglect of which they have already been the subjects,’ Now, it is our clear and undoubted right—and also our duty—as members of the Con- tederation to protest against wrongs and breaches of faith on part of the Central We, therefore, trust that the people and their representatives, of both political parties, will not fail to re- to winter steam communication, the working of the Ottawa to provide a

present their grievances in respect of the railway, and the neglect Administration at Penitentiary. — <> m DEATH OF MRS. CHILDERS.

Tue following explanation of the cause of the sudden death of Mrs. Childers will

| be interesting to the friends of that es-

from the correspondence columns of the London Times, 3rd inst. The letter was written by Mrs, Childers’ physician, We regret that we cannot to-day reproduc, the whole of it :—

Str.—An accident of what I may calla

truly distressing simplicity has, in the death of Mrs. Childers, robbed society of one of its happiest ornaments, and the

inner circle of family and friends of a life

more precious and valued than any words of mine can express.

Already, within a few hours of the de- cease of the lady to whom these words ap- ply, (and most truly, indeed, do they ap- ply) I have noticed the most incorrect

versions of the sad circumstances termin- ating in her death. And although no task could give me more acute distress, I deem

it right, and, indeed, necessary, as a poor |

tribute on my part to the worth ofa friend

| who was the best ot friends, to give a pre- |

om >i the accommodation from the railway the | ——-& fai cry Fais@ Issues Were raised | i | ugainst us by the insidious resolution of | they have a right to expect, the Dominion that great ar i good at Luci " —_ | Government is accountable to them, and hiuntiogton (iaughter and groans); by this E . . insidiously-drawn resolution it was inti- they have aright to ask and receive an mated and insinuated, and almost in terms | explanation. xpressed, that the government had enter- | \ 7‘ k : : ed into farious conspiracy with Sir Hugh Vow, if Was Known last summer that Allan, with Jay Cooke & Co, and with| the plant upon the road was insufficient to | ; ‘o n Railw epresented | he : mere ; = t , i supply the requirements of its traffic even by tanKee s} Liat : igreeinyg to han “ a ad : railway to the United States, and | io fine weather. It was anticipated that the contro! of our ‘and, and to| when the pressure of the fall’s work began y j y th yi to the Am.- } j . . ' t teowr, ajj | to be felt, the engines would prove unfit ‘ ns i that after having drawn all these su ies and all these resources,they | for the service. Experience had proved would proce = for their —" purpose +o the that during winter more powerful equip- building of their own Northern railway. i Phat was disseminated and sown broadcast, | ments were required to keep the roads and it went like a wave over the govern- | open and the trains running regularly. ment. What though we explained and

proved the falsehood of it. Yet, as you have often seen in other instances, the pop~

All this was represented to the Depart- Public Works at Ottawa. We

ment of

ular mind was taken with it; and we re~| believe Mr. McKechnie did his best to gned, gentlemen, we resigned in conse. | : : . ‘ a juence of the flow of that wave. They | Obtain four Baldwin engines in addition knew how false these charges were, and | to those already on the road. They were they might weil know that the reason we | . g .

" . 1, | not ver, Ss od. So careless is th Gist atinatiad: wan Wallen tiek ok eeeke | Oe however upplic d. So careless is the pot give the Americans the contract—| Government of its duty to the people of |

1 } ' ° (hear, hear, and aspplause)—because we | this Island that it even neglected to lay

would not give a sixpence into their hands, ind because we insisted that the ors, that the shareholders, and that every~ body who had any connection with the railway should be

ontrol of the road in Canadian hands; and in consequence of our repudiation—of our rejection of every attempt of the Ameri. cans to get possession of our road and the ‘ontrol of our affairs, they conspired with

British subjects, [hear, | hear, and applause,) in order to keep the |

fences along the line. The consequenee any, benefit to the people, while the offis cials are humbugged, harassed and overs | worked. One day the road is, with great

| labor, opened up so that two engines can

some gentlemen in Montreal, and by | died sill Fi : means gentlemen, which you know too | S/OW!yY Graw a Crain of two cars over It. well, and which it is not necessary for me | The next an inch or twoof snow falls and

to explain to you, resignation became re~« quisite. We resigned and now in the sober second thought of the country they see that while we were fighti the Canadian battle, and while we construct that railway throngh Canada with Canadian and British inflaences and means, vwnd with “Canadian and British capital, the completion of tle present scheme, so far as ascertained, is intended to divert Canadian trade into American channels, and to open

ng a

up to American interests our great railway |

means of communication. {Hear, hear. ] Gentlemen, as we resigned, Mr. Mackenzie was sent for to form 4 government; on the

fith of this month they have been in two

against the government with which I| have

were attempting to}

again all traffic is stopped.

Travellers have been known to wait more | than a week for a train to take them to

railway

| their destination, and then to pass a night in the cars.

The country mails have not been so slowly or irregularly carried for years as they are now that we have a railway. The whole country is put to confusion,—because there is at Ottawa a

weak and incapable government caring not for the interests of our people ; caring

not to perform the duty it is in honor

is that the railway is just now little, if

contract. | out the $5,000 voted by the House of |

| Commons to pay for the erection of snow |

| mestic life?

| years, and I would «ask you, gentlemen, if : 7 | cites teiccun bon. ean Gnd thane bound to fulfill; heeding not the respect-

| . atiwvaca ; i has not been going on pretty fast. If you | ed representatives of its own officials, look back at all the charges brought Many persons find great fault with the |

been connected since 1554—for twenty long years—if vhere have ever been such charges of corruption, of incapacity, and of mal-administration against me as have been formulated, established and proved during these two years against the administration of Mr. MacKenzie, |hear, hear] what would have been said? Why, gentlemen, the government in the tirst place commenced with a fraud on the face of it. It was known that Mr. Mackenzie was at the head of the government, and that he was a mere ins strument and tool in the hands of Mr, (ieorge Brown, {hear, hear, and a voice— ‘big push’]; that gentleman, although of great influence and power; still his power has been rather on the wane, and it was thought that to appeal to the people with Mr. Mackenzie only »t the head of the gov- ernment, might not be so successful as could be wished; ant so Mr. Blake came into the government withou ta portfolio, in order that he might lend the weight of his name to the government; and they went gentlemen, to the polls as the Mackenzie. Blake government; but the moment the

elections were carried’ by the assistance of |

Mi Blake’s influence, by the assistance of his name, and by the assistance of his friends, then, gentlemen, he resigned his office, and as | stated in the House, instead of the country having what they bargained for—the great BlakesMackenzie governs ment—they had the old Brown stuff after ail, (Applause and laughter, ]

i | | | officials. We are not the officials apolog- ists. Their halting and vacillating con- we when the line was broken at St.

Peter’s, the ingenious manner in which

_Alberton and Charlottetown so that a ' good smart horse could perform the jour-

ney in shorter time, the truly wonderful | proficiency in sending goods directed | Souris to Georgetown, and goods direet- | ed Summerside te Alberton—the remembe | rance of these and many more, restrains | us from passing high encomiums upon the |head railway officials in this Island. We would, however, remind our readers | that officials generally take their cue from | the Government by which they are ems ployed. If the Government is able and | Vigilant, they also are able and vigilant ; if the Government is incapable and careless of the duty they owe to the country, they A good _Goverument has good officials: a bad Gos | vernment, bad officials,

also are incapable and neg'igent.

they arranged the trains running between | —a most convincing demonstration of the

j | } | | ;

A Pitt at the!

cise and careful account of the facts cul- minating in this most grievous event.

In the spring of this year a very serious and gexhausting illness befell the lady in | question, so exhausting and difficult of re- straint as to give me no little anxiety in its

management. However, great care and | patience entirely cured this disorder. But

it may be easily understood that the loss of strength which then occurred required some time for its amendment, and yet | longer for the cure of those multiform | symptoms called the sequelv of any acute | illness.

In her case these took the very intract- able form of disturbance of the lower por-

treme restlessness of the lower limbs, with neuralgic pains and great loss of sleep. It was for the relief of these pains and obtaining sleep that small and measure ed doses of chloroform were inhaled. Use- | ful thongh chloroform was to her, it was

always most repugnant to her taste, and in | my evidence before the coroner I showed to his perfect conviction that hers was one of those temperaments which could not tolerate this potent drug, except in very minute quantities.

If it were to be used at all, she was ad- vised by me to measure out from 10 to 20 minims, into a small phial holding 1 drachm, and never to make use of it in any other way orin any other vessel. Ithink it may be safely said that an absolute safety was | thus insured. }

How, then. came the lamentable misad- venture which has extinguished a life so | bright and so successtul in giving bappi- | ness to others—the very sunshine of do- By no carelessness—of this I | am absolutely assured ; for the little measure | which I had insisted on her using, was | found by her side. In the other hand, | was the ‘* stock bottle” of chloroform—the | true cause of death on this occasion; but the bottle was found to be stopperless, and (this is specially noticeable) the stopper, a glass one, lay on the floor. On asking to | see this bottle it was brought to me with its | stopper replaced, and in the course of a few | minutes of conversation, this bottle being held in the warm hand, most unexpectedly | the stopper, lifted by the vapour of the small amount of fluid still in it, fiew out from the bottle and fell onthe ground at my feet

actual metbod of occurrence of the accident which caused the lady’s death. The precise | manner of death was thus:—She inhaled a} few minims from the glass measure, which | quickly affected her, and most unfortunate- ly, she omitted to put aside the bottle full of chloroform which she held in her other hand The beat of the hand expanded this fluid, and presently drove out the glass stopper and some of the contents of the bottle. From that fatal moment her death was seal- ed. The pillow, bedclothes, and nightdress became quite soaked with the fluid, and the

narcolism, deepening with every inspir- | ation, terminated in a death as peaceful as | sleep.

oe |

PRESENTATION.—On Wednesday last, the | students of the Prince of Wales College | present ed Professor Anderson with an ele- gant silver Pitcher, and Professor Dunlop, with a handsome, self-locking secretary.

<->.

Cigars, Tobacco, Meerschaum, Briar and Fancy Pipes, Pipe-fixings, Stems, Pooches, |

head of affairs infuses 1ife and igor into | Cigarettes, Razor strops, cheap at the Union

| . | every department of administration; a

House, 28 Queen Street, sin

to run regularly and continuously, winter |

Having failed to do so, and the railway |

Let them |

It is clipped |

| vided “ a good and sufficient subs sription

2 } bridge be rovi Jed.”’ ‘tion of the spinal cord, evidenced by ex- | 5 I \

attended by W. Welsh, M. P. P , Colonel

cominis- er the Prince Edward

Miss Sullivan, on the award of the

meea ul

Land Pu

IsJanad chase Act. Will you al- low me to offer a few observations in reply to Miss Sullivan tier:

‘Miss Sullivan asserts that the refusal of Mr. Haliburton, the commissioner appoint- | ed by the proprietor.to sign tbe award was immaterial ‘through the providence of those who prepared the Act, which was framed entirely ag iinst the proprie- tor, two out of the three commissio- ners being appointed by parties who | have, in fact, the same interests in the |

i matter, and these two are themselves a!

quorum to carry out the objects of the Act he poor proprietor appoints only one, and,

of course, sulfers.” The parties who have

of Canada in Council and the Lieutenant-

leil. Lord Dutferin, the Governor-General, is himself a large landed proprietor, and his interests certainly are not against those of I tors. Evenif his interests were those of the Lord | well known, England and in Can ada, for any one to suppose that his preju-

} the proprt tenants,

} bot in

dices or interests would influence him in | the choice of a Commissioner The mere fact of his having selected Mr. Childers would be a sufficient answer to such a

charge It is strange that the exception taken by Miss Sulivan is precisely similar to that taken by the tenants when the Act | passed the Legislature. They complained |} that two of the commissioners were ap- pointed by parties in the proprietary in- terests, and,as they had no voice in the appointment of any commissioner, their interests would be neglected. The com- plaint of the tenants was quite as reason- } able as that of Miss Sulivan.

‘* Again, Miss Sulivan says that ‘in spite of the diMeulties put in the way of collect- ing rent, and agitation in the minds of the tenants constantly kept up by the local Governments of the day, the cash rental in 1870 and 1871 amounted together to $10,- 787, or £2,219 sterling; whereas, supposing the amount awarded by Mr. Childers and his colleague invested—say al 4 per cent, —it would produce only £67€ per annum. In other words, Lam robbed of nearly £450

ia babe

the same interests are the Governcr-General] |

Governor of Prince Edward Jsland in Coun- |

Dufferin is too |

who have had a most remarkable escape from the never satisfied jaws of the old ocean, All that human beings conld suller, endure and live, fell to their unfor- tunate lot. both comparatively young, and look suffici- ently care-worn to have borne the burdens of many more years than have yet rolled over their heads, Che lady is small, deli. cately formed, and yet plucky, or courages ous, and full of animation when detailing | the thrilling adventures through which she |} and her husband have passed. On April 29, they left Antwerp for Callao in the ship Albert Gallatin They had a prosperous voyage for three months. But August 2 | off Cape Horn, 56 degrees south and 79 degrees west, a heavy sea struck the ship }and carried away the rudder at about 10 o’clock, Pr. M. Then for fourteen days every eflort was made to replace it, but the weather continued severe and the rough winds and waves tossed the rudderless ship ito and fro likeacork, All tnis time as | the heavy seas rolled over the vessel, every soul on board was continually drenched, ,so that not one of them wore a dry gar. ment for two weeks. At length, August 15, the over-washed ship was found to be within two miles of the Ildefenso Islands, 'and drifting on to the rocks. Immediately all on board the unmanageable vessel were compelled hastily to abandon her, which they did in two lifeboats, at about 2 a.m, The Captain, his wife, two children and five seamen (ook one boat, and the remainder of the crew the other, the latter have not | been heard from since. After all were in the small boat,

THE CAPTAIN'S BRAVE LITTLE WIFE

rushed on to the ship and snatched the chronometers and charts and brought them away safely. ‘I he lifeboat soon ftlled with water, and was well-nigh swamped beside the ship. The boat got away with sixty pounds of bread, but this was saturated with salt water when she was filled, They brought away no {fresh water and for two days were without a drop, while driven about by the boisterous waves and seeking a landing place. August 17 they got on shore on Hermit Island, but the six days | they remained there it thundered and | hghtened and snowed, and was sv cold that they were little better off than on the ocean. ‘The rocky isle was bare uninhabis ted and desolate. Angust 24 they left this island, hoping to make Staten Island, some (hundreds of miles distant, but near the

|

Che Captain and his wife are |

}

per annum, to say nothing of the arrears of | Straits of Lemaire, through which vessels |

rent due.” The statements in this passage are very unfair. Inthe first place difficul ties were not pul in the way of collecting rent, nor was agitation keptup ia the minds of the tenants by the local Governments of the day. On the contrary, previous to 1870 troops were called in by the local Govern- ment to support the proprietors in their collection of rents and to suppress agitation. Companies of the Fourth [King’s Own] and Fifteenth Regiments were sent here for that very purpose. In the next place, $10,- 787 represents the grossrental paid to Miss | actually received by her. From this should be deducted the expense of managing the | estate. On this point I will give the sworn | testimony of Miss Sulivan’s agent, Mr. De Blois. In his evidence before the comunis-

sion he said:—‘ The gross rental paid for |

the last six years is $27,060. The average vould be $ Mr. De Blois stated, fur- ther, that the management of the estate cost $1,267 a year, and that Miss Sulivan’s act- uai income from rents Was 83,247, or about £667 sterlinga year. Hence her rent-roll, instead of being worth to her £1,109 sterl- ing, was really worth, according her own agent's testimony, £442 less, or

510,

£667 per annum; a &um about equal to | what the amouut of the award, invested at 4 per cent., would yield per annum.

But in Prince Edward Island, 4 percent is

an absurdly low rate of interest. The banka allow 5 per cent on deposits, and every farthing of Miss Sullivan’s award could be readily invested—and safely in- |

vested—here at 74 per cent., bringing Miss |

Sullivan £1,256 sterling per annum, the ex- pense of collecting which would not amount to more than the odd £56. This is the only just view that can be taken of the matter, for the money was invested here before the commission sat, and the award should be calculated at the | of money in the country where the land | is situated, not atits value in England.

*I am aware that Miss Sulivan received

more than $3,247 per anuum from her es- tate, but the balance was derived from sales of lands, not from rents. Those

sales, as they would diminish the principal, would lessen the rental for future years.

‘ There another point that Miss Sulivan has overlooked—that her titie to the Jands. When the estates were origi- nally granted, not sold, to the proprietors, ihe Crown reserved quit

is

is

hundred acres. prietors undertook to pay instead of the quit-rents. Hence the pro- prietors theraselves were only tenants, and as they did not pay the quit-rents, nor the

the Civil List

Civil Lists, nor perform any of the other conditions of their grants, their Jands were liable to forfeiture, and should have escheated to the Crown.—I remain, Sir.

your obedient servant, “A. B. WARBURTON. E, Island,

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“Charlottetown, P November 2. NORTH RIVER BRIDGE.

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At the meeting held in Market Hall, |

on Tuesday evening last, it was resolved that the Government be petitioned to build the projected bridge across the the North River, at Doekendorfi’s, pro-

list to defray one half the cost of such

The meeting was

McGill, M. L, C., Hon. J.C. Pope—and other public men. His Worship the Mayor presided. We regret that we have not space for a full report of the meeting.

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MASONIC.

ALEXANDRIA Royal Arch Chapter No. 100, of this city, at the annual communication elected the following office bearers for the next Masonic year, viz

M.E. Comp. A. N. Large, Prin. Z iii John P. Irving “ E. E Simon W. Crabbe, “ ]

Comp. G. W. Wakeford, Scribe F. “ Hector McDongall, N.

Philip McLaren, Treas,

John Ross Ist Sojourner,

W. H. Aitken, 2nd do.

N. P. Stramberg, 3d do.

James A Jones, Janitor.

As the regular communication of St. John’s Lodge of F. & A. M., of this city, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year :

Sulivan in 1870 and 1871, not the amount

to |

Value |

rents, varying | from 2s. to 6s. sterling per annum, on every | Afterwards on the estab- | lisement of the Local Government, the pro- |

| often pass, day, however, when the sea became too

They were out but a single | PRICES.

heavy for them to proceed, and drove them |

back into Scourfield Bay, on Hersoheli

Island. But the sea was so rough they

could not land, and had to stay in the boat

all night. Everything was wet and they

had to bail constantly to keep the boat | from going down withthem. That night was very cold and the canvas over their heads froze stiff. They could not lie down nor sleep, and had to sit in a stooping pos- ition, which Mrs. Groves did with

NER BABE ON HER LAP,

while the snow on the awning pressed jt | down so low and hard upon her head, that | ber attitude was anything but comfortable. Next day they navigated around this island and landed on Wollaston Island. While on these black, barren and rocky islands they often found it difficult to get a fire, and suf. _ fered intolerably from the cold. Here they found a little wild cherry, which they mix. ed with their salt sea-soaked bread and some preserved meats, which they had sav~ ed in small quantities. The daily allow- ance of each one was but a couple of ounces of this coarse fare, which was warmed to- gether, and each one took aspoonful. There were nine souls of them in all. They re- /mained in this distressing condition until the following Tuesday, when they again | started for Staten Island, with a light wind from the southwest. At midnight they were becalmed for an hour or two, after which the wind freshened from the north< | ward. Next day it blew from the north- ward, Next day it blew a gale from the _north-north.west, and in the evening the tempest became so fierce they were obliged | to make a raft of their oars and lash the | boat to them and let her drag while they were kept constantly bailing out,—They again lost all the fresh water on board, the _ boat filled and destroyed all their provisions, and Mrs. Groves looked up to her husband and said sadly, ‘1 guess we are gone this | time.’ That night they drifted back about | forty miles from the land they were aps _proaching. Next day was more moderate, Some of the men

FELL ASLEEP ON THEIR OARS

| and lost three of them. But, in the heavy seas, whenever a wave came they were all obliged to pull for life. Aftera week of such voyaging, the captain’s wife one day sawa ship. They pulled for her, but were | not obs: rved. The day following, about 3 p- m., they saw an island about twenty-five miles off. At 5p.m., they sighted a vessel | and made for her. She proved to be the ship ‘ Syren,’’ trom Boston to Honolulu, The ship-wrecked wanderers had now been | afloat or on frozen Islands for eighteen days, /in all of which time they had never had a | change of garments, having lost everything | when they abandoned the ship. When they | were taken on board the men were almost | blind, All were nearly starved, and one | sailor out of his mind. ; raised On board the ship, and not one of | them could stand or walk, their knees being stiffand their strength almost exhausted. Yet during all those eighteen days of dreade ful sufferings, Mrs. Groves had managed to nurse her babe and preserve both its life and herown. Captain Newell, of the Syren, was extremely kind to the sufferers, and they say words can neither portray his goodness nor express their gratitude. When they reached Honolulu, some of the good people there cared for the sufferers, and the Mikado brought them to our city. The captain and his wife appear to be very nice people, and it would seem as if some of our worthy citizens could not bestow a wiser charity than to aid these helpless ones in this, their time of need.—San Francisco Chronicle, Nov, 22.