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LOOK HERE! BRITISH WAREHOUSE.

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As we intend to make a change in our business at the end of the year, we are now closing out our

Large and Well-Assorted Stock of

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At Unusually Leow Prices, Which, we are Sure, Will Meet the Hard Times.

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Dress Goods from 6 cents upwards. Grey Cottons from 4 cents upwards. Prints from 6 cents upwards. Hemp Carpeting from [2 cents upwards. Tapestry from 59 cents upwards. Brussels from $1.00 upwards. All other lines we are closing out at Prices that Defy

Competition. W. & A. BROWN.

Charlottetown, June 30, t879.

SEASIDE HOTEL

RUSTICO BEACH, P. E. ISLAND.

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FEVYE ABOVE BEAUTIFUL WATERING PLACE HAS BEEN MUCH IMPROVED this Season and is now open for the accommodation of Guests.

For CHARMING SCENERY, INVIGORATING and BRACING ATMOSPHERE, and splendid Surf Bathing, this Hotel has no equal m the Dominion. Terms, $2.00 and $2.50 per day, $10 50 per week. Special arrangements’ made for Families, Pie-nic Parties, &c.

To get to the Seaside Hotel : get tickets from all points for Hunter River.

BY TRAIN :—Trains leave Ch’town for Hunter River at 6.20 a. m. ; 10.05 a. m. ; and 5:25 p.m. Trains leave Summerside for Hunter River at 9.05 a. m. ; 12.40 p. m.; aad 5.30

.m. Coaches meet trains from all points and convey passengers to the ‘‘Seaside.” Charges Moderate—distance between 7 and 8 miles, through a beautiful country.

BY COACH, DIRECT :—Coaches leave Ch’town Wednesday and Saturday evenings calling for Guests at all points in City limits at 6 o’clock. Returning arrive at Ch’town about 9 o'clock, on Thursday and Monday morning. Fare, $1.25, distance 185 miles. Address :

JOHN NEWSON & Co, Ch’town.

Jaly 8th, 1879.—2m. pat. & arg.

LORNE

Tracadie Beach.

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This Popular Watering Place is More Appreciated as it Becomes Known.

Beautiful Scenery, Surf Bathing, Boating and Fishing.

THE ACCOMMODATION GOOD.

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ONLY 13 MILES FROM THE CITY. CHIARGEHS VERY LOW

Cyrus Tay, Manager.

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“TEA PARTY MAIL NOTICE.

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} PiC- Ft ic SU PPi ir S ! Mus Seg Cian Pedieia Will No desid at a 10 o'clock; p. m., on THURSDAY in

. eich week, to be forwarded via Rimouski, eo, and also on MONDAY, the 4th and 18th BEER & GC °’S aa Cs Shediac and also for all places on the route to Pine | Summerside and in Prince County, -will be ‘Pictou will be closed every MONDAY, |} WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and SATUR- : aie | at 6 o'clock, a, m, Iceing Sugar, Raisins, Currants, Pastry Flour, " Post Office open from 8, a.m., till 9, p. m. BEER & GOFF! | ONEY WANTED — Provided rate of

Mails to be forwarded via Summerside and Sold in bottles and yg the gallon. | Mails to be forwarded via Steamers to Deis | all places on those routes, will be closed daily

Ham, Potted Tongue, &c

Post Office Charlottetown, } Aug. 2nd, 1879. i

June 23, 1879.

inst., at 4 o'clock, a. m., to be forwarded via Halifax. Lemon. Raspberry, ad memnetas anh to. Fase es close y at 5.30 o’clock, a.m, also for Apple Sy Summerside direct, at 5 p. m. Plain and Fancy Biscuits DAY, at 5 o'clock, a. m. Seid in Boxes & Bile. cad be the pound | Mails for Georgetown and Souris East, and Essence of Coffee, Confectionery, Nuts, i j A. MACDON Oranges, Potted Ham, Drivelled men ae eo interestlow. Good security guaranteed, Apply at this office. je24-eodtf

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Assurance Company. FIRE AND MARINE.

Cash Capital & Assets $1,176, 491.45,

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Risks taken on all descriptions of Property at lowest rates.

PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF LOSSES. HORACE ,HASZARD, Agent.

Office, South Side Queen Square. July 10, 1879.

Queen Street, Charlottetown. J

P,P. CILLIS, . . «. PROPRIETOR.

CHOICEST WINES & LIQUORS. NEW YORK LAGER BEER.

NABLES set at all hours,-with every luxury of the season. FRESH OysTERs received daily. Rooms large and comfortably furnished. CoacuEs from this House meet all Trains and Steamboats. - First Class BARBER SuHop.

July 4, 1879—3m

QUEEN INSURANCE OY,

OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING,

NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build-

ings, Merchandise and Produce, Also, on Vessels on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences. Losses settled promptly. GEORGE MA LEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island June, 1877—

“DR. P. W. 6, CANNING, —

Licentiate Royal Octleges Physicians aad Surgeons of Edinburgh.

LICENTIATE MIDWIFERY.

RESIDENCE :

Upper Hillsborough St., corner Hillsborough and Euston Streets, Charlottetown.

OFFICE HOURS : 8:30 toll a.m.; 7 to9 p.m. Charlottetown, June 24, 1879.—eod

No. 85 Water St.,

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Prince Edward. Island Branch

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NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE FIRE AND LIFE.

INSURANGE GO.

Subscribed Capital, $9,733,332.00 Paid up Capital, - 1,216,666.00

CHIEF OFFICES—Edinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Threadneedle Street.

Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- ance Business are divided every Five Years. The Tables of Rates are moderate.

Fire Insurances effected on nearly every description of Property, at the LOWEST RATES of Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk.

Losses settled with promptitude and liber-

ality. G. W. DEBLOIs,

General Agent.

Dec. 14.

MAGLEAN & MARTIN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Newson’s Building, Opp. Post Office,

Charlottetown, P. E. I. A, A. MeLEAN, D.C. MARTIN,

June 18‘ 1879..—ex2aw

John Murphy

EGS leave to inform the citizens of Char- lottetown that he has opened a

i A. Te ae ae On Great George Street, a few doors below W. E. Dawson’s, where he will supply all kinds of Bread, Cake and Pastry, All orders promptly attended to. JOHN MURPHY. Ch’town, July 24, 1879.

TO LET.

A COMFORTABLE HOUSE containi 6 Rooms, with large Kitchen and Cellar, situated east end Dorchester street. Immediate pesecnse.

WILLIAM DODD, Queen Square.

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WARD ISLAND, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1879..

Correspondence.

ax We do not hold ourselves responsible for the statements or opinions of our correspondents,

The Vice-Regal Visit.

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To the Editor of the Examiner.

Sir :—It is well known that much dis- | satisfaction exists on account of the Gover- }nor General and the Princess having re- mained on board the Druid while in Char- lottetown, and that our Lieutenant Gover nor is blamed for the Vice Regal party not having been provided with a house on shore.

Now if there is any blame, let it be put ‘upon the right shoulders. It would be very satisfactory if the Lieutenant Governor would direct his private Secretary to pub- lish whatever correspondence passed be- tween himself and Major De Winton regard- ing the visit, as until this is done we shall he talking without a knowledge of all the facts. Meanwhile, some facts are already known, and it would be well to give them their due weight.

It is certain that the Provincial Govern- ment did not invite the Marquis and Prin- cess to become the guests of the Prevince, as has been done in New Brunswick, Un- tario,and (I think) in Quebec. It is also cer- tain that in no case have they ever been the gueats of the Lieutenant Governor, in any Province which they have visited, but have always been the guests of the Local Gov- rnment, that is, of the Prevince. Now is it not quite possible that the Vice Regal party, finding themselves uninvited by the Province, did not care to accept the hospi- tality of an individual, and so preferred re- maining on board ship. And should it ap- pear that the Lieut. Governor did invite them, and shewed every willingness te entertain them (though until we see the correspondence we cannot tell that), then certainly no blame rests upon him — if there is any, the fault is elsewhere.

A few days ago an article appeared in your columns, which evidently tried to throw the blame on the Lieutenant Gover- nor, and te represent the Government as having done all that was needed. You failed to state that they had not done the most important thing of all, namely, invite the guests. Now, if that article was an in- spired one, the Government are certainly not acting in a very henorable manner. Had they said, ‘“The country is too poor to entertain these visitors, and we regret that we are therefore unable to invite them,” their conduct would have been manly and straightforward, though possibly ill-advised. No one but a snob is ashamed of poverty, which prevents him from in- curring largé expenditure for secial hospi- talities. But if thex intended to shirk the responsibility of the expense themselves, and to throw the whele burden on the Lieutenant Governor, and if the vice-regal party, under these circumstances, declined the Lieutenant Governor’s invitation (and remember, in no other place was it left to the Lieutenant Governor to invite them), it is certainly most contemptible for the Gov- ernment to throw upon him the blame of their own shortcomings.

I say this on the assumption that you spoke as the organ of the Government, and unquestionably their silence implies assent’ to your remarks.

Te shew what view is taken of the matter elsewhere, I send this clipping from the Montreal ‘‘Star” of the 9th inst. :—

‘‘While in Quebec the usefulness of Gover- nor Letellier was officially declared to have been gone, in about the only way in which there was any room forthe exercise of his functions excepting those pertaining te mere formalities, in Prince Edward Island it has been discovered that Governors may be made of some useafter all. On this account if Lieut. Governor Haviland coincides with the views of his people, as expressed by the mum- cipal authorities and the members of the Legislature, he will discover that his office, if of no practical utility, is rather an expensive thing for him, masmuch as the con- clusion has been arrived at that since he has little else todo, he must act the host. and so the Vice-Regal party are to be left entirely in his hands, no public appropriation having been made for their entertainment. In our Prevince the then deputy leader of the Opposition declined to sit down at Mr. Letellier’s table, scouting his hospitalities, while in Ontario Lieut.-Governor MacDonald has been accused of not entertaining enough. Wisdom is proverbially said to come from the East, and the other Provinces and their people may possibly learn something from Prince Edward Island and her experiences.”

You see from this that your idea about the Lieutenant-Governor’s duties, strikes outsiders as very funny.

OBSERVER.

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School Hours.

To the Editor of the Examiner.

. Sim,—Will you have the goodness to bring to the notice of the School Trustees the great hardships attending the present system of schoel hours! Many of the mothers complain very hard to me of hay- ing to prepare a second dinner at half-past 2 or 30’clock, and also of the too early attendance in winter.

The health of the children are visibly affected by the present system. Summer- side has made the change, and why not we?

I am, etc.,

Angust 18, 1879.

A Fatner.

NO. 76.

| Presentation of Bouquets to H. R. 4. the Princess Louise.

To the Editor of the Examiner.

Srr,—All the City editors who make a note of the presentation of bouquets to the Princess on Thursday, the 14th inst., erred in their account of that act of courtesy.

The origin of the matter is as follows : C. Palmer, Esq., who presided at the meetings, held by *he City teachers and the school children, previous to the appearance of the Vice-Regal party, called upon the City Lady Teachers to select a little girl who should present Her Royal Highness with a pro- perly designed bouquet. The unanimeus choice ef the lady teachers fell upon Miss Matilda M. Ferguson, aged ten years, and daughter of J. T. Ferguson, Esq, clerk in office of Messrs. Palmer & McLeod. It should be distinctly noticed that the bouquet handed to Her Royal Highness by Miss Ferguson was the first presented, and that the presentation was especiaily on be- half of the City School children. It may also be mentioned that Mrs. C. Palmer was the principal designer of the bouquet, which she placed in a handsome holder. The truth is best to be known at all times.

Yours, respectfully, A Crry TEacHEr.

THE VICE-REGAL VISIT.

THE TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION,

At 8.30 on Friday evening the firemen of the city formed in procession on Grafton street, in the following order :—

Galbraith’s Band. Capt. C. Strickland’s Cempany. Silsby Engine. Capt. Large’s Company. Rollo Engine. Capt. Butcher’s Heok & Ladder Company. Hook & Ladder Wagon. Capt. Roger’s Company. Capt. Beer’s Company. The men appeared in shining uniform, and the engines and hook and ladder wagen were splendidly decorated with flowers, and polished and painted in elegant style. The procession marched to the residence of James Peake, Esq., where the Vice-regal Party were at dinner, and lined the streets as they passed from dinner to the Drawing- Room. At the conclusion of the Drawing Roem the procession marched—to the

tallion—through the different streets of the city. The fine appearance of the men, the engines, and long line of torches at- tracted the attention of an immense crowd of people, who followed and thronged the streets ateach side of the procession. As it passed down Queen Street the light of the torches added to the brilliancy of the illuminated buildings, and formed a view unusually grand. After a very long march the procession broke up at the Fireman’s arch, on Queen Street.

FIREWORKS.

The display of fireworks from the Post Office and Fremen’s Arch, was good but nothing uncommon. It, however, afforded a great deal of amusement to the young people who witnessed it. CRICKET MATCH.

A cricket match was played on Saturday last at Victoria Park, between the Officers of H. M. 8. Bellerophon and the Phoenix Club of Charlottetown. The weather was all that could be desired, and the many spectators enjoyed a rare treat in the band of the Bellgrophon,which kindly entertained them for two hours with a charming selec- tion of music. The grand stand which has lately been erected on the ground was ex- tensively patronized, and we heard many who availed themselves of & seat on its benches remark what a benefit it was to the the public. The field was gay with dash- ing equipages, and the bright faces of their occupants added not a little to the beanty of the scene. The Officers went first to the wickets. Their“*inning was a very short one, in which they scored but thirty-two runs. As soon as the Islanders took the bats we saw that they intended to do their best to recover the laurels so lately lost in Halifax, and our expectations were not dis- appointed, fer they very soon doubled the score of their opponents.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

(From the St. John Telegraph.)

ISLE OF THE GULF DOING THE HONORS.

While there appears to have been some friction in political and civic circles im Charlettetown, and a surprising want ef liberality shown in some quarters, we feel able to congratulate the Green Isle of the Gulf on the admirable manner in which the people received the Governor General and his Royal wife. From first to last the popular demonstrations were most hearty and would, we are sure, be an > reciated. Weare only sorry that H. R.

. the Princess, having apparently suffered from her sea veyage, was notas well able to enjoy either the Pictou or Prince Ed- ward Island demonstrations, as the people ef both places could have wished. The ladies and gentlemen of Char- lottetown are not behind, if they are net in advance of, their fellow subjects in other Maritime cities. The beauty, grace and culture of the ladies of that city will be readily conceded by all who have visited it; their fine appearance will be, probably, a revelation te such of

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