The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-26
DOminIOn Matters.


in the hands of the Trustees of the st. John
Savings Bauk on the LIST OF July, 1867, are by
vote of the House of Commons, to be devoted
by those trustees to some local purposes approx
ed by the Governor and Council. There is a
difference of opinion as to whether the sum
($4O,OOO) shall be devoted to art gallery, free
library or the orphan asylums.
The New Brunswick Board of Education
have resolved to introduce certain school books
of home manufacture. ''Manning's Classified
Speller'' by the Master of st. John Grammar
School is the first work published and is said to
compare favorably with similar books import
ed.
On Saturday ten shares of the stock of the
Bank of New Brunswick were sold at 81 above
par.
The Toronto Globe in an article on ''the reve-
nue. and its lessons contains the following:
"As the returns show, very large sums are
being spent on positively injurious indulgenceS.
On the year there has been an increase of 408,-
217 gallons in the consumption of spirits; and
1853, 548 gallons of malt liquors have been man
ufactured in excess of what was produced in
1870. The revenue from tobacco is in excess OF
what that article produced during last year, by
$254, 506, and we have no doubt the same in
crease will be seen running through all the va
rious items when we receive the details. In
this light it may be seen that prosperity has its
penalties and drawbacks.
The annual report of the Dominion Govern
ment shows that the number of vessels passing
through the canals in 1870 was stated at Al, 525.
The number stated in 1871 in statement No. 81.
is AZ, 1872, an apparent reduction of 2,643; but
while in 1870 the tolls on vessels only amounted
to $50, 1922. In 1871 they amounted to $751;
487.9 an increase of $5,735.20.
The Nova Scotia Assembly which adjourned
the 18th, seems to have contained two very bit
ter political parties. The body has been in ses-
sion eight weeks The Recorder says of the
last days session: I .I ~
1.-THE conduct of Mcdonald was indescrib-
ably disgraceful. The riot-for it was riot
got up by him and his accomplices, was OBJ
viously for the purpose to prevent the reading
and adoption of the report of the Committee
on Mines and Minerals, which contained some
thing about the notorious Spring Hill job. Nc
Donald raved and foamed; the vilest language
was used across the floor; and the Speaker WIS
iusulted in the chair" e
The Nova Scotia papers opposing the present
government criticise the report of the Superin-
tendent of Education as literary work rath-
er than the merits of his policy.
The Halifax Recorder thinks it is high time
that the citizens of Halifax awake from ''the
delusion that Halifax is indispensable to the
continent of America; that without it-with-
out at least its harlpr, the condition of the peo-
pie throughout the rest of North America
would be miserable in the extreme" 1t con-
tinues: rf sfT
IF they do not look alive they will soon
find Halifax cut out, as place of recognized
Importance, on every side. Events which indi-
cate this, have been crowding upon us for the
past two months There is every prospect of
Chatham, on the Miramichi, being made de-
pot of the Allan Atlantic steamers. With the
completion of the projected railway from that
port to Fredericton, all the New Brunswick
trade will, of course, pass outside of Nova SEQ
tia. Sir Hugh Allan believes that he can find
good and sufficient winter port for his Attain
tic steamers about the mouth of Bay Chaleur.
If so, that will be the winter port of those
steamers from the time that the Intercolonial
Railroad is finished. In Nova Scotia itself, the 4
railway track is crawling eastward aid must
soon reach Louisburg, in that case another for
midable rival for the European trade of Hall
fax" 81 .s 80 rs
The Montreal Witness takes quite decided
grounds in favor of a protective tariff in the
Dominion for the purpose of encouraging its
infant manufactures. The article concludes
with the significant declaration that 'any con-
siderable increase in duties on British manu-
features is nearly equivalent to a notice of sep
aration from the Mother country"
The Newfoundland fishery interest is no in
considerable one. The figures for the last year
show that 145 vessels of tonnage of 1889
tons, carrying s, 1858 men, belonging to the Is
land, were employed.
The Toronto Globe, in an article on ''The
Trade and Commerce of Canada in 1868 and
1901" shows the exports of the Dominion at
these respective periods:
During the first year of Confederation, the
produce of mines, reported from Canada,
amounted in value to 81, 446,857; while last
year it reached the sum of 1922, 461, more
than double Indeed there was last year more
mineral wealth exported fIom the province of
Ontario alone, by half million dollars, than
from the whole Dominion in 1868. At the
former date, no silver was produced; while last
year Ontario exported silver ore to the extent of
$685., PSI. -Four years ago 1882 gallons of
Canadian petroleum only were exported from
the entire Dominion, while last year the guam
tity had risen to $685. gallons, of which s.
BIZ, 1897 gallons came from Ontario. The ex-
port of coal had increased from 265, 1876 tons to
318, 287,i while the internal consumption from
the Nova Scotia mines had also advanced very
greatly. The products of the fisheries export
ed in 1868 amounted in value to SIS, 357, $40;
while in 1901 it stood at So, 1914 ,275 Produce
of the forest disposed of increased from $1S,-
262, 40 to $22, 352, 211 while animals and their
produce went up from &c. 1893, lotto ST., $50 925."
The Globe says that the exports of the prov
inces now forming the Dominion in 1864-5
amounted to $54, 516,OOS and in 1S7O-1were $74,-
1858, showing balance in favor of the lat
ter of $685., $40. From this the Glabe con-
cludes that the annuling of the Reciprocity
has not been so disastrous thing for the Do