The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
THE DOMINION.
Prof. Kinds Reiterates His Charges of

Prof. kinds ReitefateS His Charges of
Fraud in the Department Reports.
HALIFAX, Dec. 23.--Prof. Kinds of Windsor
who addressed a letter to the governor gen eral
some time ago charging that certain depart
ment reports had been falsifed for series of
years accompanied by note Stating that he
was ready to prove his charges if called uDon
received an answer from the Governor
Generals secretary who said the Governor
General had reason to think that the Amer
leans themselves do not believe in Hinds' con-
clusions." Kinds Says he considers the
Governor Generals answer an intimation that
America should be placed in possession of the
proofs and unless enjoined to the contrary he
will send to Washington copy Of the in
eliminating document. December 18th Mr..
Kinds sent another letter to the Governor
General going further into the case and
pointing to another alleged falsified state
paper.
Note -Hinds' first letter included charges
that false statistics were presented to the
Halifax commission.
Negotiations with the United States Con-
corning Wrecking.
OTTAWA, Dec. 23.-In the House of Com
mons last night, in the course of the debate on
Sir Edward Thornton, British Ambassador at
Washington, and the Secretary of the United
States, relative to wrecking, Mackenzie
Bowel, Minister of Customs, said it had been
the desire of the government to carry out the
law in order to protect the interests of the
wrecking and towing companies of this
country without endangering either life or
property. He would not refer to the question
OF reciprocity, as the correspondence with the
American government, would shortly
be laid before the House, further than to say
that the position taken by this government in
the correspondence with the authorities at
Washington was that they were willing to en-
ter into any system of equitable reciprocity,
but the American government had always re-
sisted any such proposals, exception ON the
one ground that the American tug own ers
should have the right to go into Canadian
waters for the saving of property not only of
their own vessels but also of Canadian vessels,
whenever opportunity presented itself. The
position taken by the Canadian government
was that this would be very one-sided re-
ciprocity and would give a monopoly to Ameri-
can tug owners There was never any inten-
ton to prevent any vessels going to the relief
of vessels in distress when there was the
slightest danger to life or property.
Bernhardt and the Bishop of Montreal.
MONTREAL, Dec. 23.-The Roman Catholic
bishop of Montreal has had "Adrienne Lee
convreur," the piece to be played tonight by
Mile Sarah Bernhardt, reviewed by a critic,
ana TINS critic reports that there are at least
two adulterous liaisons, many transparent al
luslons tending to justify such, and making
such excusable in high society The critic
condemns the play as immoral from begin
ming to end, and one likely to leave per-
manently bad effects npon society. His lord
ship has caused the opinion to be published.
and calls upon his people not to .patronize her
performances, especially during Advent This
play be considers dangerous attack on the
morality of the people. La Mroir. however,
in which the clerical denunciations appear,
has long and fiattering notice of Sarah.