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Tous les autres exemplairas originaux sont filmte en commen^ant par la premiere page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernlAre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un dee symboles suivants apparattra sur la dernidre image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbols -^ signifle "A SUIVRE". le symbols V signifle "FIN". Les cartas, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent *tre fllm«s k des taux de rMuction diff«rento. Lor^que le document est trop grand pour *tre reproduit en un seul clich«. 11 est film* « partir de I'angle sup«rieur gauche, de gauche * droite, et de haut en bas. en prenant le nombre d'images nAcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants lllustrent la m^thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 n ■s^ 'm (I. 1 b.11 ,, ^'roia i^ i^Bf ■ ,? ^^ Local Govetnment of Kbva -throDjs^ its present nominal P. C. Hill, has dared oi^oe fQlicll the confidence of th« tbii ProviiKje. We w^ ^^fswraise we can har^y oQn- ^^30^ a morepmpud^nt atad n|i- ablt aniKi reooH .th»k i:^«i3t| ntle xaaat tt^Am 4^ the wt «f the pittitlie doniaiib It* i» beyond belief that aj^Jbody «ii could bo found so was" '" '" ism as to wilfiilfy, dissipate and destrojt <«|n|^ tbw 1 otpal sources of th^^uraoaiby'B] ' and yet th«t is pv^ecnely ^vhai, men have done. 1ft 1867, the ai of Crown Lands wllSdii this polsessed was {vid^ Asse nals, app'x No. 5) 7,3l5,2lj This was certain^ ft being within a feW hat as much Crown Laiidi^ a*^ wick possessed, aad dvisg imity to the sea, nraohp^i-^ Yet strange to say, wl^P^NB* wick was able, in ISf^^lNr^^ s«^ retaining by far the nUf^r"^" — "^ its original domain) to r( enue of $76,047.47 frcMn Ij Lands, our revenue for tl^ iMtmM^9ar from that source was Qalyl|li^||%^, or only $1200 over tivB w«^- ' penses of the DejMirtii^nt |- same time we retaia (vi4€ I Comr. of Crown tioM^fv^ K\__l._. OMQT 4.1a .>.»»■. become of the bak^ee t doced ike difference between us and Ne^ Bronnwickl The Journals of the House of Assembly shew as follows : Na of acres of ungrantetl ^ fands in Nova Scotia on Ist. JAi», 1867, as j»er ^ « repoi"^ Commissioner ^"^Z"" CrJ^n Lands, 1867 7,315,282 ili^^f acres granted since, as per journals of the House : 1867 107,948 1868 91,844 1869 64,763 1870 95.868 1871 134,70,T 1872 136,712 1873 115,936 1874 107,337 1875 46,483 1876 34,962 1877 25,758 956,316 6,358,966 Amount of uugi-anted lands Ist Jan. 1878, as per report of Commis- sioner of Crown Lands, 1877 '. 2,487,419 Bal. nRaccoiinted for 3,871,545 What has become of this three mil- lion and a half (allowing for the land granted for railway purposes) of acres of land. No man has ever risen yet to show, and no man is able to show. All that is known is that several mer- chants in Halifax who are in the habit of providing the siniews of war in Grit elections, have, during the past ten years become possessed of enor- mous tracts of territory — and certain remarkable scoundrels who sat in the Local House servilely supj)oi-ting the Government, have lieen found to have grants of land for which they never paid, and possessed enormous tracts of ten-itory for which in the nature of things they never could j>ay. Tims it has been brought about that scores of coniipt scoundrels have grown en- ormously wealthy; that a weak and corrupt GoveiTirnent hp-S Ijeen v-'finilj-j-- M 2 fully and mysteriously retained in jKjwer ; and tliat a soui-ce of revenue which in New Bininswick yields $76, 000 i)er annum, has been in this Pro- vince, 80 dissipated and squandered that it yields comjiaratively nothinsr. Tlie evil effects on the Province of this scandulous and coniipt allienation of nearly the whole marketable Crown Lands of the country, ai"e numerous and alanning. In the first place, a source of revenue which if properly guarded would have yielded this prov- ince at least 840,000 j>er annum for- ever, has been entirely wa«ted and destroyed. The people of Nova Sco- tia, as long as wator i-uns and wind blows, will have 840,000 a year less revenue then they might have had, if they had a wise and honest govern- ment. For the luxury of having the Grits in i)ower lor the past eleven years, we have in one dei)artrnent lost over thi-ee million acres of land, which at forty-four cents an acru would amount to at least 81,200,000, and the pioceeds of the 956,000 aerest accoun- ted for, wasted in useless and corrupt extravagance. Another effect of the wholesale ali- enation of the public lands (the balance on hand being mostly barrens) will be to render it impossible for the young men of this Province, or parties who may wish to make this Province theii' home, ever to procuro farms from the government at the government price. The lands of the Piovince will, by the maladministration of Mr. Hill and his predecessors, be locked up for genera- tions to come, in the hands of selfish speculators, who may sell or not, as they see fit, and if they sell only at such prices as they chose to demand. What jnoperly belonged to the j)eople of Nova Scotia as a birthright to be enjoyed by them and their children after them, has been thus squandered and destroyed. An injury has thus been inflicted on this Province, which no arithmetic can adequately calculate. And all for what 1 Simply that a number of ambitious and dishonest politicians migiit bc* kept ill power, and W3 ^f that the supjwrt which they found it necoBsary to buy might be purehased and paid for ! Will the eleotora of Nova Scotia vote to perpetuate the ex- iHteuce of a Guverumeat like thin ? dition to be ille^lly £mw»r «At» MBK DRAWN UPON FAWB T t THE $6,710,»4. In the Journals of the House of As- sembly for 1870 (App'x No. 18. p. 19) appears the following entry of a payment made by the Local Govern- in the preceeding year: " Robt. Boak, Jr., to pay peoi)le'3 delegate's exjieuses to England, $6,710,94." No author- ity whatever had been granted by Parliament for any such payment, and the appearance of such a disbursement naturally excited considerable feeling and discussion. Upon explanations being demanded from the Government it was at first stated that several gen- tlemen in Hfriifax having subscribed money to defray the expenses of the so-called *• People's delegation," in 1876, this money had \yeen paid by the Government to recoup them. Tlus explanation, even if true, was far from satisfactory. It did not excuse the payment without author- ity of Parliament, and it established a most dangerous precedent which future administrations might use to the great loss of the Province. But even this explanation was soon found to be a falsehood. Hon. Senator Northup, Hon. W. J. Stairs, Judge Mai-shall, Mr. Seeton, and others who had been among the largest subscriber to that fund, at once came forward and posi- tively denied that any jwrtion of the money had been appipnriated to the pui-poses for which itj A^as osten^bly di-awn, and that the subscribers who had borne the expenses of the "people's deleffi>,tes" had never been recoujwd to the extent of a dollar. It was thus made apparent that the money, in ad- This discovery led to furthti" f|l»«*l: gation and inquiiy, and it w» l|ii^ j tained that tho money had actB^fgr been paid to a Grit Political'jLeagui in ^^ this city, and liad been uded by thei»/|* in hounding to death the Hon. Joseph Howe in his election in 1 869 ! Thug it was established beyond question that this large sum of money had been il- legally and dishonestly abstracted from the Treasury, and corruptly expended in attempting to defeat oae of the greatest statesman this Province ever produced. No more scandalous trans- action was ever unearthed in this coun- try. It was simply barefaced plunder- ing of the Treasury combined with coiTuption and the basest ingi-atitude. In the Hoiise of Assembly in 1871 {Debates 1871, p, 202) Mr. P. C. Hill the present nominal leader of the Government said in reference to this affair : — " I mlintain that the Govem- " -ment were guilty of a great wrong " in the whole of that transaction. In " the first place the entry in the pub- " lie accounts was not a truthful one : " the entry says paid to Robeii; " Eioak, Jr., to day the expenses of " the people's delegation. Now, a . " great number of those who contri- " buted to these exjienses — Mi. Stairs, " Mr. Northup, Mr. Seeton, Judge " Marshall, and othei-s, have stated " publicly that they never received any "part of that money. Again, the " money was taken without the vote of " the Legisliture, and for s. long time " the payment was concealed. It was " 011^ after a long interval that the " Government brought it to light. " Again, I hold, by the admission of " tlie Treasurer, that the money was " exj^ended for corrupt and improper " purixwes — that it was expended in " the elections which took place in two " counties. That instead of sotting an. "example of morality to the i)eople, " THE Government, first approprIt "ATED THE PUBLIC MONEY UNDER. " FALSE REPRESENTATIONS ; SECONDLY^ " THEY EXPENDED IT WITHOUT THE " AUTHOBITY OF THE LEOIBLATt'RE ; " THIRDLY, THEY EXPENDED THE " MONEY IN CORRUPTION." TbiB was Mr. Hill's ileliberat* opiu- ion in 1871, :ind yot, although that money has never been i-efnnfled, Mr. Hill is now ritting cheek by jowl with the principal actor in that nefarious transaction. He is to-day asking for a renewal of i)Ower for the i)arty that committed this series of crimes, while he neither attempts to deny tlie crim- uality of their condu.'t, nor to comi)el i-estitution by tho.se, who have ab- stracted the money. Tliia sum, which with interest now amounts to over .*1 0,000, still remains uncollected, in the hands of those who have no more light to the money, than any man can have to what Itelongs aKsolutely and pi-Of)evly to another. And still Mr. Hill, altiiough he denounced the crime, as " a treble cord of disgiace," iias tlie cool assurance to ask the jieople of Nova 8cotia to still retain in jiower the party who alone ai-e responsible for its perpeti-ation ! V/e have but little doubt that the electors of this Province will give a fitting answer to such a scandalous request. $S00 ** TAKEN TO PIT DOWN BRIBERY AND CORRl'P- TION." • Shoi-tly before the Local General Elections of 1871, Mr. Hill's prede- cessor, the sainted Annand published in his newspajKjr a number of won- derful scandals reflecting on the char- acter of the Hon. Dr. Parker, Hon. James McDonald, Mr. P. C. Hill and others. Mr. Annand in effect charged tipon these men that they had at- tempted to bribe, seduce, and mislead one j'eter McJMab. These charges though promptly denied and refuted by the gentlemen concerned, were ne'-erthelesH so industriously circula- tefl and so |)ersisteutly reiterated by Mr. Annand and his protege, Mr. McNab, that they had no small effect on the elections then pending. Hav- ing thus served tlie ])uq)oee for which they were oi-iginally designed, the subject ceased to l)e of any further interest to Mr. Ann.ind or his paper. The niiitter was, however, not al- io wes dealings ot the Premier, the Provincial Secretary, and Queen's Printer, of a Government with the Government of which they were such important officers, and of which two of them at least were the sworn custodians of its Treasury, would naturally be ex- pected to be particularly straightfoi' ward and above reproach. While, pre« viously in our history, leading mem< bers of Governments had freauentljy been accused of allowing otners to have highly remunerative dealinea with their Governments, up to 1867 tn tjis credit of this CQuntrv"~nQ man had ever dar^d to impeach the personal honesty of any member of any of our Governnaenls, as far as related to their personal dealioifg with the Govs ernmcDt, with which thoy were con- ceoted. Unfortunately lor Nova Scotia, this Slate of affairs only lasted until 1867. In that year, the men whose names we have mentioned were intrusted, as we have indicated, with our a£fairti, and the%re8ults were, as we will show, a heavy pecuniary loss to the Province, and an indelible di grace on our Provincial history. Their ad« vent to power was unpromising in the extreme- It was known that Mr. Annand, while previously in the Qovern« ment, from 1859 to 1863, had become connected wiih a notorious swindling concern—" the Nova Scotia Land and Gold Crushing and Amalgamating Company"— the dishonest transactions and collapse of which had completely ruined, in England the crnlir of Nova Scotia mining stock. Mr. Vail's we'l- known avarice and inability to distins guish between right and wrong, gave him also a doubtful character. But no person suspected, and very few have even yet, an adequate conception of, the extent to which these men vere pre- pared to cheat and defraud, and did in lact cheat and defraud, the Treasury of this Province. By a sort of tripartite agreement, by which each of these worthies agreed to wink at and conceal he dishonesty of the others, Mr. Annand, Mr. Vail, and Mr. Blackudar, commenced, ind for many years prosecuted, a series of transactions, and a system of dealing -in the matter of Public Printing— with the Government (of which two of them were members, and the other Quoen's Printer) that, considering the positions o! the parties, their long continued operaiious, and the magnitude of the sums wiiich thu-y abstracted from the Treasury, surpasses in criminal dishonesty any "scandal" that was ever unearthed in this or any other country enjoying consututional Government. It was d.ff^reat from the "Beauport Scandal" in Queb c, our own "Crown Ljnds Scandal," or the "Steel Rails," "Godericn Hiirbor," "Neebing Hotel," and other multitu- dinous scandals whiuh disgrace the D i- minion Government ; inasmuch as tlii^y only reveal dishonest duuliuns of the governments with support",! s, while in the matter of Public Prmting the members of our Government dealt dis« meat for the benefit of themselves as pnnters-swindlins: thcmsclven. as a Government, of tena of thousands of dollars, which they placed in their own pockcli, as printers, regardless of their oaths of office, the interests of the Pro* Tince, or the honor of the couutry. How long this state of things would have been allowed to exist if the Oppo- sition h»d not interfered, we are not prepared to say. Certain it is that it was in operation when Mr. IJill pined the Government ia 1874, and jcontinued in full blast— notwithstanding its exposure in 1875— uutil the middle of 18:6! On the 17th ^arch, i87o, Mr. Longley moved for, and (notwithstandinK the opposition of of members of the Government) suc- ceeded in procuring,a spaoial committee on Public Printing {Debates 1875, p. 18). The committee was composed of gentlemen of both political parties, em- bracing, among others, Hon. A, Oay« ton, the present Commissioner of Mines and Works, and Mr. I. N. Mack, the present Speaker of the House. After nearly three weeks' investigation, the committee unanimously repor^«»d [vide JoumaUof House, 1875, App'x No. '■il, p. 1) as follows: Yoor Commit ee to whom was referrjd the it-vestination of ttio method and cost of public printing having, an far as seemed practicable, complete 1 thtic labors, bes leave to report as follows: Wetind.from the tesilmoDy adduced, that the Qovernmenr, have -given, since the year eighteen hundred ana sixty- seveD, to whom ihey pleased, without • tender or confract, the printiog for the sever il Departmeuts and Lrt«iaui;Dr<». That8»id priming has boon enjoyefl a'- most wholly by the proprietors ot the following papers, viz,: The "Acadian Recorder." The "Morning Chrouicle." The rcitizen." That no accocm ob mbmoiusda whatkvrk has bbbn kbpt bv thii skve- KAL DbPAHTMBNTS WITH ANY OK SAID PBOPRIBTOKS OF SAID MBWdPAPBitS OF Wi.EK MIVEN DDT TO THBM. W« tlnd that tUi Priuring for the Pro- vincial Secretary's and Treasurer's De- p.rimeoTji has been paid for by fpeoial wan an 8 for that purp se, without any aiicou it, b-ing rendered bv the printers until tJhfl end of the year, while in ail o'her Dipartaiant8th*8\ steal has been to DRAW LUMPSUMS from tte Treasury and pay it out for mi-tcelianeou» pu poses, including public printing, as the Oepart- meiits pleased. rt/\MI»»^»I«*^ — uuaWe.OWINQ TO THE PBUNIOIOIT3 SYSTEM BY WHICH THE PUBUO <^ I I ^ ! \ PRtNTiNO HAS BEKW PERFORMED, tu arrt*« at tha «xiio( aoaoaoi patiri«it ezt«ut tinoA 1867 In iba prioM cbarfted. Your Oommttt'e »Y, D. B WOODVVORTH, A. PUTNAM, A.GaVTON. PnbUo Docum«nti. 2,400 Copies. . 1,000 " 2,000 " BOO " 200 " 4,000 " 6iiisues,2,400 ea PRINTEKS Clt. Pub Cum Chki Annand Cit. Tub. Com 2(9 0( 178 Ot 48 0< 36 00 332 00 966 00 o Ml ooj 850(0 500 00 150 00 150 00 1200 00 1200 00 EoTelopM toT Kxaniiaatton Paper", per M l.Auti Kurius Oatb of Teacher* . 6. reacbeni' Certilluitte* 62>/i grg half-TMtrly Keport. SI form-' QnettiODi A. B. C. D K . 42 qrs. Standard examination UnuteC. D 200 l>eputy kxamlnera 25 (ii'i. Hales Bxamincn I 25 " Candidates Uertf*. . . | 300 Joarnal Honse of As'bly . 5 00 600 4 CO 31 M 10 00 20 00 10 01 lOiO 93 0) ITS 00 30 00 3 CO 2000 1166 CO 8,000 C«p'eB K. a.. (4ibs«rle«).. 43^0 00 42 00 800 40 00 16% Oj C8J6 00 This IS the most spcoifio tod crnihlog convictioD of flwiudliog and robbery ever reoorded against any budy of tnea. It DOC only expo^C8 aud coDdcmog the whole system, kividk the names oi the swindlert), but gives particular acts ot dishonesty, shoariig who committed them, and the amount of disbooest gains bagged in each case by the offead^ ing parties. Here, Id the first serea items, IVlessrs. Annand and Vail are convicted in thete ifema ahne, cf having cheated tbe Provincial Treasury, of which they were the sworn custo- dian.", out of OVER THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS I ! In the last item— the printing of the Revised Statutes — the Messrs. Annand are convicted of hav- ing dishonestly obiained over TWO THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS I Thus, in the printing of the very book that provides tor the punishment of criininais, these persoDS deliberately committed an offcuco as base and bra* zen aa any which its statutory force was meant to prevent. These facts, it will be seen, coDclusivQJy place this scandal on an euti."ely different footing from ordinary political charges. In the first place, the charges are brought home to the parties charged wiih remarkable directness and concluiriveness. in tbe next place.theconviciion isUNAMiMOUS, by a Parliamentary Comn>iitee com» posed of both parties, after full inyesti* gation and enquiry. Ijastly, the charges have never been attempted to be denied even by the parties them'^elves. It will be noticed, however, that the committee were "unable, owing to the pernicious system,'' to discover the full amount that Messrs. Aunand, Vail, and Blaekadar had bled the Province. They found, however, that in 1874, although the public returns only showed $6,416 as paid for public printing, that Messrs Annand, Vail and Blaekadar had acs tually received during that year no lea than j626,582 I ! h is a ciuite reason able suppofiiion that, considering the departments from which they were unable to obtain tmy ot full reports, that there could not nave been less than ^30,0UO bagged by these men during that one year. The average of overcharge is shown to be at least 200 per cent., which would make their dishonest gains twenty THOUSAND DOLLARS PER ANSU.M ! 1 These practices having continued from 1807 to the middle of 1876, the people of iNova iscotia can thus easily catuu* rv' .^ ih» reign of Aooand, Vail. ^ , two defenoM hire been tt- iM)>l«d to be made Tor lV.e80 soandalons 1JrM««diBK«>. The Jirnt i» that over- tkuaifit were made oy Mcsars. Grant OoiBDtOD and Cro.«skill before 18ft7, and the teeond in that the (jlovf ruiuent re. medied the evil by(iu IhTf')) chaoKini; th« Byfetem. The &rat alloKaiioo, ev*>n It true, could be no defenc, JDasmui-h »$ DOoe of theae gcatlcuien were luoji ■berB of the Govrniuent, as Aonand ud Vail were. But it is a sinuuiur tkct that, a'tcrhatinK po»8e»'sion oi all oor public documcDis for eleven yeari*. they have never bten able to sub«tanti» ate this statement in any one instance. The second statement is no detenco at all. "^he thief who had stolen your goods, might a.s well set up as a defuuce that he had since changed his habits; or some notorious corruptionist like Her« man Cook or Major Walker, that he had since voted for a rigid election law. The imporUnt fact in the scandal is that nearly two hundred thou- sand dollars of Provincial money has been traced to the pockets ot the proprie'ors of the '' Chro- nicle," "Ciiiaen" and 'Recorder," which they have obtained by fraud, and and no proceedings have ever been l»k'?n by the Government to compel thom to do Ko. The very men who are shouting through their newspapers for actions to be brought against parties who are only snppoml t3 have soma few dollars of pub^ lie money in their hands, do themselves Ktaad convicted by the Journala of the House 'f having nearly two hundred thoiiiind dollars of public monev in iluir pv)ckets, which they obtained by praciice.H more nefarious and dishonest thnn ibo.te of ihe thief, and which they Ktill continue to retain. Why, we ask, has not Mr. Hill caused "suits in Equity" to be brought against Messrs. ^nnand. Vail and Bl£.ckadar for the recovery of ihis enormous sum? With a conviction outstanding for over three years against these men, Mr. Hill has not moved a peg, but to-day avails himself of the services of these very men, and the dishonest shoutings of taese very newspapers, in order to jiccure his retention of power. If the electors of Nova Scotia can resipeot. and put confidence in such a man, or puy any attention to the utterances of siich newspapers, we will have to cons fess to a mistaken estimate of their inx tellii:eoce, their patriotism, or their bouesty. FroB 1M7 to 1871, ih« Local Qor> eranMDt oonfia«d iti effortB in the nut- tor of ImiuiffntioD to ptyiog Tom MorraoD *800 of public money p«r annum, and Mr. Morrison's serrioes oonsistod solely of the vigorous and prompt ooUeotion of such salary. The atory of how he came to be appointed and the kind of " serrices" he ren« dered^ in return is graphically told by Mb. Howk in one of his letters pub^ liahed iogSTl. Mr. Howe says - — At my saggestioD, an emlgraBt agent was proTidedfor by tbe Lefflslatnre witb a sfliary ot $800 per annum. To this office Mi. Thomas Morrison was appointed, and it vaa prwamed ba would earn bis waoea. He wa« removed by tbe Government wblob Mucceeded mine, bat came bacic to office after tbe first elections were run an- der Oonfederation. He baa remained in office up to the clone of last session, when, for very shame sake, tbe Oovemment bad to annouooM that the sinecure watt to be abolishad. I cannot compute exactly tbe HBOBBt of money which tbis person re- neived for doing nothing, bat may set it down In round numbers at about 84,000. Under the new constitution be became an officer of the Local Qoverument, and, for the last two years, he bas earned his aalary from Mesars. Annand and Wilkins by abusing his old friend Howe. As a public officer be was a failure; as an eml grant agent, utterly Inefficient. Of all the money he has received, he has never given to the country $S0 worih of value. Yet this Is one of the group of worthies, who has been turning up hit eyes in holy horror a', my fall r»>m grace, when I ac- cepted a public oflice, the duties of which I did know how to discharge. Thk ii ens of thepenont sent, wUh lungs of Uatlur, to roar at my heels round 'he County of Hants, awl who stood over my prosirate body in tbe School House at Kine Mile River, iMllowlBg like a bull of Bashan, while I . lay wrapped in my cloak. b<»rdly able to 'hold up my head. That night I took to mj/ bad, and could not renew the canvass for a nwnth. This old friend, whom I had appointed to office, never bad the courtesy orhu...Aaity tosay, "Howe, are yon ill; ■ball we adjourn the meeting?" but stood, with his pockets stuffed witu sovereigns, foe Whioh he hitd given novalue, lecturing me, who bed Just increased your resourcee Vy 92,000,000, on disinterestedness and pnbllo Tirtue. There ia of course one thing to be Hud in favor of tbis arragement with Mr. Morrison ; that while we oodoubtedly lost $800 per annum , our »uu»t*i/ M^'t Via* Jeoted to a moch quite u oaeleia and tioe. Ia 1672 the "sy^Wi"um9>99i more aggraTated fbm. In tMi' it WM reaolrad, in order to money in th< po^ets ot • ai of needy rapiorten, to pretend to' th« people of tliia Provinoe, thai th«y were oarrying on a system of im^iiM" tion. Under this pretenoe— for it wm little dto as ire shall show — they iraw from tbe Ti«i«ury of Nova Sootia for the last six years as follows :— 1873 f3.aoa.6i 1873 7,772 J4 1874 8.4B9B8 1875 9.981.37 1876 8.«».80 ISn 3.370.38 Total »41,ail.86 Thus, during the last five years, aftor our Crown lands had all been squao- dertd, and n'hile our own people ware leaving the Proviooe in thouaauds, praotieally driven out by tbe dire de« preaaion thikt overspread the country, our Local Gloveioment were spending tens of thousauds ot dollars in a scheme of plunder, which they ironically called "Immigration." Any sane and honest man must admit the absur^ty of any oonntr:^ in the condition Nova Sootia baa. been in for the past five years, whose own people were largely unabls to procure labor, or make a living, spending any money whatever in indnoini; immigration. But what makes this sham more ridiculous, and removes the expenditure of this $41,500 firom the category of '* blun» ders" to that of '•crimes" ia; that the money was :iot honestly spent, even in that senaaleia scheme. The two prinmpal efforts to iodvoa imnugratioB which were oetennbly put forth, WOT*, the Mnging of wme tweaty famifies of l^imoh miners from Alaaoe. to work in Ute Ffolou Cod Mines, aad xL- ..*« ..«» i»«»t nf aAwm flMmtV -filfe ars — » W »i> ' l« l ^, including aU charges, was only S15.24! Here in Nova Sootia, however, the direct charges alone have been run up tu $74.28 per head. It is almost needless to say that nearly the whole of this 941, 500 found ili way into the pooJcets of members •nd supporters of the Local GoTem> ment Thn cloven hoof of William Annandis discovered iu this, as in every other scandal that has disgraced onr history for the past twenty years* He, and his virtuous son, Charles An" nand, " absorbed" $5,000 of it, bein^' nearly one kiohth of the whole amount Pr. Campbell of Inverness reoeived $2400 of it, which, with the $300 he reoeived for his vote on the Speakership, made up the prioe that the Grit party paid for the support of that distingvlahed statesman. Mr. Donald Arehibald pocketed $1058.50, four hunrkd ool-* liABS OF WHICH WAS A DIRECT OUT, and— as might be expected— supported Government the with the most »miable eomplaoency and stupidity. His rela" tives ill Musquodobott to the third and fourth generatioo, have "absorbed" some $4,000 in addition. Three or four eminei^t Grits of Shelbome " ab« '-^rl^*' n?A? §3.000 !RS?<>. Mssii'.rTnRt Kobertson— anzioa<; to show*hiB fitcess as a Grit poHtidao -bagged aboat $1,000 of it, enjoying several plearare trips at the public expense. In tm^ this " scheme" was made to admirably serve the purposes for which it was designed— viz., ths filling of OrUpoek^U and the purchase o/ dishonest politician^. It is but little wonder that Mr: Hill has not dared to mention this soaodaloos swindling of the Treasury in his recently published address. He does ^ndecd boast— though why we cannot say— that the Dominion Government ^s trana« ferred Mr. William Annand t^its list ot pensioners, and that henceforth the Province will not be burdened with the bapport of that veteran public pauper. He claims credit for having paid Dr. Campbell no more than was necessary to buy him; but omits to give any detail of the sham it was necessary to perpetrate on this Pro* vinoe in order to make a pretext for giving *hat renegade any office what" ever. Silence on this nwtter has certainly been wise, for neither Mr. Hill, nor any other man, can ever successfully d^end, before an intelligent yeomanry, the in« capacity, dishonesty, extravagance, and oorruption, that has been the leading features of the so-called "Immigration scheme" of the Local Government of Nova ifcotia. From the period of the establiahiMn of Responsible Government the. Ex- ecutive Council of Nova Scotia always contained two or three oomntry members. These gentlemen, in attending meetiagi of the Council in Halifax, were paid out of the Treasury their actual travelling •» penses, with $4 per day for time aotoaily ■pent by them in sueh attendaoor^* Tin in !B6?. no oomnl^l *aa aver made by either party, that any fraud K: >n 't 11 eyeroommittod by any gentleman oomah, was elected in 1874 in opite^to tddinc meh a portion. The amouat to the Goyernment. He cum to Bm' of tosh charge* paid for the ten years fax at the first of the sesrion •£ Vfli, preceding 1867 waa as foUows : attended the Oppoaition caoooa, wd 1857 8 689 freely expressed his desire for the l|W •■• ^ oyerthrow of the Goyernment. Be- lisoi '.*.!"..*! !'.".'.!.'!".".'.'. 180 fore the end of the seasion he ijn ^^ became a memberof that same Got- ««'.'.*.'.■.■■■. V.V."."..'.*.!!i fl06 emment! Up to 31st Dec, 1877 ijg •;;; ^g^ about2 1-2 years) he had drawn ior ItK.'.'.'.y.'. ".''.". "■'''''■' 836 travelling expense, $I,T1» being oyer ,^jjj 1^ $700 per annum! In order to show For nearly seyen'of'the" kbove ten the fraudulent obaracUsr of these pay- wars, that awful "corruptionist," Dr. ments the Herald obtained an acj. Tapper, was in power. They were the curate statemant-which can be yenfied years before the completion of our by affidavit if feq«>t^-«J. '^* Railways, and when travelling was number of times Mr. McKuuion thna at leastdoubly as expensive as at attended meetings of Council, and the prtneat. And during the whole of this amount of time he spent m such at- time, there wore two, and sometimes tendances for the year 1876. During four, members of Govemmeut residing that year, Mr. McKmnon had drawn in the country. Yet, we see that the for travemng exoenses. no less than ayerage oort per year was only $ ^5. f »«• The tol owing was shoin. to In 18«7 the change of rulen brought haye been his "attendances duntg ft change of policy, and even this neces* that year : aarr practice was made a vehicle of " After the House was P'o«>ip^J" W7 piwau\A> w«D uMm « ^p,ij Mr. McKinnon ramamsd a tow robbery and corruption. * ot the ten At no time were there more longest way and p«d full fare, which three mcabera of Gh>yemm«nt he did not, would be only $16, or for abroad, and yat wo aee the three trips i48. Allowing t4 that the ooet waa about THBDt per d*y for the sixty days-whlch men AS iABO» AS F0» XHI TIN u all he waa entitied to— would be only TBAM PEKIDWO 1867 ! 1240. which, added to the >48. -akes The roftionfbr this eiiormonsiwsreaae only •288 to which he was honestly can be found in in* ei^iSiMouS or ow»*.o ssumcu: j.--— , lu-u. ;-=--i •-— • ca«ea. Mr. John McCinnon, of Whyoo* ber of Government received for travel- •* 4»J**- 12 ling tz peases alone, $«5T to which he WIS not entitled ! Mr. CoUN Campbell, of Weymouth, WM elected in 1874 to support the Op« position. Within a few months after liifl election, he became a member of Government. He has also, during the last three years, although having • free pass from Digby to Ha- lifax, managed to draw from the treasury of this Province not less than $1,70S, for travelling ex* penses! We leave it to the intelligent people of Dijby County to consider, whether or not, he was honestly entitled to one au^cr of the money. For our own part, we are confident that he toot noL Ma. Bob Robkhtson, of Barrin«ton, was kicked out of a Departmental office in 1871; he was "sore headed," and, in order to retain his vote, was made a member of Government, and his travel fag expenses for the next three years (as sh jwn by the Journals of the House) smmut to $1,969 ! While Mr. Hill has made no mention of these exploits in his published ad- dress to the electors of Nova Ssotia, It will be seen that they form an importai.1 chapter in the history of his Government Mr. McKinnon —notwithstanding the frauds of which he has been convicted-is stUl a mem- ber of Mr. Hill's Government, and one ofthe Government candidates for the County of Inverness. Mr. Hill has therefore shouldered the whole burden of his sin, and is prepared to defend, and if oont -ued in power perpetuate . such a system of rascality as wc have here exposed. Hapily for the honor and credit of Nova Scotia, there is not much danger of either Mr. Hill or Mr. McKinnon being allowed any further opportunity for the practice of such a aorstem of Government- For many years the .^,_ Nova Scotia was aaoast(«ied, ,,^ _ Uin contingencies, and under oertam ff> strictions, to advance money to the various Counties of the Proviooe, oa account of the Road and Bridge aer- vice. The contingencies which generally called for such action were either the sdden sweeping away of some of the bridges in the County afler the ordinary road grant had been exhausted, or the building of some large bridge; or the openmg up of some road, requiring a larger expenditure than could well be taken from the County road grant of one year. The restrictions required that application for such advances should always be made— with reasons annexed— by the County members to the Government, and receive the con* currence of that body. The practice was, anterior to 1867, always jealously guarded, as it was open to two serious objections, viz., it opened a door for the members for a county for one term to incur a debt, the amount of which would be spent by their support- ers, but which their successors in the representation would have to pay, and as the counties never paid any interest for such advances, it was always to the amount of such interest a direct loss to the revenue. For the tour years immediately pre* ceding 1867— during which time Dr. Tupper was in power— the amounts due to the Province were as follows : 1863, 1«64, 1869, 1866, «18,9Q4 1S,187 ssjon 31,928 A This is a yearly average of $25,292. As our railways were not then built, the necessity for the prompt repair of certain great roads, would make the claims for these advaaoos much more imperative and extensive than they oould poasibly be in more noent years. And doFiag ihsss vssrs our reveoue Wis nearly two mil- r .«;.*"■ 13 1 ^ ~ tSN^ ;0r DOLLABS per annum, ud tt* biliuiM to oor eredtt at the bank MM aeMnn Iamb |han t200,000, so thbt Wi Were then in a much better position to loan 925,000 than we are now, with a revenne of only S§60,000, and our bank aocoant overdraion to the extent of at least 9200,000. It mlRht almost seem incredible, bat 18 nevertheless true, that our Local Government, notwithstanding oar aU tared circumstances, has gone on in« creasing these advances from year to year, until on the Ist March last there was due fir^m the various counties no less than 9129,262, or five times THE AVERAGE AMOUNT which Dr. Tupper's Government advanced in the four years preceding 1867 ! In order to show the details of this enormous ad- vance, by a Province itrelf over 8200,000 in debt, we republish a return laid upon the ta~!'» of the House last session, in response to a request of Mr. Longley : ^ ' "viminft! ahtarantmr nf thei« tfan- aaeo J majr be seen from the following ftets: 1st At the time these advaooea were made, the Province was about 9200,060 in debt, toa« ittel/ paying^interat on thai turn, and yet this 9130,000 is ad- vanced to a ftw counties without a oent of interest being paid, the Provluce thus making a direct financial loss of 96,500 per annum. 2nd. The amount is oat of all pro- porUon to the amount the Coundes could honestly require. If the "eztra« ordmary" road services of the Provinee could be met before 1867 by 925,000 per year it is obvious that this advance of 9130,000 most have been for other than legitimate purposes. 3rd. The advances are so large to some counties as to render their collec" tion practically impossible. For io" stance, the County of Inverness, the annual r6ad grant of which is only $11,220, would have to be deprived of any road grant whatever for three years, in order to pay off its debt, a proceeding at once unreasonable and impossible. 4th. No good has resulted to the Counties receiving these large advances, since the money has been mostly squand* ered. In fact much harm has been done them by being thus plunged deeply in debt, as the credit which they could otherwise oomBMUid, in case of emer- gency, is totally destroyed. 5th. These road advances, like everyx thing else that the Local Government could control, have unmistakably been made an engine of robbery and ooi"•"- irfih. MoKisnoc sf Isvs!^ nesa, being aU members of the Gtovem* ment What iswOTse, the moaey was, i, :Av 14 if ii t Id r^'aoj CUM, adTftooed, simply to pro* Viuc the member$, or lomec/ their mer^ eontile $upporter*, a mtan» for eoOect- mg their dtbtt. Coaunisaiona w^re given out in districts where the member (a merchant) did business ; when the work was done, the Commissioner (a debtor) brings the Commission to the member, and takes a receipt on ac- ooant: the member puts the order in his safe, which is the same to him as so much money collected from men who could not otherwise have paid him! ' This system has been going on with marked success and with the full know ledge of the Government in several counties for several years. And it is to this system that we owe in a large measure the enormous debts which several of the counties have left, to them, as a parting legacy, by men who have lately been their representatives. It is but little wonder that Mr. Hill has'passed over *his proof, not only of his incapacity, but of his dishonesty, without a word. His silence will not, however, prevent the people of Nova Sootia from expressing their opinion of this and his numerous other transgres- bions, at the approaching election. IB WBTKBN COUNTESS aA.1 I.- WAT ■WIITDL.K. Notbioc in the history of Mr. Hill's POtf aod gyvemment shows their inca- iwca%^j|ireni more strikingly tlian iheinl^lRwtjr policy, and nothing shows (befar«oWt^d^on^ty in a more marked degTM than the maoner in which they have oarried out tlwt policy. The his' to^ of thwoounty-Hffld as far as wc kaow of nog>th«r Bntiii)i eolony— oon> taiBB anythinc m^ .limikoeful than the Wettm C^aotiM ^ulway swindle. ISke edf^mi ditngard of kw by the GortnnMDt, whiah enabled the swindle to be perpetrated,*the enormous amooot of money swi nd led out of the Provinee and the oounties of Digby and Yar month by the] transaction, and the cona tinned friendship and logToUiog be- tween the Glovemment and the virind> lers, since the discovery of the fraudst all serve to demonstrate beyond shadow of doubt the deep and disgraceful rasa cality of Mr. Hill and his government' The County of Yarmouth having determined to be conaeoted by railway with the rest of the Province, made such provision for assisting the scheme as should entitle it to the greatest 8ym» pathy and respect; In addition to pro- viding the rii;ht of way free by the county, the town of Yarmouth sub- scribed S 100,000 to the underuking. The County of Digby also agreed to assess itself fox the right of way. The Province of Nova Sootia agreed to con- tribute, by way of subsidies, as follows : Ist. Gash sabsidy out of the pockets of the people of Nov» Sootia $tiiiO,000 3nd- 160,000 acres of the lands of the people of Mova Scetla, worth 150,000 3rd. OoTernmeat interest In the Bailway from Windsor Junc- tion to Windsor (32 miles), %orth. 80O.00O Total $1,630,000 In June, 1874, a company engaged for these simple considerations to build this road, and have the same finished May, 1877. Their agreement gave them the railway to Windsor whenever they asked for it, the Crown Lands whenever they asked for it, and thesub* sidy as follows: "So soon aa it shall be made to v>pear on a certificate from an Engineer appoint- ed by the Oorernment, that at least >40,000 shall have been b»na fide expended in actual oziMnditare on the aaid railway, the aaid Government of Nova Sootia wiU pay to tbe aaid parties of the aeooad j^ut or their aaaigna the aum of 930,000 m a Dortioa of anoh anbaidy or aid, and ao in like mannei fnna time to tiaao, pn> ra until the whole of the aaid roa4 or railway ahall ba fully o om pla t ad, and la efltaiaBt nnmration. «rn*n tha bfilssos of SSSli *M of eif^t thonsaBd duflan par mile foe tha aaid railways, and .o more aball be paid to the aaid i.artiaa." ^3^|k_> / k_ V 15 . , ,„d ««a «JW.nU, l^r^ foj^2 CS Crex-M. P. P, with oh«. r«ioirem.ot. but they were not ht^ i^ «eii.,e.pect. .ppointed bim- .iKmgbfor OUT ?^'«"^^,^^ ii^„J ^Stf ch.im«. An invsug*txon wm of p^ing the subndy, « the l-w * .^ ^ discovered : Oie oontnwt pUinly required, in the neio. ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^„ „oth.lf built, proportion of $1.00 for etery t2.00 ^,^^^ „^^ ^ ^je of the ro.d wm La >W* expended by the co^npany o^ J^ their own money, they went on paying ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ company or the oon- out the Buhaidy practioally as they were ^^ ^^^^^^ ^,„ ^^xd^g the i^edforit. The Opposition protested ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ ,,^er and . but the Government went on just tne ^^^^^ ^i^.^ ^iiey had received from the aame. ^ .„, ,t^n,* Government and the Counties of ¥«• InDeeember, 1876. the company stop« Touth and Digby. , ^,. pedwork. People asked the reason ™o«^ ^hat two sections of the "road" S at the beginning of the session ot ^^^^ j.^^j^ ^j^^ ^han heap, of 1877, the Government put the Icllowing ^^^^^ . ^^^ stotementinty/overnor's Speech: 5th. That the work had not been «h. The wofc/ofthe We'tern Counties ^^ ^^^ly suspended for a ^w week. ^'"f^Sm^"^ wdTtumn Sxd alSiouK^ of inclement weather," but had stopped SiSJS7£.' "^.^ro^fS Wuse the funds (the Govemmjt »uttWD«D Fo»A»^jr™ o^^^^^^ exhausted. That ttw rH'SrI"«"saM^»dcm.Mi forward ~^,,t ^ new this, and the st^ to oompletioo. ment put into the Governor's Sp««* Further on in the session, the Gov- deliberate falsehood, emment laid on the Uble of the House wa^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ;he following interesting account: ^^^ poured in on the committee so • ^dv«noea TTMtem Ctowntiea Railway, ^^^^helmingly, that the Qoivemment " me. , „ membersof the committee refused to Febru«ry2. ^oOwh^per or»er ^ ^^^^ f^^her evidence, and Mr. .. 23. «'^n«hV;;....' 28*0000 D^^McDonald. whohad for newly* M^,H,I'- " •• ••::::■■: &wi6o ^tole session 6«e»«/it«*ry««ff/^«J«^. ^''"^- ■ •• " : ^ifs^S packed up his traps and started for Jnn.l2. ;: :: ;; ^iS^gS home, «««^'«.aimflr a report. July 3< .. ., ; • ■ ; ... 9,154 00 0,-. is gome of the evidanoe pwn •» Au(ni»t2. „ „ •••■;.. 13,500 00 Here IS some »i 1. ;; 7.- .. .. '.;■...... lo.osooo ^ character of the road. |tel6. V. ■;.•.•.■.••.•.•.•. \ffi^ Had worked o^ secUon^*,^^.„<^^ Not. 4. „ „ 8,022 00 wbioh case he had SMii emuii^j^j^^ ^"k •' " : 10*38 00 f•e«in>tl«^V«ltoSf SSmtti JwwiA Deer. 4. th, height of 3 of 4 »« «»™ '^r ^ys 1871- ,^ „„^, .. 14,713 00 irirecompoMdof bruah a»d 10« xn» The pub lie mind began to wak.up S^;^;|^^^«^-^*1;S ,-S^ when Im Utile bill was P^^^' "; VS^^^^ ^ veaUng the fact that THE ^VH0L» atm. « V" .^ipiMJIilJ, I 16 mw iii « i . i » » k hi \\ ^ thty were built of loge and brush, jtntm of four embankti^enta thus buiU. Xtara WVN MTtral » handrad feet lowTi aad lb* third p*rt of thara w«r« looS' Ob* ia particular wat SOO feet long and faox fMt deep, and almost entirely built «f locil Tbe croand here was bard, and tatTery Utile iwampy Tbe embank saat eoald hare been made of earth TbeambankiBenta on section 4 were aleo OB feard ground. EMBANUceNT hbrb 200 Aim MO »«FT IiOIlO, AND Flva FBBT IK x>BrrH, wrra ifOT mobs than six iNCHce ov KABTB OM TOP. They were then up to tonnation level. J. ■. XYANB. J. £. ETana was a railway contractor on Motions 1 and 2. Went OTsr tbe line with McNeb and one or two others: Kieed the embankment at Stockall Mity. The embankment was 3 feet kieh. and nearly all brush aatd logs. MolTab asked him if that w :B the way be ballt his work. Said, no, be was not in the ring. FINUIY MCDONALD. Haye worked on other railways, but ■erer saw brosb a"d logs used in 8imllar places. The land, 80 far as I worked on it had a very hard strong bottom. Bm- ..bankment was to 7 feet high. Brush was Mled np so high that we could scarcely Siatlaguisb from one cross bead io another. ItUaU covered np All tbe embank* aaats I worked on in section 4 had brush Ib tham. Bave heard of an embankment on section 3 taking firei Tbe one at Stookall shanty. rBIIilF MOLSOD Was foreman on W. C. Bailway on sec- tions 3, i and 6, On section 4 was fore man on abont a mile. Built 3 eml> ^nka BMBta on bard soil, on rock tumetiuicr The eMbaokmen^s were i,2G0, 1,100, and 400 fset leng- The one 1,2C0 feet ioog was ftam 12 to 3 feet deep: about 7 feet of krnah was pnt in i: I was ordered to do ao by the walking boss. Schurman. Saw Pattrell there; be toldfme to pnt the brash in. I told Patrell and Schurman it was not light to put it in. In the one 1400 feat long there were 2 feet of brush to 3 feet of earth. Fnttrell told me to pnt it in. No brush in the one 800 feet long. One near the one 1.200 feet embankmeiit OM «o Juu-d a bottom we could not drive a stakt in was bailt in tha same way. AMOOS MCLIOD Was foreman on sec. 4 from 1st. August, •74. Worked at next cutting to last wit- ■MS. I built three embankments— ona on Middling toft ground, the other two on katd land— one was 700 feet long, and one 800. The 700 feet one was 5 or 6 feet on the lower side. Put in logs. . Pnt them in on Puttrell's order. He "spoke hard Against ms" fi>r not putting them in. In the 800 faat ona, put iu brush. The 700 feet one was on very bard ground; the 000 feet one •B a meadow, orei which I have driven t\im ambankBienu and raised in tha cuttings. Was ordered to do so by walking boss ScbBrmaa. Tbit would greatly r«Moe the work. A. gasg of men wara ohoppiBK out the road, aad pnttlag the ohopfABg into tha oebtra of the road for the em' bankment on bard ground. I stand aix feet, and when I was on one aid* of the bnuh baap I could not ae* a man oa tb* other. JAHI8 G. FRA8IB, C. B., who visited the embankments, and opened them in the spring of 1877, gave the following sworn sutement of what be found: "I found an accumulation of brnab, stumps and log4, with only abont a foot . of earth on top. There was a subsidence of some 18 incbf s over a length of ISO feet. The logs were laid promiscuonaiy. * ^ * I opened tbe embankment at Little Lake in four places. The toil la very bard; no swamp whatever. Ifoand a promiscuous assortment of logs, stumps, brash and earth. Tbe logs are decaying very fast, and the road sinking rapidly. There was ten feet that had not more than 4 inches of earth on top of tbe rub- bish. I inever saw the like before. No . train should ever be sent over such a place. * * * Iu two placea I found logs and. btufh within 2 fiMt of tbe top. The logs were decaying, and tbe road sinking; tbe rails were "kinked"; tbe banks had given way, so that tbe sleepen bad nothing to rest on. • • • There was no need of any brush in anj/ of tbe places I visited." HUOH MCDONALD. one of the most upright men, and beat informed rail way contraotors in the Pro<* vinoe who was with Mr. Fraser when the embankments were opened, in his sworn testimony said : "I am a contractor, and k now bow rail- ways should be built. We mad* a thorough test o( all the embankmeaU mentioned, I am interested in the road, at>d my evidence is prejudicial to myself. The McLeods in their statements, in re- gard to the soil, told the troib. To the best of my knowledge, Lowe, Ft Mo- Donald and Walker told only tha trntbj Tudir statements were not ezaggerat«d aa far as those embankments we opened. In some cases we found tbe embankments worse than they described. From myoaz*- ful inspection of tbe road, 1 am in a posi tion to state moat poeitively that any wit~ nees that stated these embankments wer* well built, stated wh nn^tractioa. I bav* b**B employed on other roads In oonatraotion. I never saw such erabaakmeata oa wiy otbes road. I cosiider tii*m simply dis« 17 Kracefol. I would not hBT« »h» ii»-n« M A contract )r of buildluK moU embsnk- menis- There wrs Btill another dishonest trick in the construction of this "roaJ" ex- posed by the witnesses ox4mined before the oommittce. It was proved that in many oases, after the surveys had been approved by the Government Engineer, THB GRADES WERB CHANQED, 80 as to make the work materially less, and i le "road," if possible, sti'l more worthless. This was proved by Hugh McDonald, and other witnesses, and was admitted bySuhurman, in his cross examiuation. He said - " r remember lowerinn tb*» fl ' 1 and raioinK the cu'tioK on »«»otoii 4 1 lud hd order from Stmael RvorHon, ad Frank K Ham. Ih^'y t'>(d nie verbally to do 8). Tiii-" Ji^ •11 I retntmber being ilone. I won't swear thi»f. wan ihi only cuttirg that «> as "raised." Tho Krude was cbanKed 3 inches in e»ch 100 feet." It was further proved that the oiii Sa.cOO to $12,000 por month. By ihejoumalt qf the Houte of • 876 the estimate* (^ exp«nditure$}on the lint show that the Oovern- ment paid the aubiidy on an expenditure of %Al, «0» for work fo- which I received $9 600, end when the work loas flnithed/or which I got $9,600 the OJVKKNMENT HAD PAID OS $76,600 ! I The company rei»ined out of all $1,800 for work which the? said I bad not done, bat on whirh tbey have ex" pended nott$100 On 'section 10, on c ti* teate 12. /or workf r which I TectivtdJ,n,m the Government paid on an txpendttur* qT 'ins WBBTB«WC«IJWTI«» Ui^tf. WAT ■WINOl.B. aSCOND ABTIOLB. The evidence given before the com* mittee completely estabhs'hed the sotn- dalotu character of the work already ^aa» m the mA. Evwjr ««tm^or wtks examined, and the cost of tbj road to the Builders wa« proved to have been not more than $885,000. It was shown that for this amount of wore they had drawn from the Province in cash $679,000; from the sale or mortgage of the Crown Lands granted them by the Province $75,00) ; from the Township of Yarmouth $100,000 ; an4 fifWB mort- gaee bords on the road thu» eonsinued $75,300 ; making a total of $9*9 ,300. drawn directly and indirectly from the people of this Province for work which only'cost $885,000, AND which IS to- day UTTTSRLY WORTHLESS 1 In addi-« tion to this, the counties of Yarmouth, Digby and Aunapolis were compelled to assess themselves and pay foi- th-i right of way and fencing of a road which will never be finished, and which has been rendered impossible ot construction by the criminal misconduct of the Govern- ment. The Report of the Engi-^eer {itide AmmhlyJournahlSn,) ?'aoW8 that at the time the work stopped there was $700,000 worth of work remaining to be done. To this must, however, be added the cost of re cbnatructing sec- tions 4 and 5, say »65,000 ; and the deterioration of the road since Decem- ber 1876, which competent engineers tell us will not be less than 20 per cent, or $175 000, making the total amount required to fioish the road $»4O,00O | No Company in the worli can ever raise this money for the finishing of this road, without Government assistance, and if Mr. Hill remains in power, and carries out the Railway Schemes to which he is pledgtd. the Province of Nova Scotia will neither have money nor credit to assist the Western Coun ties Railway or any other scheme. Mr. Plunkett spent the summer of 1877, trying to raise money with the eredit of the Province to assist him, AiTD FAILSD- He has spent all the summer of 1878 trying to raiw monej, MMted with tbeoredit ot tbeDooiaiM UK lil^oo^4erA it ^flUJ^Me that k o^Mir •*ai*- 1^ NaWk Sgoti*. ^ otiM of l^riS99(h »• d 7 k»^ been prindpaliy^prtxJno d *wi«)ioo of (aw by th* QororD'< vnh$ pfjf^enfc. of tU« Bubdi'^r. ;|» otlik'^tlii^/ i^ AoUot 1371,' 4 no Mion M 1^ than h° MtlB^iintoriljr I^W'ti** Rovwrn r' In O an -il th^tc i^^ti«fa'«n8ih4Bi»c nhitll hs*t» iona. ;pfa(l«rt t>i»tiiii ''f fKiythoa^an-l )a •rtu 1 'Spe dram ontlia^M•l ;«>a tn Im btt'lt by tb<«in MaK»|l _,-l for ilia Governor In Conneil, m JmHfoni*t9 MTerxl loal" nrofrnxot If to Axfth OAa^tsay tb« ONI)BK« ^ J»Y isUOH omiPANYSHAi.Ii L^Y UOM1»^»C«D ami )n »« oMration, * * * wban tba bli:»om BALI WIIAT ■iyft--waMI- J jfPl"! I »'■!> OH THKRoADt Ia->ie» t|H|pd , ihei bavp, a<;9on|iog to .ti|^ oa^a i^^'^, paid oat iiK>f«'^»ir piik*t9it, aild ^B" cording to tba i«<^Mll|^M|i tllM^^M oommi'tee,, naarly tbie^lrkfle' eipendfd! •; t : The whole/ro^bki hj|» tlMlli||^liMit fltxat.be vU'aliad diraet viotaOMdrkt* by the G»vernaiefit, and if ^e lin/Ue oount; of Y trtnouth is to day tttf jriog from t