International Fisheries Exhibition 



LONDON, 1883 



Conference on 24TH October, 1883. 



Mr. Fung Yee, Secretary of the Chinese Legation, in 

 the Chair. 



ON NEWFOUNDLAND: ITS FISHERIES 

 AND RESOURCES IN CONNECTION 

 THEREWITH. 



Mr. Chairman, — Up to a recent period the colony of 

 Newfoundland, which I represent, has occupied a singu- 

 larly paradoxical position. It is the oldest and nearest of 

 England's colonial possessions, and yet is in the mother 

 country the least known of them all, and the subject of 

 confused ideas regarding climate, social condition, and 

 general characteristics. From time to time stories of more 

 or less accuracy or fulness of description, regarding histo- 

 rical and general events, have appeared, but have not 

 attracted to any extent the attention of the British public, 

 nor have they materially assisted in diffusing information 

 or removing injurious impressions, which have for so long 

 a period placed the colony in a false position. 



Recently, however, the subject has been taken in hand 

 by earnest and able pens. In a work published early in 

 the present year, the Rev. M. Harvey, of St. John's, New- 

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