NEW BRUNSWICK. 



nterest to have paid a fair price an ave wo 

 ridges than two prices and have but one bridge. 

 he application of ordinary business principles 

 ould have saved large sums of money. 



mcr half a million dollars for building what they 

 call permanent bridges. For the superstructure 

 of all those bridges built within the last live 

 vt-ars so far as ean be ascertained. Mr. hiiiiner- 

 son, without competition or tender, has paid two 

 prices, and in some cases even more. 1 he prov- 

 ince should have two bridges where there is but 

 one. It would have been far better in the public 

 interest to have paid a fair price and have two 

 bri 

 The 

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lines derived from civic and county ofli- 

 vers. and from licenses after paying necessary 

 salaries and expenses, should go to the funds ot 

 the municipality. The reckless extravagance of 

 the Government lias forced direct taxation upon 

 us and in sei/ing those sources of revenue, al- 

 wavs In-fore held by the municipalities, the bur- 

 den of taxation upon them has been still further 

 increased. The (io\ eminent has no right to take 

 from the municipalities tines properly belonging 

 to them. 



- \Ve need cold-storage facilities to enable our 

 farmers to hold their farm produce for the high- 

 i!-t markets. We can produce excellent butter 

 and cheese. These industries should be given 

 overv encouragement. Pork packing should be- 

 come a great industry. The great majority of 

 our farmers could raise pigs for that purpose 

 without very great labor or expense. 



" The lumber industry is growing in impor- 

 tance every year. The introduction of pulp mills 

 increases the value of our forest wealth. Meas- 

 ures should be taken to prevent unnecessary de- 

 struction of our forests, and the labor required 

 to fit the raw material for the foreign market 

 should as far as possible be done within the 

 province. 



" Our fisheries need careful attention. The re- 



cent judgment of the Privy Council gives to the 

 province larger rights in the fisheries than it was 

 supposed we had. The extent of those rights it 

 is not necessary now to consider. But great care 

 and wise legislation are required to obtain from 

 our fisheries the largest benefit for all of our 

 people." 



The result was singularly disastrous to Mr. 

 Stockton, and gratifying to the Government. The 

 latter swept the province, winning 42 seats and 

 leaving the Opposition 4 seats. Mr. Stockton 

 himself was defeated for the Assembly. When the 

 Legislature met, March 22, it was opened by 

 Lieut.-Gov. A. R. McClellan with a speech from 

 the throne, of which the following paragraphs 

 are the most important: 



" The interesting character of the exhibit made 

 by this province at the Sportsmen's Show, held 

 in Boston in March last, did so much to bring 

 to the notice of the people of this continent the 

 unrivaled opportunities which we offer to the 

 sportsman and tourist, and was in all respects 

 so promotive of good results that the expectations 

 of my Government in undertaking this display 

 were, I am pleased to say, more than realized. 



" The awakened interest which I am glad to 

 note is being taken in the mineral resources of 

 our province has encouraged my Government to 

 take further steps to secure the prospecting and 

 development of the heretofore dormant wealth of 

 our country's undeveloped resources, and a meas- 

 ure having this object in view will be submitted 

 for your consideration. 



The efforts already put forth by my Govern- 

 ment in the past to stimulate and advance the 

 agricultural interests of New Brunswick have 

 been fraught with such favorable results that 



further advances in this same direction are 

 deemed desirable, and there will be presented to 

 you propositions to develop and promote that 

 branch of animal husbandry known as pork 

 raising, with a view to the promotion of pork- 

 packing establishments in our midst, thus en. 

 abling us as a province to compete more success- 

 fully with other provinces and states in the 

 markets of Great Britain and other countries. 



" The pronounced success which has attended 

 the efforts of my Government to advance the 

 cheese industry has encouraged them to make 

 additional strenuous efforts to induce the manu- 

 facture of creamery butter throughout the prov- 

 ince during the whole year. To this end there 

 has been erected a model creamery and butter- 

 making establishment at Sussex, which is now 

 in successful operation, and has so fully demon- 

 strated the fact that butter of the best grade 

 can be advantageously made in the province at 

 all seasons that the Government confidently an- 

 ticipate that similar industries w r ill be established 

 as the result of private enterprise at all suitable 

 points; already one such industry has been 

 started at Woodstock. This establishment at 

 Sussex has incidentally enabled the Government 

 to provide the very best facilities for a provincial 

 dairy school. 



" The desirability of encouraging the settlement 

 of our public lands by our own people and by 

 suitable emigrants from other lands has been 

 recognized in the past by the Government, and 

 I feel assured that there is no abatement of that 

 desire upon the part of the present Legislature 

 and the people generally. The authority given 

 at their last session has been acted upon, with 

 results that promise favorably, but it is realized 

 that if we are to encourage any appreciable flow 

 of desirable settlers from the old lands it will 

 be necessary to have more and better information, 

 in succinct form, as to the natural features and 

 varied resources of our whole province, and of 

 its facilities for every branch of industry than 

 has heretofore existed, with a view to its ju- 

 dicious dissemination and distribution among the 

 people of Great Britain and other European 

 countries. 



" You will be asked to make provision for the 

 introduction of modern road machinery, so as 

 to demonstrate to the people as far as possible 

 its utility in making and maintaining proper 

 roadways. 



" The recent decision of the Judicial Committee 

 of the imperial Privy Council, dealing with the 

 subject of the fisheries, and the respective rights 

 therein of the provinces and Dominion, confirms 

 the claim made by the provinces to valuable and 

 extensive fishing rights over which the Dominion 

 Government has hitherto assumed the exclusive 

 property and control, and define more fully than 

 had before been done the respective jurisdictions 

 of the federal and local governments over the 

 subject-matter of the fisheries, at the same time 

 leaving unimpaired the duty cast upon the Da- 

 minion to foster and protect all fisheries: A com- 

 mittee of my Government early in the year held 

 a conference on the matter with a committee of 

 the Federal Government, and their report will 

 be submitted to you, from which it will appear 

 that the Department of Marine and Fisheries 

 claims that, while the judgment of the Privy 

 Council is explicit upon most points, it still, un- 

 fortunately, leaves open to question the claim 

 of the province to proprietary rights in those 

 shore fisheries located within the three-mile limit 

 and below low-water mark. 



" The unprecedentedly high price realized from 



