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. BAY oF IsLANDs, March 21. 
A general meeting of inhabitants has been called for Monday, to 
indignantly protest against the action of British and French Govern- — 
ments ve lobster factories. Five factories have been established, and — 
five new ones are building. Numbers of men and women have been | 
shipped, material prepared, and considerable expense gone to generally. 
Orders have been accepted for spring supplies. We will use every 
effort in defence of our rights as British subjects. 
I. 
AN INSTRUCTIVE. MEMORIAL. 
Toe MermoriaL or Samuen Srinuman Forrust anp GEORGE 
SHHARER, OF THE Crry or Hatirax, IN THE PROVINCE OF 
Nova Scorta, Mprcnanrs, 
Humbly showeth— 
1. That your memorialists are British subjects, the said Samuel 
Stillman Forrest having been born in Nova Scotia, and said George 
Shearer having been born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and carry on business 
at Halifax and elsewhere under the name and style of Forrest & Co. 
2. That in the year 1882 your memorialists erected and equipped a 
lobster catching and canning establishment at St. Barbe on the north- 
west coast of Newfoundland aforesaid; in the year 1883 they erected 
and equipped another lobster catching and canning establishment at 
Port Saunders on said coast; in the year 1884 they erected and 
equipped another lobster catching and canning establishment at Brig 
Bay on said coast, and in the present year they erected and equipped 
another lobster catching and canning establishment at John Meagher’s . 
or Bartlett’s Harbour on said coast. The cost of erecting and equip- 
ping said establishments or factories, and supplying them with suitable 
lobster-traps, cars, boats, smacks, and other appliances and gear 
necessary for the purpose of conducting your petitioners’ operations at 
said factories (apart altogether from the cost of necessary supplies 
therefor) amounted to upwards of $20,000. There were no houses 
or buildings of any kind at Port Saunders at the time your petitioners 
erected their said factory there; and no fishermen, either French 
or English, had been in the habit of fishing there, or visiting that 
place for fishing purposes, for many years before the erection of 
said factory as aforesaid. The French fishermen were not in the 
