TROUBLE IN NEWFOUNDLAND.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2177, 24 June 1890, Page 3

TROUBLE IN NEWFOUNDLAND.

Reports from St. Q-oorge's Bay, received at St. John's, Newfoundland, on Miy 25, detail fresh outrages perpetrated on English fishermen by the French, and say that the coast from Cape Ray north to Cape St. George is in a state of war almost. A French man-of-war is cruising in the Bay of St. George, running down Eaglishmen who are setting nets, and confiscating the same if they refuse to take them up. Meetings have been held on shore and resolutions of protests cabled to England. Orders were received on the 24th by Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, of the Emerald, to procoed to St. George's Bay and look after the interests of the English fishermen there. When the man-of-war left the harbor thousands of people along the shore wished her success and cheered tumultuously. The French ship offered inauy insults, and a proposition has been made to go out to St. George's Bay and drive the Frenchmen oub. The English fishermen there have resolved to begin fishing operations, and, if interfered with, to arm themselves and fight the French. The address of Newfoundlanders to the Queen, protesting against British grants to the French of the island fisheries was received in London on May 26. In language the document is the strongest sent to a British Sovereign since that of the original American colonies. It declares that the modus vivendi means ruin and starvation to 200,000 British subjects, and claims that the Home Government has no legal right to make such grants, It calls on the Queen to revoke the acts of her unpatriotic Advisere, and says " this colony will be satisfied with nothing short of the final removal of every French lobster factory from the shores of Newfoundland, and all means in our power will be used to that end. In our opinion the time has arrived when submission to such glaring injustice is no longer possible. This colony must use all the means in its power to frustrate the designs of its despoilers. We beiieve we have right and justice on our side, and such steps as we may have to take have been forced ou us by foreign aggression and by the supine acquiescence therein of your Majesty's Imperial Ministers,"