NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13305, 11 October 1906, Page 5

NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES.

A CRAVEN POLICY. SOME VIGOROUS CRITICISMS FIGHT TO BITTER END. RETALIATION BY THE COLONY. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— (Received October 10, 10.42 p.m.) St. Johns, October 10. The newspaper of Sir Robert Bond, Premier of Newfoundland, ascribes the arrangement entered into between Great Britain and the United States, in regard to the Newfoundland fisherries, to the " craven policy" of the Downing-street bureaucrats. Other newspapers say that if Great Britain yields ■ further to the United States, the colonists will be compelled to assert themselves. (Received October 10, 10.48 p.m.) St. Johns, October 10. It is understood that Sir Robert Bond does not intend to resign on account of the fisheries arrangement. He prefers to fight the question to the " bitter end." He specially resents the cancelling of the Colonial Act which prevents Newfoundlanders from joining American vessels, and says'he, will vigorously enforce every statute against the Americans. He will confiscate the vessels instead of firing upon offenders, and will suspend the local ordinance against the use of purse and Seine nets, and thus enable the colonial fishermen to occupy the waters before the Americans can arrive. Two colonial cruisers are being sent to patrol the fisheries. Under Great Britain's arrangement with the United States, American fishermen may use Siene nets, while Newfoundland fishermen are forbidden by the local laws to do so. The trouble'has arisen through Newfoundland seeking to compel the Americans to purchase bait in the colony instead of taking it free of charge as in the past.