THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES.
PREMIER ATTACKS LORD
ELGIN.
SACRIFICING THE COLONY'S
INTERESTS
By Telegraph.—l'ross Association.—Copyright
St. John's, February 14. The Premier of Newfoundland (Sir Robert Bond), in the Assembly yesterday, made a fierce attack on Lord Elgin for having entered into a fisheries agreement with the United States, in which the colony's interests were sacrificed without the colony's consent.
• This attack by Sir Robert Bond on Lord Elgin is consequent upon the Home Government having sot aside- the colony's fishery laws and regulations in response to a protest from the United .States. The colony had legislated to exclude the American fishermen from Newfoundland's waters unless they paid a tax for the right of taking bait. The United States Government, urged that this law violated treaty rights, and this view being taken by Sir Edward Grey a modus vivendi for the present season was arranged in October last.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13414, 16 February 1907, Page 5
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146THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13414, 16 February 1907, Page 5
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