NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1851, 28 August 1907, Page 20

NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES

SUGGESTED APPEAL TO ARBITRATION.

HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Aug. 22. There is great excitement throughout Newfoundland owing to an announcement that it is intended to submit the fishery dispute to The Hague Arbitration Tribunal. Ministers refuse to say whether they concur in this proposal. Tn July it was reported that in order to settle the Newfoundland fisheries dispute and other pending questions, Canada, Newfoundland, and Britain were willing to refor the Anglo-American Treaty of 1818 to arbitration by The Hague .Convention. The long-standing dispute was then accentuated by a threat from' United States herring fishers that, unless the vivendi was renewed, they would take full American crews to Newfoundland, rendering eight hundred colonists unemployed.