Newfoundland Fishery
I P ER "UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | - London, June 28. The Captain of H.M.S. Emerald ia 3>eing suei for damages for forcibly closing Baird's lobster factories. la the House of Commons to-day >Sir James Fergusson denied that the Jsi and of Dominica, in the West Undies, is being exchanged for French rights in Newfoundland. In a despatch of May last the Marquis of Salisbury refuses to recognise the right of the French commanders to interfere with the British com- , ~ manders. The >t. John's correspondent of the .Daily News telegraphs that the colonists are purchasing rifles and a col" iisiQj^ with the French is feared. Mr 3aird has served the captain of H.M.S. Emerald with a writ, claiming damages on behalf of the owners of 26 lobster factories, whose operations suspended.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 7, 1 July 1890, Page 4
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