The Canadian Fisheries Dispute.
Interest is excited in London by the proposal of Edward Atkinson for settling the fisheries question. He suggests that the United States purchase Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward';* Island on the basis of the proportion of the Canadian debt, which is equal to £50 a-heacl for the population or £50,000,000 in all. This, he pays, would bring 1 to tho United States a territory equal in productive power to New York and Pennsylvania. Atkinson claims that his proposal has been favourably received in the United States and Canada. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, tho British Fisheries Commissioner, was waited on in Washington, D.C., November 18th by about twenty newspaper men. He was understood to say that the purpose of the Commission was to make an entirely new treaty, the existing treaty between Canada and the United States having proved unsatisfactory; bub further than this, he was non-committal. Ho thought it unlikely that the subject of a commercial union with Canada would come before the Commission in any way. There was scarcely a shadow of a doubt that any arrangement agreed to by the British Commissioners would be held binding by their Government.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1887, Page 8
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196The Canadian Fisheries Dispute. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1887, Page 8
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