General Foreign News: … The Newfoundland Government has appointed Sir Robert Pinsent, one of the Puisne Judges, as a commissioner to investigate the losses sustained by the people of St. George’s Bay during the last three years through the enforcement of the treaties with France. The telegram also states that the order closing the lobster factories has been considerably relaxed, and that the cod fisheries has been the best known for the last twenty years.
[see similar: Evening Mail: Wednesday 5th August 1891]
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Referenced
GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893