Newfoundland Fisheries Dispute: St. John’s: Friday: Justice Sir Robert Pinsent, one of the Commissioners appointed by the Newfoundland Government to investigate the losses sustained by the people of St. George’s Bay through the enforcement of the treaty with France, has told the Grand Jury that the French had no right to prevent the inhabitants selling bait or to establish lobster factories on the coast if they did not interfere with the cod fishing of the French.
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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893