Mr. Justice Pinsent, who. As Judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, has had special cognisance of the Fisheries disputes, sends a long letter to the Standard, in which he reviews and explains the legal aspects of the question. The treaties, he says, are unquestionably a great misfortune for Newfoundland. They are utterly unsuited to the conditions of the present day, and their satisfactory working in their present form is impracticable. Nevertheless they exist. The difficulty (Mr. Justice Pinsent continues) has to be met under the circumstances either by compensation in the form of purchase or the exchange (which France is unlikely to accept, seeing that the main raison d’etre of its Newfoundland connection is the maintenance of a naval nursery) or by the adoption of the most sensible working agreement of which the circumstances will admit. … (continues) …
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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893