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scarce; small herring is seen in abundance,but they .can neither be hauled, nor caught; a few ^mackerel have befciuaken^it islnfpud that they will again make their appearancesasiTTip.rmer years, when, they wera-, plentiful; for the last 17 or 18 yearn tholt;o has been none caught in .this.district. Squids are coming on, and some have been jigged. I trust, the lull fishery will at loasj prove sufficiently Successful to enable tiie.fishermen tcHay in their winter’s supply at least • vth©' usual pikn hero is to give the supplying merchant the summer’s catch, and trust to the fall’s voyagfc for themselves.His Lordship the Roman- Catholic Bishop arrived hpao on Sunday evening rrpm his visitation tour round the Aland, having called at the different settlements in *St. Peter’s,' St. George’s Bay,' Labrador, French Shore, and Newfoundland. On entering the harbor lire wind blew very strong, and unfortunately his .lordship's yacht ran on Harbor Rock, knocked away the cutwater and part of the stem; this induced him to hayo her hove down and examined, although she made no water; and through the kindness of George 1$. Ridout, Esq., the respected agent of Messrs. J. Slade Sc Co., the damage was repaired. During his lordship's stay hero he performed the right of consecration on the cemetery attached to his church in this place. The fishery here will not be so good as was anticipated, owing^to tho wca/hcr having spoiled so much of the fish oj£ the flakes. ' The salmon fishery is bad. Another sad accident, attended with loss of life, occhr-reJ on yesterday, morning at Change Islands'; two men, brothers,, of the name of Busscy\ went as usual to overhaul their herring net,and incautiously approached a sunken rock, which suddenly broke upon and capsized thoir boat; they succeeded in regaining her, and for a so-cond and third tirno were thrown from luir, when at length they were enabled to reach the rock from whence the sea had partially recoded, and again an enormous sea broke oyer' them, cngulphing one of the uuforlunate mep in its midst, and tho other was thrown, sadiy bruised and injured, on a near point of land, he is scarcely expected to survive the injuries lie has received. Again I must reiterate my former assertion of tho necessity for the appointment of a Coroner in this district, (Fogo). Although there can be no doubt of tho manner in which tho unfortunate man met his untimely end; yet it would be more satisfactory to the minds of his friends and family, and the pubtiiT generally, were enquiry instituted into the sad facts of this and similar coses. , 4 A' *
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St Johns Morning Courier
St Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Sat, Aug 28, 1852
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Benson H.
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