ation of certain territorial privileges in West Africa, France
agreed to relinquish her rights as to landing and drying fish on the
treaty shore, which had been recognized by the Treaty of Utrecht.
French subjects injured by this arrangement were to receive such
compensation from Great Britain as would be awarded by a tribunal
consisting of one representative of each contracting party, assisted
by an umpire if necessary. The French were to enjoy the same rights as
British subjects of fishing on the coast generally, and were permitted
to take bait, which they had been forbidden to do by the Newfoundland
Act of 1886. This convention did not affect the applicability of local
law as to bait in regard to the non-treaty coast.

Newfoundland was satisfied with this change. After the ratification of
the agreement, the new Governor, Sir William MacGregor, telegraphed to
Mr Lyttelton, the Minister for the Colonies, asking him to convey to
the King the people's acknowledgment of the "great boon" conferred by
the Convention, which His Majesty was chiefly instrumental in
initiating, and to the British Government for having safeguarded the
interests of the colony in negotiations involving so many
difficulties. That this view represented that of the population at
large was shown by the return to office (October) of Sir Robert Bond
and his colleagues with a very strong majority.

Soon afterwards an _entente cordiale_ was established between
Newfoundland and the French colony of St. Pierre and Miquelon.

Thus, "the Anglo-French chapter--some four centuries long--closed; and
the lobster, which darkened its closing paragraphs, ceased to be a
force in history."[58]

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FOOTNOTES:

[56] [See _Baird_ v. _Walker_, Law Reports, 1891, Appeal Cases, p.
491.]

[57] M'Grath, _op. cit._, p. 149.

[58] Rogers, _op. cit._, p. 225.

INDEX

Abandonment Suggested, 85, 106

Admirals, Fishing, 70, 71, 84, 85, 86, 98, 99

Amiens, Peace of, 102

American Independence, War of, 95

American prohibition of trade, 91

American Rebellion, 90

Area of Newfoundland, 8

Bacon, Sir Francis, 15, 66, 96

Baird, Mr, 182, 183

Bait Law, 185

Baltimore, Lord, 64, 70, 89

Banks Disaster, 135-142

Bannerman, Governor, 120

Basque Pioneers, 26, 47

Bathurst, Lord, 107

Beauclerk, Lord Vere, 85

Beazley, Mr Raymond, 30, 32, 35

Blaine, J.G., 128

Blaine-Bond incident, 128

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