Helping Newfoundland
A dispatch on Britain's plan to send an official to fund Newfoundland's fishermen after local banks and merchants failed to do so, revealing the colony's financial crisis of the mid-1890s.
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San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Page 1
1 min readLondon, March 22.
London, March 22.—The Post says: "There is reason to believe that the sole object of the government in sending Mr. Herbert Murray, formerly chairman of the customs department, to Newfoundland, is that he may provide the fishermen with funds as the banks and leading merchants have heretofore done at the beginning of the fishing season."
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