THE CANADIANS' LATEST.
Twenty-two Deer Island Fishing Boats Seized.
J. D. Bonnes, special Canadian customs officer, seized twenty-two fishing boats, Thursday, at Deer Island. The boats were valued at $2500 each. They were taken for smuggling. The boats were released after the owners had deposited the penalty, which in each case amounted to the boat's value. There were two charges against them. The first is for smuggling the boats themselves. When the fish treaty was abrogated the Deer Island fishermen brought boats to Eastport, entered them there and paid duties on them, thus making them American boats, although built and owned in Canada. The Canadian government does not permit American lats to be brought to Canada and owned there without paying duty, so the boats become forfeited, the saine as other smuggled goods. This will prevent New Brunswick boatmen bringing sardines to Eastport without paying duties on this side. It is understood that the Canadian government will prosecute the owners of Ella M. Doughty and other American fishing vessels seized by Canadian cruisers, on the same charge as that made out several years ago, in the cases of the White Fawn and J. P. Nickerson-that is for coming into port for other purposes than those specified in the treaty of 1818, and upon that plea will also be incorporated that infraction of the customs law, says an Ottawa dispatch.
