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Show , RUNS THE BLOCKADE. Special to the Iferald-Fxaminei Dispatch Halifax, N S April 28. -Information from St Johns to-day gives particulars of the running of the boat blockade and supplying ol bait to the French fleet al St Pieir, who offered $5 and $6 a barrel fr it. At Bay Desteaand Hay Duiiard, less than forty miles distant in Fortune Bav! were inexhaustible supplies of heir lug. American vessels were getting , baitings at $20 a vessel, People along the shores of Fortune bay are in a state of semi-starvation. The fishery has been going from bad to worse for years, The sale of bait is the only thing by which they keep body and soul together. togeth-er. VVhi'.e American vessels were get tinf a whole baiting for Jjo, the French fleet would gladly pay f2oo for the same quantity, but armed cruisers were on baud to prevent the poor people from taking any advantage of this bonanza. Then the people determined upon dely ing the law. Two hundred boats and one hundred ail gathered in Bay Destea from all along the shores of Fortune For-tune bay and loaded up w ith herring ' The crew of very vessel was armed with sealing guns. Meanwhile the government gov-ernment had taken alarm and dispatched dispatch-ed the crusiers Fiona, Lady Glover and Favorite to the spot. Threats of violence vio-lence were openly made. The fishermen fisher-men announced they were going to take bait to St Pierre and load it up. At noon next day over sixtv sail weighed anchor with a iplendid breeze. The cruisers gave chase. One vessel commanded com-manded by Captain Banfield, Was overtaken over-taken and ordered . to heave to. The police boarded her. Not a word was spoken, but three of the crew picked the representative ol the law up in their arms and tosted him overboard as quiet ly and unconcernedly as though he had been a bag of hay. He was picked up by the steamei . The sohooner was captured cap-tured and lowed into Harbor Briton, where the captain was iailed for smuggl ing and three ol the crew for attempted murder. The crusiers followed the bait into French waters and then returned. The Newfoundlanders disposed of the ; herring to the Frenchmen at good prices, pric-es, but the crusiers have the names of all the crafts that ran the blockade. Up on their return to colonial waters they will be seized and their crews arrested. |