The crisis of 1895 has been dealt with at some little length, because it would be impossible otherwise to understand the occasion of the great Reid Contract, which will form the subject of the next chapter. It so happens that the last ten years of the nineteenth century have been more momentous than any equal period in the history of the colony.
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[41] The census of this year showed that the population had increased to 146,536.
[42] Op. cit., p. 495.
[43] This question of union was frequently raised—notably in 1906, and during the Great War in 1916 and 1917 (see end of chap. ix.).
[44] Sir Robert Bond, the ex-Premier of Newfoundland; Mr J.G. Blaine, the American Secretary of State.
[45] House of Commons Papers, Miscellaneous, No. 3, 1910, Cd. 5396.
[46] See chap. ix.
[47] December 14th, 1894.