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] * * * * * 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 Board of Trade, The, 78 Boeothics, 17, 102 Bonavista, Cape, 35 Bond, Sir Robert, 128, 162, 163, 186 Bond-Morris, Coalition, 155, 162 Bonfoy, Governor, 90 Bonnycastle, Sir Richard, 8, 19, 75 Boulton, Chief Justice, 110 Boys' Brigades, 166 Breton, Cape, Attack on, 87 Bristol, 30, 36, 67, 71 British indifference, 46, 76, 81, 84, 88, 91, 95, 176, 180, 182 Buchan, Captain, 105 Burleigh, Lord, 53 Burrill's Attack, 82 Bute, Lord, 88 Cables, Transatlantic, 7, 120 Cabot, John, 26-32, 35-6, 42-3 Cabot, Sebastian, 17, 28, 30, 39, 40, 43 _Calypso_, H.M.S., 165 Canada, 126, 129 Canada, Proposed Union with, 126, 135, 138, 162, 163, 166 Canadian Sympathy, 115, 134 Carbonier, 83 Carson, Dr William, 104, 107, 109 Cartier, 18, 50 Casualties in Great War, 168 Chamberlain, Mr, 144-154 Charles, I., 74, 75, 81 Charles II., 81 Cinderella of colonial history, 75 Climate, 9, 57 Coalition Ministry, 167 Cochrane, Governor, 107, 108, 123 Colonization, 45 Colville, Admiral Lord, 87 Columbus, Christopher, 26, 27, 41 Commercial Bank, 135 Commissioners of Foreign Plantations, 74 Committee of Trade and Plantations, 77 "Company of Adventurers and Planters," 67 Conscription, 167 Cook, Captain, Survey of, 89 Copper, 12 Cortereal, Gaspar, 47 Council, Governing, 107