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By Mr. Lavorr--Withess could not put a price _ upon the whole of the work, including the ainting. He did not want to go cut of tge line of his own busi-- ness. He thought partios might have been got to take the old fence away for the sake of the material He was not sure, if the fence were his own, whether he could have got any one to take it lwa{ without extra oontLor not; but lis thought he probably mfi t. y Mr. Fraszr--As a contractor, he gene. rally paid 20 cents a yard for three--coat painting. He never made any measurement of _ the fence round the _ Parlia. mert buildings. The pickets, so _ tar as -- he con?d see, were inch--and-- uarter; he would not say ?ositivaly, but he a:ought so. _ He was also of opinion that the base was inch stuff, He made a calculation on Saturday of what the fence mlgl? cost, as he had been led to understand that he would be called upon to give evidence with l regard to it. Knew it was a lix-footl fence by looking at it Thought there were twgfickeh to cach foot, and at that rate he caloulated how much it would cost per 100 feet;--that would be 200 pickets to the 1C0 feet, He allowed 20 cents for each picket; allowed 300 feet of 3 x 6 rails, at $20 per thousand; and about 50 cents for each post, the posts being ten feot long. If the posts were twelve feet, he would allow 60 cents. In each hundred feot there would be for posts $6 50. He allowed so much a run: ning foot for the base, which he calculated at gotting at six conts per foot,. He swore positively that the base of the fence was made of good common stock lumber, There would be one--fourth more to pay for inch-- and--a quarter than for inch stuff, He could get inch--ard--a quarterstuff at about six conts per foot at the factory. Having gone out and examined the fence, he said the base was inch stuff, He did not think there was any difference in prices just now from last summer. In calculating the valuo of the posts at 50 cents each, he calculated upon the cost of dressing at ten cents. He thought this was a littfo under, and ?'{ferwsr(}l ltid porlugl 50 cents was also a little undor for the whole thing. The spikes at the foot of each post to prevent them from rising with the frost would cost about twenty.--five _ cents _ per post, _ and he allowed fifty cents for digging and filling in, _ He allowed five days' work at $2 50 per day, for each hundred feet. Hon. Mr. Fraszur--Then you could put it up at a York shilling a foot for labourt I ask you upon your oath. d byred ons se o g oi OE s ts ave : N mewatnh. thousand. _ It made very little difference in the rnoa whether the posts were nine--fsot or ten--foot lumber. -- There was a littlo more work upon the fence round the Parliament Buildings than upon that round Dr.Jennings church, and the pickets in the one Case might cost a little more than in the other. The difference in the .price of inch and inch--and--quarter pickets would, in his opinion, be about one--{ourth ; incly.and-- quarter stuff would cost about $14 8:1- thou-- sand, Politically witness was a Congerva tive. The McDonald's wore good business men, anrd did their work well, They had, to some extent, retired from the building business, and never, took jobs at tender scarcely, They tenderod for the job upon which yri:neu f;"sd at paesent en-- Miv ey cffsred to "'do it for about' $9,000 he thought; he was doing the same thinfi for about $3,000. The were Reformers po itically, he belioved, alY ?;m he did not know much about thsir 1tics, Loommall® Audradibat uol Sudvenlit® wreny ts A-,-Yel';vthnt is for uillng it on. 1 calcu-- late upon fietting the stuff at the factory. There would bo some expornse getting the material there, but he could not tell how much he calculated upon for that, He never w ide any caloulation as to the price of the n.ils; left them in the margin, but could not say what mar%in he allowed. At ninety cents to one dollar he calculated upon a good profit, but he refused to say how much he thought he would have. He thought his cal-- culation was something over $50 per 100 feet for the principal things--that was, the labour and the lumber. _ He considered 20 per cent. affair living profit. _ He knew Mr. McDon-- ald, who he thought a first--class workman. Tho fence was a fair job. _ He thought that Mr. McDonald expected to make more out of jobs than the ordinary run, and witness thought he was right. _ Witness woald not himself take jobs at the ordinary run in many cases, He thought Mr.Tully a §Bod judge,and although witness thought the fence in (ques-- tion could be dore for less than it was done, Mr. Tully was entitled to hold the opinion that it was a fair price. There were vast differences in opinion, even among con-- tractors themselves, as was shown by their tenders for contracts. The gate posts put in N. 'ihe witress was then dif Condmife a6j l--LG@ &e Ad; by Mr. M and the corner posts on two sides. _ Y"*""~ posts, in his opinion, were &8 expensive &8 tqusred posts. _ Mr., Wagnor was 5 good, honest workman, and the ?inlon of Mr. Wagner as to this work would be as good as that of any other man in Toronto. . There was & difference of opinion as to the cost of work many times; sometimes Mr. Wagner tendered lower than witness, and sometimes witness was lower than Mr. Wagnotr. He '°fi'uted that he would take Mr, Wagnor's opinion as soon as that of any MAM in the & a e + We discharged, on one an l the