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l ONTARIO LEGISLATURE. ---_- THIRD PARLlMiEttT-F00RTg SESSION. -_---. MOHLATWI Assailant, 3 Tomuro, March 3. The Speaker took the chair at It o'clock. Prayers were read by Rev. D. it. Kacdonnell. PETITION. t Mr. Fraser resented the petition of the trug '" of the 1"J,fl"l,Wl'l'h','li"l Separate Schools of linden]. that the election of trustees to those schools shall not be,by ballot, and shall not be held upon the same dar as municipal elections. ; ALLOWANCE OF INDEMNITY. Mr. WOOD, moved " That Duncan Pee., "in ' member in the Mgislutive Assembly for North Vic- toria. be allowed his fail sessional allowance. hir g absence from the Chamber having been causut by illness." Carried. CORRECTION. Mr. BEACON corrected . report which in? IP- peared in the Mail of his remarks upon the Bill to extend the jurisdiction of Division Conrtl- Ttte ground of the objection he had urged to the extension was, that it was inconsistent tor the advocates of the Bill to corn lain of anomalies in the present mode of conducting these Courts, and " the - time to ask " the extension of their Jurisdiction. OTTAWA WATELWOBKS. Mr. FRASER waved the third reading of the Bill respecting the Water-works at the City of Ottawa. Carried. The following private Bills were passed ttmmqh Committee of the Whole c-- To imrorporato the City of th"hrh-Mi. Hassle. For the relief of the Barton & GhndfordBoad oompanr--Mr. Williams. Respecting waterworks for the tone! Guelph --Ni. Mosaic. To legalize certain try-laws of the Corporation of the county of Kent. and the debentures issued there- under in aid of, the Erie and Karen Railway Coll- pttaV-Mr. McCransy. BECON D READINGSJ The following Bills were read a second time _ Coneeruing the London Junction Railway Coni- paur--Mr. binelair. _ To amend an Act to authorise the Churchwardcns otSt. Jumea' Church, Toronto, to issue debentures I -adr. Bell. I LICENSES IN MIDDLESEX. I. Mr. TOOLEY moved for an order of the House for l .t.rc:.tutrtNhowad 'all moneys collected in the North ( Riding of Middlesex for tavern and shop licenses for- and during the years 1m, 1877, and 18i8, and from what township collected; the amounts paid the Cow missioncrs fur and during the some "I" i alto, amounts paid Inspectors foe such years; the amount ot lines imposed and collected during such "are, and to whom paid; also, the amounts returned the several townships during such years. Carried. VO'I'EBS' LISTS ACT. Mr. BAmtm-orxler of the House for a return showing the expense caused to or entailed upon any municipality in Ontario by the revision of any Voters' Lists ot 1877 under the Yotcrs' Lilli Finalin Act of1878. This Act seemed to turn to have been passed in the interests of a party.not of the Province, and he trusted that the return would be brought down " soon as possible. He wished to 1rnotv also when tho return upon licenses, which he had asked thr some time ago, would to ready. lie thought the Government were dilator-v in bringing these n-turnu lit-lore the House, and beiivved it would tell against them in the next election. ' Mr. FRASER said the reason of the Voters' Lists Act was explained at the time. it was passed, and the speech ot the hon. gentleman needed no answer at this time. With regard to the return asked for on [ a previous occasion, he couldouly any that it Would I be brought down as early as possible. He believed tliatit a comparison were made it would boicund that the returns this session had been brought down very quickly. All returns asked for were put in hand as quickly as the staff on hand would permit. That asked for by the hon. gentleman required in- formation from outside, and until this informa- tion was received the return could notbe brought l down. Hon. gentlemen had been asking for a , number of special returns, the information ot which wile contained in the general rdturns brought down, i and hon. members must remember that in asking I for these returns they were adding considerably to I the expense of tho.tttmsiou. He would notify the I hon. gentleman that it would be utterly, impossible i to bring down the return new asked " in this ses- l: sion, owing to the tact that the information would I have to come from outside. 1 Mr. manner"! said if any return had been asked l tor by gentlemen on his side of the House which was not in the interests of the Province, the Gov- i eminent, " controlling the liaise were re- I sponsible for accedina to it. With regard t to the Voters' List Act, it had been opposed l by his side at the Home on the ground that it was not necessary to the Province, and the result had proved them to be right. The Government should have known that there would be no general election making the Bill necessary. The revision had caused a great deal of expense to the municipalities and to individuals as well, an i for all this he believed. the Government were renpsusible. The motion was carried. LANCASTER DIVISION comm Mr. GRANT moved for an order of the Home for a return of all correspondence in reference to the holding of Division Courts in the t"glelt, of Law caster, county of Meagan-y. The Divi . a Court of the township of Lancaster was held ins place very inconvenient to the goat maiority of timin- habitants. They were an r the impression that the House had power to remedy their grievance by removing the place of holding the .Court to a more convenient place. and it such won the case he would like to see it done. , _