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ONTARIO LEGISLATURE o nnimging Fifth Parliament ------ Third Session. ' ___ (By Our Own Reporters.) | Tuursoay, February 11. The Speaker took the chair at 3 p.m. FIRST READINGS. 6 The following Bills were read the first ime :-- Mr. Waters--To incorporat P Parkhil). ° e e Town o0f Mr. Harcourt--Respecting covenants con-- | tained in short forms of leases. Mr,. Snider--To regulate the width of wag-- gon tires. Mr, Gibson (Hamilton)--To confirm certain conveyances made by married women. Mr. Badgerow --To incorporate the Georgi-- an Bay & Lake Huron Ry. Co. Mr. Balfour--To authorize the Law Society of ?n.tario to admit E. R. Davis as a barrister-- aAt--d4aw, | . Mr. Drury ~Respeciing the Midland June-- | tion Ry. Co. Mr. Waters--To cm»nd the Act respecting ditches and watercousses. Mr. Gibson (Hamuiton)--To amend the Di-- vision Courts Act, Mir. Ermatinger--To amend the law of descent of land. Hon. °C. F. Fraser--An Act to further amend the Assessment Act. COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES. lHon. C. F. FRASER moved the second reading of a Bill to amend the law respecting compensation to persons killed by accidents and in duels. He said that the Revised Sta-- tutes of Ontario, chapter 128, was substan-- tially a transcript of what was known in l'lngiand as Lord Campbell's Act. By this Act provision was made for com{)ensation to certain relatives of {)(:rsons killed by in-- i"urics, to be obtained by an action brought y the executor or administrator of the de-- ceased against those who had caused the in-- jury. Lord Campbell's Act provided only for an action to be brought by the executor er administrator, and if noexecutororadmin istrator were appointed within the 12 months, or if being appointed, he refused to bring the action, there would be no remedy for the relatives named in the Act. Some years afterwards the English Act was amended so as to provide that where no executor or ad-- ministrator was appointed or where he re-- fused to brinfi) the action, the action could be brought by those who were beneficially entitled to the verdict,. _ The Bill now before the House was intended to amend the On-- tario Act in the same direction. _ It was in-- tended also to supply the lack of machinery to enable the defendant in such cases to pay | into court a sum by way of compensation. As the law stood now, it was the defendant's duty not only to pay the amount into court, but' to apportion it among the relatives, and should an action be brought and the appointment turn out to be in-- correct, even though the gross sum wWas sufficient the defendant 'would be liable for the costs. _ 'The Bill made provision that the plaintiff® might pay the comg)ensation into Court in a gross sum ; that if the gross sum were sufficient the defendant should be re-- lieved from the costs, and the apportionment should be made by the judge or jury. Mr. MEREDLTH concurred in the propriet of this measure, _ Now! that they were deaet ing with this subject, he thought they might as well settle the disputed question of whether a husband was entitled to recover in res;;'ect of injuries sustained by his wife. The Bill was read a second time, BEE PRODUCTS, Mr. BAXTER asked whether it is the in-- tention of the Government to place any sum in the estimates for the purpose of assisting the Ontario Beekeepers' Association to make a proper exhibit of apiarian products at the approaching Colonial Exhibition. Hon. A. M. ROSS--It is the intention of the Government to ask the consent of the House to an appropriation for this purpose, FARMERS INSTITUTES. Mr. GRAHAM moved for a return of the pnumber of Farmers' Institutes formed in the several Ridings of the Province, together | with the number of lectures delivered in con-- | nection with the Institutes by the Professors | of the '»\T"l'i(-ultux':xl College. _ Hestated that in his riding they had hafi an Institute with marked benefit to the farmers. _ They had a ]m'g're by Prof. Grenside, on the horse, and oue by Prof. Brown, on permanent pastures, | and +other persons had given their ex--| perience. -- This had resulted in great benefit |