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~=a e S e SAE +-- es __f_?.%: n the Ontario Courts. Zoel L 0 ton Village, has been app¥ & . 'notary public. William Stoner Has been . appointed to be clerk of the Fourth Division | Court of the County of Lambton. i A RAILWAY DPEPUTATION. The following gentlemen appeared before | q the Attorney--Ganeral in the interests of the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway : ----E. Q. Taylor, Burk's Falls; James Shnrye. A. C. Drew, Captain Templeman, Wm. | « Wilson, John Armstrong, Reeve of McKel-- lar Township, and William Wilson. From the Eastern part of the Province, the fol-- \ lowing were noticed in the same cause :-- | _Charles Mohr. J. R. Booth, Dr. Crauston (Arnprior), Mr. Moles, Warden of Rele County, Messrs. Wright and Campbell. EMIGRATION REPORT. The report of the Commissioner of Emi-- gration, among other things, states as fol« lows :--'*Farm laborers, as in the previous year, arrived in considerable numbers carly in the season from the rural districts of Great Britain and Ireland, and were, with-- out delay, hired by farmers at fair wages. Experinced farm laborers received from $15 | to $18 per month, with maintenance, for ; terms of six and eight months; while during . the harvest mounths they commanded 'from $20 to §$25. Ip . may not be ' out of placae in this connection to sug-- , ge@t to farmers tho _ desirability of making yearly engagements with farm ; laborers. This practice, which is now find-- | ing favor with the most enterprising agri-- | culturists, deserves to be far more gener-- | ally followed among the farmers throughout ' the Province. As the result of making this system the exception, when it ought to be --the rule, a large number of farm hands, who are engaged only for four, six or eight months of the year, are driven to the cities for the winter months or compeiled to seek employment on public works, and thus dritt away from agricuiture altogether, As a consequence the farmer engagos a new -- hand, generally more or less inexperienced, } every spring or summer, at a high rate of ' wages, only to lose his services when the bhurry of the harvest is over, whereas by the yearly system, which would in-- volve but a small additional annual cash outlay, he might have the benefit of an ex-- perienced hand, whose services during the whole year would be ample return for the increased expense. By this means a class of experienced agricultural laborers would in time be formed, the farm work would be better done, and many young men would be saved from drifting into the citios or living on the precarious chances of employment at unskilled labor." The grand total of immigrants settled for the year 1888 was 27,222, as against 25,743 in 1887. _ There were reported through agencies 20,532, and through Customs 6,-- I 690. In 1888, as compared with 1887, there was an increase of 8,809 in the number of immigrants who remained in the Province of Onutario. _i i2222 222 2222c eemmmen en ccazene