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ror _T e it _ s 2l C= TT yv@ T V |_ AHB ADSBMDLIL. i t \quemnscae® en mcmumer . a Early Adjournment. q | PRIVATE BILLS SECOND READINGS | P i un i Short Discussions on Many of the | Public Bills. l Sm pummmmmemrermmmcats WwORK FOR THE MUNICIPAL COMMI'[TEE.' Mr. Balfour's Duck Bill Reforred to a Specia! Committeo--Several Bills Discussed and Withdrawn --Deputation Re Lo-- cal Taxation. | March 17, 1830 The House got an carly adjournment to--lay, owing to tho conjunction of a Monday and l'hc lith of March, the effects of both of which wore equaily visible in thoe House, the former in the absence of those members who had not | got back from their homes in the country, :ufd 1 the latter by the wearing of the shamrock in | the buttoun--holes of many members, It was | private members' day, and after the second | reading of a number of private bills, several | public bills, none of thein of first importance, | were discussed and read a second tiime or with-- : drawn, as the case might be. | FIRST READINGS. { The following bills were introd uced and read & lirst time :-- 3 To amend the Timber Slides Companics Act ----Hon, Mr. Hardy. R To amend the Municipal Act--Mr. Freeman. To amend the Municipal Act--Ar,. Dauce. PRIVATE BLLLS,. The following private bills were read a see-- + ond timeo :---- t | To incorporate the Town of Walkerville--Mr. | Baliour. . d'li"pccung the City of London--Mr. Mere--| ith. | Respecting the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Ruilway Co.--Mr. Marcourt. To amend the Act ircorporating the Am-- herstbury, Lake shore & Blenheim Railway--: Mr. Baifour,. To incorporate the Hamilton & Barton Incline Railway Co.--Mr. Awrey. f Toenable the City of Brantford to issue de-- betures for drainage, water, school and park purposes--Mr. Hardy. For the appointment of new 'Trustees for the settioment of the estate of William Chaplin-- Mr.Leys. RAULT STE, MARIE & uUDsoNX BAY RAILWAY. Mr. Lyon, in moving the second reading of this railway bili, said :--As the promoter of the bill for the incorporation of the Sault Ste. Mauric & Hudson Bay Railway,I tnink it would not be out of place for me, before moving its second reading, to offer n few remarks upon the great advantages to be derived from the construction of this railway, uot only to my own constituents, but to the Canadian public, It is only in the 'ast fow years that the District of Algomn has attracted any special attention, ana the idoa is just commencing to dawn upon the people of Canada an:d the Uuited States of the enormous mineral wealth which it con-- tains and the rich nufrivuln-rul valleys which are to be found within its limits. 'The desire of the Company in question is that a charter be granted which wiil enable them to build the road, starting at Sault Ste. Maric, running in & northeasterly direction for about 35) miles and terminating at James' Bay. This will open up some luagniaccnt country and bring about the development of its resources, an object which it woulid be impossible to accomplish without the aid of a railway. The mineial wealth of Al'.iomu. now that it is beginning to be undorstood and appreciated, I am confident will be one of the most successful fields for enierprise that we have, not only in Carada. l{ut upon this Continent. In my opinion, Snult Ste. Marie, in the natural course of things, is bound to becomse _ an important _ manufacturing _ and _ shipping centre, The most important factor in the in-- dustries of this place will boe large smeliing works, required for reducing to the de-- sired basis tho products of the Algoma mines. In order to succossfully operate the works, for smeiting purposes, targe quantitios of coal must necessarily be consumed, and wo find that the District of Algoma is equal to the demand in this particulnr, for the proposed Failway will, when completed, run through sections of country in which are to be found some of the most extensive coal beds in the world. 1 know, Mr. Speaker, there is a dis-- pusition on the part of some people to discrodit to a certain extent the great Pousibnhucs of Algoma, but I think that mvestigation will _ amply establish _ tho truo state of affairs to be that the District of Algoma, which a few yeoars ago was almost unhenrd of, is one of the most varied and proiitable mineral--producing regions that the peopie of any country have ever been cali-- ed upon to develop. 1 entertain no doubts whatever of the imineral productiveness of Algoma, and the ultiimnate success of the in-- dustries which are now being ostrablished within the confines of that district. There are people who alttach but little importance to such minos as proiuce the coarser metals, but this }