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a new "U."Vu Ilvul "DI-"w; -_- w Mayor they and Messrs. Winters, Connolly, Kylie and Crandall waited upon tht.PT, ernment to ask for an appropriation of 82,000 to complete the improvements on the Scugog River. The Attorney-General 'said he would consider the request. POOR sermons IN NORTHERN ONTARIO. A thoroughly representative deputation ['of the reeves and leading men of the north. fern district of Parry Sound waited on tho ,Minister of Education yesterday and strong- sly urged the necessity of increasing the Tint school grant to $100 for ench school. - r. James Sharpe, the member for Parry >Sound District, who has always taken a deep interest in the question of education, introduced the deputation and strongly urged the Minister to make the increase l asked for. Mr. John Armstrong, room of 'lhaffy; George Morrison, reeve of North 'Himsworth; Col. Gregory, reeve of Wid. , "ifield; William Carmichael, reeve of I a South. Himsworth; M. E. Tookey, ', reeve of Sundridge l George ble. Knight, reeve of Chapman; Jemes A Campbell, reeve of Stisted ; Peter Shangh. l nessy, reeve of Mnehar ; Sheriff Bettes of Huntsville, Wm. Carr of Trout Creek, Israel Lucas of Powusan, B. McDermott of blundridge, ex plsined minutely the position of the schools in new townships gnd the ditti. culties experienced by the Councils of muni- ioipalitits in their efforts to establish and ' 'supnort schools in scattered and isolated' i,iii'ltfiiaiTi.' The Minister admitted the force of the facts presented and assured the _ members of the deputation that he would try to meet their wishes in this matter. unsrscnxu WAGES. Mr. Bigger has introduced in bill to amend _ the set respecting wuges by extending tho provisions preserving the rights ot em- ployees of execution debtors. At present all persons in the em loy of on execution debtor at the time of gilure or within one month shall be entitled to be paid his wages . prior to other claims. Mr. Biggsr's bill ex- , tends the time to three months before isilurc. rington; J. Kirkwood, M.PP., MW.» Huston: Major Rorke, M.PP., (mph? Grey. Thr. Government were not waitm upon Is the meeting was simply cqnvened to discuss the best means of furthering the interests of the scheme. 10 DEEPEN THE scuooo. A deputation from Liggluy coy-intinghgf Messrs. W. H. Rowland, Beverley Jones, D. J. McKinnon and Fred J. Stewart wait. ed upon the Government at 5 o'clock with reference to the Victoris Industrial School. The board holds at present the fee simple of ei ht some on which to erect buildings, in Iff/ld to 42 acres of farm lends. They wish ts obtain the fee simple of eight sores more to provide room for three new cot. tages and workshops and to enable them to bond the property for 850,000 to carry on the 't1iaetd, work of the institution. They also ssket to have the grant incrcused from nine to ten cents per day. They were re- ceivedl-Fy Hon. Messrs. Mowat, Hardy, Ross. "court, Dryden and Bronson, and s general discussion took place regsrdlu the work of the institution. Mr. Rowland stated that 100 boys had already passed out of the school and that nearly 200 were wait. ing for admission. Hon. Mr. Mowet prom- ised that the subject would receive due con- slderstion. COMMITTEE MEETINGS. The first meeting of the Public Accounts Committee was held to-day, when Mr. Awrey was elected chairman. The commit; tee meets agnin to-day st II. The Printing Committee meets at 11.30 today. [ A NEW RAILWAY Iron TORONTO. The petition presented by Mr. Tait on behalf of John Leye,Q.C., Mr. W.:mmilton Merritt, Chen. H. Keefer, Frank A. Flem- ing, C. N. $hnnly, George F. Herman Arthur G. Penchen (Toronto) and Edward A. Dodd of New York, financier, state: that. it would be {lesinble and of great THE VICTORIA INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. 5 public convenience that a warehchsing and railway company should be incorporated t with'power to construct a line of railway from a point at or near the crossing of the 'Cencdian Ptseifie Railway and the Grand .Trunk Railway tracks at orfneer Parlia- ment street in the city of Toronto; then easterly south of the Grand Trunk Railway Company's property, crossing the Don south of the Grand Trunk Rail. lway bridge, along the north shore (of Aslibridge's Bay to the extreme 'easterly limit thereof, near Kev Beach; then in a northeasterly direction; crossing Queen street, to a point at or near where the Kingston road crosses the town line, between the Townships of York and Scar- boro'; then in n. uorthwesterl direction to a point on the Grand Trunk {tailwey near Little York, and also from a point on said gg,'ttf, line of railway west of Kew each and extending westerly along the arm of land which bounds Ashbridgo'ts Bay, on the south of the extreme westerly point of said arm, and nlso from tho extreme westerly point to extend northerly to meet the first ibove.tnentionod 1 line at a point east of its crossing over the i Also to construct swing bridges over the I River Don and Coatsworth's cut, and any I other channel or out which may hereafter be made or constructed, and also to construct any line or lines of railway to connect with Ithe present and other systems of railway entering the City of Toronto, and to con- nect with any union station which may hereafter be built in the said city, and to erect warehouses along said railway for the storage of goods, wares and merchandise, and to carry on a general warehousing bust. ness. The petitioners therefore pray to be incorporated under the name of the Toron- to Transfer, Warehousing and Railway _ Company, Limited, for the purpose of con- (, structing, equipping and operating such rail. way and warehousing company. DEPARTMENT or EDUCATION. The report of the Minister of Education for tho year 1891 was presented to the l House to-day. The statistics are those of 1890. From these figures it appears that' there was a falling oil in the public school population in 1890 of 5,250, as compared with 1889. The school population in 1890, as ascertained through the assessors, was 496,565, while in 1889 it was 500,815. The average attendance of rural pupils was 47 per cent. of the registered attendance, while in towns it was 59 per cent. and in cities 62 per cent. The average for the Province as a whole was 51 per cent., the same " last year. From the figures it is evident that trustees do not exercise their powers to com. pet the attendance at school of children be. tween seven and thirteen years of age for a period of at least 100 days. Female teach. ' ers still continue to gain on male teachers, being now 67 per cent. of the whole. There is a gratifying increase in the better class of certificates. While salaries in cities and towns have gone up considerably there is not much improvement in the rural districts. The average salary of male pub- lie school teachers was $423 and of female teachers $202. There Were 5,768 school houses in 1890, an increase of 91 over the year before ;5,564, or 66 per cent., of the i public schools use the authorised Iieripture readings, 41 per cent. the Bible. The total receipts of the public schools for 1890 amounted to $5,010,212, against $4,851,061 in 1889. The total expenditure was $4.295.- 678, against $4,198,517 in 1889. Notwith- standingi the large expenditure for school sites an buildings and the large increase to the teachin r ataif, the cost per pupil has but slightly advanced in fourteen years. The average cost per public school pupil was 88 67, against $6 26 in 1877 ,' 5.67 per cent. of the receipts is furnished by theGov- eminent, the balance by the people. Tho number of separate schools has advanced from 175 to 259 in fourteen years.- The ex- penditure is new $289,703, an increase of $174,897 in the same period, and the number of - teachers 569, nn 'increne of _ 235 in the same period: The high school: now number 120 and the collegiate institutes 31. The most gati-