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(~'Mhe tfimho Toronio CGen-- | eral Trusts & was laid on the | * table (by Mr. Gibson (Hami'tion),. It | stated that the original capitai of $200,-- 000 was increased on April 2nd, 1832, to $300,000. On Octobsr 29, 1883, the capital was further increased to $500,000, and on July 15, 1887, the capital, was increased to $1,000,000, or 20,000 shg;:_;5, at $50 each. Among the visitors the touse to--day / were Hon. Dayvid'A waxds Mart'n, Q. C., Ham#Elo®,' in . s 2. o. . _ i,"sL Messrs. T. D. Crais, Ai. P.,,-- ~2 Og s 'hain, and Mayor MrCiean, of » 0 "PM5je, . formed a depu'tal'agn t at ' .'a.:m *' \Mr. Hardy to--diy and a ced .nat~Pae municipal act shall D. so a nended: aii'to y provide that a towh separat ~" * . a' county shall have the right to (@h=--part in the preliminary, megling ; for *ke sep-- aration of countl>y * t --~~ . nited in consideration of th °* .. the town | wir have to bear it. ire or the ex-- pense of erecting new <-- unty bu'. lings. 'The government was to--day wauited up-- on by a deputation composed of Henry Pettit and George Lioyd Jones of -- the Central Farmers' institute ; G. W. Cline, president of the Grimsby Fruitgrowers' ussociation ; J. M. Foran of the Winona Grapegrowers' company, and Thomas H. | P. Carpenter of the county of Wentworth Fruitgrowers' association, who asked that those engaged in agricultural pursuits be *xempted from lHabilit=« une~e th-- w----L. men's compensation for injuries act. The deputation was accompanied by Messrs. rlton and Waters. & Davis, than whom no member of house has taken a deeper or more carnest interest in the temperance cause, has given notice of a bill making pro-- vision for the taking of a plebiscite on the question of prohibition. This action is taken in compliance with the hundreds of petitions which have been presented to the legislature,, and with the terms of the resolution ; dopted at the meeting of prohibitionists held in the parliament buildings last week. The exact method of securing the popular verdict on the wr question has not yet hbeen decided , but it is altogether probable that provision will be made for the submis-- sion of the question at.the next munici-- pal or the next provincial election. Many strong argumeonts have been ad-- vanced in favor of taking the vote at the municipal elections, as the result, it is almost certain, would be knov,q3 before the Dominion parliament undertakes the consideration of the report of the prohi-- bition commission. Finally, th », question must be settled by the Dominion parlia-- ment, and it is argued that a straight declaration from Ontario in favor of the abolition of the traific will materially 'as.\lst that august body in coming to« a