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Splendid Speech by Crown Lands Commissmner. t: .-Mr. Hardy Shows Further Serious Inac- curacies on the Part of Dr. Rrertson- I Committees and Deputations. Legislative Chamber, March 13. _ The afternoon and evening ot today V Were devoted to the continuation ot the budget debwte. The speech of the day ', was the brilliant effort of the Cotumiasion, ' cr of Crown Lands. He spoke for an hour and a 'hulf in the afternoon. and during that time traversed the entire tim- ber policy of the Government since Con- federation. His speech bristied with tel- ling statistics, and was a'must compre- hensive and effective defence of the timber policy of the Administration. of which he has for nearly a score of years been a distinguished member.