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-ll--""'l'"""0lrel.illil."'"""" tte) will" (i?"": e .mmen 'it'. ..~... l Mr. Speaker Beagtttmt,' T _ a the Legislative Library '/ mes photographic views of the Paris Ex- position. to which he was Commission. or from Ontario. The following gentlemen waited upon the Government esterdny and ask- ed for a grant of {1.000 a year in aid: :0t the Salvation Army's Men's Sociall (Department :--Btatt Inspector Archi- 'bald. Warden Gilmour. Central Prison: Col. Jacobs. Chief Secretary Salvation Army. and Stat! Captain Archibald, Salvation Army. Colonel Jacobs. as spokesman. presented a statement showing that during the year 1,137 prisoners were visited: 684 men were met on their discharge and offered lodgings and employment. Steady work was found tor 179 men, and of this number only 123 per cent. proved un- satisfactory. Free labor bureaus were established. 626 men being aided. and beds were given to 8.822 men. T. w. Fisher. mining foreman ot the Belmont gold mine, north of Marmara. Hastings County, was at the Parlia- ment buildings yesterday. The mine, he says. is operated by the Cordon. Min- " Syndicate. composed ot English npitalists. and now employs 130 t en. In the summer this staff will be increased to 500. The com- pany is bringing waterpower to the mine tor the working ot their com- pressor. from Deer River Falls. sev- eral miles' distant, by means ot a pipe; system. 1 A hill introduced by Mr. Barr otl Dufferin provides for the extension ot' the manhood franchise registration.' which is now confined to cities and] cotrntv to'rtltt, to all municipalities. I W. H. Johns of Gravenhurst has been' appointed bailiff of the Second Division! court. Muskoka. vice John Valmer. re-; signed. . l T.--".-....".'-"-".'-"-".'-'."-"."."'-'..",.'-".'-"....-.- -_'. l