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1' 6 'Lw':i:rh?' D nsden Malcolm,. Munro, frary, Iive Slectic railways in the Nis. | Mutrie, McKay, McKee, Pattullo, Pres--| gara peninsula operated on Sunday:---- ".on. Richardson, Ross, Russell, Strat-- Hamilton, Grimsby & Beamsvill.e. St. in "4" Miegare.St. cathatines & Toronty Ralil-- 'Dr?;e:ogg:lrgo;;:re}&arl{;d 'fi%le;'sg; way; Niagara Falls Park and River * Bow-- Railway.and the tramway between Nia-- Dereuson and feld (Addlngton).J °| gara Falls and Drummondville Mr. oon' fint san culainer Po andl am:d Ratcliffe urged particularly the danger gon, Hill and Cnllagher, Petiyplece a of the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toron-- Boyd, Taylor and Robson, Pardee and to Railway frt')m Niagara Falls to Port Lucas, Clarke and Fallis, Smith and | % $8 « Kribs, Heys and Thompson, Truax and iDalhousle. which had bought a boat and 3 + b:ll » evidently proposed to run it to Toronto scampbell. ievery Sunday during the coming sea-- Many Second Readings. son, which example might be followed by other companies. Mr. Ratcliffe also A large number of public bills were 'asked that the Provincial Exhibit at then given their second _ reading in the Pan--American Exposition be closed order that they may be considered in on Sunday. Public meetings had been committee at an early date. Mr. Car-- beld in the peninsula, and feeling was negie's bill respecting county boundar-- strongly in favor of the restriction of ies was opposed hy Hon. Mr. Stracton, Sunday traffic. * and was declared lost on division. |\ Other speakers urged that the Sun-- | Mr. Graham's bill giving municipalit-- day traffic from the Pan--American was ies authority to allow or disallow trad-- likely to demoralize the peninsula. } ing stamps was referred to a small spe-- ' Rev. Mr. Irwin of Port Colborne ob-- j clal committee of the House. jected to the distribution of Sunday Mr. Graham withdrew his bill to am-- \ newspapers and the Sunday excursions end the municipal light and Beat act. in his nelghborhood. The House adjourned at 6.30. ' The Premier, in reply, announced that | i the deputation need have no fear re-- A l Protest Against A. 0. F. Bill. «pecting the Provincial exhibit at Butft-- | Mr. Carscallen presented a petition falo. The Government would exercise from a number of Hamilton members of their right and see that it was closed the Ancient Order of Foresters protest-- on Sunday. The other matters would ing against the passage of a bill re-- be considered by the Government and specting that order now before the by the Railway Committce, before !Houre. This bill declares that all lthe whom the bills would come. \ assets. interests, rights, etc., belonging s | to the Subsidiary High Court A. O. F_., Drainage Comes High,. Incorporated by Provincial charter, 1877 A deputation from Essex and Kent (the Provincial corporation), shall be \ Counties waited on _ the -- Premier vested in the Subsidiary High Court yesterday -- and asked _ for assist-- \A. O. F., incorporated by Dominion ance for the extonsive drainag» | Parliament in 1898, and also that the | works under the terms of | members of the Provincial corporation | the drainage aid act. Messrs. Aula and are members of the Dominion corpora-- MeKee -- introduced the deputation, tion. which consiste? of L{ee\'e'\ Dodson of | > Cl Tilbury West, Reeve Selkirk of Mergea,| | Committee Work Delayed., Reeve Fox of Romney. Thomas A nder--| _ The Railway and Public Accounts son, Clerk of Tilbury \Vcst'..aml Wfl-\ f Committees of the Legislature were un-- liam Newman, Windsor. 'he Town-- A able to transact business yesterday read sent hun-- owine to lnck of a averam. Uheaun | -- |sblbs affected heve alveaay svent Sun. vate Bills and Municipal Committees drainage works, which affect _ 46,000 were barely able to muster a quorum. acres. Tilbury West has spent 5170'000' The latter committee fixed the consid-- and Mersea $8$,000, alone. |eration of Hamilton and Toronto bills | BA wONMS» aslur;' lri:portant amendments to $h.~ | A Etrange Request. municipal and assessment acts or ¥ w elated request has Tuesday next. In the Private Bills Com-- |re30h ho the commisploner es 'cCrown mittee the measure allowing the Town [ Lands from x resident of Owen Sound. O Oon iob en' ioe Hhikee of Ach-- The correspondent states that his fath-- burnham to place a fixed rate of assess-- ar left his home near. Albany., N.Y., in n'lent on the property 2' ie An':erlcan 1813, with 'the intention of settling in | n n on ot ons it enare was thst Ontario. With his wife, he sailed for | only measure of importance, and it was this cit} then the Vllla'ge of York, passed after some discussion. bringin g' enough goods to start a store. Against Sunday Cars. The war of 1812 was then in progress, z and the authoritiee confiscated the A deputation from the Lord's Day Al-- man's goods, which were sold by pri--| liance of Toronto and the Niagara dis-- vate sale. T.he immigrant never receIV-l trict waited on Premier Ross yester-- ed any compensation, and, according to: day to ask that measures be taken the letter, he brought up a family of ten to prevent or restrict Surnday «raific in and died in poverty and ruin. The son that peningula. _ There were present now asks that compensation be given Rev. J. H. Ratcliffe, Alderman Reed, St. him in the form of a timber limit, in a Catharines; Rev. John Crawford, Nia-- location where a mill could be establish-- gara Falls; Rev. A. J. Irwin, Port Col-- d. as he has a son in the lumber busi-- | Lorne; C!;a'nlcdellsor V\tallacei Rgv. JbG. ness. \Shearer, Field Secretary Lord's Day Hon Mr. Davis has replied that the | Allience; Alex. Mills and A. E. O'Meara, law ;')Lrovides that public auction or by \Toronto. tender is the only way to digpose oi