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. V _ Moor bill was again ., t mittee, when Hon. Mr. Gibson, who was ' leading'the House in the Premier's ab . sence, announced that the date of the 7 referendum had been fixed tor Decem- her 4th. Mr. Alerter presented a num- , l her of amendments, which will he voted; i on at third reading to-day. Mr. Gross'l ' bill respecting civil engineers, which hast met with considerable criticism, was lost l 's, on division. Late in the evening a mo- l "" -----_ ton by Mr. Pcttypiece, to suspend the action of the ahii-trading "tet law until April l, 19031; 1:8 ttteh . The Tem"vskamin & ion em tt arm Legislature May Con- Railway bill passged its third 'tteg; - Before the orders of the ay were! clude Business taken up Chief Justice Armour was es-i, T d carted to the Speaker's chair. The; o- ay- Clerk of the House read the proclama-l tion appointing the Chief Justice as Ad-l ministrator pro tem., with power to 8.5-; ------- sent to measures Lthtf, and to proroguti the House. His Lor ship their assented: , lo the Atorney-General's bills providing! R A I L ll' l Y l I I) for the revision oi the statute law, and: A a k . the act. respecting mortmain and the; disposition of lands for charitable pur-' poses. after which he left the Chamber. Stoney Creek Grant. l . Col. Matheson 1South Lanark), on the Resolutions Passed the House Public Accounts Committee report be- Yesterday. ing presented, said that under present conditions it was absolutely impossible to thoroughly examine into the accounts -.-__..- of the Province in the Public. Accounts y Committee. [The committee was not CIVIL Sy0INSSRS' B ableuto hold more than eight or nine [ l . nice rigs during a session 0 the House, L , " I ILL and the mere physical labor of looking into the accounts made it impossible to thoroughly examine more than two ore three accounts. The principal matter in- I vestigtrted this session was the Govern-1 Declared Lost on "tvision-No Sus- ment grant of $4,000 to the Dicksonl ,emgon of the AntG'rrohttr Lumber Company for work on Stoney) "an", Law - an", on, in the Creek dams. The grant, he said, Was' no." made on an estimate that the work: . would cost $13,000, lint had been paid' when only $8,000 had been expended, and _ q.--.--..-.- that was practically all that was spent on tho work. It was it remarkable thing that at the time the check for the grant Very rapid progress was made in the was received no man in the company's Legislature yesterday, and from the employ except the foreman of the woods cleararce made in the order paper it; is department knew that "oh a grant was . te, . to be made. Ihere was no special need believed that, 'the I',",.") of the session tor this grant. The company was . will he concluccd to-nig it or to-morrow wealth . morning. in that event prorogation t'2l'lfl'dT,', nad the works were of no . F 'tPttte but themselves. will take placi- on Monday or Tuesday. Thi d R . Apart from the sadness which charac- Th . 1r endings. terized the opening scenes yesterday tid,',"'.....?'" bills were read a third morning, on tlu. announcement of the The Temiska . death of Mrs. Ross. the day was one of Railway 'l'l'l'lell'l',','f {EN 'ff/ttri,':? tario stetdy and unremitting work. Early ia, 1u'2,2,go,vi.,f,e for the removal of Ob- the afternoon the railway resolutions,; talnc one m rwert, and streams in cer- including a smiTlmmmtary list made) T casetr--Hon. Mr. Iatehtord. . _ . . 1 o confer certain powers on the t public yesterday, were passed, making'; tees of the will of the late John Ba rua- votes totaliing some $700,000. Thel Dr. Pyne. 'ron--; ------l--l-