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I wrommmomntzme e mmmmmmmcnemeeemmmmene + WEDNESDAY, APkIL 29. 1908 PREMIER ROSS BUDGET $ # 4 & % A Cash Balance in the Bank Amounting to $1,621,292--Excess of Assets Over Liabilities $1,939,262--Estimated Expenditure $4,537,428 --Estimated Revenue $4,403,872--New Asylum for Epileptics in Oxford County--Penetang Re-- formatory to be a Home for Harmless Insane-- Survey of 53 New Townships to be Undertaken --Invading the Great Clay Beilt. "New occasions teach new dutiss ~~mnad no less than 44 to the north :m'd may be said to have been the k*y . west of Lake Temiskaming. This note of the budget speech delivered will carry the flag of settlgmont to yesterday by Premier Ross in his ca-- the region of Lake Abittibi, and fatr pacity of Treasurer of Ontario. Jt into the great clay belt. F was a matter--of--fact, business state-- It was with this message, t':?at ')'7' ment of an hour and forty minutes, tario lay proper foundations tor th? in which the financial situation in On-- great settlement, that Mr. R(\SS closed tario was thoroughly and frankly can-- a frank, hopeful, patriotic address. vassed. It was a courageous spesch, Early in the aftexjnmfi he in which the country was made aware made _ several _ interesting <f'\ that the policy of development lnd ments, one being that the Go1 expansion brings its responsibilitics.. ernment would shortly ۤt3b1"" an These, however, the Government will Asylum for Epileptics in O:'fmd face resolutely,, and the. budget County, and that the Penetang Bemrm-- shows no flinching in the work which atory would be transformed into an a forward policy entails. One of the asylum for the aged and ]'lfirm'('?.i in-- large undertakings which Mr. Ross . sane. The Temiskaming Railway is ex-- described was the surveying of 53 New _ pected to reach New Liskeard by the townships in new Ontario. Of chese autumn of 1904, while the outcome nine will be in the Rainy River district, ' of the explorations for coal was re-- t * mmgl