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|bimself and his triend from B'°°"'"t"' = --(laughter)--would be -- able also ?l ;look after that part of their work, an |finally the members of the hover.nmcnt' would be able to direct a portion of their time to matters of advantage t0 the Province. . When _the House rc-- sumed next week a definite opinion on this point would no doubt be reached. The School Book Question. Mr. Graham will inquire if it is the intention of the Government > intro-- duce further legislation to provide for school books to the pupils of public !sohooli and separate schools. A Government Caucus. A Government caucus was held in t Public Accounts Committece room of 1 Parliament buildings yesterday. The: was a large attenaance. The discussio was a protracted one, and related chicil} to the work of the session and the lins of policy to hbe adopted in regard to a number of bills and other measures. | Farmers Institute Report. 'i Part 1 of the report of the Farmeors' Institutes of Ontario for 1904 has just ; been issued. It has a short introduc-- tion by Superintendent Putnam and is | followed by thirty--four papers on topics |of interest to farmers, the first, on "cat-- tle bwreeding as a business," being by | {the former Minister of Agriculture, Mr. John Oryden. The last is a short ac count by luspector John Seath of the new school programme in connection with agriculture work. The Care of Erring Girls. A deputation representing the Alex-l andra School for (Girls, and headed by Mr. J. J. Kelso, Superintendent ul" Neglected Children, waited upon Hon. Mr. Hanna yesterday and advocated :l-' plan whereby erring girls under sixteen would be cared for at that institution instead of being sent to the ,\[erccr' refuge. Consideration was promised. | | The Charms of New Ontario. yc l The gories of New Ontério and its attwactions for the dwellers in the city. particulacly the workingmen.are duly set forth in a "poem" received at the coloni-- zation department. It bas been passed on to one of the officials at the build-- ings who has high standing as a littera-- teur, with the request that he pass judgment upon it. \Whether he will send it on to the Minister of his department, and whether the latter will finally seek the opinion of the Cabinet as to pub-- lishing the work at the public expense. and distributing it with the other im-- migration literature, are questions that remain to be settied.. The "poem" has six vyerses. They are all to the point ; , every conceivable -- advantage of New, Ontario is duly set forth. Here are two | of the verses : 5\\'],.\' not go out to this New Ontario * .] The land is good, so the agent says; 1t is well wooded and well watered. too, | With rivers, lakes and bays. iDon't wait. for all your friends to #o } with you, e '? A~ce don't take any one's advice. 'For travellers and surreyors, too. say that New Ontario s ']a destined to be a grand surprise, * | en in hoie e combnrentecaes. s +| _ AN UNMERITED IMPUTATION. Canadian Accountants and the Govern-- . ment's Employment of Alien Figurer, | _ The council of the Institute of Char-- tered Accountants of Ontario passed a <| resolution protesting against the ap-- ~:pointment by the Provincial Secretal'yg 'Lof a United States accountant to un._l / dertake any expert investigation of the'i public accounts 'of the Province. The re-- ; | solution complains of the "unmerited 'imputation thereby placed by the On-- tario Government upon the professional | capacity and the impartiality of the| members of this institute." ' smm mm f