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an lnc;'ease of approximately $2,700,.-- @00 over last year for similar serv-- ices. The summary is as follows: Civil Government, $2,113,525; legis-- lation, #336,485; administration of justice, $1,780.300; education, $7,-- 478,828.28; public institutions, $3,.-- 862%,516: agriculture, $1,666,738.45; colonization and immigration, $208,-- 5$84.96; hospitals and charities, $1,-- 268,900; maintenance and repairs of Government -- buildings $517,936.35; public buildings, $680,300. _ Answering a question asked -- by Charles McCrea (Conservative, Sud -- bury), Hon. Peter Smith made a re-- turn to the Legislature yesterday that the Devonshire Racing Associa-- tion gave a cheque for $15,000 to cover the tax of the last two days of the meet in 1922%. The cheque was returned from the bank -- marked "X.S.F.," and the (Government ac-- cepted a bond for 5 per cent., dated October 1. 1922. it A summary of the main es-- timates of the Province of Ontario for the year ending October 81, 1924, tabled in the Legislature after midnight, totals $26,090,778.04, or Third readings were given in thel Legislature yesterday to the follow--| ing bills: Respecting the city of Lon-- don; respecting the town of Till-- sonburg; to incorporate the city of York City; respecting the town of; Brampton: respecting the University / of Western Ontario; to amend the \ Local Improvement Act, 'a big roads conference in Spain summer. 4 To Make Inquiries. e t i e eC ans $ M. M. MacBride (Independent La-- bor, South Brant) read a copy of & letter to the Attorney--General from the Canadian Optometrical Associa-- tion, dated January 27 of this year, which letter asked the Attorney-- General to dismiss the Board of Ex-- aminers in Optometry. Quotations were made in the letter from a re-- port by the auditors, Clarkson, Dil-- worth & Company, as & support to the petition. Mr. MacBride asked what the Attorney--General intended to do if no action already had been taken. Mr. Raney asked the South Brant member to let him see the let-- ter and he would make inquiries in the department and make a state-- ment to the House today. Answering a question asked -- by Public Works, $150,500; Depart-- ment of Labor, $2,338,075; coloniza-- tion roads, $857,300; Department of Public Highways, $201,320; Game and Fisheries, $271,250; Attorney-- General's Department, miscellaneous, $50,500; Treasury Department mis-- cellaneous, $451,619; Provincial Secretary's Department, miscellan-- eous, $7,750; Lands and Forests, $1,-- 907,200; Department of Mines, $139,-- 550; refund account, $127,000; mis-- cellancous, $154,600. 'Kotal, #2%,-- 9290,1 7040 4. : ONTARIO'S ESTIMATES BILLS GET THIRD READING this i ce sinta n it Aicachlos br ic ~ASth: 000 by Provincial loans, dition, half a dozen me third reading. Toward 5. House went into supply. Despite the need for haste, not a great deal of progress .was madc--at the afternoon session, when a dozen or more items of legislation were brought up. The Blue Sky bill--the most contentious remaining measure ----wasy called for committee consid-- cration, but withdrawn pending the attendance of interested members. Tho same thing happened Charles Swayze's bill to repeal the Gas Act, which would do away with the Gas Referec, and, presumably, throw the inunicipalities back upon their old contracts with the gas companices. The reception given Mr. Swayze's bill was a fair intimation that it will be discussed somewhat at length, J. A. Currie, Southeast Toronto, in particular, declaring himself vitally interested in the question of fuel sup-- plies for western Ontario, and also in the aspect of the Ontario gas situ-- ation dealing with Standard Oil Compun.y connections with existing companies,. T wo WILL MEET IN MORNINGS Formal provision for morning gittings of the Legislature was made yesterday, when the Attorney--Gen-- eral, with the concurrence of the whole House, moved that Tuesday und thereafter there commence & morning session at 11 o'clock. The House clings to_ the intention of prorogation this week. Bills Held Over. PROGRESS IS SLOW IN ONTARIO HOUSE Many on Bills Get Readings. y Bills Held Over to Give Time for Debates dozen measures supply. i: Imeasures got ard 5.30 p.m. the , and, in ad--