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\k)e-c\\\e.sd ay, Fc_\o. ITYH. GIVEN FIRST READING e n n nsm Chief Interest Centres in One Respecting Old Beaver-- ton Church ONE TORONTO BILL READ Chief in interest among the private bills given first réading in the On-- tarlo Legislature yesterday was that introduced by George Shields, Con-- servative member for Toronto Woodbine, and dealing. with the status of the "old stone church'" at Beaverton At present the church is unoceu-- pled. Through the medium of the Shields bill Continuing Presbyterians seek possession of the edifice. The congregation of the church voted into Union, it will be recalled, but the church itself -- was afterward abandoned. The bill also aims at pos-- session of the church's cemetery, Others given first reading were bills respecting the Village of Hum-- berside, the City of Toronto, --the : City®: of Hamilton, the Hamilton Street Railway Company, the City of Port Arthur, the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge of the Thunder Bay District, the Town of Kapuskasing, the Township of East York, the Township of North York, the Corporation of the Village -- of Forest Hill, the Township of Thor-- old, the Township of Sandwich West, y the Village of Windermere, the Vil-- lage of Fort Erie, and the Town of Dunnville.