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.k)erghesua,,,,,,4tari, t, i-L,,. . . I _" i . _ e ' I I I I I ----- (Lieutenant-Governor Offici- I '; ates at Customary Cere- . I many in Queen's Park FEW CITIZENS PRESENT . A quiet end was written. offi- cially, yesterday to the first session of Onturio's Seventeenth Legislature. . His Honor Lieutenant-Governor W. In Ross came and went amid the) time-honored formality of booming guns, cavalry escort, guard of honor. glitter of rlress and ceremony. and in between the times gave [loyal assent to the 15? bills fashioned by the House during its sessional period of Frsh. 2-March M. And so another page in the l(.:.islativo history of the; ' iProvince was turned. ' 5l-'cw Visitors Present. Fcw spectators followed the "My; .iogation proceedings. The Legisla- Tve Assembly itself was fairly woll, _vepvesented---Toronto members. in Iparticular. rallying to the occasion» ',but the galleries held only a handful 'of [)0'Uplv'. Usually the pomp and ceremony of an opening or prot'oga-v Hon of l'arl ament is like a cantile- flume to tho moths. but yesterday's affair proved an exception to the rule, and the general public stayed away. The Speech from the. Throne oc- icupiml Inn a short time in reading. univen over almost entirely to a 'comtnenriation of Government ad- 'ministration. it did not fail to ap- .prove of the sessional "preparation and enactment of legislation to con- trol the sale of liquor." The work in that regard, declared his Honor . thv'l.ienttenant-Governor. has been . "ruarlted." Speaks for New Law. "By your careful adherence to thr principles approved by the electors," the Speech continued. "you have en- listed a degree of public support for the measure which should ensure the .most favorable conditions for :ts operation and enforcement. It is earnestly hoped that the new law I will promote better conditions ' throughout the Province in connec- tion with the consumption of liquor, and my Ministers count upon the co- operation of all well-disposed people. for that very desirable purpose." l Touches Other Legislation. The Speech from the Throne also: touched upon the "unanimous delir-; erance" of the House on the Diamond'! Jubilee of Confederation; the gem' erouu appropriations voted and the legislative enactments made in favor of the agricultural industry; the pl'O-. vision for the encouragement of ath- letics among the school children of; the Province; the extension OfI Hydro-Electric power undertakings, and exttnsion of Hydro service 10' rural districts; the "further recog- nition ot the importance of our for-I est resources and of the industries: dependent upon them," as supplied" by. the new Forestry Act; the ex-t tensions ot the T. & N.O. Railway? toward James Bay and into Rouyn; the' establishment of customs smelt- ing and refining plants to aid the Northern Ontario mining industry; the changes in the Highways Traffic and Public Vehicles Acts; the merg- ing of the Provincial Board ot V Health with the departmental organ- tuition, and the early completion of the work of revising the statutes.