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lar shall lx> killed, and fines are imposed for 



keeping Mich dngs. 



A law was passed authori/.ing and requiring 

 tin- inspector of factories, workshops, and mines 

 to enforce the laws relating to fortnightly pay- 

 inentsaiid sanitary conditions. A law was passed 

 t" protect persons, associations, and unions in 

 their labels, trade-marks, devices, and forms of 

 advertising. Xo person shall liring into the 

 State, or transport, intoxicating liquors, in vio- 

 lation of the law, under a penalty of a fine of 

 not less than $50 nor more than $100, and sixty 

 d.i\ ^' Imprisonment. 



MANITOBA. The provincial Legislature 

 met on Feb. 2, and the following were the members 

 of the Cabinet : Hon. Thomas Greenway, Presi- 

 dent of the Executive Council and Minister of 

 Agriculture and Immigration; Hon. D. H. Mc- 

 Millan, Provincial Treasurer ; Hon. Clifford Sif- 

 ton, Attorney-General; Hon. J. A. Smart, Min- 

 ister of Public Works; and Hon. J. D. Cameron, 

 Provincial Secretary. John Jacob Jackson was 

 elected Speaker. Lieut.-Gov. Schultz opened 

 the session with the customary address. 



On March 1, Hon. Clifford Sifton, Attorney- 

 General, introduced a motion that the Dominion 

 Government be petitioned to enact a law pro- 

 hibiting importation, manufacture, and sale of 

 intoxicating liquor as a beverage into or in the 

 province of Manitoba, and it was carried. 



The new school act abrogated the previously 

 existing laws legalizing separate schools, and 

 under its provisions Government assistance and 

 grants of public money are only given to what 

 may be called national schools. All teachers 

 must now pass the same examination, and all 

 schools be inspected. Those in favor of the con- 

 tinuance of separate schools supported by pub- 

 lic grants appealed against the law to the Mani- 

 toba courts, which rendered a decision maintain- 

 ing its constitutionality. They next appealed 

 to the Supreme Court, which decided the case 

 against the new law, and the Provincial Govern- 

 ment then carried the case to the Privy Council, 

 which decided in favor of Manitoba. 



The following were the most important meas- 

 ures adopted during the session : 



To amend the liquor license act. 



To incorporate the Winnipeg Industrial Coloniza- 

 tion Company. 



To incorporate the Melita Northern Railway Com- 

 pany. 



To encourage the destroying of wolves. 



To incorporate the Winnipeg Canal and Water 

 Power Company. 



To incorporate the Life Assurance Company of 

 Manitoba. 



The following are the principal grants of 

 money voted by the Legislature during the ses- 

 sion: Administration of Justice, Attorney-Gen- 

 eral's department, $17.150; for the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway extension, Pipestono and Glen- 

 boro branches, $87,500; Red River Railway. 

 $50,000; World's Columbian Exposition, $66,- 

 000; educational grants, $123,685.38; interest 

 on provincial debentures, half-breed mortgages, 

 and railway bonuses, $94.398.80; indemnity and 

 mileage of members of Legislature, $24.800; 

 railway aid and interest (specially authorized), 

 $98,550; new courthouse, Winnipeg, $85.000; 

 normal school in connection with Public Works 



Department, $60,000; and to defray the expenra 

 of legislation, public institutions, salaries of 

 Government employees, etc., for the months of 

 January and February, 1894, $80,000. 



The session closed on .March 11. 



Finance's. The total revenue of the prov- 

 ince for the last fiscal year was $871,600.04, and 

 the total expenditure, $1,247,915.75, which, less 

 $247,571 carried to the debit of various ledger 

 accounts, would leave an expenditure of $1,000,- 

 344.75. Assuming the last figures as being the 

 real expenditure for the year, the excess of ex- 

 penditure over revenue would amount to $128,- 

 684.71. 



Prisons and Hospitals. The total number 

 of prisoners and insane persons received into 

 the jails of the province during last year was 

 314, being 70 more than for the year before. 



Agriculture. Of wheat, the total amount 

 produced in the province was 14,500,000 bushels, 

 or a yield of 16 J bushels an acre ; of oats, 11,500,- 

 000 bushels, being a yield of 35 bushels an acre ; 

 of barley 3,000,000 bushels ; potatoes, 2,000,000 

 bushels; and of turnips, 7,000,000 bushels. 



The number of immigrants arriving in Mani- 

 toba in the year was 20,016, being an increase of 

 6,893 over the year before. Among those set- 

 tling in the province during the time specified, 

 were several parties of Icelanders, who were al- 

 lotted land on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. 



Education. The school population of the 

 province is 29,564 ; pupils registered under five 

 years of age. 130 ; from five to twenty-one years, 

 23,022 ; over twenty-one years, 94 : total number 

 registered, 23,244; average attendance for the 

 year, 12,976. The number of teachers employed 

 was 902, the highest salary paid was $1,600, the 

 average salary $490.15. The receipts of the 

 department of education for the year amounted 

 to $500,227, and the expenditure to $636,592. 



Fisheries. The value of the product of the 

 fisheries of the province for 1892 was $314.705, 

 being $50,000 in excess of that for the previous 

 vear. The increase was ascribed mainly to the 

 large catch of whitefish nearly 800,000 pounds. 



Railroads. The work in connection with 

 recent railway extension comprised the comple- 

 tion of the road from Deloraine to Napinka, 

 IMpcstone branch to Reston, and the Brandon 

 and Souris branch, the latter providing facilities 

 to an excellent farming district and to the Sou- 

 ris coal fields. 



The Mennonite Colony. Last year the 

 Mennonite colony of southern Manitoba paid 

 the last of their indebtedness to the Government 

 of Canada. A sum amounting to $96,400 was 

 advanced to the colonists, most of whom were 

 poor, by the Dominion Government, the repay- 

 ment of the money being guaranteed by 150 well- 

 to-do farmers of 'German descent of "Waterloo 

 County, Ontario. They met at first with many dis- 

 couragements, but finally prospered far beyond 

 their most sanguine expectations. What was a 

 few years ago a treeless prairie, without a soli- 

 tary settler, is now a well-cultivated district, 

 dotted with villages, and the most thickly popu- 

 lated farming section in the Northwest. 



Kcewatin. The Lieutenant-Governor of 

 Manitoba is also Lieutenant-Governor of the 

 province of Keewatin. an expanse of 400.000 

 square miles, extending from Manitoba to Hud- 



