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Railway, $73,600 ; Ottawa and Gatinean Valley 

 Railway, $04,000 ; Boston and Nova Scotia Coal 

 and Railway Company, $113,000 ; Manitoba and 

 Northwestern Railway, $320,000 ; Nakusp and 

 Slocan Railway, $121,600; South Shore Rail- 

 way, $112,000; Cape Breton Railway Extension 

 Company, $96,000: Great Northern Railway, 

 $96,000 ; Lindsay. Bobcaygeon and Pontypool 

 Railway, $102,400; Brockville, Westport and 

 Sault Ste. Marie Railway, $86,800; St. Cather- 

 ine's and Niagara Central Railway, $108,000 ; 

 Montreal and Ottawa Railway, $118,400 ; Quebec 

 Central Railway, $288,000 : Lake Temiscamingue 

 Colonization Railway, $274,940; Rocky Moun- 

 tain Railway and Coal Company, 6,400 acres of 

 Dominion lands a mile for about 60 miles ; Cana- 

 dian Pacific Railway, 6.400 acres a mile for 32 

 miles ; and Brandon and Southwestern Railway, 

 6,400 acres a mile for 17 miles. 



The actual and the theoretical cost of Cana- 

 dian railways, up to 1894, is shown in the above 

 table. 



The following table shows the earnings of 

 Government railways for the years indicated : 



Banking 1 . The following statistics of Cana- 

 dian banks for the past three years will convey 

 a clear idea of the progress made during the 

 periods indicated : 



The paid-up capital invested in banking in 



the Dominion last year was $61,954,314. The 



clearing-house returns for the banks of Montreal 



alone show that for that year the clearings were 



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$590,000,000. and the aggregate of the foreign 

 commerce of the city $92,584,000. 



1892. 



1893. 



'Customs. The customs duty paid in Canada 

 in 1893 was $21,154,171. The total imports for 

 home consumption were $115,171,145, coin and 

 bullion not included. The articles of voluntary 

 use and luxury imported during the year 

 amounted to $10,212,222, on which a duty of 

 $4,924,893 was paid, being over 23 per cent, of 

 the total duty paid, or $3,000,000 more than 

 their proportionate share. 



Though the subjoined statement of the expend- 

 itures for the various departments of the pub- 

 lic service of Canada for 1878 (the year of con- 

 federation) and 1893 is from Opposition sources, 

 it is doubtless substantially correct. Mr. Charl- 

 ton, M. P., who prepared the list, attempted to 

 prove by the figures that the manner of conduct- 

 ing the 'public service of the country was marked 

 by extravagance, in that while the population of 

 the Dominion had increased during the interval 

 between those years about 20 per cent., the ex- 

 penditures had increased in an altogether dis- 

 proportionate ratio. But it was not Mr. Charl- 

 ton's object to show that while the expenditures 

 were so largely increased, there was also a cor- 

 responding increase in the revenue, or that the 

 increased expenditure was in the main rendered 

 necessary by the changed conditions of the coun- 

 try and the needs of the public service. 



Administration of justice in 1878, $564,920; 

 in 1893, $736,457. Fisheries in 1878, $93,262 ; 

 in 1893, $482,381. Arts, agriculture, and statis- 

 ticsin 1878, $92.365; in 1893, $258,635. In- 

 diansin 1878, $421,503; in 1893, $956.552. 

 Quarantine in 1878, $26,340: in 1893, $101.- 

 954. Legislation in 1878, $618,035: in 1893, 

 $867.231. Militia and defense in 1878, $618,- 

 136: in 1893, $1.419,745. Public works in 

 1878, $997,469; in 1893. $1,927,832. Superan- 

 nuationin 1878, $100.588; in 1893. 263,710. 

 Excise in 1878, $215,024; in 1893, $387,673. 

 Northwest Territories government in 1878, 



