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The American Church Building Fund Commis- 

 sion reports that in the year gifts amounting to 

 $4,725 were made to 27 churches, and loans to 

 the amount of $19,575 to 13 churches. The con- 

 tributions to the permanent building fund were 

 $0,930.86; interest on loans and investments, $16,- 

 <>0.i.02; loans returned by parishes and missions, 

 $33,008.90. The fund now amounts to $356,158.01. 

 In Honolulu no transfer of the rights of the 

 Independent Church there has yet been effected by 

 the ecclesiastical authorities. The statistics of the 

 diocese for 1900 show: Number of clergy, 8; church 

 ediiices, 7; parishes and missions, 9; baptisms, 119; 

 confirmations, 75; communicants, 590; Sunday- 

 school teachers, 22; Sunday-school pupils, 270; 

 parish-school teachers, 15; parish-school pupils, 

 435 ; contributions, $8,095. 



The Right Rev. Mahlon Norris Gilbert, Bishop 

 adjutor of the diocese of Minnesota, died 

 arch 2, 1900. The Right Rev. Henry Melville 

 Jackson, bishop, whose resignation was accepted 

 April 19, 1900, died May 4, 1900. The Right Rev. 

 Richard Hooker Wilmer, second Bishop of Ala- 

 bama, died June 14, 1900. Also the Church lost 

 by death 97 other clergymen. 



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On Feb. 2, 1900, the Rev. Sidney Catlin Part- 

 ridge, having been elected first bishop of the mis- 

 sionary jurisdiction of Kioto in Japan, was con- 

 secrated. Feb. 24, 1900, the Rev. Robert Codnian, 

 Jr., rector of St. John's Church, Roxbury, Mass., 

 having been elected on Dec. 13, 1899, at a special 

 convention of the diocese, third Bishop of Maine, 

 was consecrated. On the same date the Rev. 

 Charles Palmerston Anderson, rector of Grace 

 Church, Oak Park, 111., having been elected, on 

 Jan. 9, 1900, by a special convention of the dio- 

 cese, Bishop Coadjutor of Chicago, was conse- 

 crated. July 25, 1900, the Rev. Robert Wood- 

 ward Barnwell, rector of St. Paul's Church, 

 Selma, Ala., having been elected Bishop Coadjutor 

 of Alabama, and the Right Rev. Richard Hooker 

 Wilmer, bishop of the diocese, having died subse- 

 quently to the election, was consecrated, and be- 

 came the third Bishop of Alabama. Nov. 8, 1900, 

 the Ven. Reginald Heber Weller, Jr., B. D., 

 Archdeacon of Stevens Point and rector of the 

 Church of the Intercession, Stevens Point, having 

 been elected, on Aug. 30, 1900, at a special con- 

 vention of the diocese, Bishop Coadjutor of Fond 

 du Lac, was consecrated. 





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QUEBEC, a province of the Dominion of Can- 

 ada; area, 228,900 square miles; population in 

 1891, 1,488,535. 



Government and Politics. The Government 

 of Mr. F. G. Marchand faced the opening of a 

 new year with a substantial majority and no seri- 

 ous shadow upon its future. The Legislature met 

 on Jan. 18, 1900, and was opened by Lieut.-Gov. 

 L. A. Jette with a speech from the throne, in 

 which he said: 



" You will be called upon to consolidate our 

 health and license laws, and amendments to the 

 laws governing Crown lands, factories, and mining 

 corporations will also be laid before you. 



" As you will see by the public accounts, equi- 

 librium is at last restored in our finances, and the 

 ordinary receipts of the year show a surplus over 

 all expenditure. With the kind assistance hitherto 

 afforded my Government by the members, I am 

 confident that this condition of affairs will con- 

 tinue; but to maintain this position it will be 

 necessary to keep the expenditure within its pres- 

 ent limits for some time. The settlement of ac- 

 counts between the Government of the Dominion 

 and that of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec 



continues to receive its attention, and the system 

 will shortly be inaugurated by the distribution of 

 an excellent map of our province to all the schools 

 in municipalities desirous of benefiting by the 

 same. The school inspectors have given peda- 

 gogical lectures in their several districts, which 

 were attended by a great many teachers, at the 

 Government's expense; and in order to encourage 

 them in the performance of their scantily remu- 

 nerated task my Government has distributed 

 money bonuses to the most deserving. 



" To encourage colonization, my Government has 

 made considerable efforts to open new roads in 

 regions suitable for settlement, and many settlers 

 have taken advantage of this to establish them- 

 selves there. Agriculture has also received a lib- 

 eral share of encouragement from my Government, 

 which has paid attention to improving the quality 

 of butter and cheese, to propagating the best kinds 

 of fruit trees, and to providing municipalities with 

 better highways. 



" In consequence of a judgment of the Privy 

 Council, which was communicated last year to the 

 Legislature, my Government has become vested 

 with the ownership of a portion of the fisheries 



has made marked progress during the year. Our formerly under the administration of the Federal 



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province has obtained from the board of arbi- 

 trators an important award condemning Ontario 

 to pay into the common-school fund an amount 

 of nearly $300,000. The Ontario Government has, 

 however, notified my Government that it intends 

 to apply to the Supreme Court for leave to appeal 

 from that award. The question of the perpetual 

 annuities to the Lake Huron and Lake Superior 

 Indians, under the Robinson treaties, presented 

 considerable difficulties which, by means of an 

 agreement with the two other governments inter- 

 ested, my Govei-nment has been able finally to 

 settle to its undoubted advantage. 



" My Government has neglected none of the un- 

 dertakings which it has pledged itself to promote. 

 The education of youth has been the object of its 

 particular care. It has increased the yearly grants 

 to poor municipalities and to night schools; it 

 has subsidized a normal school for female teachers 

 which has just been founded in Montreal. The 

 roviding of free schoolbooks for primary schools 



Government. The judicious application of the law 

 passed on the subject last session, and of the 

 game law, together with the part taken by the 

 province in the New York Sportsman's Exhibition 

 in 1899, have resulted in a marked increase in the 

 provincial revenue. 



" My Government has devoted its particular at- 

 tention to protecting and profitably utilizing our 

 immense forests, our splendid water powers and 

 mineral resources. Thanks to its assistance, new 

 industries continue to be established and populous 

 manufacturing centers are springing up in regions 

 until recently uninhabited. Within the past few 

 years pulp wood has assumed such importance in 

 connection with the prosperity of our population 

 and the public revenue that my Government has 

 deemed it advisable to take steps to increase the 

 manufacture of pulp in this country, to the benefit 

 of our industrial and laboring population." 



One of the pledges made by the Government 

 when in opposition was a promise to abolish the 



