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In the course of his speech when, moving the second reading of the Local Option Bill, the Hon. Mr Fox alluJed to the efforts of a few residents in a Northern district to form a Good Templar lodge. He stated that these men had travelled about the district for daya endeavouriog to secure adherents to the cause, and he ironically ad Jed, 11 They had no honorarium or railway paeses. Dr. Wallis followed the Hon. Mr Fox in speaking on the second reading of the Local Option Bill. Whan he rose to address the House there was a general clear out of members, but after the reverend gentleman had divested himself of hia pulpit-like style of speaking he warmed up to the subject, and eventually became irresistibly funny in some of his remarks. Then members returned from tha lobbies, and laughed heartily at the hon. gentleman's flights .of fancy and dashes of humor. After stating that he would support a permissive but not a confiscatory measure, he have a happy illustration, as showing how it would be impossible to entirely prohibit the use of liquor. He instanced the fact of a man keeping an allopathic, homoepathio, or hydropathic establishment. One patient would come and say that he had a pain in hie stomach and was generally out of sorts. The doctor would immediately reply, " Gin's your medicine, sir;" and that man would go away convinced that the doctor understood his patient's ailment. And then auoiher man would come with a wild look in his eye and a nervous twitchiog abuufc the mouih. It would be easy to recognise un M.H.R. in him, with Financial Statement on the brain. That man required a glass of brandy and hot water. And so the hon. member proceeded, prescribing various remedies tor different maladies. He kept the House in roura of laughter for about fifteen minutes. Our contemporary, the Canterbury Press, does uot entertain a very high opinion of the efficiency of Mr Curtis' rejected proposal for limiting the length ot members' speeches. It, however, makes a novel suggestion. " Let Mr Curtis," it remarks, "move a resolution that the honorarium of members should be made dependent up*on the value of the arguments used and proposals made by them during the session. Let this value be assessed, every four weeks, by a perfectly impartial independent body of men (the Judges of the Supreme Court, for instance), who shall be instructed to take into account only intrinsic merit, without any regard to the length of the speeches. Let a fixed sum per hour be added for attendance on committees, and we have no doubt that a most excellent change would be made in the length of the annual ' Hansard,' the duration of the session, the expense to the country, the character of the debates, and possibly their effect on Mr Curtis." This ia mighty fine, but what would become of the unhappy judges of the {Supreme Court under the infliction of this herculean labor of thoroughly examining and passing judgment on the merits of all the members ? Those sorely afflicted occup.tnts of iha beach would sink under their labors, and perish in a single session. The excruciating dullness of most of the speeches would be their death. Well may their Houors pray to be delivered from the awful fate to which they would be subjected by our merciless and truculent contemporary. Truly, the Canterbury Press has no bowels of compassion at all— /W. The Now York Iron Age states that the entire yearly contract for iron cotton ties has beeu secured by an English, firm, in spite of American competition aud prohibitive duties. The order is for 24,000 tous of iron, and the price is two aud a half dollars per lOOlbs., delivered. Tue uews of the cruel slaughter of Cliri 8 " tiaus which reaches us daily is assuredly most heartrending, aud the wholesale butchery oi : the unfortunate Bulgarians calls for the sympathy of every kindly heart, but so also should every well-wisher sympathise with the sick, suffering, and dying of our own commuuity. llow mauy are the miseries and wretchednesses through a neglect of ourselves which are constantly being witnessed and experienced, and which could have beeu averted by the timely aid of the Medicinal Art, aud if those who have been benefited by the use of Giiollau's Gkeat Indian

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