has risen to-day for a whole fortnight for Whitsuntide holiday—a length of vacation quite unprecedented in recent yenrs. And when they return to work the Commemoration celebrations will be upon us. But as a matter of fact the work of the Session is practically done. The Bill for the Relief of Kecessitous School Boards is through, and good progress as been made with the only reniaining measure of importance—the Compensation to Workmen Bill. A section of the Radicals are fighting this with some amount of bitterness, but their only objection to the measure is that it docs not go quite far enough. With its main rineiple of asking the employer liable jor injuries received by his workmen to a greater extent than he has hitherto been
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