1. Has the Government given any printing contracts to the newspaper Le Present, published at Drummondville?

2. If so, for what amount?

3. What is the circulation of that paper?

4. Has the Government caused any official advertisements to be published in Le Present?

5. If so, for what amount?

6. Who is the owner of the newspaper Le Present?

1. No.

2. Answered by No. 1.

3. Not known.

4. No.

5. Answered by No. 4.

G. Not known.

1. Are there any firms in Canada manufacturing steel barrels or drums?

2. How many steel barrels or drums, with their value, were imported into Canada during the year 1913?

1. Yes.

2. These articles, not being specially enumerated in the tariff, are included in imports described as 'Manufactures of Iron and Steel.' It would take months to extract the information.

*Mr. EMMERSON:

[DOT]

What number of freight and van cars, and what number of tons of freight, constitute a freight train, under the agreement between the Canadian Government railways and the Canadian [DOT] Pacific Railway Company, covering the transportation of freight and passengers between Halifax and St. John, in connection with the Canadian Pacific and Allan Line steamships carrying the British Mails and making Halifax their terminal port, as finally arranged and understood between the contracting parties?

Mr. REID:

Under the agreement special freight trains consist of five hundred tons contents, east bound, and four hundred tons contents, west bound. Special passenger trains are limited to twelve cars all told, including vans, which of course are governed by weather conditions.

Mr. SEVIGNY:

Has the Government bought, through the Commission of the Transcontinental Railway, certain lots of' land belonging to Wm. Power' M.P., near Sillery, Quebec? If so, how much has been paid for these lots per square foot?

Mr. REID:

The Commissioners of th9

Transcontinental railway expropriated certain lands belonging to Mr. Wm. Power, M.P., and others, designated as part of lot Cad. No. 261, of the parish of Sillery, Que-bee, for the purposes of the Eastern Division of the National Transcontinental railway, and filed an information in the Exchequer Court of Canada to determine the compensation payable for the lands. Judgment was given by the Court on the 20th day of September last, allowing 5 cents per square foot, which has been paid.

LENNOXVILLE EXPERIMENTAL FARM. Mr. TOBIN:

1. Has the Government purchased an experimental farm in the eastern townships of Quebec?

2. If so, where is the said farm located?

3. From whom was it purchased and for what price?

4. When was the deed signed, before what notary, by whom was it signed and when was it registered ?

5. What is the area of the said property?

6. Who acted as agent for the Government in connection with the said purchase?

7. Were any other farms examined by him in the eastern townships?

S. If so, where are the said farms situated and what are the names of the owners?

9. Were any options obtained upon said farms? If so, for what price in each case and how much was paid for the said option?

1. Yes.

2. Near Lennoxville, P.Q.

3. From the following parties: R. W.

Reid, 170 acres, $15,000; W. H. Pearson 150 acres, $12,000; H. Bennett, lot 2i acres, with brick house thereon, $2,800; W. J. Douglas, lot 6J acres, with frame house thereon, $3,750, total, $33,550.

4. As the agent of the Department of Justice has not yet made his report, the Department- of Agriculture is not aware of the name of the notary before whom the deeds were passed, by whom they were signed or when they were registered.

5. About 329 acres.

G. Mr.'James Mackinnon, of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Sherbrooke, P.Q., acted on behalf of the Department of Agriculture in negotiating for the purchase of the several properties, and Mr. F. Campbell, K.C., of Sherbrooke, P.Q., acted as the agent of the Department of Justice in obtaining the deeds.

7. Yes.

8. Properties belonging to Messrs. C. F. Carter, J. G. Smiley, Edward Reed and Bishop's college, all of which adjoin the land purchased.

9. Yes. Options were obtained on the following properties: C. F. Carter, f of an acre with brick house thereon, $2,300; J. G. Smiley, block of 50 acres, $6,500; Edward Reed, 108 acres, $9,720; Bishop's college, about 12 acres, $1,200. The price paid for these options was of a nominal character.

1. Were tenders called for me supply of coal to the fish hatchery at AVindsor, N.S., during the past year?

2. Who were the tenderers and what was the amount of each tender?

3. To whom was the contract awarded and at what price?

4. How many tons of coal were supplied?

1. Tenders were not called for. A small quantity of anthracite coal was required, and the officer in charge was requested to purchase the same at the best price obtainable.

2. Answered by No. 1.

3 and 4. J. H. Smith & Co. Nine tons were purchased at $8 per ton, with $1 per ton for cartage to the Hatchery, a distance of three miles.