The Magna Charta of Canada: A lecture delivered by Silas Alward, D.C.L., K.C., late Dean of King's College Law School: published by request: Saint John, N.B. The Saint John Globe Publishing Company, Limited. We have here a most excellent account of the circumstances which led to the mission of John George Lambton, Earl Durham, to Canada, and of the drawing up and contents of his famous Report, the Magna Charta of Canada; and also of the man himself, and the cabals of Lord Brougham and other members of the House of Lords which led to his untimely recall, and no doubt contributed to his early death. ་ Legal Education: Uniformity of Law in the British Empire: Two Addresses by R. W. Lee, B.C.L., M.A., Dean of the Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal: Toronto: The Carswell Company, Limited; 1916. This is a reprint of the able Articles on the above subjects by Professor Lee, which appeared recently in the CANADIAN LAW TIMES. THE GAZETTES. The Manitoba Gazette for December 2nd, contains a provincial Order in Council appointing Mr. Patrick Anderson Macdonald, of Winnipeg, Public Utilities Commissioner, a Commissioner to inquire into, investigate, and report to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, upon and with regard to the conditions affecting the price of such of the necessaries of life as he may deem expedient, with power to summon and examine witnesses on oath. The British Columbia Gazette for December 30th, contains the following appointments of ministers of the Provincial Government-The Hon. Harlan Carey Brewster to be President of the Executive Council. The Hon. Malcolm Archibald Macdonald to be Attorney-General. The Hon. Ralph Smith to be Minister of Finance. The Hon. John Oliver to be Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Railways. The Hon. William Sloan to be Minister of Mines. The Hon. James Horace King, M.D., C.M., to be Minister of Public Works. The Hon. John Duncan MacLean, M.D., C.M., to be Provincial Secretary. The Hon. Thomas Dufferin Pattullo to be Minister of Lands. We are glad to see in the British Columbia Gazette for December 21st, under the heading Union Jacks for Public Schools,' a Government advertisement for tenders for 250 three-yard Union Jacks. The British Columbia Gazette for December 28th, contains a Proclamation postponing the meeting of the provincial legislature until February 22nd next. LOCAL AND PERSONAL. B. F. Justin, K.C., of Brampton, has been appointed County Court Judge of the County of Peel, in place of Judge McGibbon retired. On 13th ult. the Legislative Assembly of Quebec rejected a Bill to grant women the privilege of practising at the Bar by a vote of 34 to 33. At the last session the same Bill was also rejected by one vote only. B. F. W. Collison, barrister, of Calgary, has been appointed a commissioner of police for the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. V. J. McElderry, of the law firm of Peck, Kerr, and McElderry, Peterborough, has enlisted as a private in the 247th Battalion, C.E.F., setting thereby a fine example to the eligible young men of Peterborough. Miss Mary Cathcart, of Moose Jaw, has been called to the Bar of Saskatchewan. John A. Grierson, barrister, of Weymouth, N.S., has been appointed Judge of the County Court district of Annapolis, Digby, and Yarmouth, in succession to the late Judge S. H. Pelton resigned. C. B. Philp, a fourth year law student in the firm. of Bonnar, Trueman, Hollands and Robinson, Winnipeg, has joined the mechanical transport of the Army Service Corps, as a private. Mr. Justice Crocket, of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, has been appointed Judge of the provin cial Divorce Court in place of Mr. Justice McKeown, appointed Chief Justice. Cecil Blackburn, law student, Saskatoon, Sask., has been wounded in action, and is in hospital at Comiers, France. We regret to see the following deaths reported since our last issue:1 Connelly Briggs Hare, Police Magistrate for Merritton, Port Dalhousie, and Grantham, on 16th ult. at St. Catharines, Ont. Abraham Dent, who long practised law at Mitchell, Perth County, Ontario, on October 6th last, at London, Ont. A. E. Dumesnil, one of the oldest members of the Montreal Bar, on or about December 1st last, at Montreal. Stephen Franklin Lazier, K.C., of Hamilton, Ont., on October 5th last, at Hamilton. Edward Gillis, barrister, Toronto, on December 21st last, at Toronto. Qui procul hinc, the legend's writ; Qui ante diem periit; Sed miles, sed pro patria. Pte. Hill, No. 910,890, of the 196th Western Universities Battalion, formerly a law student at Saskatoon, is officially reported to have died of wounds received in action in France. It is almost impossible to prevent occasional inaccuracies in the obituary column of the C. L. T. Corrections will be always gratefully received and duly recorded in our next issue.-Ed. C. L. T. Lieutenant F. P. H. Layton, 4th C.M.R., formerly of the firm of Ruggles and Layton, Vancouver, B.C., killed in action in France. Captain Frank Maguire, of the Quebec Bar, killed in action in France. ARTICLES AWAITING PUBLICATION. A Lawyer's Descent into Hades, by Dr. Silas Alward, D.C.L., K.C. The Place of the Lawyer in the Business Life of Western Canada, by W. H. Trueman, LL.B., Winnipeg. Memorandum re Uniformity in Company Law, by F. W. Wegenast, Toronto. Codes and Codification, by the Honourable Mr. Justice Cameron, Winnipeg. The Fryatt Murder, by Professor Edwin Maxey, University of Nebraska. Canadian Legislation respecting Dependants, by A. J. McGillivray, Department of Justice. Some Instances of Legal and Academic Ritual, by Professor Bosworth Smith, University of Toronto. The Present Transfer of Goods to be Acquired in the Future, by Joseph Donovan, Calgary, Alberta. Options of Purchase, by Walter S. Scott, Calgary, Alberta. Sir Matthew Hale, by Dr. Silas Alward, D.C.L., K.C. Constitutional Liberties, by Arthur E. Popple, Edmonton, Alberta. |
