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PERSONAL.

It is understood that the Ontario Government has requested the appointment of a Deputy County Judge for the County of Halton, and that John W. Elliott, K.C., of Milton, will be gazetted for the appointment shortly.

George F. Shepley, K.C., has been appointed Acting Treasurer of the Upper Canada Law Society to perform the active duties which have proved too onerous for Sir Æmilius Irving.

Mr. Shepley presented the largest number of law school. graduates ever presented for the call to the Bar at one time. They were forty in number and took the oath and signed to the roll before Chief Justice R. M. Meredith.

Notice of a resolution to amend the Judges Act and to provide for a number of new Judgeships in various parts of the Dominion has been given by Hon. C. J. Doherty, Minister of Justice.

The proposed amendments provide for an additional district Judge of the Province of Ontario at a salary of $3,000 per year.

For an additional Puisne Judge of the Court of King's Bench, Manitoba, at $6,000 per year.

For an additional Justice of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia, at $7,000 per year.

For an additional Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, at $6,000 per year.

For an additional Judge of the County Court of Manitoba, $3,000 per year.

For an additional Judge and Junior Judge of the County Court of British Columbia, each at a salary of $3,000 per year. For four additional Judges of the District Courts of Saskatchewan, each at a salary of $3,000 per year.

For an additional Judge of the Exchequer Court, District of Montreal, $3,000 per year.

It is further provided that the Judge of the District of Beauharnois, whose residence is fixed in Montreal, may, conditionally, upon the discharge of judicial duties in Montreal, when not required in his district, be paid a salary of $7,000 per annum.

It is also provided that except where they are entitled to larger salaries, Judges of County Courts and District Courts be paid a salary of $3,000 per year, from the date of their appointment, an increase of $500 per annum.

The resolution further provides for the granting of an annuity equal to the salary of the office held by him to every Judge of a County Court who, having attained the age of 75 years, is compulsorily retired, or to every Judge having continued in office for a period of thirty years or upwards who is compulsorily retired.

Word has been received at Tilbury that Frank W. Wilson, son of Reeve A. A. Wilson, who practiced law in Tilbury for a couple of years, has recently been called to the Bar in British Columbia, and admitted to practice as a solicitor in that province. On his examinations he took a particularly high mark in practice. He has become connected with C. W. Craig, a leading counsel of Vancouver.

The legal firm of Tait, McLean and Rive, of St. John, N.B., has been dissolved, and the firm hereafter will carry on business under the name of McLean and Rive.

Frederick T. Watt will be Guelph's new Police Magistrate in succession to T. W. Saunders, resigned. He has received official notice of his appointment. The new Magistrate will enter upon his duties June 1st.

The Hull Bar Association for the district of Ottawa held their annual meeting in the Hull Court House with about twenty lawyers in attendance. Another meeting has been called when the Judges will be invited to be present, as the matter of getting a Judge to fill Judge Chauvin's place will be dealt with.

Judge Chauvin was recently appointed to take charge of Labelle District, and has only been acting temporarily in the Hull Superior Court.

A resolution of sympathy was passed to Judge McDougall in the death of his brother, the late Walter McDougall.

The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted in most of the old officers being re-elected. They are as follows: Batonnier, H. A. Fortier, M.PP.; Syndic, Geo. C. Wright; Secretary, A. Parent; Treasurer, Wm. Gamble; Ex

aminer, A. Desjardins; Auditors, L. A. Leduc and A. De Grandpre; Librarian, J. E. Couture; Councillors, T. P. Foran, K.C., J. W. Ste. Marie and L. Cousineau.

Guthrie, Guthrie & Kerwin, Guelph, have decided to open up an office in Hespeler. Mr. P. Kerwin and Mr. V. H. Hattin will have charge of it for two or three days each week.

The annual meeting of the Bar of the section of Three Rivers elected the following: Mr. Arthur Beliveau, Batonnier; Mr. Bruno Marchand, Secretary; Mr. Francois Desilets, Treasurer; Mr. L. D. Paquin, Syndic; Messrs. L. P. Guillet, P. N. Martel and J. A. Tessier, Members of the Council. Mr. A. Desy was named examiner, and Messrs. L. P. Guillet, Francois Lajoie and Francois Lacoursier, Members of the Library Committee.

The fiftieth anniversary of the admission to practice of two lawyers well-known in local circles was celebrated on the 9th of June, the jubilarians being Messrs, J. B. Brousseau, K.C., and C. J. C. Wurtele, K.C., both of Sorel. A meeting of lawyers of the Richelieu District was held, Mr. Justice Bruneau presiding, and as a result it was unanimously decided that the occasion should be marked by the many friends of the veterans throughout the Richelieu and adjoining districts.

The festivities opened on the above-mentioned date, this being the day of the inauguration of the June Term of the Superior Court at Sorel. An address of felicitation was read, and a presentation made on behalf of the friends of the jubilarians, after which all boarded Mr. George Magnan's yacht and repaired to the Sorel Islands where the day was spent. In the evening, a reception was held at the Court House. The committee in charge of the celebrations was composed of all the members of the Bar in the Richelieu District, headed by Francois Lefebvre, as Chairman, and by Ald. Allard, Secretary.

Mr. Wurtele is in his 73rd year, having been born at the Manoir de St. David, December 23rd, 1840, the son of Johnston Wurtele, Seigneur of St. David. He pursued his studies at Lennoxville, and was admitted to the Bar, June 3rd, 1863. He has practised throughout the 50 years at Sorel.

Mr. Brousseau is 72 years old, and was born at Beloeil, January 1st, 1841, the son of J. B. Brousseau, M.D. He was admitted to practice in 1863, after having pursued a course of studies at St. Hyacinthe College. He has served as Crown Prosecutor, and in 1878 he was elected to the Legislature as representative of Vercheres, a post he held till 1881.

T. A. Lynd, W. A. Gilchrist, and R. F. Hogarth, of Saskatoon, have formed a new legal firm of Lynd, Gilchrist and Hogarth, who open temporary quarters in the Canada block The permanent offices will be suite 409 and 410 on the fourth floor of the building.

Before Chief Justice Meredith a number of Hamilton young men, graduates of the Law School, were called to the Bar and were presented to Court by G. F. Shepley, K.C., Acting Treasurer of the Law Society, and, on the fiat of the Judge, they were sworn in and enrolled as barristers at law. Those called were G. R. Forneret, J. D. Beasley, S. W. C. Scott, W. H. Ford and P. J. Knox, the three last named being also sworn in and enrolled as solicitors of the Supreme Court of Ontario on the fiat of His Lordship.

John. W. White, aged fifty-nine years, a prominent barrister of Chatham, passed away at his home after an illness of a year and a half. He was admitted to the Bar in 1886, and had practised in Chatham since that time.

The names of ninety-one students have been announced as having successfully passed the final examinations of the Ontario Law School, only seven having failed. Mr. J. W. Pickup heads the list of twelve honour graduates, with the gold medal, and the Chancellor Van Koughnet Scholarship, while J. L. Duncan, with the silver medal and the Christopher Robinson Memorial Scholarship, comes a close second. Third place was captured by Mr. D. A. MacRae.

The following others have passed in the order named: F. G. Dyke, with honours and bronze medal; W. J. McCallum, with honours; T. S. Elmore, with honours; G. T. Walsh, with honours; N. L. Le Sueur, with honours; W. K. Fraser, with honours; T. Crosthwaite, with honours; G. M. Miller, with honours; P. J. Knox, with honours; J. F. L.

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Cote, N. Phillips, A. H. Foster, H. F. Parkinson, J. H. Bone, A. J. Gordon, E. M. Dillon, S. Cowan, E. Sugarman, A. L. Fleming, H. Friedman, G. G. McCullough, R. R. Evans, N. S. Macdonnell, N. A. McLarty, J. P. Barlow, W. F. Schwenger, A. A. Macdonald, J. C. McRuer, J. Y. Murdock, H. R. Moses, H. L. Slaght, S. W. C. Scott, E. V. McMillan, R. W. Treleaven, W. H. Ford, C. H. Shaver, H. E. Grosch, E. Braden, G. W. Adams, A. L. Brady, C. P. Tisdall, J. Cairns, J. Wearing, L. S. Cuddy, F. H. White, A. E. Parkinson, D. A. Macdonald, A. Ellis, J. J. Greenan, B. L. Bedford, J. M. Greer, R. H. G. Ivey, M. Gordon, M. Herzlich, H. E. Wallace, H. Saunders, W. H. Cook, W. A. Dillon, C. G. French, G. M. Willoughby, W. G. More, F. C. Gullen, E. H. Senior, J. M. Donahue, G. R. Forneret, J. H. McDonald, A. C. Bell, P. D. Wilson, A. J. Fraser, E. F. Byrnes, R. W. R. Shearer, S. R. Broadfoot, M. C. McLean, W. B. Sifton, A. Gilmour, Wm. Proudfoot, J. D. Beasley, M. D. McCrimmon, R. D. Ponton, J. H. Flett, E. D. O'Flynn, T. M. Costello, P. R. Morris, D. R. M. Leask, C. S. McGaughey, G. P. McHugh, K. W. Wright, W. K. Murphy.

Mr. Samuel Clement Smoke, K.C., of the firm of Watson, Smoke, Chisholm & Smith, 20 King street east, died of heart failure at his residence, 17 Chestnut Park, after but one day's illness.

Mr. Smoke was in his sixty-first year, and was born in South Dumfries, near Paris, and leaves a widow and one son, who is attending the University of Toronto.

Judge M. A. McHugh, Senior Judge of the County of Essex, and one of Windsor's most highly respected citizens, died suddenly at his home in Windsor from an attack of stomach trouble.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.

The preliminary programme for the annual meeting of the American Bar Association to be held in Montreal on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 1st, 2nd and 3rd, is announced.

This will be the first occasion on which the convention of this Association has been held outside the United States, and great importance is attached to the fact. The guests of

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