end and 50 feet at its junction with the old structure, and was well in hand at the close of the fiscal year. The depth of the water at the end of the new structure will be 9 feet at low water spring tides.

ST. SIMEON.-On 20th December, 1889, a contract was entered into for the construction of an isolated block 40 by 50 feet dimensions, with 13 feet at its outer end at low water spring tides, and at the close of the fiscal year the work was well under way.

ST. TIMOTHÉE.-During the summer of 1889, the wharf which has a length of 100 feet, was extended out 45 feet, the extension being 45 feet by 100 feet. The steamers have no trouble in swinging round since the construction of this extension.

TADOUSSAC.-A further portion of this wharf was repaired and raised 3 feet, the face timbers of the outer end were renewed and a temporary slip built.

THREE RIVERS.-In November last a contract was entered into for the construction of a wharf between the Richelieu and Ontario Company's wharves and the Harbour Commissioners', and at the close of the fiscal year the contractor had delivered a large amount of the materials required.

TROIS PISTOLES.-The 60 feet extension to the wharf commenced in 1888 has been completed, and another extension of 50 feet square has been commenced.

Repairs and improvements were made to the piers or wharves at the following places: BAIE ST. PAUL, Isolated Block; BERTHIER (en bas); ETANG DU NORD; GATINEAU POINT; GEORGEVILLE; ILE AUX COUDRES; LES EBOULEMENTS; MURRAY BAY; RIVIÈRE QUELLE; RIVER ST. DAVID; ST. ALPHONSE; ST. IRÉNÉE; ST. MICHEL DE BELLECHASSE.

The sum of $13,648.14 was expended from the vote for "Dredging Quebec and Ontario" at the following places: BEAUHARNOIS; BOUCHERVILLE, River St. Lawrence; CHATEAUGUAY; COMO and HUDSON, River Ottawa; KIERNAN BAY; LACHINE; MONTEBELLO and POINTE AUX ANGLAIS, River Ottawa; RIVER DU Loup (en bas); RIVER L'ASSOMPTION and ST. PLACIDE. (Part I., Appendix No. 5, pages 91-101 and 114-149.)

PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

The expenditure for construction and repair of Public Buildings in this Province for the year amounted to $579,734.65.

ALMONTE.-A contract was entered into on the 11th June, 1889, for the erection of a post office and building on a site obtained at the junction of Mill and Little Bridge streets. It is to have a main portion 2 stories and basement 51 feet by 31 feet, and a one story annex 27 feet by 18 feet. The walls are to be brick, with stone dressings, on stone foundations; the work has been carried on during the year, but is not completed.

BRAMPTON.-The Post Office, etc., building, which was described in my report of last year has been completed, fitted up, furnished and occupied.

CAYUGA. The post office building was completed and occupied.

COBOURG. The additions to the Post Office, Custom House, etc., have been completed.

GANANOQUE.—A granolithic sidewalk has been laid on the line of the street. GODERICH.-The Post Office, etc., building, described in my report of last year will, it is expected, be completed at an early date..

Plans have been prepared and a contract entered into for a hot-water heating apparatus.

GUELPH.-At the Post Office building the attics were fitted up for the use of the caretaker, the basement water closets removed, and a new set of ventilated water closets constructed in the attic.

HAMILTON.-A clock was supplied and fitted up in the tower of the Post Office. etc., building, the eaves supplied with troughs and other work executed.

LINDSAY.-The Public Building at this place is completed and occupied.

NAPANEE. The building for the Post Office, Customs and Inland Revenue Offices has been completed, fitted up, furnished and occupied, and a clock placed in the tower.

OTTAWA-Central Experimental Farm.-The greenhouses and seed store, cottage No. 1, and the stable described in my report of last year, were completed during the fiscal year 1889-90. A silo 40 feet by 20 feet and 24 feet in height, was constructed as a lean-to at the western end of the barn. Two cottages, similar to No. 1 cottage, were erected, one each at two of the entrance gateways. A 1 story wooden building, 85 feet by 55 feet, for use as an implement and harness shed, was constructed at the southern side of the barnyard.

Departmental Buildings.-A large steel and iron vault has been constructed in the Eastern Block for the Finance Department; the offices now occupied by the Post Office and Agriculture Departments in the new building on Wellington street were fitted up and furnished, and many necessary improvements made to various offices in the Western Block.

Parliament Building.-The slate covering was removed from the front roof extending from the eastern to the western wing, and was replaced by copper, and the large sky-lights on the House of Commons Chamber were replaced by others of copper.

Printing Bureau.-This building is completed, fitted up and occupied.

Victoria Hall.-A fence has been erected on the O'Connor and Queen street fronts of this building occupied by the Fishery Exhibit and the National Art Gallery.

PEMBROKE. The Post Office, &c., building has been completed and occupied. PETERBOROUGH.-A clock was fitted up in the tower of the Post Office.

PRESCOTT.-The Public Building, for the Post Office, Customs and Inland Revenue Offices, has been completed and will shortly be occupied.

STRATFORD.-A two story and basement addition, measuring 46 feet by 14 feet, was constructed at the eastern side for the use of the Post Office Inspector. The basement contains a furnace room, a fuel room and a W. C.; the ground floor, an Inspector's office and a Clerk's office: and the first floor, a stationery office and a Clerk's office. The two lower stories are of stone and the upper of brick. Fittings and furniture and a separate hot-water apparatus were provided.

STRATHROY.-A contract was entered into on 31st July, 1889, for the erection of a post office, etc., on the corner of Front and Centre streets. The main building 41 feet by 54 feet, will consist of a basement, ground floor, first floor and attic, a four story tower 15 by 15 feet, and a one story annex 50 feet by 21 feet. The foundations of stone, brick superstructure with wooden floors, partitions and roof.

The ground floor will be occupied by the Post Office, the first floor by the Excise, the attic by the caretaker and the annex by the Weights and Measures.

ST. THOMAS-Post office, etc.-An iron fence on a stone wall was erected on the front street, and the heating apparatus extended. Other improvements were also effected.

TRENTON.-The Post Office, etc., building at this place has been completed and

occupied.

Repairs, alterations and improvements have been effected at the Post Office, etc., AMHERSTBURG; Post Office, etc., BARRIE; Post Office, BERLIN; Post Office, etc., DUNDAS; Post Office, etc., HAMILTON; Post Office, ORANGEVILLE; Government House, OTTAWA; Departmental Buildings, OTTAWA, while the Parliament Grounds and Major's Hill Park were kept in good order. Various streets, under the control of the Department, were graded and macadamized, and otherwise improved, and the roadways, sidewalks and footpaths were kept clear of snow during the winter; Post Office, PORT COLBORNE; Post Office Inspector's Office, PORT ARTHUR; Custom House, Examining Warehouse, Immigration Building, Inland Revenue Office and Post Office, TORONTO. (Part 1, Appendix No. 2, pages 36 to 42.)

HARBOURS AND RIVERS.

There was expended on construction and improvements of harbours and rivers in this Province during the year the sum of $381,192.

done.

COBOURG. The outer end of the western pier has been re-built and other work

COLLINGWOOD.-A number of large boulders and other obstructions were removed from the channel and other parts of the harbour.

DRESDEN.-In September, 1889, a contract was awarded for the construction of sheet-pile protection work on the north-west side of the turning basin. At the close of the year the work was well under way, being nearly completed.

KINCARDINE. During the past fiscal year the sheet-piling of the south and east side of the basin was completed, and the pile protection work on the inside of the northern pier was extended a distance of 200 feet northwardly.

KINGSTON. The removal of Point Frederick Shoal was continued, 2,754 cubic yards of rock being removed.

KINGSTON, DRY DOCK.-At the close of the fiscal year the bulk of the excavation (rock) had been completed, and a large quantity of stone delivered for floor, altars, &c., and much work done in the construction of wharfing, and in filling and grading the grounds.

LITTLE CURRENT.-The work of improving the channel was continued and 2,265 cubic yards of rock were blasted and removed.

LITTLE NATION RIVER.-The removal of the shoal at the mouth of Moose Creek has been completed.

MEAFORD.-In August, 1889, a contract was entered into for the construction of the following works:-Cribwork, 80 feet in length and 20 in width, at the north. end of the eastern breakwater; cribwork, 160 feet in length and 20 in width at the south end of the eastern breakwater; sheet-piling, 200 feet long, at the east side of the entrance to the inner harbour.

These were satisfactorily completed in May last, and a quantity of stone was placed in the pile work of the old breakwater, and a space between the breakwater and the shore was also filled with stone.

MIDLAND.-In August last a contract was entered into for the construction of a further length of 2,000 feet of work on the harbour front, and was nearly completed at the close of the fiscal year.

Owen Sound. On the 9th October, 1889, a contract was entered into for dredg ing and other improvements in the harbour, and at the close of the fiscal year the contractors had delivered a large amount of materials, and were getting their plant in readiness for active operations.

During April and May dredging was done over a part of the channel at the entrance to the harbour, which had become shoaled. The length dredged was 2,400 feet on a width of 60 feet, and to a depth of 16 feet 5 inches at lowest water.

PENETANGUESHENE.-The harbour improvements at this place were completed in August 1889, and at the close of the fiscal year a dredge was engaged in obtaining a greater depth of water.

PORT ARTHUR.-During the fiscal year ended 30th June, 1890, good progress has been made by Messrs. Kirby & Stewart on the 1,500 feet of breakwater commenced by them in May, 1889, and the whole will be completed within the time specified in their contract.

A large amount of heavy stone was placed as a talus in front of the old work, as well as of that under construction.

PORT ELGIN.-A channel 870 feet long and 175 feet wide, was dredged from inside the harbour to deep water outside, and a berth opened for vessels on the east side of the wharf.

PORT HOPE.-The superstructure of the railway wharf was re-built in part and repaired.

PORTSMOUTH.-The re-building of the superstructure of the pt this place was continued and nearly completed on its entire length.

RIVER KAMINISTIQUIA.-During the past year a further amount of dredging was done in the river to better accommodate the large steamers now plying on these waters.

RIVER OTTAWA, between PEMBROKE AND THE PETEWAWA RIVER. During the last fiscal year the dredging of the shoal which obstructed the channel leading to the Culbute Canal was carried on, and 2,216 cubic yards of sand and gravel were removed. To indicate the new channel way, which has a depth of 8 feet, ten buoys were placed on the north side of the channel.

RIVER THAMES.-Difficulty being experienced by vessels entering or leaving the river owing to the bar off its mouth in Lake St. Clair, a dredge operated in opening a passage through this obstruction.

SOUTHAMPTON.-In December last a contract for the construction of an addition of 200 feet to the landing pier and necessary dredging was entered into, but at the close of the fiscal year little progress had been made.

SUMMERSTOWN.-The warehouse has been completed and other work done.

TORONTO.-In May, 1889, a contract was entered into for improving the eastern entrance, the works required consisting of the dredging of a channel 300 feet in width to a depth of 12 feet below low water, the construction of protection works on either side of the new channel, and the continuation and completion of the harbour protection works on the eastern side of the proposed entrance-extending from Fisherman's Island westwardly to a junction with the channel works.

During the past fiscal year a channel 250 feet in width and to a depth of 12 feet was dredged through the gap, 122,000 cubic yards of sand having been removed. The contractors have delivered materials for the piers, and framing of cribs has been commenced.

A large quantity of heavy stone was placed in the talus in front of the breakwater at the island, a total length of 3,700 feet having been thus protected. This work was done by day's labour, under direct charge of the Department.

WIARTON.-On the 8th November, 1889, a contract was entered into for the construction of a breakwater 380 feet in length and 25 feet in width, near the head of the harbour, on the west side, to afford protection to small craft; and at the close of the fiscal year the work was nearly completed.

Repairs were made to the structures at the following places, viz.:-Burlington CHANNEL; GODERICH; KINGSVILLE; PORT ALBERT; SAULT STE MARIE.

There was expended on dredging at the undermentioned places the sum of $17,454.83: BoWMANVILLE; BRIGHTON; GODERICH; KINCARDINE; KINGSVILLE; NEWCASTLE; PORT HOPE; RIDEAU RIVER, North Branch; POINT EDWARD, River ST. CLAIR; SOUTHAMPTON and THORNBURY.

(Part 1, Appendix No. 5, pages 101 to 108 and 115 to 149.)