THE GAZETTES.

The Canada Gazette for June 22nd publishes an Order in Council approving of certain forms in connection with the administration of the Companies Act Amendment Act, 1917.

The Supplement to the Canada Gazette for June 22nd contains an Order in Council approving of certain new Regulations governing the Inspection of Preserved Fruits, Vegetables, and Milk.

The Canada Gazette for June 29th contains a proclamation proroguing Parliament to August 13th next.

The Manitoba Gazette of June 15th contains a proclamation proroguing the Legislature until July 25th.

The British Columbia Gazette for June 13th contains a proclamation bringing into force the Civil Service Act, passed this year, as from July 1st inst.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

R. W. Dennistoun, K.C., of Winnipeg, has been appointed Judge of the Court of Appeal for Manitoba in the stead of Judge Perdue, who has been promoted to the Chief Justiceship of that province.

Joseph Shaw, a former member of the Calgary Board of Education, and well known lawyer of that city, has been promoted to captain for bravery upon the field, and recommended for the Military Cross. He joined originally as a private in the University Battalion and has spent fifteen months in the trenches. The deed which gained him distinction was performed on January 20th, when he led a raid on a difficult part of the German lines.

Mr. Herbert M. Marler, barrister, Quebec, has been appointed fuel controller of the province, without salary.

Mr. G. G. Stuart, K.C., whose death we recorded in our last issue, arranged before his decease that his beautiful residence Meadowbank, St. Louis road, Quebec, should be given to the Government to be used for the benefit of returned soldiers.

We regret to see the following deaths reported since our last issue:-1

Colonel Armour Miller, Commanding Officer of the 134th Battalion, C.E.F., who before the war was a well-known barrister in Toronto, is reported to have died of wounds at Boulogne-sur-Mere, France.

Hon. Francois Octave Dugas, Judge of the Superior Court in the Joliette District, Quebec, on June 22nd last, at Joliette, in his 62nd year.

Dr. R. F. Quigley, K.C., of St. John, N.B., on June 13th last, at St. John.

C. B. S. Phelan, barrister of Victoria, B.C., on or about June 21st last, at Flint, Michigan.

'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.

We are well aware that the fact that a man is a subscriber to the Canadian Law Times is proof, not only of a high order of intelligence, but, also, of a proper measure of enthusiasm for the noble science of the law. But the weather is hot; and we believe a tolerant view will be taken if our August number is less sternly professional than usual. We, therefore, publish as our number for this month, in addition to our "London Letter," the first of a series of "Legal Fictions" of a kind suitable to the temperature. Our author is Mr. M. L. Hayward, B.C.L., of Hartland, New Brunswick, who contributed an excellent Article of a severely legal character to our number for June last. Mr. Hayward is a young member of the profession, and a Canadian alike by birth and education, although he seems inclined to place the scenes of his "Legal Fictions," as in the present instance, across the border line. Mr. Hayward is unquestionably justified in claiming to be the leading lawyer in the town of Hartland or within ten miles thereof, for as he informs us-" by reference to any law list you will see that I am the only man here, and Woodstock, the shiretown of the county, is twelve miles away." Mr. Hayward has struck upon a

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rich vein for displaying alike the soundness of his law, and the vivacity of his imagination. Many periodicals have recently welcomed his contributions, and we trust our readers will find his "Alien Within the Gates" as welcome a form of hot-weather law as we anticipate they will. Those standing features of the Canadian Law Times in which we take such prideour "Current Commentary on Recent English and Canadian Decisions," our "Contemporary Legal Reviews and Periodicals," and other regular monthly Articles, shall not suffer by this little interlude, but the period between July and September will be duly covered in our next issue..

Mr. Wilkinson's London Letter for this month will be found, we think, an especially interesting one; and we believe our subscribers generally will support us in tendering him warm thanks for the pains he takes as our special correspondent in the Capital of the Empire.1

It is well to correct here a slip we must plead guilty to at p. 424 of our issue for last June, in referring to a point respecting liability for injuries received from ice on the sidewalk in German v. City of Ottawa, as the decision of a majority of the Court, whereas, in fact, as has been kindly called to our attention, Fitzpatrick, C.J. and Idington, J., were the only two out of the five judges who so decided.-Ed. C. L. T.

LEGAL FICTIONS

I. THE ALIEN WITHIN THE GATES.

BY MARVIN LESLIE HAYWARD.

Marshall Harper, the senior member of the legal firm of Harper, Roscoe, Field and Beveridge, pushed. three buttons in quick succession, and his partners came trooping in for a consultation at "staff headquarters "-as Beveridge used to say. There was the tall and taciturn Roscoe, the fat and overfed Field, with his vacant good-natured expression masking one of the heaviest legal batteries in the State, and last, and likewise least, the boyish and irrepressible Barry Beveridge.

"What's up and doing now?" queried Field, as he lit a new cigar and threw a rotund leg over the arm of his chair.

Harper walked across to his desk, picked up a narrow strip of paper that was good for $25,000 in current coin, and stood looking down at it with an abstracted frown bisecting his broad brow.

"The International Arms & Ammunition Corporation have just sent us their check to cover our services in connection with the incorporation and organization of the company," he said slowly.

"Why not cash it and look pleasant?" queried Roscoe.

Marshall Harper dropped the check on the desk, picked up an official looking letter, and his frown deepened.

"Although we have been paid in full for our services, we are still the attorneys for the corporation and are interested in their success," he mused.

"We needn't worry," laughed Field. "The way · they're bombarded with foreign munition orders you'd think they were Verdun, and it'll puzzle the banks to store their cash in a year from now."

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