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Show A new lire department bill remedy-; ine many of the del'eeu in the present : system his b--en drafted and will be submitted to the legislature. Manager Laidly, of the industrial school department, rvporu the institu-1 tion heavily in debt. The cost of sup-1 porting each inmate for the pat year has been jJ. It rained almost iueesaantly all last igbt and the morning opened with a I very heavy and prolonged thunder ( shower. Water i coming down in tor- j rents. A strong wind from the south-1 ea-t is still blowing aimost a gale. The clouds are now broken and we are having the first square diuipse of sun-1 shine for two weeks. The rainfall for twenty lour hours ending S a. m., was 7b-lUO, making 14 41-100 for the storm, and IS 4 J-lUO for the season. The steamer from Panama, now two days overdue, has not yet telegraphed. |