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HEAVY BURDENS FOR CANADIAN TRACKS. Buffalo. N. Y.. March .1.— "Gossip in the corridors up in the Queens lark. lias it that the Ontario legislatures proposals for the increased revenue needed in war times, include the raising of tin- daily license fee for each rice coarse from .*5 wi to three times that amount." writes Frances Nelson, sporting editor id the Toronto Globe. "If gOSKlp is correct, the. idea of takiag a percentage of greaa receipts, or a share of the mutual investments, or a slice of the profits of the syndicate ring that prevails on the half milers. has been abandoned for tin straight-out collection of ,500 a day from all alike, whether the circuit around which the horses run is tin- half mile of Dafferin lark or the mile anil 240 yards of Hamiltons handsome course. this would mean a revenue for tile province of 26,000 annually, instead of 2,000 paid in past years by six courses with double meetings of seven davs each. The clubs that come under the provisions of the Dominion tax on in-corporated companies will pay federal and provincial duties.*
