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College is a Model School with two teachers. This is the only Government Educational Institution where fees are charged, the rates being $10 for the session (year) for students resident in the City of Charlottetown, and $5 per annum for country pupils. Graduating Diplomas were first conferred in 1885, and are of three grades—Honour, First-class Ordinary and Second-class Ordinary. These Diplo- mas are accepted by the Faculty of Pine Hill Presbyterian Theological College. Halifax, as snfiicient in certain subjects for admission to that Institution, and by all the Faculties in McGill University in the place of the entrance examinations. A course of fifteen lectures dealing with soils, manures, and crops. is given to students in the first year—“ James‘ Agri- culture” being used as a text—book. In the second year a further course of fifteen lectures is given treating of noxious weeds and common injurious insects. Among the graduates of Prince of \Vales are many who have risen to high positions on the Island and abroad.

St. Dunstan's Roman Catholic College was founded in 1855, a few years after the closing of St. Andrew’s College, the pioneer Educational Institution of Prince Edward Island. It is located in the suburbs of Charlottetown, and is under the direction of the Bishop of the Diocese. In 1892 it was affiliated with Laval University, Quebec. At this Institu- tion the fees are :—For boarders per term of five months $60; day scholars per term $10; day scholars who follow the course in Philsophy and Sciences, per term $12.50.

The College confers degrees, and many students attend from abroad. The Roman Catholic Church possesses also two Convent Schools in Charlottetown, and several others in difierent parts of the Island, where boarders are received.

At St. Peter’s School for boys and girls, which is connected with the Church of England of that name in Charlottetown, pupils are prepared for matriculation into King’s College. Windsor, N. S. The fees are $18 per annum for boys, and $15 for girls.

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