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     steamers. would not only lessen the time of travel to the upper provinces, 550., 
     
     but 1would give a greater impetus to trade, and to the passenger traffic in par- 
     
     ticu ar. 
     
     Mails are despatched daily to the Mainland, and weekly to Great Britain, 
     
     while advantage is taken of intervening opportunities via New York. There are 
     
     excellent postal facilities throughout the Province,-post offices being establish- 
     
     ed at intervals of three or four miles, and of these there are 297, or one for 
     
     every four hundred inhabitants. 
     
     There is direct telegraphic communication by submarine cable, and tele- 
     
     graph oflices are established in all the principal towns and villages, and along 
     
     the line of railway. In addition to this a Telephone Company, which opened an 
     
     exchange in Charlottetown in 1835, has extended its operations into some 
     
     parts of the country. ‘ 
     
     Besides the internal communication furnished by the railway, several small 
     
     steamers and sailing packets, most of them subsidized, more or less, by the 
     
     Government, offer means of coast and river transit. In the summer there is no 
     
     more enjoyable trip than a sail, either to Crapaud or Orwell and back, by the 
     
     Inland Navigation Company’s steamer from Charlottetown, and a much better 
     
     idea. and a nearer view, of the shore farms are obtained, than is possible from 
     
     the Pictou boat. 
     
     One or more of the denominations mentioned in the population statistics 
     
     have places of worship in almost every district. 
     
     Seven Newspapers are published in the Province, five of which are weeklies 
     
     and two dailies, which latter issue weekly editions also; three of the former 
     
     are located in Summerside, the remainder in the Capital, where, also, the Royal 
     
     Gazette appears. 
     
     The people are, on the whole, contented and prosperous, and the farmers, 
     
     though few of them can be called wealthy, constitute the most independent 
     
     portion of the population. The amount to the credit of depositors in the 
     
     Dominion Savings Bank on the 30th June 1887, was $2,305,535.09. or $19.37 for 
     
     every man, woman and child in the Province. The amount on deposit in the 
     
     five other banks doing business, as well as the capital invested in commercial 
     
     ventures, which is very considerable, must also be taken into account. 
     
     The Law Courts of the Province consist of:- 
     
     1. Court of Chancery, of which the Lieutenant Governor is ex-oflz‘cio Chan- 
     
     cellor, and the judicial powers of which are exercised by a Master of the 
     
     Rolls and Vice Chancellor. 
     
    

    
     2. Court of Divorce, of which the Lieutenant Governor and members of the 
     
     Executive Council are Judges. 
     
    

    
     3. Supreme Court presided over by a Chief Justice and two Assistant 
     
     Jud es. 
     
    

    
     This cgurt besides its sessions in Charlottetown sits, for the trial of civil and 
     
     criminal suits, twice a year, both in Summerside and Georgetown, the 
     
    

    
     chief towns of the other counties. 
     
     4. County Courts, of which there is one in each county, presided over by 
     
     Judge. ~ 
     
    

    
     Each of these, which are for civil suits only, has five circuits distributed over 
     
     the county. 
     
    

    
     5. Court of Probate of Wills, with one Judge. 
     
    

    
     6. Stipendiary Magistrates and Justices of the Peace. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CLIMATE. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The climate of Prince Edward Island is remarkably healthy. The cold [is 
     
     certainly more severe, and lasts for a longer period than in England, but the 
     
     atmosphere is dry and salubrious, and the summer is of such brightness and 
     
     beauty as amply to compensate for the winter. The weather generally becomes 
     
     unsettled in the early part of November and sometimes sharp frosts, With falls 
     
    
   
   
    
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