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of anxiety by the suspicion that a band of incendiaries were at work in the city. The exertions made by Mr. Coles to save the property of his fellow-citizens, and the state of alarm in which he was kept, did irreparable injury to a constitution already undermined by arduous mental labor. His mental condition necessitated his retirement from public life in August, 1868. He died on the morning of the wenty-first of August, 1875. His funeral was attended by the Lieutenant-governor, Sir Robert Hodgson,— the pall being borne by the Honorable T. H. Haviland, the Honor- able J. C. Pope, William Cundall, Esquire, the Honorable R. P. Haythorne, the Honorable Judge Young, and the Honorable Benjamin Davies. His body lies in the grave- yard of Saint Peter’s Church.

J AMES DOUGLAS IIASZARD was born in Charlottetown in the year 179 7. He was one of the descendants ot‘ a spirited loyalist, who proved his attachment to the monarehieal form of government by refusing to take his property, which had been confiscated, on the condition that he should become an American. In the year 1823 Mr. llaszard began business, by publishing the Register, and successively the Royal Gazclte, and Haszard’s Gazette, until the year 1858. Pre- vious to the publication of the Register, a total issue of fifty papers sufficed for the colony. Mr. Haszard was ever ready to do good work in connection with industrial and benevolent societies. He was the first to start a cloth-dressing mill in the colony; and, as secretary and treasurer of the Royal Agricultural Society, he introduced improvements in Farm- ing implements and machinery. During the famine of 1837 he relieved many destitute families. He died in August, 1875, highly esteemed and deeply regretted.