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for each of the three Counties. Accordingly on the 17th of September, the following gentlemen were duly returned—viz, Messrs. David Laird and Peter Sinclair, for Queen’s County; Messrs. Daniel Davies and Austin McDonald, for King's County; and Messrs. J. C. Pope and James Yeo, for Prince County. The Island was also allowed four Senators, to be appointed by the Dominion Government. These comprised the Honorables R. P. Haythorne, T. H. Haviland, Donald Montgomery and G. W. Howlan.

The Dominion Parliament accordingly met on the 23rd of October, when our representatives thereon made their first appearance. Then, owing to a change of government, they had the high honor within a few days of having one of their number—Mr. Laird—raised to the exalted position of Minister of the Interior, with a seat in the Dominion Cabinet, under the leadership of the Hon. Alexander McKenzie, a gentleman of liberal and benevolent sentiments.

The Legislature of this Island met on the 4th of March, 1874. The city volunteers accompanied by their band, under the command of Captain Lord, were drawn up in front of the Colonial Building as a guard of honor. Major Morris’s battery of artillery was stationed at Fort Edward, where a salute of 15 guns was fired as the Administrator departed from his residence, escorted by the mounted rifles under Captain Holman. The 24th of May, and the Ist of July this year, though observed by the citizens generally as holidays, no military salutes were fired in honor to either Queen or country, for as yet no organization of any corps of Dominion Militia had been embodied.

His Lordship Sir Robert Hodgson, having been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of this Island during July, with a salary of $7,000, he was succeeded in the Chief Justiceship by the Hon. Edward Palmer, whose vacant position as District Judge of Queen’s County, was re-filled by the appointment of an eminent young Barrister, George Alley, Esq.

In addition to the many improvements Charlottetown has recently received, our local government—at a cost of $1,700— placed a very fine illuminated clock in the south—west cupola of the new Law Courts Building, the lighting and extinguishing of which is altogether self-acting. Being furnished with necessary means, at a set hour of the evening thedial-plate