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headquarters. The Provincial Rifle Association held their annual meeting at Kensington Range during August, when Private James Dover succeeded in obtaining the highest prize, accompanied by the silver medal of the Association.

In the spring of 1877 the old St. James’ Church was removed from its original site in order to make room for a new structure to be built of brick. This handsome edifice was opened for divine worship, October 20th, 1878. A Sunday School and Lecture Room were subsequently added, which greatly beautified the church surroundings. Sunday Service at 11 a. m., and 7 p. m.

A light-house for the guidance of vessels approaching Char- lottetown harbor, erected at the block-house, was completed this year. This was greatly required, as freight and passenger steamers connect weekly with Quebec, Montreal, St. John’s, (Newfoundland), Halifax and Boston, while during the shipping season, opportunities occur of direct freights by steamer to British ports.

In regard to our winter communication with the mainland by row-boats, the government at Ottawa, in order to render a more secure mode of travel during the close of ordinary navi— gation, placed on the route between the ports of Georgetown and Pictou—as an experience only—a small steamer named Albert. But on various trials, proving inadequate to the test, she was superseded in 1878 by a vessel known by name as Nari/tern szgr/zt, which, though capacious in. her design and strong withal, was not sufficiently powerful as a winter navi- gation steamer; her services in this direction, however, were continued for several seasons. At length an iron steamer, specially constructed, was brought from the Clyde, which during winter season is engaged plying between the said ports, and with great success. This is the Stanley. Captain Finlay- son, celebrated for his daring and nautical skill while in charge of the Nari/rem Liglzt during her various struggles in the Strait, was therefore considered well adapted for the important com- mand of the Stanley, to which he was called, and in which capacity he now serves. On re-opening of navigation, or towards midsummer, this vessel being manned by an extra crew, commissioned as a revenue cutter, is then stationed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence protecting the fisheries against

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