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     fights and victories in the past; they are fighting and winning 
     
     them with strong faith and earnest endeavor and .prophecy the 
     
     greater achievements under and in the interests of the Fire 
     
     Flag in days yet to come. Sunday Services at 7 and II a.m., 
     
     3 and 7 p. m.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Dominion election was held for the return of representa- 
     
     tives to the House of Commons on the 23rd February, 1887, 
     
     which resulted as follows: Queen’s County—L. H. Davies, 
     
     Wm. Welsh. Prince County—James Yeo,S. F. Perry. King’s 
     
     County—P. A. McIntyre, J. E. Robertson, M. I). 
     
    
   
   
    
     Senators at this date were : Honorables Donald Montgomery, 
     
     Robert Poore Haythorne, George William Howlan, and 
     
     Jedediah Slason Carvell. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On June 28th, H. M. S. Canada, (roguns), Capt. Beaumont, 
     
     arrived from Halifax, with the intention of taking an active part 
     
     in our celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee, then in preparation, 
     
     but which had not come off in order of time as at other places. 
     
     In this wise, however, the fiftieth anniversary of Her Majesty’s 
     
     ascension was celebrated here on the 30th of the month and Ist 
     
     July. The weather was delightfully fine throughout, and 
     
     visitors from the neighboring Provinces and all parts of the 
     
     Island thronged the city on the day and night previous to the 
     
     event. 
     
    
   
   
    
     June 30th, at 12 o’clock, noon, H. M. S. Canada, which 
     
     had been dressed with bunting fired the joyous number of fifty 
     
     guns, with yards manned. Between every ten guns there 
     
     was a grand [Eu-de-jot'e. At the close of the firing, three cheers 
     
     for the Queen were given by the officers and men, with a force 
     
     and heartiness peculiar to British seamen. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Simultaneously with the firing on board the Canada, a Royal 
     
     Salute was heard to boom from Fort Edward, while all the city 
     
     bells rang, and the steam whistles of the railway, factories, and 
     
     steamers blew in honor of the occasion. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the afternoon there was a great military and naval review 
     
     in the Park, attended by some thousands of people. Besides 
     
     the volunteers, there were present from the Canada two com- 
     
     panies of sailors and a company of marines. Shortly after the 
     
     arrival of His Honor the Lieutenant Governor. who rode on 
     
     horseback, and who was received as usual by the troops, the 
     
     band playing “ God Save the Queen,” there was a salute of 
     
    

    
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