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shipbuilding business at Bedeque, Prince County. While so engaged, Joseph Pope, in 1830, was elected to represent Bedeque district in the Legislative Assembly, in which he continued for twenty-three years, during which period he was twice elected Speaker. As a prominent member of the House, he took a leading part in the erection of court houses, jails, the establishment of supreme courts, customs, excise and other offices in Prince and King’s Counties. Having been appointed to a seat in the Executive, he there advocated the necessity of erecting a Government or Colonial Building, which edifice now towers upon Queen’s Square as a memorial of those times. In 1870, Mr. Pope was appointed Colonial Treasurer, and subsequent, Dominion Auditor and Manager of the Savings Bank. In 1880, he was Commissioner of Crown and Public Lands, but owing to the burden of advancing years, he in 1883 was compelled to retire into private life. He died at Charlotte- town on the 3rd September, 1895, aged 92 years.

Another aged resident of the city, after a few weeks illness, has passed from our common view. John W. Morrison Esq., the subject of this notice, died on the nth April, this year, aged 77 years. He was a native of La Have, Nova Scotia. Mr. Morrison for about forty years had charge of the Public Works Department, in which he served the Province faithfully and well. For nearly sixty years he had been a member of the Masonic Fraternity, of which he was a Past Grand Master, and was connected with the Order of Sons of Temperance some fifty years. He was also a leading member of the Caledonia Club of this Province. The obsequies attending the removal of his mortal remains from his late residence to the grave, was solemnized by the band playing the funeral dirge, and an escort comprised of the fraternity of the Sons of Temperance. Cale- donian Club, and the Society of Free and Accepted Masons, their banners and drums being draped in black, while each member wore a band of crape in token of respect and affection to the memory of a departed brother.

This sad obituary list is now brought to a close by the record of the death of a veteran oficer of militia, whose name is so frequently given in the pages of this small work, namely, Major Thomas Morris. Major Morris was born in Charlottetown during January, 1836, and was educated at Sackville, N. B. He in early life commenced business in this his native town in