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St. Johns, No. 1, Victoria, No. 2, Charlottetown; King Hiram, No. 3, Summerside; St. George, No. 4, Georgetown ; Alexan- dra, No. 5, Port Hill; Mt. Lebanon, No. 6, Summerside; Zetland. No. 7, Alberton; True Brothers, No. 8, Tryon; Orient, No. it, Souris; Mount Zion, No. 12, Kensington; St. Andrews, No. 13, Montague; Prince Edward, No. r4, Stanley. Alexandra, Royal Arch Chapter, No. 100, meets Ist Wednesday at Masonic Hall, Charlottetown. Prince Edward Royal Arch Chapter, No. 13, Summerside. meets and Wednesday in February, May, August and November.

Besides the societies already alluded to, a branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association has existed here for the last forty years. It has a well supplied reading room and gymna- sium. Another branch of the same society is also established at Summerside.

The Society of Women’s Christian Temperance Union, together with that of St. Vincent de Paul, are of a more recent organization.

As already shown, communication with the mainland is maintained, during the period of ordinary navigation, by a line of steamers connecting daily with ports in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and thus with the various railway systems of Canada and the United States. Branch railways have recently been constructed to Cape Traverse and to Cape Tormentine, and there is no doubt that a permanent connection will be established between these two points, and that communication during winter will, ere long, be accomplished with but little difficulty.

A subway has been proposed to connect the Island with the railway systems of the other Provinces, and the matter is fairly before the Dominion Government, its complete practicability having been favorably reported on by many leading engineers. Surveys and borings have been made by which the bottom of the straits has been shown to be perfectly suitable to the enterprise.

Under the superintendence of Postmaster and Assistant Inspector—F. De St. C. Brecken, there are excellent postal facilities throughout the Province,—post offices being estab- lished at intervals of three or four miles, and of these there are