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for the establishment of a Department of Education, and introduced into our Public School system many of the most approved principals and most modern methods of other countries. In 1879 the College and Normal School were amalgamated, and young ladies were admitted for the first time into the former institution. Many improvements in the administration of the educational affairs of the Island for the advancement and encouragement of the teachers, and {or the grading of the different schools, have been introduced since 1879, and are now in effective operation.

There are three daily newspapers published in Charlottetown : The Daily Examiner, The Daily Patriot and The Morning Guardian. These papers each have weekly editions, and The Guardian publishes a semi-weekly besides. There are also two other weekly newspapers, The Herald and Tile Watchman, and a semi-weekly, The Islander. '

As regards improvements, Charlottetown during the past few years made many advancements; its present Market Building was opened for barter about 1868. Here on Tuesdays and Fridays in every week the farmers and their wives, or their sons and their daughters come from the country and display for sale the products of their farms, market-gardens and dairies, and all other articles of food which the Island yields in great abundance, in their proper season. Inside the building, on the ground floor, the butchers and the market-gardeners have their stalls; upstairs the space is given to the women, who are doing business on a smaller scale than the occupants of the lower story. It is however well and abundantly supplied, and is therefore one of the sights of the city. On the southern side of the Market Place country butchers sell their meat from their wagons, while on the northern side is the fish and hay market.

The next attraction in those parts is the large public square surrounding the Dominion and Provincial Buildings, which has been laid out with hard, smooth paths, and well trimmed grassy lawns, planted with trees and embellished with numerous beds of flowers and foliage plants, which, during the season, show a marvellous luxuriance of growth.

The Public Park, to the west of the town, containing about forty—six acres, afi'ords varied views of the city and harbor, 28