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tower, with pinnacles, over the western porch, and possesses a peal chancel was built in 1869-70, the foundation stone of which was laid 1 of Edinburgh on the 16th November, 1869. A handsome stained glass wi end, over the altar, to the memory of the late Mr. Douglas L in the north transept erected in 1892 to the memory of the late formerly Colonial Secretary, one in the south transept to the m who perished in the wreck of the P. & O. str. Bokhara, another to th Hospital Sisters who died in 1898 while in execution of their outbreak of plague, and the stained clerestory windows of the chane Lady Jackson in 1900, and one to the memory of Bishop Hoare, who los typhoon of 1906, are the chief adornments of the interior. The cho and Bishop's throne are fine samples of Chinese carving in teak possesses a fine three-manual organ containing 47 stops erected in R (Seamen's) Church, at West Point, close to the Sailors' Home, is Gothic erection with a spire. It also has a stained glass window, pr St. Stephen's Church, for Chinese, was built in 1892. It is a neat build with white facings, with a tower and spire about 80 feet high, standin lum Road side of the Church Mission compound. Union Church, a rather in the Italian style of architecture, with a spire, and containing acc about 500 persons, formerly stood in Staunton Street, but was rebuilt plan of the old building, on a new site above the Kennedy Road, parsonage adjoining. This church possesses an organ, and the three re filled with stained glass. A Wesleyan chapel stands at the junction and Kennedy Road; this was enlarged in 1904. The Roman Catholic Ca in Glenealy Ravine, near the Botanic Gardens, is a large structure in and is a rather imposing building. It was opened for worship in 188 tower with a small spire surmounting it was completed in 1904 tc peal of five bells. St. Joseph's Church, in Garden Road, is a neat in 1876 on the site of one destroyed by the great typhoon of 1874 Church on the Bonham Road, near West Point, is an ugly structure, er the munificence of a late Portuguese resident; St. Francis' Church, at W Church of the Sacred Heart, at West Point, are small and unattrac The Jewish Synagogue was erected in 1901, and is situated on the nort Robinson Road. It is a plain but roomy edifice with two squat towers spirets. The entire cost of the Church was borne by Mr. (now Sir) Jacob are two Mahomedan Mosques, one in Shelley Street and the other at Koy being for the accommodation of the men of the Indian Mahomedan regi on the peninsula. A Sikh temple was, in 1902, erected near the Wancha to the Happy Valley. There are also several Protestant mission chape College, a school for boys managed by the Christian Brothers (Roman pies a large and handsome building on a prominent site below Robin Italian Convent, in Caine Road, educates a large number of girls, and | orphans gratuitously. The Asile de la Sainte Eufance, in Queen's Ro hands of French Sisters, who receive and train up numbers of Chi Other denominations likewise support charitable establishments, con which are the Diocesan Home and Orphanage, the Berlin Foundli Bonham Road, which has a plain little chapel attached (in which servi the Lutheran creed are held), the Baxter Vernacular School, the Home and Orphanage, &c. St. Paul's College, situated between Pe Glenealy Ravine, was erected in 1850, and was originally founded fo giving a theological training to young Chinese and others intended fo the Anglican Church, but is now an ordinary school. A small chapel i college is the town residence of the Bishop of Victoria, who is its warde The Protestant, Roman Catholic, Parsee, Jewish, and Mahome occupy sites in Wong-nai Chung Valley, and are kept in good order. Cemetery is almost a rival to the Public Gardens, being charming admirably laid out with fountain, flower beds, and ornamental shrubs Chinese cemetery is on the slopes of Mount Davis, near the Pokfolu injudiciously crowded, and dismally bare, but it is a Confucian maxin burial should not be made to resemble pleasure-gardens."

An electric tramway runs through the City of Victoria from East Point and Happy Valley, and thence on to the village of Sha length of 9 miles. A cable tramway has since 1888 given access to t worked with great success, both financially and otherwise. The City