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opened on January 31st., 1921, and on the previous day a Memorial, in the form of a granite cross, to those who fell in the Great War was unveiled in the compound by the H.E. The Governor. St. Peter's (Seamen's) Church, at West Point, close to the Sailors' Home, is a small brick Gothic erection with a spire. It has a stained glass window, presented in 1878. St. Stephen's Church, for Chinese, was built in 1892.

It is a neat building in red brick with white facings, with a tower and spire about 80 feet high, standing on the Pokfolum Road side of the Church Mission compound.! Union Church, a rather pleasing edifice in the Italian style of architecture, with a spire, and containing accommodation for about 500 persons, formerly stood in Staunton Street, but was rebuilt in 1890, on the plan of the old building, on a new site above the Kennedy Road. This church possesses an organ, and the three rose windows are filled with stained glass. A Wesleyan chapel stands at the junction of Queen's Road and Kennedy Road; this was enlarged in 1904. The Roman Catholic Cathedral situated in Glenealy Ravine, near the Botanic Gardens, is a large structure in the Gothic style; it was opened for worship in 1888. A campanile tower with a small spire surmounting it was completed in 1904 to receive a new peal of five bells. St. Joseph's Church, in Garden Road, is a neat edifice erected in 1876 on the site of one destroyed by the great typhoon of 1874; St. Anthony's Church on the Bonham Road, near West Point, is an ugly structure, erected in 1892 by the munificence of a late Portuguese resident; St. Francis' Church, at Wanchai, and the Church of the Sacred Heart, at West Point, are small and unattractive structures. A new Chinese Church, Church of Christ in China, was opened at the junction of Bonham Raod and Cainer Road in 1926. The Jewish Synagogue was erected in 1901, and is situated or the northern side of Robinson Road. It is a plain but roomy edifice with two squat towers surmounted by spirets, The entire cost of the Church was borne by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Jacob Sassoon. There are two Mahomedan Mosques one in Shelley Street and the other at Kowloon, the latter being for the accommodation of the men of the Indian Mahomedan regiments quartered on the peninsula. A Sikh temple was, in 1902, erected near the Wanchai Road approach to the Happy Valley There are also several Protestant mission chapels. A Christian Science Church was built on Macdonnell Road in 1911. St. Joseph's College, a school for boys managed by the Christian Brothers (Roman Catholic), occupies a large and handsome building or a prominent site below Robinson Road, and also the premises on Kennedy Road formerly known as the Club Germania. The Italian Convent, in Caine Road, educates a large number of girls, and brings up many orphans gratuitously. The Asile de la Saint Enfance, in Queen's Road East, is in the hands of French Sisters, who receive and train up numbers of Chinese foundlings. Other denominations likewise support charitabl establishments, conspicuous among which are the Diocesan Home and Orphanage, th Baxter Vernacular School, the Victoria Female Home and Orphanage, &c. St. Paul College, situated between Pedder's Hill and Glenealy Ravine, was erected in 1850, antr was originally founded for the purpose of giving a theological training to youn Chinese and others intended for the ministry of the Anglican Church, but is now a ordinary school. A small chapel is attached. "The college is the town residence of th Bishop of Victoria, who is its warden.

The Protestant, Roman Catholic, Parsee, Jewish, and Mahomedan Cemeterie occupy sites in Wong-nai Chung Valley and are kept in good order. The Protestan Cemetery is almost a rival to the Public Gardens, being charmingly situated and admirably laid out with fountain, flower beds, and ornamental shrubs. The principa Chinese cemetery is on the slopes of Mount Davis, near the Pokfolum Road, and injudiciously crowded and dismally bare, but it is a Confucian maxim that "places o burial should not be made to resemble pleasure-gardens."

An electric tramway runs through the City of Victoria from Belcher's Bay East Point and Happy Valley, and thence on to the village of Shaukiwan, a tota length of 9 miles. A cable tramway has since 1888 given access to the Peak and worked with great success, both financially and otherwise. The City terminus of th interesting little line is at St. John's Place. Powers were obtained in 1908 for th making of another tramway to the Peak, starting from Battery Path and proceedir up the Glenealy Ravine to a point close to the terminus of the existing line, br owing to public opposition to two of the suggested routes the scheme was abandone the alternative routes, on which some tunnelling was necessary, proving too expensiv The construction of a line from Wanchai to Mt. Caroline, giving access to ne building sites on the higher levels, has been promised for several years past by th Government but though a sum of money was voted for the purpose by the Legislativ