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machine operates in each district, and a road—maker is in charge. ,

To assist in the maintenance of these public works, an annual tax of one dollar on men and twenty-five cents on horses (with certain exceptions)—exclusive of incorporated communities which keep up their own roadswis imposed.

TelegraphS.——Telegraphic communication is maintained by the cable of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, twelve miles long, between Cape Traverse and Cape Tormentine—the oldest cable in America, having been laid in 1852—and twenty-seven other offices of this company are established throughout the province and along the railway. The land line is a hundred and thirty miles long.

Telephones, &C.—~There is a telephone system of over five hundred miles, reaching almost every important point. Mails are despatched daily to the mainland and weekly to Great Britain; while advantage is taken of intervening opportunities to Europe via New York. There are good postal facilities throughout the province, oflices being established at intervals of three or four miles.

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