i 4S PAST AND PRESENT OF daunted, lie complied and returned his visit to see that all was right and claimed for his services five pounds of the Island currency, and report says that he recovered his fee by a due process of law. He turned the laugh on the other side of their face. Dr. Cornelius O'Leary arrived here from Cork , Ireland, and settled for a time at Souris . Here he married a Miss Scully , of that neighborhood. Soon after he re¬ moved to Alberton , where he practiced for many years, thence removing to Tignish , where he died. Of him the Rev. D. M. Mac - donald says, "He was a man of consider¬ able attainments. He studied in Paris, Brus¬ sels, Glasgow and Dublin, and besides being well up in medicine, he was a good classical scholar and the best historian I have ever met. He belonged to an old respectable fam¬ ily of the county Kerry and was a near rela¬ tive of the celebrated Daniel O' Connell ." Doctor Crafer , of Malpeque , was born in 1787, entered the Royal College in 1807 and graduated in 1810, having been army , surgeon for four years. He came to the Is¬ land in 1819, landing in Murray Harbour , and subsequently went to Malpeque , where he practiced until his death, which occurred in 1857. He took quite an active interest in both social and political affairs during all his active life. Hon . Dr. David Kaye left Scotland prob¬ ably in 1838 and settled at Point , Kings county, in 1839. He afterwards moved to and there he cleared the grounds for his house in the green woods and built a nice, home-like resi¬ dence, where he practiced his profession as long as he lived. Doctor Kaye married a Mrs. McDonald , nee Miss Watson . The latter returned to Liverpool, England , to purchase goods and on her return, in 1847. was lost. The ship and all hands were foun¬ dered at sea and were never heard of. Doc¬ tor Kaye represented the Murray Harbour district in the House of Assembly , was pro¬ vincial grandmaster of the Loyal Orange Association a master Mason, worshipful master of St. George's Lodge, Ancient Free rnd Accepted Masons, at Georgetown in 1865. There was no man more highly thought of than Doctor Kaye in the medical profession for skill, honesty and probity and integrity of character. In the winter of 1864 he took charge of Doctor Hobkirk 's practice in Charlottetown and attended to his duties in the House of Assembly at the same time. Doctor Hobkirk had been absent in England during that winter, but the fol¬ lowing spring he returned to Georgetown and continued his practice as formerly. Dr. William Hamilton Hobkirk was born on the 28th of December, 1810, at Charlotte, near Cheltenham, England . His father was an officer in the English army, of the Forty-second Highlanders . He and his wife and one daughter were drowned in their passage from Jamaica to London in the "Wellington Kelleher." She was struck by a sea on August 12, 1825, which sent her on her beam ends and washed off the roundhouse with the above passengers, Cap¬ tain Paisley, the second mate and four of the crew. .His sons then went to Nantes, , and in 1828 or 1829 William re¬ turned to London to prosecute his studies. He studied medicine at Greys and St. Thomas hospitals and was admitted at member of the Royal College of Surgeons, in England , on the 4th of August, 1837. On June 1, 1854, he was admitted a fellow of the same college. His first wife was Mrs.