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walls were about four or five feet high, the money gave out, and the work had to be stopped. The Bishop spent the whole night in prayer. The next English mail brought a letter from a firm of lawyers, enclosing a cheque for £500 sterling from friends in England, who were to remain anonymous. The only stipulation was that the initials “F.S.M.” should be put in the cathedral in a conspicuous place in the interior. This request was of course fulfilled.

The cathedral contains a recumbent statue of Bishop Medley, placed near the east end of the nave. The east window is of exceptional beauty, Trinity Church, New York, having contributed 100 guineas towards its cost.

One of the treasures of the cathedral is the gold altar cloth, which was used in Westminster Abbey at the coro- ' nation of George IV and Queen Adelaide. These things become the perquisites of the prebendary after the coro- nation, and in this case Prebendary Edwards presented it to Bishop Medley for his cathedral. It is used on state occasions and for high festivals of the church.

(3) Robbie Burns’ Monument, and The Soldiers’ Mem- orial Monument, of which Fredericton may be justly proud.

(4) The Fraser Memorial Hospital, donated to the city by the late Donald Fraser, who came to New Brunswick in 1873 with his family from Aberdeen, Scotland, and founded what is now one of the leading industrial con- cerns of the Dominion.

(5) Old Government House, erected in 1828, where King Edward VII was entertained during his visit to Fredericton as Prince of Wales, in 1860. .

(6) The Soldiers’ Barracks, for many years the home of famous British regiments and Canadian troops.

(7) The Old Burying Ground, established in the 18th century by the Loyalists. The first interment was the body