- 26 - To return to the Charlottetown Hospital, that it does a good work will be shown by the fact that during the past year (I885) I37 patients were admitted and 265 outdoor patients treated at and prescribed for from the Hospital Dispensary. On tonday evening the ljth of December 1879, a number of leading men of the congregation of Cathedral, at the invitation of the Rev. Alexander KcGillivary , met in St. Patrick's Hall and formed the Charlottetown Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. At that meeting forty members were enrolled. His Lordship the Bishop was made patron, and Fatner I- ^cGillivary, Spritual Director, John Caven , Esq. was unamiously chosen Fresident, and he, in accordance with the Rules of the Society, named as his officers, James Reddin , Esq. First Vice President, J .G. Eckstadt Esq., Second Vice Fresident, Hon. A.A. McDonald , Treasurer, and P.R.Eowers , Esq, Secretary . On the 6th of February 1888 the Charlottetown Conference was aggregated to the Superior Council of the Society in Paris. Since its found¬ ation, the conference has done much good in its charitable sphere. The cor.fraternity of the Sacred Heart was established among the Congregation of St. Dunstan's the same year. The Jesuit Fathers having for some years been desirous of establishing a college of their order in the teritime Provinces, in 1879 the Rev. Father Purbrick S.J . came to Prince Edward Island to look out a suitable site for the proposed foundation. After some deliberation on the part of the Bisnop and the Society an agreement was entered "into by which College was handed over to the of the society for a term of years, and in the year 1880, a community of three fathers, three scholastics, and four lay brothers, with Father George Kenny as Superior, arrived to establish the new foundation. At the conclusion of the second scholastic term. Father Kenny decided that Prince Edward Island was not suited for an educational establishment of the Jesuit order, end cancelled the agreement m-de between Father Purbrick and the Eishop withdrawing his community to lontreal. Thus St. Dunstan's saw another change of management. It had opened with aclat in 1855; its first rector the Rev. An ^us IacDonald secured for it a brilliant and successful term of years. It tnen passed under the management of the Very Rev.