MISSION OF ST. ANDREW 5?. ANrKSV'S~ At the western extremity of Kings County, a tinyrill, carretsed by cool green boughs of Alder flows singing and rippling along, spreading over narshy shallows and verdant meadows, gathering force and beauty in its course until it assumes grand proportions, and sweeps down to the sea, the most important river of Prince Edward Island , the broad and beautiful Hillsborough . The country lying on both sides of this river from its source for a distance of about eight miles is known as the parish of St. Andrew. It is settled by Eighland farmers and is subdivided into districts, bearing for the most part Highland names such as garahelic, Alisary, Glenroy , etc. This old Catholic parish of St. Andrew at one time had no boundaries other than the gulf of St. Lawrence and the straits of Northumberland; it comprises the whole of Prince Edward Island , and wp.e the centre from which the only English speaking priest in the Province ministered to his widely scattered flock. After the death of the Rev. James MaoDonald in 1725 the Scotch Catholics of St. John's Island were without a priest until the arrival in 17°0 of the Rev. Araea 6 MacEacher. i , On the Northern shore of the parish of St. Andrew by the fine sheet of water known as Savage Harbouf is a farm which for beputy of situation in unsurpassed in the Province, it is now the property of Mr. Hugh McFhee , ;<nd his wife is a niece of the venerable Bishop MpcEnchern whose nara^s is so fondly cherished in these parts. This farm was the cite upon which Ewen Pan MacEachern one of the passengers of the Alexander in 1772 erected his first log nanse, and here, he and his wife with their two sons and several daughters were living when the son whom they h**d left behind aboy at School came out clothed in the dignity of the eternrl priesthood to be an proslle in tMy wild cvirtry of the west. Landing at Ch?rlottetown the young J 'ather "rc-^pchern hastily made his way to the Bale d< Savages .here his kins folk were anxiously awaiting him, r<n& where we may be sure