MISSION OP ST. MARTIN ON THE SOUTH SHORE The mission of St. Martin on the of Prince Edward Island , is a dependaney of the Cathedral Parish of Chariottetown. The first Catholic case there in 182 U and settled on property belonging to a daughter of general Tanning, the original proprietor of Township Sixty-Eire. They had heard that this property was offered to settlers free of rent, and were under the im¬ pression that it was cleared land, but on their arrival, found they would have to settle among stumps, for the "clear land" of the advertisement meant only that the timber had been felled. There were no roads in these parts and the early settlers were obliged to row all round the blockhouse to hear mass in Charlottetown . Neither the length of this journey nor the severe weather they sometimes encountered, would deter them from faithfully fulfilling the command of the church, and they would bring their children to receive baptism, when only a few days old, by the same JBazardous route. These early settlers were very happy; they had very rich land on which everything they chose to cultivate would grow in great luxuriance; it is said that even cucumbers planted among the stumps would ripen for use as soon as those grown in ordinary gardens under glass. Winding cow paths through the woods led from ore farm to another and by means of these visiting was rendered easy, and the neighbours enjoyed many a friendly ceilidh. It was not until 1872 that the dwellers in this tiny settlement decided upon building themselves a church; in that year they set about the erection of the pretty little sanctuary In which once a month one of the priests from Charlottetown celebrates mass. This church of St. Martin is thirty five feet in length by twenty five in breadth and sixteen feet post. It is built of red brlch and sandstone and has a graceful and proportionate spire.