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available for services : l)ut the nave -wliich snffereil more is stilf 

 in ruins. Its entire restoriitiun is most desirable. 



On Military Eoad running along tlie crest of the ridge stands- 

 the Colonial Building or House of Parliament, containing cham- 

 bers for the two branches of the Legislature, and most of the 

 public offices. It is 110 feet long and 85 feet wide and was Iniilt 

 in 1847 at a cost of £100,000. Its Ionic imrtico is borne by six 

 massive columns, 30 feet high. Near it is Government House, 

 an unpretentious but substantial and comfortaljle abode, Avhere 

 the representative of Royalty reside.s. It is surrounded by well- 

 kejjt grounds. The Imjierial Government erected it in 1828 at 

 a cost of £30,000. 



ATHEN^UM AND OTHEK BUILDINGS. 



The Atheuieum was a handsome building near tlie Union Bank 

 in Duckworth Street. It was totally destroyed, with its fine 

 public library, music hall, reading room and the Savings' Bank 

 in the tire of 1892, and is now in ruins, awaiting restoration. A 

 line building for the accommodation of the Savings' Bank is to- 

 be erected opposite the Athenanun, on tlie site of St. Andrew's 

 Presbyteiian Cliurcli which is in course of re-erection on a moi-e 

 commanding site higher nji the slope, where the Masonic Temple 

 stood fjcfore the fire. The last named building is to occupy a 

 fine site a little above the new Savings' Bank. The Athenanini 

 reading-room and library are in Tobin's Building toward the 

 eastern end of Duckworth Street. They are open to stranger.'? 

 on the introduction of a mend)er. The I'enitentiary, a solid 

 granite building, and the Public Hospital, an excellent institu- 

 tion remarkably well cared for, are on the Quidi Tidi road, on 

 the outskirts of the city. Both w ill repay a visit. 



INDUSTRIES. 



Altliough the chief business interests of St. John's are in the 

 exportation of the grand staple, the codfish, and its seal-oil re- 

 fineries, yet in recent years there has been a wonderful develop-- 

 ment of local industries of various kinds. Tliere is now a large' 

 and well-e(pupped Bope Walk at Mundy Pond, half a mile from^ 



