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princely habits with a host of his officials had taken up their 
abode in such a building, and were proud of living or 
working there ; at any rate it does not convey the idea of 
an Alms House for the poorest of the poor or the 
weakest of the weak to find rest and repose, while for 
ever trotting out their troubles. 
The new Hospital just referred to, tells its tale much 
more truthfully, while our Georgetown Prison with its 
unsightly corrugated iron walls, tells its doleful story 
far too well, and it were surely better that that sad sinful 
story were told elsewhere or far from our town and not 
among the guiltless many. For a new Prison, where 
stone cannot be got, and bricks and mortar are play- 
things in prisoners' hands, metal to a certain extent 
might most legitimately be employed not however for- 
getting to secure a severe style of architecture from 
the architect. 
There is in another direction a building known as the 
Georgetown Stables, which externally shows that some one 
possessed of more than mere building power has worked 
his mind upon that structure, and thrown into it some 
simple but appropriate architecture. It is sensibly de- 
signed, telling its own tale truly as each and every build- 
ing should be made to do, be it a princely palace, a play- 
house or a pot shop 1 
Our General Post Office from an architectural point 
of view has not much to say for itself seen from within 
or viewed from without. The front elevation has been 
injured of late, or more properly speaking, much weak- 
ened in appearance by the addition of a very undignified 
slanting long sun shade, or at most, entrance covering, 
done in zinc with gingerbread ornaments called by some 
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