Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society . andI shall be very glad indeed to give instructions that your Societyshould be allowed to place tablets in the Navy yard at Hali-fax. Admirers of the eminent statesman and jurist S. G. , will be glad to learn that there is every prospectthat his great name will be honoured by the erection of a castbronze tablet with a protrait medallion. The descendants of Governor DesBarres, one of the mostremarkable men connected with the history of Nova Scotia,are providing a Tablet to mark the place of his burial in Church, Halifax.
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society . andI shall be very glad indeed to give instructions that your Societyshould be allowed to place tablets in the Navy yard at Hali-fax. Admirers of the eminent statesman and jurist S. G. , will be glad to learn that there is every prospectthat his great name will be honoured by the erection of a castbronze tablet with a protrait medallion. The descendants of Governor DesBarres, one of the mostremarkable men connected with the history of Nova Scotia,are providing a Tablet to mark the place of his burial in Church, Halifax. DesBarres was Aide-de-camp toWolfe at Quebec, the preceptor of Captain Cook the circum-navigator, and the founder of Sydney. His Atlantic Neptune,was the most remarkable book of charts ever published. Mr. William W. Walsh, Barrister, has written suggesting thatthe old historic roads near Bedford Basin should be marked withinexpensive cairns, as some are now little better than paths,and there is danger that they may be absorbed by HON. MR. JUSTICE BLISS,Judge Supreme Court, Nova Scotia. (From a Water Colour by Miss Odell, Halifax.) MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF HONORABLE WILLIAM B. BLISS. 23 MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF THE HONORABLE WILLIAMBLOWERS BLISS. By the HON. SIR CHARLES J. TOWNSHEND, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. Read 6th March, 1911. The pure, and efficient administration of justice is one ofthe most essential features of good government. The Provinceof Nova Scotia from the first settlement has been very fortunatein the ability, learning, and integrity of the men who from timeto time have occupied seats on the Supreme Court Belcher, the first Chief Justice, was a man of excep-tional ability and force of character. He not only inauguratedwith great dignity our Supreme Court, and regulated its pro-cedure, but by his assistance, and guided by his hand the found-ations of our Provincial law were laid solidly, and well. Ourknowledge of the Judges from his
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