I have always paid periodical visits to this cemetery, the chief reason being that my mother was buried there when I was fifteen years old. She expressed a wish to be carried to her grave instead of being taken in a hearse, and it was the first instance I can remember in Victoria, although it may have been done earlier. Both Bishops Cridge and Garrett, the clergymen who conducted the burial services over her, are alive to-day. Some four years ago, I had a marble headstone put on her grave, which was enclosed with a fence, and last fall I saw it there although buried in weeds. A few weeks ago a lady friend asked me if my mother's name was Jane; for that she had, in walking through the cemetery, come across a stone which must have been hers. I went up to investigate, and after some hours' search found the stone, but the enclosure was gone, and I had a time locating the grave, to replace the stone. In compiling the information given in this article, I made many visits lately, and I can say that it is a disgrace to a civilized community to have the last resting-place of Victoria's pioneers in such a condition--marble and sandstone monuments lying in all directions, broken either by falling over naturally, or with rocks by some vandal. It is a mistake to suppose that there are few remaining relations of these long-buried dead. At least there are fifty per cent. of them represented by relations to-day, as I shall show later on, and I hope the state of affairs as here related, may cause them to move at once to right matters. I might say that the individual plots were owned outright by the relations, and others, for they have certain title to them. Individual comments are made on all those that I know or knew of, and several large, heavy stones I could not lift to get inscriptions, as they lay on their face. In several cases wood headboards have outlived stone, the inscription on the former being more legible than the stone. The action of the elements in many cases has entirely erased some, especially from sandstone, although newer than the wood boards. One of the inscriptions I have read many a time as being quaint, was so far as I can remember, thus: ". . . Physicians were in vain; Till Christ did please to give her ease, release from all her pain." John S. Titcombe, pilot; monument erected by I. O. O. F.; died 1869, aged 41 years. Matthew Hollow, died Feb. 28, 1871, aged 39 years; erected by Victoria Lodge, I. O. O. F. Thos. Pritchard, died Oct. 31, 1883, aged 79; also Margaret his wife, died Dec. 3, 1871, 64 years. Note--This is the most pretentious monument in the cemetery. They leave grandchildren. James Orr, died 1871, aged 32 years; buried by St. Andrew's Masons and I. O. O. F. Alice Heathcote, wife of J. W. Hutchinson, jailer; died March 30, 1868, aged 27 years. Margaret Langley, wife of Edward Langley; died 1866; leaves relatives.