_One value._ Designed and printed by the British-American Bank Note Co., of Montreal, upon medium light buff card. Size, 4⁹⁄₁₀ × 3³⁄₁₀ inches. The inscription, which is at the top of the card, is in three lines: 1st, “_Universal Postal Union_,” in a curved line in coloured fancy letters; 2nd, “NEWFOUNDLAND TERRE NEUVE,” in coloured slanting block letters, also curved; 3rd, “POST CARD,” in white fancy capitals on a coloured ornamental label, with groundwork composed of horizontal lines. Below the label there are three dotted lines for the address, each one of which is shorter than the one above it. The stamp is in the right upper corner. Design: Three-quarter face portrait of Queen Victoria to left, in widow’s weeds, resting her head upon her right hand, on ground of horizontal lines, within a plain circular band, which is filled in with fine lines. The circle is surrounded by an ornamental frame, principally filled in with vertical lines. At the bottom there is a straight label of solid colour, bearing the value, “TWO CENTS,” in white Roman capitals. The design of the card is completed by a fancy border, measuring 4½ × 2⅘ inches. Inside the frame, at the bottom of the card, in the centre, is the name of the designers, in small coloured letters. (_Illustration 84._) 2 c., orange-vermilion (shades). Issue IV. July, 1880. _One value._ Designed and printed by the British-American Bank Note Company, of Montreal, upon medium light buff card; size, 4¾ × 2⁹⁄₁₀ inches. The design is a somewhat poor copy of the first issued card. The scroll at the top with the name of the Colony is a little altered, and the word “TO” is in different type, upon a groundwork formed of diagonal lines. The stamp is replaced by the type of the One Cent, adhesive, issue 1880, and the groundwork of the card consists of interlaced circles and ovals only. The frame is altogether different, and the name of the makers is placed outside the bottom of it in the centre on a narrow label; size of frame, 4⅕ × 2¹¹⁄₂₀ inches. (_Illustration 85._) 1 c., green (shades). Issue V. May (?), 1889. _One value._ Issued provisionally, pending a fresh supply of Two Cents cards. It consists of the One Cent card of the preceding issue, with the stamp surcharged across the centre in black “2 CENTS,” with Arabic numeral and Roman capitals, two straight bars at the top obliterating the original value, and an Arabic numeral “2” over the figure “1” at each bottom corner of the stamp. 2 c., black surcharge, on 1 c., green. NOVA SCOTIA. PRELIMINARY NOTES. _BY E. D. BACON._