January.

3.—Local branch of Union Bank of Australia opened. Notes of bank of issue to be retired, taken up by Union Bank, and not again issued.

£20,000 voted by Provincial Council for immigration.

10.—Dunedin Brewery started (Messrs. MacKinnon and Co.), Royal Terrace, top of Pitt Street. News of finding remains of Dr. Schmidt, explorer, at Waikawa.

17.—Wreck of Endeavour at Molyneux.

24.—Selection by Town Board of Southern and Northern cemeteries.