September.

7.—Banquet by the Mayor, Mr. R. H. Leary, to Governor and Ministers at Guthrie and Larnach's new warehouse, Princes Street. About four hundred sat down to dinner.

10.—City Council vote £300 as an addition to salary of Mayor, because of necessity for dispensing hospitality.

13.—Meeting of ratepayers of St. Kilda, South Dunedin, and adjacent districts, held at Naumann's Hall, to consider advisability of amalgamating the various boroughs. Mayor of South Dunedin, Mr. Gabriel Hodges, in the chair. Decided to adjourn in view of thin attendance.

18.—Arrest of Welsh, murderer of his wife at Waikawa.

27.—Heavy floods in Clutha District.