January.

15.—Special meeting of City Council to confer with City Members to obtain an additional portion of the Town Belt for extending Northern Cemetery.

February.

1.—Retirement of Rev. Donald Ross, pastor of Wakitupu district for upwards of twenty years.

3.—Meeting at South Dunedin to promote establishment of Youths' Club, to provide rational amusements and instruction during winter evenings.

4.—Return of Hinemoa, with news that s.s. Kakanui was missing The s.s. Kakanui (47 tons) was sent down to the Macquarrie Islands to rescue a party said to be starving there.

6.—Arrival of Roman Catholic dignitaries: Archbishop Carr of Sydney and Bishop Moore of Ballarat.

Death of Mr. J. C. Brown, ex-M.H.R. for Tuapeka, ætat. 61.

24.—Public meeting re establishment of Boys' Club, South Dunedin. Progress reported, and lads invited to join. Paper received from Mr. Lee Smith.

25.—Dunedin Cup: Freedom, 1; Occident, 2; Cruchfield, 3.

March.

10.—Death of Mr. N. J. B. Macgregor, of North Taieri, a settler of many years' standing.

16.—Meeting of unemployed, 300 present Mayor Carroll, chairman.

19.—Meeting of City leaseholders at Athenæum, at which Fair Rent Bill was proposed.

27.—Volunteer encampment at Oamaru. Manœuvres of H.M.S. Curaçoa.

April.

1.—Stranding of Wanaka at New Plymouth. She afterwards became a total wreck.

4.—Death of Hon. W. R. Reeves, M.L.C., at Opawa.

7.—Magisterial inquiry commenced by Mr. Carew and Captain Orkney into loss of Kakanui.

9.—Free reading-room opened at St. Andrew's Church, Walker Street.

11.—Kakanui Relief Fund closed. Amount raised, £1980.

17.—Licensing elections (first triennial). Keen contest for prohibition. Lowest Moderate: L. R. Stanford, 702. Highest Prohibitionist: Arch. Barr, 685.

18.—Publication of particulars of deprivation of Sir R. Stout of his English Masonic status for participation in operations of French Orient, which ignores God.

May.

1.—Opening of Southern Club (South Dunedin) and Gymnasium.

4.—Death, at Wellington, of Mr. W. M. Blair, Engineer-in-Chief of New Zealand.

10.—Excursion train to Middlemarsh and formal opening of Otago Central thus far.

27.—Public Meeting in Princess Theatre to inaugurate National Liberal Association. Hon. R. J. Seddon in the chair.

28.—Deputation waited on City Council to ask for assistance for Free Public Library.

June.

8.—Breach in sandhills at Ocean Beach. Completion of destruction of esplanade at St. Clair.

12.—Publication of judgment of Judge Denniston in Sydenham Licensing Committee case, where a prohibition Committee had been elected.

22.—Report published of Commission of Inquiry into conduct of Public Trust Office.

25.—Death of Hon. Captain Fraser, M.L.C., ætat. 81.

July.

4.—Unveiling of memorial bust to Mr. Macandrew in the Triangle.

5.—Death of Mr. James Allan, of Hope Hill, ætat. 67.

7.—Rescue of castaways from the barque Compadre, 103 days on the Auckland Islands.

31.—Report by Mr. E. M. Barr on St. Clair s a-wall.

August.

6.—Foundation stone laid of new Salvation Army barracks in Dowling Street.

9.—Completion of sheer - legs at Port Chalmers for Otago Dock Trust.

12.—Conclusion of Coroner's inquiry into fire at Globe office. Verdict of arson against some person unknown.

20.—Completion of Anderson & Co.'s flour mill at Manor Place.

30.—Laying of foundation stone of Church of the Sacred Heart, North-East Valley.

September.

4.—Graduation Ceremony of Otago University. Graduates: Misses H. Alexander, C. Ferguson, C. Moss and Marion S. White; Messrs. E. Burnside, A. Crawford, J. H. Henderson, J. M'Kenzie, T. D. Pierce, J. Rennie, C. F. Salmon, A. Stenhouse, J. G. Stuart, J. S. Tennant, A. Campbell. J. H. Gray. LL.B.: R. M'Nab, R. S. Collie. M.A.: Sylvia L. Gifford, A. L. Line, J. A. M'Nickle, P. E. Morgan, H. P. Cowie, J. A. Johnston, J. Watt. M.B. and M.D.: M. Butement, R. H. Hogg, P. H. Reid.

10.—Rejection of Female Suffrage Bill by Legislative Council, 17 to 15.

17.—Publication of reply of Dr. Truby King to charges made by W. F. Kitchen re administration of Seacliffe Asylum. An inquiry was not deemed necessary.

October.

3.—Foundation stone laid of monument to late Dr. Burns, first Presbyterian minister of Otago, laid in Octagon by Mr. C. R. Chapman, son of the donor of the monument, Mr. R. Chapman. Cost, £1000.

11.—Final winding-up meeting of Exhibition Company.

16.—Banquet at Palmerston to Mr. J. M'Kenzie, Minister for Lands.

29.—Labour Day. Procession and sports.

31.—Foundation stone laid of Selwyn Anglican Theological College, Cumberland Street.

November.

3.—Arrival of General Booth in Dunedin.

20.—Death of Hon. James Fulton at Taieri, ætat. 61.

23.—Public meeting of ratepayers declined to sanction levy of rate for public library.

25.—Mayoral election: Chapman, 754; Cohen, 412; Hardy, 225.

27.—Annual meeting of N.Z. Farmers' Union.

29 and 30.—Band contest at Garrison Hall: Oamaru Garrison, 1; Dunedin Garrison, 2; Christchurch Garrison, 3; Invercargill, 4.

December.

26.—Presentation by ex-pupils to Mr. John Stenhouse, Rector of Lawrence High School.