The retiring Committee have the pleasure to submit the following Report, containing a retrospect of the various, and, in many instances, important matters which have come under consideration during the past year.

The last Annual General Meeting was held on 25th June, 1884, but owing to a resolution passed at the Quarterly Meeting held in July, which was made special for the purpose, it was decided for the future to hold the Annual General Meeting on the second Thursday in July of each year.

The following are the subjects that have occupied the attention of your Committee:—