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.