May.

7.—Installation of electric light at Kaitangata Company's coal mine.

15.—Unsuccessful attempt by Invercargill Borough Council to induce Government to permit them to lease their harbour.

18.—Opening of Southland Freezing Co.'s new works at Mataura Falls.

20.—Earthquake shock at Dunedin, about 1 a.m.; also felt at Invercargill.

23. Address at City Hall by Hon. W. P. Reeves, Minister of Education.

27.—Intimation of death at San Francisco of Mr. R. Creighton, formerly well known pressman on Otago, and more recently mail agent for N.Z. Government.

Address at Palmerston by Hon. J. M'Kenzie, Minister for Lands.

28.—Death, at Broad Bay, of Mr. John Hill, ætat. 75. He arrived by ship Blundell in 1848.