January.

5.—Lighting Committee of City Council recommended erection of new gas works by Council. Report adopted.

12.—Formal possession given of graving dock at Port Chalmers by contractors to chairman of trust.

16.—Special meeting of Waste Lands Board declared Mr. Joseph Clarke purchaser of 45,500 acres of land at Moa Flat.

19.—White Horse Hotel, Tokomairiro, burnt down.

Signor Cagli's Opera Company.

30.—Reichelt recovered £1000 damages from N.Z. Insurance Co. Verdict also decided similar actions against London and Liverpool, and Globe, and Victoria Companies.