strength of a party fairly and properly. The only persons who might 

 oppose the Hare system, in Mr. Johnston's opinion, were those who 

 wished to gain or maintain more than was their just rights, and those 

 who were selfishly indifferent to their rights. In conclusion, Mr. 

 Johnston gave detailed answers to all the more important questions 

 usually raised, such as the relative values of the various preference 

 votes. The paper was illustrated by tables and some excellent diagrams. 



Discussion was postponed. 



A NEW HOCK. 



The Secretary read a paper — " On the Occurrence of Limurite in 

 Tasmania," by Messrs. W. H. Twelvetrees and W. F.Petterd. This 

 was an interesting geological and mineralogical paper, which showed 

 that the peculiar and interesting rock known as limurite occurred in 

 considerable quantity at North-East Dundas, on the property held under 

 mineral lease by the Colebrook Prospecting Association. A careful and 

 minute description of the rock was given, including details of micro- 

 examination of its constituents, and the paper was illustrated with 

 photo-micro plates of sections of the rock. A representative specimen 

 of the rock is on exhibition at the Museum. 



The Secretary referred to the excellent work being done by Messrs. 

 Twelvetrees and Petterd in the microscopical study of Tasmanian 

 rocks, and characterised it as a most important branch of scientific 

 work. 



NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS. 



Mr. F. Back, General Manager of Railways, read a paper on The 

 Mount Dundas Narrow Gauge Railway. 



The paper was listened to with close attention. It was illustrated 

 with lantern slides of a number of exquisite photographic views of the 

 new railway, and of the West Coast generally, taken quite recently by 

 Mr. J. W. Beattie, which gave the spectator a good idea of the kind 

 of country the line traversed. 



A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. 



