BY W. F. D. BUTLKU, B.A., M.SC, J.L.B. 55 



Treasurers hands had been paid out, such amount being 

 XI, 307 14s. Od. 



The Trustees, however, took up the position that the 

 amount was merely guaranteed by them, and that they 

 would only pay sufiicient to make, with the subscriptions, 

 the £2,00U in all. We find later the Building Committee 

 furnishing the Trustees with the account of their exjDen- 

 diture, in which the items were as follows: — 



£ s. d. 



For the building 2,007 7 8 



For fences, outbuildings, fittings, etc 331 3 1 



Legal expenses L'o 16 8 



Piinting account 5 



Total £'2,367 7 5 



Whilst their receipts were: — 



£ s. d. 

 Original subscriptions to the Hutchins 



Momcrial Fund : 609 12 10 



Additional subscriptions 482 14 



Proceeds of the sale of land in Collins-street 430 16 8 

 Received from the College Trustees as part. 



of their Guarantee 760 



Total £2.283 3 6 



The full accounts for the succeeding years have yet 

 to be recovered, but we find later an entry of an advance 

 to the School of £300. whilst, in 1854, the total cost of 

 the erection of the School-house and other buildings is 

 stated to have been £2,570. 



Ui)on the cessation of transportation a subscription 

 was raised in the Colony for the establishment of scholar- 

 ships to commemorate this event, and. as the Duke of 

 Newcastle was the Secretary of State for the Colonies when 

 this policy was adopted, the scholarships were called after 

 liim. A sum of £1,356 9s. 8d. was collected, half of 

 which was set apart to found 4 soholarships at the Hutchins 

 School, and the other half to found 4 scholarships at the 

 High School. By a Deed dated the 13th July. 1854, con- 

 stituting these scholai-ships at the former School, the 

 Bishop, as Visitor, and the Trustees of Christ's College, in 

 whom the land was vested, agreed that there .should be 4 

 scholars in the Hutchins School entitled to scholarships, 

 called the Newcastle Scholarships, of the value of £12 per 

 annum each, and the sum of £678 49. lOd. was paid over 

 to the Rev. J. R. Bucklaud, who iigreed to pay the sum of 



