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Summary of Proceedings and Excursions for the year 1905-1906. 
By the Honorary Secretaries. 
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, 
The Anniversary Meeting was held on Saturday, February 
18, 1905, when 15 members were present. The Treasurer’s 
account showed a balance of {24 13s. od. in favour of the club. 
The officials appointed for the ensuing year were Mr. Trice 
Martin, President ; the Revs. C. W. Shickle and T. W. Whale, 
Vice-Presidents ; Colonel Nash, Treasurer ; Messrs. Ward and 
Scott, Secretaries; and Mr. Appleby, Librarian; the list 
being in fact a series of re-elections, save for the exchange of 
positions between Mr. Trice Martin and the Rev. C. W. Shickle. 
Colonel Fanshawe, and Messrs. Henderson and Kemble were 
also re-appointed members of the Committee. Votes of thanks 
were passed to the officers for their services, and a second 
gathering of the Club was held in the evening, at the Empire 
Hotel. This meeting was to celebrate, by a dinner, the end 
of the 50th year of the existence of the Club, the date of its 
institution being, according to the records, February 18, 1855. 
Thirteen members were present, and three friends, two of whom 
have since been elected members. The Revs. C. W. Shickle and 
T. W. Whale occupied the chair and the vice-chair respec- 
tively, and after the loyal toast had been duly honoured Canon 
Percy Rogers proposed “ Prosperity to the Club,” and the 
health of the Chairman, who, in response, gave interesting 
details of the working of the Club in olden times, reminiscences 
which were supplemented in subsequent speeches by Messrs. 
Norman and Shum. Mr. Emanuel Green proposed “ The 
Officials of the Club,”’ which was replied to by the Rev. T. W. 
Whale and other members. <A very pleasant evening was 
spent, and to the newer members it was especially gratifying 
to have such records of past doings detailed to them by those 
who had so long an acquaintance with the work and diffi- 
culties and delights of the Club, and to hear the names and 
actions of the old leaders mentioned with such sympathetic 
enthusiasm. 
During the year Mr. Appleby felt obliged by the calls of 
other public work to resign the Librarianship in January. 
There have been several resignations of membership during 
the year, and even the election of seven new members has not 
sufficed to fill up the void thus occasioned. One death must be 
noted, that of Colonel Fanshawe, who died on the 4th of 
