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plans and estimates indicating their scheme how such a School could 
be established : — 
I shall therefore, at the next meeting, call for the reading of such 
plans as the Committee has prepared, and hereafter move that the 
motion now on the table be put to the vote." 
The Secretary read a letter from Mrs. Hamblin ac- 
knowledging the receipt of an extract from the minutes 
of the Society showing sympathy with her and the colony 
at the loss of her father the late Bishop of Guiana, and 
thanking the President and Members for the kind manner 
in which his life-long work had been spoken of. 
Mr. Watt's motion for amending the constitution of 
the Society was postponed with consent of the meeting, 
and at the request of the President. 
The President said that before proceeding to the 
election of Office-Bearers for the following year he would 
give, as was customary, a retrospect of the business done 
by those now retiring, during their term of office. Un- 
fortunately the present had not been a favourable year 
for either agriculture or commerce. In the first half the 
crop was forty per cent, less than during the same six 
months of the previous year, and this depression had 
been felt by all. 
During the year fourteen meetings had been held, 
including the present, at which the average attendance 
had been only fourteen. The principal matters which 
had been considered at these meetings were Jewish 
immigration, the establishment of an Agricultural School, 
allegations against Canadian flour, Opening up of the 
Country and the Cultivation of Tobacco. They all knew 
the results of their deliberation on these matters ; Jewish 
immigration was not considered practicable and the estab- 
lishment of an agricultural school, although desirable, 
