Report of Society's Meetings. 
usual order of business, he thought it proper to refer to 
the very great loss which the Society as well as the 
community at large, had sustained by the death of the 
Reverend John Foreman. As a member of the Society 
that gentleman had taken a great interest in its welfare, 
and endeavoured very earnestly to make its influence 
extend to the benefit of the humbler classes of the com- 
munity. He (the chairman) thought that the meeting 
would agree with him that the Society had lost a member 
that they could ill afford to spare, and in making these 
remarks, he was only doing what was due to their late 
friend, as well as to themselves as members of the 
Society. 
The Secretary read a communication from Mr. A. 
Weber as representing the Exchange Room Directors, 
in answer to the request for information in regard to the 
letter of Mr. Freyssinier, referred to that body at the 
previous Meeting, in which the West India and Panama 
Telegraph Company was stated to have been in the 
habit of overcharging telegrams from this colony to 
England to the extent of about 31 cents per word. 
The communication having been read, Mr. Vyle, the 
Government Electrician, was asked by the chairman if he 
had any remarks to make on the subject. 
Mr. Vyle stated that he had been in communication 
with the General Superintendent of the cable in the 
West Indies, and had been assured by him that the 
charges were such as were allowed under the exist- 
ing agreement. The statement of Mr. Freyssenier 
could hardly be accepted as being free from a 
little animus against the Company. While on this subject 
he would call the attention of the meeting to the larger 
