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received from the publisher Mr. Thomson, to whom it 
appears a balance of over $1,050 is now due. Seeing 
that the Journal has cost the Society something like $300 
a year after payment of subscription, the Directors felt 
anxious to obtain an expression of opinion from the 
members as to the continuance of the publication, and 
he would therefore be glad if at the proper time some 
gentleman present would give notice of motion on the 
subje6l to enable the matter to be discussed at the next 
meeting of the Society. In the meantime, the publication 
accounts were laid over for the information of members. 
A letter was read from the Honorary Secretary to the 
Committee of Correspondence, stating that it was decided 
to postpone the preparation of an Annual Report on the 
Trade, Commerce and Agriculture of the colony, suitable 
for insertion in the Board of Trade Journal, until after 
the next meeting of the Combined Court in May, when 
the latest official returns would be available for the pur- 
poses of the report. 
At the wish of the members present, the addresses of 
Messrs. Hawtayne and Howell Jones on the practical 
lessons of the late Indo-Colonial Exhibition, were post- 
poned until the next month, when, it was hoped, there 
would be a fuller meeting — the early arrival of the mail 
preventing many persons from attending the present 
meeting. 
Mr. Howell Jones gave notice of the following motion:— 
That this Society continue the publication of Timehri on the same 
lines as heretofore. 
Mr Legge moved the resolution, of which he had given 
notice at the previous meeting, in regard to the appoint- 
ment of Agricultural Distri6l Sub-Committees, the object 
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