Report of Society's Meetings. 
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Industry of the colony, are the following, arranged according to value 
and quantity : — 
1. Sugar, 124,283^ hogsheads ... 
2. Rum, 24,773! puncheons 
3. Molasses, 20,001 casks 
4. Gold, 6,518^ ounces ... 
*5- Timber, 222,968 feet 
6. Charcoal, 65,781 packages 
7. Balata, 67,828 pounds 
8. Hides and Skins, 5,889 skins ... 
9. Gums, 40,466 pounds ... 
10. Plantains and fPlantain Suckers 
11. Shingles, 1,687,650 shingles ... 
12. Cocoa-nuts, 283,775 nuts 
13. Fish Glue, 7,641 pounds 
J14. Cocoa, 1,968 pounds 
... £ M57>740 18 a. 
153,50 14 * 
55,763 4 1 
23,342 3 8 
14,205 16 4 
6,806 o 7 
2,978 18 7i 
2,016 3 o 
1,793 19 5 
1,269 ° ° 
1,003 5 7 
752 14 uf 
625 2 9 
52 2 6 
* Greenheart. 
f An export of very recent date in any quantity. 
% First year of export. 
Meeting held on 22nd September, — Mr. Justice 
Kirke, M.A., B.C.L., President, in the chair. 
There were 1 1 members present. 
Elettions. — Associates : W. A. Hosking, H. C. Porter, 
J. H. Field, J. C. McKenzie. 
A letter from Mr. Quelch, Honorary Secretary to the 
Committee of Correspondence, was read, stating that 
steps had been taken to procure, through Messrs. Park 
and Cunningham, specimens of colony woods to be 
forwarded to Mr. Henry Durden, Secretary to the State 
Mining Bureau, San Francisco, in exchange for specimens 
of Californian Ores and Minerals to be placed in the Local 
Museum. Seventy-two specimens of the required size, 
polished on one side, had been obtained at a cost of 32 
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