cepted with much regret and that the Committee unanimously passed a vote of thanks to him for the deep interest he had ever taken in the affairs of the Institution. Mr. O'Neil was afterwards appointed Treasurer.
At the September quarterly meeting the following persons were elected members:- A. E. Murray, Esq., of Manor House, Re. George Everard of 4 Belle Vue, Mr. R. Wilkins, Marine Cottage, Mr. Robt. Growse, of 85 High street, Miss. Tooth, of Castle street, Mr. Jos. Arnold of Magdalen road, St. Leonards, Edmund Mason Thomson, of 28 Wellington Square, Re. George Borrett, St. Clements Rectory, Arthur King, Esq., 5 High street
A share of the Institution having been purchased at a public auction for £20 10s. and offered to the Committee at the same price, the latter resolved to accept it.
At the December quarterly meeting it was resolved to accept from Mr. P. F. Robertson, M.P. 150 volumes of "The Records of the House of Lords and the House of Commons of Great Britain". New members elected - Miss Peers, 53 St. Mary's terrace, and Rev. J. E. Tanner, 12 High Wickham
The Fishery
in the month of January, several of the Hastings fishing luggers set for the mackerel to the western waters according to annual custom, and the letters received at home were of an encouraging tenour. Some of them had already made as much as from £50 to £100 by the catch of a single night. This good fortune, however, was of short duration, and when March had come round, the news from Plymouth was of a gloomy character, there being no fish within reach. The small success attending the mackerel seekers in the "far-west" continued to the end of April, when most of the boats had set out for the home voyage, whilst those that remained at home were then "bending-in" for the mackerel season. Two months had passed and then the home season appeared likely to be almost as that in the west, there being but very few fish that would find their way into the nets. But bad as the season had been the fishermen would not give up until every means had been exhausted, hence they toiled on night after night until the last week in June, when some of the boats netted from one to two thousand, which realised a good price. Even this piece of good luck continued but a few nights, and after a fruitless endeavour for another month, the whole of the mackerel fleet gave up by the first week in August, and the oldest man among -
