The City Hall is a bare, desolate, deserted, stucco structure, which in a way belongs to no one and is nobody'scare. The City Hall committee, which represents the few remaining original shareholders and the subscribers, does its best, but its efforts are mainly confined to making both ends meet, to Keeping the plaster fairly clean and sound (it is uow being colour washed), and to fend Of the ravages of white ants, to which the building is very subject. It ought to have been built of stone, brick, concrete, and iron, but the supports are mumly timber. There are few temptations to residents to endow such a place with yifis, and with the exception of a ghastly looking representa tion in oils in St. Andrew's Hall of the Duke of Edinburgh, there are no decora-tious on the walls of the various rooms and halls, Sir Thomas Jackson has now come forward as a donor, and lias presented a large portrait of Her Majesty in oils to the building. At present it lies in the packing case, and I have not seen it, 80 can say nothing more about it. There is hardly any wall space in either St. George's or St. Andrew's Hull, but I suppose a place will be found fur it in the former. Atany rate that is the most suitable place, unless it is intended for the Chamber of Commerce Room.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.