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GENERAL NOTICE. 3
be constructed at the Staniiergate. The Board Room and Offices
connected with the Trust have lately been re-modelled; and a neat
building, situated in the open space between East Station and Victoria
Dock, has just been completed. It is to be partially used for police
purposes, and as a reading-room for seamen and others. The building
in design is in good taste, and, along with the Sailors' Home and
other ornate edifices, enhances materially the appearance of the locality.
In the outward aspect of the town there is comparatively little to
record. Few buildings have been erected, and these are of no import-
ance. The alterations on the villas in Nethergate for the different
sections of the new College have been finished ; and the handsome range
of offices in Bank Street for the proprietors of the Dundee Advertiser
and conjoint newspapers, has time after time been added to, till the
line of the street has been filled up and the block completed. In Perth
Road a fine new Church has been built for Free St John's congregation,
the old church in Small's Wynd having been purchased to form a lecture
hall for the College. The new church, which is a very fine building,
was recently opened for public worship. With the exception of a single
stance, Whitehall Street still remains unfeued, and, a period of dull trade
being still in the future, it is to be feared it will continue in the same con-
dition for some time longer. The sites in Scouringburn and several of those
in Seagate are vacant, but on the north side of the latter thoroughfare a
block of business premises is in progress, and it is proposed to build a
new Theatre at the top of Gellatly Street, having a frontage to Seagate.
There are other prospective schemes for the extension of the town. A
new Goods Station is being erected at Union Street for the Caledonian
Railway Company, and it is proposed to extend the Newtyle line from
Lochee farther east, to reach the mills and factories lying in that
direction of the town. Besides, there is a pro]DOsition to construct a
Circular Railway round the town. These schemes are still in a state
of embryo, but will doubtless form events for the future. The erection
of the new Tay Bridge is being proceeded with slowly, but surely, the
contractors apparently making certain of the stability of their work.
Above thirty of the foundations and piers have been laid, and the woi'k
goes steadily on at both sides of the river.
Socially, Dundee is still on the side of progress. The great schemes,
promoted through the munificence of high-minded libei'al citizens,
have been matured and carried out, and our older institutions have
maintained their wonted strength and vitality. The High School
has been reorganized, and, through the instrumentality of the late Mr
Harris, who gifted to it the sum of £20,000, it has been placed in a
position of permanent independence. A rector has been appointed,
sitjland, as its preceptorial arrangements have been altered for the better,
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