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Navigation School, 17 West Blackhall Street. Branches taught —
Navigation, engineering, nautical astronomy, mathematics, seamanship,
ship's business, and rule of the road — John St. V. M'Nally, instructor.
St. Lawrence Roman Catholic School, Belville Street— Boys' depart-
ment—Master, J. Taylor ; girls' and infants' departments— under the
superintendence of Franciscan Sisters from Bank House.
St. Mary's R.C. School, East Shaw Street— General branches
of education — boys' department — James M'Lernan, head master, and
assistants ; girls' department and infants' department— under the super-
intendence of Franciscan Sisters, from Bank House, and assistants.
School of Art, held in Town Hall under the Science and Art
Department of the Committee of Council on Education. A. J.
Turnbull, chairman ; A. Douglas Murray, solicitor, hon. secretary,
Walter Yuille, teacher.
Seminary for Young Ladies, Eldon Villa, 67 Eldon Street — Misses
Gibb and assistants.
PUBLIC HALLS.
Assembly Rooms, 21 West Stewart Street.
Britannia Hall, Arcade, Cathcart Street.
Buck Head Hall, 2 Watson's Lane.
Caledonia Hall, Highland Close.
Cartsburn Hall, 6 Cartsburn Street.
Crawford's Central Hall, 17 Charles Street.
Cruden Hall, 2 Ann Street.
Foresters' Hall, 27 Roxburgh Street.
Gardeners' Arms Hall, 10 Market Street.
John Street Hall, John Street.
Mechanics' Institute, r
St. George's Hall, 10 George Square.
Temperance Institute, 19 West Stewart Street.
Town Hall, Municipal Buildings.
Victoria Hall, 1 East Blackhall Street.
Watt Museum (Lecture Hall), Kelly Street.
Western Hall, 38 West Blackhall Street.
INSTITUTIONS.
GREENOCK LIBRARY— Watt Monument, 9 Union Street.
Instituted 1st January, 1783.
Hours from 9 till II, I till 5, and 7 till 9 daily — on Saturdays from 7
till 9 evening.
Managed by a Committee selected annually in January.
Rev. J. F. Macpherson, Chairman. James Nicoll, Treasurer.
Allan Park Paton, Secretary and Librarian.
The Library (including Foreign, Theological, Scientific, Mathe-
matical, and Botanical Departments) contains about 25,000 vols., and
there are about 200 subscribers. There is a large supply of the most
recently published works of importance and interest.
The first-class subscription, entitling to a new work of one or more
volumes, an old work, and a review or magazine, is 21s. The second-