The following report and balance sheet were read at the last annnal meeting of the above Brigade, held at the Athenaeum recently : Mb Chairman and Gentlemen, —Your committee have much pleasure in presenting this, their eighth annual report, to your notice, and in doing so have to thank the members for their general good conduct and regular attendance to all the duties of during the past year. This being the commencement of another year, your committee in this report intend to review the business and events of the past twelve months, and lay it before you with a few comments thereon. Your committee have to report that during the past year your Brigade has attended at the following fires and false alarms—five fires and three false alarms : The first fire occurred on Sunday morning, Juno 18th, 1871; the scene Pipitea Point; the result total destruction of the premises in which the fire originated. Your engines were not upon the ground in time, in consequence of horses not being procurable. Your members present endeavored to draw the engine, and after proceeding a considerable distance were obliged to leave it, and hasten to the fire to render all the assistance they could. The second event was a fire in a stable at the rear of the New Zealander Hotel, Manners street. The alarm-bell rung between the hours of nine and ten in the evening, and your Brigade hastened to the scene with all possible despatch, and succeeded in stopping the spread of what might have been ‘a large fire. Your committee regret having to record a fatality which marked this fire, in the death of one Richard Andrews, who was asleep in the stable at the time. The third event occurred on the 29th of August. The alarm-bell being rung, the Brigade turned out and hastened to the Thorndon end ; but when the engines reached the scene, it turned out to be a chitnnev on fire, and in consequence this Brigade incurred an unnecessai’y expense. Your committee desire to notice the fact that alarms of this natme are in themselves the moans of entailing considerable expense upon this Brigade. 