AKAROA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 332, 23 September 1879, Page 2

AKAROA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

A special flQeetirig of the Council was held last evening in the offices of the { 6r_;h> purpose of considering the t.ouh-irs"<?9i,ditibna of leasing their 'Ashburton -'Reserves; -arid- comparing them with those of the Board of Education. - The , members , present were, —' His Worship, ; Crs Penlington,. Meech, ' Armstrong,. O'Reilly, and Bruce. /On the ' ' suggestion of Or O'Reilly the clauses-df the ■ -.-uric-l'*. -oohditioris . were); read ii seriatim i iandcbiripaifed withthogefpf the-pdopation ißQßeryjes f f J , 7 - ; -~,,,;> „ ~.-...,, ~,,.-.'-,.., - ; j n that. Ihe Council ...jjigree tooths th.'Education Board; afid reo'ues'f' f Mr Bark.r'tb forward the offer of his' client^toi'th. 'Oouhcil for ; theirajjp.bi.abcin!an J'j The mW.o,nr was Seconded by Cr, Bruce. ..j- Cr : ;o'Reiyy w|sh.d v tb mpve tni amend'ment46* the ihOtfon as he did- rfot like the. look of the whole affair.- It. s.emed to be i 'all for'"his! olie'ntand the Cou,ncil>[ ; The : Council had; already paid over £100 to Mr Barker, and he begged to move that this Council is not satisfied with Mr Barker as their agent. Cr Arinstrohg agreed with Cr Penlington in the-meantime., y Cr Meech was partly in favor of Cr O'Reilly's amendment, hut thought it inopportui_e."' ; Wbat' infoiTOatidn'Mr Barker had. he. thought was the property of the Council. He • was sore they ;were= not being treated properly, and wasat a loss to understand tl?e position when the two condi-tio-is" wefe'exadtly alike. _ Cr O'Reilly's motion was not seconded. Cr Penlington's motion was carried. The meeting then; adjourned.

A young New Yorker, who is paying his addresses to a.lady-love, stayed so late a few evenings since, that the family were compelled to white .wash the walls next morning, to obliterate his shadow.