ALEXANDRA TOWN COUNCIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 26, 11 May 1870, Page 5

ALEXANDRA TOWN COUNCIL.

The usual fortnightly meeting was held in the Council Chamber on Friday evening last. Present s The Mayor, and Crs. Theyers and Beresford. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. There was no outward correspondence. That inwards was read and received. An application from Messrs Judge and Jenkins was read, applying for leave to erect a slaughter yard for sheep about 300 yards from tho township, in Manuherikia Ward.—Permission was granted ; but the applicants were given to understand distinctly that unless they kept the place thoroughly clean, the Council would withhold their assent to any renewal. An invitation to the members of the Corporation to attend the opening ceremony of the iShotover Bridge was read.—The Town Clerk was instructed to reply that owing to the unsettled state of the weather, the Council feared they would not be able to attend. Cr. Theyers proposed that the Town Clerk be instructed to write to the Deputy-Commissioner of Stamps, Dunedin, respectfully drawing hia attention to the necessity of appointing an official distributor of stamps and impressed paper in tho township, and that the Council should be glad to see Mr Walter Vause, postmaster and telegraphist, appointed to the office. This concluded the business beforo the meeting, and the Council adjourned.