ALEXANDRA TOWN COUNCIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 32, 22 June 1870, Page 5

ALEXANDRA TOWN COUNCIL.

—o — The fortnightly meeting of this Council was held on Friday evening, the 17th. inst. Present —The Mayor, and Councillors Boresford and Theyera. The minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed. Outward correspondence was read and approved. A letter was road frtra Mr Frasor, M.P.C., stating that, owing to the present feeling in the Provincial Council, ha had been unable to geta sum placed on the Estimates to guarantee aub« sidy for the nest three years.—Received. A reply had also been received from the Commissioner of Police, sanctioning the appointment ot Constable Morkano as Inspector of Nuisances to the Corporation.—Tho Town Clork was in* struoted to draw tho Inspector's attention to the bye-laws, and instruct him to have thorn strictly enforced. The following accounts were passed for payment Win. Wilson, Ofcago Foundry, for seven large taps, £2l 2s. ; Thoyers & Beck, four 400-gallon tanks, £24 ; J. Graham, for eroctiug stages for do., £8 103. The Town Clerk ' intimated that the Government subsidy on rates, amounting to £'36 Is., had been placed to credit of Corporation ; also, that tho citizens' lists had beau duly posted in each ward, notice boiug given that tho Revision Court would be held ou tho Bth July. The Works Committee was instructed, to examine tho rock jutting on to the street at the entrance to the town, and if it was found easy of removal, to have it dona at once. This concluded the business before tho C.mnciL