CITY COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2009, 13 October 1869, Page 2

CITY COUNCIL.

Tins Day. This morning a special meeting of the City Council was hold to-day at 11 o’clock. Present : His Worship the Mayor, Messrs Dods, Fiih, Griffin, M'Glashan, Thoncman, Walter, and Wilkinson. His Worship explained that he had convened the Council in consequence of certain action taken at a previous meeting, when a resolution was passed that the Fire Brigade should be paid Ll2 10s for the late supper, instead of LIT 10s 6d, as by the bill of oosts. On previous occasions it had been the custom of the Brigade annually to have a torch light procession and supper to which guests wore invited. This had become an institution, and when the Brigade was reorganised, ho had engaged that it should be continue:!. Acting npou this acknowledged privilege, the Brigade bad invited ft few friends and in consequence the amount voted—los per man—had been exceeded. He had told the Brigade that if there was any difficulty about the matter, ho himself would pay the difference ; but the Fire Brigade replied they could not accept the nr ncy as a private payment by the Mayor. Mr Walter said had the Mayor explained those circumstances at the previous meeting, the money would have been voted at once.

His Worship said if bo had not been understood it was his own fault, for he had intended to explain them fully. Mr Walter moved that the vote of the last meeting be rescinded, and the amount of the bill paid. His Worship said three days’ notice had not been given, and therefore the resolution could not be entertained.

Mr Walter then gave notice—“ That the resolution voting LI2 10s at the last meeting of the Council be rescinded, and the amount, Ll7 10s fid. be paid.” Mr Dods then called attention to the article in the Evening Star, published on Monday, which he read, with sundry comments characterising it as wrong in its statements from beginning to end. In fact that it was a tissue of falsehoods, and that the mover, seconder, and supporters of the motion at the last meeting of the Council, had no intention to insult the Fire Brigade. Mr Fish coincided by sundry exclamations in the opinion expressed by Mr Dods, and pronounced the article lately published in the action taken in reference to Mr M'Glashan’s protest as equally untrue. It was objected that the time of the Council should not be occupied in discussion on the merits of a newspaper article; and after some further discussion, his Worship dissolved the meeting.