THE MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE AT WELLINGTON.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 969, 3 August 1877, Page 2

THE MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE AT WELLINGTON.

[PER PRESS AGENCY.] Wellington, August 2. At the conference of municipal delegates to-day, Mr Standish moved—“ That the Government be asked to postpone the passing of the Charitable Institutions Bill until Tuesday, in order that suggestions at conference on the matter might be laid before Parliament, and if approved of embodied in the Bill.” This was carried unanimously. Mr Stan dish moved —“ That the chairman write requesting the Government to be good enough to inform this conference upon what basis of calculation the pro rat a deduct,ion for the maintenance of charitable institutions and hospitals out of subsidies payable to municipal corporations have been made, and are intended l to he made for the future, and whether aub--5 sidios payable to County Councils and Road | Boards have been and will be liable to the S same deductions.” Carried unanimously. I Mr Reynolds considered clause 3of the 1 Bill a direct violation of the Abolition Act of : last session, and urged that conference should I insist on those principles being maintained, as • otherwise the Provincial Governments would jj have been abolished on false pretences. 3 The subject then dropped, and after some • cursory discussion, the conference went for- ■ mally into committee on the Municipal Corl porations Act, which it was agreed required I several important amendments. \ It. was resolved, on the motion, or Mr < Standish, to recommend that clause 11 bo ; amended by empowering a Resident Magistrate to [exercise any jurisdiction exercisable under the Act by two justices of peace. It was recommended that danse 315 byrepealed. i It was also agreed that the conference ro--1 commend that the number of residents required for a district to be formed in a . borough should be 100 instead of 150, as required by clause 17, provided that a new borough should not bo less than live miles I distant from an existing one ; also, that the j number of signatures required to be attached • i to a petition for such borough to be constiI tuted should be 50 instead of 100. i On the motion of Mr Hutchison, it was j resolved that the opinion of the Attorney - ! General should be taken as to whether clause 223 gave a Municipal Council power to take lands outside a borough for' drainage purOn the motion of Mr Steward, it was resolved to seek legislative provision exempting receipts given by municipalities from stangp duty. A telegram was received from the Invercargill Municipal Council, asking the Conference to recommend, that power bo given to levy a general- rate of 2s in the £, instead of is, being the limit at present. The proposal elicited much discussion, but (he majority of the Conference were decidedly against, the proposal, which, on being put, was rejected. Other matters having been touched on, and several notices of motion given, the Conference adjourned. Be on the Alert if you have symptoms announcing the approach of kidney or bladder disorders. bains across the kmoeys, turbid urine, diflicnllv in water, burning in the proclaim that something is wrong, and that “ something ” if disregarded may develop into a most- serious evil. Delay not a moment if there is the .slighted urinary difficulty to apply the remedy especially recommended by the faculty for such disorders, Udolpho "Wolfe’s Schiedam Aecduxxc Schnapps.—[Ajjvj.J