LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2194, 8 March 1881, Page 3

LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The usual meeting was held on Monday night of this Council, when there were present—Councillors Hawkins, Seed, Oarforth, Webb, Weyburn, Maepherion, Maodonald, and the Mayor in the chair. The receipts since the preceding meeting were £SI 6j. The inspector of polioe, Christohuroh, notified tho Couacil that the inspeotor of weights and measures would visit Lyttelton every six months. The town clerk at the Thames wrote asking for information as to the operation hero of the peddlers and hawkers' license. A reply had been sent that no suoh liconsos wero issued by this Council. Dr. Bouse sent in o list ot tho charitable aid patients he had attended during February. The Htfts contained seven names. A request from Mr Lawson, Salts <Jully, for damage dono to his place by the hard labor gang, was left with the works committee. An application sent in by Mt W. Holmes to have the water laid on to his place and to a '•team laundry in course of erection, was «anotionod on motion of Or. Hawkins, ■seconded by Or. Roed, Mr Holmes to subscribe £5 to the work. Accounts amounting to £153 Oa Id were passed for payment. The Mayor said Mr Shaw had not roceived any word as to getting a site for a bathing place along the shore, and ho suggested that it might perhaps be thought advisable to establish baths similar to those at Oamaru, namely, by excavating one of the Council's reserves in Dampier's Bay. The matter was loft with the bathing committee. Tho Mayor said the Minister of Public Works had been interviewed since the last mooting with referenoe to a siding at the Oounoil's reserve at Ofllcer's Point, and a reply in writing had been received to the effect that it would be granted on the aotual oost of putting it in. The Mayor and Or. Beod spoke in flattering terms of the way in which the Minister entertained their proposal, and the prompt manner he had acted with reference to it. The Minister seemed surprised at the letter sent to the Council by tho railway manager, Mr Maxwell. The rates for the ensuing year were struck—one of Is in the £ from Maroh 31st, and the other (water rate) of If per cent.; both rates are ident oil with lastyear's. The exchange of property as proposed by Mr Leo ha i been agreed to by the estates committee. The eiise between the Council and the lyttelton Harbor Board for the reoovery of rates on the Board's offices and Mr Desbridge'a house was reported to have been adjourned until next Saturday. Arrangements were oome to by the Council for receiving hii JECxcellenoy the Governor. The foreman of works reported favorably upon Messrs Cook Bros.'' slaughter house, and their license was therefore granted. Or. Webb spoke of the necessity there was for a public pound, and was replied to that tho difficulty was to obtain a site. Or. Hawkins suggested that the Government, be asked to let the borough use the piece of land near the Union Bank temporarily for this purpose. Tho clork was instructed to write to that effect.