LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2583, 18 July 1882, Page 3

LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The usual fortnightly meeting of _ the above Council was held on Monday night, when there were present, Ore. Beed (in the chair), Chalmers, Stinson, Garforth, Webb, and Grubb. The receipts sinoo the preoeding meeting were £157 Oj 64. The lessee of the fish saloon on Oxford street, Mr Parks, was granted permission to put a lamp over his premises, subject to the supervision of the foreman of workß. Aocounts amounting to £153 3a 7d were passed for payment. It was agreed, on the report of the foreman of works, that the oonorete channelling and cross drains on Bipon and Canterbury streets belaid down. The estimated cost was £B3 7s 3d. On the motion of Or. Grubb, it was deoided to call for tenders for a supply of kero.one for twelve months. Or. Chalmers, on behalf of the sanitary committeo, obtained fourteen days' extension of time to report. A resolution proposed by Cr. Chalmers was oarried that Mr AUwright, M.H 8., be aßked to continue, in conjunction with the other Canterbury members, to press for a revision of tbo railway tariff. Or. Chalmers instanced the case o£ freight on cabin biscuits, which wore now charged by measurement not weight for freight —a ohange which was equal to three times the expense of sending the commodity by rail. This he found praotioally shut out the locally produced article from beiag supplied to the shipping, and was equivalent to a loss of some £IO,OOO to £15,000 per annum of trade. One of the peculiarities alao in respect to this article was that while the closely packed bisouitr-, in good boxes, were carried at the sender's risk, tbe bagged stuff was taken at the risk of the railway, and at a shilling per ton less rate of freight. Cr. Garforth mentioned also the singular regulations enforced as to the oarriage of onions and of potatoes. It was deoided, on the motion of Cr. Webb, that the lighting committee be authorijod to meet a committee of the Harbor Board, with a view to cooperating in the investigation of the subject of electric lighting. Or. Chalmers, who seconded the motion, pointed out that the trials whioh the Harbor Baard were making of the light were, in a measure, as much for the benefit of the borough as for the harbor, and the town should to operate in the trials. The subjeot of street crossings was brought up by Cr. Garforth, and it was decided to make a trial of the cost of one or two. On the motion of Or. Grubb, tenders are to bo called for a supply of kerosene, and on the motion of Or. Garforth, a lamp on Jackson's road and one on Dubliu atreet are to be erected.