MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 101, 18 July 1843, Page 3

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

Saturday, July 15, 1843. COUNCIL MET. PresentG. Hunter, Mayor, in the cliair, Aldermen Lyon, Johnson, Guyton, Jenkins, Waitt, Fitzerbert, and Dorset. Minutes of last meeting read and confirmed. Letter from W. B. Rhodes offering to lease part of the Town Belt read. Letter from H. London offering to lease 10 acres of the Town Belt read. Letter from Charles Sharp offering to lease part of the Town Belt read. Letter from Jolm Phelps offering to rent from 20 to 30 acres of the Town Belt read. Letter from John Hprne and Joseph Masters craving permission to cut fireword aiid burn charcoal read. Moved by Mr. Johnson and seconded by W. Lyon that a special meeting of the Council be called to take into consideration a letter received from Colonel Wakefield. .Carried unanimously. The Mayor was •; requested to - forward the following address to Macdonald, Hscp, Sheriff of the Nelson Settlement, to be communicated by him to the Colonists : We, the Mayor, Aldermen, Town Councillors, and undersigned Inhabitants of . the Borough of Wellington, offer to you, our felloe colonists of Nelson, the assurance of our deep and heartfelt' sympathy in the severe calamity which has befallen the colony, by the horrible massacre at Wairau. At the same time that we proffer to you our sincere condolence for the irreparable loss you have sustained by the untimely fate of those, who fell iif the attempt to uphold the equal authority of British Laws among British subjects, we pledge ourselves to aid, by our best exertions, your endeavours to procure justice for the past, and protection for the future. Wellington, July 11. 1843.