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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 606, 24 May 1851, Page 3

*ublic Meeting of the Hutt Settlers took :e at the Aglionby Arms on Tuesday the [i instant, which was very numerously inded.

Plie Meeting was chiefly summoned for the pose of enabling the settlers to point out pnost desirable line of roads so as to fafate their communication with each other, ! with the present main road; the set--6 already on their lands, in many instan[have no right of road in any direction, i the old road as surveyed by the Comiy has fallen into complete disuse, and is several places fenced across. Hie Government Surveyor, Mr. FitzgcI, was in attendance with a plan of the ire Hutt district. The several parties jous of obtaining the important pri•ge of the means of carrying the profe of their land to market came forward, {several useful lines were suggested. Although not specially mentioned in the flic notice calling the Meeting, the proil on the part of the Government to ht the Hutt settlers a Charter of Incorition came under discussion at rather a Ihour, when indeed many of the settlers [left the room. The following resolu|was submitted to the Meeting and pussillanimously :— |at the offer of His Excellency the Govor-in-Chief to form the inhabitants of the Hutt Bict into a Corporate Body be deliberately ■carefully considered; and to enable the |frs to do so, that a Committee be appointjfith power to send a Deputation to learn 1 His Excellency the responsibilities of the 5 Corporate, their powers, the endowments gublic purposes, arid if possible a draft of Hharter proposed to be granted.

I was then proposed and carried—[at the Committee be instructed to cause a I o * the proposed Charter to be circulated Bgat the settlers, with any further informaIpey may receive preparatory to a future Png.