THE THAMES MUNICIPALITY COMMITTEE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 279, 30 August 1872, Page 3

THE THAMES MUNICIPALITY COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the Thames Municipality Committee was held yesterday afternoon at the Pacific Hotel. Present—Messrs Swan (in the chair), Davies, Broarley, Hazard, Hudson. The minutes of the meeting were read and confirmed. The following telegram was laid before the meeting : “ Wellington, 27tli August, 1872. Sir, —I have seen the Attorney-General. He thinks it would be better to wait the decision of the Provincial Council, or to niter boundaries to meet the views of the Superintendent. There might be difficulty in passing a special bill. Whatever you settle upon let in# know, and I will render all assistance in my power.— Ciias. O’Neill.” —F. C. Dean, Esq., Grahamstown. The Chairman said the business was to consider what should be done—whether any further action should be taken now, or the matter be left until the next sitting of the Provincial Council. Mr Brearley proposed that the matter should be lett to be fought iu the Provincial Council. Mr Hudson seconded the motion, and suggested that an influential deputation should wait upon them in Auckland. Mr Swan said he should dec-idedly object to the contraction of the boundaries. The members concurred. Mr Hudson said it was certainly necessary to include Tararu. The other members concurred that it desirable to secure a site for a deep water harbour.

Mr Davies said he would not oppose Mr Brearley’s motion, although it did not exactly meet his views, as he would have preferred to have gone on. He thought it was little to the credit of the Superintendent that he should dissent from the petition on the question of boundaries, as the law ’had beeif~complied with, the boundaries not being more extensive than allowed by the Act. He was doubtful whether in going to the Provincial Council they would get the endowments. He believed that if the Thames Goldfield had not been found when it was that the Provinces would have been done with in the Northern Island. He should like to see Provincialism done with. Mr Swan said that Mr Hall had stated that the Thames was discovered a year too soon. Mr Brearley’s motion was carried, and no further action in the matter will therefore take place for the present.