HAMILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 214, 3 April 1886, Page 2

HAMILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

An extraordinary, meeting of ,the council was held on Thursday night for the purpose of considering the next stßps to be taken in connection with the £0000 loan. There were present: His Worship the Mayor, Crs Philip, Sandos, Bach. Scott, .Tippen, Edgecunibe and Knox. , The subject was discussed, and the Mayor vva>> requested to ascertain whether tins lands temporarily reserved could he handed over to the borough for management before the l.ip>e of the ordinary time m order that contracts for improvements may be let during the coming winter. The offer of Sir Julius Vogel to lend the nv>ney at 5i per cent on terms specified in hi-, letter to the mayor was discussed, and it was decided to accept the offer.— Cr. Edgecumbe moved th.it the Mayor be requested to proceed to Wellington for the purpose of negotiating thu loan and arranging for all matters in connectiou therewith. --This was seconded by Cr; Knp^, and carried inianimbu>iy. — Tho Mayor expressed hrs readiness to undertake the mission, and would leave Hamilton on Monday next. Several questions of detail were then discussed, and a resolution was carried to the effect that in the event of the Government requesting tho Borough Council to select the site for the public buildings, the Mayor be instructed to select lots No. 443 and 443 a, Hamilton Wc*t, theirs lots being borough endowments and'situated clos>e to L the north-west end of the bridge. Should the Government ba prepared to contribute towards the cost of the said buildings, the Mayor was authoiised 'to pledge the council for the sum of ti'2o(K). On tho motion of Cr. Scott, seconded by Cr. Philip, it was agreed that Cr. Knox act as mayor dming the absence of His Worship in Wellington.

"Pur outyour tongue a little further," said a physician to a female patient — "a little further, m.i'.un, if you pleA&e — a little further still." "Why, doctor, do you think there's no end to a woman's tongue ? " cried the fair inyjilid. A young officer hearing some one celebrating the exploits of a prince who had killed six lhen \fc'ith his own hand, " Bah !" said he, " I would have you to know that the very m.ittres&es I sleep upoinare stuffed with nothing else but the whiskers of those whom I have sent to blumbjr in the other world !" ' Stop His Pay.— L^rd Wolsely's refusal to pay fees to the Heralds' College for his new title,, and to the Ulster King of Arms anil bia officials for the insignia of St. Patrick, reminds me, says Atlas in the World, of a story of how a similar ex-j hibition of independence was dealt" with by George IV. A certain knight of Windsor was given the Order of St. Michael and St. Geoige, and after the investiture the usual account of fees wiw sent to him, which he swore nothing would induce him to pay. There was no precedent for such a case, so n memorandum was sent to Sir William Kingston at Windsor in order that the King's pleasure might £>c tyken. The document wav returned with the following endorsement written by Geoige IV. himself : — 'Stop the d d fellow's pay till this claim is chared.'