RE- NAMING STREETS.

—— ♦ . . Since ill* amalgamation of the boroughs of Sydenham, St. Albans, and Linwood with "the city, d : fficuity and confusion has arisen over the duplication of street nam«e in Greater Christcbureh. To remove these difficulties a special committee of the. City Council was set up, and at last night's meeting the report of tl» committee was submitted and 1 adopted. The City Surveyor was empowered to give effect to the committee's recommeadationa by havipg name plates provided for the streets that have been re-named. Aβ the matter ia one that will simplify the> work of the Post Office, the Council decided to forward to the Chief Postmaster a. list, of the alterations made. Regarding the namea originally given to the streets of this city, a representative of "The Press" was informed by the |lon. ■ C C. Bowcu how the names were decided upou. After Lyttelton and Chriatchurch had been surveyed and the street* laid out, tlie question of naming the streets presented iteeJf to the Canterbury Association's olikf surveyor, Captain, Thomas, who discussed it with Mr Jollie. When the lust-named gentleman told. Captain Thomas that the settlement was a Church one, the captain, in his brusque manner, eaid—• "Give mc en almanac, and we will give the streets the name* of Bishops." This was don*, and the-fact that thert is no Canterbury, Norwich, or London street in Chriatahurch ia due to the fact that those names were used, for streets In LyU tefton, which ub that time woe looked upon as tlte more important of the two places. The alterations* •decided -■' upon by the special committee of the City Council are u» follows:— Bowen etreet, Sydenham, to be Elgin etrcet; Chapel •etreet, St. Albany to be Bristol street | Church road, St.. Albans, to be Rutland street; Churchill street, St." Albane, to 'be Rutland street j Creek street, Linwood, to be Leeds street; Crescent road, Sydenham, to be »South Crescent roadOrescent rood, St. Albans, %o be North Crescent road; Elieabetli street, Lin wood, to be Suffolk street; George street, St. Albaiu), to be Derby street; Gordon street, Dinwood, to be Essex street; Hamilton street, St. Albane, to be Forfar street; ffigh street, St .Albaaa, "to be Dover street; livingetone street, Sydenham, to lw Hanov«r etreet; iMurray etreet, 6ydenbam, to b« Rose street; Porjfe St. Albans, to be Cornwall Mreet; Park rood, Linwood, to be Ollivier , * road; Park street, Deiitral, to be Dorset efcreet; Percy street, Sydenham, to be Leith street; Princes street, St. Albans, to be Winchester street; Springfield street, St. Albana, to be Radnor street; Tay street, Central, to [» Tweed frtreet; Templer rtreet, Sydenham, to be Waverly street; Victoria etreet, Richmond, to be Alexandra street; Victoria street. Linwood, to be Osborne street.; Walton strt*t, St. Albane, to be Portland street; William etreet., Linwood, to be Harrow street; Queen etreet, Central Ward, to be Duke street; Lyttelton ftreet, Central, to be Stafford etreet; Carltan Mill road, St. Albans,. to be Owifcon street; Carlton etreet, Central, to be Dublin street; Gxaftoa etreet, St. AJbans, k> ba Courtonay street. With regard t<» Park road, Linwood, Cr.. Pearce moved that instead of OHrvier's N>ad, it should be called Wigram ttreet, but the ilavur declined to have the hoo>ur thrust upon him.