CHRISTCHURCH.

Press, Volume II, Issue 46, 29 March 1862, Page 5

CHRISTCHURCH.

CHRisTCH i-Rfii Mrs-icPAi. Coryeiu - The Council held its klv meeting on Monday last. We, rhe chairman reported the result of the interview with the Superintendent as follows: 1. £3000 Suhsidy. ' £3000 set apart for the Christclmrch Municipal Council ■ the Appropriation Ordinance, will be paid forthwith. "' Works within the city for which special rates are included in the Appropriation Ordinance. The Superintendent considers these had letter be completed , Government. It was explained that mast of these '] ks w jn be umlortakcn forthwith, and a copy was promised *f°thi« contract for clearing the river Axon. The Super- . t n( \ cn t admitted the liability of the Provincial Government to provide for the repairs (as main the Pro- ■ vince) of those portions of Oxford Terrace, the Whately Road, ' V ilnmbo Street, ahd the Sunnier Road, which constitute the f thoroughfares from the western and northern entrances throughout the city, to its eastern boundary at the Ferry Iload. •i p .- L . r ye of Waste Lands on endowments for the muniei" pality within and without the city. .| communication from the Provincial (iovernment was u-ouiist'il, stating tlie intention of the Government to reserve ,1-ovisoinally 10,000 acres us an endowment for the Christchurch .Vluiiicipality, and it was suggested that the Council should then select the localities in which it was desired these reserves to lie made. The Superintendent declared his readiness to «.t aivrt reserves for purposes of s. 39 of the Ordinance, on both sides of the river A yon, and agreed that one of the (iovemmeut Surveyors should assist the Council in the select i,,u of the sites for such reserves. The Superintendent iiiL'uested that the Council should by letter point out what reserves within the city it considered should be attached to the Council. His Honor appeared to think that Hagley Park should for the present remain with the Provincial Government. 4. The appropriation of the unpaid portion of the purchase money of the (Vistchurch Town Reserves. The Superintendent did not agree to the paying over to the municipality the proceeds of the Town Reserves, but admits a claim on the Provincial Government for contribution to public works within those reserves, which he considered should be met by annual grants of money from the Provincial chest, a Map of the ('ity of Chrifjtchurch. The Superintendent wLhed for the opinions of the Municipal Council, as to the reserves which it was desirable should !te handed over to them. This question was fully discussed, and ultimately it was deckled to ask for the following reserves, viz. the site of the present Court House; the site reserved for the Mechanic's Institute; the Market Square on the south side of the river, together with the Market Hall, and the Police, and Immigration Barracks ; the Slaughter yard reserves, both to the east and west of the city ; and the (lovermuent Domain. With regard to the last mentioned property, some difference of opinion prevailed as to whether the Superintendent could reasonably be expected to transfer it to the municipality. A resolution vas c.irricd to the following effect: "That Mr. Wilson ai.d Mr. Barnard select two sections of 50 acres each, one <>n the north, and the other on the south side iji the promised by the Provincial Government, for the purposes of Sect. 39, of the Ordinance" which states that the Council may from time to time provide places for rubbish vtc, to be collected under the, authority of the Ordinance. The Council then adjourned till Monday next. (Jurist's Col,u:ge, Cantj'.rbuhy.—At a meeting of the governing body held on Tuesday last, the 25th instant, Henry Thornton Dudley, Rowley Scholar, of Christ's College, was elected a scholar on the Somes founation. The value of this scholarship is £'50 per annum. Christchukcii Alkchanios' Institute.—This excellent institution appears to be gradually taking a proper hold on the public mind, as is shewn by the facts stated at the quarterly meeting held on Wednesday evening last, when it appeared that the library has been increased during the past quarter by the donations of seventeen volumes, and the purchase at a cost of £20 of some seventy volumes and upwards, and that a piece of land has b-x-n secured upon which to build an institute. °n Thursday evening Mr. Fity.ficrald gave his second readin g of the Idylls of the King. The proceeds of the lecture are intended by the lecturer?, as a donation to the Library of the -Mechanics , Institute. It is therefore greatly to be regretted that there whs not a larger attendance. I'ire Nuw Towx Halt..-The (bsigus for the new building J* «o\v exhibiting ii. the library of the Mechanic's Institute. 1 _ would hardly l,e fair to criti-iso the performances of the lv Jteted ; but it nu!.-t be owned that the building committee Je!t, haVe IjCCil 80innvu:it : .» their choice between the fiuv.isliwl by Messrs. Mallinson and arnarcl The fact, howowr, of the first named gentleman's .1 wry extensive v.<- of the old building, i', ialiucllce;l th '--i r decision. The present building is to billed " li,, refreshment room, smoking room, and retiring _' _'''"^ for ladies and when the whole desis,™ is carried out, 3 Can ho (J -tai ,u\l through Uie whale range of building r'" i;i,ut f' n '.- "ute de. Flanked by tii,- clock tower on the ;; wiui, and the ».v Hall on th." the buildings will "' rdV a rnilu,r *'>V>- "i: aR-luk-ctiiriil structure.