CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL

Press, Volume XVI, Issue 2167, 29 March 1870, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL

I The weekly meeting of the City Comd took place last evening. Present-the W» » Councillors Sawtell, Jameson, Piatt, UW«»» Hart, Bishop, Anderson, and Goes. •„». The Town Clerk reported the recMP during the past week to be:— City raws, w> £50 2s; drain pipes, £11* «, 10s; sundries, £5 j rent from Market f»« 7s ; total, £58 15s 6d; overdraft at the J>» * £185 18s 2d. £, -^5 Accounts to the amount of £41 Is«» passed and ordered to be paid. . The Mayor said that, on the Vf l ° fyg citizens, he begged to thank Cr fnaerao the handsome present of a dnatang**^ 14 " which he had made to the city. *-„&** The City Surveyor roported would be laid before the Council fere^

-~ TJTlZjsof metal from the O-overn-cubic jaroso * ent W S ? the city. The City Surveyor 1116511 the watering of the streets Jnntinued after the end of the present *»»*? The watering of the streets was 11100 A the middle of last September, and cocimenc®? present month would have 8tt be end oi and & hft]f monthßt been con« B . fc week fcno drinking That . dur^ r ! Bento d by the late Mayor (Cr fountain p feeen erecto( j near the Bank of Anderson) The j abop gftng had been * e *l cdin T ' arioUß publi ° W ° rka durin 6 the

** ck * * « tender was received for carting 0nl l• x Jls of metal, viz., Joseph Taylor, 500 cubic J»™ wh . ch accepted> &3d P er c Sd that the watering of the 11 WB f except when absogtreets be ***' lutely from two of the insurance Letter* k a t e agents of the insurance offices »w»J . fae sub ; ec t of the purchase of a offic * 9 Tt Tflneine to be held over until the of the agents of the com-

ffi* r» from the Secretary of the Gas Com.ttin2 ft their willingness to agree to all in the proposed Act proposed ITolVed that the Mayor give his If tii the Gas Company's Bill. m uZ tom the Rev E. A. Lingard, stating Jrthe Church Property Trustees, before ' thorn the letter of the Council with reference T fnortion of the cemetery being relinquished f AC purpose of widening the town belt, feVW did not feel that they i consent to the relinquishment of the S3 for the purpose of widening the belt. to 4e report of the Sanitory Committee on At .oilpans, &*■> ™ 8 bro "B r llt . U P» aad ordered to ba considered on next Monday. The IHBI'ECTOB OF Nuisancbs reported that ifr Minchin had complied with the notice squiring him to deepen his drain in Antigua ' The report was approved of. Cr ANDBBSOS.as Chairman of the Bye-Law Committee, laid on the table two bye-laws, Tix.oneoncewpools, and one on petroleum. Other bye-laws had previously been laid before the Council, viz, No. 5, Buildings and the regulations thereon; No. 6, Buildings for tmblic meetings and regulations thereon ; No. jr B*gistration of publio buildings ; No. 8, lire prevention and regulations thereon; No. 9,Bwme and regulations thereon. Noa. 10 and li he had previously stated. The Council then went into committee to ijonsider the bye-laws, and, after some time ip ent in consideration thereof, adjourned.