BOROUGH COUNCILS.

Press, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5035, 27 October 1881, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCILS.

LYTTELTON. This Council met on Monday night. Present the Mayor (in the chair) and On. Macpherson, Stinson, Seed, Webb, Grubb, Weyburne, Macdonald. At a special meeting held previously, the levels of Bipon street were adopted. The receipts since the preceding ordinary meeting were stated to be £45 19*. A letter from the Harbor Board'respecting the land slip near the dock works was read, and it was decided to leave the matter over until the Board's engineer had made a survey of the road as advised in the Board's letter. Mr S. C. Fan wrote that he was at present unable to supply any one-year-old trout, and the clerk was instructed to apply to Mr Johnson for seventy-five fi«h. Permission was given to Mr W. Morling to put up a verandah in front of the Victorian Dining Booms, and to Mr Spear, for putting up a sign at his shop, Oxford street. In respeot to a letter from Mr Kenner, offering to take care of the channels on Governor's Bay road for £20, it was decided that for the present the work would not be let by contract. Accounts to £12710s 7d ware passed for payment. Leave of abience was granted to Or. Smith. As to the proposed footbridge across the railway at the foot of Oxford street, the Mayor said ifc was to be ereoted. Mr Davis requested (by letter) the Oouncil to at once put up the lease of the British Hotel ground to public tender, but the Council thought no action would be taken in that direction until the present lease had come nearer to its expiration. The lease does not expire for two or three years yet. Or. Macphereon laid on the table Mr Watson's plan for a floating bath-house, allowing 60ft by 25ft. inside for bathing in. The payment of £5 for the plans was agreed to. It was decided that the work of laying the upper level water supply pipes be further proceeded with, a stook of pipes for the pur- j pose having come to hand. Or. Stinson gave notice of motion for next meeting—"That the town olerk's salary be reduced by £25 per annum." It was agreed that to mark the looation of the fireplugs in the town, short posts be placed on the edge of the kerbstone opposite to them to better indicate their posi- j tion.