BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 139, 20 December 1887, Page 2

BOROUGH COUNCIL .

The adjourned general racctm o_ ■ liorou'di Council was held last right. Present IT'S Worship the Mayor and Councillors Co jkc, Houhlsworth, Bythell, Ching, Green, Parker and Jellyman. A telegram was received from the Manager of tho Wellington Trust, Loan ,nd Investment Company as follows: Any Bank w .'U agree to pay coupons at Til branches m the Colony -ec of u;.]lnn.rC. Company reqmres coupons so payable, hut if you insist, debentures can be payable in Blenheim. Bank of Lew Zealand is Company’s banker. Cr Green thought the telegram was not sufficiently definite as regards interest and moved that a telegram be sent for fuller i„fon,m"on, as to the ««*»» *d lioiTirr ill J3IcUiICIITI. C °Cr Houldsworth seconded the motion, ;„<«• that a reply could be obtained boS the 1-cxt meeting on Wednesday n °Cr Cooke thought the reply was explicit CU Crs r Jellyman and Ching sided with Cr (< The Mayor considered it would he advisable to ascertain further particulars. Cr Houhlsworth suggested that the Bank Manager should he interviewed before sending a telegram to the Company in Wellington- . , .i s. tun. mho Mayor dul not think that mi Tildes had 3 received any advico for the Company as to the terms contained in the

was then put and carried The Mayor anl Or Green and Moulds worth were appointed a Oonum toe to consider the reply from the Wellin o tou Trust, Loan, and Investment Society. The report of ths Printing and Adv u--1 tisin'* 1 Committee was received and adop teXacceptinir the tender of the Mar bo-rou-di Express for printing; also, that the proprietors of both papers be asked to ' re-consider their tenders for advertising 3 with a view of reduction m price. _ The following motions standing m the j Mayors name were carried: That M • Dodson. be consulted ip regard

to the filling in of the railway pits along the railway line be filled in: that the footpath, from the Colonial Lank to the Maxwell - street bridge be asphalted that the bell-tower be removed and a new o„e elected ; that additions be made to the fire brigade'station. . . r ,, Tt was resolved, on the motion or ' » Ohin.r. that specifications, i:c., be made for making a footpath in bt Andrcwthe motion of Cr IT-üblswmlh h resolved, that th« ditcti m » Jtpi IZ t be t" led in, and the footpath '“'SW on 11 i;i.neseay.