MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 26, 28 October 1842, Page 2

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

Thursday, October 27, Council met All present, except Mr. Molcsworth.

Letters from the Exchange Boom Committee, accepting the offer of Council to rent the room, read.

Letters from Messrs. Duiic, Robson, and others, respecting the water frontage opposite their respective premises, offering to rent the same, read.

Letter from Mr. Moody for situation of messenger.

Mr. Lyon brought qp report from Committee on Standing Orders. Report agreed to. Resolved, —That they he adopted. Mr. Lyon proposed, seconded by Mr. Johnson.

Mr. Hunter brought up the report from the Committee on the propored address to the Governor, respecting the time of the second election of the Town Council.

Report read. Mr. Hunter proposed that the Council do resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council. Mr. Lyon seconded the motion. Agreed to. Mr. Hunter proposed, that so much of the address as related to the question of the Town Boundaries, he left out. Mr. Wade seconded the motion. Mr. Hort moved, as an amendment, that the report as read, he adopted.

Mr. Guyton seconded the motion. For the amendment. Ayes —Mr. Hort, Mr. Guyton, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Fitzherbcrt. Noes—Mr. Wade, Mr. Jenkins, Dr. Dorset, Mr. Waitt, Mr. Scott, Mr. Lyon, Mr. Hunter. Ayes 4 Noes 7 Majority against the amendment 3 The original amendment proposed and agreed to.

Mr. Hunter moved that the address, as amended, he agreed to. f Ordered to report.

Resolved, —That the address be presented to his Excellency, requesting information as to the correct reading of certain of ordinance sth Vic., No. 6, as to whether the next election of 12 Aldermen should be within the present year, i 1842, or in the preceding year, 1843. Mr. Johnson proposed that the Town Clerk he directed to confine his schedule to the property, within the inside line of the Public Reserves.

Mr. Lyon seconded the motion. Agreed to

Notices of Motion For Monday next, the 31st. Mr. Fitzherbert, —That an address he presented to the Local Government, to take off the duties on Spirits and Tobacco, and other articles ‘consumed at the whaling stations on the coast of New Zealand; and that the following shall be requested to draw up the same.— Messrs. Guyton, Waitt, Hort, Wade, and Fitzherbert.

Mr. Lyon,—That the Town Surveyor he instructed to proceed immediately in surveying the line of road, extending from Nairn Street, end of Thorndon Quay, with a view of improving the same. Mr. Wade, —That application he made to the Police Magistrate to place the prisoners sentenced to hard labour, under the control of this Council, for the purpose of being- engaged on the public works. Adjourned till Monday next, at nine o’clock.

In our publication of the 25th instant, Mr. Hunter’s name was inadvertently inserted as supporting Mr. Fitzherbert’s amendment, that the consideration of reducing the sum for enrolment of Burgesses, from one pound to one shilling,- be postponed sine die.

Qn reference to the minutes, Mr. Hunter’s name does not appear as a voter either for Mr. Wade’s motion, or. Mr. Fitzherbert’s amendment, although we believe lie expressed a strong opinion in favour of the former.