TOWN BOARD,

Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2631, 4 February 1868, Page 4

TOWN BOARD.

An adjourned meeting of the Town Board toot place on Saturday afternoon last at one o'clock. Commissioners present :-Messrs Dransfield (Chairman), Aicken, Mills, Moss, Borlase, and Sharp. Several accounts were passed. BECEPTION OP H. B. H. THE DUKE OF EDINBUBGH.

The Chairman said that a member of the Board had called attention to this subject, and he would be glad to hear what he had to say. Mr Borlase said that he thought it would be absolutely necessary that the Town Board of Wellington, which boasted to be the capital of the colony should present an address as a corporate body, as had beon done elsewhere, to the Prince at his arrival. He believed that the best course would be to raise a public subscription, each man to give what he could afford, and for the Board to supplement it, co that the Prince might be received in a fitting mauner. He believed that some such proposition would be made by the Reception Committee ; at any rate ifc should be remembered that the occasion would be unparalleled in the history of the colony, and the Town Board and the public generally should show themselves equal to it. The Chairman said that the matter deserved the earnest attention of the Board, for they had not only to do honor to the Duke, but to remember the respect which they owed to themselves. If any money was voted by the Board for the purpose, he thought it should not be expended in an exclusive manner, for that would mar the undertaking ; he also thought that an address should be presented to the Duke by the Board. Mr Aicken moved that an address be presented to the Prince on his arrival by the Commissioners of the Board of Works, and that the Chairman, Mr Borlase, and Mr Pliarazyn, and the mover be a sub-committee to draw up an address. Mr Plimmer seconded the resolution. Agreed to. Mr Plimmer moved that a sum not exceeding £500 be voted for ihe purpose of the Duke's reception subject to the approval of the ratepayers at a public meeting to be called for that purpose. Agreed to. It was also resolved that a deputation consisting of the Treasurer, Mr Plimmer, and Captain Sharpe wait on the Provincial Q-overnment asking them to give an equivalent to the sum given by the Board of Works for the reception of the Prince. The meeting then separated.