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of the watering so far was fully felt, the Board were memorialized
to extend it to the roads from the Greyhound Inn, along Kirkdale,
to the top of High Street, thence along the road to Forest Hill
Station, and from the Bridge under the Railway, near the Station,
to the Boundaries of the Parish next to Dulwich and Peckham.
The terms arranged with the Lambeth Water Works Company
are £63 per mile per season of six months, and 30s. per annum for
each stand-cock, with a proportionate reduction, for this year, for
the lateness of the season at which the watering was commenced.
The watering of each set of roads has been let by Tender—the first
to George Pocock for £62 5s.; the latter to Henry Scott for £60.
LIGHTING.—Lewisham Village.

The Phoenix Gas Company have given notice to the Board to
determine their Contract, and have expressed their intention of
making a considerable increase in the price of gas, on the ground
that the cost of supplying each lamp has been increased 20s. by
the "exorbitant assessment" of the Company to the Parochial
Rates, and such increase, they intimate, must be reimbursed to
the Company in any new contract. If the Company have any
cause of complaint against their assessment to the rates, they have
of course the remedy of appeal which is open to every ratepayer;
but of this they have not availed themselves, and the monopoly they
enjoy admits of their thus taking the law into their own hands with
impunity. Hopes are, however, entertained that the enquiry which
is now pending before the House of Commons on the subject of the
Metropolitan gas supply will terminate so great an abuse of power.