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The South Metropolitan Gas Company, the Company
supplying the District, raised the price of gas in respect of
the public lamps supplied per meter, as from the Michaelmas
quarter, from 2/3 to 2/6 per 1,000 feet. The Company state
in their notice that the increase they believe to be only
temporary, and they have therefore decided to make no
addition to the charge for the lamps which are supplied at a
fixed rate, viz.: £3 3s. 9d. per annum, a discount
of 5 per cent. if paid Within one month from quarter-day, being
allowed. This discount has never yet been forfeited the
accounts having always been paid within the prescribed period
Gas.
In March last, a circular-letter was received from the
vestry of St. George, Hanover Square, forwarding copy of '
resolutions passed by them as under:-
"That, in the opinion of the Vestry, the supply of water to the County
of London should be placed under the control of the London
County Council."
"That the London County Council should not promote any Bill
in Parliament affecting the water question, until the Royal
Commision just appointed to investigate the matter in all its
bearings shall have made their report."
The Board expressed its concurrence with both resolutions.
Water
Supply.
In consequence of renewed complaints being received from
inhabitants of Union Street, of the nuisance occasioned by the
so called "fair," at the Cross-bones Burial Ground, at the
corner of Red Cross Street, in Union Street, Borough, the
Board, in November, resolved to take legal proceedings against
the persons Causing the nuisance. It was complained that a
large organ, worked by steam and fitted with trumpets, was
played from 7 till 10 every evening from Monday to Friday,
and, on Saturdays, till 11; also in the afternoon of Saturdays
from 1 till 4; that the noise was almost unendurable; that the
fair" caused a large number of "roughs" of both sexes to
assemble, and that business was greatly interfered with and
property endangered. Some of the complainants also appealed
on moral grounds to have the nuisance abated. The Board
instructed Messrs. Hicklin, Washington & Pasmore to act as
their solicitors in the matter. The defendants, Charles Hart,
Henry Scard and Harry Germaine were summoned to the
Southwark Police Court on the 30th December for creating a
nuisance and permitting entertainments and music without
a license; and the nuisance having been proved to the
satisfaction of the presiding magistrate, Mr. Slade, they were
committed to the Sessions for trial. The subsequent procee
ings were by indictment, under the Act 25, Geo. II., charging
them with "having on July 1st and on divers other days
permitted a nuisance and kept a place of public en enteertainment,
to wit, a steam organ, a steam roundabout and a razzle-dazz
A true Bill was found, and, on the 29th January, the case came
. Pair.