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Company for permission to lay a 36 in. main through this
Parish. The Vestry declined to give their consent thereto.
The Company then applied to the Board of Trade under
the 54th section of "The Metropolitan Gas Act, 1860," as
amended by the 3rd section of "The City of London Gas Act,
1868," to authorize the laying down of the proposed new main.
The Vestry detailed their objections to the Company laying a
main of so large a size, as 36 inches in diameter, through
the Parish ; they regret, that the Board of Trade sanctioned
the laying of the main, and that the work has been carried
out by the Company.
Clerk in Orders.
This office remained unfilled for some months. On the
17th December, 1874, the Rector nominated the Rev. John
Wheelock Goucher, Curate of Hanover Chapel, and at the
following Vestry, on the 5th January, the Vestry appointed
him to the office, on the same conditions as the appointment
of the Rev. Mr. O'Brien, entered on the Minutes of the
15th May, 1873, and published in the Annual Report for
the year ending Lady-day, 1874.
Magazine, Hyde Park. Storage and Carriage of
Gunpowder.
The Vestry having inquired of Her Majesty's Government
as to what precautions are taken to protect the public
from explosion during the carriage of gunpowder, and
the storage of it, at the Magazine in Hyde Park, were
informed in reply, that there is no gunpowder stored in
Hyde Park Magazine excepting in the form of small-arm
ammunition, and that with regard to the storage of which,
experiments had shown to involve practically no danger
whatever; since the accidental ignition of one cartridge