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Electric Supply Corporation, to the effect that it intended to
make application in the ensuing session, under the Electric Lighting
Acts 1882 and 1888. for provisional orders for power to. supply
electricity for lighting and other purposes in certain street*. to be
thereafter more particularly specified, within the Limehouse District
The notices were not proceeded with.
THAMES COMMUNICATIONS.
In April 1889, a resolution was passed to the following
effect:—"That this Board is of opinion that the whole of the
scheme for the formation of a tunnel under the Thames at
Blackball, a.s provided for under the provision of the Act of
Parliament upon the subject, should be proceeded with at once."
A copy of the resolution was sent to the East and South London
District Boards and Vestries, with an invitation to join in a
deputation to the County Council upon the subject.
The Deputation waited upon the Bridges Committee of the
Council on the 6th June.
Subsequently the Board presented a petition to the Council
praying that the Blackwall Tunnel might he proceeded with, and
pointing out that the early completion thereof would be of inestimable
advantage to the Districts affected, and through them to
the whole of the Metropolis.
PUBLIC GARDENS, ETC.
A letter was received from the Earl of Meath, Chairman of the
Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, calling attention to the
fact that that Association had laid out and maintained three grounds
entirely open to the public within the jurisdiction of this Board,
viz.:—
1. The Churchyard of St. Dunstan's, Stepney.
2. Ihe churchyard of St. Anne's, Limehouse.
3. I lie churchyard of St. Paul's, Shadwell.
Also pointing out that it was impossible for an Association
supported entirely by voluntary contributions, if it was to take up