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Place, Great Windmill Street, and a few other places. A
bracket lamp fixed to No. 10, Archer Street, by Messrs.
Newman and Co., has been taken to by the Vestry, and is now
lighted at the expense of the Parish. Permission has also
been given for the erection of a lamp-post and lantern in
Regent Street, at the end of Foubert's Place, by the Minister
and Deacons of Craven Chapel, on condition that the lamp
is lighted, extinguished, and cleaned at the same time as the
public lamps, at the cost of the Chapel authorities.
PRICE OF GAS.
In the month of November the Vestry received from the
Strand District Board of Works a communication calling
attention to the difference in the price charged for gas by the
Companies supplying the northern and southern districts of
the Metropolis respectively, and suggesting that the Vestry
should join in asking the Metropolitan Board of Works to
initiate legislation providing for a uniform price throughout
the Metropolis.
The subject having been carefully considered, the Vestry
replied that, in view of the legislation of 1876, which regulates
the price of gas upon a sliding scale, the standard or initial
price being higher in the district north of the Thames than in
that south of the river, they were not prepared to assist in
re-opening the question at the present time, especially as this
legislation was preceded by enquiry, but that in the event of
the Coal Dues not being renewed after July, 1889, they
would feel it their duty to call the serious attention of the
Government to the matter, with a view to the settlement of
1876 being reconsidered.
Notice has been received from the Gas Light and Coke
Company of their intention to reduce the price of gas for