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LONDON GOVERNMENT.
Some of the representatives appointed by various Vestries
and District Hoards to attend a Conference at St. Pancras on
this subject, having sought an interview with the Government,
for the purpose of laving before them a resolution
adopted at an adjourned meeting of the Conference, the Vestry
pointed out to the Home Secretary that the views of the
deputation did not necessarily express the opinions of the
Vestries and District Boards of London, inasmuch as the
representatives had no authority to wait upon the Government,
and the Vestries and District Boards had not had any
opportunity of considering the proposals to be submitted by
the deputation.
The Metropolis Local Government Bill, which was introduced
into Parliament by Mr. Isaacs, a private member, was
discussed by the Vestry, but in view of the improbability of
the Bill being proceeded with this year, no resolution was
passed on its merits.
The views of the Vestry on thedirection in which reform in
the government of London should proceed are given at length
in former Annual Reports.
OVERHEAD WIRES.
In the month of November the Vestry again pressed upon
the Government the increasing necessity of some control
being exercised over the suspension and maintenance of telegraph
and telephone wires across public streets.
The urgent need of some action being taken in the matter
was emphatically demonstrated by the general destruction of
wires and supports by the snowfall which occurred on