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control over the proceedings of the Company, the 40th Section
being as follows:—"There shall be but one temporary shaft or
opening in the roads or streets of the district. Unless the Company
and the District Board shall otherwise agree, such shaft or opening
shall be so constructed as not to hinder or obstruct the traffic of the
roads or streets more than may be absolutely necessary; and the
Company shall, unless the Company and the District Board shall
otherwise agree, at all times keep open and uninterrupted for public
traffic, an aggregate clear width of thirty-two feet of roadway and
eighteen feet of footway, and shall, at their own expense, shore up and
put proper hoardings so as to prevent such shaft or opening from
causing any danger to the traffic in the roads or streets. Such shaft
or opening shall not be of a greater length (including the inclosure
thereof) than one hundred feet." The same Company have since
introduced a Bill to the House of Commons having for its object
the construction of a similar Subway from Clapham to the
"Elephant and Castle," to join the one above referred to, but,
after being read a second time, it was withdrawn by the
promoters.
South Eastern
Railway
(Various
Powers) Bill.
The South Eastern Railway Company have, by their Various
Powers Bill, Session 1885, applied to Parliament for, inter alia,
an extension for two years of the time limited by their New Lines
and Widenings Act, 1882, for the acquisition of lands in the
Parishes of St. Saviour and St. George-the-Martyr, and which
will expire on the 18th August next. An extension of time
appearing to the Board to be unavoidable if the works were to be
carried out at all, they did not consider it necessary to incur the
expense of opposing the Bill, which, at the date of this Report,
has been read a second time in the House of Commons.
Telegraph and
Telephone
Wires.
The Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to
consider the law relating to the control over Telegraph, Telephone,
and other Wires having intimated that they would be prepared to
receive evidence from the local authorities, this Board appointed
Mr. Rider, Mr. Goodwin, and their Surveyor (Mr. Norrish) to
appear as witnesses on their behalf. The Board had previously
had under consideration a number of suggestions for the regulation
of overhead wires, but, having regard to the danger thereof, had