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Justices for closing it, and we recommended the Board to accept
the sum named on the grounds that as the Ratepayers had expended
some amount of money in paving and lighting the Yard, and as
some of the Officials' time would be occupied on the matter, the
Ratepayers were entitled to a return of their expenditure under
these heads.
"As the Board were not applying for powers to close the way
there was no ground on which it could serve notices on the
adjoining owners; this the applicant must necessarily do, neither
will the Board be affected in any way by the opposition, whether
successful or otherwise.
"We therefore, after careful reconsideration of the whole subject
in the light of the information available and of facts as they exist,
and also of the memorial which has been presented, most unhesitatingly
recommend the Board to adhere to its resolution of
the 26th ulto. on the subject."
On the 24th July, on the matter again coming before the
Board, the Board declined, by a large majority, to adopt the
recommendation of the Committee, and passed a resolution
directing the Committee to have the obstructions in the carriageway
removed. Attention having been called to the fact of the
resolution of the 26th June being still in existence, a special
meeting was convened for the 31st July for the purpose of
rescinding the same, when nine members voted for and six against
the rescission. A majority of two-thirds of the members present
not having been obtained, the motion was lost, and thus the
matter stands.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
The County of London and Brush Provincial Electric
Lighting Company, Limited, and the Capital and Counties
Electric Supply Company, Limited, have respectively given notice
of their intention to apply to the Board of Trade for a provisional
order under the Electric Lighting Acts to authorise them to supply
electricity for public and private purposes within the St. Saviour's
district.
FINANCES.
In consequence of appeal to Quarter Sessions, the rateable
value of the Parish of St. Saviour, shown in the Valuation Lists which
came into force on the 6th April, 1891, was in 1894, reduced from
£224,255 to £220,775, the relative proportion of the sums levied
and leviable on the Parishes of Christchurch and St. Saviour being
thereby altered, and it became necessary to issue a precept to the