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It is understood that the Metropolitan Board of Works
are in communication with the Hornsey Local Board, with
the view to the latter Board admitting the drainage into
their system.
Subsidence of Metropolitan Railway Tunnel.—Considerable
alarm was occasioned in December last by the
subsidence of the Tunnel of the Metropolitan Railway in
Euston Road, in the adjoining Parish of St. Pancras. A
Board of Trade Officer being appointed to inspect same, the
Vestry asked that such inspection might be continued
through so much of the Tunnel as is in this Parish. The
Inspector's Report was forwarded to the Vestry early in
January, and contained a statement that the tunnels which
carry both the old main lines, and the widened lines, between
King's Cross and Farringdon Street, were inspected, and
that no signs of settlements in any of the walls or arches
could be discovered.
Christ's Hospital.-The Vestry have had under consideration
a scheme of the Charity Commissioners, for the future
management of Christ's Hospital, under which Scheme the
Churchwardens and Overseers would be deprived of their
right and privilege, under the will of Giles Russell, of
electing three boys from the Parish for presentation to the
School, and in lieu thereof two boys and one girl in Public
Elementary Schools are to be eligible by competitive
examination only. The Churchwardens and Overseers
opposed the Scheme, but the Vestry approved it, adding to
their representation to the Charity Commissioners an
expression of opinion that, having regard to the increased
value of the endowment property, more boys should be
elected from the Parish. The Vestry have received a communication
from the Charity Commissioners stating that
they have approved the scheme, and have forwarded it to
the Education Department for their confirmation.