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the County Council, expressing the hope that the
Vestry would proceed in the matter as speedily as
possible. This Vestry then again considered the
subject, and informed the Council that in their
opinion the very small improvement which the
removal of No. 6½, Bishop's Court, would effect
would not be commensurate with the cost of
attaining it, but suggested that the neighbourhood
of Bishop's Court would be a suitable one to be
dealt with by the Council itself under Part I. of the
Act.
District Councils.—The year has passed without
any progress being made to supplement the
legislation of 1888, creating County Councils, by
the creation of District Councils. A Bill to
establish Parish and District Councils was introduced
by Mr. Fowler, Pretident of the Local
Government Board, on the 21st March, 1893,
affecting bodies outside the Metropolis. In his
speech on the first reading Mr. Fowler said "When
the third reading of the Local Government Act
of 1888 was agreed to, I ventured to say that that
Act was the first volume of a great work. We are
now asking the House of Commons to give its
sanction to the second volume of that work. It
will not, however, complete the work, for there still
remains a large subject to be dealt with, viz., the
Local Government of the Metropolis and the
Unification of London." At the date of writing
this report no further progress had been made with
the measure.
Completion of Rosebery Avenue.—The formal
opening of the last section of Rosebery Avenue,
between Garnault Place and Farringdon Road, took
place on Saturday, the 9th July; in the presence of
a large gathering of members of the London County