The Supeiuktbxdent : Do you now think liat the Government would be warranted in

giving effect to six resolutions of the Pro vincial Council, as to assistance to the Cor poration, without having regard also to the seventh resolution ?

Mr Turner : I do. The Government would have control of the application of the money raised* The City Council do not de sire to finger one Gd of it. But we do not want the officers we are told must be ap pointed, and if we had them we could not pay them. The SirPERiKTKNDENT: I fancy that if you were a member of the Executive, and had to meet the Provincial Council as such, you would take a different view as to what tho Government ought now to do. However, I see no reason why the two officers should be appointed, if you do not want them. Mr BarNKS said that the Corporation wanted nothing for now works ; but only so much assistance as would get them out of their difficulties, There was now a Clerk, who was Town Clerk, and there were a Mes senger and a Collector. He could not see why the Council should Ik> told to appoint aaother Clerk and an Engineer or Surveyor. He did not believe that there would be any chanceof undertaking new works for the next two yeart; but he would quite agree to this— That the Government should have the sanc tioning of the appointments, whenever the two officers were wanted. As he understood, the resolutions and the letter amounted to this—" You must nominate, so that these officers may be at once appointed." The SffrKRijJTEKD.vr.- I apprehend that if you do not intend to spend money upon new works, those officers need not bo appointed, What do you say to that view, .Mr Mayor? The Mayor said that a Town Clerk existed now.' He did not see how the Corporation was to get on without a Surveyor. There was now no one to give levels to any person, or to attend to any similar matters. There was nowno Building Surveyor; but that office could be filled, and the other duties men tioned be attended to, without any extra cost to the Corporation. Mx Driver ; With a profit.
