At tho Conference of Municipal Dele gates, to-day, Mr Standish moved : — That the Government be asked to postpone the passing of the Charitabie Institutions Bill until Tuenlay, in order that tho sug gestions of the Conference on the matter bo laid before Parliament, and if approved of, be embodied in the Bill. Carried unanimously. Moved by Mr Standish— That the Chairman write and request the Govern ment to be good enough to inform this Conference upon what basis of calculation the pro rata deduction, for tho main tonance of charitable institutions and hospitals out of subsidios payable to Municipal Corporations, have made, and are intended to be made, for the futuro, and whether subsidies payable to County Councils and ttoad Boards have boon, and will be, liable to the same deductions. Carried unanimously. Mr Reynolds considered clause 3 of the Bill a direct violation of the Abolition Act of last session, and urged that the Conference should insist on those princi ples being maintained, as, otherwise, the Provincial Governments would have been abolished on false pretences. The subject then dropped, and after some cursory discussion tho Conference went formally into Committee on tho Municipal Corporations Act, which, it was agreed, required several important amend ments. It was resolved on the motion of Mr Standish, to recommend that Clause 11 be amended, by empowering a Resident Magistrate to exercise any jurisdiction exerciaable under tne Act by two Justicos of tho Peace. It was recommended that jClauso 345 be repealed. It was also agreed that tho Conference recommend that the number of residents required for a district to bo formed into a Borough should bo 100 instead of 150, as required by Clause 17, provided that tho new Borough should be not loss than five miles distant from an existing one ; also that the number of signatures required to be attaohed to a petition for such Borough to be constituted should be 60 instead of 100. On the motion of Mr Hutchison, it ■was resolved that the opinion of the Attorney-General be taken as to whethor Clause 223 gave Municipal Councils power td take lands outside boroughs for drainage purposos. On the motion of Mr Steward, it was resolved to seek legislative provision, exempting receipts givon by Municipali ties from stamp duty. 