They will elect their chairmen, who will, with tha Mayors, etc., form the Exe cutive Committee. The petition to tho City Council against the pLvciug of the dtsrtructor, the morgue, and the yard on the site at the corner of the Eowt and South Town Belts was very largely signed o a Saturday. It will be presented by the deputation appointed at the public meeting to tha City Council to-night. In tho North Canterbury district the sow ing of winter wheat has been nearly finished, tiid weather being oi> the'whole favourable. It is now expected that there will be a good sowing of oats, and should wheat prices go on increasing, spring wheat will be planted on v Lugo area. Or* Saturday evening Detective Living stone arrested a man, upon a charge of having (stolen, from the house of Eliza Dalton, Lyt ■telton, a lady's gold watch and chain, value £15. Constable Fleweik'U arrested three Ik>v«i «t Richmond, who are cnurged with /stealing tluree riding whips from tho shop uf Donald Stewart. Owing to the. increased activity in the coal trail-?, says the Greymouth "Star," the Blackball Coal Company find ifc necessary to pat on more men. and advertise for twenty extra coal rniner.s, and ten truckers. The company have chartered the Dingadee, which, idoiiij with the Gresham and Pare tics, will run in tho coal trade. To com plete its contract now in hand, the company must put- out 11,000 tons in the next five "Week.-, and further orders are coming to hand. _ Although there has been a general inspec tion and clean-up ia view of the bubonic phfegrus stare in town and some of the uoronji'lis, no satisfactory inspection has yet been undertake-n in some'of the road districts, where some very unsavory homesteads could ho found, r-.ud where persons are relying on their being some acres distant from neigh bours, ia the innocent belief that contagion «>uld not re.'wai them or take hold in the irastwiitary conditions near them. Some of tha local boards, it is said, have ignored the Premier's circular regarding precau tions as completely as if it had never bee— WU.il. The weather, which was very lowering *»«l dull in the early " part of th« morning on Saturday, cleared U P splendidly in the afternoon. 