ORDINARY MEETING. An ordinary. meeting of the Christchurch City Council was held last evening, there being present the Mayor and Councillors Cooper, Bonnington, Wood, Swarm, Gray, Widdowson, Payling, E. Smith, Calder, Fleßher, J. T. Smith, Gapes, Anderson* Bunting and Thomson. c FINANCIAL. The statement of accounts showed the debit balance to stand at £5104 63 sd. The receipts during the month had amounted t0 £332 4s lOd. Payments* amounting to £1825 19a Id had been made, including .£231 10a for interest. Fire Brigade payments had amounted to £110 7s 6d. Among the receipts general rates had totalled £216 Da 3d, charitable aid rates £39 38 lOcl, and publican's licenses £11 ss. CORRESPONDENCE. Mr E. Wostenra, Chairman of the Christohurch North-east Licensing Com mittee* wrote that the opening of a door

between the Palace Hotel and 'the Theatre Royal could not be sanctioned. The Gaa Company wrote, offering to light and tend any n amber of large lamps of the same pattern as those presented by the Company to the Corporation for the sum of £20 per annum per lamp. CITY 8UBVBY"0B's BEPOBT. The report of the City Surveyor stated the only pieces of street taken over by the Council and not legally conveyed were two pieces in Stewart street, in the western portion of the city. He recommended • the granting of permission to Messrs Caygill and Widdowson to lay out a right-of-way in Martin street. The report waa adopted. BY-LAW COMMITTEE'S BEPOBT. The By-law Committee reporte 1 on the street corner by-law, and recommended that a new by-law should be made to include only the junctions of Cashel and Colombo streets; Cashel and High streets, and Colombo, Hereford and High streets, including that portion of Colombo street lying below the Bank ot" New Zealand and Morten's Build ings. The Committee also recommended twenty-one alterations in the burgess roll. Councillor Gray said that in considering this report the Committee had had the advantage of Mr Inspector Broham's pre- i aence and advice, and it was upon the ' representations of that officer that the I Committee had arrived at the conclusion : embodied in its report. To control the ! traffic at any. more corners than thoße ' mentioned in the report the city police force would have to be increased. 