Councillor Fraser could not vote for the motion, seeing that the meeting had been hold, besides which it was very undignified for the Councillors to go on with this squabbling. If a poll was taken it should be a poll of tho citizens, and not of the ratepayers only. Councillor Smith opposed the motion. The public meeting had dono this much jood, that a great many people now took a ively interest in the question of the baths who previously did not care a jot about it.
Councillors Higginbottom and Tatum also opposed tho motion. The Mayor said he knew those members of the Council who were obstructing tho business of the city, and the time would come when tho public would say who they were. (Hear, hear.) Councillor Anderson, in reply, declared that the Mayor called the public meeting with tho object of offering a public insult to the Councillors.
At Councillor Fraser's suggestion. Coun cillor Anderson consented to " ease down

that remark, and said he thought the Mayor should not have spoken of them as he did.
Tho motion was lost by 7 votes to 5, as follows :—Ayes Councillors Anderson Myers, Harris, Harcourt, Devine. Noes — Tho Mayor, and Councillors Tanner, Higginbottom, Fraser, Smith, Tatum and Barber.
