CHRISTCHURCH. May 7.
The lighting committee of the City Council tonight recommended the Coun cil to euter into a contract with the New- Zealand Electrical Syndicate for lighting the streets for 20 years for L2000 per year. The secretary of the Gas Company wrote pointing out that the Council had undertaken, on account of certain con cessions by the Gas Company, not to go in for electric lighting for three yeara from February, 1890, and requesting that if it were decided to enter into a 2U years' lighting contract tenders should be called for. The Mayor stated that the representative of the electrical syndicate was willing to enter into a contract for 7, 14, or 20 years. The matter was adjourned for a month to obtain a legal opinion on the point raised by the Gaa Company, and further information The Mayor and Councillor Prudhoe were ap pointed delegates to the Municipal Con ference at Wellington. The Council de^ cided to grant the New Brighton Tramway Company a lease of the corpjration tram way for 10 years.
AUCKLAND. May 4.
