Monday, April 23. The Council met at tlte usual hour. Pre sent—The Mayor (presiding), Crs. Gray, Samuels, Clarke, Sorensen, Prudhoe, Pay ling, Appleby, Sandsteki, Green, Andrews. Kincaid, Loughnan, and Morris. The receipts since last meeting were stated as under: —General account, #210 10s 10d; cemetery account, £10 0s 6d; suspense account, £27 8s 6d; interest ac couat, £7 0s 2d. Accounts were passed for payment as under:—General account, £684 lls; suspense account, £5. The overdraft at the bank was stated as being £14,851. A deputation from the carriers of Christ church, waited on the Council with reference to the telephone box on the east side of the Square, and Mr Ritchie pointed out that one of the rules of the Association for the use of the bos was that no one having a private office with a telephone should join. Messrs OSwood and Henley had pledged themselves, to give up their office but had not done so after promising to do so. The deputation having with&£.wn, after answering several questions', it was resolved that the Council adhere to the letter sent tc the Carriers' Association, formerly, viz., that the box was erected for the convenience of tlie wliole of the carriers on the east side of the Square, and. that the Council could not interfere to prevent anyone joining. A deputation consisting of Messrs T. W. Maude, J. M. Heywood, and others, waited on the Council with, reference to a drain on the Lincoln road near tihe Hospital comer emptying into the river. The deputation stated that the storm water of a large num ber of streets round Addlngton and down tihe Lincoln road came into this drain. A good deal of the district drained was outside the city, and the houses along the line drained ell their household water. All this refuse was poured into the ditch they had been re ferring to, Boated into the ground and created a great nuisance, which was what they wished to draw tihe attention of the Council to. What they wanted was that the ditch ehould be covered in, and the Drainage Board had agreed to do half the work if the Council would do the other half. The ditch was moat insanitary alike to the inhabitants. 