The same councillors were present as above. Minutes of previous meetings were read and confirmed. Outward correspondence wa9 read and ap proved and inward read and received. Dealing with Correspondence. Police District. The Invercargill Borough Council forwarded tlie following resolution, ar.d solicited the support of the Queeiibtown Council in the direction indicated —"That this Council respectfully request the Miuister of Justice to take into considera tion the position and rapidly increasing population and development of Invercargill, surrounding districts, and Southland gener ally, and the desirableness therefore of making Southland a separate Police District, with Invercargill as the centre, and that tiie respective members of Parliament of the town and districts and the Public Bodies be asked to co-operate with this Council in the matter." The Council considered the present police arrangements wtre adequate, and decided to take no action in the matter. Footpath.—T. Bell wrote on behalf of G. F. Brown, drawing attention to the foot path opposite his section No. 3, block 32, abutting on Stanley Street, as being both dangerous and unsightly for any person walking to and from the same. Ordered to be attended to. Dor, Tax.—F. Green informed the Council that he bad given the dog away that the tax collector was going to sue him for, be cause he could not nff jrd to keep the dog and pay the tax. The matter was left iu hands of (he dog tax collector to neat with. Badger's Statutes.—W. Badger, Christ church, sent a circular regarding the sale of his volume containing sx years' notes of alteration to Goemment Acts.—Resolved not to do anything in the matter. Disputed Water Supply.—Correspond ence between M. O'Meara Mid Co. ar.d the Town Clerk was read and considered. The subject matter was to the <ffot that O'Meara and Co. applied to the Council for a water supply to their rabbit factory on the 11th April last and, witho.it further notice, they laid the water on themselves, which was a violation of the water by-laws. The firm fur: her neglected to pay the special rut ', and on the same bring demanded, they replied that the rate was excess ve, no moie water beihg used for the factory than would ba required for domestic purposes. It was meutioned also that the water was only used for hosing out the receiving store a quarter of an hour each day. 