The Summons calling the meeting is taken as read.
The Minutes of the last meeting are rend, confirmed, signed by the Chairman and passed for publication.
Cash Statement for the past week is submitted and cheques for sundry accounts are signed.
Return of Prisoners apprehended and Police daily reports fur the past week are submitted.
Markets:—Report by the Inspector is submitted stating that during May he ed all the markets and butcher shops daily and always found them well supplied with good and wholesome articles of food.
brought to the various slaughter houses have been found healthy The beef and mutton offered for sale during the month have been of good quality, and there has been an abundant supply of fish and vegetables, The number of animals slaughtered during the month to supply the foreign market has been oxen 629, sheep 1,313, calves 130, pigs 37, and sold to the grouse shops for native use oxen 2% water-buffaloes 61 sheep (dead) 8, and ponies 11, Ofthe oxen 2 were sick, and 2 dead, and of the water-buffaloes, L'was dead, when disposed of at the crease shops.
On the 16th the diseased carcase of a foreign bred wns seized at one of the stalls in Hom 1 Road, and sent to the grease sho} The ponies ab the native livery stables are in good health, 306 carriages have been licensed for June against 331 last month, and 264 for same month Inst year, 3,062 jinricsha, and 2,548 whicelbarrows have also been licensed.
Dangerous Matches,—The following correspondence is submitted, and ordered to be published, Shanghai, 2nd June, 1892, S1n,—With reference to my letter of the Qoth of May concerning the Notificati issued by the Council prohibiting the Stores in the Settlement fiom kee un mises matches which by any hard substance, it has occurred to me y possibly not te aware of t in which the matches manufactured ghai are packed with a view to nish the risk of ace The matches ure first put mp in_paper packets of ten boxes each, wud 120 of these packets are then packed in soft ral cane tight, but which can be opened without the which are sealed 60 as to be practically Plivation of heat or of such force as would liable to cause the contents to ignite.
Six of these tins are packed in w wooden Yew Road—Houykew.—The following correspondence is read, and ordered, to be La Mertola, Ventimiglia, Italy, 28rd April, 1892.
Sm.—I regret to observe thet at pages 120 to 123 of the Municipal report for the past year J ani held up to public odium as preventing a much needed improvement by asking an exorbitant price for a small piece of land, Dut no mention being made of the rental 1 was asked to give up. As in your speech at the annual meeting on 29th Feb, you confirmed the statement that the price L'asked was so exorbitant as to prevent the earyivg out ofthe proposed road, I ask perniission to defend myself from an sceusation which Lhold to be unjust and misleading. These then are the facts as reported to me by my agents.
was asked to give up two shops and two houses which yielded a gross annual rent of........!TIs. 162.00 Also passage way rented from)
by Dr, Henderson, yielding a rental of $10 per month=
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