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parliamentary Notice. In Parliament—Session 1901. CHESTER CORPORATION TRAM- WAYS. (Construction of Tramways; Gauge; Temporary Tramways; Reconstruction of Tramways; Works for Mechanical Traction on New and Existing Tramways and for purposes of Chester Electric Lighting Order, 1890; Working of Tramways by Corporation; Tolls, Rates, and Charges; Contracts and Agreements; Exemption of Section 34 of Tramways Act, 1870; Motive Power; Generating Stations; Omnibuses, Cars, and Carriages; Bye-laws; Lease and Sale of Lands; Extension of Electric Supply Powers; Alteration of Date for Accounts under Electric Lighting Acts; Borrowing; Incorporation, Amendment, and Repeal of Acts and Orders.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applica- tion is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session, by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the city, and county of the city, and county borough of Chester (in this notice called the Corporation and the city respectively), for an Act (in this notice called the intended Act") to effect the following, or some of the following, among other purposes (that is to say): — 1. To enable the Corporation to make, lay down, form, and maintain in the city, and in the counties of Chester and Flint all or some of the tramways hereinafter described, with all necessary and proper rails, plates, chairs, sleepers, channels (including in that word, where used in this notice, channels, passages (open or closed), conduits, and tubes for ropes, cables, wires, and electric lines), junctions, points, turntables, turnouts, crossings, passing places, poles, wires, ropes, and apparatus, engines, works, machinery, offices, stables, work- shops, carriages, waiting rooms, sheds, shelters, and conveniences connected therewith re- spectively. (Where in the description of any of the pro- posed tramways any distance is given with reference to any street which intersects or joins the street in which the tramway is to be laid, the distance is to be taken as measured from the point at which lines drawn along the centres of the two streets and continued would intersect each other, and a point described as being opposite a street is to be taken (unless other- wise stated) as opposite the centre of the street.) Tramway No. 1 (about six furlongs and 5.12 chains in length, whereof 1 furlong 7.05 chains will be single line and 4 furlongs 8.07 will be double line), wholly in the city and parish of Chester, commencing by a junction with the existing tramway in Station-road, at a point about 17 yards south-east of the road leading out of Station road to the Chester Tramway Company's land and stables, passing thence along Station-road, Brook-street, George-street, Upper North- gate-street, and Northgate-street, and ter- minating there in the Town Hall-square at a point nearly opposite the central door of the Public Market Hall. Tramway No. 2 (about 1 mile, 1 furlong, and 9 chains in length, whereof 3.35 chains will be single line and 1 mile, 1 furlong, and 5.65 ohains will be double line), partly in the city and parish of Chester and partly in the parish of Newton-by-Chester, in the county of Chester, and partly in the parish of Hoole, in the urban district of Hoole, in the county of Chester, commencing by A junction with Tram- way No.l in Brook-street, at a point opposite Black Diamond-street, in the city and parish of Chester, passing thence along Brook street and the road over Flookersbrook Bridge, and the Hoole-road, and there terminating in the said parish and urban district of Hoole at a point about 4 yards north-east of Hare-lane. Tramway No. 5 (about 1 mile, 0 furlong, 0.85 chains in length, whereof 5.55 chains will be single line and 7 furlongs 5.30 chains will be double line), partly in the city and parish of Chester and partly in the parishes of Bache and Upton, in the county of Chester, com- mencing in Upper Northgate-street, in the city and parish of Chester, by a junction with Tramway No. 1, opposite the Blue Coat School, passing thence along that street into and along Liverpool-road, and terminating in that road at a point about 31 yards north of Upton road, in the said parishes of Bache and Upton. Tramway No. 4 ( about 6 furlongs 7.80 chains in length whereof 2 furlongs 4.50 chains will be single line and 4 furlongs 3.30 chains will be double line), partly in the city and parish of Chester, and partly in the parish of Great Boughton, in the county of Chester, commencing in the city and parish of Chester by a junction with the existing tramway in Foregate-street at a point about 13 yards west of City road, passing thence along that street into and along Boughton road and Tarvin road, and there terminating in the said parishes of Chester and Great Boughton, at a point about 50 yards east of Filkin's-lane. Tramway No. 5 (about 3 furlongs 9.60 chains in length, whereof 3 furlongs 3.60 chains will be single line and 6 chains will be double line), partly in the city and parish of Chester and partly in the parish of Great Boughton, in the county of Chester, com- mencing by a junction with Tramway No. 4 in Boughton road, in the city and parish of Chester, at or near the point of intersection of the Tarvin and Christleton roads, and passing thence along the Christleton road, Chapel-lane, Filkins lane, and Tarvin road, and there terminating in the said parishes of Chester and Great Boughton, by a junction with Tramway No. 4 at a point about 15 yards east of Filkins lane. Tramway No. 6 ( about 5 furlongs 6.50 chains in length, whereof 4 furlongs 3.10 chains will be single line and 1 furlong 3.40 chains will be double line), partly in the city and parish of Chester and partly in the parish of Saltney, in the county of Flint, commencing in the city and parish of Chester by a junction with the existing tramway in Chester road, at a point about 31 yards east of Curzon street, and passing thence along that road and the Hawarden and Chester road, and there ter- minating in the said parish of Saltney, at or near the east end of the bridge known as I Stone Bridge carrying the last-mentioned road over Balderton Brook. It is proposed to lay the tramways so that for I a distance of 30 feet or upwards a less space than 9 feet 6 inches will intervene between the outside of the footpath on either side of the road and the nearest rail of the tramway in the case of I the following tramways, and at the points herein- after mentioned with respect to each of them, namely:

™°* u 3 Qi Side or Sides Tram- Road or Street. of street way. of Street. 1 Brook-street. Both I Brook-street South.. 1 Brook-street and George- Both street 1 George-street. Both 1 Upper Northgate-street Both. 1 Northgate-street Both. 1 Northgate-street West. 2 Flookersbrook Bridge-road Both and Hoole-road 2 Hoole road Both 3 Upper Northgate- street Both. 3 Liverpool-road Both 4 Boughton-road Both. 4 Boughton-road and Tarvin- Both road 4 Tarvin-road Both 5 Christleton-road Both 5 Christleton-road Both. 5 Chapel-lane Both 5 Filkin's-lane East. 6 Chester-road Both. 6 Hawarden and Chester-road Both. Narrow Places. Between a point 53 yards west of the railway level crossing and Francis-street. Between Francis-street and Egerton-street. Between Egerton-street and Wellington-street. Between a point 30 yards west of Oulton-place and Upper Northgate-street. Between George-street and The Northgate. Between the Fire Engine Station and a point 10 yards south of Hunter-street. Between a point 10 yards south of Hunter-street and the termination of Tramway No. 1. Between Black Diamond-street and Vicarage-road. Between a point 160 yards east of Vicarage-road and the termination of Tramway No. 2. Between a point 46 yards north of George-street and the north side of the house No. 43, on the west side of Upper Nortbgate-street. Between its junction with Parkgate-road and a point 22 yards south of Upton-road. Between a point 13 yards east of Steam Mill- street and a point 34 yards west of Hoole-lane. Between a point 153 yards east of Hoole-lane and a point 177 yards east of Cecil-street. Between Filkin's-lane and the termination of Tramway No. 4. Between the commencement of Tramway No. 5 and a point 15 yards east of Cecil-street. Between a point 117 yards east of Cecil-street and Stocks-lane. Between Christleton-road and Filkin's-lane. Between Cbapel-lane and Tarvin-road. Between Wood-street and a point 57 yards east of the railway level crossing. Between Boundary-road and the termination of Tramway No. 6. The proposed tramways will be constructed upon a gauge of 3 feet 6 inches, and it is not intended to run thereon carriages or truoks adapted for use on railways. 2. To empower the Corporation to maintain, alter, and use all existing, and from time to time to make such other crossings, passing places, sidings, loops, junctions, junction lines, and other works in addition to those specified herein, as may ba necessary or convenient to the efficient working of the proposed tramways and any tramways belonging to or which may hereafter belong to the Corporation (all of which are hereinafter called the Corporation tramways "), or for affording access to any stables, carriage, engine, boiler, and dynamo houses, stations, buildings, sheds, and works of the Corporation. 3. To empower the Corporation from time to time, when by reason of the execution of any work in, or the alteration of any street, road, highway, or thoroughfare in which any tramway, ohannel, or electric line shall be laid or placed, it is necessary or expedient so to do, to alter, remove, or discontinue all or any part of such tramway, channel, or electric line, and to make and lay down in the street so altered, or tem- porarily in the same or any adjacent street, road, highwly, or thoroughfare, a substituted tramway or substituted tramways, or channels, or electric lines. 4. To enable the Corporation, in constructing the proposed tramways, to deviate horizontally and vertically from the lines and levels thereof, as shown on the deposited plans, hereinafter referred to, to any extent defined in the intended Act, or prescribed by Parliament. 5. To enable the Corporation, for the purposes of the intended Act to temporarily and per- manently break up, stop-up, divert, alter, and interfere with streets, highways, roads, bridges, footpaths, tramways, railways, canals, sewers, drains, watercourses, pipes, gas and water mains, telegraphs, telephones, and electric apparatus, and to alter the level eff any streets or roads for the purpose of constructing and maintaining the Corporation tramways, or otherwise for the pur- poses of the intended Act. 6. To authorise too Uorporation ior tne pur- pose of constructing any tramway in any street or road within the city, to take up, remove, and dispose of or appropriate and use in the con- struction of any such tramway any existing tram- way in such street or road. 7. To empower the Corporation to reconstruct any of the Corporation tramways, substituting single or interlacing for double lines, and double or interlacing for single lines. 8. To empower the Corporation to make such alterations of the Corporation tramways, or any part or parts thereof, and to execute on, in, under, or over any streets or roads in which the same are laid, all such works as may be necessary or expedient for adapting the same to be worked by mechanical power, and to lay down, construct, and maintain on, in, under, or over any streets or roads, and to attach to any building all such posts, brackets, conductors, wires, mains, tubes, plates, cables, ropes, and appliances as may be necessary or convenient for working the Corporation tram- ways by mechanical power, or for connecting any of those tramways, or for providing access to or forming connections with any generating stations, engines, machinery, or apparatus, or for any purposes of the Chester Electric Lighting Order, 1890. 9. To empower the Corporation for the purpose of constructing any of the proposed tramways, or relaying any of the existing tramways, to increase the width of the roadway by reducing the width of any footway. 10. To provide for the repair by the Corpora- tion, or other persons, bodies, or authorities, of any streets, roads, highways, or thoroughfares, or parts of streets, roads, highways, or thoroughfares, in which any of the Corporation tramways may for the time being be laid, and for the use or disposition of any materials or things fomid in the construction or repair of any of such Jlramways. 11. To confer on and reserve to the Corporation and their lessees the exolusive right of using on the Corporation tramways, carriages having wheels adapted to run on or in an edged, grooved, or other rail of such tramways. 12. To empower the Corporation to work the Corporation tramways, and to authorise the Corporation or their lessees, or other the person or persons working the Corporation tramways, to levy tolls, rates, and charges for the use of the Corporation tramways by carriages passing along the same, and for the conveyance of passengers, oods, minerals, animals, merchandise, and other traffic upon the same, and to confer exemptions from tolls, rates, and charges. 15. To authorise the Corporation, and any cor- poration, council, person, company, or body, to rater into and fulfil contracts and agreements for md in relation to the construction, maintenance, ise, working, lease, or sale of the Corporation ;ramways, or any part of them. 14. To provide that so much of Section 34 of the Tramways Act, 1870, as limits the extent of any carriages used on any tramway beyond the outer edge of the wheels of such carriages shall not apply to carriages used on the Corporation tramways. 15. To authorise and provide for the working of the Corporation tramways by animal power, or of the Corporation tramways by animal power, or by electricity, mechanical, or other motive power, or partly by one such power and partly by another such power. 16. To authorise the Corporation to generate, supply, and charge for electricity for the working of the Corporation tramways. The lands upon which it is proposed to authorise the construction of a generating station or stations are situate in the city and in the parish of Chester, and are as follows: (A) The land, situate in Tramway-street (such street leading out of the west side of City- road), bounded on the southerlty side by Tramway-street and a passage in continuation of that street, on the easterly side by a passage leading from Tramway-street to Station-road, on the northerly side by a passage leading out of the west side of the last-mentioned pas- sage, and on the westerly side by the said passage in continuation of Tramway-street, now partly occupied and used by the Chester Tramways Company for the purposes of their undertaking and partly vacant. (B) The land, belonging to the Corporation, situate on the northerly and easterly sides of New Crane-street, bounded on the southerly side by that street, and on the westerly side partly by that street and partly by Robert's- terrace, on the northerly side partly by Robert's-terrace and partly by Water Tower- road, and on the easterly side by a road leading out of that road to New Crane-street, on part whereof the generating station now used by the Corporation for the purposes of the Chester Electric Lighting Order, 1890, is constructed. 17. To empower the Corporation to run omni- buses, cars, and carriages (moved by animal power, or by electricity, mechanical, or other motive power), within and beyond the city in con- nection with their tramways, or when the running of carriages thereon is inadvisable. 18. To make such other provisions in regard to the tramway undertaking of the Corporation as may be deemed expedient, including the purchase of lands, the construction and maintenance of waiting rooms, shelters, and conveniences, the making and enforcing of bye-laws and regula- tions, the carriage of mails, arbitration, the sign- ing and service of notices and orders, the acquisition of patent rierhts and licenses, the application of revenue, the formation and applica- tion of reserve and other funds, and provision for any deficiency in the revenue. 19. To enable the Corporation to hold and to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, freed from the restrictions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, any lands and property acquired for the purposes of the Corporation tramways, for such consideration, subject to such stipulations and reservations, and generally upon such terms and conditions as they think fit, and to dispose of any rents reserved on any such sale or lease. 20. To empower the Corporation to provide, sell, let on hire, fix, and repair, and remove electric lines, fittings, apparatus, and things for lighting and motive power, and for all other purposes for which electric energy can be used, and take such remuneration, and make such terms as they may think fit in respect of the same, and to authorise the Corporation to make and enforce bye-laws with reference to lines, fittings, and apparatus used in premises supplied with electricity. 21. To authorise the Corporation to supply electricity for any purpose within and beyond the borough, and for that purpose to make and carry into effect agreements with any local authority, company, or person. To alter the date to which the electric lighting accounts of the Corporation are to be made up, and to alter or amend the pro- visions of the Chester Electric Lighting Order, 1890. 22. To authorise the Corporation to borrow money for the tramway undertaking, and for all or any of the purposes of the intended Act, and to charge the same on the borough fund and rate, and the undertakings, lands, estates, rates, revenue, and other property of the Corporation, or on any of such securities, and to create and issue stock, and to grant and issue mortgages, annuities, and other securities, and to authorise the Corporation to apply any of their corporate funds or other moneys authorised to be raised to any of the pur- poses of the intended Act. 23. To provide for the application and invest- ment of moneys standing to the credit of any sinking fund of the Corporation, or of any stock or loans (redemption) fund, and to make provision for the consolidation of such funds in regard to the security -for and discharge of moneys borrowed or which may hereafter be borrowed by the Cor- poration for any purpose. 24. To vary, repeal, or extinguish all existing rights, powers, and privileges which would in any manner interfere with or prevent the carry- ing into effect of any of the objects of the intended Act, and to confer other rights, powers, and privileges. 25. To incorporate with or without amend- ment, or to render inapplicable, all or some of the provisions of tne following public Acts: —The Municipal Corporations Act, 1882; the Public Health Acts; the Local Loans Act, 1875; the Lands Clauses Acts; the Tramways Act, 1870; the Arbitration Act, 1889; and all Acts amend- ing those Acts respectively. 26. To alter, amend, extend, enlarge, or repeal the provisions, or some of them, of the following local Acts: — The Chester Improvement Acts, 1845 and 1884, and any other Act or Order relating to the Corporation, and the Chester Tramways Act, 1878. 27. Duplicate plans and sections of the intended works, together with a book of reference to the plans, and a copy of this notice as published in the London Gazette, will, on or before the 30th day of November instant, be deposited for public inspection as follows: As relates to the county of Chester, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Chester, at his office at Chester; As relates to the county of Flint, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Flint, at his office at Mold. And a copy of so much of the said plans, sec- tions, and book of reference as relates to the several areas hereinafter mentioned, together with a copy of the said notice, as published in the London Gazette, will, on or before the said 30th day of November, be deposited for public inspec- tion as follows: — As relates to the city of Chester, with the Town Clerk of Chester, at his office, Town Hall, Chester; As relates to the Hoole Urban District, with the Clerk to the Hoole Urban District Council, at his office, Westminster-road, Hoole; As relates to the parishes of Newton-by- Chester, Great Boughton, Upton, and Saltney, with the clerks of the parish councils of those parishes respectively, at their offices, or, if they have no offices, at their places of abode, or if there is no clerk of any of such parish councils, with the chairman of such parish council, at his residence; As relates to the parish of Bache, in the county of Chester, with the clerk to the Chester Rural District Council, at his office, Forest House, Foregate-street, Chester. 28. Printed copies of the Bill for the intended Act will be deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on or before the 21st Day of December next. Dated 16th November, 1900. SAML. SMITH, Town Clerk, Chester. MARTIN and LESLIE, 27, Abingdon Street, Westminster, Parliamentary Agents.

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ONE QUALITY, ONE SORT, ONE PRICE. I am the largest manufacturer of this particular Manure in this country. R. W. CONNELL, JUNR., MANURE MANUFACTURER, 10, SOUTH CASTLE-ST., LIVERPOOL. Telegraphic Address: Telephone 075 Phosphate," Liverpool. District Agent-MR. JOHN ARNOLD, CHzzon FACTOR, FARNDON, CHESHIRE. rEA THAT TALKS is Tea that tells its own story. It is not necessary to label such tea as "Fine" or "Excellent" or "Superior to any other." The tea itself will tell you that as it leaves the cup for your lips. BROOKE, BOND'S TEA is Tea that talks. It talks so well that it is now in almost every home that boasts a teapot, and 30,000 Agents sell it. Yet it is not expensive; the Nimble Ninepence buys Half-a-Pound, and each packet is full weight without the paper. If you want to please your friends at Christmas you should make them a present of some good tea, tea that talks, BROOKE, BOND'S TEA. 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The most effective preparation. 1, & 2LB. DREDGERS, 6D., Is., A Is. 6D. EACH, AT CHEMISTS, GROCERS, STORES, &C. F. C. CALVERT & Co., P.O. Box 513, Manchester. B ENZINE COLLAS.—Ask for Collas. CLEANS GLOVES.—CLEA\TS DRESSES. CLEANS GLOVES.-CLEANS DRESSES. CLEANS GLOVES.—CLEANS DRESSES. B ENZINE COLLAS.-Buy Collas. REMOVES TAR, OIL,—PAINT, GREASE. REMOVES TAR, OIL,—PAINT, GREASE, FROM FURNITURE,—CLOTH, Ac. DO NOT BUY COMMON BENZINE. See the word COLLAS on the Label and Cap. Which is the original Extra Refined. After using, it becomes quite odourless. JgENZINE COLLAS.—Ask for Colias Preparation and take no other. Sold everywhere, 6d., 18., & lB. 6d. per Bottle. Agents: J. SANGER & SONS, 2. Winsley-street, Oxford-street, W. + f'RE o fw SUN k3 LJ .0(" INSURANCE OFFICE. Sum insured in 1899 exceeded YA35,000,000 For all particulars apply to the following Agents:— CHESTER MESSRS. CHEERS & HOPLEY, 6, Northgate-street. „ MESSRS. W. DENSON & SON, Northgate. MALPAB MR. THOMAS MULLOCK, Cud- dington Heath.

DIARY OF COMING ENGAGEMENTS. Nov. 21.- Wirral Board of Guardians. 21.-Chester Cheese Fair. „ 21.-Entertainment at Campbell Memorial Hall. „ 21.-PooLe's Myriorama at Music Hall. 21.—Annual Temperance Sermon at St. Peter's Church. „ 23.—Navvy Mission Meeting, Newgate-street Assembly Rooms. „ 26.-S.P.G. and C.M.S. Meeting at Chester (evening). „ 27.- Whitchurch Dairy Show.

HOW CHESTER STANDS. Mr. James Carter, the Borough Treasurer of Preston, has again issued his most instructive comparative tabulated statement shewing the revenue, expenditure and rates of 72 towns in England. Our own city, it is gratifying to observe, comes out creditably so far as rates are concerned, with a total rate of 4s. lOd. in the 9. There are only five other towns with lower rates than Chester, namely Lancaster, the lowest of all, with 3s. 8d.; Southport, with 4s. 2d.; Barrow-in-Furness and Blackpool, with 4s. 8d. each; and St. Helens, with 4s. 9d. in the R. It must be no small satisfaction to the citizens of Chester that their attractive city stands sixth in the list of most low-rated borough, in the country, especially when it is borne in mind that the economy is effected not only without prejudicing the excellence of the various public services, but while keeping the city well up-to-date in the important matters of public improvements and general civic pro- gress. The position of Chester is all the more remarkable, in view of the fact that such public services as gas and water are in private hands, and instead of being a source of revenue, are purveyed at a very high price. The little town of Lancaster, which we must take as a model of economy, with its rate of only 3a. 8d. in the R, affords an interesting study to all who are concerned in the administration of the public money. That enterprising borough derives a considerable revenue from various undertakings carried on under municipal auspices. It reaps 9388 a year from its markets, £ 1,000 from gas, £ 3,417 from water, 4424 from electric lighting, E2,050 from estates owned by the Corporation, JE27 from other sources, making a total profit of 97,306, which relieves the rates to the extent of Is. O. The population of Lancaster is returned at 41,000, against Chester's 38,000, so that a comparison between the two is perfectly fair. The receipts from profitable municipal under- takings in Chester are confined to two headings, namely markets 91,219, and estates owned by the Corporation, 92,866, making a total profit of 44,085, which gives relief to the rates to the tune of only 5d. in the E. Under the head of estates owned" it is important to note that more than half of the total of £ 2,866 comes from the Chester Race meeting, which last year brought in an accept- able revenue to the Corporation coffers of £1,594, and this year 91,466. It is, in passing, only just to draw the attention of those unco guid" folks who a few years ago would have abandoned the race meeting to the substantial revenue which is earned by that prosperous undertaking on behalf of the city, and which is, of course, only an insignificant amount coBt* i 1 pared with the money that drains into thI |1 borough indirectly from the same source. If ■M, Chester had in the past exercised the ONOO wisdom and foresight as many other towns by "Ml keeping the water and gas in the hands of ths jff Corporation, it is a tolerably safe assertion thst i&wfc the city would have been the most low-rated ill all England at the present time. We already shewn what a small town like Lancaster can achieve in this direction, ,.ad S the tabulated statement before us is full ot examples to the same effect. Quite a numbef < of towns carry on profitable undertakings which 3 relieve the rates to the extent of a shilling iJ1 SSIF the 9, against 5d. in Chester,and the most lttCf^ tive of these works is generally found uDder the headings of gas and water. Darlington bears the palm for success in this form 0' municipal trading, the happy ratepayers in tbtt borough being relieved of no less than la. 94. in the E. This relief comes almost s%* clusively from gas and water, the former elf which brings in the comfortable revenue of E5,980, and the latter the still more surprising sum of £ 7,110. In proceeding to compare another interesting list, the gas and water charges in these boroughs, one is struck by the fact that &9 inhabitants lose in two ways from the ness of a former generation of To". Councillors in permitting these two monopolie8 to fall under the control of public dividend" paying companies. Taking water first, we fiad that Chester pays ls. 81 in the £ on houses ot 915 ratable value. This is one of the higbest rates for water in the kingdom, and is eclipsed by only two other boroughs, viz., I Lyne, Is. lid., and Rochdale, the highest of aJJ, with 2s. in the 9. When Liverpool can purye1 an excellent service of water at a coat of 0011 7. in the 2, compared with Chester at la. 8IL, when Manchester and Leamington can do itf Bd. in the E, Islington for 91d., Salfo. and Southampton for 10d., it jØ tolerably evident that the citizens of Cheow are paying far too much for the luxury of aeC" ing their water service provided by privst* enterprise. The same criticism applies to the price of gas, which in this city stands at 3s. per 1,000 cubic feet. Only four other towns England pay more for their [gas than namely Norwich, 3s. 6d.; Islington, 33. 5d- r and East Ham and West Ham, 3s. 4d. eaeb. Half-a-crown seems quite an ordinary pricois many other boroughs, but for really cheap gal commend us to Widnes, at la. 4d., and York Ot lB. lid. In only one instance do we see the record of a loss made upon a municipal under.. taking, namely at Blackburn, where there is serious deficiency of R,1,086 upon the wftte account. We have not yet touched upon profits accruing from municipal trams electric light, but these may also be studio^ with advantage. Among the towns profiting appreciably from the introduction of the electlif light under corporation segis are Manchestefi, facile princeps, with a cool balance to the good of £ 4,000; Blackpool, with £ 2,773; aalifaJ: and Nottingham, with 92,000 each; and Soutb- port, with 91,500. Municipal trams have als. proved a conspicuous success at Manchester where they have brought in a revenue of £ 12,000; Blackpool and Belfast, Nottingham, and Sheffield, each "iP X5,000 on the right side as the result of 00 working of the tramways by the Corporation- Here, therefore, is encouragement for CHOBW to go ahead and make up some leeway by profitable working of the tramway service ;ad the electric light. The latter is not yet rt" turned upon the statistical table quoto as earning a profit locally, but in 0# absence of a comparative statement of the pti* of the electric current in other towns, we 0# unable to shew how Chester stands in tbO respect. Probably Mr. Carter will add to hi' onerous task by including this item next yfJllf, when it will be found that Chester purveys tb* new illuminant at about as reasonable a figoo as any of its municipal rivals.

The Tarvin Guardians, we are glad to tfJØ, now seem disposed to welcome the latest ple, posal for riddiag them of their useless ",or.- house, by converting it into an epileptic 12000 for the use of the county. It is in all seriolw ness time for the guardians to bestir thowsolloo in this direction when they find their officiso- deserting them, like rats forsaking a sinking ship, for the somewhat novel reason that they have not sufficient work to keep them emploYOi" A few members of the Board at first ratbet resented the idea of disestablishing the wory house, for reasons that appeared more sentivao tal than practical; but now that othof authorities in the county have perceived grand opening that the deserted workhouse Boughton Heath gives them for the establish' ment of a sorely-needed epileptic institutio" their scruples against signing the d-tb.. warrant of the old house are fast vanishing A conference upon the question among all authorities interested in the problem providing a suitable home for the epileptics Of the county is being arranged, and the TarriSt Guardians are to send a deputation. Tl* existing building would doubtless requo enlargement for the purpose, but site is admirably central, and the Cw of Chester, we feel sure, would offer e"let1 possible inducement for the planting of anotbo important county institution so close to J- borders.

Mr. J. W. Travis, the local agent the teetotal organisation, betrays unneces4 warmth in his jubilation over the accident t t left Mr. J. R. Rae off the Watch Committee Of the Corporation, and he is certainly prematuroll cocksure in his prediction that Mr. RO Y's remaining a city councillor is only a question of time. When that highly popular member lot St. Mary's Ward again offers himself for acceptance of his constituents, he and they n* be trusted to settle the matter without W gratuitous interference of any outsider like Travis, and with the same satisfactory refl°* as attended Mr. Rae's last appeal to the rate'" payers. It is not a little amusing to see Travis now professing that Mr. Rae was by a "fluke," and that "the electors of Mary's Ward little thought he was the agent of the Trade "—although that happen9 be scarcely a correct definition of his positios, because he has nothing more to do with t local branch of the Licensed tion than Mr. Travis himself. It certain 7 speaks little for Mr..Travis's business as the salaried agent of the teetotalers that has not even yet discovered Mr. Rae's POI, We with regard to the Trade. For our own p&r^ can see nothing inappropriate in placing Rae on the Watch Committee, but it is, to thO. least, a questionable proceeding to appoiØø SOOP in his place on the Committee Mr. Willia who is an officer of the Fire Brigade, » that is under the control of the Watch <?o mittee. It is, moreover, an open quae:, whether Mr. Williamson's position on Council is not imperilled by his with the Fire Brigade. Although he acts in honorary capacity, the Brigade is housed. is also subsidised by the Corporation. —#

A correspondent, commenting on the graph which went the rounds of the Press Saturday with regard to the adventures of pet dog of the Cheshire Regiment, writes nB point out that the dog originally intr°do_ himself to the Cheshire Regiment at Alders^ during the battalion's temporary sojourn and was surreptitiously conveyed in the by the men of that battalion to the po tro- embarkation. It was many times ousted froo