Mr. Clark: Oh! but I expect the Mayor is going to treat us with the dinner at the hotel?
The Mayor: I never promised anything of the sort.
Mr. Clark: Well, I fully expected you were going to pay for it, Mr. Mayor? (Roars of laughter.)
The Mayor: Oh, no, I never said that I should.
Considerable merriment ensued. Order having been restored,
Mr. Renaud renewed his proposal for a treat to the necessitous poor in the neighbourhood.
The Mayor again expressed his opinion that the funds would not permit of anything of the sort.
Mr. Waring, on behalf of the Garrick Club, very generously stepped forward and guaranteed a donation of £10 in aid of the object from that body.
Mr. Renaud said he would guarantee another £10 for the same purpose.
The Mayor intimated that the further consideration of the subject of giving a treat to the out-door poor had better be adjourned until the next meeting. This was agreed to.