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Dunstan Times, Issue 231, 28 September 1866, Page 2

A Public Meeting of the inhabitants of Clyde, was hold on Wednesday night last, at the Dunstan Hotel, for the purpose of adopting measures to protect the interests of the Municipalities. The Mayor, Mr J. D. Feraud, occupied the chair. Propositions were carried to the effect that His Excellency the Governor be memorialised to withhold his consent to any Bill having for its object the reduction of the revenues of the Municipalities of Otago; also, that the Goldfields' Members be communicated with on the same subject. The news to hand from the Lake District is most encoui aging, the weather has broke up, and mining affairs are being pushed vigorously ahead. The Quartz Reefs are looking well, and holders expect to reap a handsome harvest during the coming summer. The dull, monotonous silence of Skipper's, has abdicated in favor of the din and clatter of the stamp-heads doing their work of disintrication. A heavy rush is expected to set in after the appearance of the first amalgamated cake of the precious metal, the which, will bear comparison with some of the cakes of Bendigo and Ballarat, as the stone that is being reduced looks exceedingly well. The following resolution was passed at a special meeting of the Clyde Town Council, held at the Temporary Chambers on Saturday evening last, the 22nd inst. " That this Council expresses its great surprise at the contents of the letter now read from the Provincial Secretary, and most strongly protests against the manner in which the Government proposes to deal with this Municipality, with respect to the

subsidy proposed to be granted, and more especially would direct the attention of the Government to the great injustice con' tained in the proposition, that this Council should tako upon itself the responsibility of maintainihg the main road through Clyde, when no j|such condition has been attached to the grant to the neighbouring Town of Cromwell, through which the same road runs, nor to any other of the newly formed Municipalities, in all of which main roads exist, and to which the maxmium grant of £SOO has been allotted. Further, that if this Council should undertake the maintenance of the said road, an unknown and most serious responsibility would eventually accrue, without any corresponding advantage being gained by a Grant of £SOO, and that the Town-clerk write to the Provincial Secretary conveying the terms of this resolution, and asking that the maxmium amount be granted.