PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 321, 19 June 1868, Page 3

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

{Abridged from the "Daily Times) en W Monday, June 8 rs Mr. Brown presented a petition from ;e, . miners and others on the Blue Spur, Tua-

peka, with respect to certain reserves being b< granted for water-races. tc The House went into Committee of Sup" je plv, Mr. C. Raughton in the chair. N Introduction of Salmon and Trout £IOOO. p: Railway—preliminary expenses, £2OOO. tl Botanical Gardens, £4OO. b: This item was postponed until the Report oi of the Select Committee was brought up. J: Prizes to Pastoral, Agricultural, and Hor- c< ticultural Societies, £OOO. ci Encouragement to New Industries, £1000; t> Reformatory School, and maintenance, fl £1000; Arbitrations and Actions, £1000; J 1 A ssessors and Collectors under Waste Lands u Act, £250: Pubic Vaccinators, £l5O. " Road—Main North Road: Dunedin to Wakouaiti, £3,000; Wakouaiti to Palmerston, £3,000; Palmerston toOamaru, £4,000; Oamaru to Waitaki,£27o. . Main South Road: Dunedin to East , Taieri Bridge, £7,500: East Taieri to Toko- n mairiro, L 3.000; Tokomairiro to Clutha, £3,000, and £1000; Clutha to Mataura, 1 £1,500, and £2,500. { Central Interior: Saddle Hill to West , Taieri Bridge, £2,000; West Taieri Bridge t to Rock and Pillar; £1,200; Tokomairiro to } Tuapaka, £11,000; Tuapeka to Teviot, c £1,600, and £1,000; Rock and Pillar to Pun £ stall, £SO, and €150: Dunstan to Cromwell, E £250; Cromwell to Queenstown, £1,500; ( Teviot to Alexandra, by bank of Clutha i River, £I,OOO and L 2.000. j Northern Interior: Oamaru to Lindis, £550 \ ; and £l, 450; Lindis to Wanakn, £253, Ewe ] burn to Manuherikia, L 350 and LSO. ] Lee Stream to Waipori, L 500; Alberton I to Cardrona, L 150; Roads and Bridges on 1 Goldfields, L 2.000; Queenstown to Maori 1 Point and Skippers, L 4000; Nokomai to i Mataura, LSO; Dunstan to Nevis, L 100; 1 Cromwell to Nevis, LIOO, L 550; West ' Coast Stock Track, via Haast River, L2OO. Tuapeka to Switzers, LI,OOO, L 2.000; Hyde to Kyeburn, Gabriels to Blue Spur, L 200; ' Waihenn to Macraes, L2OO. Works and buildings: Goldfields Buildings, L 500; Survey Offices, Queenstown and Clyde, L 280; Bridges: Clutha, L 3,800: West Taieri, Ll,ooo;Waikouaiti, L 1,250; Gentle Annie, L 200; Roaring Meg,'Lloo; Kawarau, L7O; Shotover, above Maori Point on Skippei ■ Eoad, L2O. Works out of loan: Manuherikia Bridge, L3OOO- - Bridge, LBOOO. Items agreed to; as were the following, . all being for bridges;—Waitaki, L 10.000; '. Otepopo, North Branch, L 3000; Shag River at Waynes, L4OOO. i Wednesday, June 10. Mr. Haughton said that he meant to take the opportunity—the last he should have this session, probably—of endeavouring to secure that L 3,500 should be put on the Supplememtary Estimates, for the Shotover j ' Bridge. It was perfectly absurd to say that this work should bo done out of a loan. Whatever opinion he might have as to the probability of getting a loan, he held that it j was not right that this bridge should lie j charged against it. He believed that a tim I ber bridge really could be erected forL3soo> its importance to the district itself, and to ' the whole of Goldfields district, could not : be over-estimated; anil there ought to be a bridge constructed during this year. He moved an address to the Superintendent, f0rL3.500, for a timber bridge over the Shotover; the amount to be paid out of revenue. This motion was ruled as out of order by ' the Speaker, but was only put and carried 1 on the succeeding day. Also a motion by Mr Vogel was agreed to; that the LB,OOO ' original estimate of cost be out of revenue instead of out of loan. Supplementary Estimates. Pieces of ' Plate to Messrs. Youl and Bnckland, L 120; ' Return Pent to Runholders for declaration f of hundreds, L 3,000 ; Woollen Manufac- ' ture (bonus for first five thousand yards), ' L 1.500. Introduction of salmon, 1,2,000. f Steam Service. Dunedin to Clutha 3 Ferry, L 2.400 ; Public Libraries, L2OO ; School and Library, Macetown, L7O; Chapr lains for Hospitals, Lunatic Asylum, and Gaol, L3OO. : Works and Buildings.—Snow Poles, L 250; ' Fencing Cemeteries, LSOO ; Sludge Channel, 1 St. Bathan's, contribution of L2 to LI. '' Mr. Brown moved, "That, in the opinion r of this Council, the mining prosperity would 3 be considerably increased if the miners on the goldfields of the province had the adr vantage of scientific advice in bringing in ' their water-races, and that an address lie 3 presented to his Honor the Superintendent, 3 requesting him to place a sufficient sum on the Supplementary Estimates for the purr post of obtaining, from a competeiit hydraulic engineer, surveys and reports of the 8 principal goldfields of the province, with a view of assisting the miners and the Govern - r ment in the formation of water reservoirs ' and races for mining purposes." 1 The Secresary for Land and Works was ' understood to say that the Government did not agree that it was necessary to put a sum upon the estimates for the purpose mentioned ; but that they would support a proposal for giving the assistance of the Mining Surveyors of the different districts, ! when application was made for such services." B The motion was negatived. The Council was prorogued on the fold lowing day, Thursday, 11th June.