ALEXANDRA CORPORATION.

Dunstan Times, Issue 745, 28 July 1876, Page 3

ALEXANDRA CORPORATION.

—o—(TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUNSTAK TIMES.) Sir t—Our Municipal Elections are over Our Mayor is re-elected. The newly electOouncillors promised faithfully that they will receive our money, and spend it for us. Don’t think there is a man amongst us, who could not do the same, but your humolo servant expects more from the Municipal Council, and that is, that they use their influence and power -with the Government to procure, by good roads and bridges, direct communication with the outlying districts, to facilitate trade, and consequently promote lasting prosperity to the Town.

1 must not forget to mention that the rates, awd dog and goat taxes of last year amounted to about L4O. The Town Clerk, being Valuator and Collector, received about LBO, he being a patriotic ratepayer, it seems that the Council does not think that he is overpaid for about twelve days’ work and his patriotism—happily the Council had a ready sale of an Auctioneer’s License to father for cash, which excluded the necessity of sending an agent to the London Money Market to raise a Loan. We are a small community, but very plucky. Some time ago we were talking very big about getting the Government to build us a bridge over the Molyneux River, but our Ferryman objecting to it, we had to drop the subject. A good bridge over the Manuherikia River could be constructed at little cost, which would be a great benefit, considering that there is a good road to the Teviot Bridge, and a good bridge lately constructed over the Molyneux Liver at Roxburgh. Our Court-house is a superb sample of antiquity—a fit object for the Dunedin Museum, built about thirteen years ago, when timber was sold here by the pound. Report speaks loudly that our Council intends to construct water-works, in the shape of chain pumps, or some other appliance, to raise the water—an everlasting supply of the very purest water can be obtained at a supposed depth of fifty or sixty feet. Arrangements are about to be made to start a saw-mill in the Waikaia Bush early in the Spring, success is certain, as there is a ready market for sawn and split timber all round the bush for more than forty miles. Your’s, &c., —W. H. Hastedt. Alexandra, July 26, 1876.