CITY COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3978, 24 November 1875, Page 3

CITY COUNCIL.

The following business was transacted after we went to press yesterday ; Mr Moss Moss wrote mentioning that after Princes street was widened there would be still seventeen feet deep of ground left, and offering to pay L2OO a year for that piece of ground for a term of twenty-one years, or he would give LI,OOO cash, and L 3,000 by instalments, for the full term of twenty-one years. His present offer was one of L2O per annum more than he was now paying for the whole ground, and he made it not that the ground might be worth that amount, but because it would be worth it to him. as it would keep him in his old position By way of P.S. he added : "You will find that I am offering you L 4,000 for the ground, for which I was not getting the same am unt re Princes street widening.” The letter was received.

Mr T. Condon brought under the Council’s notice his new system of footpaths, and asked that portion of the footpaths might be experimented upon. The Market Inspector reported for October that the total amount received for market dues and hawkers’ licences was Ll7 10s; cart licenses to cany meat and vegetables in town, 14-; general foot-hawkers’ licenses, 58; number of stalls occupied in the market 10— out of 24. The Inspector believed that the few stalls occupied was owing to the short supply and high price of meat, and expected a gieat improvement in this respect^after the close of the shearing season. After a good deal of discussion in reference to the Manure Depot, the following resolution was carried :—“ That it is desirable that the manure dej 6t be removed, and that the Sanitary (’ommittee be requested to recommend a suitable spot for the purpose, and to report geneially as to the disposal of night-soil, at the next meeting of the Council ” The present depot was termed an “ abomination ” by Cr. Isaac.