CITY COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4035, 1 February 1876, Page 3

CITY COUNCIL.

At the fortnightly meeting of this body today there were .present the Mayor (in the chair), Coxmcillhtsl-aAo, Crr.ntv Mollison, Leary, Br .]wn, Camfihellj Gibsou, Woodland, Quick' Chapman, and Eobeits. - The ;Sup«mtendeiit,. as chairman of the\ Central Board of Health, wrote that the Sueatioh riPf closing ?the jtobhe ■ schools in )unedip, op account of the fever epidemic,' properly,beloingod to,the Dunedin School Comand should b» dealt With by that body. In refhrence to the Fever Hospital, the Provincial Secretary wrhte that the only sites 1 t belonging tp the Government available for the hospital #e're i at Look-out Point and Vauxhall, or a'portiom'o&the present'hospital site. 1 The, Government had no funds available .for removvlhspastar of ‘Works (Mr Barites)" regirtedthdtithosumofLS found onhis desk *t" e Union .street quarry was placed thdre by > Michael O’ffiie, and >that of L 4 by Mr M‘lntyre* of Maclaggea street.—Or. Isaac remarked that if,the men held contracts unde' the Corporation,,the.ma l ter should be inqubedinto.—The Mayok addedtiut, if inquiry proved the Inspectors statements were correct, and , the mep were employedby.the Corporation ,as contractors, they ought to he sfispehded, and prevented firbm contracting for a time. The matter was referred, to the Works Committee. , Mir Stoni wrote explainihg that the Whole of the City reserves were registered under theLoad Transfer Act, and, as the registered i ropnetor, the Superintendent plight sell them, but the chances of thp official, head of the Province doing suWerevery f emote' v ' Than .Wuikk r Committee; ibpdrted, reoom mendbg that ,tberformation .of Leith street frogi; Union to? Dohdas street, and the - Quee r ‘ street fom Rpgeut road t > Parfestreet should lay over for a tihie, the cost ; of the oiie being esrimaped at L 835 and of the other?at Llso} .-hat the SurVeyor had been instructed to report upon certain works, and that replies_had been sent’hhat the kerbing and channelhpg ? rf Leith street would be attended Gpuhcil cannot comply With the in Duke street and” neighborhood that • the ■. Btope-crtohiSr should not be erected in that vicinity, but that- the working pf tiiemachine wpuldnot be a permanency, that the Council was not responsible for'; the stoppage of, the Hospital drains ;, and to that; the Conned aid not admit any liability- the flooding of Mr WV Wilson’s premises, George street, corner of Albany street, /reported bhat the general question of the advertising outlay of ■he Corporation was under consideration, and in all likelihood- a re bmmefirfatibn Would he m%ing; until wheri it re commended that the applications by the *TableV and ; ‘EverafigNcWt' should lay over. ,Cr ® a Jf h ’ MsiStant.’-Shonld-be increased to thei rate 6f £2OO a year. •^ e .Water-Supply Committee Reported «h ngb that.a- jeply ha&been • 55* t0 6BBrB Stead, anu Co., And to a' *?« pending j* communication from the the Council can at present f definite as, to what ,course may be token pny,ripanaq, rights ..to the Water of-, Leith. Th^yft.erworks- e*g neer had been i* strucred to erect a ho-se trough at - the rauw .y An offer’ to purchase the land offered by Mr Mom-on for sale had been and Mr Mormons ia beng awaited* wmr/n. M °

FBINf JES -BTHEET WIDENING. On this snidest Mr Fish iwyoteAS fqUojpra;?r &e mWe fcecorporation to remove their of ground, recently, purcorporation, fcy the Ist of February, ■ that agreetoeet, I . have .letj*s! i new oPienuses, and also arremoved by that date. ■ i now understand that. In order to servn end ®- Me SPraEdmond andCd:® Earr^. f ,and Winter, do not intend to remove information 9 is £ U y °?' h y their nonremoval I»., shall bo* seriously 'prejudiced 6t damaged, .inasmuch ua my ! new bnudinga will ?° “•* a ®d, .the Corporation willJba nnahle to eomplete and mahe voqd the widening of the steeel; The object df 1 these gentlemen is, I iniaglne, twofold—firsts to fore.the Manse trustees ou & 1 ?t tiielr-own (the.tenants') possession. tIU, the end of their Present lease to get another Jetton for.-the huifdthgafor which tL CbrtX ; ,theip. The he- *° hi«st-upon the leliver/of the ground on or very neor itho. dftto asnceed/ niwtn ftnri ■ intiinate thatJT shall hold the Corpora- ■ to «2gP Go.tdcacrfvout