CITY COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4071, 14 March 1876, Page 3

CITY COUNCIL.

*' , The nauaL.meeting City Gonncfrwiutbeld sc ■ three; o clock this, wfternooaj, -present r- The UhyOt (in the chair), Mesars Bfdiraj .Graut, Gibson, Isaacj- Beevea, Mollisoni' Wdodland, Eobmsi and: Deary. - - '■ ■ ■ 'A' quantity of correspondence waaj read.' The Under - Secretary stated- that the Government: were willing to fill ftp the land between railway- provided~the Council would give L 250 j towards thewdrtc. (Eeferfed to the Works Com- - xnittee.) The -Superintendent-wrote that he had ? inspected the Normal School and found .the ar- - great Wantwas ; felt in the children.haying po play-grpuucLO He proposed that the Corporauon'should give them the' vacant ..land. alongmde.-rCr.: BeeS®*: said! that, he! always' considered the placing the school -there'a; mistake. He objected-to the gfround asked 'fori being altogether alienated from,.the, Corporation, ithavingbeenongiimUy set Sport forK market, but fee had'no OhJection 46 their using the ground till the Corporation wanted it. (Beferred to the Be- i serves Committee.) 1 Mrs Wise asked for compen- ! sation ic cpnsejuenoe ot her hustand : haring been'! killed by the Canohgate atreet acoident. (Beferred - to the Finance Committee). ' -The following reports were brought up -The Finance Coxnmittee repblrted 'inter alia a" further instalment of compensation re widening of Princes-street, has been paid to Messrs-Fish. ' S?*!l “ d thxpugh the City Solicitors. The Town Clerk hae been instructed to write to the j iGorpoxatioai tenants. Princes street, north of Police 1 .Street, asking what sum they would require to give.Ttpall their interest in their present municipal hold- 1 ingsor tenAhcies. The appficationof toe:*. Tablet* for a share of the Municipal advertising has been! declined, the committee not cdamdsrlnglt advisable* to advfcrtisein weekly papers. ~ •vo The Fire Brigade Committee recommended that the J>, Vi :Fiie Brigade he confined ythuLthelimits of the City. This *ecdmmendaCAWfnl. reconsideration of the BrigaAeeleitter upon the aubjeeb of attending, fires ontMde the City. The .question of the erection of a the city has- bwn ordered to he over. ,; ... The Gas Committeereported that the Engineer'd attention had beep called to the dirty state of the lamps,-and to the (probable) defective i hc Committee has decided to advertise for a City Gas Inspeptor, salary at' the rate of L2OO per annumi it being found necessary that Mariott’s yi fa . e « should, be principaOly to .tha GasW<frks.' The Engineer will prepare a memo, of thi dutaes. -,aate committee has decided to allow the ordinary discount on oil January accounts paid on - ® r , «wora.-2pth March, and an ■ “pen - published to this effect. In all future •he rules as to discount will be strictly adhered -to'. TA e Sanitary iCpmmittee rajimmended that -in consequence of the lkrge amount of work caused tb Uie Health the scarlet fever epidemic, a of MOftbe.voted to that gentleman. The Town .Clerk had been instructed -to inform Messrs iSia^rightttid.Htput tbaVstepshad deoderise th«v depdt, and ■ prevent' any nuisance. , S’MTOnged with the Town Clerk of St. expense's of thp reported inter alih. 'ltot, pmr to tap registration of the building, the . propiiewspf the Temperance Hall be erect a barricade ao as to prevent the personsintlfe b y tbeWe j also recommended that on public grounds defend t3e i which. - Cr-Hoirs sohtutor, oa against Inspector Barnes. !