MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 4180, 20 July 1876, Page 2

MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

ME WOODLANI/S MEETINGS.

Mr Woodland addressed the ratepayers at the Oddfellows’ Hall. Oeorwe street! last nigh*; Tilers was ft large M teilcmhee, ahd Mr Sligo presided. The candidate said he had received a large and numemislyjsighed requisition asking him to come forward, 4iid He Waß the sehTtffi ffismßeF 8f the Dit¥ Council and was therefore as much entitled to come and stand as either of the other two candidates Re.erring to his services Jo Jhe.latenHAerS he Sit'd t|io flr«t thiUg ho Hnd?rtbßk i?as to effect an alteration in the Building Ordinance, as its provisions were previously of such a nature as to work great wrong on the poorer classes of Dunedin. Owners of KWii.ll section# of Iffnd Were debarred trdm building Upoh tligiii in cbuseqiieilce bf the Vary stringent regulative which. hflff. hfceh Ifljd dbwh 1# fl\t) Corporation, one of which was that wooden buildings should be ten feet apart from each other. The next thing he advocated was to have a system of drainage for. the City an early aa practicable. Through his influence three or foilr sewers bad been nmde in Bell .Wip'd,, at. an of .L&000 or I*l,ooo, and be hiid advocated a system of uraiua to for Leith Ward also. The last loan of LIOO.OOO was raised for the purpose of carrying out a system of drainage. About L 30.000 of that sum had been spent, leaving d, bdWncb yet rbbfrtitiinfe of L 70,000, and while that money was available the GoUuCil should go in for laying down drams in the various parts of the City, With regard to the fever hospital bo said right In endeavoring to stamp out disease, butitshouia nav«s Ecfiil ddntiat ft moderate expense. Had a temporary building been erected it could have been removed after the fever would have ooasod to exist. The cost of the aauilflrj* deUaritPent and, hospital was 1.3,500. The widening of Princes street, he CobSidefed, was one of the greatest swindles ever perpetrated 111 this City.—(Applause.) When that matter was brought before the Council two or three years ago, opposed it: T)i**ro WM more traffic in George slreet in one day than liififc Wda iff Princes street in thre£ There was no doubt the widening of the street wou’d result in a great improvement, but the money bad to come out of the pockets of the ratepayer# and A would take L 30.000 to complete the work. Since he netd bSeh 11 ffl(Jnlb«f bf the Council, there hail been a scheme brought forward by the Mifyor with reference to the Town Belt. This ho regarded as q waste of public money, and he had opposed it, b6cah(lc he thought that instead of making carriage drives On the Belt for the upper classes, it would he better to spend the money in farthing the street# and footpaths of the City, so that people would be able to get home -with clean boots. The proposal for expending 1.5,000 was lost, and on the mo ion of bis then colleague, Mr Neale, the amount was reduced to L 2.030, which was so expended. If any of them had been round the Belt lately they would only see a cut track, and that was the way the money was frittered away, while the streets were left as nature formed, them. He would always oppose snch an expenditure of money, whether his position was that of Councillor or Mayor. He considered the Town Hall should bo on the site facing the Octagon. It would be better to build a permanent Town Hall than. to go on patching up the old offices. The question of the Waterworks whs now settled, ns they had been purchased by the Corporation. He believed tha'. this undertaking would prove beneficial to the City in vanv>ms ways and also bring in a handsome i evoime. Mr Woodland referred to the abominable dirtiness of the water at pn scut, and said that in accordance with an Act of Parliament in the Home country there was no power to levy rates iu such caffes unless tqe water supplied was fib

tered,.and ho did not see Why the Corporation should not be. compelled to do the same here. He had introduced the City dust carts, and he believed that if it had not been for th6se they would have had far more SiCkllCss and disease than they bad. Speaking of the new Municipal Bill, he said that he opposed some of the clauses In it, One of Which was that relating to woman suffrage. Tf he were elected Mayor he would represent the four Wards end look after every one alike, He Was in javor Of spending the balance of the City’s borrowing rowers (1(78,718 6s ?d) as quickly as possible, tnr Woodbind concluded by expressing a hope that the electors would place him at the top of the poll On Pnday.—(Applause.) After questions hod been put and answered, Mr Swahn proposed the following" That Mr Woodland is the most fit pud proper person for election as Mayor of Dunedin.'* Carried with loud applause. Mr WoonLiNn afterwards addressed a meeting of tbe electors at Bardie's North Dunedin Hotel; Mr John Adams presiding. At the conclusion Anderson proposed, and Mr T. Bibch seconded the following motion, which was carried unanimously:—'“ That Mr Woodland is the most fit and proper person to occupy the Mayoral chair for the ensuing twelve months.”

kr Walter’s xebtinos. . .Mr Walter addressed a crowded meeting last night at Watson’s Hotel, Mr Cooper in the obair, and another at the Oddfellows’ Hall, George street! At each unanimous votes of confidence in the candidate was carried. XR REEVES’S MEETINGS. Mr Reeves addressed crowded meetings at Hardv a North Dunedin Hotel and at Cotter’s Motel, Great King street. At each place a unanimous expression of confidence in Mr Beeves was carried. ST. KILDA. At a meeting of ratepayers, held last evening at fhe Forbury School-house, Mr P. Paxton intimated that ms position under ihe Government had been raised, and that he would therefore ask the electors to allow him to retire from the Mayoral .contest. Mr J, P, Jones will thus have a walk-over, SOUTH DUNEDIN.

Mrßrody addressed a noisy meeting at the Ballway Hotel; Mr G. Wybar in the chair. An almost unanimous vote of confidence in Mr Brady was carried.

Mr Moloney held a meeting at Mr Larke’s store: Mr Hodge occupying the chair. At the conclusion of the candidate's address, a unanimous vote of confidence in him was carried.