CITY COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4215, 30 August 1876, Page 3

CITY COUNCIL.

After we went to press yesterday the following business was transacted

THE CORPORATION’S BILL. The Town Clerk read telegrams from Mr Stout, M.H.R., who inquired in .case there was not time enough to pass the Bill through the House, if the Council would wait till next session or have a short Bill accepting the general measure, except as to reserves and voting. The Premier telegraphed to the Mayor—

J judge from your telegram that Mr Stout must have misunderstood me. I did not say that there was anything special in your Bill to which the Go-vernment-offered opposition. Whnt I said, whs, that on account of its magnitude, it would be, I thought, impossible to got it through this session ; besides which, I thought that the disposition of the Souse was averse to placing the Dunedin Corporation on a totally different footing from others. 1 said that in framing our Bill, yours had been very carefully considered, and a great many of its provisions adopted and put into more simple language I was of opinion that onr Bill would be found much the more intelligible, and that it wouldsubatanti lly contain all the main points of yonrs, together with some special provisions thatfwould be found to meet the circumstances of yonr case. 1 suggested to Mr Stout that he' Should prepare a few clauses, making our Bill applicable to Dunedin, with such distinct provisions to meet the cose of your city as might be necessary. I thought that it would be much easier to get the provisions through in that way than by attempting to deal with your Bill at this period of the session.

On Tuesday Mr Stout again telegraphed Would Council accept parts 10 and to the end of Act being struck out, and parts 6, 7, 8, 9,10,11,12 of Municipal Act being inserted P Also, rating and election clauses struck out, and Bating BUI and Docal Election - Regulations Bill substituted, method of voting kept intact ?.

j INSPECTOR NIMON’S RESIGNATION. I The following communication from Mr | Nimonwas read* Having calmly and carefully considered the matter, I respectfully bag leave to tender my resignation, trusting the Council will relieve me from duty at its earliest convenience. For some time past 1 have felt very dissatisfied with my position and the treatment I was receiving; therefore I consider _it advisable to resign, as I have a decided aversion to being jostled out of an office I have held for fifteen years—an office not of my seeking, hut the duties of which I have endeavored to perform to the best of my ability. If the person who has been promised the appointment some months ago performs the duties for the next fifteen years as faithfully and economically as I have done in the past the Council will have no cause to complain. For some years past I have felt sore over certain matters, but the above is my chief cause for resigning, together with the fitting np for me an office in the cellar, between the urinal and privy, which I consider was intended as an insult. A motion to accept the resignation moved by Cr. Fish, who said it was not the first time Mr Nimon had resigned, was met by aq amendment by Cr. Roberts to refer the matter to the Sanitary Committee, with the object of inquiring into the truth or otherwise of the allegation that the appointment had been offered to someone else. The ■amendment was carried. The Reserves Committee reported the preparation of a memorial to the Assembly asking that body to resent the attempt now being made by the Harbor Board to deprive the Corporation of the revenue and benefits arising from the Wharves and Quays Reserves ; that a circular letter has also been sent to the members of the Provincial Council, and to the members of both Houses of Parliament, in reply to the memorandum prepared by the Secretary to the Harbor Board, and requesting such members not to act in compliance with the request of the Board’s circular; and that the' City members of the Assembly had been communicated with, and have premised to support the rights of the Corporation in this matter.

A special meeting of the Council was held this afternoon; present—the Mayor, Crs. Walter, Mollison, Brown, Wright, Fish, Isaac, Thomson, and Grant.

An analysis by Professor Black of the gas used in the laboratory was read. The Professor explained that he had not got a phonometer in the laboratory wherewith to estimate the illuminating power, but, comparing it with that taken in February, 1074, the gas was equal to fourteen candles.—The Colonial Secretary, in answer the Corporations wish to be supplied with ‘ Hansard ’ and other Parliamentary papers, that the request must be declined, as the free list was already larger than in any of the adjacent Colonies, and nowhere were Parliamentary papers supplied to Corporations free. In reply to a telegram from Mr Walter, the then Mayor, a communication under date July, 14 was then read by the Town Clerk, that instructions had been given to the Government printer to supply the Dunedin Corporation with all Parliamentary papers affecting Corporations, TRAMWAYS. Cr. Isaac moved, and Cr. Walter seconded, “That the conditions for thecon■struction of tramways, as passed by previous committees, and in Council, and now laying ou the table, be adopted.”—Cr. Grant took exception to the 18th clause of the conditions and stipulation. It was provided that when any injury was done to the tramway by the construction of City Works executed in the roadway, it should be made good by the promoter at his own expense. He thought the Corporation should be answerable for any injury in such cases. —Cr. Gibson taking exception to the 19th clause, ,it was agreed that the conditions be considered separately.—Clauses 1 to 9 were agreed to without comment. On clause 10 the word “ not ” was struck out in the first line. The route was fixed from the Peacock Hotel, South Dunedin, opposite the Cricket Ground, along Princes street, down Albany street, and along Bang street to the Water of Leith. [Left sitting,]