CITY COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4239, 27 September 1876, Page 2

CITY COUNCIL.

At yesterday’s meeting of the City Council a li^rr^ 8 re 9® f r< > m Mr Bradshaw on behalf of th® University Council offering to sell the TTul. for Ij30 ’ 000 ’«t\o folfiiiigteYm of payment:—Deposit on signing contract of sole. LlO per cent. ; balance of purchase-money to bear interest .at LS per cent, per annum, to be paid in K 1 2l 3 V 6 ’ V 8 ’ l 5 and 24 montto Irom date of contract. The communication was referred to the Finance Committee. w lblie worka Committee’s report being un t Ur^UT^E^ ,Ted «»t the clause m a Town HaU be deferred fall next meeting, in order that the Finance Committee might have an opportunity of pr °P°S it i? Il .of the University Committce to dispose of their building —Cr Vmt ?^ 0 i. d ?l the , motioD ’, b . ut v Btated He considered rVivvf to a pbu would bt> to expend L 2.000 or 3 -®°2,9 n .th e present Council Chambers, so that they might answer all requirements for the next fho y^f,^CT' Gr ‘ ? I ,9 3CK moved an amendment that the recommendation be confirmed, which wm v by Pi' Qract > w ho suggested that it* be « er ° proce ? d with a new building m the Octagon than entertain the proposal of the University Committee, or go on squandering money on the. present premises.—The motion defying the question tnl next meeting was carried - An explanation was made by the Matos with're.giutd to clause 5 of the Gas Committee’s renort which proposed to censure him for accepting pay. ment of a gas account by means of a promissory note. He said that some eighteen months agora by-poss was constructed in the Theatre, and cous(£quently the gus was never registered in the meten The by-pass remained there—first, through the “? lect of sbe$ be employes of the original company 7 ; and, secondiy, through the negiect of the employs of the Corporation - until April or March laLf. Then wwl was to W for the gas which the theatre had had, and which was not shown m the gasaccount. The committee considered the question from tm;e I® time, and come to no conconld no £ Bue Meß3ra Steele and £eogh for the gas, as they could only arrive an. ? ac be amouu t, and conld not sue for amount. The amount remained a ftfbVw* 3 b<K it ß m *5? Corp oratien. On the 19th' tho ffw 4 ti k Mr D «onmg bought the lease of ’ and .w. tts advised that he would have On P wt)i e a « oun * du e by Messrs Steele and Keogh On Wednesday Mr Dunning offered to nnv «.« amount due for August—some L2o— as both amounts made rather a hmre sum, he casually asktd him (his Worship)?© take a p omissory note for the bailee. y\ bbe amoun t was doubtful, nt B A^ ytook F r Dana mg’s cheque for the montlr v d W‘ od promissory note for * b ; cb . bad ?° lo “ff remained a doubtful debt,|and gavejnstructions for the chrk to receive the promissory note. He certainly did notrememInthß tbat , Goa Committee would mee in the afternoon, and it was the last day on which discount could be allowed. the £™wi° f th l e V m f u . ttee h j« thought he had acted “f d m accepting the note, and re* “"S 4 w. °Pmions which he hod prevT ously obtained respecting the improbability of He • the debt by 1111 “tion at y iaw. "; dmitt 1 od bavmg given instmetions to test a metoi, and claimed that he had power to do so Such power should be given to the Mayor or to the* Chairman of the Gas Committee, and by virtue at his office the Mayor should be chairman of the Gas as « was a c °mmercial under Clause 5 was then expunged fron the report* as also wasclanse 2, which read“ The Engineer'baa reZ^ BtrUCted d i recfc th « Gas Inspector not to remove any meter for the purpose of testing +j»a Mme.oaioas the fee charged (or testing it bt^aret meeting will be discussed, 3 may s