MEETING AT CAVERSHAM.

Evening Star, Issue 4266, 28 October 1876, Page 2

MEETING AT CAVERSHAM.

The tueetirig at Gavertkira last by tha Ghiirmaa of -the ;Eoad Boird to r test , the feeling of the district in respect to l the H°ard*s ac tion in ebdeayoring to divert ft stream which rims, through the township, crossing the Slain road—was largely attended.

The Chairman of .the Board (Mr EuiHsaroßD) informed tae meetinff that the Board -hud received a lawyer’s letter intimating that, if-,the diversion of. the stream,wah-proceeded,with, proqeedinss would be taken in the Supreme Court to restrain the Board, on acoount of the.injnry. that.would.bh'doi'b 1 , Mr Cochrane, who used "the ati&m fe'r "Mie pur- 1 poses of .his bhsiness of hreWer. SeVen years' ago, when -the peculation lof :,thit did -apt muster a couple of hundred persons, r .,theProvincial Qovercment, ~pa-l , undereaken 'to - divert the . creek,.'hp.t the want of funS'-w® the excuse put Jtdrwaicii' whenl they were preteed to jiTOCOed with it.’ -' Hcw the Board felt itself - : ia a position-to do it, and the Government hkd promised the assistance of pruou labor in forming the drain along the'ihaln road, through which, it vmsdpteaded to carry the stream. -At present the creek- Waa'a hotbed of disease, and it is' imperatively neceSßafy , for thehealth of the residents in the disixict-that the proposed dbHSioh shbnld he oaairied out-, Whenv that was done, Mr Cochrane would still be ahleTto .obtain his supply of water; so that be would not' suffer ffom the, diversion.: -After receiving, sneh a -letter as they got from Mr Scamper, the Board was naturally anxious, before. they diojk aiiy ; further aotiop, to know whether they had of atid Were'carrying Out the wiriies of the ratepayers in this'matter.-

Mc Coehraue, who hfd. been to’ withdraw his letjber,: declined to do soi + r - The meeting unanimously adopted a resolution expressive of r its opinion jbhat the diversion of the creak was shedlutely 'necessary. :