CITY COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2258, 24 May 1881, Page 3

CITY COUNCIL.

The usual meeting was held last evening. Present—His Worship the Mayor, Ore. Ayerr, King, Bishop, Vinoent, Oherrill, Taylor, Lambert, Thomson, Ouff, Treleaven, Hulbert. The receipts for the fortnight were stated as being £738 14s 7d. The debtor balance at the Bank was £1719 16s 7d. Accounts to the amount of £lB9 13s were passed for payment. The petition respecting the scavenging oharges was read. Or. Taylor moved—" That the prayer of the petitioners be acceded to, and the town olerk be instructed to give notioe under clause 40 of the Bating Act 1876, that it is the intention of the Council to make a separate rate of lid in the £ for removing night soil for the year ending Jnne 30th, 1882, on the 6th June, 1881, to be payable in one sum on July Ist, 1881, and that the rate book lies for inspection during office hours at the office of the town clerk." Or. Thomson seoonded the motion, whioh was carried. On the motion of Or. Ouff it was resolved —" That a special meeting of the Counoil be held on June.'6th,|toladopt a resolution making a separate rate of lid in the £ for the purpose of removing night soil." A letter was read from the Drainage Board with reference to some operations at the Sandhills Reserve. The required permission was granted. A letter was read from the proprietor of the Coffee Palace objecting to the action of the Council in allowing leave to the proprietor of the coffee stall at the junction of Colombo and Gloucester street. He pointed out that he would never have rented so delapidated and vermin-ridden a building for the price he [had, )if he had expected (.that permission would be granted to a person to establish such a place as the one referred to. The members of the Council seemed to think that the tenant of the Coffee Palace had good grounds for complaint, and ultimately Cr Ayers moved " That the permission to establish a coffee stall at the junotion of Gloucester and Colombo streets be revoked." Or Lambert "seconded the motion, which was agreed to. A letter was read from the tramway committee with reference to the by-law proposed by the Council for the regulation of traflio, &9., pointing out that the Council desired to place the tramway on a par with cabs and cabdrivers. The document was a very lengthy one, and set out the case of the company in an exhaustive manner.

On the motion of Cr Oherrill, the consideration of the letter was deferred until the by-law was taken by the Council. The city surveyor's report was read as follows:

1. Annexed hereto is a list of the plantations on the North and East belts, showing the lengths required to be proclaimed as footpaths. 2. I have made enquiries into the circumstances of a claim sent in by Mr Pentecost for £2 for damage alleged to be done to his cart in driving into Manning's Brewery. It appears that the concrete channel had just been laid, and in order to protect it until the cement was set, it was covered over with earth to enable anyone to drive over it, but the driver' of the cart, instead of availing himself of this convenience, drove his cart with one wheel on the earth crossing and the other wheel over the channel where it was not protected with earth, and the wheel coming in contact with the wooden kerb, caused the damage of which he complains. 3. I last week found two houses in Martin street (although not long built) in a very unsafe condition, owing to the brick side walls giving way, they being very much shaken and out of perpendicular, and as there are several families living in the houses I gave the owner notice to have them seen to, aa she would be responsible for any accident that may take place from their falling down, which they are very likely to do. 4. 1 have prepared a plan showing the cab stands at the Post Office, and if the stands colored blue are paved the cost will be about .£6O, but if the entire triangle is paved, and also the omnibus stand between the urinal and the Old Poßt Office, the cost will be much larger. 5. A letter haß been received from the Clerk to the Selwyn County Council, agreeing to bear their proportion of the cost of renewing the old culverts on the Lincoln road, and the works committee in consequence have given me instructions to build new ones. 6. With regard to the letter from Mr Jones respecting the draining of the right of way leading from Lichfield to Tuam street, I find that it would be very inconvenient to drain it into Tuam street, as the fall is towards Mancheater street, and if the whole right of way, including that portion running down to Manchester street be done at the same time, the work of draining would be much more satisfactory. 7. The works committee have arranged with Mr Bradley, of Ashbnrton, to lay about three chains of a new description of channel and kerb made of asphalte, in Cashel street as a trial. The clauses of the report were considered seriatim.

On clause 1 it was resolved to proclaim the footpaths as recommended, and to erect notice boards, The request of Mr Pentecost for payment of £2 as damage sustained by him was declined.

Or. Treleaven moved—" That the cab-stand in front of the old Post-Offioe be paved, at a cost not exoeeding £60." Or. Lambert seconded the motion, whioh was agreed to. The remainder of the report was approved. A report was read from the sanitary committee, reporting an offer for the lease for

, . , t the Sandhills, three years of the reserre * application be and also recommending ths* £fo e trangfer made to the Board of Health Jv w hioh they of their powers to the Council, inmstances were willing to transfer, as the' ean QX isted in had now changed, and no'difficultry > collecting the rates for scavenging* or j. 0 £ On the motion of Or. Taylor, ths-jR?y the committee was adopted. e Or. Thomaon moved —" That the conmA e in charge of the new scavenging scheme? v empowered to make arrangements for takiiijk. over the present plant, or to make such other arrangements as may seem to thee de- j sirable." Or. Taylor seconded the motion. Or. Oherrill suggested that it would facilitate matters if the motion were amended so as to read that tenders be called for the per- , formanoe of the work, to be submitted at a special meeting of the Council, to be held on Monday next. He should propose an amendment to that effect. Or. Lambert seoonded the amendment. The amendment was then put and carried. , The Council then proceeded to disouss the | letter from the Tramway Company in connection with the proposed by-law. t The by-law regulating the working of the j tramways and the licensing of oars, con- , duotors, and engine drivers, was brought , up by the by-law committee and discussed clause by clause. The by-law as a , whole, after considerable discussion, was ; agreed to as drafted, with some unimportant , alterations, and the addition of a new clause ( providing that the Tramway Company might, , with the consent of the Council, commute the ( fees payable under the by-law by the pay- j ment of a yearly sum, to be fixed_ from year 4 to year by the then existing Council. j The by-law as adopted was then ordered to ] be forwarded to the solicitor to be com- , pieted for formal adoption under the Aot. ( The Council then adjourned till Monday ( next, at the usual hour, to consider the report i of the sanitary committee. (