LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2459, 22 February 1882, Page 3

LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Tho usual meeting of the above Council was held on Monday night. Present—Tho Mayor, and Crs. Weyburne, Grubb, Webb, Qarforth, Beid, Stenson, Macdonald, Smith. The receipts of the borough since the preceding meeting were £75 6s 63. Mr H. N. Nalder wrote saying that the Municipal Corporation Act made the property of boroughs exempt from taxation. The Council decided that under the opinion of their counsel the waterworks were not liable to rating. A widow wrote asking that her rates bo remitted, and, from the circumstance stated, tho Council agreed to her application. Mr J. Hern offered to supply Springfield coal at 10s per ton at the mine in trucks. The engineer stated that Westport coal burnt at a cost of Is 6d per hour ; Brockley, Is 10Jd. He thought tho Brockley coal would take a grand position in the market before long. It was an extremely hot coal, and well adopted for steam purposes, For some time past he had been using Brockley and Westport mixed. The Council decided to take no action with respect to Springfield in tho meantime. Messrs Harman and Stevens, whose property was being opened by a road constructed by the town at the owner’s expense, wrote that they would take all responsibility in respect to tho caution of Mr Mitchell as to injuring his cattle. Accounts to the amount of £lll 13s Id were passed for payment. Referring to the foreman of works’ report and the engineer’s, the Mayor said that a serious leak had been discovered in the service. From the engineer’s reports of the consumption, it had been suspected for some throe or four weeks. The whole of the officials said his Worship had been on the alert to clear up the mystery, and they were deserving of praise for the amount of zeal they had manifested. Several of the borough’s tmp'oyes hid been out night after night—whole nights long—and it was ultimately found that the packing had been blown out of one of tho joints, Tho inhabitants of ,the town had been considerably inconvenienced on Saturday night and Sunday morning, a matter to be regretted, but it had to bo endured in the interests of the town. The report of the special committee on the application of Captain McLsllan for a retaining wall in front of hia residence was that no steps ojuld be taken in the matter. It was aeroed, on the statement of his Worship the Mayor, that a 4ft 6in wall on the Governor’s Bay road, as proposed by the Harbor Board, would meet the requirements of the town, on the understanding that tho Harbor Board bo responsible for any future slip that might occur. The estates committee stated that they were well satbgod with the improvements that had been made at the Rakaia Reserve. After some further desultory conversation tho Council went into committee on Mr Harvey Hawkins* case.