KAIKOURA

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 149, 24 August 1880, Page 3

KAIKOURA

(From onr Own Correspondent.)

August lGth, 1880. The County Council met on the 14th inst. for general business. Present—The Chairman (H. A. Ingles), Messrs A. W. Ingles, Bullen, Harnett and Davidson. The minutes of the previous meeting were read ami confirmed.

Constable Miles was appointed Inspector of Slaughter houses vice Sergeant Ramsay, left the place. In the matter of the dismissal of the weightniaster at the Port. Mr Harnett, proposed and Captain Davidson seconded that he did not consider that the Chairman had authority for acting without the sanction of the Council. Motion lost by four to one.

The Chairman informed the meeting that an old man (Dennis Griffin) had met with an accident, and in order to save expensse

of passage money, &c., lie had temporarily accepted the offer of Mr Curtin, to take charge of him, and on getting a doctors’ certificate that he was receiving equal attention to what he would in the hospital, lie would suggest that the hospital charge of 80s a week be paid to Curtin, as the case was unlikely to be of long standing. Mr A. W. Ingles proposed, and Captain Davidson seconded, that Mr Curtin be asked to accept the care of Dennis Griffin and that Dr Fletcher be requested- to inform the'"Council whenever the man is free from medical treatment. Carried.

Application for a Slaughter License was received from Mr 8. Warren, which was agreed to on the usual condition being complied with. In the matter of the New Wharf, the Chairman stated that although no official intimnation had been received he had heard privately that the contract was let. A letter was read from the Hoad Board requesting the Council to convert the loan now current into a grant; also, requesting n further grant of £SOO. Resolved that the loan of £2< > with interest be converted into a grant. A letter from the Road Board was read, applying for a grant of £l5O for filling m ditches “on Mount Fyffe road, near Clemmett’s.

Resolved that £IOO be given. A letter from the Rivers Board was also read applying for a grant of £l5O for repairing the banks of the Kohai, damaged by the late Hood. Resolved that £IOO be placed on the estimates for that purpose, and that the Rivers Board be advised that in the opinion of the County Council steps should be taken to enable them to deal with other rivers besides the Kohai. Proposed by Mr A. W . Ingles, seconded by Mr BullenThat the road from the Kohai past Captain Keene’s station, and to the Green Hills, and thence to the southerly boundary of the province, he duly gazetted a County road as provided in clause SS, of the Public Works Act, ISCG. Carried. The Chairman proposed, and Mr Bullcn seconded, that a sum of £2OO be put on the estimates for repairs the above line of road. Carried. Proposed by Mr A. W. Ingles, seconded by Mr Harnett, That the North bridle track from the junction of section 100 and 226, Kaikoura suburban, to the Clarence river, and also all roads to the South of the Kahautcra river, be duly gazetted as County roads. Carried. It was resolved that Mr Ballon cause the the bridle track from Goose Bay to the telegraph spur to be repaired. Accountsamount'ng to £lO 10s lid were passed for payment, and the Council adjourned.

On Thursday evening at seven o’clock p.m., a political meeting was held in the Templars* Hall to consider the question of Kaikoura being amalgamated with the Wairau or Cheviot. The meeting was called by Mr Walter Gibson, and seems to have been got up without due notice, as many of the inhabitants of the town even were not aware of it, and those living outside bad no opportunity whatever afforded them of being present as they would have been had steps been taken to let them know of it, so that it was by no means the unanimous expression of the inhabitants at that meeting, which was not nearly so fully attended as it would have been, and most of the station owners and other old settlers deeply interested in the question were absent. The clirir was taken by Win. Smith Esq., who introduced Mr Walter Gibson and requested him to explain his views on the quest'on. The meeting was also addressed by Messrs Tenney, McLaurin, Maxton, Clark, sent-., Gordon Gibson, and Bullen. The feeling seemed to he that Kaikoura had never received any benefit from the Wairau in the past, nor was likely to in the future, but that Canterbury was the province to which, geographically, Kaikoura belongs, and to which it was within a short distance of being joined by a capital coach road. After hearing.the views of the different speakcis the following resolution was read, and on being put was declared carried on the voices, there being only three who voted for annexation to Wairau out of about 100 persons. The resolution was : I hat in the opinion of this meeting the scheme of the Government to incorporate the County of Kaikoura in the Wairau Electorate as contained in the Representation Bill will tend to retard the progress of the Kaikoura district and injure its best interests ; therefore this meeting respectfully requests the Government and House of Representatives to include this district in the electorate which may he constructed out of Cheviot and Ashley.”