ORDINARY MEETING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 25, 26 November 1880, Page 2

ORDINARY MEETING.

The ordinary mooting was then gone on with. The minutes were read and confirmed. conr.EsvoN hence Letter rend from the Treasury, slating that £20l Us fid '.'or the Foxton-Otaki rond and £37 33 Id for the Fitzherbert rond had hion deposited to credit of the Council. Letter read from the native chiefs at Otaki, inviting 1 the Chairman to meet them on November tfrd to discuss the inland road and other questions. Tho Chairman said ho received the letter too lute to accept the invit.it ion. Letter read from Messrs Monteith and Dove, asking for a progress payment of £40 upon their contracts The matter was held over until next meeting. Letter read fr.mi Mr Dunlins, stating he had jrivon an oid»r of admission to the Wausruuui Hospital to Robert Oolelouah. Letter '■cad from District Court, announciug the bankruptcy of J. A. IVrreau, a debtor to the County for rates. L-'tter read from Mutt County Council, requesting payment of £G KVs, half salary paid to the Waikanao ferryman. Ordered io be paid. Letter road from S. Cok-mmi, creditor's trustee in the estate of Johu Harms, asking what, amount was duo to that estate from the Council. The Clerk reported the sum of ?>s id was duo from the Council to Harms. Letter road from Bryant >fc Co., asking for extension of time for their Kiwitea contract. The application was recommended by tho Engineer. No resolution was passed upon the subject. L3tter read from Waddell & Co., of Wellington, giving price list of pipes, \c Letter read from Di-tr jot Court, announcing the b.nkruptcy of Joseph Ysonteith, of Carnarvon, a debtor to the t ouncil for r^-tes. Letter lvad from the Public Works office, sta ing that tho application for Mr M. Carkcek to survey a portion of the FoxtonOtnki sea beat-.h road hud been referred to the Native Minister. Loiter read from the Native Office, enclosing certain information asked for by the Council regarding the blocks of land fronting the Foxton-Otaki inland road. The Uhitinnan sai.l the information most wanced —viz , the d-.ite of tho Crown Giwnts to the different blocks —was not. giren. The power to take o per cent, of the lands for roads existed only for 15 }>ara uf ser the issue of t lie grant, and it was therefore necessary that thu Council should know now long the respective grants had been issued. He would take other steps to obtain the information necessary. Letter road from Korte and Benseman, asking that they might ba paid ns soon as the Engineer hid passed their contract. Letter read from H. Bevan, Otnki, stat inyhehad sold his slaught. ring bu>ine3S at "Otaki to Win. Bell. The right to trans fer a license was questioned, but as there is only a month of the year to expiiv, the Council determined not to interfere Letttr read from the Wanganni Borough Council, asking for more prompt payments of the accounts for persons in hospital. OXLICKXSEI) ST.AUCJHTKKEKS. Letter read from Messrs diehard and Whisker, two butchers in tho rVihiing district, stating that certain persons were shiughterirnr cattle without being licensed. The Chairman said lie had been spoken to by Mr Whisker on this matter, and had promised to look into it. He thought there was no obligation on the Council to prosecute persons who slaughtered without licenses. It was lot the bu tubers to lay the information, and ho believed it then becaino a police matter. Air M'l.cuuau asked it" any reply had been received from Col. Header as to the police acting as slaughterhouse inspectors. Tho Chairman suul that though it was a considerable time since ho wrote to Colonel Header — on Sept. "Js — no answer had been received. | Mr lioekstrow s:iil he knew tho police would not bo allowed to :u>C as slaughterhouse inspectors. Atr Ui-siy suggested that tho sheep inspectors might possibly accept tho office of inspectors of slaughterhouses. No action was taken in tho matt pi 1 . TIIK ir.:Afll UOAO Tho Chaimian oxplaiuod that ho had sent all tho objections to the Heai-h nmd to rbo sulk-hois at Wellington, but their opiuiou h»d not yet lu'oti roeeiviui. It would bo ne'.-cssary to postpone consideration of (he matter untii next meeting. I'imjmmhl by .Mr Uwkstrow, seconded by Mr Hi'Lenuiui, " That tho objections re tieacli read stand ovor until tho next meeting on the "JOih J)ixcmber, pending solicitor's opinion." Carried. Air llookstrow asked if tho Chairman had received a letter from Mr A. M' Donald re the Heach road. The Cliainiian said he had not. Mr ltockstrow b'lid Jw liad seen Mr M'Donald, who told him hu had arranged a meeting of the natives, on the idea that the Council met on the 6th December. Ho had told him of the present meeting of the Council, and Mr M'Donald expected that before the Council held its uext meeting everything would be orranged witb (ho natives. SIGNING CHE<it'Eß. Mr Knbbell, the County Treasurer, being absent, Mr Douglas proposed, " That Conneil'or Gray bo ap"ointed to sign cheques as Treasurer tor payments at this meeting of the County Council, in the absence of Council ior Kebbell." Seconded by Mr M'Lennan, and carried. NEXT MEETING. A short discussion took place as t whether «r not a meeting should be held iu°

December, and it was reaolved p> hold a meeting of the Council on Monday, December 20, at V p.m. ' DEPUTATION HErOKT, . Th'c Cfia'innan reported thßt Messrs Lin - ton, Bockstrow, and himself had interviewed^ the Minister of Public Works regarjli«g tiie railway rates on timber. They had put the matter forcibly before him, and had reason to believe successfully, as timber for export had been lowered 3d per hundred feet. The question of the cost of hauling gravel they had quite forgotten. Before going to the Minister, however, he had seeu a Gazette notice stating a certain reduction had beeu made. He thought at the tune the reduction was greater than, it proved, to^.be. Since his return, however, ho had written to the Minister, urging that the rate* for gravel should be reduced, and had received a reply statiug that the matter would be carefully consideved, and that in fact Che whole railway tariff would shortly be revised. ACCOUNTS. The accounts presented for payment were passed, and the Council rose at 1 p.m.