Manchester Road Board.

Manawatu Standard, 2 March 1889, Page 2

Manchester Road Board.

SATURDAY, 2nd MARCH, Present—Wardens F. Y. Lethbridge (uliairmaii), C. Hull, D. H. Mic.irthur, Wheeler, W. P. Jonos, aui T l)' Ueevi. •The minutes of previous meeting wsro lead and coiifrrned. " LIviAMZI.VCi PUBLIC)- ROADS Memorial to the Minister of Luijs asking liiui to intro luoj into the Public Works Act Amen lraent Dill, ixpecto I to La iulroluceJ next session,"a clause or c'ausos by whi'jb all rcnuls now used as public roads, and on money has been expended may bo legalised. IIUSNYI'HOnPi: COIiRKRPOXDENCE. From Mrs Slipper, askin.'j DJrinission to lease certain roads adjacent to her seetion, » From Mr R. K. Reed as follows ijYour Board, with ono exception, not having the ciurtesy to meet me list Monday according 11 your own appointment, [ be? to olfoi- you the choice of one of the three following plans for a settlement ot yo ir present difficulty with me, with the distinct undorst iodine that should the Hoard not agree to one of the Hire#, mentioned belo>v, at tlif-ir meeting to be Ivi!d at tlio otlioe juxt Sat urdiiy,, March '2nd, 1889, I hold mysilf at perfect liberty lo withdraw those offers and to commence fresli proceed ings. Settlement as per my let'er Nov. 30th, 18.-!8 : 2r:\. Jsy arbitration ; I lo appoint ono member, tin Hoard one, and those two to appoint an um* jure, no member of the Board t<> act ilrd. I will allow the Board's engineer, Mr Bray, to ineasmo off the damaged, crop and then the same urea of land off the best of the potatoes, tlio yield of which when sold is to bo the amount which tlio Board will ply me, I lo have tba raisin? and selling of the potatoes. The Board to have the option of placing a man at their expanse (Inline the timo of raising to check the weight. Frv.ii \V. 0, Warne, Afihurst, as follows : I gave your engineer, Sir Bray, permission to go uppn the land adjoining uiv mill, and Itycut two drains from the Pohnngiiia road to an old water' course, and if the Board undertakes to keep the said drains and watercourse open so as to allow tlio extra and concentrated water free course lo get away, I, on my part, will indemnify the Boanl ftoui any damages. From G. 11. Page, Ashurst, asking permission to erect a verandah. From E, Osborne, Fuxton, inquiring about Manawatu Gorge l'Viry plant, if for salo and what price? From John T. Walker, Ashurst, calling the Board's attention to the ftato of the road opposito bis sections N\>s. 43-50. The drains was so tilled up that thoy cannot carry away the water, which in consequence is dammed up and backs on to his property. From P. Bartholomew, Feilding, offering the sum of 2s per t'.n for tlio solu right to cut ilax on the roads within the Board's district. Ki din tlio Colonial Treasurer, forward' ing statement showing amount of advances on account of loan with interest to be inscribed, vi?., £3.012 2s 4d, thus preventing the necessity for issuing de» buntqrea. The inscription dates from Ist February, and interest at 3 per oent. will be payable on Ist February, and Ist of August in each year lor 20 years. From the Secretary Cliaritiiblo Aid Board notifying intention to strike n rate on second Wednesday in March for year ouditig illst March, 1889. A statement was required allowing sum expen ded by tin Board todite, and how given; also amount required t) carry the Board over 31st of March next. From clerk of Rmgitikei County Council, stating amount of total valua. tion of property in thu County of Rangitikei, outside the Borough of Martou aud town districts of Bulls.'aud Lethbridge, viz., £890,140. From the Feilding Town Clerk, referring to case of John Boil, who had ar. riysd in Feilding, crippled, bavins' travelled through, as stated, from the Wan garni i Hospital, frdm which ho bad, as alleged, been discharged before his ankle had quite recovered from an injury sustained at Adsett's mill. The writer , thought that as Boil had gone to the Hospital from the Manchester Road district, and had always worked in the ' same district, he should look to the Board for an order to the Hospital again, and for money as be is without funds. ' From General Survey office, aeknow- 1 lodging receipt of petitions to Minister • of Lands '' praying that the road from the Oroua River to Bunnythorpe might 1 be proclaimed a boundary road." As . there are some doubts as to the legal ' existence on either side ot the railway I between the points mentioned the Minister is unable to consider the petition until the oase has bsen brought before 1 the Railway Board, in whom the land is ; I at preient apparently lognlly vested, ;, [L«ft Sittitg'] )

[ Pigott's The manager of where Pigott had been evidence that PigoTt had not seen at the hotel since Monday after* ? noon. • ' Sir Charles RusiieJl said be was , I prepared to prove that Pigott had carried on a system of commercial - forgery for years. The confession which Pigott is said to have made ■ I before Labouchere and Sala had ' been forwarded to Pnrnell, who returned it, with the intimation "that he refused to negotiate either directly »•- or indirectly with Pigott. In his letter to The Times Pigott " * t adheres to his former statement' that. ji*j i the first batch of letters were genu jneV , ; ■;'''■'■* \ end he lpged The Times' to inter* T-. ' cede and pidvide for his cFildreni :* • , In this letter Pigott charged Hous- * .! ton with betraying The Times, and ; he charged The Times with a , breach of confidence in disclosing , . his name. i' .* Pigott made an affidavit endorsing ■ his statements in the letter. •'; i ?ir It. E. Webster, Attorney-r General, and counsel for The Times,v • i said he was undecided as to the•course he would take in future".'"'" [ [F'vidently this should read: "had. ( not yet deeided on his future course. ,, ] :j v Ai Parneli left the Court andi-i----proceeded along the streets he was . i greeted with cheers. In the House J-t^onnTb'nTT)rtt^lße^ini - ehc£rg ~ from his party, and there were loud cries of " PigoUism" and "Pig. gottry." Mr Parneli challenged the Government to capture Pigott. In t reply iwr 11. Matthews, the Homa t Secretary, replied that he had not been officially informed ' disappearance. Mr A. J. Balfoiir, Irish Secre- * + * tary, when questioned on the subject, said lie was not officially con- ' cerued in the whereabouts of Pigott)' > The police explain that they shad* I owod Pigott in order'to prevent hie being mobbed in the streets, but they were not instructed to prevent- ik. his cscape,from the country. a," I U lift f«<P j lj>ance by Saturday night's steamer. /In. London Pigntt's evidence has ' caused a good deal of excitement, ; but Ireland is seething. ' The press ar? commenting on the extraordinary disclosures in Pigott , !* evidence in defiance of the order of the Court. The Standard advises that the Commission should be abandoned. It censures the Times for gullible negligence, and says that Parneli * has been recklessly injured. The paper adds that, by, the action of The Times the prestige of the Kng-. lish press has been shaken. The Daily Telegraph the charges have practically""col«. lapsed, and it considers The Times guilty ol fatuous inaptitude. MrParneli, it says, is innocent of thedamning suspicions, and though injured and persecuted, is A witness named Maguire, while waiting to give evidence before the Times-Parnell Commission, died suddenly, and it is rumored that he committed suicide. It is rumored that Pigott ha* made his escape to Antwerp. February 27.. ' . Before The Times-Parnell Com*. mission to-day, Mr Parneli was examined, and deposed that theletters produced, alleged to be signed) by him, were forgeries. The witness was not cross-examined. Up to the present no rcliaWo tri. dcnceTias been adduced b&fore The Tiines-Parnell Commission connecting the leading members of the - ParncliTitc party wiih the outrages. It is believed that The Times hopes, with Government, to bring pressure to> bear on the imprisoned dynamiters and Invincibles to give evidence to. - show that they were connected. Parneli is being urged by hia friends to prosecute The Times foe cotispirac . t February 28. Mr Parneli has sent his private, secretary, Mr Campbell, to Antwerp* to search fer Pigott. Pigott admitts that he forged Parnell's and letters by placing the genuine letters which h e had received from themjigninst the wtndow and \ writing the foi'geriMr " over certain phrases, and also the signatures. He further admits having copied Davitt's pencil manuscript and also O'Kelly's old private note on the voyage to America. Pigott acquits Mr Labouchere of attempting to bribe him. Sir K. E Webster said The Times had relied absolutely on" Pigotfs veracity; and he admitted that his evidence was worthless; The Times had been the victim of imposture, but he denied there had been any conspiracy behind. Thft r paper would, he said, make repgra* 1 ' t tion at the proper time and plaoe, • Sir Charles Russell regretted that!* only qualified reparation had been* i§j, r (j , made, and aaain asserted that tbeMy r j£fjjg£ was a conspiracy belied H^aitoS^^P