NELSON BOARD OF WORKS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 59, 10 March 1874, Page 2

NELSON BOARD OF WORKS.

Fbidat, March 6. The usual fortnightly meeting was held on Friday evening. Present : Meesrs J. Percy (chairman), R. Burn, D. Burns, J. R. Dodson, W. Jenningß, aod Gr. Thompson. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Mr A, Waxman applied for leavo to erect a verandah in front of his shop in Hardy-street. The applications was granted, subject to the usual conditions The Finance Commits reported having examined the books and accounts of the Board and found the same correct. They also recommended that the sum of £80 be paid (on the certificate of the Surveyor) to Messrs Walton and Murray, on account of contract for Sewerage Works. A letter was received from Mr Mirfin, Manager of Gras and Water Works, informing the Board that tbe Governmentwill remove the water works pipes so that they shall interfere as little as possible with tbe drainage works. A discussion ensued regarding the removal of the gas pipes in a similar manner to the water pipes, when Mr Dodson moved that the Surveyor .be instructed to get the gas-pipes removed, as stated above. Carried. The Collector of Rates reported that the balance of vote of last year's Council (£100) would be paid to the credit of the Board on the 10th inst.; also, that the amount accruing for dog tickets will be paid to the Board about the middle of next month. Resolved, " That tenders for kerbing the north side of Hardy-street, extending from Trafalgar-afreet to Colling-wood-atreet, with Boulder Bank stooe, be advertised for." The Surveyor was instructed to get the Nile-street bridge repaired; also, to send to the Government printer at Wellington for copies of the Municipal Corporations Aot for the use of each member of tbe Board. The Chairman gave notice that at the next meeting of the Board he would move fpr a committee to consider the ways and means and the position of officers in connection with the contemplated adoption pf the "Municipal Corporations Act," After cheques were signed to the amount of £118 6s, the Board adjourned till Friday, the 20 March, at 7 o'clock p.m.

The stream, of emigration to New Zealand, induced by the offer of free passages, continues undiminished. The difficulty now appears to be to obtain ships fast enough for their conveyance to the colony, only a certain class of ships being available, under the provisions oi the Passengers' Act.—- Home News. In reference to the visit of the Executive to Reefton, the local paper says: — "The Energetic machine was next inspected, several of the party being enthusiastic enough to go through tbe upper level tunnel. Having gathered as many facts as they could about that particular claim, the order was given to climb the hills for the Wealth of Nations. There every thing was found in , that excellent state whioh is a characteristic of the claim in question. After going through a tunnel or two, and viewing the machinery which was much admired, a Btart was made for town. From what we can gather, this comparatively hurried visit of the Executive will not prove altogether un- : fruitful. : The Nelson people will now learn from those ihey can trust that the Inangahua is to some extent an important district, and, if fairly fostered, wiil be able to do much to

make the Province of Nelson wl at i' long ought to have boon — the premier province in thia island." In re Thomas Trout. — To his Honor the Superintendent, his Honor the Deputy-Superintendent, and to all in authority in the fair province of Taranaki, the humble petition of Thomas Trout, formerly of tha river Thames, Oxford, England, thon of the river Tamar, in the colony of Tasmania, now of Otago, in the colony of New Zealand, natator, saltator, and aquatic gymnast, most humbly showeth — That your petitioner and his ancestors have from time immemorial delighted mankind by the lustre of their armour, by their gambols in the streams, by the delicate food they have provided for royal tables and sumptuous banquets, and by sport they have afforded to succeeding generations of good and gentle anglers. That tbe chosen habitat of yonr petitioner and his illustrious ancestry has always been the clearest streams; their chosen food, the sweetest aud most transparent aerial and aquatic creatures; their air, the pure oxygen contained in the foaming and effervescing floods. That your petitioner is desirous of obtaining a permanent residence in Taranaki. That your petitioner has learned, with much regret, that a Taranaki scribe hns advised, tbat on your petitioner's arrival, he, with his numerous family, should be consigned to certain dirty little puddles in the town of New Plymouth, yclept " fish ponds," where your petitioner and family would be exposed to tbe danger of being stewed alive by the solar beat, of being assaulted by the grimalkin family, of dying of asphyxia by foul gases, or of perishing of cholera morbus of putrid fever through foul food. That your petitioner has heard of a famous stream in the province of Taranaki called •* Waiwakaiho," which flows down the rocky steeps ot Mount Egraont, whose waters are collected from melted snow, and filtered through immense masses of mou d tain debris, which are as pure bb a drop of dew, and which throughout their course are in a continual state of effervescence, over whose foaming surface the forest flies dance, and in whose bosom only the purest of animal and vegetable creatures live. Your petitioner, therefore, prays that your Honors would take his case into kind consideration, and award him a residence in the translucent Waiwakaiho stream, and not doom him to destruction by consigning him to the so called fish-ponds of New Plymouth. And your petitioner as in duty hound will ever pray, Thomas Trout.- — Taranaki Neivs . So rare (says the Telegraph) is heroism in these days of strikes and corners, of money-making and cottonspinning, that we are more tban ever disposed to welcome a noblo deed; and a nobler deed than that of Platelayer Elliott we may go far to seek, Elliott was ono of the gang who were repairing the metals of the London and South- Western lin9 near Surbitoo, when the Exeter exprets came thundering along. The platelayers of course dispersed, aud were standing to let the train pass, when JKlliott's quick eye caught a heavy iron chain lying across the metal, and he saw in another moment the train would leap from the line and roll down the steep embankment. With a courage as cool as that of the little midshipman who picked up and threw overboard the loaded shell, Elliott dashed forward, and was but just in time to snatch the obstacle out of the path, and to avert a most terrible accident. He was in time to save the lives of others, but he was just too late by a second to save himself. The buffer-board of the great express engine caught him as he stooped with his heavy burden, and dashed him high into the air a corpse. His widow and fatherless children must not be allowed to want. The Ville dv Havre is the fourteenth large Atlantic liner totally lost, with great sacrifice of life, since 1840. The first great disaster of this class was that which occurred to the Governor Fenner, bound from Liverpool to New York, which was run down off Holyhead in February, 1841, when 122 persons perished. The President as far as is known, foundered in the following month. In August, 1848, the Ocean Monarch waß burned off Great Orme's Head, a few hours after leaving Liverpool, and 178 lives were sacrificed. On Christmas Eve, 1852, the St. George, from Liverpool to New York, was burned at sea, with about fifty persons. The George Canning, coming out from Hamburg, Was lost with . ninety-six lives on New Year's Day, 1855. The Pacific, which was the first steamer to cross the Atlantic in less than ten days, disappeared with 186 passengers and crew in 1856, being supposed to have b truck on an iceberg. The Austria was burned in mid-ocean with 471 souls on board in September, 1858; and the Indian was lost off Newfoundland, with 27 lives, in Neveraber, 1859. The Hungarian, with 205 persons, went down near the coaßt of Nova Scotia, in February, 1860; and 240 lives were lost in the wreck of the Anglo-Saxon off Cape Race in April, 1863. The City of Boston was probably wrecked on an iceberg in February, 1870, with several hundred victims, not one of whom has been heard of since. Twenty-four perished in tbe wreck of tho Germania, off Sochelle, in December last. The collision between the Northfieet nnd the Murillo in January caused a loss of 350 lives, and about 560 were sacrificed in the wreck of the Atlantic on the Ist April. The loss of these ships was accompanied by the sacrifice of about 3,500 lives.

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