WAIMEA ROAD BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 238, 7 October 1874, Page 4

WAIMEA ROAD BOARD.

Tuesday, September 29. The, Board met at the Bridge Hotel. Presents* Messrs Barnicoat, Tucnicliff, Jordan, and Martin, In the absence of (he chairman, Mr Martin took the chair.; • / The minutes of last meeting having been read and; confirmed, the Overseer reported that ''Owing to inclemency of the* weather during the past month, greAt. delay is experienced in the finishing of existing contracts, but the works are progressing. According to j instructions received from the Committee appointed to inspect Quail Vaßy; rqad, : the estimate of a bridge ovor'l the!' 'Pretty Bridge stream has been prepared. The culvert in Pigeon Valley has been altered as- ordered, by Mr Fairball, at a cost of £2. In Redwooo's Valley, Mr "W. M. Thomson and myself met some of the parties concerned in ■ the neighborhood, and pointed oot what works were required to be done, and that the Board would bear one half the expense, and wo also recommend the purchase of a small strip, of Jaod^ to connect the two roads ia_ie t valley, in Eberbardt's section, in order 1 to get clear of the water which doSs great damage on the present road. Mr Osborne, makes application for an advande^of ''£2o on account, for bricks. During ihe past fortnight; I have had a day-labor man! on. Spooner's range to repair cutUngSf&c. Ic appearing that^ha proposed bridge by Mr, Holland's woold coßt at least £45, -while by a small deviation of the road the hole in the stream could be avoided, it was resolved, "That in rerllV : to bis letter, laid before the Board as'ifsTast meeting, Mr Holland be informed that the Board hope that the width of. a chain reserved for a road, may .per/pps; afford sufficient, deviation for crossing proposed, without filling u ß!*b©;hqje as proposed." . Resolved, i »»* That the Overseer aeceftairf whether^ the land required to C^?sMs r ( oa^sip Redwood's Valley, can be acquired,, and, if so, to make neacsßtey arrangements." The completed assessment of the dn^tcPwa's^iSpprdye-, ,by the Board and the chairman authorised to sign it, preparatory to iia beipg. deposited for inspection on Monday Oct. 5. Copies of^h^rjortiDttjrela^tpg-to. the various ano^aiitricts were oVtTered to fje placed sfiSffC^f Mr Rose's, Spring Grove; MK'^eriifCa, Foxb'Ul.; Mr Palmer's Waintea West; rand Mr Jordan's Dovedatlßi -3d: ■ J •- %Bfsos tffhßla rate of one halfp^Rcy,lniEe"poundon the. assessment last made be levied, the rate list to be published one,monih after October sth, aagtbaJMbo rate; be payable 21 days th*te*Kit.% LefterVwere received from the Provincial Secretary stating that the ProtfinciaK/Ottnoii having pegged aresolntion ki favor of : haviog the roads from Pigeon Valley* to Stanley Brook, and fs9f9<ir Thorpe to Orinoco completed under Clause 42 of the Waste Lands Aeti^hicli provides for the payment roi^iach'/work io land, and requesting the. , Board to jay off such roads ; and prepare specifications of the work for tfie^ Approval of the Government, in ofdfet' thkt^e^deys may .be invited. It was resolved, ""That compliance with f^be request pontained in the letters of tiftf Provincial Secretary, dated Btb and 21at-'refepectivflly, would involve conj^e|ab^: l 'g^nße < | lii|f'I i i|f' exploration and Bd'rvey, 'as both ihe lines of f pad referred 40 teadjtffarotfgh wooded country, [and the roads laid down on the Government n7kk)8 rA cdhld 'not he adopted withbu.t considerable modification. The Board, tberefcfgjr^peotfnlly.i suggests ; that fm&* |Ri a <#<"V i°««n? . taken by it, ar^opefcoltneg shoold first be aacertpffied'ai the^ost of the Government." - ao k Wtre\*asrecetved "from'Mr'steer complaining of the inconvenience caueed Wpnkfyni c \°y i m .of] the culvert near SiSfeW oo^ > ch J rcn » whereby ; the t water is backed on to his premises. ; The Overseer was directed to have the ditchr Jfc/. Ihe froadside - widened and d^eferebV.^ ,«5".« ■';' - -i ■•,"> ■A^tieniorfal frdin; numerous parties tfj^M^^was. received, /' s That the "So&fiftaWgpicVigrant.a suflicreul. iqmito widen the bridge recently put up on th£i)raatt^ leading tb tberchurcb." Ref solved, «*That the applicants be informed that th'e probable cart traffic would not warrant-tbe Board incurring ;*jbW Jo W»» a^?»9 brought forward J^ift queatioQ of payment.foruthe use of fchfetsoliooi-room.ta Dovedale dorifag the recent election for- tti& Boardi The Committee claim? >?ihe amount on the .ground that- the- building had been «*tfjcftt# partly by sobscription, and, t'Serfelore, riot coming under the category of.pab^c faUjjldiogs^.to which the Board did not consider itself justified in p y- alflf^l/ rf 5 e ir-'; RBaolved ' >' Tn »t the usuaUee fiE\m ..be paid to the Dovedale Com'M\e e y L 9f fj%n^Puoniplifl; Jan.; attended, and requested assistance in forming, about six chains^of road near his land in Rfckatß' Valley. The Overseer to SWr?!? 0 !^ 0^;*! 806 * and > if necessary, V?S?P/ am^ waa mada that no ruilway •cY0 J ssra|'faaB i b;een provided aUhe'Wer®tßSL° croß^ road J>y fheDp^j. school, whereby the owners of lanay^sf |ftf the line -cannot gaia tolt. The Surveyor was directed to make enquiries as to the omission. Warranto were signed for £276 is 3d. 09»i« " T ' >T ilLT ' '' ' .

eaaxAYUAaA;.: /rrry—A-. . i take the following account of a simple i poWpiß^niac'bine irom the Queens \ fonder of a recent dates — "What

looks like a simple and efficient contrivance for pumping water or similar employment has been set to work upon tho Launceston and Western railway, raising water from the river lo the top of a viaduct. The pump in use is an ordinary force and suction pump, and formerly was worked by two men with a handle in the same way. The work was, however, found to be very heavy, until one of the overseers erected a very simple machine, which is worked with ease by a boy, and enables a continuous stream of water to be kept up. A moving iron bar was placed j between two supports, having at one end a short iron arm, to which the piston rod of the pump is attached. 'From the other end of the bar a huge log of timber is suspended, aud thus the pump is kept going by the log being made to oscillate like the pendulum of a clock. A little 'boy, about ten years of age, attends the machine, ani so great is the leverage obtained by the contrivance that he can easily work it. The novel machine is a great attraction to pagsefra-by, apd many a; traveller by the r.oad; stops; to pump a bit, merely for the sake of understanding the ingenious idea." Alfred Tennyson, the poet- laureate who is getting very infirm beneath the the weight of years, has a,t length determined to give the people a cheap edition of bis works in ten monthly balf-orown volumes. The first of theße, containing his earliest poems, has already appeared. Tennyson and Tupper are in a pecuniary sense two of the most fortunate of England's poets, and yet in point of poetic merit are separated by a great golf. Tennyson won success at a guinea a line, and gave the • aristtcracy their money's worth, whilst Tupper's mediocre muse won the same wage by puny imitations of the grandson of Jessie in hexameters.