CITY COUNCIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 147, 23 June 1877, Page 2

CITY COUNCIL.

The fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held last night, the absent members being Crs Pickering, Levien, and J. A Harley. ' x X . X - The following letters were referred' to the Public Works Committee:— From Mr Packer, asking permission to lay down a drain from', certain cottages into the Brook-street stream • from certam residents in Trafalgar^street' asking permission to drain their back premises into the culvert; from several inhabitants, calling attention to the state of Brontistreet; frbm Mr George Newport, offering to supply river-bed metal in any part of Brook-street at 2s 6d per yard. A letter was received from Mr Griffin reminding the Council that he had applied for the gravel reserve in Nile-street some years ago as a site for a mill, and urging that he should have the priority of claim over- the present applicant. The consideration of the matter was postponed. ' r

A letter -/was recelyedlfrom the General Government, stating 'that the mortgagee of the foreshore would ;be required to join the lease of the site for jthe public bath3. The May< c said that the mortgagee declined to be a that he. hkd telegraphed to Wellington for further instVuctibhs, but had not received them.

The report of the Public Works Committee recommended that an arrangement should be made with Messrs N. Edwards and Co for a supply of Grey coal for the gasworks; „ f ':; ; '.. X.Therreport of. the. City Surveyor, in referring to the approaches to the Bridge-street Bridge, stated that they would have to extend for 20Q feet, and that the Superintendent of Public Works had suggested that the prison labor should be employed at the work, and that the Coundil "• should provide carts 5 and horses. Some discussion ensued, Cr Gray arguing that they should Irave nothing whatever to do with the bridge until it was completed. It was decided to consider the question more fully at the next meeting. The Mayor stated that he had spoken to Mr Curtia-writh reference to the Council taking ovep-the gas and water works absolutely, and'be hadjauggested that application should be made for_.them to the General Government, when 'the exact conditions on which they would bS -handed over could be aspertainedX ', Hia Worship moved a resolution to this which: waa seconded by Cr. Hooper and agreed to. - T '"' Cr T. Harley'compUuned that he had been served with a notice, to .clear a -patch of land on the mudflat of gbrse. He did not intend to comply with it^and -\fould defend any action brought by the'Cbuhcil to compel him to do so.. ••*'. ■>„ X " w JThe Councillors generally agreed that such opposition came with a very bad grace from one who had assistettin making the by-law. The Mayor stated that notices to clear their land of- gorse had' been served on 70 persons. - --."j" - iLeave of absence was granted to "Cr Levien. , ■ '~- rThe Council then adjourned: T