CITY COUNCIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 159, 7 July 1877, Page 2

CITY COUNCIL.

The forfcaighfcly meefcing of the Council was held last nighfc. Present, ati fehemem•Hers except Cr Levien. . '. i : /X, Letters weire read as follows:— From residents in Kawai-sfcreefc, asking for art extension of fche water supply. Referred r to, the - Gas and Water Committee ; From- DfWilliams, asking for fche same to Mouotr ?." e w-„. Ref?rred t0 the CbmmitteeVßftw^Dr Williams^ asking for the iformafcion of. a. .. carfc road frc(m Examiner and'Sfouafr-sfcreM^ to Welling_on : streefc. Referred fco the Public Works Committee; from Mr John 'Savage stating his willingness to clear the gorse' from his premises if his neighbors werefJss_npelled to do fche same; from ; Mr Efgham > again ; conip.aining_ha6'Mr, Oi_Wn£_. a df not! been- compelled fco open-up Murphr'_n# Tekuka-streets; From MrJ Pidgeon, calling attention to\ the , stata. 'of. the'.roßd-'l^infir from Selwyn Place to Nile-street. Referred to the Public Works Committee. A -telegram was read from the: Under: becrefcary offering; tp allow* thef -lias., fbrtfep site for fche baths fco issue without fche concurrence of the mortgagee if the Council were willing to accept the consequences. The report of the Public Works Committee recommended that the application for permission to construct; a drain into the Brook-street stream, be refused ; thafc fche offer of Messrs Blick Brothers for keeping in repair a portion of the embankment; of fche Brook-street sfcream he accepted; fchafc Bronfci-sfcreefc be repaired; fchafc fche Surveyor be instructed to report upon fche extension of the Haven Road from the Post Office to baUwafcer Bridge to its full width. The City Surveyor's report on fche.gasworks showed thafc during fche month of Jane 76 tons 14 cwfc of coal had been carbonised, yielding 567,700 cubic . feet of gas,, of which 67,300 feet, or about; llf percent, had been lost. The coal used was ColUngwood and Coal Pit; Heafch mixed but a trial of fche latter had yielded 9230 feet per ton.- -'-"... . _ : The Mayor stated thafc the publicans* licenses, amounting to £1100, had "been received, and there vrm now a credit balance ' of £700 afc fche Bank. iT^rf. _ Plans of the proposed improvement of Malifax-streefc were laid upon the table, and their adoption advocated by Cr T. Harley At this time, the conductof Cr J. A. Harley I who had been most disorderly throughout the whole eveuing, became so "intolerable thafc the Council was compelled fco disperse; « the Mayor asking the representatives of the Press to publish the reason of fche premature close of the meeting. The Council will meet again on Tuesday evening. ■ :■ ->. - '• ". . k- .•-•!.-