CITY COUNCIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 183, 4 August 1877, Page 2

CITY COUNCIL.

The fortnightly meeting of the Council was held last night. Present: Crs Hobper (chairman), Gray, Harley, Pickering, Waters, and Webb. Mr Little was unable to take Ins seat, as the Act provides that a new Councillor shall make a declaration before the Mayor, who is now attending the Conference in Wellington. The following letters were read:~-From Dr Williams, asking that his application, with reference to Mount-street might be reconsidered. This the Council declined to do; from the Secretary of the Waimea Boad Board, requesting the Mayor's attendance at the recent Road Board Conference, which 1 ; it appeared, he had inadvertently omitted to attend; from Mr Augarde, pointing out the necessity for a lamp in Upper Collingwoodstreet; from the Under-Secretary, [enclosing the amended draft of the lease for the public baths site, and asking that, if approved of, ifc might be engrossed and returned to Wellingtou for signature. The Chairman stated that the terms were such that they could not be accepted, and that the Mayor had takeu the lease to Wellington to endeavor to obtain some modifications; from the Under-Secre-tiry, statins: that the prison labor might be used for making the approaches to Bridgestreet bridge. A petition was received signed [by 37 residents in Hardy-street, residing to the eastward of Messrs Sclanders and Co.'s 'warehouse, praying the Council to extend the Hardy-street sewer to Alton-street, as there was danger of fever breaking out if the back premises were allowed to remain in their present undrained condition. Consideration deferred until the next meeting of the Council. The report of the Public Works Committee coutained the following recommendations:— That two culverts should be built in Kawaistreet, and a portion of the street and footpath gravelled; that a culvert should be erected at the junction of Trafalgar and Tipahi-streets, with a ditch to carry the water into Vanguard-street; That the City SurTeyor should prepare a Hat of materials required for the gas and waterworks with i their estimated cost in England; that the mains in Collingwood-street be extended across the river; that the Mayor be requested ■ to endeavor to obtain authority while in Wellington for the Council to deal with lands belonging to absentees whereon nuisances existed; to obtain the transfer A ofi the gas and water works to the Municipal authorities upon satisfactory terms; to secure the control of the prison labor; to pre- i vent any injury being occasioned to the Port road by the extension of the railway. , These recommendations were adopted. A supplementary report in reference to the proposed works in Waimea-street stated that a majority of the Committee had examined the place, and recommended that the work between Bronti and Van Diemenstreets be proceeded with. Upon this a warm discussion ensued. Cr. Pickering urged that the Council had requested the City Surveyor to give an estimate of the cost of a footpath only, but the work now proposed was much more extensive. He moved that the consideration of the matter be postponed until the next meeting of the Council. For thi3 Crs. Harley, Pickering, and Waters voted, and against it, Crs. Gray, Webb, and the Chairman. The numbers being equal the Chairman gave his casting vote with the Noes. The adoption of the proposal was then commenced to be discussed, whereupon Crs. Harley, Pickering, and Waters left the Chamber, and there being no quorum the meeting broke up.

The income of the Vienna head of the \ house of Rothschild is slated to consist of £3,000,000 from railways, £200,000 from laud and .£2,000,000 from Bourse transactions, making a total of £6,000,000 per annum, or •£15,000 per day. " iEgles " writes in the Australasian:— The Legislative Assembly is afflicted with men who can find no earthly beauty in anything but the sound of their own voices. The value of what they say is in an inverse ratio to its quantity. Shallow streams are noisiest, and peas in a dry bladder are capable of producing au infinity of sound. The House of Commons also suffers severely from the wind-bag nuisance, and a precedent has been hunted up which might be equally serviceable in the Parliament of Victoria. It is this.-— "In the manuscript reports of proceedings in the Long Parliament by Sir SimondsD'Ewes preserved in the British Museum, the writer records that on the 13th of December, \640. he moved and carried a resolution < That Serjeant Wilde should hold his peace,' which the serjeant accordingly did." The hint is the service of Mr Speaker. . . . ; ,

At a meeting of the Chairmen of the County Councils of Otago that attended the Conference held there, the gas went out whilst they were discussing the number of signatures necessary for the County cheques. . A German, who was working in the bush beyond Woodville, says the Patea Mail; is missing. Search had been made, when his axe and billy were found, but no traces 'of the man. The Mail winds up the account by saying the man is in debt.