MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 835, 17 December 1878, Page 2

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

* A special meeting of the Municipal Council was held last evening, when there were present —His Worship the Mayor, Councillors Headland, Gibbs, Familton, Procter, Mainland, Spcnce, Liddle, and Humphrey. The tender of Messrs. J. and T. Meek for the supply of 300 tons of coal for the gasworks, at L2 3s Cd per ton, was acr cepted. Mr. J. H. Lowe, Resident Engineer, wrote, stating that he was waiting for certain information in reference to the forming of a street in lieu of Isis-street. The Mayor stated that the information had been supplied. A letter was read from the UnderSecretary for Lands, stating that orders had been given for the preparation of the Crown Grants fo}' the Municipal Endowment, and cither, lands granted to. the Corporation. The Clerk to the Waitaki Road Board again wrote with reference to the bridge over the water-race, drawing the Council's attention to the fact that the representations of the Board re Georgetown Bridge had not been attended to. The Board further required that all bridges be not less than 15ft. wide. The Engineer reported that the matters referred to in th.es letter had been attended t0... The following letter from Mr. H. Council was read : Oamaru, 14th December, IS7B. E. W. Roxby, Esq, Town Clerk. Sli:,' —Now that the four sections in Severnstreet are vested in the Corporation, I shall be glad to learn upon what terms they are prepared to lease them tq the proposed Corn Exchange and Market Company, the lease to be for til years, with option of renewal or valuation for improvements ; rental, say, a peppercorn per annum. Conditions to be inserted in lease to the effect that the scale of charges shall not exceed those in' force at the Eastern Market, Melbourne, or the usual charges at market places of a, similar character. The objects oi the Agricultural and Pastoral Association or the proposed Company not being the making of a profit out of the venture, they hope the Corporation will see their way to meet them fairly in this matter. A considerable time has elapsed since the question was first mooted. An early reply will oblige,—Yours, &c, Hexry Conxei.l, Convener o£ Committee. It was decided, after some discussion, that the Mayor, Councillors Humphrey, Gibbs, Mainland," Procter, and Liddle be a Committee to- confer with Mr. Connell on the subject, arid that Mr. Connell be invited to meet the Committee at the Council Chamber, at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. It was resolved that the same Committee interview the Minister for Lands on his approaching visit to Oamaru, and confer with the members of both Houses re proposed exchange of land. Leave was granted for the transfer of section 33, block LXXIII., from Robert Anderson to John Lewis ; also, to Mr. Arthur Toms to act as assessor under the Land Tax Act, provided that it in no way interferes with his duty to the Council. Nineteen applications were opened for the Assistant Clerkship, and, on a ballot being taken, Mr. C. H. Gilinore was choson. The Council then rose. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. «. THIS DAY. (Before T. W. I'aiikkr, Esq., R.M.) LARCENY. Walter Wooley, on bail, was charged with having, on the 14th of October, stolen a watch from one Richard Weaver, a carrier, residing at Duntroon. Richard Weaver, sworn, deposed : I was at Duntroon on the 3rd of October, at the time of the Duntroon Races. I had a patent silver lever watch, and purchased it from Mr Harding ; and I produce the receipt for it. The number is G3571 ; the maker is W. T. Eichardt, of London. The watch produced is the one. I paid L 9 for it. I carried it in my watch pocket by a leather guard. At half-past 5 on the Friday morning I looked at the time, and returned it to my pocket. I then went to sleep again. About halfpast 9 I woke up again. I felt for my watch, and it was gone—the leather guard had been cut. I neither sold my watch, gave it away, nor authorised anyone to take it. I was lying in a double-bedded room; there were, no fastnings on the door. This room opened into another room ? where there were a number of beds. The barman slept in the same room with me. He was in bed and asleep at half-past 5, and when I awoke at half-past 9 he was not there. I got up and went and informed Mr. Smith, the landlord. By the prisoner ; I did not see you in the hotel that night. A. A. Smith, sworn, deposed: I am the landlord of the Maerewhenua Hotel, Duntroon. I was in the hotel on the 3rd of Qctqber, I know the accused, W. Wciiiey, by sight. I saw him on that day. Weaver was boarding with me. I do not know where Worley slept, Qn the; lught of the 3rd and morning of the 4th. I believe that he slept in my house on the night of the 4th. The first time that I saw Worley, to the best of my belief, was between 8. and 9 o'clock, on the moiming of the 4th,. To Prisoner : I could not say if you were at my house on Thursday, the 3rd. His Worship committed the prisoner to take his trial on the 6th January, at the Supreme Court held at Dunedin, bail being allowed in LBO, and two sureties of L2O each.