MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 3 September 1880, Page 3

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

TH& fortnightly meeting of the Council toos pHictt I;tst evening, there being pre*nt—His Worship the Mayor, Messrs. jtaitfr, Headland, Otteraon, Roberta, and TownaentJ. Tie minutes of the previous meeting *eraread and confirmed, and the outward BHTwpondeace read and approved. TtaTown Clerk was instructed to reply to 1 letter from the "Way and Works DcDunedin, giving information at Mac rates the Council charge per horsejo*er far water engines. Hannay, Traffic Manager, wrote •toting that the fence between the railway •"£ tie- public gardens near Severn-street] owsiny had been pnt in order as reOtitatedC Petmaaion -was granted to Mr. J. upey to erect a verandah in front of his wop in Thames-street, subject to the Permission was granted to transfer i®"Baf section 2, block XCI., from Mr. Miner to- Mr. T. Jenkins. * c *as resolved to accept the offer of "jSkua Paterson to supply a cargo of ®*Jittouth nat coal, to be delivered in j™ s ** at the gasworks siding at 34s 6d Stt-ton. " Tie Acting-Engineer wrote congratnlaCouncil on the admission of the wait water to the reservoir. A good sna e ' '°' done to the race before j I * °f water could be let down. -ina&erty's contract -would be finished k-j course of the week, and Mr. Day " commenced the valve tower bridge. fltoTr 3^6 ' 3 C^a ' nt f° r 11 s 4d for atone and dressing: pitchers was r® 18 ® the Finance Committee, with 8°!«toaot. U™?. Waterworks Committee reported r t tender for the valve tower ij™p had been accepted, and that Mr. tender f Qr th e an pply and deToir^a:^ aeatone pfchers, at the reserir'ln r a ? had also been accepted. - yacke's claims had been carefully sftl/~ * balance due being found to Cmw* an< * referred to the Finance Jfr nr tt ? e * The Committee did not deem entitled to the other claims set ®»raclough and "Walsh wrote ®f their account. It was reft! f>. tlta ithe account be paid as soon as «ftt»'o trea ?J* that a special meeting on Thursday, 16th v t P Qr P Q9e of considering the stftW 4??' s elating to water supply, by-laws be published with Bripde Committee's report tte t wa ? MB °l T ®d to request Brigade to hand to the ~® r next meeting a list of all "WaSs&gSf

p -Tha fSpi-M: -hf -the special committee' appointed to consider the circomstances in; connection with Mr.' contract was read and adopted. It was resolved that votes of thanks be accorded to the Hons. H. J. Miller and Robert Campbell, M.lj.C.'s, and to Messrs. Shrimski and Jones, M.H.E.'s, members for the district, for their services in carrying through Parliament the Bill for the additional loan for completing the waterworks. The Council then rose.