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Southland Times, Issue 1738, 9 May 1873, Page 2

At the meeting of the Municipal Council last evening, there were present Councillors Ross, Goodwillie, Jaggere, Pratt, Blackwood, and Garthwaite. A report from the Public Works Committee, recommending the formation of a path and drain in Ythan street was adopted, and tenders ordered for the work. Councillors Joggers, Blackwood, and Goodwillie were appointed a committee to consider and report within a month upon the question of establishing a gas factory. The Surveyor's attention was called to the slate of the crossings, and he was instructed to have them gravelled and repttired. The following tenders were accepted: — J. R. M'Kuy, fencing recreation ground, £3 8s per chain ; and fencing cricket ground ut £3 6s per chain. John Henderson, levelling fence lines of cricket ground £7 10s 6d j and of western recreation grounds, £16. At the meeting of the Waste Lands Board on Tuesday, 61 h May, there were present Messrs PearßOn and Baker. The following applications were granted : — New Zealand and Australian Land Company, 442 acres, Lothian hundred, 173 acres, Aparima hundred, and 300 apres, Oterarnika hundred ; George Begg, 20 aereß, Oteramika hundred. It was intimated that the following gentlemen had been appointed wardens of the Invercargill hundred for the current year s— * Oarstoa Henry Horman, Dennis Tobin, Nininn Findlayson, Thoma9 Price, John Bain, Robert. Preston, and William Lyons. The bye-laws passed by the wardens of the Invercargill hundred were read and passed, with an alteration in rule No. 1, which, a.3 altered, reads as follows:— "No sheep shall be depastured on any unenclosed land within the hundreds under the jurisdiction of the wardens." A petition from several settlers in the New River hundred against the eloping of a track leading to the bush reserve, was forwarded to His Honor the Superintendent, with a recommendation that the track should be kept open, as the closing of the truck would materially affect the value of the bush reserve. The Illustrated New Z-jiUand" Herald for this month contains a very good engraving of the BoWen Railway Pier, Port Chalmers, sketches of TAsmanian scenery, views in Port Phillip Bay, and several representations of Melbourne incidents. A Chinese sto-ekeeper at Queenstown alvertises in the lociil pap.^r that ho keep 3 a Colt's revolver in his place of business, and warns those who are in the habit of '.' disturbing his premises" that he will make use of it. ; The people at the Arrow are evidently dissatisfied with Mr Hallenstein's representation of that portion of the district. At a meeting at which Mr Hallenstein was present, the following motion wiis carried unanimously': — "That this meeting has no confidencein Mr Hallenstein as their representative in the -Prorinciul Council and General Assembly, and that a petition be circulated asking hku to resign." The local paper regrets the sweeping nature of the motion, and says it was brought about by'' Mr Hallenstein's action, in regard to. the..bjridge at Kawarau Falls, which, it is believed, will confer more benefit on the firm of which -Mr Hallenstein is a member than on the public generally. It is but justice to Mr Hullonatein to add that at a meeting held in Queenstottm' a vote, of confidence was carried by acclamation. During the past two or three weoks (says the Oamaru paper), large numbers of wild ducks — some 100 brace— have 'been brought to town by one person, who gainß his living by shooting them, we are told, by the aid of a swifeLguu and decoys. At this rate the ducks will soon be exterminated, and in a sporting point of view Jt isu pity that such wholesale slaughter should go

In a letter to a Thames paper, Lieutenant Loekner offers, if allowed by Government, to select 200 men who frill fetch in the King and the murderers of Sullivan an-1 Todd dead or alive. At the Dunedin Police Court the other day, John Smith JohnstGn, barristar, at one time well known in Invereargill.was charged with vagrancy, lie was disoharged with a caution, and a small sum allowed him out of the poor box. The extreme mildness of the Beason on the' West Coafifc is shown by the second flowering of fruit treeß in gardens at the South Spit, Westporfc. The great pressure on our space compels us to hold over our Biverfcon correspondent's letter and several other" communications. It will be observed that the time for receiving j tenders for the contract for the Winton Kingston I railway has been ex tended till the 14th inst. I By a typographical error in our last issue, a sale of 60 head cattle was announced to be lield by Messrs G-. F. Martin and Co. at the Junction Hotel yards this day, instead of Friday, the 16th inst. _____^_______—