TOWN BOARD.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 271, 9 June 1888, Page 7

TOWN BOARD.

TnE ordinary monthly meeting of the To Aroha Town Board w.ish^ldat the Hoard's offices on Thursday evening. Present : Commits! on or* Dobnon, (Chairman), Ilott Frazer find Hotchin. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Correspondence ; — From A. Burger, complaining of the state of the footpath in Bridge-street near his house. Fiom Cleik Piako County Council, for- v warding copy of special order adopted at special meeting of the Council on the 12th ult-, lelative to the county road within the Town District being placed under the control of the Board, and to be maintained by them. (A copy of this resolution has already been published in these columns.) From Goo. Wilson, asking pei mission to place a set of drain pipes under the footpath in Kenrick stiect, near Mrs Wilson's 'pioperty. Resolved that the request be granted. j From S. Percy Smith, Commissioner of Ciown Lands, requesting the chairman of the Board to warn persons to desist in tak ing- gravel from the Government lands on tbe west side of the Waihou ru'er. The chairman stated that the contractors had already been informed of the closing of the ground. The clerk was instructed to wiitc to Mr Smith, infouning him that his icquest had Wen complied with. As the Government had closed the old pit, it was decided to write to the Crown Lands Boaid for a grant of two acres, considerably further away from the Government township. From T.W. Hislop starting th;?£ as the Commissioner General had been appointed Anditor for Town District Boards, Road Boards, and River Boar Is, all returns should be sent to him. From the Cleik of Pinko County Council, drawing attention to section's 317 318 of the Counties Act, 1886. whereby it' is required that statements of accounts be furnished up to 31st March of each year, to be f oi warded through the County-, Chaiiman to the Government. Forms for the return were supplied, and the clerk was instructed to tfUldn the required infor- ' mation. General Business-: — Resolved that the Poundkeeper be notified he must send in a proper statementof accounts every month ; in accoiddnce with the tetms of his appointment, no statement having been received from him for the ]vist three mohth*. The question of Finaacf was di*cu«sed at Some length, ?.nd it was decided at an early date to take the necessary steps for levying: a rate. Com. Ilott diew attention to the fact that the lamp near the post office was h.irdly ever lighted till an hour or two after daik, wheieas it, w,is much needed about half-past five, the time when the postoffice wa« fuquented for the Auckland mail. Tli€ Council tosc at ten p m

The "Mercantile and B (-r.izotto li.is the follow inir : — "The sign> of .the tunes imlic.ite th.it the"" boom " in ie.il property now ninnhijT ii Melbourne^ flowing tow ards Kew Ze.il.in'i. During the List few -weeks considerable inquin ii.is been ni.tde ior submbiH Kind .nuiind Dunedin fitted i'cr subdivision. " Thf "Russian Tine soldier's pay equals only a farthing a day in time of peace, and lnlf as much again in time of war. A thief who stole the coat of Rev. D. U. Perry, of Brooklyn, while the latter was pieachinjr on Sunday, carried oft' the manuscript of his sermon on "TheW ages of Sin,' 1 which "R as in a pocket of the garment. Lately a large number of ""temperance diinks" Tvere analysed by the chemist of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, and according 1 to Eastern liapeis, the resulb showed not a single one free of alcohol. On the contrary, one contained 44 3 of the intoxicant, several 40 per cent., and a large proportion more thau *J0 per cent. The chinking population of the United State* is estimated at 15,000,000, and the amount consumed by each person is in round numbers forty - three gallons of malt liquoi^ n gallon And a half of wine, and neatly five gallon? of sph its per year. The annual amount of money spent on the^e elevating beverages is 700,"000,000do!s. The Ameiicans are a thir»ty nation.