COUNTY COUNCIL.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2889, 20 May 1878, Page 2

COUNTY COUNCIL.

IN COMMITTEE OP THE WHOLE.

A committee of the whole Council of Thames County was held at the Council Chambers this morning. There were present —Crs Brodie (Chairman), Spencer, and Thorburn. Apologies from Crs Bagnail and Mitchell were read. A letter from the Chairman of the Westland County Council re the formation of a conference of County Councils, the gist of which we have already published, was read. A fter considerable discussion the following resolution was carried unanimously, on the motion of Cr Thorburn, seconded by Cr Spencer:—" This committee of the Council fully recognise the importance of the subjects submitted by the Chairman of the Westland County Council, and cordially agree with the necessity of concerted action being taken, and of establishing a conference ■* at Welling* ton, and are further of opinion the conference should assemble during the sitting of Parliament, and on the grounds of economy that two. representatives be elected from each Provincial district, by Councils working the Act; and if possible that such representatives be selected who are members of the House of Representatives, and for the time being also members of County Councils. The cost to be defrayed equally by the Councils so represented." BOABD OF WOBKS. At a meeting of the Board of Works of the County Council, held this morning, the tenders -for three sections on the Kauaeranga Valley road were opened as follows: No. 1 section—Me- | Cormick, £50 (accepted); Jury, £90; Graham, £80; Montgomery, £200; Williams, £60; Cowell, £69 10s; Connolly, £58 10s; Boughani £62 10a; Driscoll, £89 9s; McDermott, £150; Brogan, £69 9s; Trainor, £80; Punch, £95. No 3 section—Dunlop, £18 (accepted) ; Latham, £35 ; McDermott, £80; Williams, £80; Jury, £120; Trenwith, £106 ; Trainor, £13Q; Punch, £95; Driscoll, £79 9s ; McCormick, £50 ; Koufihau, £49 12s 6d ; Kelly, £36. No. 2 section: Connolly, £19 (accepted); Jury, £69; Whelan, £29 10s; McConnochie, £30; Williams, £35; Aickin, £48; Brogan, £23 19s; Driscoll, £27 15s; McDermott, £85; Boughan, £30; McCormick, £35; Samson, £44 15s; Trainor, £39. \

These appears to hare been something wrong with the working of the telegraph lines in the Middle Island during the last few days. To-day we received the Press Agency's account of the wreck of the Anne Gambles, under date Bluff, May 17, and a further telegram received by Mr G. W. Elliott, Dunedin Agent New Zealand Insurance Company, same as published in the morning paper.

The Bey. R. Hazleton, M.A., will deliver a lecture at the Grahamstown Wesleyan Church this evening, on " Ireland and the Irish."

Professor L. C. Mendenhall instructor in Natural Science in the Ohio Agricultural College, is convinced that a baseball pitcher can deliver a ball on a curved horizontal line, and proposes as an explanation of the result that it is caused by a spiral motion given to the ball by which one side is made to encounter more resistance from the atmosphere than the other, and thereby deflected from motion in a right line. He expresses a que.y whether the result can be corroborated with a ball of perfectly uniform shape. Suppose they try with a billiard ball.