BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2006, 3 June 1885, Page 2

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The fortnightly meeting of the Masfcerton Borough Council was held last night, Preseut—His Worship the Mayor, and Crs Baton, Hessey, Gapper, Perry, Muir, Johnston, Heron, and Chamberlain.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. CORRESPONDENCE, The Clerk read correspondence inward a.nd. putward, The Seoretapy of theMastertcin Library applied for a refund of the Borough, .rates on the Institute property.—Referred to Finance Committee. Several applications to have names inserted on the burgess roll were granted. The Land Transfer Department wrote

on: the question of title to road in Chapelstreet, stating that the Corporation had no title to a portion of the street, The Mayor moved that the Clerk be instructed to apply to Mr A. W. Renall to have a proper transfer of the land, Seconded by Cr Perry and carried. Messrs Wiso & Co., wrote, stating that they had prepared a careful directory of the colony, and asking tho Council to subscribe.

Tho Collector of Customs wrote that tho only licensing fee paid to the credit of the Borough had been received from Messrs Lowes & lorns,

The Mayor explained that a licenso fee had been paid in by Mr F. H, Wood in April last, but had gone into tho general Government fund. He moved that the Collector of Customs be informed that all fees due to the Council should be paid to the Bank of Australasia.-Carried. WORKS COMMITTEE, The Town Clerk read the minutes of the previous meeting of the. Works Committee which were of a purely formal nature, and wero adopted on the motion of Cr Heron, seconded by Cr Bacon, '• ' ' ' ' '. KUISANCES. .. '■'..>; ■ The Inspector of Nuisance? reported that there was a cottage in a paddock of Messrs Lowes and lorns', in Archer street, occupied by a man, woman and three children,: which was unfit to live in; also that the sahvyards of Messrs Lowes and. lorns were a nuisance in the town, 'The Town Clerk reported that with regard to the first, Mr Lowes had informed him.that the people had simply jumped the place, and he should like to be rid of them, " The Mayor said it was no doubt hard to get houses, but also just as hard to get rent.

■i'- Or Gapper failed to see that the people were a nuisance to the town. The ownera would no doubt look to the matter. They might let the question stand over.

Or Heron seconded.—Carried, With regard to Messrs Lowes and loins.' sale yards, the Mayor said he felt rather delicate, being a neighbor, The only cause of complaint that ho kind was that cattle wove QQqagsioiially left in the yard over night, Or Gapper said he believed that the owuors of tho yards wore endeavoring to remedy the matter, and they would no doubt do their best if they were reminded of it. He movod that tho attention of the firm be drawn to the report. Seconded by Or Heron and carried. Several unimportant items wore referred to the Public Works Committee. THE LICENSING COMMITTEE. The Town Clerk drew tho attention of the Council to the report in the newspapers to tbe effect that tljc members of the Bprpugh Licensing Committee had vqtec( tljenplycs £1 Is each, for travelling expenses, and pointed oi}t that under clause 109 of the Ljpensjng Act they could, nqfe charge, except fpr expenses, actually incurred. The Mayor suggested %t the Tqwn Clerk should, write tq the Chairman of the Committee, and draw his attention to the wording of the clause. Agreed to, The Council then went into Committee to consider matters connected with the gas loan, arid tenders for the lease of the Maugaone endowment. THE TRAQE OF GREAT BRITAIN Mr Hefty Nm]} writes to the Fall Mall QffittelbrThc fcs&iou about the trade of England with her colonies as compared with foreign oountries, may, perhaps, permit of a word. The total export and import trade of England in 1882 was £719,680,808; share reverting to Brftishand ,<okmla]>'trad>, £19LJ(i8,214; totfalßritishandforejgntrade,£sZ7,9ll,Boß This shows an increase with foreign countries and the colonies which cannot be denied. Our trade-lists would be as follows: The colonies first, the United States second, Frange third Low Countries, (Holland and Belgium) fourth, Germany fifth, Spanish America, sixth, Russia seventh, (China and Russia about equal), Spain and Portugal ninth, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway tenth, Turkey and Egypt, eleventh, Italy twelfth. These twelve classes absorb about ninety per cent,, the balance of trade""being shared among a number of the smaller States. But wljet} tips, mijcj) j§ gtajed. we have, only reached the value of British and foreign as compared with colonial trade. But what about the trade of the British Empire? This, I assiime, is what is meant in tips discussion, only it is, nWQwecj d.qwn f,q the comparisons above made, ffltaj jmnqr-ts, qf the Bvjtisl} Enipipe for 188.3; The colonies, £214,579,485; the United Kingdom, £313,588,711 ; total, £528,1(18,198. Total exports of the British Empire for 1882: The colonies, £222,059,703; the United Kingdom, £214,323,097; total, £430,382,800. Those totals show the sum of £954;550,99(>. If you take the total tonnage in this year, excluding coasting trade, at 43,047,347 tons, and remember that 36,007,288 is British, you will have«fair cstimato of British and foreign as compared with colonial trade, pd. sonio id.ea.of the Vftlno of Br-itjsli Imperial trade,"

KINGSPOOPENDYKE. The name of Spoopeudyke is a familiar one throughout these colonies, the burlesque stories of the adventures of Mr and Mrs Spoopeudyke havingbeenscattered all ovevtheworldbyrepublicationinthenewspapers, The author of these laughable Iketchoa, Ms Stanley Huntley, ]s said tp be tho herd of an advorifcu.ro wjjqso results, arc as astonishing w liimsolf and to'his friends, as ever wore any of the wildest of Mr Spoopendyke's. The story goes that a few years ago Mr Huntley went as a special correspondent with the force under Major Welsh, despatched against the Indian rebel " Sitting Bull." Whilo there, he earned the gratitude of the old hereditary chief of the Tetons, by curing hjii] of a sprained ankle, «■ Little Knife," the ajd cluef,' adopted Win, and, made him many presents. Mr Huntley returned East, probably attaching very little itnpqrtance to his' new relationship to the old chief, Little Knife had two pis, and ]\o and one of the sons .soon after (lied, levying the second son chief qf the Tetqii nation, Tlris young phief died in February last, and as by Indian law relation by adoption is as olose as by blood, the author of Spoopeudyke becomes chief of all the Sioux tribes,

It is the r flraj; time In Indian history that a whfte man'has succeeded to the chieftainship of a nation, and the Sioux are eagerly canvassing the situation, They think Mr Huntley would make a good king, because he could do a good deal for them at Washington,'and, if ho does not abdicate, they will probably .make his installation the biggest thing of the kind e»rer seen by a redskin. The whites, too, of Dakota (where theTeJons. are posted) are wondering what the white chief will do, and if he aocopts the offloe, will assist to .inaugurate him in tip-top style. Mr Huntley's Indian name is Wauk-pey-wau-kan, " The Holy Leaf," given him by'old Little Knife on account of his using oiled loaves in binding up his sprained ankle. The episode of the sprained ankle would scarcely do for a thrilling romance, as the cause of a white man being made chief of an Indiannation, butnodoubtMr Huntley has had other adventures, py of which' might be satisfactorily substituted for it when his romantic history comes to be written, did Little Knife had two daughters as well as two sons, and they could be utilised effectively.' ,

AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE. ['Chicago Herald,'] " Talkiu about awful exper'nces," remarked the tramp, " but you ' never heerd tell on a worser time than me an' Bent-Nosed Jack had last winter. Worsest thing wot ever was. 'Twos the talk of the road all the summer, boss, en' me en Jack was noted charakturs we was." " What was this experience f " '' Well, yer see, me an' Jack was pickin' "> around the railway yards in Chicago one day last winter, lookin' fer busted cracker boxes, or any other lay out, when we got locked in the car, There was no gefctin' out, an' so we made the best of it, The weather was awful cold, and we was in the car when it got to San Francisco. Three whole weeks on de road." ..,.,.; " Incredible. You must" have starved or frozen to death. If you're telling the truth you must have been skeletons when you were liberated,". " Starve! Freeze! Skeletons! Say, boss you hain't very flip, is yer? Yer don't ketch on. In that car was a huU lot of Armour's'packed, meats, a ton ojwwo of crackers an'' cakes" in boxes, a shipment of cigars, a dozes case o' champagny, nice lot of Mcßriar whisky, candy boxes, nuts raisins, some Milwaukee bottled, a hull lot of overcoats, and merchandise generally. But the boss.tiling was some of these yer oil-heatin' stoves. We hadn't any oil, but there was a barrel of •achohol' there, and • that did all deiame.. We;had;, v a r: euchre (Seek, tobj'iih 1 played seveii up tfot;champagne by de bottle, and cigars iblr.tie box. ; Skeleton, boss; the.only sMetow\iiad on that trip was de stuff in the' car when we got to 'Frisco.' We was"a'weSk : pickin' out that car, and you kin tyi it'wji fineV work to get hid in it seen. But it was de greatest lay ever jcnojrli' in de perfesh, an me an' Bent-Nosed Jack made our reps on it, we did. .Why can't a feller strike a snap like that every winter?" ' • • ,