FOOTBALL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3264, 24 July 1889, Page 2

FOOTBALL

Brisbane, July 22. Four prominent members of the Maori team have been suspended from further play with the team on the ground that a betting swindle was attempted on Saturday by endeavoring to lose the watch.

The Maori team beat Toowoqmbii by nineteen points to nil,

Meeting of Creditors'

A meeting of creditors in tho estate of Emile C'ollotte, of Mangamahoe, settler, was held before the Deputy Assignee, Mr W, Sellar, yesterday. The statement showed £134 17s 4d liabilities, assets ml. A quorum of creditors was present, Mr Pownall represented a certain number of them. The debtor, who was undefended, was examined on oath by Mr Pownall, First commenced to incur his present liabilities in 1887 or 1888. Had at that time certain trees on the Villago Settlement of Hastwcll. Had 7 acres and paid £5 rent. Improved it by his labor when able, By the advice of his medical adviser he transferred his property to his wife as he was not expected to live, Was in very bad health at tho time. Don't know why it was not transferred back when he got well, Transferred trees and plants to her for money received from her, and then incurred debts to other people. Owed money to his wife at the time. Had never been able to work through ill-health. Mrs Collolto had sold the property since and got only a balance of £ll after paying the mortgage. With tho money raised by mortgage paid sundry, tradespeople for good, and £2O on the first house. Paid it away to creditors. If the land had been in his name now no creditor could touch it, Mrs Collotte lent him £5 5s to filo with, She earned tho money herself and had kept him during the last two .years of his sickness. If the unlucky creditors bad given him time to look around he would have done better for them, Had said after he had arranged with his oreditors ho intended to go to Palmerston North. Inteudod to go their with his wifo. Had an offer for his land, but the negotiations were stopped when he was summoned, £4O was offered, but he wanted to set how his creditors would act, Had five summonses placed in his hands when he came ' into Masterton. Had to refuso to sell the land as it belonged to his wife. His wife refused to take the money. The land was assigned to i his wife in 1888. Was owing very little money then, about £SO. Had increased it by about £BO since. His wife had a large number of the things he bought. His wife was not able to pay. Eefused the £4O so as not to pay. Was prepared to offer • to pay 2s Gd in the £, as soon as he i sold the land, and 2s fid iii the £ in a year. Jf the creditors chose to take action against him he could not help it, Ho would ; be propared to pay the creditors £25 if they would take that when ho sold the land, Was bushfelliug on the land of his son with him last winter. His son got £ls from the Government for that, Did i not get any of it himself. The place • never paid, and though Government i promised them work they never gave -it to them. Out of thirty settlers there were only four left in tho village now. Did not think his wifo i would place the property in the hands of tho Assignee for the benefit of bis i oreditors, To Mr Graham: The wire' he ; bought was for the property of his son,

To Mr Dickson; His son had a suit of clothes which he (witness) bought in Masterton.

The debtor finally agreed to pay £ls cash and hand over the bill for £2O provided the land was sold as he anticipated, A great deal of I hectoring ensued ending in the debtor refusing to hand over the land as the section belonged to his wife.

The meeting adjourned till Friday.

Masterton Borough Council.

The ordinary meeting of the Council was held last night, Present: Tbo Mayor and Cra Perry, Cullen, Eton, Gapper, Heron, Chamberlain, Dixon, and Hessoy, The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, LICENSING BUILDINGS. An application was received from G. Colter, lessee ot the Drill Shed, for a license for dancing, music, and public entertainments. A letter was read from W. Scott, lessee of the Temperance Hotel adjoining the Drill Shod, objecting to a license being granted to the latter building, as it would create a nuisance

and become a source of annoyance if music and dancing were allowed. •

The Mayor said an injunction of the Supreme Court had been granted prohibiting band playing and rinking in the Drill Shed. The application wag, howevor, informal, as it did not state the name of the owner. He moved that the Town Clerk be instructed to call the attention of the applicant to tho informality in the application. Seconded by Or Hessey and carried. THE USUAL DISCOUNT. Mr H. Feist, trustee of thejjresbytorian Church applied to "have tho usual discount ajlowed off his gas account, as he had, by an oversight, neglected to pay the amount on the due date, but had tendered, it two days ■after;— Application refused. CORPORATION GAS BILL. Correspondence was read from the Ohristchurch corporation on the question of amending tho Act. so as to allow corporations to establish gas works independent of existing gas works. Mr W. C. Buchanan also wrote on tho same subject, and asked upon what grounds the Masterton Corporation wished him to support

The Mayor said he did not agree with the remarks of Mr Buchanan. If Masterton had allowed a private company to start they would have been in tho same position. Wellinghad had trouble enough over the same thing. Corporations were compelled to buy private companies out at their own price. He moved That the Town Clerk write to the Ohristchurch authorities pointing out that the member for the district was absent, but promising to give all the assistance in their power to repeal part of section BG9, and get their Bill through. Seconded by Cr Eton, and carried.

FENCING CONTIIACT. . Mr Hoffems wrote drawing attontton to the fact that after he had erected the half of the fence on the Bishop's Reserve road he was stopped by Cr Capper, and told ho should havo erected it on the other side of the road, and that if he did not shift it ho would not be paid for it. Or Gapper explained that as one of the Committees appointed ho wont to the Bishop's Reserve, and in accordance with a resolution of the Council, told the contractor that he should erect the fence on the west sido of the road as agreed upon hy the Council. The contractor replied that it was not stated in the specification.

It was resolved to allow the fence to be erected on the line the contractor had commenced it.

Cr Gapper moved and Cr Eton seconded that tenders bo called for fencing the west side of the road through Bishop's Reserve. Carried.

ROAD SCRAPING. Mr W. Sellar, secretary of tho Park Trustees applied for any surplus road scraping to be placed in tho public park. Cr Gapper pointed out that the road scrapings were carted to the various roads in the Borough whero required. The Clerk was instructed to reply accordingly.

It was resolved on the motion of Cr Heron to repair tho road at the Park entrance.

An application" from Mr A. W. Kenallto have gas laid on to his premises, Eenall-streot, was referred to the Gas Committee.

VERANDAH. An application from Mr W. Lowes 1 to have an iron verandah erected in & front of property known as Minifie's shop, at the corner of Bannister and Queen-streets, was referred to the Works Committee to report upon at the next meeting of the Couucil. CHARITABLE AID BILL. The resolutions of the Joint Committee's of the Borough and North County Councils was read. The Mayor said it was a ■ most difficult and widespread question, and if ever it became law it would take 10 or 12 years to get into working order, What was felt as the greatest injustico was that the money raised in one district was iiL spent in anothor,

THE POUND. Tho Town Clerk reported that there was an excess of £lB lis Id in expenditure over receipts for year ending March 81st last, Tho receipts 'were' £lB 0s sd, and expenditure £3l lis Gd.

Cr Gapper tendered his resignation as Pound Committeeman, moved that the duties in fufcureNy devolve upon the Works Committee to whom the present report be referred.-Carried.

Or Chamberlain thought the money well spent in keeping up the roads. Several members upheld the remarks of the last speaker, whilst his Worship thought the pound should bo abolished. There wore other methods of dealing with stray cattle.

AUIEM-STRKET EXTENSION'. The Committee reported that subscriptions to the amount of &12 5a had been promised for the purpose of extending Albert-street to VillaStreet, anil thoy recommended that -A both sides of the road be immediately m fenced, and that the Council should open the street at once. Cr Gapper read the list of subscribers and moved that the Committfl already appointed be authorised to complete the arrangements for the purchase of the necessary land from Mr (Jiselborg, to oall for tenders fencing and to throw open the to the public Seconded by Cr Cullen and oarried. GAS OOMJIIIEEE. The Gas Committee's report was road, The manager reported an increase of 29,780 cubic feet in excess of the same period Inst year. The estimated coafc of laying mains to Messrs Renall, Cole, and Brown's properties would, amount to LlO 8s in all, but they, axijoiirned the consideration of laying the mains for the I present. The report was adopted. INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES, Inspector Ingram reported that ho had visited the three slaughter houses in the Borough. Mr Wagland's was satisfactory, but Messrs Hockley and k Perry's were not; the lattor, however had been improved since. Several people were keeping swine in the Borough and creating a nuisanco. A cowyardin Dixon-street was a nuisanco for want of drainage, and being in a populous neighbourhood»vas injurious to health. (h ORDINARY BUSINESS. An application from the captain of the Fire Brigade for a now uniform was referred to the Fire Brigade Committee, ■»

Mr Renall's Water Rights, The Mayor said if there was no other • business before the Council, he had a matter to bring before the meeting. The foreman of works, acting under the instructions of the chairman of the Works Committee, or some other member .of the Council, had put a jdawmtheoutting 0,11 his property,

and by that means slopped the flow of water through the channel into the town, and he questioned whotUor anyone had the right to do so. Thero •was no road there. (Or Horon: There's a beautiful road I) Ho (tho .. Mayor) made the road, which was through liia own land, and ho had never been paid for it. In tho year 1872 the Road Board agreed to give him the land forming the original lino of road which led through tho

riv-er iu exohange for the land "jfjuircd where tho present road was tnrough his property, but they had never completed tho transaction. Tho Act in force at MnMim9 said when any deviation was mado the road proposed to be disused should first he offered to the occupier adjoining and if he failed to purchase, it should then be put up to public auction, Ho opened up his land for a road and never got a sixpence for.it, nor did be couvcy it to the Board, and he did not see who had a legal claim to itjjesides himself. |re Perry; Who did yon make the road for ?

The Mayor: For you and others. I do not want to mako any bother over it now, so would advise that an amicable arrangement bo come to. No ono has a right to enter on my privato laud aud cut off tho water. If tho Council will not settle tho matter amicably 1 shall take it into Court. The Council have none of the ratepayers money to fool away in law expenses. I must assert my rights. €^Ohamberlain: Don't you think yorf will find yourself in the same position as Mr Mawley did before the Supreme Court ? The Mayor said the present was a very different case. Ho explained the two positions and then pointed out the drain was not on tho road, but about seven or eight feet within his boundary. He had taken Mr Frazi up and had the line resurveyed. They went off the road boundary on «o his private property and stopped Aa water. *rjr Ferry: You fenced the roarloff ?

The Mayor said there was no doubt ho fenced one side before tho road was laid off. Ho afterwards cut a drain and erected a fence to protect it. That had nothing to do with the Eoad Board. At that timo settlers used to cross wherever they liked, and the Maoris, if they found a fence in their way, pulled it down. It remained to be seen whether at this distance of time he had any remedy in respect to tho road, It had not been open twenty years. At .m/ rate if they claimed the road ilney could uot claim beyond, and the di'ain was outside the road boundary and on his prooerty.

Or Gapper; Have you not somo recollection of making a similar arrangement with the Eoad Board iu respect to exchanging the road as the Council recently did with Mr Perry through the Akura ? The Mayor: "Whateverarrange-

ment there was fell through. ] never got anything," Ho then worn

<m to explain how ho exchanged tho \JjSid on the other side of the Waipoua ™ith Mr Adams for land this side of the river. He had formerly been a member of the road Board bnt resigned before this business of tho Board was entered into. Cr Gapper said if tiie difficulty was the present position of tho dam, it could bo got over by shifting tho gates to the boundary of Mr Eenall's land. The Mayor said he did not wish to have any bother but wanted the Jitter settled, Ur Hessey: What is it you pro-

pose? The Mayor said that Crs Gappei

and Heron should be appointed a Committee and go up with him to tho land and see the boundary pegs. Cr Hessey said the boundary pegs proved nothing. The Mayor said he did not know that they would. Or Perry; Who's taken possession of the old road ?

The Mayor: Well, I have I suppose. It's enclosed in my fence, and if you have a better right to it take

p Cr Perry: You've got more of tho old road than you gave in exchange.

The" Mayor: I'vo got nothing in exchange, The Government owns that land still, I shall certainly maintain my rights and not allow the Council to trespass with impunity.

A considerable discussion tool

place on tho action of Mr Eenall in Opening tho channel in Queen-street .and letting the water through, and finding the Council adverse, the Mayor declared the meeting closed, no decision having been arrived at.