WAIRARAPA NORTH COUNTY COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4694, 13 April 1894, Page 2

WAIRARAPA NORTH COUNTY COUNCIL.

Monthly fleeting, Tho uaual monthly meeting of the Wairarapa North- County Council was held yesterday afternoon at the County Council Chambers, There wore present: Crs F. von Keden (chairman) D. (iuild, 0. B. Cockburn-aood, J.-Stuckey, Eli Smith, and R. Maunsell. MINUTES/ Tho minutes of tho provious meeting wore read and confirmed. i CORRESPONDENCE. Cr 0. E, Oockburn-Huod moved that in future tho outward correspondence lie on tho tabic This would save much time, and any letter required to be'read could be seen by tho Council. The Chairman seconded the motion, which was carried... • BY-UWS, The further consideration of by-laws relatmg to traction engines was brought before the Council by the Clerk. The Ohairman reported that a Rangitikei County Council by-law declared that a traction engine could only cross culverts, etc, when the driyers were provided with planks of their own. The amendments made by the Clerk were confirmed on the motion of Cr 0. E. Cookburn-Hood.

PAH VALLEY ROAD. H, A- Lambert wrote asking that tho Pah Valley Road be placed in repair before th 9 winter months. Cr Smith said the settlers had been spociilly rated for this road and they had not been done justico, The road should be put in somethiog like the order the specifications [Stipulated. Ho should move that tho Engineer be instructed to ascertain what is required to be done to place the road in repair,

Cr Guild said he understood that I2CO vas to be contributed by the Pahiatua Jounty Council towards the- Pah Valley Jload. Ho thought it was their duty to leo the road put into something like ro< lair, and in the order stated in the ipecilications, Or von Red en said if the matter had* jomeup before ho could bavo understood t,. but now in about a fortnight's time ho road pawd into tho hands of the Ekotahuua Road Board, and as the representative of tho Eketahuna District, ho objected to binding tho Eliotalmaa Road Board to carry out work they might not be disposed to do, In reply to Cr Stuokey, the Chairman said tho work of forming the road had been done by the Alfredton Road Board with 'nan money. Tho plans had been drawn by Mr McLachlan, and the work carried out uuder Mr Grevilto. Cr Smith said the Council had a right to interfere with the road, and there was no objection to their endeavouring to put tho road in order beforo tne winter. Otherwise they were turning over to another local .body the work they should hove done.

Cr Cockburn-Hood bukl it appeared to him that it would bo better tn send a rtcommendiitiouto tho Eketahuna Road Board, asking them to carry m the work rather than starting tho work themselves. Tho motion was (lien put and lost, and it wa» resolved that as the Pah Valley road will pass into tho hands ol tho Ekotalnina Rond Board within a few weeks, Mr Lambert bo advised to 'make application to that body. Mtirr'swtmuor, M. P, Britt wroto asking tho Council to allow him (he difference between his lirst and second contracts for metalling on the Alfredton road, amounting to £ll7 2s, ■ The Chairman moved that they pay tho amount, loss cost of advertising and extra engineering expenses, prayidingMr Britt give a receipt itt full.-CarHoi giu™ IIESEIIN'E. X, Mr F. Janett, of Hastwell, wrote with reference to his lease of tho gravel reserve at Maupninahoo, Btoling lip had spent £26 on improving the reserve, and offering to allow the Council's servants to pasa over his land to the gravel pit, providing that ho was still permitted to uso thereservo. -The letter was referred to tho Engineer"to report on at next meeting, •SLAUGHTER LICENSE, ' F, Holloway made an application for" a transfer-of slaughter license from Manaia to section 30, To Ore Oro,— Granted subject to the approval ol the Inspector, J, C. hicholh, of Ball Tall, mado application for a slaughter-house license.— Granted. lIIURAUA ROAD. Messrs flenton and others wrote, asking that tho expenditure of tho £l6O Ihuraua Road loan bo hold over until next spring.—Granted. EKETAHUNA POUND, W. Cruickshank wroto, resigning his position as poundkeepor at Eketahuna.— Accepted, 4 WUAREAMA BKIDOK, From E. Mason, drawing tho Council's attention to tho necessity for cutting tho willows at tho Whareama bridge. Cr Maunsell said tho work was necessary,

It was resolved to authorise tho Engineor to get tho work done,"

MAUUICKYILLE. Tho Mauriceville Road Board wrote , asking tho Bcrvioes of Mr McLaohlan to draw up certain plans, otc—Granted on the usual terms, WAII'OUA UIUDOES. Several residents forwarded a petition drawing attention to "the necessity for footpaths between tho two Waipoua bridges. Decided to allow the matter lo stand oyer until the question of finances had been considered. HUJJ)£c£7« ROAD. J. Morrison wrote complaining that the Elairlogie roads would be impassable in the coming winter unless repaircd.and' if tho Council would supply mon and horse-feed he would find horses and drays. The Chairman considered that L2O might be granted, The Engineer said motalling waß re. quired on tho road, aud i3Q would do a considornblo portion ot tvork, Resolved that tho Engineor be authorized to oxpend bctwoon .£2O and £BO on the Blairlogic Road, in the terms of Mr Morrison's offer, FINANCE RETORT. The Finance Report was read by the Clerk, and adopted, A neqrjEßT. MrC. A. Pownall waited on tho Council to renew an application made by his client, Mr W, (J. Cargill, to allow Mr Brcmner to oxamino and roport on tho Maugaone and Pah Valley Read, Tho reason for asking for Mr lircmnur'a services was that it was alleged that ratepayers' monoy had been wasted, and with all due respect he contended that it was the Council's duty to fully investigate the matter. Ho also thought that Mr Bremncr. from his position, would bo more competent to givo a reliable report. They had offered to pay his expenses to present the expense falling on tho Counoil, Ic was understood that the Pahiatua County Council was withholding a certain sum, and ratepayer's wero also complaining of the defects in the road, and they were very desirous of whose official standing would give a i eport more weight. With all due respect it was not a matter to be overlooked, and he submitted that in the ratepayers' interest the Engineer should be sent, Under the circumstance the Chairman I said they could not doal with Mr Pownall's application, without notico of motion that the previous resolution be roßcinded. Cr Smith gave notico of motion that the previous resolution declining to allow Mrßremner to report on tlie Pah and Mangaone roads be rescinded. engineer's report, • The Engineer's report was then road, Resolved that contract 37 be finished at the expense of tho contractor, Tho expenditure on Woolf's oontract of a further sum of JJIQ out of the district funds was approved, The Engineer was authorised to build a culvert on the Tawataia road. j- Tho.report was then adopted., '.-..• ''". , BOUNDARIES, Ros'olved that the alterations ofbounclaries betjveoh Alfredton, Castlepoint and Akitio bo given effect to at next generalßdad Board election, ; .• ' _' : ■■■' "tSAUNIJER'SROAt). It. was resolved that tA preliminary

haeoting in conneotion with the pYdposal "".;'■ ko raise a loan of £3,222 for Saunder'a -: Road bo held at noon on April 19th,at "■• (he residence, of Messrs Fry. <* : - _ .MOUNT BAKER ROAD. 1 Resolved to ask Mr Grcvillo to furnish tlie Council with a oopy ot the last 40 ' c tains of contract Mo. 1, Mount Baker "■ load. . . ,i / '•.. ''.',•'. ' That it bo a reoommMljjsn to C istlopoint Road Board, thantoy mHH| o m the rates from lha properties ofoH Messrsi, Burling and H. W.Leeoh to the AKredton Riding account. TE ORE ORE-'MDEFORD ROAD. ' \"- Resolved that the preliminary meetii »in connection with the proposed To (AeOce-Bidefordkm br held at GlendOnold, at noon on Monday, April 16. MR ORSVIUS'S REPORT. ' Mr Qrovillo's report was read. Or Smith moved that a committee consisting of Ora Beetham,'Stuokey, and tho mover be set up logo into the ji, question of.the Mount Baker Road con- ffij tracts, and that the Engineer bB directed J to prepare his rojjurt at the earliest pos- M Bible date, so as to enable the committee fl to ileal with tho matter.-Carried. /■ Cr Guild moved that the Engineer in ID charge of the Mount Baker Road works ]Mk be requested to that Wk tho works (land 2) haflßson camedjH out; according before the Councis*oP»7s : -p()t4MHB to the contractor-Carried, ™ I ' STRAY CATIK, Reßolvedthat the Roadman in the.. Oaatlepoinb Riding be mstruoted to fur-, nisli the local constable with the names of such persons as suffer their cattle and hones to stray on the road. J' TAUERUTOLL. Hesolved that enquiry be made by the Engineer and Clerk to ascertain if J. Taljlia is evading the toll at the Taueru, PAH VALLEY. It solved that the £lO expended on Pali Valley road be charged to the Loan Ami rant. • EOTOPANGO MAD. M rS. Turkington wrote re Botopango Roa 1 and a loan for forming tho same, and it was decided to askfthe promoters to g vo it guarantee for the cost of survey and for the preliminary costs of the loan, GRAVEL PIT. Ti io Clerk was directed 'to write, to Mes ira Elder, re the conveyance of Mel :mclion's gravel pit, and tho i Eng neet"' instructed to asoettain who her gravel oannot be got nearer than the pit opened by Manning. "\ By Our Own Correspondent.) gj [ Tuesday. H _ Major Forks'Brolher.-New Austin- fl , Uu'initk New Zealand Converts,— I 1 A Fine Crop of Bankruptcies.—A I Qloumy'lookout.— A Circus Tragedy. ' B > —Cleansing Ik Augean Stable in I J WelHrig{on.-A Sew Society Wanted, I t —i trcei Mendicancy,—Employed by I 1 i l letter appeared in .the New Zeaf lan 1 Times the other day from a Mr e J. H. Forbes, of Wellington, stating v ho vaa a brother of Major Forbes of Ma tabeleloixf notoriety, and asking the New Zealand public to suspend il judgment on Major'Forbes' oonduot ia in ,he campaign until more deluded g hit irmation was to hand. I under--0 sta id that Mr J. H Forbes is a master in jne of the state schools in this city. ][ It s really remarkablo how many ; r p#j iplo there are in Now Zealand and in Wellington iu particular who kd s rel itivoß engaged in the late campaign, h T-.1 ave myself met personally a good i- ma ny and I know of several ex-Well- . J inf tonians* who went uuj/wMJjtim fortune to the ~ it'tiVoiituaOj-.iw.iisfed for service o against the Matabele.

The proaelytiaiugcainpaigothrough New Zealand for the New Australia scheme of colonization was not, I am toU, very successful. The people here evidently know when they,are well off, and are not likely to be enticed away from comfortable homes mft by the alluring prospects of a, comkunistio colony where the high ideals set up by the promoters feem to 1 ayo fallen very far short of real. isati on, There were; however, a few silly people who were foolish enough to btenlo the persuasive eloquence of A r McNaugh lon and to promise to throw in their lot with these Utopian colonists in far off Paraguay/Of tao few there were some from Wellington and It is to be hoped that by tho time tho 'j'Koyal Tar" returns to Australia for t|ie purpose of taking a fresh load of "New Australians' to the colony, that iho New Zenlandera at anyrato will lave repented of their ill-con« eider id resolves and. ory off with Mr McN lughton at all costs. Th ire has been a nwst-prolifio crop of bankruptcies in towitflately, and the Ottiaiiil Assiguce and his staff have in conse )ueuco been kept exceedingly busy .'washing up." Fortunately all the • bauki apta were in a very small way of busin )bs, nnd their Eailurea aro not very likely to paralyse trade to an alarming oxten;. Ibta a sign oi tho times though whon we see so many small-people " going tl rough the mill," and it shows that the atkuwie for exiatonco is getting very hard. lam constantly hearing from buaitieaa men of tho depto&aed atafoof trade in othor parts of the colony, and it''--now looks very muoh like as if Welling. '• • ton was in for a bad time during the V winter, lip to tho prosont wo have not \ felt the pinch so much here, but from \ tho many vague and disquieting rumours \ floating about town there ia ovidently a great deal of uneasiness as to the future.

The Wollinaton wiuds have always had a. reputation fur " bursting up '• circuses, for no sooner does a circua put in an appoaraneo here and a mammoth canvas tent is erected than tho wind swoops down in its fury and either lays the Btruo'uro low or, tears tho fabric into ribbona, to the great- pecuniary loss of the proprietor, However, aJMmrst up" of another kind this timoJßfgi'u inflicted on our old circus %md Mr W, H, Hayes, for tho Wellinf tin publio failing to patroniae his " great and unrivalled arenio spectaclo" at the skating rink (Mr Hayes was too old a hand to trust to " canvas in Wellington) hVtecbcen compelled to seek, tho pruTeciion of tho Bankruptcy Court, and the" magnificent stud of pure-bred arabs" aro " eating thoir hodda off," as Mr Aahcroft re* marked, before being submitted to tho hammer by a local firm of auctioneers, flowevor, theto fs hope yet, for Mr Hayes' oonsiderate creditors are anxious to give him another start, and no doubt the show will ere long emerge phoenix, like from ita ruins, and onoo morothe bounding steeds will ba urged on their mad career through tho sawdust of tho circus ring. Just at present there Is a good ohanco of picking up oheup, TurPin's" Bonny Black Bess" or Mazeppa's " Fiery untamed steed," for v both theso noble animals are calmly munching the corn of idleness and-philosophically awaiting what fato may have in storo for them, I Somoofthoiuost uniavoury quarters of Wellington havo bee 1 1 lately successtully cleansed by the Bliroulean efforts [Of Inspector Pender ajd his staff of .merry men, who have fteen ably supported in their operations ,bjf[j our Stipendiary Magistrate, Irftj. 0, Martin, •■' who seems determined It/stamp out vioo '': ; and orime as muoh as lossible in Welt lingtou, by tho salutaly sontences he • kA imposes upon any dcliquent brought ■'"■. .Jt before him. One of tie worst of tho .jA qnavtors which have justjbeen renovated was situated in thehoittof arieteaticJHK Thorndon, and not bo vf ry long ago good people who wont Ito Sundays, used to on their way to of the lowest boldly staring them in th^^^^^^Bß

ally this thoroughfare became too aultry even for thsao smug christians, and so "tbey passed on the other side "and went to church by anothor streok. Tho extraordinary thiDg is that bucli a Postering social owoer ehould havo boan allowed to oxisb for «o long in such a (B, conspicuous position. It is only due to the fact that tho City Council have just passed somo vory) stringent byo-lawa, < regulating oi thing that tho „ j polico OfJiwublio wcro nblo to tako K It ia a pity that thoso worthy po >plo in Wellington whonro always so ready to take up any good cmse should dot follow in the footatops of thoir Auckland friondsani establish hero a"Soei>ty for tho prevention of cruelty to won en and children" Thero would bo plo ity to do for such a Society hero, if they . attonded to their duties propo ; ly, judging by tho cases of wifo-bcati ng, cruolty, neglect, starvation, and de ;ertion which ono hears of so frequently not one through tho publio press but f 'om private sources. There oro plenli of women who shrink from takkg ac iou against their "lords &%\ masters" and would rather 'silently sadly lioar their part"than faco publicity, It is those women such a society might protect, Wo fam a Society for proven ting oruelty to «MKs, surely a hunun bojtiag is as nSportnnt ? The Soi :iety also like |PRuck'land one propiscs to do and sally forth of anightinto'the Wollin ;ton streets and endoavour to roscuo sou e of tho yonng girls, whom ono sees in (such numbers, from entering upon a lite of shame. There is much to be done oven in such a comparatively small to; m as Wellington is. There is another thing which is i blot upon our community and that a the largo amount of begging which goes on in the Wellington streets, especially ivhen the shadeß of night hide the mem icant from tho watchful and zoalons" ho iby." .There is indeod far too mm-h of thi i sort of thing—it should nover be possi lie in ra a young coh nial town, Ono is sti >pped frequently hy mou and ovon w mien »ho " have not had a moid all da;' and have no place to sleep in" save under tho oanopy of heave.!. Tho ehari able institutions seem to bo uiwbloto cope with the matter, end as lor work, why 8s •the labour Bureau and privatt employers have about a hundred nppl cantß for every job they havo to pivo i way. Moat of these peoplo seem to come from the South with a fair sprinkling of (U • Australians amongst thorn. Then is no .doubt that thore Is a largo amotjnt Gf about and tho unem||loy>- / up large again. A\. By tho way, I wonder whether the ' men employed on the work of making alterations to the Parliament House Grounds aro engaged by the day or the week. They surely can't bo mi cooperative contract work, the job is taking far too long for that. /They have now been empbyud in wheeling clay about and forming paths for nearly two months and the end is about .i, hr ofl as over, If a little more speed is not shown nothing will bo ready by the session, and membors will have tohaul|their sacred persons over heaps of mud and stones m order to enter tho port lis of parliament. At present everythin jis a hideously chaotic mass of yellow day, broken bricks and stones, scraggy trers (the best were out down), and old timber. It is hard to believe that abi autifully sloping lawn of greenest sward with a fountain playing softly in the: aidst is to be envolved out oi all this c mos, Howovor, I have no doubt the Pre licr, when ho comes back from his advo itut< ous experiences of " moving accic ents Je by field and flood " will hurry nu tiers Di up a little, ns I understand thai tho wholo design originated in his f rtile W{ brain. I wonder what it will bo Ike if this is so,