Masterton Borough Council.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4998, 10 April 1895, Page 3

Masterton Borough Council.

ORDINARY MEETING. The regular fortnightly meeting of tho Masterton Borough Council was held last evening. Present, His Worship the Mayor, aud Crs Hessey, Feist, Hughes, Yates, Cullen and Chamberlain. MINUTES. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed, APOLOGY, Cr Mutrie wrote asking leayo of absence owing to illness. Leave was granted. MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION, i The Secretary of the Municipal Association wrote stating that it had been decided at a meeting held on April 2nd, to hold a conference this year, only if any new Bills affecting Municipal matters come before Parliament. BURGESS LIST, R, J, Fitton and W, Lenz made application to he placed on the Burgess Roll.-Granted.

The agents of the Mokihinui Coal Company wrote offering to supply coal to the Council at 18s 6d per ton on Wellington wharf. The Grey Valley Company also wrote offering to supply the Council with coal in 40 ton parcels, at Wellington wharf at 18s per ton unscreened and 20s per tor. screened. | It was resolved to order coal from I the Grey Valley Company.

AN KXI'LAXATIOX. Captain Pickering wrote explaining that on the day the Engineer was absent, proper arrangements had been made to look after the Jubilee. The Council decided that the explanation was quite satisfactory. GAS. The Municipal Fire Brigade Band and Mr J. Henderson wrote asking to have gas laid on to the Band Shed and to Mr Henderson's house.

Tho letters were referred to the Gas Committee. CHARITABLE AID. The United District C.A, Board i gave notice of intention to apply for • £155 8s 9d from the Borough. ' NUISANCE. The Clerk of the Wairarapa North County Council wrote asking fuller information regarding tho alleged nuisancecaused by rubbish deposited in the Waipoua river. The Clerk was instructed to reply, i WAIPOUA BRIDGE. The Clerk to the North County Council wrote suggesting a conference of delegates re Waipoua bridge repairs at noon on Thursday next. This was agreed to. MiE-WELLS. The Clerk to the Greytown Borough Council wroto asking information n fire-wells, The Clerk wasinstructed to supply the information, GORSE. The Inspector of Nuisances was instructed to take action to abate the gorso nuisanco, in the case reported by him, FBRRY STREET. Cr Hessey moved that the widening of Perry Street, where tho land is now given, be proceeded with. Cr Hornblow seconded, and the motion was carried. WORKS AND FINANCE. The Works and Finance Committee's Report was read and ' adopted. REPAIRS. Cr Hornblow asked that the Overseer be requested to attend to the water tables at the end of Chapel Street, i Cr Hughes drew attention to the . slate of the road' in Victoria Street. i Cr Cullen said tho water-table? required cleaning. i Cr Hornblow said Bentley Street j also required attention. ■ It was decided to draw the Over. r seer's attention ,to theso streets. Cr Hughes said he had been over j tho streets pretty well, and thought > Victoria Street the only one that 3 had received no attention for a 3 long time past, i On tho motion of Cr Cullen the ', Council adjourned.

Tho lobster is groatly in dread of thunder, and whon the peals are very loud numbers of thorn drop their claws and swim for deeper water. Any groat fright may also induce them to drop their claws. But new clows begin at nnco to grow, and in a short time they are as largo as tho old ones, and coYored with hard shells. Tho lobster often drops its shell; it then hides until tho new shell is hard enough to protect it, The North Otago Times states that a farmer who last year had to mortgage his horses and plant owing to the failure of his crop, was this year assisted by his financial agent to crop another piece of land. Ho took up some 200 acres, and his yield was so good that ho was able to pay off tho bill of sale for his horses and plant, pay for the seed required in sowing the land, and had about £IOO clear himself.

It may not be generally known, says tho Dunediu Star, that some of the best preachers from Melbourne, who so ably officiated in Knox Church lately aro enthusiastic anglers, and have availed themselves of the opportunity while here, of testing somo of the best of our rivers. | One of them—the Rev. Dr lieiitoul—writing from Christchurch to a disciple of Walton in Dunedin, says:—" Fishing on the liakaia, I caught a beauty, which weighed eight pounds and a bittock. It gavo me good play, and in taste it was as good as any salmon." Perhaps it is more interesting than strictly useful to know that the diameter of trees |not only varies from summer to winter but from day to day. sffliey arc larger from noon until twilight next : morningthnn from twilight to noon; jthcy are smaller in winter than in summer. Low temperatures, as well as high, promote evaporation. Tho trees evaporate from their branches in winter and so, (lie colder the weather, the more they shrink,

Scotsmen aro generally thought Jto be taller than the other inhabitants of the British Isles. A pparently this is not so, according to the statistics of a learned professor who made it Mb business to measure representatives of different rares. His table places the Irishman first, the Scotsman second, the Englishman next. The same savant states that Irishmen weigh more than eithor Englishmen or Scotsmen, aud have greater physical power. At liochester, recently, William Taylor was committed for trial on the charge of biting off the right ear of a man named William Marshall, formerly steward at Rochester Liberal Club. Marshall accused Taylor of stealing a cruet, whereupon Taylor rushed at him and, as alleged, bit his ear off.