Outram Road Board.

Otago Witness, Issue 1650, 7 July 1883, Page 13

Outram Road Board.

A meeting of the above Board was held on Saturday, the 30th June. Present — Messrs Shand, Grant, Stevenson, and Adams. A letter was received from Mr T. Richardson, returning-officer of the district, informing the Board that a general election had been held, and that 'the following gentlemen had been nominated for the West Taieri subdivision — viz., Messrs James Shand, Peter Grant, and James Allan ; and for the Henley subdivision Messrs John Stevenson, David Oaruthers, and William Adams, jun. ; and that as the number of candidates did not exceed the number of vacancies to be filled, he publicly declared the above gentlemen duly elected, in pursuance of " The Regulation of Local Elections Act 1876." * Mr Shand was elected chairman of the Board; Mr Grant, treasurer ; Mr T. Richardson, clerk and collector ; and Messrs Reid and Duncans engineers to the Board. It was resolved that the Board's account be kept at the National Bank, Outram. It was proposed by Mr Grant, seconded by Mr Adams — "That Mr Stevenson be requested to call on the owners of land adjoining the Henley-Berwick road, and ascertain on 'what ! terms land can be bought for the purpose of widening the said road to make it one chain wide, and that Mr Stevenson be authorised to employ day labour to repair a part of said road." Notice was given that at its next meeting the Board will make a general rate of one half- j penny in the pound over the whole district, and j a separate rate of one farthing in the pound in the "Henley subdivision.

— A curious exhibition (says the British Colonial World) has lately been on view in the north of London. It consisted of nothing but an array of cigar ends collected during seven years' peregrinations up and down the metropolitan thoroughfares. The enterprising collector reckons that in this time be has travelled nearly 12,000 miles on foot, and he has picked up 600,000 pieces of cigar, averaging an inch and half each. He is said to have valued his stock, thus literally composed of odds and ends, at £ISOO.

— In accordance with a new rule with the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, members will in future be elected solely on the ground of the excellence of their exhibited works. The first three artists elected under this rule were Messrs Ludwig Passini, Thomas Huston, and G. F. Wetherb«3.