TOWN BOARD.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 349, 12 January 1876, Page 3

TOWN BOARD.

A meeting of the Trustees took place yesterday in the Secretary's office. Present : Messrs E. G\ Norris (ohairman), Firth. Wrigley, and John Conway. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and correspondence read. A letter from Mr J. W. Gray was read calling attention to the fact of timber being discharged from vessels and placed on the roadway or reserve for sale. The Board directed that the police have instructions to remove all such timber so placed. A letter from Mr Jordan requesting that the road leading to the- ford at Archdeacon's Point be properly defined was referred to the District Engineer. A letter from several , residents on the Strand complaining that goods were retailed from the wharf store, contrary to the regulations under which the same was allowed to be built was read, . and the Secretary directed to •. inf own the agent of the steamer .• Bow.ena , that unless the practice, was at once discontinued the Board would cause the shed to he.-re-moved. It was decided that a letter should be written to his' Honor. -the Super-

intendent requesting permission t6*extend the northern T of the wharfThe Board directed that instructions should be given to Mr Jordan, the Board's Engineer, to cause a coating of shells to be laid down on the pathways in Harington street as far as Mr Thomas Wrigley's corner, in Wharf street and Hamilton street as far as Willow street, and also along the Strand pathway. Shell to be at the same time laid along the roadway in Devonport Eoad from its junction with the Strand to the end of the cutting. Several accounts were passed for .payment, and the agreement between the Board and the wharf lessee approved. The Board then adjourned until this evening, at 7.30 p.m., when a meeting of the ratepayers takes place in the Court house.

TATTBANGA E.M. COITBT. Saturday, January 8, 1876. (Before Major Roberts, E.M.) The adjourned case against Pohui alias Eiki, for impersonating one Nikora at the general election held on the 6th instant, was brought forward for hearing. Mr F. E. Hamlin, the Eeturning Officer, who was prosecutor in the case, said that he had no witnesses to bring forward, and explained that it had come to light that the prisoner was the only son of the elector whom he had represented, and that apparently there had been an understanding between the prisoner and his father that the prisoner was admissable as his father's representative. Mr Hanalin, therefore, requested to be allowed to withdraw the charge as lie considered the prisoner had offended unwittingly. In reply to the Court, Mr Hamlin said that the Act bearing on the subject was not translated into Maori. The Court allowed the matter to fall through under the circumstances, and discharged the prisoner.