LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Press, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5140, 23 February 1882, Page 3

LYTTELTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The usual meeting of the above Council was held on Monday night. Present —The Mayor, and On. Weyburne, Grubb, Webb, Garfortb, Beid, Stinson, Maedonald, Smith. The reoeipts of the borough since the preceding meeting were. £75 6s 6i. Mr H.N. Nalder wrote saying that the Municipal Corporation Act made the property of boroughs exempt from taxation. The Council deoided that under the opinion of their counsel the waterworks were not liable to rating. A widow wrote asking that her rates be remitted, and, from the circumstance stated, the Council agreed to her application. Mr J. Hern offered to supply Springfield coal at 10s per ton at the mine in truoks. The engineer stated that Westport coal burnt at a cost of Is 6d per hour ; Brockley, Is IOJd. He thought the Brookley coal would take a grand position in the market before long. It was an extremely hot coal, and well adapted for steam purposes. For some time past; he had been using Brockley and Westport mixed. The Counoil deoided to take no action with respeot to Springfield in the meantime. Messrs Harman and Stevens, whose property was being opened by a road constructed by the town at the owner's expense, wrote that they would take "all responsibility in respeot to the caution of Mr Mitchell as to injuring his cattle. Accounts to the amount of £11118s Id were passed for payment. Beferring to the foreman of works' report and the engineer's, the Mayor said that a serious leak had been discovered in the service. From the engineer's reports'of the consumption, it had been suspected for some three or four weeks. The whole of the officials, said hit Worship, had been on the alert to olear up the mystery, and they were deserving of praise for the amount of zeal they had manifested. Several of the borough's employes had been out night after night—whole nights long—and it was ultimately found that tho packing had been blows out of one of the joints. The inhabitants of ,the town had been considerably inconvenienced on Saturday night and Sun- ! day morning, a matter to be regretted, but it | had to be endured in tbe interests of the town. The report of the special committee on the application of Captain MoLellan for a retaining wall in front of his residence was that no steps oould be taken in the matter. It was agreed, on the statement of hia Worship tbe Mayor, that a 4ft 6in wall on the Governor's Bay road, as proposed by the Harbor Board, would meet tbe requirements of the town, on the understanding that the Harbor Board be responsible for any future slip that might ocour. The estates oommittee stated that they were well satisfied with the improvements that had been made at the Bakaia Beserve. After some further desultory conversation the Council went into oommittee on Mr Harvey Hawkins* case.