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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17058, 1 February 1921, Page 9

The Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Public Works, writing to tho Christ - church..City Council with referenco to the construction of the Mount Pleasants Evans Pass road, stated that in December, IPI9, this work was estimated to cost £2553, and it had been agreed by Sir William Eraser, on the condition that. certain interested parties contributed tho sum of '£looo, to find tho balance, of the cost of the work. To date authorities totalling £2SCO had been issued and expended, but it was now found that tho work would cost an additional £IOOO. In view of the fact that a definite promiso was made to find the whole cost of the work over and above the £IOOO, contributed by the interested parties, tho Minister had approved of the expenditure of this additional £1()00, and authority for that amount had been issued. At the meeting of tho City Council last night it was resolved to thank tho Minister for his action. The SpreyJon Borough Council wrote to the City Council at its meeting last night, stating that tiiio proposal to amalgamate Spreydon with the city had been carried bv 340 votes to 314, and a petition to tlie Governor-General to give effect to the poll would l>r> lodgecS in due course, "the"Mayor remarked that the position now was that the Council should say whether it was in favour of tho amalgamation or not. On the motion of Cr. Cooke it was resolved that tlie Council . w-rts in favour of giving effect to the poll. Abraham Lincoln's tailor, Mr George Silker, died recently at Ayr, at the advanced age of 102. A relncjee from France, he fought in tho American Civil War. He later returned to his own countrr and fought in the FnmeoPrussian War. Although he could spaak and write seven languages, ho died in poverty.