BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XI, Issue 573, 2 November 1880, Page 6

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The ordinary meeting of above body took place on Friday evening.""Present—The Mayor, Ors Behrens, Brown, Olds, Pretsch and MacKellar. Minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed. The only correspondence before the Council was a letter from the Dunedin Survey Office requesting that a plan of the new cemetery be forwarded. The clerk was instructed to request Messrs Park to prepare the same. Mr T. Heron wrote complaining of certain mining operations being carried on at the rear of his premises which had a tendency to injure his property.—The clerk was directed to see that mining be desisted from at the place indicated, and to take law proceedings against the offender if found necessary. It was determined to proceed with the formation of footpath in Inniscort-street between Innis and Sligo-street, and the clerk was instructed to give notice to Mr Sherwood to remove stone wall at rear of his premises, it now being in a dangerous condition. In reply to a question, the clerk said that Mr Wilson, solicitor, had not, so far as he was aware, taken any action for recovery of arrears of rent, as directed by the Council. After some deliberation, the clerk was directed to write Mr Wilson, requesting him to go on at once with proceedings against Messrs Goodger and Murrell. The subject of street-watering engaged the Council for some time. Cr MacKellar was. of opinion that the present system of watering was bad and unnecessarily expensive in the mattpr of hose, and he suggested that a number of small stand-pipes should be erected at intervals along Melmore-street, from which watering could be done efficiently and with economy. Cr Olds concurred. Other Councillors were not so clear as to the advantages claimed, and it was ultimately resolved that an estimate of number and cost of stand-pipes be obtained from Mr Young before any steps are taken in the matter. The matter of District Court sittings being withdrawn from the Central Goldfields was brought forward and a resolution passed— That a letter be written to the Minister of Justice pointing out the hardship that will be entailed on the people of the district by withdrawing the sittings of the District Court from Cromwell.