CITY COUNCIL.

Evening Post, Volume VII, Issue 129, 8 July 1871, Page 2

CITY COUNCIL.

The City Council met yesterdaj, at halfpast three o'clock. The business transacted was by no means important, and commenced, as usual, with the confirmation of the minutes., .Among the correspondence read was a letter from J. E. Brown, applying for a remission of six years rates due on a house which he occupied belonging to Mr. Hickson. He explained that when he took the house he did not know of the rates being due ; and being a poor; man with five children, he hoped the Council would grant .his application. The Councillors admitted that it was a hard case, and decided to leave the matter in the hands of their Solicitor, with instructions not to press for it just now. A letter from the Provincial Secretary was read, informing the Council that a bill would be introduced in the General Assembly to enable the negotiations respecting the wharf, the reclaimed land, aud the Queen's warehouse to be completed, and suggesting that arrangements for the payment of £19,000 should be made by that time. It was announced that tenders for the debentures for this sum would be advertised for, and laid before the Council at its next meeting. The subject of cartage for the Council gave rise to some discussion, one or two councillors considering that the present system did not work well; 'but the City Surveyor and others having borne testimony to the diligence of the City Council carters, the matter dropped. On the motion of Councillor Quin, the advisability of purchasing a stone breaking machine capable of crushing from 80 to 100 tons per day was discussed ; but Councillor Mills announced that he had. sent to Melbourne for information respecting those machines, and the matter was postponed till the arrival of the reply to hid letter. Councillor Carpenter thought a copy of May's Parliamentary Practice should be obtained for the guidance of the Council, and on his motion it was decided to obtain one. The state of the main thoroughfares at the north end of the city was next discussed. Councillor Borlase said they were in a worse state than he had ever seen them. He thought the Council should pass a resolution enforcing; that the main rowls of the city should be put in repair immediately. The outlay that would be necessary for this work, however,, rather startled members. Councillor Carpenter said that the state of Pipitea and .Moles-worth-streets was simply a disgrace to the Council, and Aif" repairs werei not done speedily, the city ; j,would" Toe['£ bottled up." Eventually, a resolution was carried to the effect that MOiesWth^aiid1 Pipitea-streets

should be pu'i in order immediately. A vote of thanks to Councillors Carpenter and Wallace for a complete set of books containing the reports of the proceedings of the Provincial Council, concluded the business of the day.