City Drainage Scheme.

Evening Post, Volume XL, Issue 10, 11 July 1890, Page 3

City Drainage Scheme.

The report** Messrs. Ferguson and Cuthbert upon** 1 drainage of Wellington was laid bafo^the Conncil last evening. It compris/ ojer 00 pogea of oloaely written matte,/ and dccls with the Bubject in ™T| 8 manner. The Commissioners «»«/ in tho main with the proposals Jntr. Higgin&on, which we published (feme oonsiderablo time since, and tho scheme whioh they recommend is based npon tho system which he»dvocatcs. The prime cost, including the coat of installation of tho Shone system of pumping, for a population of 75,000, ia estimated at JE 139,100. For a population of 30,000 the cost would be £133,700. If the hydraulic system of pumping machinery and plant were adopted the total cost for 75,000 inhabitants would be £131 M0, while for 30.000 inhabitants it would bo £133,81)0. Estimates of work.nir oost for 75,000 inhabitants.— Shone system, .£2813; hydranlio system, Estimated annual charges, 75,000 inhabitents.Shone system, JCBSGS ; hydraulic system, i hydraulic system, with return pipes, .88148. Immediate, 30,000 inhabitants.— Shone system, X7812j hydraulio system, £7164 ; hydraulio system, with return pipes, £7548. The report is to be printed, and as soon as each councillor has been fnraished with a oopy a meeting of th* Onacri will be held to consider it.

An acoident happened on the Queen a Wharf this morning, whioh might very easily have been much more serious. A 7-ton gun, • with disappearing gear, which has been on view at the Dunedin Exhibition, was brought up by the s.s. Hmemoa yesterday. While it was being landed to-day at the largo crane, a portion of tho gear, weighing about li tons, fell out of the slings through the Bhacklegiving way, and came down on the wharf With a run a distance of about 10ft. A m»n waa waiting on a truck to receive th» load, and when the chain gavo way ho had a narrow escape, the iron falling within a few fcotofhim. Wo understand that tho chain which gave way belonged to the Hinemoa. Work at Messrs. Luke and Sons' foundry is just now exceedingly brisk, indeed the large plant and machinery of the firm are being driven at high pressure day and night in order to keep pace with the_ demanda made upon them. Tho b.b. Jlija is laid up for a general overhaul, which includes a new uylindsr, and Messrs. Luko anticipate having hor ready for sea by tho end of ntxt week. The b.b. Lawronco, which has also been entrusted to tbe firm for a general overhaul to her machinery and boilers, is being rapidly got ready to resume her coal trade between the West Const and this port, and will be abie to get up stoam threo weeks henco. The little steam yacht Torea is having a new steel boiler manufactured, tho dimensions of whioh aro 6ft in diameter and ■ 7ft in length, with a pressnro of 1001b to the , aquaro inch. The only other job of any size in hand at the foundry is the turning out of 16 tons of iron girders for the new building in coarse of erection in Viotoria-Btreet for Messrs. Ross and Glendinning. The Hospital Steward acknowledges with , thanks the receipt of old linen from the following ladies i—Mesdamcß Kelly, Silk, jHamerton (Austin-street), Brown (Glen-bervie-terrace), Roso, Noble Campbell, Maokay (the College), Nathan, L. A. Williams, Coleman (Molesworth-street), and i Hudson (Cuba-street) ; a qnantity of old clothes from Mr. Orr, City Bnffot; illus- 1 trated papers from S. & W. Mackay ; 1 orutohes from Mr. Edwards, Potone ; a largo . parcel of magazines from Mr. John Knowles ; a parcel of oloth : ng, a aerap book, and .£1 6s from Mrß. Peter Stewart, of Feilding 1 (tho olothes being made and the money collected by tho children of the Awahuri Prosbytorian Sabbath Sohool); a case of 1 apples from Mrs. Dr. Collins, for the , children. At the quarterly communication of the Distriot Grand Lodge last evening, Sir E. O. Gibbea, Deputy Grand Master, in the chair, a resolution was passed expressing regret at the loss whioh the Masonio fraternity has sustained through tho death of 1 the Earl of Carnarvon. 1 A special meeting of the Bakers' Union ' will be hold at Fraser's Rooms, Mannersstreet, to-morrow evening, at S o'olock. A well • known commeroial traveller ; writos: — My wife ba3 tried Eenehaw's Monaroh of Pain with wonderful results, for nenralgia, wbioh caused muoh pain and suffering, but whioh was removed upon the ' first application.— A dvt. For continuation or reading matter tee fourth ' paae.