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Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 156, 23 November 1896, Page 8

TO THE RATEPAYERS OF WELLINGTON. T ADIES AND GENTLEMEN— 1. I now have, in Mr. Fisher's advertisement in the columns of the Evening Post of the 20th inst., a statement of the falsehood which has been industriously circulated throughout tho City lately concerning myself and the Drainage Scheme. 2. I ask your attention to tho complete refutation of that falsehood which follows. 3. f It 18 true that when I was Mayor in 1892 a promiso was made that wherever the private connections were in accordance with the City Bylaws in force in 1890 (tho year of the Drainage Report), the cost of alteration of those private connections should be borne by the City and not by the owner. 4. It is not true that that promiso was departed from, either in the Wellington City Drainage Empowering Act, 1894, or in any other way. 5. The seventh section of the Act of 1891 contains tho following proviso : — "Provided always that nothing herein " contained shall authorise tho Council to " charge any owner with tho cost of con- " structing and laying any new draiit in place " of, or making any alteration ox addition to, " any drain, which in or subsequently to tho "month of July, 1800, was laid in accordance " with tho Bylaws of tho City for the timo " boing in force." ' . C. That is an exact compliance with the promise^ and any f citizen/ whose " private drains wero in good order as required by the Bylaws of 1890, has tho right conferred on ,biin by law to require that ha, shall be charged nothing for tho reconstruction of such private drains. 7. Mr. Fisher thus stands convicted either of gross ignorance of the law or of a deliberate attempt to circulate a false oharge against mysolf. I have, &c., 11. D. BELL. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT dC3i per ceijt. 10/25 "DEBENTURE LOAN. ISSUE Oi 1 " £500,000, Parb of .£1,000,000 authorised to be rais,od under au Act of the Genouil Assembly of Now Zealand, and intituled " The Aid to Public Works and land Settlement Act, 1896." MINIMUM PRICE OF ISSUE, iCIOO PER CENT. mHE COLONIAL TREASURER invites JL Tenders for £500,000 New Zealand Government Three and one-half per cent. Debentures, representing .£I,OOO, XSOO, .£2OO, a,nd JSIOO respectively, payable to Bearor. Those Debentures arc secured on the Public Revenues of the Colony. Tlio Principal will be repaid at par not eailier than ten years nor later than tweutyfivo years from the 21st December, 1890, tho Government reserving to itself tlio right of redemption (by conversion or otherwise) on the 15th February or 15lh August, 1907, or in any year after the year 1907, upon giving six months' notice in the Government Gazette and in at least four newspapers pnblished in the colony, of its intention to do so.Both Principal and Interest will be made payable at the Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand. Dividends, roprosontcd by Coupons attached to tho Debentures, will be 'payable at the Treasury, Wellington, on tho 15th February and on tho 15th August in eaoh year during tho currency of tho .Loan. The issuo-pviea will bo at the rate of JSIOO in monoy for every ,£IOO expressed inDoboutures (below which no tender will be accepted), payable as follows :—: — 5 per cent, deposit on application 45 per cent, on Monday, the 21st December, 1596 25 per confc. on Monday, tho 18th January, 1897 25 por cent, on Monday, the 15th Fobruary, 1897 Payments may be made in full at any time on or .after tho 21st December, 1890, and prior to tlio 15th February, 1897, at a discount at tho rate of ono pound ten shillings per ceutnra per annum. Sealed Tenders, addrossed to the Secretary to the Treasury, Government Buildings, Wellington, accompanied with the 5 per cent, deposit, will bo recen cd up to noon of Monday, 7th December, IS9G, when they will be opened in tho presenco of a Conunitteej consisting of the Colonial, Treasurer, tho Controller and Auditor-General, and Mr. Henry Keinbor, F.I.A.N.Z. V and allotment will forthwith bo made. If cheques are lodged with a Tender they must bo drawn upon a Bank in Wellington, and bo marked by such Bank as " good " for fourteen days. Cheques issued by a Bank need not be so marked. Tenders may be for tho whole or any part of tho Loan, and must state what amount of monoy Avill be given for every J2IOO of tho Debentures tendered for. Tenders must ' be for even hundreds of pounds sterling, and at prices- which are nntltiples of sixpence. Tenders at different prices must bo on snparato forms. Tho nominal amount of Doben-tnvc.-i tendered for must bo written on the outside of the Tendor. _ Slmnld the tenders roceived oxceed in the aggreyiito the amount required, a jiro rata distribution wilj bo made. In case of partial allotment, tho balance of tho > deposit will be applied towards tho first instalment. In case of default in tho payment of any instalment at its proper dato, tho deposit and instalment." i-iu\iously paid will bo liablo to forfeiture. When no nllotmont is made, tho deposit will bo returned. Tbo first instalment and all subsequent paymonts may bo'paid at any Branch of tho Bunk of Now Zealand within tho Colony, to tho credit of the Public Account, or at the Treasury, Wellington, not ktev than tho sevoral dales previously mentionod. Scrip Certificates (with Coupon attached for tho payment of Interest for tho broken period from tho 21-st December, 18I1G, to tho 15th Fc 1 ! :iry, 1897), will be issued, to bo exchange. l for tho Debenture-bonds with Interest-coupons attaohod. -'Tho first six months' interest, calculated upon tho nominal amount of the Debenture, will' bo payablo on tho 15th August, 1897. Tenders must bo on printed forms, which may bo obtained at the Cashier's Office, Treasury, Wellington, or at the Offices of the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland, Wellington, Christohuroh, or Dnnediu. Office of tho Colonial Treasurer, Wellington, 18th November, 189 G. milE WESTPORT COAL COMPANY Jr. (Limited). BUST COALBROOKBALE COAL Delivered from ship's side by tho cartload. REDUCED PRICES : UNSCREENED ... Por Ton> Best Screened ... ' " Ton " Small ~fi *7/« Per Ton. •*- • / To which has to be added wharfago (Is per ton) and caiiago. (Net Cask on Delivery). Attention is specially directed to above pricos, which plaro tho BEST COAL IN THE COLONY within tlio reach of all. Send your order through any eoaldcalor, who will dolivcr at those prices, with cartago added. RETAIL DEPOT— The Company's Rotail Depot in Mannorß-strect has on hand stocks of COALBROOKDALE and all other kind 3 of Coal aud Firewood, and dolivcrs at any part of tho town at current prices. Telephone, No. 222 "VTEW STOCK ENAMELLED WARE Jl.^l arrived this week; also, DISRAELI SILVER. T. J. THOMPSON, CO, Cuba-street.