AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 145, 1 July 1901, Page 2

AUCKLAND SPECIAL.

MR CARROLL. | Special to Timks. | Auckland, last night,

“ 13 it possible tluit the Him. Jnines Carroll was dragged all the way to Christchurch simply because the Duke and Duchess had forgotten to take farewell of him?” asks a local journal to-day. “if so, the * Royal command ' to follow south was scarcely kind. Evoryono in Auckland reckoned that the trip was the prelude to some special honor scarcely short of a knighthood, nor can it be said that a distinction of this kind would havo been misplaced. The Hon. James is a man of very graceful and pleasing address, and one who would have worn iiis honor with befitting dignity, licsidcs which, the distinction would have boon a charming compliment to the Maoris. Apart from this, no part of the rejoicings in this colony were so well managed as the Rotorua demonstration, so admirably organised and handled by Mr Carroll, but, taihoa possibly the honor may como oven yet.” WATER AND DRAINAGE. The Auckland City Councillors, who were blamed through the press for that torriblo disaster, the destruction of the Grand Hotel by lire, which resulted in a sad loss of life, are beginning to awaken to their senses. They arc talking about obtaining adequate tire appliances and giving attention to tile water supply question, and not being as neglectful as it must be admitted they havo been in the past. “ Drainage and a wator supply is a most momentous question in Gisborne,” remarked an cx-Gisbornitc in Queen street recently. Those at this end who aro watching with interest the proceedings of the Gisborne City Council in connection with their proposed water and druinago ■scheme are all of opinion that Gisborno being one of the most difficult towns in colony to drain, previous to spending money on a work of such magnitude, an eminent engineer like Mr Metcalfe, of Auckland, should be approached, and asked to furnish a report on the whole scheme. It might bo interesting to Gisborne Councillors to know that tho learned gentleman referred to is a recognised authority on the water and drainago question. The competitive design ot a water and drainage scheme for Devonport, open to all Civil Engineers in the colony, was won by Mr Metcalfe. Devonport can congratulate itself that it possesses one of trie best drainage and water supplies in the colony. Among his many engineering works Mr Metcalfe carried out a number of water supply and drainage schemes in Australia, also tho Palmerston water works. Ho has now under way the Manukau water works, tho Remuera water works, the Grey Lynn water and drainage works, the AVhangarei water works, and the equipment of tho Calliope Dock, an undertaking of ono hundred thousand pounds. Whilst Auckland City Councillors are being blamed for allowing us to burn i.i our beds, and to be involved in a common ruin in a singlo night, because our City rulers cannot realise that we arc no ianger a water sido villago, Gisborne Councillors are also blamed hero for the loss of the life of those promising ones that were taken from Gisborne’s midst recently through that horrible typhoid fever, through not having a water and drainage scheme ere this.