TO CORRESPONDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6825, 2 October 1883, Page 4

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Pro Bono Publico, Auckland, writes: " Willynu answer the following questions ?— l. What does that august body ca'lcd the. City Council do in excess of their meeting oncovweek? 2. What is the income from property, and from taxation or conjointly, and the sum total nndor their control from all sources? 3. How is it expanded, or what streets in town is the money most lavished on? 4. Have we an Engineer or Town Surveyor? 5. Who takes the levels, permanent or fleeting? 0. Why did our Citv Council hunger and thirst for the enlargement of this city when they could not keep the old city in a passable condition ? 7. Is it good and wise management to place boulders, measuring from 10 to 15 inches, on our streets ? 8. Do the servants of the city do their duty when they see the youngsters gatheringheaps of stones on to the asphalt, especially the steep grades, endangering the life and limbs of pedestrians, especially at night?"— 1. Not having had experience as a city councillor, wo cannot spoik with certainty, but there are no doubt many committee meetings held reppecting the various matters brought before the public meetings of the Council which occupy a good deal of oime. A oity councillor, who fully discharges his public duties, has to devoto a very considerable port'on of his time to the welfare of the public 2 and 3. Call at the City Council offices for a copv of the last published financial statement, and in this you will find the information songht detailed at full leneth. 4. Mr. W. Anderson is now City Surveyor, and has been so for many years. 5. The City Survoyor and his assistant* under his direction. 6. The suhnrbsn districts petitioned the Governor to bo admitted into the city. 7. That was done in the days of the old City Roard. but the Council is removing them as opportunity offers. Some work nf this kind was donerscsntly in the upper part of Greystreet. 8. Few servants of the ity Council wonld stand aside and see this dono without putting a stop to it, and few "youngsters" would care about doing as described in the presence of servants of the City Council, etc. When such wrongful acts are done, a time is generally chosen when thero are few people moving about. , N. 8., Auckland, writes". " You wonld oblino by answering the following question in your Answers to Correspondents:—ls it logal to tret nurried at any hour of the day; or does the Act require the ceremony to take place previous to twelve noon ?"'—A marriage ceremony -nay bo performed in any building and at any hour between eight o'clock in the morning and o'clock in afternoon, provided that the door of the room or building is npon at the time the ceremony U being performs'!, and that two or more witnesses aro rre'.ent.