CITY COUNCIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4207, 16 November 1900, Page 6

CITY COUNCIL.

The i; ■ CV.uv.ed mi-r las; evening. IVe.-vni . ike Mayer (Air J. G. \V. Abie* it), t ivaacill.n's (!. Amf'is.jii. Mur- < cc.’i. V iii-.r-ton. J. Smith .junior, W. A. ’■'vans. B.'.jher. Townsend, Winder and Izard. Tin 1 r-rains of receipts and expendiare for ibe mouth of October 1 showed : - Rcceiblo, £1041) IDs; ,j<( expenditure. DliOT lU 1 . cti. Leave cl absence l was gran led to < Vainciil-.is Luke and .McGill for the . aning s meeting. The Mayor welcomed Councillor ■’inith back Ur his seat in the Commit, after an absence from Wellington on account of the illness of a member of Ins jan.ily. Councillor .Smith, ackuowvdging t.iic Mayor's remarks, said he bad made certain observations of iimnieipal manat-enuan during ..is absence in Auckland, and be was pleased to he able to say Unit tile conduet- ol business by ■ lit Wellington City Council compared very favourably with the management in Auckland. Several letters with reference to CoreOratio! leases w*.»v referred to ihe Legislation Committee. A lor; 1 "! report by the Librarian of .!e Wellington Public I,iln ary on his v'sii te v-be c.uifereuee lately h-IJ in * ustralie was preaenied and ordered to be on the table. In tin 1 sane 1 comiec- . i a the .Mayor said be had received a ■oniiminicnlioii from tin 1 .secretary ol ..lie coni-mice acknowledging valuable assistance given by Mr Kowe. Applications by the Ladies’ Swimming Chib ana the Swifts Swimming Club for rhe use of the Thermion Baths Imports wire referred to the Baths Committee.

Tin* Works Commiltee reported, recommending:—l. that the request of tlie eon; Tractor lor removal of nightsnil from the Borough of Onslow to he allowed p: .di-charge the soil into the Corporation sewer at Kilh:rn:e In* not entertained. 2. That the request of the Kef Inn ne ami Karori Tramway Company to be allowed Jo occupy a .small portion of the Botanical Bardens, more than was originally agreed upon (and in ; slightly different position) he complied with, .-.object to tin* following conditions— 'af The company (o be leqiiired to lone.* the whole of tins land; (b) the company to provide a proper entrance ami pathway from the station lo the I'loianieat Barden.-,; and (e) ro make the nocssarv deviation of an existing footpath ; the above modification is required to alloy.' the line to be worked by steam power instead of by I In* water ballast system, n. That the con tractor for (be Kidbnnie and Karori Tram-, way works he allowed to slack Ids timber on a co'tu •• of Kelluirtio Pari;, snbjt'efc is its being 1 fenced in In tin* satist.iel ion of tie- City Engineer. I. That the Canned do not comply with tin* roll nest of tin* tloverniuent Architect that the n-e of a meter ter Ihe water service ~.t the Terrace 800 l may be dispensed wit.’i. d. That 100 arrangement for-

merly existing with Mr Thomas Wurcf wi;b irsm-cl to 1.. e city map be renewed f„r three y*ars at (he same rate iff payment, Tad per annum. (Note—Under Ibis arrangement Air Ward has t.o correct the city map every s-x months, idling in all particulars as to new buildings elected- boring such period.) (5. That the amount on the City Improvements Bonn S'lkfd’de to credit ol’ Stanley street lie expended in formation ol that, street as noon as the owners of flic adjoining land have completed the formation of the rights-of-way authorised by the Council. 7. That fho Council agree to the houses in course of erection on the south side of Mein street between. Co roman del street and the Town Belt, beinz drained by a new sewer in the rear.” instead of into Mein street, snhhet to such sewer and the necessary storm-water drain being laid hy and at I lie eo.-l of the owners interested, and to the satisfaction of the City Engineer. S. That a sewer be hurl from Edinburgh i"iTac,e through tin* adjoining sections to Lerai.j .street and along such street (r South road, at an esl incited cost of •ITffO, such sewer being re-piircrl to drain Lerand street and a part ol Russell terrace.—The report was adopted. The Street 'Widening Committee reported, recommending that the offer of Mi A. Lindisay with respect to his property iu Riddiford street, lately owned by Mr R. Spurway. be not. accepted, but that- the property ho taken at once undeij -t be provisions of the Public Works Act. The committee also_ reported that acting on the power given by the Council to a sub-cam mi: tee at last, meeting i:n arrangement, bad been concluded with respect to the property of Mr R. VI. Marshall, wlierc-by the Con lied is te nay the sum of .T /-•> for tbe 20ft bin." requu-e<l for widening the street, and Air iVlarshail is to bear all expense of shifting back ilie. buildings, anil also any expense that may be incurred in settling with Ins tenants. Ibe money is not to lie paid uiild the buildings have been removed.-—The leport

was adopted. . Accounts amounting to tuk2l Ids ml an- .Cl2lß 4s Id (tramway accounts; were passed Bar payment.