BANKRUPTCY ACT NOTICE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2190, 11 February 1869, Page 2

BANKRUPTCY ACT NOTICE.

DKCLAHATIOH OF INSOLVENCY. Alexander Caer, Wheelwright, Oamaru. Filed, Fetruary 10th. W. H. MfKcay, aolicitor.

WIDENING PRINCES STREET.

I A deputation, consisting of Messrs Do | Carlo, Livingston, and Edmond, waited |on His Honor jthe Superintendent and i the Secretary of Land and Works yesterday, at 11 o'clock a.m., in reference to a resolution in connection with the widening of Princes street, passed by the Provincial Council on October 24th, 1564, the resolutionbeingasifollows,:— , ;:T ; <'/, ♦'Mr E. B. GAAavLt., by thepermission of the House, moved hisjnoUce of motion. (No. 4) as follows >—Thai the plans admitted .by ihe City.Engineer for widening Princes Btrcct, .between Rattray Btareefc and lHanor-place, ought to be carried out, and that arrangements should be made with tho p^pprietoraof any land required, for the purpottb to exchanco the samo for a similar extent of land from thejreclaimed harbonr. lands, and that yan addreas be printed to Hiii Honour tho Superintendent requesting that the necessary "steps bo i^aken for carryrog, into, effect this reaoluiioh at the earliest posi sibledate, Scoo.naed by MrSfephensoni and'eamecL"-;;';'.:/". :,/,•, ,;.-,;. .' -r ••> ■•-■ : Tho dejpatation repreaented that this proposition had ibeen partly^ earned into effect by an offer having been made toihe' Maiuw Traiteei to «xclwngo wo 27ft,,

frontago to Princes street (at proscnt occupied by tho tenants on tho Mausc Reserve) to tho extent of granting the land to Bond street. Tho Government would then have to givo contpensation^ to tho present tenants occupying land fronting -Princea streofc. With reforenco to tho land known as tho Maori Reserve, extending from the end of Mr Fisher's property to Hopo street, possession could bo immediately, taken, as tho Government had arranged, in accordance with a proposition niodo by Mr J. Cargill, to givo a piece of ground at tho rear, equal' to that taken from tho front. Plana had been submitted, and' Messrs Briscoo and Co. had already built on tho land at tho rear of tho property, and ottered in exchange. It wsus also pointed out that, had' tho arrangement proposed been carried into clf«ct shortly after tho proposition was made, a great saving might Have accrued, inasmuch as it would now require about LSOOO, and if tho matter were loft over for a longur time from LIO.OOO to L 20,000 might^bo necessary to widen tho street iv a lino with tho preeent Provincial Government buildings. Tho deputation was roferred to the factor of tho Manse Reserve, tho matter being left in abcyanco until Friday, whon a meeting of tho trustees is called for tho purpose of considering, and, if pooaiblo, settling it