WASTE LANDS BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4021, 7 January 1875, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARD.

. The usual weekly meeting of the Waste Lands Board )TT *was held yesterday. The following members were J .present:—The Chief Commissioner (in the chair), R( Messrs Butterworth, Clark, and Reid. REFUND OF DKPOSIT REFUSED. Mr J. Ross requested a refund of the deposit lodged -on application 5430, sections 44 and 49, block V., Waitahuna Jiast District. The application was de- g icliued. PRE-EMPTIVE RIGHT, RUN 239. Messrs Connell and Moodie, on behalf of Henry .Campbell, applied to purchase pre-emptive right of •run No. 239. The application was referred to the Dis- Fo .irict Land Officer, the land to be taken as a square, or according to regulation for frontage.. _, .LEASE OF -MILL SITE. " Messrs Connell and Moodie, on behalf of Mr John —M'Farlane, applied for a lease of two acres for a mill -site on block XIII., Gienkenich district, and for perjnissiou to lav down a tramway. It was resolved that Fr "this should form a.part of the license already ob- Pr tamed. Pa BUSH RESERVE, DUNEDIN AND EAST TAIERI DISTRICT. G£ A report by Ranger Valpy, on the application of A. M'Master to purchase 20 acres of the Bush Reserve, v section 59, block VIII., Dunedin and East Taieri dis- o itrict, was opposed, and the sale refused. Oj SALE OF SECTIONS IX SHOTOVER DISTRICT. At The postponed application of Mr J. M. Dwyer, to Is: purchase sections 122 and 123, block 1., and sections Gr 45 to 51, and GO, block 11., and.section 11, block XXI., Shotover district, which had been referred to tlie District Land Officer, was again taken into consideration, :aud the sale approved. JETTY SITE AT QUEENSTOWNMr 11. Manders applied for a jetty site near the <sueenstown Jetty, at a place called Lees. The area Co vxequired was 100 ft x 100 ft from low-water level. It was Le resolved thst advice should be obtained from the Municipal Corporation. EXTENSION OF TIME TO REMOVE TIMBER AT WAKATIP BUSH REFUSED. Messrs G. H. Smith and Co. requested three weeks' ] •extension of time to remove timber already cut at jj 0 Wakatip Bush. The Board refused the application, and ( ■ minuted tlie following query:—" Why not take out a j new license, according to regulations V" APPLICATION OF WEST HAWKSBURY CORPORATION FOR AREA UXDER LICENSE. P c Mr D. Malloch, on behalf of the Committee of ye Management of East Hawksbury, requested the tr: Board to limit the area under license lately applied for by the Corporation of West Hawksbury, and recom- y/ anended that it should extend from the lower part of s ,j the lagoon to the large drain cut on the west side of the road lately made by the inhabitants across the 'lagoon. It was resolved that notice should be given to both parties that the Board will take up the cisc at on their next meeting. O] LICENSE 10 OCCLTT WATER RESERVE, PArAKAIO. Messrs Webb and Fulton, on behalf if Mr J. X Craig, applied for a license to occupy .water Feserve adjoining section 191, block 11., Papakaio District. The application was referred to the Ranger. O'KANE V. THE WASTE LAND BOARD. Messrs Howorth and Hodgkins asked tbat a settle- _ ment might be come to in the case of O'Kane v. the Waste Lands Board. It was resolved that O'Kane / should be informed that unless he takes up the appli- -c catiou for ihe sections at otakia, they would be forfeited —the Board to recommend the Government to . pay Howorth aud Hodgkins's costs. APPLICATIONS TO PURCHASE UNDER AGRICULTURAL LEASEJohanna Lewis's applications to purchase section 18, block IV., Waipori district, and section 26, blockXlV., qi Tuapeka East district, were refused. The following 4 applications were approved :—C. and A. Klingst, section 3, block X., AVaitahuna West; W. A. Murray, sec- 5j tion 23, block V., Waitahuna East; Jas. Taborn, _ section 4, block V., Tuapeka East; T. Treloar, sections — 90, 91, and 92, block 1., Tuapeka district; Strode and Fraser, section 3, block X., Leaning Rock district; T. Riddle, section 5, block X , Tuapeka East; J. Sutherland, section 23, block X., Waitahuna East. EXCHANGE OF LEASES. J A large number of -applications to exchange agrt- g t cultural for deferred payment leases in Tuapeka East and West, Waipori, and Waitehuna, East Districts, -were appoved. APPLICATION TO PURCHASE BUSH RESERVE, DUXEDIN AND EAST TAIERI. Mr Joseph Jones' -application to purchase five V( acres of bush reserve, sec. 59, bl. VIII., Dunediu and 1 East Taieri District, was refused. tii RENEWAL OF LICENSE FOR QUARRY REDERVE, — OAMARU. Mr W. Morgan applied for a renewal of his license for Quarry Reserve, b!. IV.;- Oamaru. The extension -. of three months was granted. I Tlie Board then adjourned for a week. -1 PORT CHALMERS TOWN COUNCIL, st «> A special meeting of the above Council, as the local 7j Board of Health, was held on Tuesday night. Pi\»eni ■ — His Worship the Mayor, Councillors Middleditch, Menelaus, M'Kenzie, and Rose. The Mayor stated that the meeting had been convened for the purpose of considering a communication J ■addressed to him as Chairman of the local Board of J Health by Dr Drysdale. He then called upon the Clerk to read the letter, which ran as follows : — D • "Port Chalmers, January 4th, 1875. q " His Worship the Mayor, as Chairman of Local Board ■ of ; Health. " Sir—ln accordance with the terms of clause 17, Public Henlth Act, 1572,1 have the honour to inform you that a case of typhus fever, which has unfortunately terminated fatally, has occurred in Mary street. 0 •'Without positively asserting that the cause of the disease is to be ascribed to the locality, I may remark that I have always been of opinion that Mary street, situated as it isdirectly over.a gully into whicli flows all tbe drainage of the neighbourhood, is a most favourable spot for the outbreak or spread of an epidemic of this nature.—Yours, kc, "John Drysdale, M.D." A short discussion ensued, the opinion of the meet- G, . ing being that, even if it was a case of typhoid fever, - "it had uo doubt been superinduced, in the particular case before tliem, by the constitutional condition of the deceased. At the same time, it was essential that every precaution to. prevent the spread of so deadly a disease should be taken. Hence, ] Mr M'Kenzie moved— "Th»t a copy of Dr Drysdale's j communication be forwarded to the Board of Health, di aud that His Worship the Mayor, with Councillors a i . Middleditch, Rose, and M'Kenzie, be a Committee to 4 watch over the town, and to confer with Dr Drysdale f ( on the matter, with power to act if necessary." The resolution was seconded by Mr Rose, and carried unanimously. , It was then moved by Mr M'Kenzie, seconded by _, Mr Middleditch. and carried—"That copies of the Act be obtained by the Clerk for the use of the Coun- . cil." S OTAGO AN INDEPENDENT COLONY. TO THK EDITOR. Sm—The utterances of the Minister of Justice (Mr j Bowen) at Kaiapoi. should convince the people of j Otago, if further proof were wanting, that the time las come for proclaiming the Province an independent j ...-Colony. It is mere clap-trap to talk of New Zealand becoming a nation, kc We already form an integral portion of the most powerful nation the world has ever . .seen. Our business here in Otago is to look after our own interests, and not to allow our hard-earned savings, or rather taxes, to be any longer expended for the benefit of Northern paupers. The North already draws from us all our Customs .: Tevenue ani other taxes amounting to nearly half-a--million sterling per annum. The time has now come to stop this little game. If we are to prove true to ourselves as well as to , Dosterity, we.in Otago must dissolve the partnership which has so long existed to our detriment, and unanimously demand that the Province be proclaimed an independent Culjny. 1 Hoping you will use your powerful influence in the %• furtherance of ,this object, and rouse the people of ( Otago to a sense of their own interests—l am, &c, •As Otaoo Colonist. Dunedin,,6th January. FUNERAL REFORM. TO TIIE EDITOR. ( Sir—7>i re "funeral reform," allow me to make the ] ..following suggestions. Let the City Corporation pro- 1 vide the sextons of each cemetery with a pall, and a t • couple of .black-painted spokes or bearers, to be lent 1 .. out for a small fee, and a surety to any individual •conducting an interment, such person 111:13' either be - a friend of the deceased or acting professionally as an undertaker. If conducted by a friend or friends, the j cost of a.funeral would be reduced t. a minimum, for ..there would only be the price of the coffin and the sexton's fees (pall and spokes included); and if con■r ducted by an undertaker, there would be the extra • cost of his time bringing the coffin and attending the :-A uneral 4 but in either case, the cost could scarcely -reach £s—say £2 for the coffin, £2 for the undertaker, . and £1 for sexton's fees; or any of the items might cost more or less, but 1 think the total is pretty near -the.mark; wheieas, by the present system, the most ordinary funeral costs "from £15 to £20, and as much -above that as you please. I have suggested the above for people in the TumiDler ranks of life, but I can state of my own .knowledge that in nearly all the towns of Scotland, -with the exception of some of the larger ones, and I •don't know that even they are exceptions, such 3 uv.era'.s are adopted by all classes of society, and are •considered quite as lespectable as any other manner • of burial. The coffin, covered with the pall, is carried •on the two bearers, first by the relations or friends of the deceased, and afterw.rds in turn by all those in :attendance, who consider it a mark of respect to the anemory of the deceased to help to carry the remains -to the grave. Such a funeral to my mind is simple, solemn, and unpretending, and I know to any working man whose resources are perhaps reduced very - low by long sickness in his family, when death comes such a manner of interment will recommend itself as being equally as respectable as any other mode, and certainly much less expensive.—l am, &c., , J. M. B. Strangers paying a visit to Dunedin are often at a loss to Ifnow which is the best establishment to visit lor the purchase of drapery and clothing. Herbert, Haynes, and Co. offer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in the city. They ieep afc all times the largest and best assorted stock of «very class of goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers and warehousemen at home, which, being bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to offer goods of such sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at a fixed price for ready money, from which no abatement is ever made, so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the -same price as the best judges. Tlieir terms are—net cash without discount or reduction of any kind. A fuller description o their stock mil be found in an -.advertisement in the first page of this naDer.—TAdvt. 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