CLYBE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 30 March 1904, Page 31

CLYBE.

March 26.— The Vincent County Council iLeld -"their usual bi-monthly meeting here on Wednesday and Thursday last, when a full council -was present. Quite a budget of correspondence from the various departments of the <3-overnment was read and dealt with. The engineer's .report was adopted after the several recommendations it contained w-ere agreed to. The roaci inspector's report -dealt with the repairs necessary to roads after the recent plump of -rain, and gave an estimate of the cost of forming a. track from Boundary Creek, Lake Waaiaia, to- Tarawera Hut. Mi Paulks, of Makarora Station, had sent in a request to the - effect that the track to Tarawera Hut "be iomied before spring, as he would : i&quire "to use it ait about "that time. It was decided to.give Mr Faiulks a subsidy of pcuaid \ foi .pound xrp to £10, provided he undertook io carry out the work of forming the track to the satisfaction of She road inspector. Gr M'-Whirter drew ihe -attention a£ the council to the outbreak oi typhoidi fever in the Grom■well district. "There "was," he said, "a- danger of the disease becoming- epidemic if early steps were -not taken to trace the disease to its source. The .Health Department should send a competent officer to tihe district -with a view , to discovering iLe actaaJ cause of the outbreak. It was sheer nonsense to say that the sickness ■was introduced by a shearer at Mount 'Pisa Station just beoause the -man referred to happened 40-ibe «ligiht3y indisposed -at &c time. The .fact that this -same man ' cut out ' some 1500 sheep af terwards .at -Morven Hills Station ■would show that he was not troublecS by typhoid fever." After ,some heated remarks knent the capabilities of an officer sent up recently to investigate the cause of the out"braak of typhoid at Mount Pisa the council instructed the clerk to write to ~Ds Mason pointing out the seriousness of lihe pesition in the 'Cromwell district. The Chairman made highly complimentary reference to ■the efforts of Dr Morris, of Cromwell, in combating the disease, and his unfailing attention to the patients placed under his charge in the local hospital. The count"? treasurer's statement showed a d«bit balance of JEIIB4 3s 2d at bank, and alsc- a serious falling off in values an mining property. The values of mining property •within the county in 1903-4 were £163,632, while those for the year 1904-5 are £136,896 — a difference of £26,735. The report was adoptedi. Cr Laidla-w's motion — "That £300 be -spent in forming and gravelling the road from, Muddy Creek to Lauder railway station" — was seconded pro forma by Ct Rutherford, but •was opposed by other councillors on. the gionnd that the county funds were too low to warrant the expenditure. The motion was not earned. The- council decided not to undertake tihe erection, of a footbridge over the Manuherikia River at Robertson's crossing. A deputation of settlers in the Waikerikeri Valley waited on the ccuncil requesting that tiiey be granted permission to use water .from the Clyde water race. Mr ; Bartholomew, solicitor, Alexandra, appeared tc j suppart the request of the deputation, consideration of which was adjourned to next sitting of the council. Accounts for the preceding two months, amounting tt £1846 17s, were passed for payment. ! A Correction. — I am informed that I was in error m stating' in my recent motes that ai case ©i typhoid fever which had fatal results in the Ihinstan Hospital came from Alexandra. It seems that the patient was resident at Shingle Creek or Gorge Creek, either locality being several miles distant from, andi south of, Alexandra. I thank my informant for setting me right in this matter, and may assure him that I was pleased at learning that there has not been a case of typhoid fever in Alesanclra for some time pasti ' •

Rabbit Depot. — Messrs Ruddin and Co. are establishing a receiving depot for rabbit caicases at Clyde, whence a tlpiiy service of vsic* is to run to Ophir railway station during ths winter months. It is remanrkable how rabbit exporters focus the rabbit-infested wastes, even to the remotest corners of the colony.