BIT TOWN BOARD

Otago Witness, Issue 2857, 16 December 1908, Page 17

BIT TOWN BOARD

him, deceased said : " Oh; there will be I * plenty of time, then." ' Witness said he' The usual meeting of the Bay Town had known deceased for about eight" yeans. { Board was held on the 7th ioet. Present— » Constable Walton gave -evidence .as to Messrs Somersrille {in tbe .chair), Hewitt', finding, the deceased and* the" examination Yb.une£son, I^eslfe, and Mtfardy. of tho body by Dr Allan. Witness A. Lee-Smitji wrote atating that he was searched the deceased's clothes, and in- the" cutting a road through his son's property, coat pocket he found a pieoe of paper] ant * snggestfnpr 'an ' improvement to .the (evidently alluding to deceased's wife), on Main road "tf the bank mi front of the which was written with a... pencil :— " De- ' K^P? 1 " 1 ?, wei> « levelled down. Mr Lee-j cojnber 5: 1.15 p.m. train- to Mosgiel.— [ S™**" f l^ ffum-anteed that jf the board) Good-bye, Ellen. I hop* God will forgive "©moved *he- bank he would secure the, adyou, a. 1 have forgiven \ou. I still love ' .loimnir ground by erecting a wall.--.On Mr, you with all your fadlu." I will end this '■ M Ourdy s motion it was resolved that the life on arrival at Mosgiel to-day. Tarn ' fe^"* renio T VG * he 6^ J 4^* «uite sane."- W.tnoss'said thai ho aUo " SS2^ JSS-St

found a letter addressed to Mr H

Wid-rlowsoU;

in which -deceased sat

The Secretary of the Society for the Pro*

forth ,his troubles, a,nd asking Mr

motion of. the Health of Women and -CiuH clrcn wrote informing 1 the board that »he

to take care

of hie

(deceased's]

had .arranged with, the Littl© Sisters o# the

daughter

Further correspondence

expla'nuton of deceased's domestio troubles.

Poor to connect with the water supply t<*

and addressed, to M.r . , Waddo^aHr, wd.s also found. .'..'•>'> The*© Jet tftes were read »fco'-ihtd'^ury".' The details suggested keen' •mfr'tttal 0 axixfcty op the part of tho^deceaepd,! *md showed thathe considered his domestic^ tro»ii}es to be particukrly trying, and such.^3,^9 provoke th uisomnia'a 1 - nfal " winch ul'

the institution controlled b,y the latter, antP 1 $je board's permission'. — The Chair-<j ma,H rejprte/JT that a» the case was upgenfc Jje '.Ead gVsn *he, necessary permission.— ' dbftj ! riif^'s.a<rlii«n yras apprpvefl. » •Pvnbah^ilnd MacGregor, tl*e board** 'sdlioifiorSj ' ' wrote " forwardityr , a draft agreement' 'drawn up by Messrs' ~Hogkingj '-*«<i Ooofe," b— "" the terms n which.'

•c v np ip%nrai jkuiv w.nj.c civ art ,00,. embracing , upo- -^ ininat«d co ttagjcaUy. - Messrs Biegff Bros, would allow the'boarcl Without retiring, the jurr returned a 'to carry a drain through their property at The draft was submitted back

verdict to the* effect that death was due

1 Crau3ton.~—

to a bullet wound inflicted while deceased

com p lotion.

was temporarily insane:

n eonoei

lainfc received

-from A. M. Byrne "re the bank fut his property in tho cutting on the read leading- from Hie main road to the( Tomahawk Lagoon, it was resolved^ that a committee consisting of M&stva. Leslie, Yoimgson, and M'Ourdie inspectf tliu mad, with power to act. A. Weir's tender for tbo erection of p .pot»id in *he <li<»t-riot «t £27 was accepted/ »bo work to be proceeded with' alt once.' In thib connection Mx Jas. San4«rson i?&s appointed poundkeeper. i l*he xatxgpt, reported having impoiuwlQd! 41 auinjals dv^ring the month.— Received. Thomas Begg sad 36 others wrote drawing the board's attention to the annoyance and 1 , damage ca-used by wanderio^f cattle in the vicinity of Bayfreld, an<l £wkm£ that Btfija*' gont measures be taken to abate the nuis^ ance. — Rfe6eived. *