SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1838, 12 June 1874, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(Per Anglo-Australian Tolegraph Press Agency.) : " "« Littleton, Thursday. : The following cargo has been shipped per 'ityno' for Auckland":—soo sacks potatoes, 200 sacks wheat, 400 sacks oats. —Cleared: The ships ■'Portland' and • Oiria,'for Sydney. Dunedin, Thursday. A large fire broke out in Stafford-street which was the most destructive for years .past. It started atG.F. Keid's store, but its origin is unknown'. The goods of the Mosgiel Woollen factory were on the same premises.. The insurance on the Mosgiel Factory is £2,000 in the New Zealand Company and £1,000 in the Standard; Reid's, £500 in tho Few Zealand, £1,000 in the South British, and £1,000 in tho Standard. There was great excitement. The fire brigade worked wolf. A number of buildings were' threatened with destruction,— Seventy' thousand'new Colonial Bank ' shares havo. been placed in Otago and Southland alone. ,-ifc Gbeytown, Thursday. \lfc has been resolved, at a well attended ; public meeting, to form a Cottage Building Company, to meet the wants of new arrivals. Naked; Thursday. Amotion for sending the estimates to a select committee to revise was thrown put last night in the Council by fourteen

THAMES BOROUGH COUNCIL. The usual weekly meeting of the Borough Council was held last evening at the offices, . Queen-street.. Present-Mr Ehrenfried, • Mr Butt, Mr Wilson, Mr Anthony. These members were present at. the hour of meeting, seven o'clock, and as they did not make a quorum, the foreman of works was despatched for Dr. Kilgour, who earnest a quarter before eight, and, in the absence of the Mayor in Auckland, was called to the chair. • Bbanch Tramwiy ik Bbma-steeet.— A letter was read from Mr John McOabe requesting permission, on behalf, of the Queen of Beauty shareholders, to continue a branch tramway from the company's hopper to the tramway in Bella-street. The request was granted, on condition that there was no objection on the part of. the Warden. Another letter from Mr John Mc.Cabe, drawing attention .to the damage done to the Bella-street tramway by the drays, was read.-The Council' decided that they could not interfere.-

Footpath in Mack it-street. —Attention' was drawn to the state of Mackaystreet by Mr Garrett.-Beferred to Works Committee.

: -Kerosene License.—A letter was ; read 1 requesting \'permission to hare 'a kerosene license" l for the ■ shop of French and Co., Qwen-stree'ti Grahams-! tpwh.-rAftersome discussion .the matter! was! referred to the Works see if there was.a place on the premises' fit for.a kerosene, store.;:.'.

Ornamental ' Signboard. —A letter was read from Mr Richard-Madden,' hairdresser, asking leave to erect an ornamental signboard 'close to the watertable near the 'Grahnmstown wharfs Referred to Works Committee.

QrjAEBT at Boundary Ceeek. — An 1 application was made by Messrs Brett' ana others, stating that they intended to, open a 1 quarry for road metal at Boundary! Creek, Tararu, and stating'that a tram-; Way would have to be made'to'the Tararu! road,... .The. letter stated ( thaC if. the. Council would make the. tramway they would supply them with metal.ata reasonable rate. Referred to Works Com-.' mittee. ,■. ... '

; EePOBT- OF WoBKS.—! A report was ;read: from the Foreman of Works pointing out that some of the streets were getting in a bad state, and onaccount of some dispute the' contractor for metal could not bring metal from the Hapo Creek.,, He urged that the Oouabil: should endeavour to get metal for repair; of road at Tararu. j' .-.'.' !

- Fibe. Eate : and Dog. Nuisance A6t. ; —A report was read, from the committee appointed with reference to by-laws. The.report stated that they found the Fire; 'Eate Act heretofore in force was more suitable to meet the requirements of the; Borough than any regulation' they could make. They had therefore altered'the; working of the Act to ;make it suitable to the Borough, and suggested that they should send it to. the Council. The Act also contained provisions '. provid-i ing for. the payment of-monies under -the Dog Nuisance Act to the Borough Council.—The Town Clerk was directed to send the bill to ; some member of the Council.

Proposed Beidge oveb the KauwaeBANGi.—A report from the Works Committee was read, which stated that a new bridge was required over the Kauwaeranga. The cost of the bridge it was' stated would amount to £300.—Mr Butt strongly urged that the bridge should be built, .If.an accident happened there, the Council would be morally guilty of manslaughter,-It was agreed to instruct the Engineer to prepare plans and specifications for a bridge across the Hape Creek, t'6 be ready by the 18th, ; Eabaea CBEBic.-In regard to the state of the Karaka Creek at its mouth, the report urged the Council to take step's to. induce the Provincial Government to carry out the plan of straightening the creek, as proposed by the present and the former Executive.—lt was agreed that the Government should be reminded of their promise to complete the work.—On a recommendation from the Works Committee it was agreed to repair a portion of the footpath in Mary-street at.once, and another portion on the residents paying part of the expense. Some discussion took place with reference to the repair of the drain in Williamson-street. —Mr Butt thought the residents of the locality should subscribe something. —It was agreed that the work should be proceeded with.

• The Sinking of Bella-street.—ln reference to this matter, which had been remitted to them, the committee recommended that notice should be given to . the Queen : of ;Beauty shareholders to raise, the road and pitch and metal it at onee, so far as it had suffered from the work done in their mine.—Mr Anthony said : they had been working under the road,' and it had fallen in. The Queen of Beauty people said it was the Bright Smile who had worked under the roadj but the manager of that claim said it was the Queen of Beauty. It was some disputed ground, and both parties had been working it as hard as ever they could. Mr Benney, the manager of the Bright Smile, said they did not go so far.' The question was, could the Council make the Queen of Beauty repair it.—The Chairman: Unquestionably.—Mr Butt: Sup. pose the Queen of Beauty people do not take any notice of the notice you give them,? -Mr Ehrenfried: I think it would be'rather dangerous to meddle with these Queen of Beauty people, if they are like Mr Stewart. —The Foreman of Works said he had seen them repairing the road, and they had put about a foot of sludge into it.-Mr Ehrenfried said that no doubt the ground had given way over the Queen of Beauty claim. If they had allowed the, Bright Smile people to go to work in thoir ground, it was not the Council's business.-The Chairman said the first step would be to ascertain where the injury had occurred, and give , the_ party notice. -It ms agreed that notice should be given to the Queen of Beauty shareholders that the ground must be made good according to the directions of the Council's engineer.The Chairman remarked that no doubt ■$hey were reasonable men in the mine, although they might get angry »ometimes with Mr Ehrenfried.—Mr Ehrenfried : I do not know what you would call reasonable men.—The Chairman: I did not say that they were reasonable in what they said to you, but I have no doubt they are generally reasonable. — Mr Ehrenfried: A certain discussion takes place in this Council, and in consequence Ihavebeenwflntonlyingulted,and I do not think it comes well from the Chairman to say that he has no doubt they are reasonable men. I thiuk it would bo the duty of theCounoil in such a case to take steps to see that such a thing does not occur again.—The Chairman: Nobody, j think, would stand up and defend the conduct of Mr Stewart, but I repeat that I have no doubt you will find the shareholders of tho Queen of Beauty perfectly reasonable men to deal with.—MrHhreni ftfed I snoke about ono particular man,

He said that since the question of the Queen of Beauty was raised it would be I well to consider what steps should be taken to prevent the recurrence of such a circumstance, and save the members from insult. Ho would not hare mentioned the oiroumstance at all, but for the remarks of the Chairman.-The Chair-.' man said his remarks had reference to all the shareholders, and lie repeated that he had no doubt they would find the shareholders reasonable men.' He sympathised with Mr Ehrenfried, but the unreasonableness of one man should not be made applicable to all.— said after the explanation made by the Chairman, he would press the matter no further.

• Additional Powm —Captain Butt asked what steps liad'beea taken by the committee appointed to obtain additional powers from the .General-.Government,; and .whether they had any, report to submit.—The'Chairman said .there was no report at present; they were waiting to see the result of the application made through Mr Brown to the Provincial Council.. MrKenshaw was added -to .the committee.

Endowments.—Captain Butt said that the proposed by hiiri at tho'lasfc meeting' : hM''inbfr' ! beeft seconded. -■ He would now move 'the i; same motion as follows:-" That the Mayor .be requested to tgkeimmediate steps' ■to 1 obtain- all information anent the foreshore, wharfs, tramways, &c, of leaßes granted, rents-, on ,<:same, and ■ whether such 'rents' have . been. .paid ,or not.— Mr Anthony''seconded the motion.— —In reply .to.;Mr<:Ehrenfried,. Captain Butt said that his only purpose was for eliciting information. He saw by the report of the meeting with the' Superintendent, , that; > immediately '• been given for the repair of the Tar'aru wharf. Comparisons were odious, but the lessee of the Shortland wharf had received orders to repair a portion of the wharf which required repairs immediately. What was sauce to the goose was sauce for the gander, and if there was nothing to ; iide/it ought'to see the: light' of dayj'and-the publio'ought ? to know of it.—The Chairman mentioned that when in Auckland, the members of the Provin;Cial.. Council' told hiin that they recommended the Superintendent not to expend money on the Tararu wharf except Jhe. present lessees give up all interest in it. That was the position taken up by the Committee :of the (Provincial'' Oouncils-H-i The motion was i then'put ;to the Council and carried.

Tbndebs.—The tender of Thomas Dare for Nos. l; 2,3, and '41 contract's 'for road metal—6o yards in Gr-rey-atreet, 10a; 30 yards; 1 Willoughby-street, 10s; .180 yards, Eichmond-street, 10s;•100 yardsV-Pollen-street, : the ;only; tenders -fori these quantities,. ; w.as- ; a,ccepted*.j,Thomas Dunlop, 130 yards, j;p.^'at 1 9s' , 6d;'.Nol 5, metal in Albert-street,, OBrett, 10s 6d; No. 6, Brett, 10s . 6d;,.,,,Np, 8, Brett, 50 yards, Golden 'Crown and 50 yards, Burke-street, 10s 6d. The tender of James O'Connor, for 155 yards of second-class metal suitable for Tararu Road at 6s per. yard,'.was accepted. Fibe Inspemob. .-—.. On-the motion of Mr Ehrenfried, it• was : :resolved.-to, recommend the Mayor to; appoint Mr C. Curtis!.second Fire Inspector for the Thames...-. ....:. ,

Hates.—ln regard to the question raised by the Bate Collector as to whether he would be justified in accepting proportion of the rates from a.person in occupation of a'house in case the person who occupied it at the time the rate was struck had : left the district, • Mr Ehrenfried- thought the Collector should receive instructions to accept the proportion'of rates due by present occupants.—The Chairman said it would never do to pass a resolution or make a precedent of it, or they would lose money by it every year, but under present circumstances it might be advisable to instruct the' Collector to the effect mentioned. It was of consequence in the commencement of their career to get asmuoh_ money as possible.—After some discussion, Captain Butt suggested that the question be postponed until next meeting. It was an important question, and they were a small Council to-night. —Mr Ehrenfried moved that the Collector be empowered to receive .rates from tenants for the time they had been in occupation.—Mr Wilson: ..seconded the: motion.—Captain Butt moved an amendment that the question be postponed until next week, and that the Collector in the prepare a;list.—Mr Anthony seconded the amendment, which was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman. The Council then adjourned.