MAURICEVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7501, 2 July 1903, Page 4

MAURICEVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL.

The ordinary meeting of the Council was held on Saturday, the 27th day of June. Present: Councillors C. Churchill, Jackson (Chairman), E. Pedersen, C. Forsberg, F. W. H. Kuminer, J. C. Cooper and H. J. Dagg. Messrs L. P. Larsen and L. A. Schow wrote asking the Council to raise a loan of £100 to metal Mt. Munro-road West, and guaranteeing the preliminary , expenses in the event of failing to obtain the loan. It was resolved to return the letter of Messrs Larsen and Schow, with a view to section 14 being taken out of the proposed rating district for the loan, as it has no frontage to the road proposed to be metalled, and has an unformed road passing through it, on account of which it may at some subsequent period be specially rated; also, that the ratepayers interested may agree to consent to the special rate and thus avoid the expense of a poll. The Secretary to the Wairarapa Benevolent Institutions wro.te, stating! that Mrs Pierloni will be returned to this district, but offering as an alternative to allow her to remain in the Ohiro Home, provided the Council contributes §3 6d j per week. It was ultimately resolved to agree to contribtute 6s 6d per week towards Mrs Pierloni's maintenance in the Ohiro Home. The revised valuation rolls were received from the Department. A refund of registration fee paid by Mr C. H. Smith was received from the Treasury. D. Christie wrote, pointing out the neglect of necessary repairs on Mangatainoka yalley-road, and asking for some improvement to be made. The Sanitary Inspector reported visits to the district; in one case he had caused a closet to be erected, and had disinfected J,he dwelling where several cases of scarlet fever had occurred ; in another house, where three children are suffering from scarlet fever, ho had left proper disinfectants, to be used when the patients have recovered,

Tho Secretary to the Charitable Aid Board forwarded statement of accounts, and demand for contribution for 1903-4 £19 17s, being an increase of i>27 19s over last year.

Mr Kirk, of the Agricultural Department, forwarded copies of leaflets on noxious weeds and diseases in stock.

Mr T. A. Weaton wrote, stating that the late storm had damaged a culvert on Mt. Munro-road Eaet, and pointing out £hat jt would probably be found necessary to put jn a now culvert; also, that further damage will occur uoless it is attended to soon.

Messrs Neilson, Easmussen and Petersen wrote, opposing the closing of the road between sections 40 and 42 Mauriceyille Settlement.

The Chairman and Crs. Foreberg and Pederson were appointed to meet Messrs Neileon, Basmusscn and Petersen, respecting the proposed closing of the Voad adjoining their properties, and endeavour to come to some amicable agreement.

The Hon. Secretary to the Veterans' Home forwarded circular letter, asking for information respecting any men from this district who served with the troops and died, or were killed in South Africa, during the late war.

The plerjf was directed to inform the Hon. Secretary of tbo Veterans' Home that no men froui this district aro known to have' died or been killed in South Africa during the late war. The Chairman and Crs. Porsberg and Pedersen were appointed to endeayour to make suitable arrangements in ppp r nection with the pound. It was resolved to unitp with the Mas.terton Borough and. Masterton County in erecting a fever hospital, provided certain details are satisfactorily ar. ranged, instructions were given to got the i necessary repairs effected on the Mangatainoka Valley-road West attended to. It was resolved to strike a General Rate of five-eighths of a penny in the for the current year. Accounts to 5s lid were passed for payment • and tho' Council adjourned until 10 a.m on' Saturday, the 25 th July next,

Engineers all the world over are keeping I a spare e-ye on the Simplon Tunnel, which ' i 3 now more than three-quarters accomp-! lished. For them there is a point of special j interest, quite apart from the fact that this j will be the longest tunnel in the world. The point is that the two boring parties, which started work in different countries and with twelve and a half miles between them, will soon be within meeting distance. Already, for four years and more, they have been trying to join hands, literally in tho dark, but guided by the light of scientific calculation, and the question is, will they ever meet at all, and, if so, how nearly? If, as is expected, the two tubes meet one another and coincide within inches, after groping by scientific faith for so long a distance and so long a time, the result will be a triumph for the accuracy of practical mathematics.

The King's visit to Malta recalls an old and what is credited as a true story. Everyone knows the Armoury at Government house ; at each side of it are many euits of the old knights' armour standing life-like as if the gallant bodies that bore them ivero still inside the breastplate. It was noticed that on the occasion of a big ball the then Governor's daughter took particular care always to stand near one particular mailed suit between the dances. The climax came when she asked an old and confidential friend who was danciDg with her to get her a brandy-and-Eoda," here—quick," as no one was about. He promptly obeyed, and to his amazement saw the lady lift the dead knight's visor and hold up the refreshing draught to ihe opening. The secret was out. A young officer, whose attentions to the Governor's daughter had been the cause of his removal to an outlying fort had smuggled himself into the armoury in order to see his lady love.