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Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1674, 29 March 1883, Page 3

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A si'KtTATi meeting of the above body was held at the Town Board office, Cambridge, on Tuesday evening last. Present : Cra. Wells (chairman), Johnson and Nixon. Town Draisaok and the Education Bo\Ki). — Tlie Chairman explained the object of the meeting. As they were doubtless aware he had received a communication fiom the solicitors of the Education Board to the effect that they would not allow the laying of new and larger pipes tluough lot 42 (education reserve). The work, was at once to be stnj ped, and the ground filled in where it had been opened. With respect to the existing drains the board was anxious to give the Town Boa id all reasonable time to remove the nuisance which is caused by the overflow of this drain upon the lower land adjoining the school ground. Tlnee months were allowed to enable the board to make other and better at range ments. The communication concluded with the intimation that the Education Board was quite determined to put a stop to a nuisance which it had been informed would inevitably lead to much mischief, ' beeausing the bite to become unhealthy. This communication was accompanied by two notices di awn up in the usual form and stamped with the seal of the Boaid of Education. — The Chan man, referring to the letter, said he was voiy .sony to learn that the bo.ud had been— bo far as he could judge- misinformed on the matter of the alleged nui&aiicc. No one was,|iioic aveise to the existence of a nuis.,iuco in the town than he, and he felt convinced the othei membeis of the board entertained a like feeling on the matter. He had examined the locality whcic the nuisance was alleged to exist, but failed to see anything which might warrant the Education Board in the course winch they had adopted. As regaids the legality of their action they had no stand whatever. He had looked into the law on the matter and found that section 184, Public Works Act, ISB2, made the diain complained of a jmblic diain; bcction 21 1, Municipal Corporations Act, 1870, \ested the diain in the JJomam Board ; section 222 ot the same Act inflicted a penalty of C2O for stopping or obstiucting a public drain ; suction 219 of the same act empoweicd the board to maku a diain on private land; section 183 gave special poveis beyond the Public Woiks Act; sections 179, 21(5, empowered the boaid to acquire any land within the borough for diainage ; section 10 and 1!) dealt with the procedure for taking lands ; section 228 laid down that the board was not to create a nuisance. It would consequently bo seen by this that the Education Board were not acting on a firm basis. So long as they kept from creating a nuisance they could make a diain through any pi oporty within the town. Ho had piep.uul a resolution on the matter which lie thought would meet the views of the board and would piopose "That the notices from the Education Boaid of Auckland appeal to have been issued on the supposition that the public drain cieated a nuisance, nth Mr Lusk's letter accompanying the notice^. That with a view of placing a correct statement before the Education Board, this board do visit and inspect the diain, and lmestigate the lepoited nuisance, the boaid to meet on the ground on Fiiday next, at 1 1.30 a.m. And further that the members of the school committee be iinited to accompany the boaid on their visit, and to make such repiesentation to the Education Boaid as in their opinion the case merits." —Carried. R.uijW U Stvtiov Sitk. —It was proposed by Cr, Nixon, and seconded by Cr. Johnson, " That to facilitate the acquisition by the (lo\ eminent ot the lands abutting on Whitaker Terrace and Queen -street for railway station pin poses, the boaid will (on the Government acquiring the liehts and interests ot Messrs Hally, McXeish and Passmorc to their seveial piopeities abbutting on the said streets) cede the rights and interests of the board in and to parts ot lots 418 and 419, to the Public Works Department, for the purposes above-named : Ami further, the board will offer no objection to the department acquiring the portion of Chapel-street lying to the North of ljuoen-street "West.— Carried. A communication from Mr Errington on the Water supply question was readund the meeting terminated.

Tin: payment of 300,000 pesetas has been authorised by the Spanish Government to indemnify sufferers by the Carlist rebellion. In Brittany, Jerusalem artichokes, twej^y-Wfcee pounds ppr day ration, are convting with parsnips in the feeding of lyoTses . They are said to produce a sleeker coat, and the animal relishes them better. They remain more juicy at the end of season, when parsnips and carrots arc dry and insipid. The Union (Rome) published a pointifical circular on Nov. 25, issued in connection with the action of Signor Martinucia against the Papal major-domo, before the Court of Appeal, which confirmed the discision of the Court of First Instance that the jurisdiction of the Italian tribunal extended within the walls of the Vatican. The circular declare? that the sentence of the Roman tribunal is in violation of the extra-territorial character of the Vatican, and an insult to the Pope. Tiiebb has been 'a strike of printers in Vifenna for some time. It has assumed 1 siich large 1 'diniehsioris r that some papers haVfc appeared half the Usual size, 'and' fche printing of books has 'ceased- ■ alv together. The jprinteijs" left' their work suddenly, without giving ihe legal' warn"}&J±3j™t™ght .and ttiey' We 'to 1 danger^ ofoeing taken up by the police for yheir illegal, prpceedings, theV'fcli; jre^ ' tfarnfld.iib tl)ejr,wQrk,,'at, the-8)»Jnls ,timp giring warning that they woald'leavo . it 1 ' * J| I - f ' id? ' •*? '