Whataupoko Road Board.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 294, 4 May 1889, Page 3

Whataupoko Road Board.

A OENBXAL meeting of ratepayers in the above Board was held on Thursday evening, when there were present—Messrs Coleman (in the chair), Clayton, Joyce, Jennings, O’Ryan, O'Meara, Lewis, Perryer, and the clerk, Mr J. Warren. The Clerk read the statement of accounts, showing a balance of loan in bank £1978 12s 6d, of General Account £BB 8s 4d, and of Deposit Account £26.

The Chairman reviewed the statement, and explained that nearly all the works were let, and that there was a small balanoejof money left for repairs. The meeting then closed. At noon on the same day the Board held their annual meeting. Messrs Sievwright snd Beers wrote stating that some repairs were necessary in Richardson’s avenue.

The Clerk was ordered to report to next meeting as to what repairs were necessary. Mr Carroll wrote granting permission for a road to be laid through Metohitohi, without charge, provided the Board would fence the lend. Mr Lange wrote complaining of the feed that was given to impounded horses, and forwarding a sample of the same. Resolved that the poundkeeper should be informed of the complaint and asked if it were a fair sample, and if so, that he refund the 7s 6d fee. Messrs Bourke and Matthews waited on the Board, as a deputation, with reference to Fox Street, and asking that the gravel should be extended to the whole length of the road. The deputation was informed that tbe Board would endeavor to meet the wishes of the residents.

Mr A. J. O'Neil wrote asking for an extension of time on his contract in Ballance Street,

It was decided that the remuneration to the Clerk for tbe past year be £2O. Two thirds of that amount to be charged to Loan account.

The Treasury Department wrote deciding that section 21 of the Loans to Local Bodies Act could only apply when there was a whole district in which there ware not less than 100 ratepayers. Mr G. L- Sunderland, ae manager for Nelson Bros., tendered at £145 lor building a bridge across the Hapara stream. The Clerk said that Mr Sunderland was quite willing to meet tbe Board it the price tendered for was too high. It was decided to accept the tender at £l4O. Mr Gannon wrote asking for * continuation of the works in Stout Street to Mangapsps boundary. It was agreed to let the matter stand over until the present works were completed, The following accounts were ordered to be laid :—P. W. Lange, £1 5s 5d ; Dolman and licks, £163 19a 8d ; M. Jennings, £4 8s ; A. Lange, £32 13s 3d ; J, OUiver, £5 12s; A. J, O’Neil, £4O ; G. Bice, £4 ; R. Knox, £6O; T. S. Lewis, £3 4s ; B. Knox, £2O ;W. O’Byan, £lO, G. Humphreys, £2 ss, J. Warren, £2O; County Council, £6 ss,

The Auckland “ Military ” Blackguards.

The blackguardly conduct of the Auckland military hoodlums is further referred to by a Hamilton correspondent of the N.Z. Herald, as follows :—lt is to be hoped that the enquiry ordered by the Defence Minister to be instituted into the conduct of the volunteers at the Easter encampment will be searching and impartial. This is to be desired ; first for the sake of the service itself, and secondly for that of the large majority of those who took part in it, for it will be found that the acta complained of were nearly altogether, if not wholly, confined to one branch of the service, and that of these the Waitemata Navals were the most conspicuous. Much that was not known at the time has since transpired, and the police had on some occasions a warm time of it. Why pickets were not sent out at sundown is most surprising. Had this been done the rioting at the Royal Hotel, the arrest and handcuffing of prisoners, and their rescue by their comrades could not have taken place. This is clearly proved by the action taken by the officer left behind in charge of the fatigue party. Some of these men—Navels—were giving much trouble to the inhabitants and police during the afternoon ; but, in consequence of a request sent to the officer in command, pickets were sent to both aides of the river, and order was kept that night. It is the Navels and the Navels only that complaints are now heard of, women and girls being addressed and insulted by day upon the streets, and ladies haying to take refuge in the shops; of language in the ranks even unfit for description, in one instance eo foul that it was described as not English garnished with oaths, but oaths with just sufficient English to render them intelligible. The case was this: A petty officer had picked up a pouch or purse, and asked who had lost one. The man carrying the pplprs claimed it, and enumerated one or two things it contained. Th® officer asked what else there was he could identify it by ’ Then a comrade in tbe ranks struck in wjth his advice not to give the b—b—any more information, and so on in the same strain. Of course every allowance may fairly be made for frolicsome attempts to imitate the antics of Jack ashore, but this cannot be extended to stealing pewter pots from hotels, and hurling them through the glass windows of a public library; taking possession of buggies, and refusing to turn out, and similar objectionable acts, As a whole, the conduct of the volunteers was most orderly, and none felt more than them selves the disgrace whioh a small section of their body was bringing upon them as a whole. An inquiry, however, to be of any use, mutt be directed as much into tbe conduct of the officers as of the mon, Jf sotpe of the latter disgraced their corps, it is tnainlv due to the want of dioipline enforced. The officers seem to be afraid of the men, In the old days, when volunteering meant soldiering, the larger proportion of the officers had served in the Imperial army, and matters were very different. As a matter of drill and discipline, old soldiers here declared the Easter enaampment a farce, and wait* of time and money.

A late telegram stated that the will of the late John Bylands, of Manchester, bad been proved, the total personality being £2,574,922 5s 83. The following is a list of legacies bequeathed to charitable and other institutions : — Religious Tract Society, £10,000; Owens College, £10,000; Baptist College, Regent’s Bark, London, £10,000; Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks' Orphan Schools, £10,000; Lancashire and Cheshire Congregational Chapel and School Building Society, £lO,OOO ; Manchester Royal Infirmary, £5000; Manchester Boyal Eye Hospital, £5000; Manchester Look Hospital, £5000; Wigan Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, £5000; Manchester and Salford Asylum for Female Penitents, £5000; London City Mission, £5000; Manchester City Mission, £5000; London Missionary Society, £5000; Baptist Missionary Society, £5000; Protestant Dissenting Ministers Belief Society, £5000; National Society for Aged and Infirm Baptist Ministers, £5000; Ministers' Friend or Associate Fund, £5000; Baptist Pastors' Income Augmentation Society, £5000; Lanoashire Congregational Union, £5OOO ; Lan. cashire Independent College, £5000; Nottingham Congregational Institute, £5000; Bala Independent College, £5000; Manchester Young Men's Christian Association, '£8000; Bunday School Union, £2000; Commercial Travellers' Christian Association, £2000; Lancashire Congregational IMiniatsrs' Provident Society, £2000; Lanosshire Congragational Pastors' Aid Fund, £2000; Lancashire and Cheshire Congregational Pastors’ Insurance Fund, £2000; Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, £2000; Bt, Mary's Hospital, Manchester, £1000; Clinical HospL tai for Ohjldren, Manchester, £1000; Manchester and Salford Boys’ and Girls' Befuges and Homes, £1000; Girls’ Home, Higher Broughton, £1000; Girls’ Orphanage and Training School, Manchester, £1000; Sheltering Home for Children, Liverpool, £1000; Monthly Tract Society, £1000; “ Stirling ” Tract Enterprise, £1000; General Baptist Missionary Society, £1000; Mission in Belleyille, Paris, £1000; Manchester and Salford District Provident Society, £500; Hazlewood Home for Young Men, Byde, £500; Byde Young Men’s Christian Asiooia. tion, £500; Gardeners’ Boyal Benevolent institution, £5OO, Other minor benefactions bring the total amount up to s8109 ( OOQ,