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saving being in the consumption of coal,
and interest on the outlay.

Taking for granted that the larger
works are carried out at a cost of £10,000
and that the rates levied at the com-
mencement amount to £1,000 per ann.,
or say £1 per head for one thousand
inhabitants only (as there will be many
residing beyond the reach of the mains)
this sum would be sufficient to defray
the working expenses, and leave a fair
per centage to cover wear and tear of
engine, pumps, and other plant; and
any increase in the revenue beyond
£1000 per annum will be so much
available to discharge the interest on
the outlay. As the demand reaches
the maximum capabilities of the works,
the rate may be reduced to 15s. per
head or its equivalent, which for a po-
pulation of 4,000 will yield a revenue
of £3,000, affording at this reduced price
and after a liberal deduction for work-
ing expenses and wear and tear of plant,
fully 15 per cent on the outlay; thus
compensating for the loss of interest
during the first two or three years of
working,—while on the other hand the
gain to the inhabitants in health and
comfort will be very great, and in many
cases even the pecuniary gain will be
great also, the water being supplied at
the rate of 7 gallons for one farthing at
the highest price.

HOUSE DRAINAGE.

The drainage of the houses on the
Eastern Spit, and in the neighbourhood
of Carlyle Street, presents considerable
difficulty, from the ground being raised
so little above high water mark, and
the fall of the tide at the same time
ranging only from 3 to 4 feet, conse-
quently the utmost fall that can be ob-
tained along the principal lines will be
1 in 2,000 or 1 in 2,500, and this only
at low water mark; the drains must
therefore be made sufficiently large to
contain the whole sewage discharged
into them from tide to tide, and must
be flushed out once or twice a week at
low water—if water works are estab-
lished this will be easily accomplished
by a discharge from the main, but if
the sewers are constructed first, it will
become necessary to build a tank near
the head of each sewer into which the
sea water may be conducted at the top
of the tide, and retained therein until
discharged through the sewer at low
water, but this plan will be more ex-
pensive and less effective than a dis-
charge from the main of the water
works, and whenever the service reser-
voir requires washing out, the water so
used instead of running to waste will
perform a thorough scouring out of the
sewers.

Of the cost of the drainage no es-
timate can be given, until some plan is
decided upon, as to the extent of streets
to be drained, and the nature of the
construction, whether of brick or wood,
or earthenware pipes, which could
doubtless be manufactured and laid
down at a much less cost than either
brick or wood sewers, should the ow-
ner of the brick-field be guaranteed a
consumption sufficient to induce him to
try the experiment.

The principal portion of the land now
under water, in the neighbourhood of
Thackeray Street and Munro Street
may be effectually drained by cutting
a main channel on the south side of the
swamp, with a few minor drains lead-
ing thereto, and emptying the water
from the main channel through sluice
gates into the creek at low water; but
as this is a question affecting chiefly the
owners of the land to be drained, it is
probably sufficient in this place to have
called attention to the subject.

I have the honor to be,
Your Honor's most obdt., servant,

EDWARD G. WRIGHT.

To his Honor the Super-
intendent &c., Napier.

Superintendent's Office,
Napier, August 24, 1859.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED for
general information that a Writ for
the Election of one Member to serve in
the Provincial Council of Hawke's Bay,
for the Town of Napier, having been
issued in accordance with clause 12 of
"An Act to grant a Representative
Constitution to the Colony of New Zea-
land" the Returning Officer has return-
ed the said Writ, with a certificate that
the undermentioned gentleman has been
duly elected to serve as a Member of
the said Provincial Council for the said
Town of Napier.

WILLIAM COLENSO ESQ.,
of Napier, Provincial Auditor.

T. H. FITZGERALD,
Superintendent.