The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-04 00:00:00

THE WATER COMMITTZE

The Usual.weekly meeting of this body was held yes-
terday at the Town Hall—Mr. Farnwerth in the chair;
and the other members present were Messrs.Nernon,
Cronin, Beloe, Jeffery, Earle, Woodruff, and Rae.
The proceedings of the Works and Finance Com-
mittee having been read,'
• Alderman WOODRUFF said, according to the accounts
which had been read, they were to some extent increas-
ing in revenue in almost every department, and still
they had a sum of £20,000 less income as against their
expenditure. The purchase of the old works cost
£650,00,, and the contracts for the new works were
£480,000 ; but allowing conside'rably for any excess,
from mismanagement or neglect in the contracts, they
were something like £BOO,OOO in excess of those two
items., -Ile would ask whether there was any possibility ,
of a mistake in the accounts, and what had become of
the £BOO,OOO in excess of those two items, so that they
were now considering a fearful increase in the rates to
meet it. He could not say the accounts were wrong;
but he thought it ought to be accounted for to the com-
mittee how this had arisen,
The CHAIRNUN said it would be better to leave the
matter till next Monday.
Mr. BELOE quite agreed with Mr. Woodruff. The
alderman was an older member of the Council than he
was, and he must naturally know how it Was that the
£BOO,OOO had been incurred in expenditure. But he
wanted to go a little step further than Mr. Woodruff
had done, and he was prepared to move a resolution
which would enable them better to discuss that subject
next Monday. The resolution was—" That the Town-
Clerk be requested to report to this committee as to the
legal method of providing for such deficiency as may
appear in December next between the ordinary receipts
and expenditure of the water account." No doubt this
year would close with a deficiency, and he wanted to
know how that committee were legally to provide for
that deficiency. lle,knew of no source but that of the
public funds of the Corporate estate. He spoke, of
course, as a layman, and the Town-Clerk would correct
him if he was wrong. What he wished was that the
Town-Clerk would report to them a legal mode of pro-
viding for the £20,000 deficiency which they would no
doubt find in December next.
Alderman Woodruff seconded the resolution, which
was agreed to.

THE ENGINEER'S REPORT.
The usual weekly report from the Engineer was then
read as follows :
" The average rainfall for the week ending Saturday,
the Ist December, was 0.9 inch, and the depths of water
under the overflows of the several reservoirs, were at
the above date as per table :
Dec. I. Nov. 24. Rise.
ft. in. ft. in. ft•
Roddlesworth 1 9 1 2
Rake
Anglezark 0 2] over 0 13,over 0 1 over
Rivington 1 1 0 31 ......
Prescot No. 1
Prescot No. 2
"On t e pipe line, a pipe burst on the Green-lane
line on onday last, about two o'clock. The repairs
were completed by seven o'clock on Tuesday morning.
The self-acting valves at Knotty Ash and Prescot went
down. There are yet, however, some circumstances
connected with the fracture and subsequent operations
unexplained. I expect to be able to report these fully
to the sub-committee of works on Friday next. The
only damage reported is the blowing up of the road
over the pipe. "THOMAS DUNCAN."
Quantity of water received from Rivington during the week
ending December 1, 1860.
Into Kensington 35,977,534
Audley-street
~ Park Hill ............
65,799,654

Quantity of water pumped from the wells
atßootle .......
Green Lane
Windsor

Fall.

n. in.

0 91
0 01

4,510,500
14,002,374
6,031,500
24,544,374

90,344,028

Quantity of water in store, week ending
November 24, 1860 14,149,035
Do. do. December 1, 1860 15,875,375

----- 1,726,310

88,617,688
3,500,000

Washing out mains, seivers, &c.

85,117,688
Delivered at Bootle unmixed 2,500,000
mixed 82,617,688

Proportion of Rivington to well water as 65 to 24
Quantity of water run to waste at Preseot 3,400,000
85,117,688
This was the whole of the public business. gallons.

Mdlle. Orwill, a pupil of Madame Viardot-Garcia,
has made a tolerably successful debut in the role !of
"Eurydice," in LGauck'a Orphee," at the Theatre
Lyrique.

TII DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 18G0.