The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE

The weekly meeting of the dock committee was held yester-
day. There were present, Messrs. Bcnn (chairman), Hors-
fall, Barclay, T. Holt, Middleton, Sandbach, Evans, and
Ripley.
The accounts for the week having been passed, the pro-
ceedings of the last meeting were read. Amongst them ap-
peared the following resolution, with reference to the salary
of Mr. Hartley, the surveyor.
" Resolved,—That in pursuance of the resolution of this
committee on the 10th December, 1840, requiring the exclu-
sive services of the surveyor, who agrees to act in confor-
mity thereto, and has proposed in consideration of the ad-
vance of salary, that the dockworks shall have the continued
services of his son, who will, as heretofore, be compensated
by himself; it is agreed that the surveyor shall be paid £2OOO
per annum, from the 24th of December last, with the under-
standing that his son is to follow his profession as engineer,
but not personally to superintend other works ; and that the
surveyor is not to absent himself from Liverpool, except for
dock purposes, and with the concurrence of the committee
or their chairman." _

The proceedings having been confirmed, the following
reply of thanks from Mr. Hartley was read :
" Sir —I beg respectfully to acknowledge the receipt of
the resolution of the dock committee of the sth instant, for
which I beg of you to convey to them my thanks, as well as
those of my son. It shall be my endeavour faithfully to
discharge, as I trust I have hitherto done, the duties required
of me ; and I feel assured that I shall have the zealous
co-operation of my son.—l am, very respectfully,
" August 7. _ " JESSIE HARTLEY."

" D. Mason, Esq. Secretary
to the Dock Committee."
A report of the sub-committee of works, that they had
made an agreement with Messrs. Bowers and Murray, exca-
vators, on certain terms, to excavate Salthouse Dock, was
confirmed.

The North Harbour Master presented a letter, through
the sub-committee of works, suggesting that the fenders at-
tached to steam vessels should be made of cork or wood
which would not sink, as, when they did sink, they often
caused considerable inconvenience. For instance, something
recently got between the sill and the gates of Clarence Dock,
which prevented them from shutting as they ought. The
Harbour Master suggested that a bye-law should be Made on
the subject. After some discussion, it was resolved, before
framing any bye-law, that the secretary should write to the
owners of steam-boats, requesting them not to allow their
vessels to use fenders made of any material that was likely to
sink.

Mr. H. G. Deane, on the part of the Paving and Sewerage
Commissioners, stated that that body had ordered several car-
goes of square sets, for the purpose of paving Waterloo-road,
two of which had been discharged from Clarence Dock ; but
an intimation had been received that they would not be al-
lowed to discharge any more there. He therefore requested
the committee to give orders that the commissioners should
'have this facility granted to them, as otherwise considerable
expense would be entailed upon them in cartage. A resolu-
tion was ultimately passed, and ordered to be communicated
to the commissioners, to the effect that they might land the
sets anywhere in Trafalgar Dock, but that they must be im-
mediately afterwards removed from the quays.
An application from Mr. John Wood, import officer, to
have a hut erected on the quay of Clarence Dock, for the use
port gaugers and other officers, was referred to a sub-com-
mittee.

The manuscript chart of the coast from Liverpool to Holy-
head, prepared by Messrs. Walker, the authors of which had
requested permission to dedicate it to the committee, was
produced by the marine surveyor, who handed in a list of the
errors in it. The marine surveyor stated that it appeared. to
be accurately laid down, but that he could give no opinion
upon the accuracy of the land measurements. A resolution
was passed to acquaint the authors that they had the consent
of the committee to dedicate the chart to them so soon as the
errors pointed out by the marine surveyor had been corrected.
The affair of Curwen and Hughes, keepers of the Rock
Lighthouse, was then investigated at very great length ; and
in the course of it the marine surveyor and his assistant A, Ir.
Jones, stated' decidedly that they had no confidence in Cur-
wen. The subject terminated by Curwen being
and the matter was referred back to the sub-committee, with
the view of obtaining further evidence.. suspended,
The committee then proceeded to the consideration of
financial matters, and shortly afterwards separated.

BITE FROM A CENTIPEDE.—On Wednesday morning a
dock labourer, named Joseph Fox, while engaged on hoard
the Caroline, in the West India Dock, which vessel has just
arrived from Jamaica, felt a violent bite in the lower part of
the thigh, when he perceived a large centipede firmly ad.
tiering to his flesh. lie called to some of the men, beirn,
too much shocked to touch the venomous reptile himself,
who caused it to relinquish its hold, but not without some
difficulty, as they wished to preserve it as a curiosity. The
length of the creature was nearly ten inches. As the wound
bled considerably, and the man felt in pain, he walked to the
London Hospital, where the wound was cut out to the ex-
tent of the ciroumferenoe of a halfpenny, and half an inch in
depth.—Timer.