THE ARTHUR STREET ACCIDENT.

Evening Star, Issue 3811, 12 May 1875, Page 2

THE ARTHUR STREET ACCIDENT.

n T ,T° ti* Editor. ?* e woonnt in last night’s Up ° n - ind who 4 iiv Cr fifty-foot precipice at the too of street, I was very much «<. offiraousness of tions about things that don’t in the Lwfo™! Mrathem. ttVSd,S£ to recommend that a lamp should be placed at »' KM which already gOM half-way up the bill should be oontmuod to thetop I altogether fail to see what locus standi they have in the matter Would it not be better for them to confine themselves to carrying away the pieces when a man is incautious enough to fall over and dash himself to atoms? Howit’s the old story over again about “ fools rushing in where angels fear to tread.” (There’s nothing about “straining at a door-mat. and swallowing a candle” in that.) Would the police be “surprised to learn” that the Councillors fw the High Ward have time after tim» moved the City Council to sanction some such Utopian scheme? Well, they have done so. And more than that, the Council has been so weakly compliant as to humor them by erecting a lamp at the bottom of the hill, and putting! handrail half way up the cutting, where there is not the remotest chance of anybody falling °^ er * jet the police remember, likewise, that there are no large fish in Arthur street or its vicinity-they are all small fry t> andshould be very thankful for small mercies. When the Council are about ■pendiiK MO,OOO in --gilding retond golcKy attempting to beautify our already excrutiatmgly beautiful city, how can they be expected to expend 1/15 just for the mere purpose of saving tho lives of some few foreigners and such like riff-raffs as reside in Arthur street? Should the Council, however, show any symptoms of allowing themselves to be coerced by the .police in this matter, I would suggest the calling of a mass meeting of citizens, in order tolet the Council know that we are not going to allow our money to be frittered away in any such manner. I, for one, would willingly contribute my mite to defray the expense of such a meeting.—l am, &c., Dunedin, May 12.

Conservative.