OUR STREETS.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 656, 27 July 1876, Page 3

OUR STREETS.

To the Editor of the Globe, Sir, —Many thanks to you for calling attention to the inconsistency of our works committee in spending a large sum on simple ornament, while we are all inconvenienced and many are Buffering from the wretched state of our unfinished streets. And a large section of the north east portion of the city is absolutely shut out from all the conveniences of a civilised community, and prevented from having the services of any vehicle, whether for supplying the requirements of our everyday life, or any possible emergency calling for medical assistance. And in fact so wretched ia our condition, owing to the rottenness of the road, that the surveyor, having a dread of the R. M., and fearing some one might be lost, or damaged in the muck, has caused notices to be stuck up, disclaiming, on the part of the Council, all responsibility. The place is thus admitted to be dangerous, and some one ought to be liable to a prosecution for neglecting to hang lights on the notices at night. We should be glad if you would inform us whether, under the circumstances, being neglected and now publicly cut off from protection, has the City Council any equitable claim upon the residents on this block ; and if the payment of rates are enforced, will it not be as if they were obtaining money under false pretences ? Yours. &c, J. B. A.