CORRESPONDENCE.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1809, 8 December 1879, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

SUREST CROSSINGS, To the Editor of the Globe.

Sib, — I observe in your issue of this evening your remarks re the Town Council’s action in having boards stuck up at the different crossings informing owners of horses to go here at a walking pace, I am of too retiring a disposition to impugn your veracity in any one point, but will offer a few facts for your consideration. I will premise that one of tho most notorious eyesores during my year’s residence in Christchurch was that of the fast —it not to say reckless —driving of the various fine horses on the various fine level streets there. I have repeatedly hoard remarked by strangers coming to your city chat it was a pity the authorities did not place these boards, and place a policeman to enforce the order, which is carried out in its entirety in Melbourne particularly, suspemion of license or fines before the Magistrate being the consequence of disobedience. I have seen the same laws enforced in several other cities, in and out of the colony, and the time has come when the Christchurch authorities should protect, in the most stringent way, this increasing danger. I have often thought, why should one single man maybe, who can afford to keep a trap or hire a cab, make people numbering half a dozen or a dozen rush across a street or crossing in fear of their lives. This I have seen any amount of times in Christchurch. You speak ef tho crowded thoroughfares of Dondon. Are there not between 3000 aid 5000 killed there annually through street accidentr, although, through tho crowded nature of the principal streets, all horses travel at a walking pace. It is my sincere wish, and not only mine but of hundred*, that the Council will not only keep up tho biarde, but have the by-law enforced in every way in their power. Tours, tea., STREET GROSSER. ' Dyiteltcr, sth Dee., 1879.