Local intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 586, 16 June 1858, Page 4

Local intelligence.

The weather has been so bad lately that all out-of-door business has been very much retarded, and roads have been cut up till they are almost impassable. This is decidedly the wettest winter that we have had here since the foundation of the settlement.

The Ferry Road which has been hitherto so good has been quite cut up between Christchurch and the Quay. Its repairs, is we understand, to be commenced at once.

The bridle track from Little River to Barry's Bay is now open for horses. Some of the streets of Lyttelton are now undergoing considerable improvements iv the shape of cutting and levelling by prison labor, lately augmented to a far higher figure than the usual average, by the addition of a ship's whole ciew, as lately reported in our columns. The Sumner Road in the immediate neighbourhood of the town, is now rendered fit for even a ladies' promenade in fine weather, which, of course, is all that can be said of any road not macadamized; and Canerbury Street is being vastly improved by an agreeable and useful transformation of a shapeless, uncouth bridle-path, or rather a trench or rut, choked up with grass and weeds, into a broad, commodious, and well-levelled thoroughfare. If the weather prove anywise favorable, these improvements, at the current rate, will soon affect a great change in our j public streets, and render the practice of carrying night-lanterns a matter of less necessity tnan usual.

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