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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4438, 10 June 1875, Page 2

Wb are aware that the City Council is anxious to do "something in a large way," because the Mayor has told us so more than once ; but without pausing to enquire anything about the indefinitude that phrase represents, we would with the utmost deference beg that the " somethings " in a small way may not in the meantime be regarded as quite beneath the notice of our civic dignitaries. For instance, Lambtonquay during the late tempestuous weather has been in a most deplorable state. Mud and slush about a quarter of a foot deep covered it from its junction with Willis-street as far as Government House, yet the Corporation took no steps to make it passable ; nor has it done anything this week to render it by foot passengers, should we be visited with a recurrence of such weather. "We are aware that Lambton-quay is not .particular in this respect, for there is scarcely a decent hundred yards of street or footpath in the whole city; but surely the chief thoroughfares should be made crossable. If nothing else can be done, perhaps some Councillor will move that the Corporation purchase a supply of stilts for the use of burgesses. The Wairarapa Standard devotes a column and a-half of its last issue to an explanation of Sir George Grey's extraordinary letter, and an accusation that our version of it was garbled, and that we did not understand its true purport. We dp not think the first accusation is well-founded; as for the second, we confess that the lengthened elucidation of our contemporary has not assisted us to give any other meaning to Sir George Grey's letter than that we have previously given ; and really, without intending offence, we may say that the Wairarapa Standard seems to be in the same predicament. ■