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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 62, 12 June 1863, Page 2

The Town Board are certainly making strenuous exertions to complete the work they have so successfully begun, i.e., rendering every street in the town utterly impassable. At the present

moment there is not a street in Inver carsrilJ worthy of the name. Start from the Jetty, and if you are not inunoveahly bogged before arriving at. the Union BankinTay-street, of the Prince of Wales in Dee-street, you must be a very discriminating individual indeed. True, flax has been laid down, and it. has been covered with a coating of gravel (to speak correctly, we should say sand), but this is totaliy inadequate to the daily increasing traffic of the town. Hundreds of pounds have been wasted in this manner, and what is the result ? Mud, mud, mud. Do th* Town Board intend to continue squandering public money in this way, or will they ever be convinced of the fact that flax and siand will not make a good road. There is plenty of metal to be had a few miles from town, and that could be got for very little more than the street will cost eventually, if the flax and sand principle is persevered in ; or, if the metalling of our streets is objected to, why not construct a good niank road at onee — at least through Tay and Dee streets. We had hoped for something from the new Town Board, and we have certainly got it — mud.