NEWS OF THE DAY.

West Coast Times, Issue 576, 30 July 1867, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

(feom yesteeday evening's edition of the west coast times.) When does the contractor intend to complete the partially constructed foot-path along Upper Gibson's Quay, from the Post-Office to the Islay Hotel? We are constrained to allude to this subject on account of the wretched condition of this inucli-used thoroughfare, which in wet weather is scarcely passable to pedestrians unless they are gifted a la Blondin or Vertelli, who might manage to walk the narrow edge of the Kanieri tram rails. We believe that a long course of practice has endowed some few of the Upper Gibson's Quay residents with, a remarkable facility in' traversing the Quay after this fashion, at the imminent risk, however, of either tumbling into the sea of mud outside the rails, or the shallow canal within them; as, lacking ballast, the tramway (once an excellent-path) is now a mere shallow trough that in wet weather, fills with water to a level with the rails, and in many places between the sleepers takes the unwary pedestrian half-way to the knees. A wide ' pathway has been formed along the Quay from Fitzherbert street upwards, but as only about one hundred yards of its upper end has received a coating of gravel, it is scarcely less impassable than the unreclaimed parts of the Quay. We direct the attention of the Town Council to the subject.