STREET IMPROVEMENTS IN CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1524, 11 April 1882, Page 3

STREET IMPROVEMENTS IN CAMBRIDGE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — If there is one feature more than another by which public men should be characterised it is certainly' personal disinterestedness ; and when this feeling does not prevail in the actions of public bodies little good, if any, can be expected to accrue therefrom. When men are elected by a community to represent the public interest, they should in all justice adhere to their calling and perform their duties in a truly .public •• spirit. The Cambridge Town Board iwhen engaged some time back in giving .to some 1 , of the streets within the town belt a more presentable appearance,' , did not, it would seem, •maniiesrt , ,a very pub= lie 'feeling' in out 'their task. It ( cannot* be disputed the streets which. most^neeqjed' repair, and, which were-mostr fre'guently r ,_,used, and contribute the. greatest . amount, pr ratea^ to the local revenue 'wgrefo'rgo^t^a when" the work,' of ( general^repairj: was; being carried out. , While" such streets' as^Cjrrey,; Bryce, Alpha;nßrewery, ('andi'K^rk'jrood; i streets,' have *recei^edi*nft| inconsiderable' amount-of; theU^&^s3gp^<liti3ft£ lt]&, claims of householdetsfi&idingviiT other" 1 "^ tlie^toWiha^e' BgSnlcoin>; pletely ignored. *JOlltw flatter r lj^might'particulanse'.Oha^Ks&eei'. • '^'a'jputjlw

thoroughfare, and in the matter of traffic, , this is unquestionably the third street in the town, but this view of the situation, it would seem, has' not been taken by the local body. The petition of the property holders of Chapel-street, to-, gether with the .cliurch ; committee, was about the first sent into the board for consideration, but it would seem as if it had mislaid, and turned up too late. The wet season is creeping on gradually, and iif something be not done there shortly, the residents of this street, with' whom I include, the church-goers^ will have a sad experience during the winter. I would also draw attention to the state of the lower part of Bryce-street, in which a few ratepayers have the misfortune to be located. The whole of this street has been formed with the exception of this portion, which from its holey condition and impenetrable furze, is almost impassable. The condition of that part of the town lying to the left of the Lake may also be brought under notice. While lam willing to admit the inability of the board to carry out these works at present through the low condition of its finances. The fact cannot be lost sight of, that the permanent level of Grey-street was taken some time ago at considerable cost to the town, and was a most unnecessary expenditure. I hope before anything is done tuwards forming the footpaths in Greystreet, the board will see its way clear to carry into execution some of the more needed works in the township.— lam, &C,, Victim. Cambridge, April 6th.

" It's very curious," says a young lady whom we know, "that a tortoise, from whom we get all our tortoise-shell combs, has no hair." Old proverb: "The darkey's hour is just before dawn," remarked Sambo when he started out before daybreak to steal a chicken for breakfast. Fbnderson was at the theatre the other night. "It was a burlesque, a take off, wasn't it?" asked Smith. "Yes," said Fcnderson, "that's what it was, I guess. They had taken off about everything they dared to." , A Michigan man has been fined fifty dollars for calling the Mayor of Grand Rapids "Wooden Shoes." And yet, perhaps, he may merely have wished to intimate that the Mayor's boots were canal boats, and not iron steamships. Hugh Allan, and other rich young men of leisure, belonging to # Boston, Mass., have organised a foxhunting club, and will import a pack of professional huntsmen. They intend to wear the usual English hunting costume — scarlet coat and knee breeches. A new plough for ' summer-fallowing uses is being made in Watsonville. It consists of seven small ploughs set in the form of a gang, and each cutting seven inches of land, taking four feet one inch as a swath. ' The market claims that with this plough four horses aud one man can do the work of two common gangs — eight horses and two men.