CLINTON.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 216, 30 August 1878, Page 5

CLINTON.

[prom cub own correspondent.]

Our Progress Committee seem to be bestirring themselves in getting matters here put to rights. At a meeting of that body, held on the 26th inst. , it was resolved that the member for the riding be requested to urge upon the Clutha County Council the necessity of having a ranger appointed for the township. There is no doubt but what it seems rather hard to deprive the inhabitants of the privUege of keeping a milch cow or a horse about the place, but I dare say that as long as they are kept out of mischief they wiU not be interfered with. On the other -hand, however, it is rather trying their forbearance too much to see some thirty big waggon-horses and a dozen or so cows marauding the streets during the nights, breaking windows, and destroying gardens and other property. The verandah in front of the Post Office seems to be a favourite resort for these marauders, and I don't wonder at it -when our worthy postmaster objects to perform the duties of a stable boy in the morning. It was also resolved at the same meeting that the Clutha County Council be requested to vote a sum of LIOO to be expended on the main road between Post Office corner and railway station. This, I have no doubt, is a very urgent requirement, and the matter has been so frequently agitated on previous occasions that I really wonder what our member has been dreaming about all this time in not bringing it before the CouncU. It is to be hoped, however, that effect wiU be given to it this time.

Some other matters of more or less importance were discussed, and wUI likely receive the more serious consideration of the Committee on some future occasion.

It was also resolved that the Minister of Public Works, as well as our member, be communicated with, urging upon the Government the necessity of voting a sum of L3OOO to be expended on Main South Road between Balclutha and CUnton. It was the opinion of the Committee that the district had a special claim on Government for such a grant, as a previous vote of over LIOOO had lapsed through the Abolition of the Provinces, and also on account of extra through traffic with which Jthe road was burdened through the non-completion of the railway.