CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3926, 23 March 1870, Page 3

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

As we frequently have occasion to call attention to tlie remissiiess of the Ciby Board, it is a pleasure to be able sometimes to commend tlie Board for some good it has done. Amongst the most commendable works we may mention the widening of the footpath on the left-hand side of Queen-street and between Victoria- and Wellesley-streets. We noticed the alteration some time ago when it had been commenced, and we are glad to see that it has been carried out in a creditable manner. The old narrow footpath, which was scarcely of sufficient width to admit of the passage of three people abreast, has been extended so as to form a level and broad walk, and there are no longer the inconvenience and discomfort to pedestrians which were so much complained of formerly. The alteration has been ably carried out under the superintendence of Mr. Walker, the Foreman of Works, in whom the Board possesses an industrious and skilful officer. Wnilst on the subject of city improvements, we may here give an extract from a letter signed "Ratepayer," which has been received. Our correspondent says: "I think a sum of money might be well spent in widening Upper Queen-street. The portion of it that is between the wooden railings is not by any means as wide as it ought to be, and it would cost very little to widen it several feet by simply allowing people to shoot rubbish there. The place is not safe aa it is ; I myself was a witness of what had very nearly proved a fatal catastrophe a few weeks ago. It was about 10 o'clock at night, when there was no moon, and little starlight. Two carriages were meeting each other, and one of them, in order to avoid the other, pulled towards the side of the road, coming into contact with the railings. Fortunately the driver had slackened the pace of his horses, or the fencing would inevitably have been broken away, and the horses and vehicles would have rolled down the steep incline, and losa of life must have resulted, as there were several persons in the carriage at the time. "