LIGHTS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 109, 1 September 1896, Page 2

LIGHTS.

[To the Editor.] Sir,—To encourage people to go to church on evenings such as last, and to enable ratepayers to get about in comfort and without danger on the other six nights of the week, the Borough Council would be conferring a boon on a long-sulfering public were they to take the question of street lighting seriously into consideration. They do take a lightning fit now and again and hoist a post here and there, but those up at present are totally inadequate for the purpose ; and another dozen lights in the back streets would be favorably commented upon and appreciated by those who have the misfortune\to live anywhere off the main thoroughfares. One noticeable feature about the town is that wherever the footpaths are good and the streets are clean there are plenty of lights ; but where the footpaths are unformed and dangerous there is no light to lighten the darkness. This anomaly should be taken into consideration by our City Fathers, who are no doubt wise in their generation, but who apparently are never out of the main streets.—l am, &c., Lux. Hastings, August 81, 1896.

NEWSPAPERS CORRESPONDENTS. (To THE EdITOB.) Sir, —I see the reporter of a Napier " Rag " is again on the warpath with mistakes. " The remains of the late Robert Jeffares were interred on Sunday." It's just a slip; but why on earth doesn't the agent of the Napier "Horrible" attend to business first and gcssip afterwards. Perhaps the Press Association could afford to try him now, not as a reporter, but as an advertisement of business instincts, and out of respect to their chairman. By jove, we see a lot about Ward's balance-sheet. I wonder if Ward has got the Norsewood balance-sheet? People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.—l am, &c., A.B.C.