HASTINGS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10363, 24 July 1896, Page 4

HASTINGS.

(FEOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Jnly 23, 1896, The annual vestry meeting of St. Matthew's parish waa held this afternoon, The financial statement] to be furnished to the parishioners on Tuesday next Is generally satisfactory. Arbor Day will coon be here, and it wonld bo interesting to know what, if anything, will be done by onr local authorities in the way of tree planting. If Eastings is to be tbe cily of the future it wonld be well to make some kind of a beginning in the matter of ornamenta* tion ; at present It is indeed the olty of the " plain." Wbilat on civic matters is it too much to ask that whilst tbe natives are here in snoh force the gutters might be attended to more than once a week ? The state of the pavements and gutters is simply disgraceful at the present time. It Is no use enumerating the varionß I nuisances ; they are too well known, nn- | fSrtunately, to tbe public generally. For an object lesson Railway-street might well be instanced. If the habit of clearing the streets properly were once cultivated who knows but) that it might be continned 1 The committee of the Atherjceuni met IDBt night to make arrangements for the forthcoming ball in aid of the fands of the Institution. A large number of bye-law cases will hi bronghb before the Court to-morrow (Friday), aome dealing with the dangerous practice of driving at a rapid paoe around street corners.