DAILY NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8054, 5 July 1904, Page 2

DAILY NOTES.

h It is inevitable, of course, [ the raBRY that at s the present season |" road. of the year the state of the> ■ ■ roads in and around- Christ- < i church must suffer. in comparison with theirj i condition during other seasons. Evenii 1 the stoutest macadam is bound to suffer' I from the rains and frosts of winter. Butji • this is no reason why : important i| thoroughfares, \such, for instance,^ as i the Ferry Road, should be allowed^ td degenerate into a state bordering on dilapi-j 1 dation. Words ate almost ineffective tq describe the state of this road between. si i Peter's Church and the Ferry Bridge. We have no hesitation in saying that last weeL J 1 it was a disgrace to the public body whic^ 1 is charged with it® care and maintenance/ , It is a matter of surprise that the rate] -payers of Woolston,and the residents of I Sumner have not risen in wrath and ex) , 1 pressed a determined desire to hang sojnef ! body. • : . ' : : ..". '; ;| \ That.usuaUy well inforniJ ;'"':' the ;" ed authority, the PariiaL high cosf&iis- mentary corresfpondent of sionebship. the "Star," is responsible ' for the latest rumour coi|- i I cerning tbe propoi?al to establish a Higk ! » Comraissionership for New Zealan-d in Lon-

don. He predicts that the Agent-General-ship will be merged into the proposed position, that Mr Seddon. will be the first High Commissioner, and that the present AgentGeneral -will return to New Zealand. His first and second 1 predictions will probably turn out to be correct. Although the " Speech from the Throne " was unpardonably vague on this point, -we believe that the Government never contemplated such an absurd step as maintaining^both a High Commissioner and an Agent-General, and ; t has been clear all along that Mr Seddon meditated appointing himself to the position in the event of- his being obliged to relinquish the Premiership. A's to the third rumour, that, no doubt, is largely surmise. ■ The. report of the Christie rsEFCX church Burgesses' s Associaibodt. tion, published in the "Lyttelton Times," of Saturday, bears striking evidence to the amount of good done by this energetic body. The Association has interested 1 itself in a variety of matters of concern to the general public with good results. Its operations cover a large area. It does not concentrate itSj attention merely on local affairs, on the contrary, / its sphere extends over a wide range of both municipal and State politics ; in fact it may be said that it covers most questions of public importance. We need hardly add that the v value of an organisation, sudh as the Burgesses's Association grows in proportion to the size of its membership. This fact is so apparent that w© hope that some day the Associationwill embrace the great majority of the citizens of Ohristchurch. We are not surprised that lines and the Dunedin Municipal roSTS. authorities have invited the Ghrisitcburch City Council to join, in protesting to the Telegraph Department against the erection of the unsightly telegraph posts with which both cities are being disfigured. The posts are about as ugly as any contrivance that could have been suggested. Moreover, as the Mayor of Christchurch explained last night, their number is bound to increase rapidly. The obvious duty of the Department when it was making a change was to carry the wires underground. This is> the course; adopted in other countries, and in a few years it will become absolutely necessary here. ' What wtfh telegraph, telephone and^electric lighting communications, the electric tramway currents and. the fire alarms, Christchurch will rapidly become a city of lines and posts* The only way of escape as far as we can see is wherever possible to make the " systems " subterranean.