WISDOM GREATER THAN SOLOMON’S.

Western Star, Issue 143, 3 June 1876, Page 5

WISDOM GREATER THAN SOLOMON’S.

: '■ •' to ThjE EDITOR. Sir —I noticed in your last report of the proceedings Of ~ths Town Council what appears to me to be a meaningless recommendation of-the Public Works’ Committee, amounting-on their pmrt to an effort to cast the blame of all the horrors wo poor South Rivortonians have to endure {in the form of mudholes, and bogs, and wheel ruts) on to ,ourselves. ’ : , If the cattle are in the way of the Council relieving us in any measure from this sea of mud,' is it not in their power to remove the cattle, and are they not the proper men to do it, Bnt if they remove the.cattle without doing something to our footpaths', they will double our affliction, for it is the cattle that now keep our natural roads from being entirely overgrown with long grass, lawyers, and other sucli things, and are thereby comparatively open and dry throughout the gi’eater part of the year. Whether it be footpaths or cattle, that the ratepayers of the South Ward are to have, lies in the 'meantime with those who are chosen to represent them in the Council; and they may find at the next election of councillors that they alone are held responsible in the matter. Will the Public Works’ Committee propose that we, poor people living on the side streets, shall in future be exempt from paying' rates, in consideration of our impassable roads. If the Council have a little they can afford to spend on the above footpaths in the form of Conscience Money, let them spend it, and then remove those abominable milch cows that have been so long feeding the South Riverton babies, tlx'en we shall have a sort of equivalent for the loss of , the cattle, which all of us will accept with the greatest of satisfaction.

I should like to understand more clearly the system adopted by our metropolitan Board of Works in the classification of our streets, and what they would define as side streets as distinct from end streets or middle streets, and whether all streets leading from Jacob’s River at right angles, or nearly so, are side streets. If so, are Palmerston and Havclock-streets side streets. Surely this is wisdom greater than Solomon’s,— Yours, &c., Wm. Eobeets.