LYELLE.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 37, 10 April 1878, Page 2

LYELLE.

(poMj ova o«c^ coannsppNnpNT.), tho rain, on, Tuesday brought down, a. lurgo slip oi> tlo Bailor road: noar tho |Littlo Ohiki totally bloclfinjjf np all tiralfijo Tho couch with tho, down in;iil had to turn back owing to tho blockade, but j?,ot though on.Thu.rsdaj'., The Bujlor Coijjnty Council huvo eight men employed bet,w,oon Westport; nnd tho County bpundary IfQppiina tho rotid, in v.epair,. The unfi/iiHlied, nino. chains of road nt Lyoll has boon let, mid a, man, named VfiN. liam Campbell . whijo.lriyidlmg n barrow along sorup staging whioh gayo way procipi^atinß tho man dow.n the ombnuj:"*. niont. llfi ogenpodi v?ith a d,i3loc<i,tod nuklo. A mnn. named Jnt^ps Woodcock, em.« ployed clparinß n triotononiQtrioal Ration on, tho Alpine Itill wlulo foiling a troo,ro« opiypd a Jipvoro. veoji;»d on tho hoad from a witlujrod branch, whioh fell on him, Tho Buffioror. oonyoyod to tho Lyoll w hoco hp. \ra^ attended to. As thoro is no medical ra.atj hero, mp9t of the infirmities aro treatqd by n, local oojobrotio namod, Joramy tho blacksnxith, who took hip doßreos as a Vfltopnniyr Surgoon, but has latt,orly turnod his ntlontion to Jiis^own, spcoios ffyidinfl: it mpro profitable M,r Pat Kolly. tho.membor for Ikmpv den, hafifioroup to.sco hi? constitupntg,. '•Ho ought to Rot a warm reception aa ho loses no opportunity of trying to forward thoin(oro3ts,of hj,s d|str,iot in, thp Coun^v Counoil. Mr Gardner,, tho County Engineer, has boon down inspecting tho different road, co/itrnols, aud as n&ost of tho contractors, havo b.?on pushing on with, thrir work during t!»o lato fiuo wonther, tho ron.d> is now in very fair ordpr. Mr Gardner, nftor pointing out nopw nooossary. oHcrations, intimatod to tho contractors that no deviations, from tho specifications, wopjd in future, bo.toloratod by him. Tho Upper Bailor B«oo», held on St. Patriok's Day wcro a success.. Most pf tho. raocs worQ.oarr.io&off by Stranger, a hors.o who figured nt tho lato Roefton racos, Ono of Mr Jamos Ohborno's horsos narrowly esonpod being killed on tho Bullor road, tho animal swerved to ono sido. coming down tho hilldrngging tho hoavily loaded dray aftor it. Upon being cxtri* catod tho shaft horso wns found to hayo received somp ugly wounds.