LYELL.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 5, 24 May 1878, Page 2

LYELL.

(FROty OUB OWN OOBItKSEON^n»T.) Mythology informs us that whon the Gods assembled in Council on Mount Olympus it was decreed that powor ovor tho earth should be «ivc» to Boroas and Aqunrus nnd that Boan^rgen should horald thoiy uppronch, this ho did with a vongoanco last week when ouo p,f tho most violept gales ovor experienced on tho Bui* ior Rivor swept across tho country, At an oarly hour.on.Wednesday dew masses. o,f Jondcn colorod clouds swept up from tho nortb west acoompanicd by depp rnmbling thunder, which sont troopi,ng forth from tho mountain gorges, cohoos by tho thousand. As the ni«bt advanced the Rale inoreased to such an cxtont as to lhro.nton destruction lo tho wholo township compelling U'o inhabitants to tako shelter in tbp Tolrfertph'tJflice. When the Rale was at its bpi«ht the front of a lnrp;o store bdoiißinff to Mr Peter. Mangoo was blown out, nnd lbo 'fragments carried norow on to tho Cawp roscrye. Considerable dsmnge has boon done up and down tbo rivor to tho sottlers by having fences, chimnoya, nud in soi,no instances portions of tboir dwellings blown away. Tim road as usual has reooi some da'.na«e by bind slips, and portions of it nonr lbo, Junction being carried ay?oy by Uiq river undcJ'nvninK it. „ IVIr Warden Brpad held' tha usu 1 monthly Couit when sly-groß onses c«mo off. Tlio magistrate j^ned the five deljn- , quents £IH, nnd c?^ts, £$, making tho luxury of vending .without, a lioeftso nn oxponsiro affair. Annio Quadin wa,s fined \jith the of seven days i,mprUonmeJ»t, ty M\n% abusive; laoßuase f\ud »pitti,j« in a wopan'a face v Mr Bc»itonoodi a man nam 'd Whelan to two,v?,onthß iwpriflonnvmt in the Wes,t--portßaol for sn, waault and rowdyism. j An amusinp; i»cidont occurred after tljio : Court was over. A" *-M Warden, Inspoctor Feast and OonataWo.EandlCi were proceeds ing from Lyoll down to, the. ferry, tho two informers, now known as tl^p •' Sly airocr , Chickens *' brongbt' ap: the rear of the : procession, and were somo what surprised 'upon receiving a amart shook in th* back from, tho musoular arms ofi an oW pa,rty woll known in tho township. Tho. two worthies immediately took to, their heels, their nfJTriffl.tod imaginations assisting in tho. belief that the whole of the. inhabitants hftd risen an,d> wero ceasing them down tho, incline. Tho old party in tho meantime not wishing to court the acquaintance of tho polioo. also took to his beds. The Warden not wishing ,to o'neounge suoh playful dispVaya-in fuln,ro ordered tho eccentrie old, gcntloman to. bo summoned next Conrt d-ay. A well known min/is- waa drownod in the Mariua on, Wodnosdny, 15th in/itnnt during the fltoods. A strict search wns ma,do hn* the body, has not boon rccovored,_ Tho Buller County Con»oili despatohod their oycrsoer to havo the road between, Lyell and Junction, clcarqd and opened for, dwy tralpo..