CALEDONIAN EXTENDED.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1292, 2 July 1883, Page 2

CALEDONIAN EXTENDED.

)svi& manager 'reports that 'the ' main level /has now .been carried .ftt a distance of 270 ft., following the course jof some promising leaders. The manager recommends going in another 80ft, arid should the lode not be |het . with in that, distance assort crosscut wUI cpnneot^hjbhe Ht^qf tho rebt ' ,; .-..:-..' '1 'tit'S .ii'-.-^V.*- WI'AA ..: fVv \ '„. -. ■■}•:':*. •-.. '•' '* ■;■ -A rip-AittA!?- '••• '" 'j-:j ', (fBOM O"0B OWN C<>BWBPOXI>Mrr.J ( , One of _ie highest floods experienced during the last two years rolled down the Inangahna river on Sunday lastl The rain^ which poured down incessantly during Saturday last, terminated at midnight in a perfect deluge; As the river rose rapidly on Sunday morning at the Liangahua Junction, considerable anxiety was felt for. tlie ;new bridge being .erected. - However tiie , piles escaped- uninjured.: . The staging was all washed. away, and some loose timber lying on the river bank was carried down stream. The whole of the scaffolding will have to be replaced, which will cause a considerable .^ lb the conti-^tora That the bridge 1 1^ hot in a more forward State" towards J completion the contractors, Messrs McLean and Sons, State is owing to the alterations made hy the Engineering Department from original specifications. That the cpntr^tora have been put to some delay owing to alterations in the pile driving there, is no doubt. . The piles are all down except the last ten, and ow^ng: to the bed-rock being, met with the last, pier cannpt be driven. Since the Government diver frqm WestpqrjLhas been employed during the last, month to h.l^t*ymJjless lying hi the river bed : a rather primitive boring machine has bee;n unprpyis^d, to bore the jrock, but has signally 'failed. Ah Iron cylinder filled up with concrete would overcome : i all present difficulty and do away with | the necessity , of. pile k driying. , Inj -the ' meantime we* authorities have the matter . „ujad.er ...eonsWeratifon: . and> the usual amount of red-tapeism will have to beTgoiie'tbrough before any definite plan is decided upon.

The flood has brought down several large land slips, in the Buller County, blocking the roa_ Six. several places. The lower portion of the Inangahua County roads have escaped uninjured. Tho. contractors- are pushmg on with

the work. .. '-•- A^ new industry has been started at tbelrirftrgatiua Jhnction, viz, that of lime burning. There is an unlimited supply of stone about the Junction. A man named Saunders has built an experimental kiln and turned out some excellent marketable lime. The stone was taken ffdm a quarry opened on Courtney* ground.' * '• > Dullness is the' order of the day at Lyell, Since the Alpine faijed, to pay dividends, the LyeU has been £ettiij& dfolei every day, although the general 'opinion is that we will have another rush for leases, when any of the claims now being prospected turns out well Tbfc TCripsui y have their machinery about completed, and should the claim-turns put as well as it.is ex~ pected, it. will give a. new impetus to I the mining industry of the district Several "of ouif local business people have been erecting "large hotels in anticipation^^of^utocepmsßporityi . ■< ,"[ ; Considerable comment has been made upon the decision of the-.Snpreme Court, Nelson. Thb Judge evidently lacked a- Lyell- resident's experience — remarkable case— remarkable trial — remarkable . judge. The woman Mrs Gramatica implicated in Lyell murder case and, of whose contrition the Judge and Crown Prosecutor . took such a merciful, view in the late, trial, she is now in the Nelson Convent, where she has taken the .role as laundress to the establishment. May she long remain there and become purified as by water without spirits.