CROMWELL.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 222, 11 October 1878, Page 5

CROMWELL.

It is impossible (writes the Cromwell Argus (while the waters still continue at so. high a level- to conceive the extent of damage done throughout the country. Bridges, roads, telegraph lines, and property of every kind have suffered to a greater or less extent, and' it will be many months before. matters are,, again brought into their original condition, at the cost of a vast outlay 6i money. Before the greater calamities, other misfortunes serious to individuals are. dwarfed, for, the time, but their effect wjull, be none the less felt for a considerable time to come. The mining interest o£the country must have receive 1 d a most damaging blow. Water races everywhere are [in and the higher lands are in , such a sodden .state that slips may be expected at anymoment and of any magnitude. On the Queens\i.town road, ■we -are told, whole mountain ■ sides are ohthe move, and at maiiy places it 1 is irq^ossible for a; to get 'i ' a|bng: . where i , the .toq,s.; was; • : " : -:Space and '<] %m^s^rpvild fail us>iq;giVe,^in;^tWs>number i 'anyfchj^*i ; l&e?ia l j^ f> *&&&# i jbroughti d o^-^ ;i^^P e^°P^i l A?PJfi

immediate vicinity during the past week. Many settlers will be seriously crippled for a length of time to come, while not a few have been utterly ruined. What has happened at such places as Lake Wanaka, Cardrona, Nevis, and other isolated centres it is impossible to tell until communication is restored ; but it is certain they will each add to the already dismal list.