EAST COAST NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1558, 14 September 1905, Page 3

EAST COAST NEWS.

(Times’ Correspondent.)

The foroes of nature are still working devastation at Awanui. The enoroaohment by the sea continues. The erosion by Mr Delaney’s blacksmith's shop beoatne so serious, about a third of the floor-room being eaten away, that it beoame neoessary to remove it farther from the sea. There has been a like experience with Boyd’s store, it being gradually undermined. It requires fresh piles put under

While this ia going on along the sea frontage, several aores of .the hill, is slipping, visibly from day to doy. An old blacksmith’s shop, which Btood on the bill side, is being driven into the SBB, and is now out of shape, while the ground above and below it is interspersed with large oraoks and ohasms. Bit by bit the land ia dropping into tbo Bea, and as quickly as it does, the waves lap it up, and no sign is left of what fell a few minutes before. It may be that when it gets to a certain incline the slip will settle down, but present appearances are that it wilt continue and make a big change in the conformation of Awanui. Old residents say they have seen nothing like it for 40 years. A native giving evidence at the Land Court at Tuparoa is alleged to have concealed the names of some of his brothers and sisters, and thus caused the Court to omit them from its order. The Dudge gave the native a ohanoo of explaining, aud not being satisfied told the native he would band the matter over to the police, as he was determined to put down that class of thiog if possible.