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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1922, 3 November 1906, Page 4

Tbo Napier Telegraph states : —ln this district wo cannot get even a road connecting Wairoa with Napier safe to uso in the winter time. 15y the way, and talking of this district and its treatment as compared with other districts, our readers may recall that a few months ago we drew their attention to the fact that on a road in the South Island, running through a County Council district, the Government had expended public funds in erecting sixtocn bridges. Apparently the Government are now going to run a motor car service on this or adjacent roads at the public cost. The estimates show an item of three thousand pounds for motor cars in consequence. No doubt the district getting these sixteen bridges and the motor cars at the cost of the general public look upon the Government as just the combination that suits their circumstances and desires. Similarly with Wanganui. But what dues too “iiuadloss North ” thiuK of it ? What do the people of Hawke's Bay think of it ? Too littlo, wo are afraid.

| Melbourne advices stale that for i \ ears ;-.:sr t;n uii- xishbned mystery has [ }»:.tinted the uncuorago between Queeuociilt ami I'oruea. The epos is known a> have a good bottom, yot if a bhip cast :u:oh(»r in a curtain place tho anchor invariuMy becomes fouled with j something' tut tenacious that no amount | of v> inch power could again bring it to j iiit> surface. inv>'r ju-ckett was us comly sent down to inVt-siigaie, i-.ud ho found tho remains of a clipper ship 200fc long, i>i; ;; on hi.*’ starboard bilge, with tho p'-rt side canted lilt into tit • atr. iho utvev was unable to climb in:o her ami •. xstuine tho iuside of the hull, htuiwi it; was turned into a vast forcing frame, from which the seaweed had grown tu a hi ight of 50ft iiko a gigantic submarine cornfield, Tite oldest inhabitant cut hot t euiembor any vessel having bita wrecked, and no record of any less can bo discovered. There was lying on the sea floor only that portion of tho ship which was below her waterline, and tho sheathing along tite waterline was all scored and meltod by some intense beat. Nest month Diver Beckett will tear away the hull with dynamite, so as to remove the growth of seaweed, and will then examine the iuside of the hull.