KAIKOURA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2663, 19 October 1882, Page 3

KAIKOURA.

The people of Kaikoura have been so badly served with regard to steam communication, that there seems a probability of their procuring a suitable vessel from Melbourne, but of late the Tui has been more attentive. Mr A. W. Ingles has received a communication from Mr Dodson, M.H.8., who is sanguine that the great trunk railway will bo carried by the Bast Coast. The ketch Emerald, when being berthed, had a hole knocked in her bull. She was abandoned to the underwriters, but is now nearly unloaded, and they expect to be able to beach her in the early part of the week. She has been a great drawback to the trade of the port, because vessels have had to lie outside and load and unload by boat, which has added greatly to the expense of business, as the steamers could not approach the jetty as the Emerald lay in the fairway. The weather hero of late has been very dry, although the early part of the month was very favorable for seed-sowing. The pastures were showing nnmiatakeable signs of want of rain, but on Tuesday last a sharp thunderstorm passed over Kaikoura Valley which gladdened the hearts of farmers who had no orchards, but those who had orchards looked with dismay on Wednesday morning to see the ground covered with blossoms, and the trees as cleanly stripped with the hail as if they had been threshed with a flail. Mr Aldridge, of Mount Eyfe station, is not expected to live. Ho has been suffering from rheumatic fever [ for some time, and had a relapse, which it is 1 fcaicd will terminate fatally.