The Hawke's Bay Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1867.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 486, 20 June 1867, Page 2

The Hawke's Bay Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY.

THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1867.

" Nullius addict its jurare in verba, magistri."

THE PROTECTION OE THE SPIT. We are glad to perceive that steps are being taken to protect the weakest portion of the Spit from the further action of the sea, which -during the

late rough weather had swept completely over it at the top of Customhouse street, and behind the stores recently occupied by Mr Janisch as an auction mart, which stores, by the way, seem to have alone prevented much further encroachments, and the washing away of the north-western end of the Spit at the heads. The means employed for the purpose of protection consist iu placing the two old boilers of the Huntress, filled with stone, in the breach, and bedding and hacking them in with large blocks of limestone. We trust that these means will prove effectual for the intended purpose. Meantime we are glad to .notice that the beach itself is fast remaking, by the action of the waves, a strip of considerable breadth having been deposited all along to the point named from the Bluff at the eastern end, where an extensive landslip has occurred, which we believe has been the occasii u of the new deposit, and which new deposit is gradually extending to the western end.