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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 30, 18 June 1877, Page 2

Oar mining reporter visited Anderson's workings on Saturday last, and has, raport will be found k another column; Mr John M'Gaffin, of Boss, has taken M'Gaffin's Hotel, Beefton, and wUI enter upon the conduct of the business at once. It is notified that a meeting of the M'GMIHc*% Belief Committee will be. held on Sunday next, 24th instant. As nearly all the lists bare been returned, a full meeting of the committee is desired to cloie the account. TJ» meeting of St. Stephen's Church Conw mittee has. been adjourned until this evening. The Boad Boaid to-day hwke tenders for certain work to. various streets of the town. Ad advertisement t*p W the subject appears in another column. A ■umbmrof men ipdertfe. direction oi tV cwtwto* wne on Saturday la#t sat to work tccoienng as mwb as possible of tke wreck of the suspension bridge The wire alone will be until sed far tbe new b«tfge, but « portion of this is wquired at one* tot thi erection of the proposed " Boatswain's Chair t whicb it is is expected will be completed and available far traffic in tbout a fortnight 01 ttaee weeks*

The members of the Koad Board met on 'Friday last, for. the purpose of going through the .. specifications prepared for the Buller road maintenance contracts. A number of alterations were auggeste^'and made» and the specifications were approved of. The question of tho Suspension Bridge again cropped up. It was stated tho,t offers had been made to the Board to construct a " Boatswain I * chair " across the river, whipa woujd meet tho convenience of the public pending the erection of the bridge. The cost of the work waa set down at £15, an offer being before the Board to carry it out for that sum. After considerable discussion it wa9 eventually decided to construct a " Boatswain's Chair ' upon the site of the old bridge, and the offer* i of J. Brown for that purpose was accepted. The Board then adjourned until Monday to-day). The disagreeable, wintry weather of tho past few days culminated in a tolerably heavy snowstorm, yesterday. We are informed that the fall in the Murray Creek diatriot was ex« ceptionally heavy. At about 11*45' on Saturday night last, one of the most ferocious gales we remember to have experienced:, swept over the town. The storm appeared to come from tho north, up tho Inangahua valley, and such was its violence that its advance was heralded several seconds before by the roar and crash of trees swept down in its paj;h, The blast shook to the foundation ef cry house in Reefton, and passed on. We have not hea?d of any damago to property in Keefton, but the telegraph lines north and south wore broken i down by overturned trees, but, fortunately, communication by the wire 3 was not cut off. We shall be prepared to hear of some boisterous "weathflr on the seaboard. The Grey coach is still blocaded, and we have been sans mail for just one week. The up Grey coach is at Ahanra, and the Westport coach, at the Junction.