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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 73, 9 January 1864, Page 1 (Supplement)

Weather on the West Coast.—Mr Sherrin says of the weather near the Grey River—"The dread of rain is your chief cause of anxiety while travelling on the coast. The question ever recurring every hour of the day is 1 will it rain 1' Your first thought in the morning will be on the chances of a fine day, and you rush from the tent in the middle of the night to see how the scuds are drifting. Ever haunting you like an incubus, worse than the fear of famine or death, is the constant rain. It makes you watch tke sunrise and sunset, the tone and direction of the surf, vent an imprecation on the cry of the hawk by day, and a benison on the mopoke at night, tremble when the wind dies away and the sandflies commence their repast, and notice 1 forecasts,' whether imaginary or real, that would puzzle a sage to de» termine. The Dunstan News mentions that a resident of the Dunstan has proposed a novel mode of forwarding passengers on to the Lake. Our contemporary says:—" We are in a position to state that a gentleman, resident on the Dunstan, is prepared to forward passengers to the Lake in a few hours after their arrival in the town at the moderate price of £2los. A coach will convey passengers on the road on the west side of the Molyneux to opposite the Kawarau township. Passengers would then be crossed in a boat over the Kawarau, and driven in a conveyance for the distance of seven miles. Horses to the number of ten or fifteen would then be in readiness to forward passengers to the Lakes. Side-saddles for the ladies as a matter of course to be on the station. A Government subsidy of £SOO only is required to carry out the proposition."