HAVELOCK.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 130, 18 June 1880, Page 3

HAVELOCK.

[Prom Our Own Correspondent.] June 14. The works for the Pelorus Sawmill Company are progressing satisfactorily, judging by appearances, and from the fact that a great amount of work has been done, there being about 45 men employed and notwithstanding croaking complaints made by some who view every progressive work with a jaundiced eye, the main road between here and Canvas Town will be eventually, in my opinion, much improved by the work. In some parts the main read lias been made wider than it was formerly and although slight temporary inconvenience may have been felt, the travelling public will eventually reap the advantage of what will have been done. The main building for the mill at Black Ball is erected. The length of it is 104 feet. The studs are very substantial, and the roof is covered with corrugated iron. A wharf is in course of construction, the piles are being driven in, and a considerable amount of permanent way has been laid.

The bridge at Canvas Town is also being proceeded with in a very satisfactory manner, and although I am not an expert in that class of work, I should certainly say the contract lias so far been honestly carried out by Mr Gilbertson. 1,1 The bridge is what is termed a truss bridge of two SO feet spans and two spans of 20 feet. The piles are made from heart of brown birch and there are eleven of them in eacli pier. The whole of the timber excepting the piles is heart of totara and iron bark. It is contemplated that the whole work will be finished about the Ist of August. If cleanliness, good order, cheerful faces, and happy voices are to be taken as a criterion by which ore may judge of the general good working of a public school, commend me to the Canvas Town school, conducted by Mr Hart, who lias his heart in bis work. There is a public library kept in the schoolroom and it numbers a good many subscribers, some of whom live in Havelock. A very comfortable and pleasantly situated residence is provided for the teacher.

On a very fine day last week two professional gentlemen were induced to take a friendly and strictly confidential ride together and hired a buggy and visited this locality. On their outward tour all went well, but on their return a series of casualties occurred to them. When in the immediate neighborhood of Mr Scott’s brewery (by a strange coincidence) the off wheels went into a deep rut, and one of the occupants of the trap was thrown out, the other coming to grief a few yards farther on. Not long afterwards a second catastrophe occurred, rather more complete than the preceding one, as on this latter occasion both these gentlemen went out into the road and each of them was almost smothered in mud.