KYEBURN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 147, 22 December 1871, Page 5

KYEBURN.

(From our own Correspondent.)

I travelled some distance up the Creek the other day to inspect a Maori relic, which had been discovered 'by Mr. Edward Douglas in a landslip, adjoining the Horseshoe Bend. The relic in question consisted of a greenstone chisel, about nine inches in length—the cutting edge being three inches, arid the greatest thickness about one and a half inches. The stone is not of first rate quality, but a considerable amount of work has been expended uppD it, the handle having been rounded on one side and flattened on the reverse. The chisel has apparently done good service in its day, one side having been worn into a slightly concave form. The handle has been left in its rough state, but the sides of the chisel have been evidently highly polished, but have now assumed a dull appearance from the length of time no doubt which it has been buried. It is impossible to say at what depth this instrument was deposited, as ii was found projecting from the surface in a land slip, but it is quite evident that it cannot have been resting at any great depth. Mr. Douglas, I believe, intends to prospect for more in the same locality. The crops are looking dreadfully backward in this locality, and the gardens have been nearly destroyed by a gale of wind, which laid everything flat, and in some instances carried the soil away with the plants. I was glad, however, to see that Mrs. George's garden, which is the best on the Creek, and on which Mr. George has expended a considerable amount of labor, escaped with comparatively little damage. One side of the. Willow Arbor, in which the courting is done, was unfortunately carried away, and the luckless lovers who patronise this resort are now exposed to the public gaze.