CLYDE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 339, 3 September 1875, Page 3

CLYDE.

(From our OVb correspondent,)'"'_.. .... .■*-'--*?■ ...... August 27th. , An acciden£}ia*r*oecurred at the Clyde coal pit, caused r by- slip. It ajJK .pears .that a raauoand boy were, wqrka drive towards the river," whentthe water commenced to come in freely, resulting in a small fall of coal. Frora,this -indicatidn Mr;: IrTing called on the boy to come into the bottom of the shaft. -They ;had just got to"Hhe-shaft when- the back end of the ground'near the river, eared in with a terrifficcifashi the water,rising.so •*apidly~tliat thejr were nearly lipj to their necks. LuckilyfMr. Holt, : the proprietor, was on the lop'oT the shaft, ,and, hearing "the; rush jfr,pm below, he let ■" tlicK-rbpe -flown, and extricated them from their perilouspositiqi. .Tbe.gruund per appearance as it were of an immense paddock (^lh« : -v«rge' 7 df r the ; river, some twenty feet in depth." ; , ~• The mild weather we"nav'e'Heeri 'enjoy-; ingfias had bringing all ve- { getation yerV*Tdr|:a7d The trees are coming out ih on. the fruit trees the bloonl to burst open. If it pot "for"slight frosts night and ildio.riiing, i't"i.s.like inid/vspring. .;..she, ''Cromwell .Argus:'" is* irate, and, Iwvin^a ; badj.case, tries to get out of it by abusing the opposite side;- 'Whatdo sail io but a confirmation of what I stated? • To take his own argument, these charitable folks collected all the money they could for : their own hospital, and sent all their patients to the Dunstam 'He acknowledges they would have sent more had not our. Co.iQurittee, foy want "of Funds,- refused to take tbehi in without a guarantee. Our Committee, it? is said, stultified itself by so. .doing, .as they-<the Cromwell "folks)'''intended to make some amends for the past. Crom. well may be-pavedwithgooa intentions, for all I know, but our Coin not provide for the patients cpniing from all portions' of the district upon 'such; fare. I can" but CawnwelL is in'-, : aeft'sabS:adi? sideats f should, for theit own credit, make someamends. •■;•"•'■'." ■ „:■.-.

What aue ,-riie aiitlipwti.es about that the approaches to. our. bridge, are not-, com*' menced ? Why : this delay ? Who will have to pay ;the~;prper ? The work, by delay, will cost a groat deal more money. It will be no joke to 1 have to pay interest on £SOOO for an unproductive" work, because of bungling in some quarters; either Provincial or Municipal. 1 •• The matter demands explanation. [The Clyde Council might do worse than undertake to supervise the outlay of funds available for the bridge approaches. — i.e., if there is. any real danger of the bridge itself being finished, soon enough for traffic,.before-the approaches.*'"The Works Department is very much overworked at present, which.ins probably : 'ihc f ' cause of delay.—Ed. M.I.C.]