PROPOSED BRIDGE AT ALEXANDER'S BLUFF.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 104, 12 August 1902, Page 5

PROPOSED BRIDGE AT ALEXANDER'S BLUFF.

In connection with the proposed bridge over the Motueka River, at Alexander’s Bluff, Mr Christopher Remnant, junior, has received the following communication from Mr C. W. Hursthou'se, Chief Engineer of R >ads. It will- be noticed* the reply is both satisfactory and encouraging to the settlers on the western side of the liver, who have for years, been deprived of safe and adequate communication with Motueka their natural outlet for the produce grown in that locality : “Sir : lam directed by the Hon. the Minister of Lands to acknowledge the receipt of a petition signed by yourself and other itsidents of Motueka, Riwaka, abd Pangatotara, asking that a sufficient sum be placed on the Estimates for, the construction of a cart bridge over the Motueka River at Alexander’s Bluff. In reply, I am to inform you that a sum has been placed on the Estimates for consideration, sufficient to allow the bridge to Ve started immediately the vote-is passed. In the meantime, arrangements ar* in hand to obtain from the landholders the right to construct a road from the bridge to Pokororo, which it is essential should be completed before the bridge building is begun.” , : <

The Grey Argus says Word was received in town on. Saturday evening that the prizefight f between Jeffries and Fitzsimmons had taken place in America and. that Fitzsimmons was knocked out in the: eighth round. The extraordinary flights which have been known to be taken by blackbirds were referred to by Siy James Hector at the last meeting of the Philosophical Society/ The speaker* said blackbirds had been meti with in different parts of the world at enormous distances from land. He believed they were not imported to New Zealand, but came without invitation about 1860 or a year or two earlier. They spread immediately over the .whole country, and began devouring the fly that killing the cabbage and turnip. Mr Augustus Hare says that the Bishop oj .Winchester and the Dean of Windsor were once walking together down a street in- Windsor' when they saw a little boy struggling to reach a bell. “Why, you’re hot' tall enough, my little man ; let me ring the bell for you,” said the bishop. “Yes, if you please, sir ,” sak* the boy modestly. S» the bishop gave the bell a good pull. “Now, then, run, sir-run like ,the dfevil 1” shrieked the boy, as he m ute off as hard as he could. The agreement at present in force between the several millers comprising the Flour-milling Association expires early next year, and it is understood that already a project for reorganisation is under consideration. The proposal, which has already been, placed before the association, is [says the Ashburton Guardian] something after this wise. ■: The whole of the associated mill properties, after being valued by an outside expert, shall be pooled, and debentures issued according: to the value of the several holdings.. The best equipped and most centrally situated mills shall then be worked, full time, and provide an output sufficient for the colony’s requirements, all the other mills being closed down and improved and re-opened as requirements increase. It\ is claimed that by adoption of this method the saving in working expenses would be very great ; that the consumer would benefit both as regards .the re-, (luced cast and improved quality of the flour; whilst the flour milling industry would be placed on a sound financial footing. , -} Subscription to MOTUEKA STAR : Three Shillings and Sixp'ehce a Quarter, which may bqgin anv time