A PLEASANT JOURNEY.
I I.OKITIKA, August !l.
The Christ-chnrch coach. due on Saturday night, only reached town yesterday evening. The road is in an almost impassable condition, avalanches of snow have fallen over portions of it, and tilled the lower gullies. Cassidy, driving from this end, got nearly to the middle pel: between Westland and Canterbury, when the coach and horses got bogged in the snow. He sent the horses back, ami shouldered the mails, attempting to get through ou foot, He managed to get. live miles, wading waist high in places, and keeping the road l-v means of the telegraph poles. The sno ;' ; ' .-n bee .me to. deep, and he was oi>l L ' lv-ium. ma;ls and all, to the Oiii.i Vi-.tcl for .- '. ■ i
Four additional ro;'d in n were obtained next day, who wortcutting the snow from Sunday (ill Wednesday, when a track for horses was opened. Tie so who ean ride go through now easily i noitgh, out vehicle communication is entirely cut ■ if. .Numbers of sheep died last week while trying to get through, and otherswere so famished and footsore that the\ had to be lifted out of tile way to allow a horse to pass. Sheep and cattle hav. It.-id no food for six days. MaiLs started again this morning, as the, weather has improved.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 729, 10 August 1878, Page 2
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