LIVINGSTONE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1238, 6 April 1880, Page 2

LIVINGSTONE.

(FJftOlt OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) April 5. A correspondent writing to your paper the other day, referred to a spot on tho Duntroori-Livingstone road that seemed, in his opinion, to demand attention from the County Council as being a place highly dangerous to the benighted travel' ler on that rotvd, but whether the rather foggy description of the place, as it appeared in the Mail of the 25th March, is due to misprint or omission in your office, or to inability on the part of your correspondent, it is not for me to say i sufficient that his object was gqod, and J trust I shall give no oflfenoe by referring to the subject, and adding a little to hia description to throw some light on it. The road at the foot of Long Gully appears to have formerly run across what is now a water-worn channel, probably 10 or 12 feet deep. To avoid it a diversion has been made in the road, so: that ft pergqn walking from Duntroon tfl Livingstone on a dark night would be very likely to walk straight on, not being able to see that the channel lay in his course,: and thus come to grief, for, strange to say, the Council when erecting a fence ostensibly to pro» tect this very place failed to ob»ervo this danger, and fenced only the end of the channel where, after parsing the diversion or bend in the road, it (the road) again a&sumes a straight course. They thus provided for a minor danger whilst that which lies direct in the track is wholly unguarded. If I have made the position somewhat more understandable. yqu must; conclude that th era far tes danger of a traveller stepping to one side off a straight road than of hta walking straight ahead when he should diverge' to his left, when he ia unable io see the da.ngep that lies in his path or tl a bend in tlie road to take him clear of ir« What in my opinion is required is to continue the present fence towards the river on the Duntroon side of the channel until across the course of the road.

I hear the school is tQ be re--opened on Tuesday, a tempav-ary provision having been made by Oomiflittee. The trusty of the publio lib wyhavo, with a commendable desire to niake the library more popular, decided to open the schoolroom on two evenings a week, supplying the room with several illustrated and other popular papers, as well as BQifl§ other sources of amusement, fop they intend, charging ft ygry mem* bership fee", ans frqrfl what I heftf it is likely to bo generally supported, and hence will become a success financially as well as socially. " A party of experienced miners have for some weeks past been tunnelling near the township, and though I have not been able through the retioenoe of the party named to learn the exact result, it has,! am assured, been satisfactory, so muoh bo that they have sent for several of their friends, and I shall not be surprised to bi • a considerable addition to our' mining population. This, for various ii sincerely to be

For the last week or more the weather bas been all that could be desired, and miners are all baay.