LIVINGSTONE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 14 July 1880, Page 2

LIVINGSTONE.

(from our own correspondent.) July 13. It is so long a time since a letter on matters at Maerewhenua has appeared in the Mail that I should not be surprised to hear that you had formed the opinion that your correspondent must either have left; the district, is dead, or has latterly very much neglected his duties. I am, however, pleased to be able to say that neither surmise would be correct, for your " own" still lives, or, as I have sometimes heard it put, he still exists, and in the same locality as in days gone by. As to the latter suggestion I can only say that since the excitement of the eleotion Livingstone and its inhabitants might have been in a state of " coma," so little has transpired calling for comment or worthy of record, always excepting the weather. Of this I may say, though X judge from your several reports from different places of the amount of rainfall and •the extent of damage done thereby, that [■we have suffered muoh less than many others; still there has been sufficient of the watery element to lead to thei anticipation—but for the promise made to Noah—that wewere again to be visited by a deluge. I am, however, thankful to be jable to say that comparatively little damage has resulted from the late continuous and, I may add, unseasonable ' grains at Maerewhenua, Some little injury jhas been done, as might be expected, to

... w ater-race 3, bat, ao far as I can learn, 1 - Jfa. trifling character. The party of ftfatfun in Golden Golly have probably C *Ld from this cause more than any W, on the field, their works being so .hMßoaed and ao difficult to protect fni the effects of floods, they generally 7*nch times come in for a greater amount f repairs than the majority of other ot ies Taken on the whole, the weather had suits the miners better than foe more seasonable frosts and snow of addition has just been made m the buildings in the township, Mr. 5 ™,«n having erected a nice little buildw near the Royal Hotel, which, by the Iff has recently been greatly improved 1 some alterations and additions that 1L 1 have no doubt, add to the conmence ana comfort of those who use h house, as it does to it 3 outside aplaßce. Mr. Homan -purposes conf ting "the business of general storet cer and timber and coal merchant in premises. As in these particulars ""have been depending for our supplies merchants at a distance of ten miles upwards, it will probably prove a "icome convenience to the residents. "rjie damage done by the different floods past two months to the Maere- ° . aa bridge are so serious a3 to neces- *. te a new one. I hope the experience Untly gained of its liability to injury w flood will be acted upon, both in hoice of a site as well a3 the character of L structure- The obstruction to comaaic" |,; " ri between the two sides of the ®- er caused by the damage done to the hrid'^T l3 a 3e " OD3 * 033 an< * inconvenience miners having to cross the river to their "ork 30 lt: behoves the County Council to make speedy and effectual jjpjviaion against a recurrence of such Occidents _________