South Canterbury Times, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1893.
The meeting to-night concerning th® Queensland distress fond ought to be well attended. South Canterbury and Timaru have not had booming times lately, but, on the whole, have done very well, and with a good harvest and rich pastures the district must produce a good balancesheet. There will be something fur theatres, races, circuses ; there should bo something for the suffering. It is a pity that the meeting was not held last night, a large meeting, and everyone present with money in bis pocket, so that the Hauroto might have been given a few score tons of flour to take over as a donation from Timaru, Flour is much wanted, —one message stated that £l6 was asked for a bag of flour —and Timaru could supply that better than any other thing. Tin millers have set a good ex* ample by sanding a ton of flour each.
One of the risks to be run in occupying new lands is the risk of founding settlements—whether villages, pahs or kraals of savage or barbarous, or the towns and cities of civilised, peoples—in situations where they may I e overwhelmed by exceptional floods. The pioneers observe the limit of floods whose vestiges remain, and snppose that is the superior limit ; and civilised colonists are not even careful to observe that limit. By and by there occurs a flood of dimensions reached only at intervals of time so long that the vestiges of fhe previous flood of the kind bad disappeared, and a serious disaster happens. It may be a hundred years, or two hundred, since such a flood as lhat which & fortnight ago rushed down the Brisbane river, and the colonists therefore could not have known what a risk they ran. It is probable that the lesson of the recent disaster will soon be forgotten. No one would found a city in such s dangerous situation, perhaps; but there it is, and the people concerned will say there it must stay, and take the chances of another visitation.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7070, 16 February 1893, Page 2
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