COLAC BAY.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
“ Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,” as waged in large centres of population, life passes quietly here, and there are few evemts of interest to cln-onicle. A good deal of activity is being displayed in connection with the jetty now in course of erection here for the New Zealand Pine Company. It has now been carried out a distance of about 500 ft., but the contractors are having some trouble in driving the piles, as they are working on a rocky outtom, and have to blast out the holes with dynamite. The Maori settlement is practically deserted, most of its able-bodied residents being away on their annual mutton-bird hunt at the islands. A new sawmill is in course of erection for the Pine Co. Two engines and one of the boilers have been got in position on concrete foundations, but sometime will elapse yet before the first log is sawn. The contractor for the iron tramway on which the locomotive will be run is making fair progress, although swamps and peat bogs have caused some fascining to be undertaken.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 2, 14 April 1894, Page 12
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186COLAC BAY. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 2, 14 April 1894, Page 12
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