ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 85, 28 August 1863, Page 2

ORIGINAL CO RRESPONDENCE.

WE DO NOT HpliD OURBELVES^RE^PONSIBiE FOB THE OPINIONS EXi^BESSED,, BT OUB COBKESPONDENTS., ■.•-.■ ./.-;'■,, To the Editor of the invercargill Times. Sir,.— Can you inform, me .why the Provincial Council is not called together? " Do, Hie Qoverrimentjntend to allow the ensuing summer to pass without making the Roads— afier the fashion they followed last year? If the; New River Railwny is to be open before next jwinter they have no time t» lose, as they ought to be at work in-* October, < itis considered that after the cojnt.ract is taken,, the plant ' will "have to be brought from Melbourne. I also think we shall find a gobd'dea 1 to do in installing the different roads. The one via. Mataura cm' to SwitzeYs^ will loth time and tnoooy, and if we wish to keep the tra le, it must be jn'nde., .TJ^ere is a- goorl deal to do in the Rivertondistrie't'jin fact, we shall find jvehave neither time nor money to spare. Tiief Otago Government' will' make > a -good road to the Mataura, and will try all they" can next winter to get the trade both to Switzer's and the Lake, so of 'course we are bound 'to do all wo" can to keep it. I have no doubt that if the railway is open, that goods will be taken from it to Switzer's instead of by tlie Mataura; but still the Mataura Road must be m'ado. ■ ■ ' - : . ' Your obedient servant. PILGRIM. . ♦: -4-. > ' : To the Editor of the Invercargill Times. \ Sir,— Your contemporary. in his issue, of Saturday lust toiiclii'S strongly on the' Pilot -service of the Port of Bluff Hurl or, and desires an investifjatir/ai into the efficiency of the head pilot there, he (your contemporary,) being cvi. dently aroused trom his slumbers, by a letter from a correspondent signing himself 'f J. G.". Now I do not mean to open up a paper war with this correspondent "J. G..," but wjill give you a few facts touching' two or 'three of the vessels grounding and fouling' in ' this harbor.- With reference to the Sir' George Pollock, the Sir William Eyre, and.t he Juno; th*« first' grounded when in charge of ah assistant pilot, and was got • off with the able assistance of Captain Thomson, /'the nest 'tide wiifjfatft damage..; 'As to the Sir William Eyre, her anchors were quite' insufficient to hold her ; and "J. G." forgets to mention that . a board oi practical seamen had a survey on board fhe Juno, af'tor her fouling ' the Flying Mist* and exculpated Captain Thomson, the pilot, t could enter more fully into r the tacts -of 'all the cases ; mentioned in J. G.s letter, and the cause of such 1 an unfounded attack riiade ou our respected heaii pilot; but 1 trust other bauds will justify 'the pilot service here, and render every informal ion necessary, should mi investigation be called for, through the medium of your contemporary. Yours obediently, Giio. P. 11. Gallop. Port of Bluff, 27th August.