MARLBOROUGH.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 52, 29 September 1864, Page 3

MARLBOROUGH.

' <We have dates to the 17 th hist. _ The Seat of ;GdvernmentCommi&sionershaveW^ved'akPicton. jßeyond this event, therejs little or nothing of Interest to notice. t The Havelock Mail thus' steak's of the weather 'prevailing : — "Rain has-been drenching us for Imore than %4 hours, and during that time a vast amount of injury i must have been sustained on the , goldfields. ,'Havelock resembles a desertejl city ; while this "downpour continues. Not a solitary individual-dare venture out, -for fear of- being-im--bedded, in the deep mud, or. floated away by-ono of the" little 'rivers' that roar and 'foam through ' the itown, on their way to the swollen waters of the Pclorus , Sound. , The , most inclement period of the year -seems to be upon us, and, as we write; Wind and rain blow, and fall unremittingly. September has the bad reputeof being the most disagreeable month in the year; and if.it continues as it commenced; and now is, it thoroughly deserves to be so unenviably stigmatised. The weather is really frightfully bad, and many a poor miner and laboring man, who have only such shelter as calico iffords, will be thankful and glad when it passes iway, as now existence is almost unendurable to them."