LORD'S RIVER,

Southland Times, Issue 620, 18 January 1867, Page 7

LORD'S RIVER,

Three-and-a-half miles to the south-west of Shelter Point, the southern entrance of Port Adventure, is a well-sheltered harbor for small vessels or steamers, the entrance being contracted, and, though land - locked, is difficult of ingress or egress ; the latter can only be effected in easterly or northerly weather. It is a narrow arm of the sea running in a westerly direction. Boats drawing from seven to eight feet can go up it at high water as far as the Rapids (which are about four miles from the anchorage ground), where the river becomes a rapid creek, which,,l would imagine, takes its source some distance inland. Laud. — There is a tolerably extensive belt of flat land round the bay, principally wooded, with occasional patches of open, covered with grass, the most considerable and valuable of which is at the south-east end. The soil is a sandy loam. The bush land on the sides of the hills at the south end of the bay is good, as is also that on the North Island. The Timber on the ranges consists of black, white, and red pines, with clumps of manuka scattered about. Wild fowl are plentiful, particularly Paradise ducks ; as are fish, including the groper. At the back of a low range of hills, at the north-east end of the bay, commences a long valley, or, rather, series of valleys, of open land, connecting the west with the east coast, terminating at the head of Paterson Inlet. This bay is the only place on the Island where a Settler could have a run for hi 3 cattle. EiESEbve. — I would recommend a township reserve of 200 acres at the south end of the harbor, on the flat fronting the beach, commencing at the passage between South Island and the main, and running northerly along the foot of the ranges to the south-west branch (or Eel Creek) of the Pleasant Creek, as per sketch.