LONG BUSH.

Southland Times, Issue 1770, 22 July 1873, Page 3

LONG BUSH.

(PBOM OTJB OWN COBEESPOBTDENT.) Aa accident, which might have been attended with very serious consequences, occurred here on Monday forenoon, 14th. While James, son of Mr Hamilton, of Rozelle, was standing in the smithy, looking at one of the men cutting a bar of iron, a splinter from the chisel struck one of his eyes. He was immediately conveyed home, and a telegram sent to town for medical aid. Dr Cotterell succeeded in extracting the splinter, and hopes are entertained that; his eyesight will not be affected. The juvenile sufferer, though the pain must have been excruciating, evinced throughout the utmost coolness and resolution, and displayed a heroism which would do honor to one of riper yearß. The state of isolation in which we are placed at present is melancholy to contemplate, and all owing to the wretched state of our roads. We are now cut off from our usual intercourse with the town. The mail coach, which used to pass four times a week, has forsaken us altogether, and has taken another and it is supposed a better route. The daily papers, which kept us well posted up in the sayings and doings of the great world outside, are a rarity, and their chance appearance is like angela visits, few and far between. We will soon be in the position of the clergyman in one of the remote isles of the Hebrides, who, never having heard of the death of George IV., continued to pray for him for two years after he had been consigned to the tomb of all. the Guelphs. To add to all our privations, Lawson's waggons, which have been the source of very great convenience to the people here, have not been plying for some days, and will soon cease to ply altogether. It is right to mention that Mr Lawßon and his employes have been most obliging in the way of bringing goods, parcels, &c, from town, and have on many occasions spared neither time nor trouble in executing orders committed to their charge. Even the railway, when in full operation, will not compensate for the loss of the advantages we have enjoyed for a considerable time. Biding on horseback, or shanJcsnaigie, are the only means of locomotion we possess at present, and those who are unable to do the former, or are disinclined to use the latter, must just remain at home and grumble at their privations, or, what is perhaps more sensible, look forward with hope and patience to the " good time coming."