TIMARU.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2779, 10 January 1878, Page 2

TIMARU.

Wednesday.

The report of the Timaru tHarbour Commission has been recoiVed. ".jt is rery elaborate, 5 and goes into the" 1 whole question of the practicability of "the scheme proposed for a breakwater for Timaru harbburT "It tiuts hside Cdocle's plan as too extensirp, and proposes a solid structure from the,shore, namely,;—A solid mole from the shore to a distance of niiie hundred?feet, terminating in;a breakwater similar to Codte's, but of smaller dimensions. It considers it wouldrtake a year .to construct the mole three-hundred feet. Regarding travelling shingle, if it is found, when the mole is constructed, that an accumulation of shingle takes place in the southern angle between it and the shore, an opening might be left. Theportion.then executed would protect the preseri't^andinaj place. It alscNremarks on the two plans handed in by^jthe Harbour.Board. It accepts the general form of thiafc marked " Panagatho»," ; and suggests, as the best site, that chosen by the late j^Tr Balfour. ;It considers "Panagathbo's " plan could not be constructed under fire hundred thousand pounds, and suggests that it would not be prudent to undertake a work of this kind unless that sum., was definitely counted Son. The Harbour Board meets 10-morrow to consider the report. . : Town sections of Rhodes' Waimate property hare been sold, averaging £13 5s per quarter-acre. An accident has occurred at Sharp's farm, Kakahu. A lad named Chute, sixteen years old, was driving a grass cutting machine, and while cleaning a blade the horse .started off, and the boy was caught in it; and had His arm but off a little below the shoulder. No one was near at the time, and he lay for twenty minutes on the ground before he was discovered, senseless and bleeding profusely. The flow of blood was staunched with great difficulty.