BULLER AND LYELL.
[Wdit OUR OWX CORRESPONDENT.] Rain set in on Saturday last and continued to pour down incessantly until .about 11 a.m. on Sunday when the clouds broke away. The violent wind sweeping up the Buller Gorge threatening destruction to all the dwelling houses in its course, and tearing away a quantity of branches, and levelling several fine pine trees. The force of the flood in the luaugahua river may be imagined from the fact that it took the crew of Crowell's boat about two hours to pole the boat 200 yards up" stream. The boat arrived witli seven and a, half tons of goods, making the,trip in about forty hours. Discharged two tons and then went on to the Lyell. Montgomery's new boat arrived from Westport in two days witli nearly _seven tons aboard, and went on up the Inangahua ps far as the Landing, The proprietor purposes having drays on the Inangahua road in conjunction with his boats, which he states will enable him to deliver goods right through to Reefton at a cheaper rate than the waggoners on the Grey side can carry'between Greymouth and lieefton. This will be the means of diverting some orders to Westport now finding their way to Greymouth. The contractor is pushing on with the road making and expects to have it all completed in about one month. The whole of the metalling is now subdet. Some of the recently finished portions of No. 4 section near Grange's Point, have cracked away on the outside and settled down, thus, narrowing the road in two places to about six feet, in the solid. This will entail extra "expense on the contractor as the section has not yet been passed by the Government overseer. Jt shows the necessity for cutting the road out of (he solid, and the folly of attempting to line out a substantial.road on loose rubble which is liable to slip away at any moment'. Mr James Edge, who is carrying on the business of butcher and baker on the road contract, had a mishap with one of his horses a few days since. The animal was carrying a pack load of beef and managed to get his legs through one of the culverts .and in struggling to get free toppled the load of beef into the mud. Montgomery's boat left the Junction at noon on Monday, bringing down the lieefton and Lyell mails and 12 passengers, arriving in Westport at 5 p.m. Casualties on the voyage :—Lost two hats overboard, and sail carried away, the boat being blown ashore once by tho violence of the wind, but was got off again by the active exertions of crew and passengers.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1200, 7 August 1874, Page 2
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450BULLER AND LYELL. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1200, 7 August 1874, Page 2
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