HAVELOCK.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 353, 1 February 1871, Page 3

HAVELOCK.

! (From Our Own Correspondent.) January 23rd, 1871. ! The Hnvplock Arhenesum Committee is 1 making moid progress. Tliey have alroailv ; purchased 3 sections, which they consider J n nice hir nf .'-round whereon to build. ! This building will supply a want very much felr in Havelock. Not a week I passes but what, if we had a room large j enough, it could ho put to some good pur- | mosp, wherpas, for any benevolent or j charitable purpose to get up any enrerfainj menf that would be attractive, with cora- ! fort to the audience, we have to go at least j four miles. The one building will answer as athenaeum, drill shed, temporary school, ! Foresters' hall, and a variety t>f other purposes, always provided it escapes the next flood, which, according to previous ex- ! perience, we are bound to have, and to i guard against which I perceive the Goi vprnment engineers, with a stupidity seldom surpassed, are having constructed stone embankments on both sides of the wooden bridge crossing the river here. Previously the storm water carried away the -approaches, and thus saved the dwelling's on both sides of the river, and the bridge itself — relieved from the extra pressure — escaped. Now, if a flood comes anything like the one of Feb. 3rd, 1868. down comes the bridge, or the refuse carried down the river will block it up, and form a d-im, when away will go the township; or if the stone work gives way. which it is likely to do from being backed by sand, and slips into the river, the township suffers, the miners claims become flooded, and, through the culpable, carelessness of inefficient Government officials, the Government render themselves liable to be sued for damages. To prevent this it would be easy to add two more arches to the bridge, which, according to what I have witnessed in flood time, would be ample. It may be argued, on the other hand, that this would weaken the bridge. Well, if so, build a new and substantial one. Lower down, and to accommodate a few, I believe a very good substantial one has been built, where there is no traffic compared with that on this the main road to the up-country goldfields towns. On Tuesday, 17th nit., the following gentlemen were installed as officers of Court Havelock, A.0.F., viz:— C.R., W. Cairns; S.C.R., W. Trnbshaw ; Treasurer, R. Coghill •; Secretary, George Heath ; S.W., J. M'Taggart • J.W., C. Renheiok ; 5.8., R. Craig ; J. 8., J. Nixon. ■ Th-re is to be a benefit given on the 30th Jan. to endeaTvor to aid Mr George i Hicks to purchase horses to con fin ne business, when I expect I shall be able to send you a report that Waitahivna still keeps np its name as one of the toost — if not the roost— cb.ari f a'>le of the small ■diggings- in the ' Province,