TIMARU.
[From Saturday's "Herald."] ] THB PBOJICTED OPIHI BBIDGB. | The Provincial Government have thought j Proper to break a faithful promise, without the shadow of pretence for doing so. The Timaru «sd Gladstone Board of Works applied, some ] fcoatb&ago, for the services of the Provincial | Sagmeer, to report upon the best site for the: a bridge over the Opihi river. The ! ftovraeial Government graciously acceded to we request, and promised that the Provincial lß|ineer should very shortly visit the south, and place himself in communication with the Board of Works for the purpose of reporting | *3>oa the river Opihi. Now we learn that the w?*srmnent cannot allow that officer to leave Surely this is provincial central's® of the most rampant kind. Is the Timaru patriot stai a portion of Canterbury, or is *tS?lf If it is, |hen it has an undoubted IjJgKt to some small share of the services of "Qviucial Government officers, for of ? wh<»e salaries it contributes a large share of revenue. The Board of Works has tost with a severe rebuff in its advances to we Provincial Executive, and we may express |uope that it will be more self-reliant for the mare. Tho bridging of the Opihi can no be delayed, and the board may, if it * J unks proper, employ the Provincial Engi- ***? of Otago or any other province, to do the *s*k» provided it defrays all expenses—but «J* services of the Provincial Engineer of Cannery are centered in Christchttroh. 4 OpDPELLOWS, ;■ We hear that this body have purchased a land at the corner of Barnard and "oolleombe streets. They intend, we believe, .to erect a hall shortly on the site. t BLACK SWANS. *.f vf 8 * r^B Beem ouw-to have regularly themselves on the Washdyke wgooa, tbeir num b ers having increased from w«toauie. .
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Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1824, 16 February 1869, Page 3
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