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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 7, 22 December 1869, Page 3

Ro\ml Rafting.—The usual ruonotonv o" Wild bad (writes the correspondent o"f tho Standard) was broken in upon the othsr day by the announcement that a raft wis ready for floiting down tho river, a id the Roy.il visitors wore invited to take an excursion up m it. A raft on the Enz generally consists of about 130 trees, and the molm opsrandi of floiting is to dam uj> the stream, so as to secure a sufficient rum of water to carry the spars over tho rocks and shoals. The passage of the unwieldy and shapeless structure is not unattended with risk; but, danger or no dangr-, most of the victors uo.v remaining lure determine I to try this (to them) novel mode of navigation. One of the sections i.i the centre of tho raft had been tastefully flitted up with flags and banners, and this was appropriate 1 to Uor Royal Highness and her two eldest children, who were accompanied by G-onaral Sir William and Lady Knollys and family, and Mr Paget. All went well and pie isantiy for a distance of abo.it four miles, wlun juit as the raft ivamed the last weir, tho rush of tho current had th > efflwfc bringing it under •vabr. an I of wotliug the whole of thft ,iirty to their kn e,. As voyagmrx on rafts on th-j En/, are const mtiy liable to )xpjrien;e au iuconvuuieux' of this sort, Jie ci-cumstmee ceatol -i •r.-imem rather than altrrn. Oil liiui,s, Hr Royal Flightless mid suito entered tlm carnages which wer,j in waiting Ibr them, anil headed by th.s Wildbad band, returned 'ionic. The Prussian Bible (Society in lioA.n has distribute 1, sin v.- its foundation, in 1814, | mire than ihrcj millions of eojii-v ot ih) m j II )!.'••. -y:ri jitui>,s. _J§