MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XVI, Issue 20225, 17 April 1891, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The future of the Westport Harbour works is very 'interesting to tlie Colony *t .large. Five Lund red thousand pounds was placed at the disposal of tho Harbour Board for the improvement of those works. Ail that money has beet) spent except £175,000 — a goodly emu. -The expenditure has made the break w <( tors everything that they ought to be. There is more water on the bar. than there has ever been, I — more than is required by the class of vessels which the river itself can accumulate- - O early uo more nion^y ought to j;e spint upon the breakwaters. It is a well-known fact thai under 'such * circumstances money injudiciously spent on a breakwater — spent, that i< to say, more on one than upon another of the two structures necessary to the perfection of good river harbor work— iesults in deterioration instead of improvement. The great thing is to let well alone. Another great thing is to spend the balance of the inouoy in improving the facilities within. The berthage, we understand, is not so forward at Westport as the rest ot the work. That is the portion upon which the money should be expended. Having made the harbour accessible, the Board ought to make it comfortable and convenient. Will it 1 The alteration lately made in the constitution of the Board makes the answer to that question a litt'e doubtful. This matter requires very close watching on the part of the Government. It is paid that mice are just as mnch afraid of women as women are of mice ; but as their screaming appara* tvs is not constructed on the same principle, they are restrained from communicating the intelligence to the people in the adjacent towns. Audrew Carnegie wa9 penniless and twelve years old when he went to America fioin Scotland. lh' w<is apprenticed to a mechanic, and eventually opened a shop of his own. Then

he patented some furnaces, and fator introduced steel rails, and had them adopted by every road iv the country. This is how he built up his millions. Many American!, it iff Baid, are indignant at what they term the aWa^i- • nation of Sitting Bu!i. A monument is to be erected to his memory on the spot where he w.i 3 turied •■ 'iktJ v ft dog."