THE WEST COAST ROADS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1469, 26 August 1865, Page 2

THE WEST COAST ROADS.

Accounts from Mr. Edwin Blake state that the journey from the Waimea to Hokitika is now done in a day by foot-passengers. Horses have come through, but the road is not recommended. At the Taipo river arrangements have been made to establish an accommodation house, stockyards, &c., the licensees engaging to erect tents, to be used temporarily, until suitable buildings are put together. At Hokitika, buildings for the purpose of the Supreme Court, and for a hospital, are in progress, and it will, it is expected, be completed in six weeks time. Whiteombe'a Pass.—Mr. Edward Griffith's arrived in Hokitika on the 19th iust., and reportst he line as perfectly impracticable. Browning's Pass.—Mr. Browning writes under date 20tli August, from the camp at the Rakaia, that the snow had caused him some detention, being five feet deep on 'the saddle, but frozen hard enough to travel upon ; but that he intended crossing the range on the 19th inst., with five hands. He proposed cutting, if practicable, a liue round the spur leading to the saddle, quite wide enough to travel with swags, so as to mark nearly the line the road will take. He expected to reach the saddle in three days, and thence would proceed direct to Hokitika. Mr. Parke was about returning.