ENTRANCE TO THE BULLER RIVER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 207, 3 September 1869, Page 3

ENTRANCE TO THE BULLER RIVER.

The Westport Times is very indignant, and justly so, at an article which appears under this heading in the Illustrated Australian News, as an accompaniment to a pretended illustration of the Buller river, and the town of Westport. There is some difficulty in deciding which is the most untruthful, but " fortunately," says the Times, " the artist has failed to stretch his imagination or eyesight quite so far as the author has done, and we are spared the contemplation of the effects of that convulsion of Nature which can only bring — . as the author has brought, the Kaikoura Mountains of the East Coast within view from the Buller mouth. The following is the article referred to, with humble representations of the printer's exclamatory aud damnatory remarks as he put it in type: — " The West Coast of New Zealand is lashed by storms, and her rivers are famed for the danger of their bars. In our illustration of the Buller, one of the rivers on the West Coast, the artist has succeeded (?) in conveying an idea of the swell and surf, which sweeping in from the ocean, and meeting the rapid rush of water which comes down the snow- clad heights, thus creates, as a matter of course, the river bar, with all its attendant difficulties and formidable dangers. — (? " ") — The coast is bleak, and the scenery of an Alpine character, presenting a succession of ranges swelling one above another, and — (JL^W %) — rising upwards to the bold peaks of Mount Kaikoura. — ( ! — ! !— ! ! !) — Gold was found at the Buller about five years ago, and since the first rush, a large population has accumulated in the locality. About 10,000 people — :(o"my * * *) — occupy the township of Wes.iport and the diggings scattered about* Some of the diggers' tents, pitched on the lower mountain ranges, ,;ar§ visible from the deck of a steamer sailing along the coast. The digging community is prosperous, but would be more so were it not for the difficulty of getting across the bar, which forms, in fact, a sort of excommunication from the rest of the.world.— (??—!!!— ttt~+ttt)These " exclamatory and damnatory remarks" are in themselves so expressive, that it is needless for us to make" further comment on the absurdity of the article above quoted.