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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 25, 30 January 1884, Page 4

The JN". Z. Times of Saturday says : — The damage done to the Wainuiomata Waterworks tura_ oat to be of a most serious character. If we are rightly informed, there will be a delay of between three and four months in the repairiag of the dam, and the coßt, which Mr Biird, the city engineer, at first estimated at £1500, is now reckoned by the councillors who visited the spot as likely to be between £3000 and £4000. There is no doubt that the storm was so severe that its force could not previously have been anticipated. Bufc, if our reporter's staterr ent is correct, the stores itself is not co much answerab'e for the damage as the bad material used as concrete, tbat employed having scarcely any cement in it, and crumbling into dnsfc almost immediately upon being pressed. Whst apparently makes the poor quality of the material tbe saore certain is, that in Sinclair's contract close afc hand, tha concrete is still as hard as a rock. We trust tbafc a most searching inquiry will be made by the Mayor and the City Council int> the causes of this wreckage of the work. Tbis is absolutely required ia the ioteresfc of the ratepayers. Mr Blackett, the consults g engineer, wiil visit the spot at the early part of next week and report en the damage done, and frsm his known abili'y and csrefulnesi ai an engineer, we have eyery cjnfidence that the real facts of the case will be brought to light. Mr Baird, we understand, asserts tbat he did not pass the work as complete, bufc we are informed that all but £100 of the amount of tbe contract has been already paid. Ifc is to bo hoped that the sureties are substantial mcD, for if they are not, there will hi another added t) the heavy losf-93 of the cilizens during the last year cr two from non-fulfilment of contract and insufficient security being taken.

The astronomical correspondent of the Post wrote yesterday: — " The rosy light after sunset was very 6oft last night. This soon faded away, and then shone out the strange copper-red color that has been visible so long. It wae never more weird thau it was yesterday. When ab its best a brilliant meteor started in the east, not far from Jupiter, and travelled slowly towards the south. Just before it burst it was brighter and larger than Jupiter. In the west the Pons comet was very visible to the naked eye. In an opera glass the nucleus was bright and the tail could be traced for a distance of about four breadths of the moon. The sky after all this was beautiful with stars; Saturn and Aldefcaran, Orion, Jupiter, Mars, and Leo were very beautiful. My glass resolved double Btars easily, which I often at other times bave failed to divide. I hope so lovely a night is a prelude to finer weather."

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