MANAGEMENT OF THE MOLYNEUX

Otago Daily Times, Issue 303, 9 December 1862, Page 6

MANAGEMENT OF THE MOLYNEUX

\ .(To tte Editor fifths Patly Tikes'.) , ■ ' Sir,4-SWho has, the/management of,the Clutha Perry]!'is ths auesfiqn now generally asked'up here j and it is also one which ray, brother teamsters and myself consider should bs, quickly answpred.^l will plainly state' the circumstances in'which wearsnow situjitai,.,and wjl leave it to you to decide * whether 'fßu«h tbings'ghouW bef" ' I. have just arri?ecl here with a loidjfot^ I?ox's iittsh^ and, being; h-tppily, planed «voa-tlii3 aide the xiver, appear l^k-?Iy to remain^so forborne time to come^'simnly bfcc<uße,tlie ye is no punt to carry 'us over. * Having made enquiries /rom everybody I can meet, it appears that on. Tiiyi'sday, :the <$i}hjaf November when Cobb and Co:'acoaoh was'crossing fpK town! the- wirefia^le in Wo, and^the pjant $omaimng\'tbe Tp^seagei»? dri^ep,^and Worses :iras sent fioatln^sqme two' mileS'tfown the rWer^^On'^e^fo^wXnirSiiind^ytiio puut ■was again madejofs^vice through the exertion o* Mr^h^'tt9 iftt)d-Captl^nW|6af % who, tlbringliig down the wre, cablft«^omvthefHowK^,^bent'it across tbev iiv«r? Tbfe^rel»ble%ppea^^ y faTjt6(j light fopM^bmymA |;vMyfe^m;^M^^d^i^^ oroied thatShl'above iiamed g^tleraeh?lfavo%rittet t\yo Jettew to Hfs Honor, the Superintendent, etat-

fr*°fi* N^*^tm t'P'eiviug any reply.- I believe that thenpt Jetier <n the subject w:a'!-wrir'ei and sent specially to town the very- day aftrrthe new and 'TTOi-th!e^^^iEft\nts;fhKHl < *rWbat"is;the eonsgquence^ After., btiet<'hu)g so<ne flirty- e'ght f thenew wire broke on. Friday la^r^ the pui.t'at th^ time contmingateamof bulojsks helougxig'to Mr Chaplin, late of thr Commercial Hotel; which' had' to -be ua-hai-jicsse I and turned' off into the stream to try | their hick atswimmino: in onler to, avoid'a sfr^ous if not. a '-+6111 accident. And so we are now in this strait. Th. punl; wite lies broken aud unserviceable* at the bottom of'the river, and tho punt boat is more than mreo-puartera of a mtle down the stream, while we i with our horsps and loading are compelled to remain | over on this side nt a great 1 ss td our emp'oyers and ourselves. Me as Tlnmas and Wood say they can- ' not a'-sis us, and they can do nothing uutil a new c_ble is proem cd. Alongside us are Fox and his party, with their boit and drays containing store?, and'ir appears to my inexperienced ideas that Fox's 'rush and the Wakatip will remain for somt time inaccessible unless f.ome means are found for putting teams and oaded drays over the Molyneux. Cobb and Co. are c mpdled to keep their coach and horses on this s dp, sending their passengers over in a small dingy. Pray, Sir, exert your best influences, and tiy to get this important f rxy made of some use. Suppose that we are detained here for several weeks, and,^ from the extreme height of the river, such a contingency is by no* means improbable, who is to pay our expenses? By inserting'our griefs you will greatly oblige us^and many other. Teamsters. This siJe of the Molyneux, December 8, 1862