RIVERTON. (from our own correspondent.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1598, 8 July 1882, Page 13

RIVERTON. (from our own correspondent.)

July 4th.

A meeting of the Committee of the Wallace Champion Houghing Match took place on Friday, at tho .i. W Motel, when the Committee fixed tho first prize in double furrows at £20, iind in aiu.^li-turrow.s nt £iO, the other prize-! to bo ro^ulatui iwcoidiug to funds.

At a meeting of the Orepii<d Ci-al and S'mlo Coinpan v h-.-ld at Tlmrnimry on Wedno.day last, a jeport irniii a gentleman who has been teniii.t; the yionnd by boring was read. The iccoid of the throu tests are .m t<<llowt : — No. I bore, Uift coal, 'lft shale, 3ft tiiculay ; No. 2 bore, tft 6in o ml, lift fbalo, 10ft Din clay ; No. 8 bon- wna started on an outcrop which proved to be l(ift in thickness 'I he coal has been testid for blacksmith's puiposrs with satisfactory lesults, tho lust bunij,,' a seve-oone. The i'ro»l"iteiiai) Church is to be opened on £unda.\,!)'h HiKt. A Hoiroo will b- held in the O.M-Kel-lowb' (la 1 "ii rh<i M«mda\ after the opening. A mooting uf Uio Harbour Hoard wua held at the Council i.'hjiinberd on tl.u; 3rd July, wtion a niotum to the t-ffect Unit |»lans a 1 tl m ooifii-AlJoiis bo callwi lor the craetion -f ihe wha-f at the norm side. \wib curijod, m aijainit *k a,n«uduicnt |.rupo»cdby Dr lloil),'kiuHDii to tlie effect ihat, Uo\ eminent be rcquo-ldi! to (ii-nd down a competent marine ongincui hffore dociding on the fraction of the wharf.* t r Hodgkinson lodged a protest aicd left. There. bWng no quorum, the meeting broke up. A public meeting wav convened by thoMa.\<r. a tno request of 04 residents, on Saturday evening when a n o i-^n in favour ofthu whaif being erecied on the sjuth fide ttaa carried. Pernonally I do not think it matters which side is Bch-cted. What is wanted isi moro water on the har for-larger vessels. Jf we can only cur. live or .six feet luore water on tho bar, I will guaianteethat we will soon have wharf accommodation. We shall have coal, shale, timber &c, the trade in the latter of which ia just in its infancy now— coming down, and if we do not find an outlet for them they will find one for themselves, and then we t<ha)l find out how difficult it ia to turn a trade once it has made a way for itself. It is time all thia petty, jealousy and bickering was dropped, and everyone united to work for tho eood of the port. The Ililith Ileid came alongside this afternoon. An accident occurred which might have turned out aa bad aa that of the Maid of Olago. When the Edith was coming up the Cygnet was laying in mid-channel ready for se.i without, it seems, anybody on board. Being riyht in the tide-way .with a good deal of cable out, sho was first yawing one w.iy and then the other. In passing the Edith tamo right against her, making her part her chain. There whs nothing left for it but for the bridge to bring her up, and as io happened ahe camos-temon to it. The force ahot her atiead, and before she could get broadside on a line was got from her to the Edith Kei<', which saved her. Had she got broadside on to the bridge down she_ would have gone, in th« same manner aa the Maid did. As it is a few pounds will repair her. Thoae^ in charge of tue Uyjrnet are of course to blame for leavii g her in midclnnnel without a soul on board.