NEWS OF THE DAY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5015, 24 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The jurors that are summoned in the case Silcock v. Geraldine County Council are notified that the case has been still further adjourned till Friday, the 31st inst., at 11 a.m., on which day they are expected to put in an appearance. A lad named Martin met with a nasty accident on the breakwater last evening. The big crane was returning along the work about 5 p.m., pushing before it a block trolly. The lad was riding on this silting on the side timber with his feet hanging down between the truck and the blocks on the parapet side. One of these blocks projecting further than the rest caught his leg, and crushed it badly. No bones were broken, but the muscles were badly torn. The truck had to be lifted by the crane to release the lad, who was afterwards taken to the hospital.

Our readers may remember a paragraph which appeared in these columns a few days ago, relating to a prophesy made by Thomas Carlyle’s wife, that Pigott, whom she met as a young man, would come to a bad end. This paragraph, which was taken from the Fall Mall Budget, also appeared in the Dunedin Star, and a correspondent has written to that journal stating that the Pigott referred to by Mrs Carlyle was not the Pigott who was destined to come to a miserable end at Madrid, but a gentleman who attained a high position to wit, Chief Baron Pigott, the eminent judge.

The Westport Star says ‘ —“ la connection with the agitation for the construction of a harbour at Point Elizabeth, we learn that Mr C. Napier Bell, in bis position as engineer of the Midland Railway Company, some time since made a survey of that place, under instructions from the company, with the object of ascertaining the possibilities of forming a harbour there. His report has not, so far as we are aware, been made public. The fact of the survey having been ordered would seem to indicate that the company are not satisfied with the present Greymouth harbour, so far as it will influence their business. It is apparently recognised that no groat passenger or cargo trade, which is looked for as an important feeder to the railway, can be done there. This being the case, the company are doubtless looking elsewhere for an outlet; and the question arises whether it would not be wiser to extend the railway to Westport, where a safe and commodious harbour will be available, rather than incur the expense of making a new harbour, provided even that the latter is possible. The matter of Westport’s connection with the Midland Railway has never been properly taken up locally. Hero is now a ground upon which it can be recommended to the company for their own benefit.” To all which it may be replied that Westport is a bar harbour quite as difficult of access as Greymouth.

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