CARDLINE BAY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12900, 10 February 1906, Page 6

CARDLINE BAY.

mm on . Caroline Bay are looking very iggUgjapb, now, 3 thanks t<> the dampness o#- th£-«ea~ visitors to the Bay. TEe grass of the grown well.. ..uThe-laiicn mower -was ran over them yesterday, ahdexeept in a few. small patches, a close clipping spleYof vgrass.y rThenhrubs! have£ jnade, -.good leafage; J|ai: 'luail cab- 1 bage trefes are very healthy looking, not mote so.,than other planta perhaps, but ' tiieir strong, growth;. » mora striking, nod jnat now flowering =plan(a arebloom"™K Itmr« Mr, Gibson, th« caretaker, is himself somewhat astonished at the healthy growth and good progress made by shrub and flower, and not a little proad of itl He /pleased! that the, flowering plaits given by' Serious tare done eo welL -. It was doubted -srhe' thfflv ; imceeßs, ; was to be ' inland 'plahti^''in " the ex&vat*! clay without a liberal top dressing of soil, and some top-dressmg and - manuring was supplied to most of the made ground. It would seem that this was not absolutely. .Eecessary, - for things are growing ...well in soihe places on bare , clay, J " Ah accidental, itt^one ; .su(^i^sppt ; 6f a swede turnip." / The railway have resumed embanking of the viaduct at Beverley \giufy? clay being obtained for this work'

B^feavating". at the "west end of the l Borough Council opIpbsite LeGren's •'Xj^raMv; -Tit-.- is . und.er-■stood-that- jaJ proniKe "Tva& "giv,en. .that ;\a footway foritiiid' 'iuid<ir tlie -tinf bahkment,for: the &wnvenifinee *• of ; -pe6ple living; at- .the jjprth jendrvof•; the jtosra;.',,6ut there 'isno.sigrr qfv'such/, a thing "laeliig made. It would be. sp f erice- .of} tHe public iutlrijsts in. iiiheS Bay fought tp .renew the revest tEe7'3Eoßi;way be made. A curiosity has lately appeared on the west side of the Bay which offers a puzzle for solution. A considerable quantity of shingle hcus made its appearance,'forming a beach along the foot of the cliff Jjelow.. the daiiy; fa£tory, and under the Benvenue cliff. Tie shingle is 'of the same .mixture of pebbles as Wai- | matait&i spibV, beach;;-idrift, iij'fflastiii and baked/stones-*from "Ttinder is&|lfe>l)asliin<T Bocks plantation. . The puzzle iS?S,. How and why has this shingle and when it did not do so ~<lufTng"many [previous years? .The most plausible ansof is that during k|h^ ; -last i ,;heaw i: flopd. rains, some few ! monffe t£e "'Waiinataitai was gap in the bank, which part "to this day. The outrushujg.- carried much of the shingle seaward- edge- of the rubble protecting the cliff j and . northreasterly seas have swept it southwards. Southerly seas are now checked by.the new breakwater; and under jits lee even southerly seas round enough to--®rive' shingle along Btsiviejme »diii. r _■ If there wfe^.' : nqi<ili shinfgle to come 'ailing:' there ..it JjjjpH&lSibe apt to spoil the sands, ;as the Jpebbles-would .probably! be swept atll over them; but if-the aboye s explanation -of its start is , tlrere ■; jjs not much risk of that. M'fts many big mussels, whose 1 -' shells now lift thick xipon the shingle. .. .... /