FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18544, 18 August 1928, Page 2

FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

ADVERTISEMENTS AND NEWS OF AUG. 19, 18C8.

Wanted, immediately, a good General Servant. Apply to Sirs Fred Reach, Woodburn Nursery, Windmill Road. The most laconic will on record is that of a man who died in 1739. It runs thus:—“l have nothing, I owe a great deal. The rest I give to the poor.”

In a statement of accounts of the Borough of Arundel, just issue ), a < t:ous printer’s error occurs. An ite u ; - pears in the expenditure thus V- - ing and regulating the Town C' :k. 1 0s 6d— the word “clerk” beiir; :• - printed for "clock. ’ Entries for the champion pV 1 . '•i. : match held on Mr Hill’s farm, ru -r tl racecourse, Avornhead :—Wm. < b • • s Ladbrook. Wm. Madison. W He •••wood, D. Gibbs. Wm Mathews. Geo Rod'rt: , John Barclay. Wm. Judsbn, John Sco*>n. Thomas Stokes. Wm. Barley, jami ; Moun. Jeremiah Carboy. W. Plash, m J. Keetley, John Pannett. John Bruce, Chas. Taylor. Thomas Pannett. Thomas Smith. J. Bailey,'— Silvester. Wm. Grey. George Stevens, Robert Me ■ on, and Samuel Woods. NOTICE. The steamer Sensation, having i * ceived extensive improvements. i. O'Neill intends ffo ply with passeng. to and from the shipping and shore, on Saturday next, and also to attend upon private and picnic parties. Towage upon reasonable terms; goods and passengers taken to any of ing Bays. The boat will ply on Sundays the same as watermen's boots. For freight or passage apply to the captain on board. This boat will be always under steam during the dav. J. O'NEILL. Le Bon Bay—A correspondent gives the following account of the disasters that occurred here on Friday night. About midnight a heavy wave or lx>re came up the river, doing considerable damage to everything on its banks. These waves continued to roll uT> with from a quarter to half an hour between them, gradually getting higher, until between three and four on Saturday morning a tremendous wave or wall of water, from 20 to 25 feet high, tame up the river, carrying everything liefore it. About 20.000 feet of sawn timber, belonging to Mr Dalglish, was washed away and lost. Hall and Cuff had a quantity of fencing and firewood swept away, and the sea water was two feet deep in their house. All their stores are damaged, and a long piece of their tramway was washed away. The Government bridge, and a private bridge belonging to Mr John Smith, in whose house the water was from three to four feet deep, were also washed away. His tramway and also about 12.000 feet of timber have been completely swept away. The river, which was about 1J chains wide before, and three feet deep, is now 10 feet deep, and from nine to ten chains wide. A punt, 40 feet long, that has been sunk for two years, was washed up and carried more than half a mile Up the river, and left on a sand bank about twelve feet above high-water mark. -A house situated about ten chains up the river was washed away and left close to the bush.