Our canal dredging has had var-fous mishaps. It was just point of getting frushed, when by fame hook or crook last Saturday night, the waters broke through dam and it looked as though It was finished for this year any way. 1 hear, however, that they sre going] to rebuild the dam and finish the Job, T suppose that this will have to be done in order for the contract tors to get their money as their work had not been measured before the Dbyeok. Tt surely will take patience! to build this dam and have all the work of pumping the waler out again. Tt will also take patience on the part of the people round here to have o put up with the incon. venience of hauling water from a For the past few weeks the fre-the city have been, roused early every morning for diis and have been having regular instruelon. I have not witnessed the drills, yet, but our engineer comes. in after the drilling looking quite spry and military in is uniform. hear that as from August 1, there to be a kind of universal drilling, that Is each family in the town and country Is to furnish one man, Work is rather slow on our new bridge. Demolition went on rather speedily, but the constructive work Seems 10 drag. "Meanwhile the pop-tu lace have a narrow. plank bridge ith which they must be content.
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