Tontouta Bridge, N.C.
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Washaway Near
From Our Own Correspondent.
Noumea, Feb. 1.
The new Tontouta bridge was to have been opened on Saturday, January 12, at 3 p.m., by His Excellency, the Governor, M. Siadous. Unfortunately, torrential rain rendered this quite impossible, so the ceremony was postponed.
The river rose to a great height, five metres (about eighteen feet) above nor mal height, and there was a serious wash away in the approach on the Noumean side of the road. A hastily improvised bridge soon spanned the gap and the traffic was only interrupted for a few days.
Curiously, the old punt had been dam aged the day before through carrying a large canion heavily loaded, and was thus also put out of action.