£8000 Damages, The County Council Penniless, Resignation of the Westport Harbor Board* Westport, Maroh 12. Ae further information comes to hand it is made evident that a great disaster has befallen this district as the result of the storm on Thursday morcing. The Buller ro&d is completely wrecker*, bridges have been carried uwr.y and human life has been loßt. The party who first oame through after the mishap had a terrible jouruey and report) that tbe toad is almoßt completely destroyed. In mimy places it has gone bodilj into the river, and slips from the hillside are innu merable, The Little Obika bridge has been oarriad away, the Hawk's Craig bridge 1b just hanging, and others are bidly damaged. Some who have travelled over the oountry before the road was constructed say that the journey is now muoh more difficult than it was then estimated to bo, and that it. wil take three months to repair th« road euffi oiently to allow of wheeled traffic. The rain was eoverely felt at Osborne's ac commodation house. A portion of the house was smashed by a rush of water from the hill, and the stables were carried away, with harness, horse feed, &0., and the stableman and horses narrowly esoaped. O'Brien, the Barf ace man at Little Ohika, was smothered b a Blip. He was apparently in bed at the time, and a passer by espied the poor man's legs sticking out from beneath the debris. A boat wafl sent up to bring down the body. The deceased leaves a wife and six children at Addison's Flat, where he was licensee of the Royal Hotel. At File's Creek, in this diatriot, a miner's house and property were entirely washed away, and he just succeeded ill escaping from bsd and olimbing a tree. He is left without a garmint or possessions of any kind, With respect to the Buller road the County Chairman is Awaiting a report from the Engineer, wbioh he will lay before the Government with a request for funds. The Harbor Soard have resigned at the request of the Government. A Board of Government offioers is to be appointed. The damage to the main up-country road is bo great that the estimated expenditure to re pair it is £5,000, and three months work will be necessary to render it fit for wheeled traffic. 