LIME.
Notice is hereby Given,

That the Company of Proprietors of the Peak Forest Canal are enabled to supply the Public with Limestone of the best quality that can be procured in the county of Derby, and to deliver the same into the boats at Bugsworth at 2s. 6d. per ton.

And that Farmers and others may be supplied with Lime of the first quality for agricultural and other purposes, on the lowest possible terms, by the different Limeburners, who will deliver the same upon all part(s) of the Peak Forest Canal, the Manchester, Ashton-under-Line, and Oldham Canal, the Huddersfield Canal, the Rochdale Canal, and the Bridgewater Canal.

By order

J. & H. WORTHINGTON,

Clerks to the Company.

BURSTING OF THE PEAK FOREST
CANAL.

Considerable alarm was caused on Sunday afternoon (14 December 1890) in the New Mills district by the bursting of the Peak Forest Canal, belonging to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company. Most of the way from New Mills to Whaley Bridge the towing path of the canal is on an embankment, which, in some places, is narrow. About ten yards in length of the embankment and towing path gave way at one point near the village of Furness Vale, and the canal, for a length of two miles was speedily drained. The water rushed with tremendous force into the Goyt Valley below, thus causing the river to be greatly swollen. Fortunately no damage was done to house property, there being no buildings near the place where the embankment gave way.