DUNEDIN.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 2, 6 May 1863, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

(from our own correspondent.) April 27, 1863.

This town still keeps up a busy appearance, and numbers constantly arriving, one day within the last fortnight over 600 New Identities landed, mostly from Victoria and New South Wales, and a few from the old country. Great uneasiness was felt about the Aldiuga, owing to a report that somehow got abroad that she had been lost in the late gale, but there is not the least foundation for such a report, and she has since been spoken. The Omco has not yet arrived but is hourly expected. There was a good deal of talk about the "West Coast and the discoveries that had been made there, but only one party (consistin"" of twelve) started for there, per a small smack named the Courier. A few also started for the Bullcr ltivcr by the Emerald Isle, which vessel, under the command of Captain Dixon, the well-known explorer, having left her passengers at the Bullcr River, will start for the West Coast, for an harbor that Capt. Dixon has previously visited, and where he obtained first-rate prospects, according to his account some very coarse gold. The harbor is on the opposite side to Queenstown, and a very good one, and within 20 miles of your goldfields. Such is the talc, which I believe to be true, but will know more in a month or two when Captain Dixon returns. The body of a man, minus the head and one leg, was yesterday washed ashore on the beach opposite Green Island. It was in a very de - composed state, and must have been in the water some time. The clothes being all washed away, there is very little chance of identification. The " livening News " has died a natural death, but another paper to be called the " Evening Star," is advertised to come out on the Ist proximo. To-night will be produced at the Princess' Theatre, the new play, " Lady Audlcy's Secret," written by a Dunediu resident. Great things arc expected of it, in my next I shall tell you more about it. We are well off for amusements just at present i besides the performance at the Princess', we have Professor Bushel giving his Electro-biological entertainment at the Masonic Hall, and Messrs Pousard and Douay, who arc about giving a scries of morning and evening concerts, at the Oddfellows' Hall.