FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1862.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18446, 6 January 1922, Page 6

FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1862.

The old buildings which enabled the old settler to trace the Dunedin of the past in the Dunedin of the present are slowly yet surely passing away. During the last year many of them have disappeared, and it is not long since one of the most venerable of these “footprints on the sand of time’’ was destroyed by the ruthless hand of fire. We allude to Clifton Cottage, once the residence of the venerable father of the settlement, Capt. Cargill, and in the minds of the old colonists associated with the hospitality and kindness of its owner. . . . We understand that Mr Matthews, of Moray place, has offered the Young Men’s Christian Association a site there, at a very low rent, for the erection of their proposed buildings. f CANTERBURY AND THE NORTH. By the Geelong, which arrived last night from Lyttelton, we have Canterbury papers to the Ist instant. His Excellency Sir George Grey, accompanied by Mr Fox and several other gentlemen, were on a visit to Waiuku, where he had been very well received by the Europeans and Natives. A deputation of the Settlers had presented him with an address, which His Excellency acknowledged most courteously. The coal from the River Grey, in Nelson, has been tried in steamers, and pronounced superior to common English coal. The seam extends from forty to fifty miles. FOUR DAYS’ LATER NEWS FROM MELBOURNE. By . the arrival of the “Donati” we are in possession of Melbourne news to the 27th December. The great event had been the arrival of the Groat Britain, from Liverpool, bring-' ing the All England Eleven. ...