FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1862.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18448, 9 January 1922, Page 6

FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1862.

It is to many a matter of surprise that there should be no oysters for sale in Dunedin. Last summer there were plenty of these Wholesome and delicious shell-fieh, procured from near Port Chalmers, but this year nobody thinks it worth'while to, look after them. "It is quite possible that last year the oyster fishery may not have been a very lucrative speculation, but, with the large population now congregated in Dunedin, we feel convinced that it would bo found to pay capitally. An signed petition has been presented to the Superintendent, praying that Government will send out parties to prospect for new gold tielda, and for enlarging the present ones. GREAT FLOOD AT GABRIEL'S GULLY. ONE MAN DROWNED. On Saturday' night there was a tremendous flood at Gabriel's Gully. It had been raining hard all the week, but on Saturday evening, about six o'clock, the i - ain began to pour down in torrents, and continued without intermission throughout' the night. In the morning a fearful scene presented itself; the water by that time a roaring flood sweeping everything before it—pumps, long tome, sluice boxes, cradles, and *" moveable articles being carried away by the stream, which rose to a, great height, submerging most of the workings and doing an immense amount of damage to the claims. ... On the Sunday morning the body of a man was found drowned in the creek, and it was at first supposed that he had been washed out of his tent by the torrent during the night when the flood was at its greatest height. It, however, afterwards transpired that the unfortunate man had got frightened and ran out of the tent, and that in the darkness and the confusion of his fear he had. got into the water instead of away from itt His fright and confusion were to some extent accounted, for by the fact that ho 'was a stronger to the locality, having only arrived on the diggings with nfo mates on the Saturday.