SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1862.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18592, 28 June 1922, Page 6

SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. " Inveniam viam aut faciam." SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1862.

Some specimens of quartz have lately been picked up by Captain Toogood, of the Victory, and others who have visited Wickliffe Bay, along the shores of the lagoon whicli extends some distance inland not far from where the Victory now lies. Some of the specimens are said to contain email specs of gold, and, from the quantity of quartz which ie exposed on the surface, it is presumed it may be the outcrop of a reef which is there concealed by the silt and driven sand. . . . The contractors engaged in the construction of the electric telegraph between Dunedin and Port Chalmers are now stretching the wire from post to post, having commenced yesterday at the Port Chalmers end of the line. ... Editors are placed in receipt of strange productions One day it is a bag of coals; another, a curious insect; a third, a sample of colonial ale; and so on. Wo can assure our readers not a little discretion has to be exorcised between giving the sample a personal test or leaving the same to that mythical individual, the printer’s devil. Yesterday it was our good fortune to have placed at our disposal a parcel of smoked and salt fish, the produce of Stewart’s Island. The appearance is sufficiently inviting to induce us to give it a personal trial, and our readers may, therefore, shortly expect a tempting description of the dainty delicacy. . . . A coloured opera troupe, called the “Cosmopolitans,” have lately been more cosmopolitan in their travels than they expected. They started from Nelson in a small sailing vessel, intending to proceed to Auckland via Manukau, but the unfortunate darkies were doomed to go a very much further “way round for the nearest.” The weather was stormy and the barque frail, and the skipper, not caring to venture into the vortex of breakers on the Manukau bar, was compelled to run to the coast, taking with him the unfortunate minstrels. The little craft arrived at Ahipara, where we may be sure the appearance of such a tend of brothers was equally unexpected and gratifying to the admiring aborigines. Bi-udder Bones and his companions had, however, to tramp overland to Manganui,- carrying teg and baggage with them. Arrived there they were all right, a concert was got up at the public house, and the good folks of Manganui wo have no doubt had a heartier laugh than they have had for a long time. The peripatetic performers arc probably by this lime in Auckland.