SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1862.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18674, 2 October 1922, Page 6

SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1862.

Of tho four thousand and odd passengers who arrived at Dunedin within the last eight days, none apparently remain in town. Tho crowds which stretched up so many of cur avenues tho first two or three days of the week have all dispersed, and we observe no more stir than what preceded tho incoming of so many souls. The boardinghouses have already commenced to complain of want of business, as they just before complained of excess of it. -I he public-houses and hotels show abundance of room for customers lit their several bars, and altogether things are very quiet. Iho inference ,of all this is that tho diggers, instead of remaining in town, have gone off to one or other of our new ■gold-fields, and that wo shall see but little of them this side of Christmas. That wo shall hear of them through the escort there can _bo little doubt, as tho late diggers arriving here are men of a superior class and would get gold where now chums would perhaps scarcely get tho colour of it. Tho feasibility cf diverting a portion of the Molynoux from its present bed has already advanced a. step, beyond being merely discussed. We were informed yesterday by one enterprising person that a competent man has been dispatched to (he ?>iolynenx at the Dunstan’s for the purpose of making a survey of about twenty miles of tho river which it is thought can bo turned from its channel, the money requisite for the purpose to bo raised by a company in shores. It is believed by those who have hud long experience in river mining in California and Now South Wales that the greater portion, of tho Molynoux is highly auriferous and that, by draining a long stretch of tho river, an enormous yield of gold will be obtained. . . . The Aphrasia, which arrived yesterday from Invercargill, brought nows of tho Guiding 'Star, steamer, being ashore at the New River. Ey (he Mistress of tho Seas, which arrived yesterday from Melbourne, a further addition of 700 persons was made lo the population _ The first attempt at an exhibition of entire horses in Dunedin was made yesterday at the Provincial Sale Yards of Messrs Driver and Maclean; and it was not only encouraging ns tho beginning of no doubt better things but was interesting from tho first rate qualities of some of the animals shown. Wo subjoin a list of the entire horses shown; Coronet, thoroughbred, bay, tho property of Mr J. R. Gleadow; Dandy Jack, draught, black,, Mr Murray; Farmer’s Fancy draught, bay, Mr Murray; Flying Dutchman, thoroughbred, black, Mr J. R. Gleadow; Napoleon, draught, bright bay, Mr Nimmo; Plough Roy, draught, chestnut, Mr'Dowie; Punch, draught, bay, Messrs Williams and Smith ; Sovereign, draught, roan, Mr Kirkland; Star, draught, black, Mr J. R. Gleadow; Welcome, thoroughbred, bay, Mr J. R. Gleadow; Young Hartford, draught, grey, Mr Donald; Young Prince Charlie, draught, Mr Morse; Young Sampson, draught, bright bay, Mr Smith. . , .