SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam." FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1862.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18675, 3 October 1922, Page 6

SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. “ Inveniam viam aut faciam." FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1862.

The escort from the older gold-lields. which arrived yesterday afternoon, brought 5364 ozs. 15 dwts.. of which 3932 oz.s. Ii duds, wore from Tnapeka; 1012 ozs. from Wnilohnna ; and 420 cz.s. from r lokomairiro {lire Woolshed). . Tho cutting away of Bell Hill is about to be commenced. Yesterday Mr Buyer, provincial engineer, was engaged with members of his staff in taking levels from the hill side across tho beach towards Rattray street, and other preparations were being made. Mr Swyer is instructed to employ as many as possible of the “destitute or “distressed,” mainly composed, we presume. of men who threw up work to go to the, Duustau diggings, and failed to gefc ( there, or of new arrivals who, from want of funds, have been unable to start out from Dunedin. About 30 were mustered yesterday and supplied with picks, shovels, and barrows, and a goodly proportion of them pitched tents on the hill during the evening and passed their lirst. night there. The following appointments arc notified in tho Provincial Government Gazette of Ist October:—Benjamin Fox Duncan. Esq., to be Mining Registrar, Receiver of l'ees, and Gold Receiver for the Nokomai gold field > Gharles Worthington, Ksq., R.M.. to be Commissioner for the Nokomai gold held ; Jackson Kcddell, Esq., to bo Commissioner for the Dnnstan gold-fields. It is slated in the Provincial Government Gazelle that Mr Alexander Fleming, of Tokomairiro, ha s duly submitted for examination a registration certificate from the General Council of Medical Education and Registration in Edinburgh to the effect, that lie the said Alexander Allan Fleming is a licentiate of tho faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.