SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1923.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18761, 15 January 1923, Page 6

SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. “ Inveniam viam aut faciam.” THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1923.

By the latest official report from the Warden, at Tuapeka, for the week ending January 10, we hear that the population was estimated at GOO, of whom about onehalf were miners. The number was increasing, and those who had steadily remained at Tuapeka throughout the temptations of rushes elsewhere were doing remarkably well.

We learn that Major Crokor lately granted a prospecting claim to James Evans and two mates on Switzer's Run, three miles from the homestead. The prospect obtained with tub and cradle was 12oz in six days. The grant was made subject to the approval of the Warden of the district and the interests of the innholder. The Town Board, at n special meeting held last evening, rescinded the resolution come to on the 6th instant to erect an engine-house and tower, in Dowling street, according to the second-prize plan in the recent competition; which plan was sent in by Mr Lawson, architect. The estimated cost of that work was £SCO. It was afterwards decided to erect the tower only at a cost of £500; it being understood that a small entdne could be accommodated on the ground floor if it should be resolved to keen it there. . .

ACCIDENT AT THE MOLYNEUX FERRY.

On Tuesday evening a six-horse wa~<ron was about to cross the Ferry at the Molyneux. The two shaft horses had drawn the waggon upon the punt when the men who were on it were seen to spring suddenly on shore, and the punt immediately turned over, the waggon and the two horses being precipitated into the river. The horses were drowned, and it is doubtful whether the waggon will be recovered. Some portion of its freight (which consisted of provisions, spirits, etc.) has been fished up. We are informed that the punt is totally inadequate for the enormous traffic which now' crosses the river to the Dunstan and the Wakatipu. From Ist to the loth inst. no less than 173 teams and vehicles have reached the Ferry; and unless the punt is at once replaced by one of sufficient size and accommodation, serious loss of property, if not of life, must ensue. The present punt is only fitted to carry a single horse-dray, and when two horses and a heavy \yaggon are placed upon it the horses are unable to keep their feet but slip about; —how dangerously' being proved by the accident which we have now recorded.