SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1863.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18995, 17 October 1923, Page 8

SIXTY YEARS AGO FROM THE Otago Daily Times. " Inveniam viam aut faciam.” SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1863.

Our Tuapeka correspondent informs ns of the discharge of Charles Kostring, brought down from Marlborough on suspicion of being the murderer of Yorky, at Miller’s Flat. . . The Magistrate, in ordering the discharge of Kestring, said there was not the slightest stain on his character. During his visit to the Te Anau Lake Dr Hector found recent traces of the notornin, a smaller species of the dinornis (moa), and he expects this is the bird which has given rise to the many rumours of the moa having been seen. Dr Hector confidently expects to capture one of ihese birds before his next return.

THE NEW DIGGINGS AT EAST TAIERI. . (From Our Special Reporter.) I left Dunedin on Thursday morning to proceed to the new rush at the laien, which is now known to the miners wonting there by the name of Nichol’s Gully. I will conclude by stating that I convened a sort of committee meeting of intelligent miners, when the following verdict on the Taieri Rush was carried unanimously:-—“That the place will never bo a gold field. It may keep a small company of men together tor a limited period, but it is a s a gold diggings essentially a duffer.” I would therefor© not advise any person to leave Dunedin or elsewhere to try their fortunes at Nichol’s Gully. There is no room for one quarter of the miners already on the ground; and it will he the business of every person who goes there to become a prospector for himself. In a few words, a gentleman of considerable experience on the New Zealand gold fields gave his opinion :—One hundred men could work out the old and new gullies in a fortnight.