SIXTY YEARS AGO. FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1863.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19039, 8 December 1923, Page 10

SIXTY YEARS AGO. FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1863.

We bear that the New Zealand Banking Corporation have purchased the premises of Messrs Smith and Marshall in Manse street, and that the Corporation intend to commence hanking business as soon as tne necessary alterations are effected. Mr S. Jones left Dunedin for Lyttelton, last Tuesday, having received intelligence that his personal presence was required to complete the necessary arrangements for the proposed visit to Christchurch of the All England Eleven; and on Sunday morning ho landed again at Port Chalmers, having, we understand, satisfactorily settled everything in this hurried trip. . . . f The election of members of the Town Board to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement, according to rotation, for one member for each of the four Wards, took place yesterday. Very little interest was excited, even in Bell Ward, where there were five candidates. In High Ward, Mr J. H. Jonkinson, the retiring' member, was reelected without opposition, 13 votes having been recorded for him when the poll closed at eleven o’clock; and in Leith Bard there was a similar result in the cose of Mr Thomas Redma.yne, who received 35 votes before the poll was declared to be closed. In Bell Ward,_ Mr D. Milne, the late member, was again brought forward, but was unsuccessful, Mr James Black being returned. At the close of the poll, at four o’clock, the numbers were—James Black, 66; David Miller, 45; David Milne, 27; C. T. let. 19; D. H. Miller, 4. In South Ward, Mr J. S. Webb, the retiring member, did not again present himself, and Mr James Lowe was chosen; the numbers at four o’clock being—James Lowe, 18; S. Sims, 13.