SIXTY YEARS AGS FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam ant faciam." SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1863. MOUNT IDA DISTRICT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19042, 12 December 1923, Page 8

SIXTY YEARS AGS FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam ant faciam." SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1863. MOUNT IDA DISTRICT.

(From a Coheespondekt.) 9th December. The Rush at Captain Hamilton’s. —On Saturday evening last, the driver of Cobb’s coach brought in news of a new rush, and the finding of payable gold in a gully near Captain Hamilton’s station. On Tuesday (yesterday) Mr George, of the United States Hotel, visited the supposed sp>ot, and says there were upwards of two hundred miners on the ground but could not discover the golden gully. Had it not been for Sergeant Ryan, who happened to be a passenger by the aforesaid coach, the diggers were about to use violent measures against the driver of the coach and serious results ensued. It seems to have been a got-up rush for the benefit of certain parties. When my informant left many were leaving in disgust, and supposed the ground had been tried, and yielding the colour. . . THE DUSTAN. otbom Oub Own Coebespondent.) Dunstan, December 9. This week has been one of mourning for the Dunstan; the grave has been closed over one of its earliest and most-respected inhabitants. No one was better known or held in higher estimation than Mr Donald Kesson Campbell, of the firm of D. K. Campbell and Co., both on the goldfields of Otago and Victoria. . . Wherever the majority of the miners have betaken themselves, thither has followed Mr Campbell, let the distance have been ever so great or small; and when the superior attractions of the New Zealand goldfields caused such an exodus to this island, no sooner was their permanency established than'our now deceased friend was quickly on the field. . . .