THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1861.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21827, 14 December 1932, Page 5

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1861.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS A(».

We only a few days ago announced the loss of the schooner -Salopian on the Taieri bar. We regret to state that another vessel, the Huon, has been wrecked on the sand spit inside the bar, and is fast going to pieces. A pilot is absolutely requisite for the. river, the number of vessels trading there having increased considerably, and we trust the attention of the Government will be drawn to the necessity, or otherwise many more disasters may be expected.^ The Town Board of Port Chalmers will now' have an opportunity of showing its neighbour Dunedin what a little energy will do. Hitherto the latter body has had the command of the whole Municipal Estate of the Province, but we observe that the Council_ have passed a bill “ Constituting a Municipal Estate for the Town of Port Chalmers,” As a proof of the_ benefit which many of the Victorian diggers have derived from a short visit to the Otago Gold Fields, we may mention that when the ■Detective officers searched the Aldinga’s passengers for contraband gold, one of the miners showed them an old worsted comforter (worthy of the name) containing twelve hundred sovereigns, and another had. seven hundred wrapped up in an old handkerchief. These are substantial proofs of the paying nature of the diggings; but in all possibility if these men had been asked, while on the field, what they were making, they would have said-only making our "tucker.” We understand that twenty-five quarteracre sections in the Township of Clarendon were sold yesterday by auction by Messrs Young and M'Glashan, at an average price of £26 each. A fight was to have come off on Sunday last at Gabriel’s Gully, and a great number of people were preparing to be present. Fortunately the disgraceful affair was stopped by one party forfeiting and the other paying for, a champagne dinner.