THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1862. COMMERCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21955, 17 May 1933, Page 5

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1862. COMMERCIAL

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

■ Daily Times Office, * Thursday Evening. The Aldinga steamer leaves to-morrow with the mail for England, and it will be some satisfaction to; our readers in Britain to know that some: arrangement has been made for a regular despatch of , the homeward. mail, as well _ as that merchants will be enabled to give later dates than has hitherto been the case.' The advices that we can furnish our English readers with this opportunity ar« certainly of a more cheering character than we sent last month. The weather for nearly every day of the past four weeks has been beautifully fine, and in nowise such as to interfere, with business operations. The escorts have certainly not increased, but considering our reduced mining population, that they should maintain such an average is a proof of their permanent character. New discoveries are reported,| and we may consider the evidence furnished officially of the deposits in the neighbourhood of Waikouaiti sufficient to lead to the expectation that remunerative employment will there be found for any unemployed labor, if there is really any such, except those willingly at leasure amongst our laboring population. ...

THE OTHER PROVINCES. The inhabitants of the Northern Island are still anxiously awaiting the issue of the new policy inaugurated by Sir George Grey. As yet, it may be said that it has been attended with success, inasmuch as many of the wavering chiefs and tribes, if not actually returning at once to their allegiance, are at any rate detaching themselves from the extreme King party, and are disposed to accept to a certain extent the new institutions offered them by the Governor. Any permanent result, however, must, be a . question of time, for the natives, proverbially suspicious generally, are still more so in reference to the policy of so inscrutable a man as Sir George Grey. Their own estimate of his character may be imagined from a definition given by a native chief of the relative characteristics of Sir George Grey and the late Governor, Gore Brown. “ Brown ” —said the chief—- “ was like a pigeon, you could see where he was flying and on which tree he would alight—but Grey was like the rat which runs amongst the fern—you first see the movement in , the grass, _ but neither see him nor what he is doing.” So it is, and until the natives have given their entire confidence to the New Governor, the effects of the new policy will be limited and meagre. The King party, par excellence, still keep aloof, but they betray considerable uneasiness at the change that is gradually taking place in the minds of many of the tribes. ...

TABI/E OF ESCORTS. » & ounces. Amount brought down by Escort Fields, to March 31st, 1862 335,552 Total up to' 15th May, 1862 .. 369,990§ Gold- exported to May iff . i. 382,120 Gold in the various Banks ..29,'500