THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1862.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21976, 10 June 1933, Page 17

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1862.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

CNAGS, Clutha River. —Tenders for the removal will be received at the Superintendent’s Office, Dunedin, until four o’clock on Friday, 20th inst. Further information may be obtained from Captain Thomson, Port Chalmers. SEPARATION. The action taken in Otago by the advocates of Separation has at last aroused so much attention that nearly all the papers in the colony are teeming with articles on the subject. . . . We are glad to notice that tenders are to be called for immediately by the Town Board for the laying down of a paved crossing six feet wide from the corner of the Bank of New South Wales to Rattray-street. It is intended by the Town Board to extend the asphalt pavement to most of the principal streets. The one in- Princesstreet is to be carried along the length of Princes-street as far as Walkerstreet. We understand that Mr. Scott, who has arrived by the barque Cincinnatti from Newcastle, N.S.W., has brought with him a portion of the appliances requisite for raising the Victory. In reference to the causes of the abrupt return of Sir George Grey to Auckland the Wellington Advertiser publishes the following incredible story. “We are assured that the war now raging between the friendly Ngapuhis is not the cause of the departure; but that it is also owing to his having received information from the native i chiefs at Coromandel that they will make him a present of the auriferous land { in that district, if he will only come personally to receive it, It looks like a very improbable story, but we give it as we have received it, and that on the best authority.—The Independent more sensibly puts it that he has gone for the purpose of personally regulating the purchase of the land in question. We are pleased to welcome the advent of a second daily paper in New Zealand, in the Southern Cross, which hjis recently taken this _ form of publication. This journal in its now shape comes forward very creditably, and, from the independence of its tone, will, doubtless, secure confidence as a reliable organ. Yesterday was the commencement of a remarkable pedestrian feat., A man named Griffiths, who claims to be the champion pedestrian of Victoria, has, it appears, undertaken for a wager of £2OO to walk: sixty miles a day for six consecutive days, starting from the Queen’s Arms, in Princes-street, and walking out two and a-half miles on the Caversham road, and back again; this to be done twelve times in the course of the day. He yesterday did his first sixty miles, a few minutes within the twelve hours.