THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam" DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1862. Shiping intelligent.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21984, 20 June 1933, Page 5

THE Otago Daily Times. " Inveniam viam aut faciam" DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1862. Shiping intelligent.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

The Great Eastern was removed from the gridiron on the 16th of April, and steamed off to Milford grandly. She was beached in February last for the purpose of fitting the new paddle-wheels and completing other repairs, The £hip, it is said, has/ now been rendered as perfect in all respects as money, experience, and forethought can make her. The additional strength imported into the new paddle-wheels and stern-post will, it is hoped, render a, recurrence of the disaster of September last almost impossible. In the saloon and state rooms many improvements have been made. She is to leave Milford for New York early in May. Special arrangements have been made with the various railway companies to convey passengers and their friends to the port of departure at reduced rates.

At the meeting of the General Road Board, held yesterday, the question of the alteration of the boundary between the Saddle Hill and East Taieri Districts, was taken into consideration, on the representations of a deputation from East Taieri; but after a lengthy discussion it was decided to allow the boundary to remain unaltered. The subject of the Portobello road was also considered, and deputations heard for and against the Beach-road and the Hill-road, respectively. It was eventually decided to adjourn the consideration of the subject until reports could be obtained as to population, available land and gradients.

Dunedin is not the only one of the New Zealand cities that is to be lighted with gas. Wo take the following from the New Zealander; —“A meeting has been held, and it has been determined, to form a Gas and Water Company for the city of Auckland. A Mr. A. K. Smith, wiio lighted Melbourne, Geelong, and other towns in Victoria, has been communicated with, and .as that gentleman, at the present time, has in his possession a plant calculated to supply a city of 20,000 inhabitants with gas, we may expect that before the year is out, this great want will have passed into the limbo of the recollections of the early settlers. The question of water supply is of a more difficult nature, and we are inclined to think that it may still have to remain in abeyance. The cost of establishing a gas company would not amount to one-sixth of the expense which must be incurred in that of supplying water. Of course, it is intended to use our own coal, that is, the coal from the Drury .mines, which are only twenty-five miles distant from Auckland. . . . With a suitable apparatus this coal will ultimately, on account of its gas-producing qualities, entirely supersede the use of any other description of coal for this purpose.

ARRIVAL OF THE ESCORT. The Escort arrived in Dunedin yesterday afternoon, bringing the following quantities of gold:—

ozs. dwts. Tuapeka . . . 15 Waitahuna . . . 15 Wool shed . . . 5 2736 15