THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1882. Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21993, 30 June 1933, Page 5

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1882. Shipping Intelligence.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

Mr. Scott proceeds to Wickliffe Bay on Monday with, the Samson steamer, the barge Brothers, and greater part ot the apparatus to be employed in the floating of the steamship victory. . . . The powerful chain which is to be used will be floated towards the shore, so far in that at low water it. can be connected with the vessel’s cables, and when that is done the Samson will steam outwards, paying out the chain - until its full' length is reached, ■. when the ponderous anchor will be dropped. ... '

As numbers of persons engage in the sport of fowling within the limits of Port Otago, it may be well for the public to know, that there is a regulation in the Harbor Rules imposing a fine on parties discharging firearms in the Port, and that several parties have already been fined at the Port Chalmers Police Court. ... ftVe are glad to get a word of encouragement from home for the Separation Movement. The London correspondent for the Melbourne Herald makes two allusions to it, both of a promising nature. ...

We learn by a telegram in the Argus that a great public meeting has been held at Brisbane, to prevent the landing of a shipload of Chinese, just arrived. It is understood that the Government will prohibit them landing until the feeling of the Legislature has been ascertained.

Our correspondent at Tuapeka draws a .frightful picture of the state of the road leading to Monroe’s 1 , and the head of Gabriel’s. ... We observe that the Chief Postmaster invites tenders for the conveyance of mails daily between Tuapeka Junction and the head of Gabriel’s Gully and Monroe’s.

A short time ago the store of Mr. Moore, in George-street, was entered,'and the safe carried away in open day, or rather, we should say, between 2 o’clock in the afternoon and 8 in the evening. The safe has, we learn, been found in a paddock, about a mile_ away, in the rear of Mr. Moore’s residence. When found it was open, the bolt having been cut in two with a cold chisel. The cash, about LSO, was gone, but singular to relate, a quantity of silver spoons, and also all the books and papers, were there intact. Nothing had been taken but the cash. It appeared as if the safe had been freshly deposited in the spot where it was found, and as it was in rather a conspicuous situation, it almost seemed as if the considerate thieves had placed it there in order that it might its way back to its owner.