THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam out faciam." DUNEDIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1862. Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22025, 7 August 1933, Page 5

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam out faciam." DUNEDIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1862. Shipping Intelligence.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS.— August 6th. The Samson has been employed ail day in dragging heavy harrows over the lately formed sand bank in the channel. The work will be continued for some days, and, as the harrows are well adapted, in weight and construction, to stir up the sand, the operations are expected to be perfectly effective .in removing the interruption to the fairway, v :

We notice with satisfaction that a society has been formed under the title of the Dunedin Debating Club and Mutual Improvement Society, for the purpose of affording the young men of Dunedin an opportunity of meeting together for mutual improvement. . . . ... A new lead of gold has been found at the Woolshed, and two reefs of a promising character have been discovered near the Canada Bush. During the month of July, the applications at-the Land Office, Dunedin, have been rather considerable. The total quantity applied for was five thousand one hundred .and twelve acres, and the number of applicants, fifty-five. . . . For the last two or three nights the Aurora Australis has boon visible, and has presented a beautiful appearance in the southern heavens. . . . For the information of such of our readers as may not be familiar with its appearance, we may mention that the Aurora Australis is precisely similar to the Aurora Borealis of the North, commonly known as the Northern Lights, or in the Shetland Isles as the Merry Dancers. ’ The urgent necessity for immediately establishing an institution of a kindred nature to those in Melbourne and other towns in Victoria, generally known and designated as Ladies’ Benevolent Asylums, has forced itself upon our notice by two cases of distress and suffering with which we have lately been made acquainted.

Three dray accidents occurred in Mac-laggan-street yesterday, within the space of as many hours. The site of these casualties is at the upper end of the thoroughfare, near the quarries, where the road is in a state so dangerous and inaccessible as scarcely to .be described.

The Odd Fellows’ Hall (Manchester Unity), in George-street, fast approaches to completion. It is a very large and, handsome structure, erected at a large outlay, and', both externally and internally, decorated in a manner which shows both the liberality and wealth of the order, as it- reflects credit upon the builder and architect. ... Otago promises in the course of a very short time to become, probably, as fine a fruit bearing country as Van Dieman’s Land. The climate and soil are not only highly favourable for the orchard, but the farmers and the residents inland are every day becoming alive to the fact that there are large gains always attending in the long run the cultivation of fruit. Once properly in the ground, fruit-trees require but little cost or labour to bring to perfection. An annual pruning, an occasional application of liquid or other manure, and the trees are maturing while the possessor follows his usual avocations. We notice that every steamer coming into our port from Melbourne brings over large quantities of the choicest fruit-trees, which are readily bought up here at prices which must be very profitable to the shippers.