THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1862. Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22065, 22 September 1933, Page 3

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1862. Shipping Intelligence.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS.t-Sepxembeb 21st. The Travellers’ Bride returned from the Chatham Islands on Saturday, with a cargo of produce, consisting of thirty tons of potatoes and a number of pigs and fowls. She made a stay of some duration at the Chathams, and during most of the time was the only vessel there. At the time when she sailed, also, there had been no fresh arrivals.

About fifty passengers proceeded _to Invercargill on Saturday by the Guiding Star, it being the intention of the majority to proceed to the Wakatip and Nokomai diggings by the Southland route. Captain Thomson, Harbor Master, returned on Friday from the Molyneux, where he has,been for some time inspecting the river with a view to its improvement. Mr. Henry, one of the pilot staff, remains in the meantime superintending the removal of snags and other impediments to the navigation.

Residents in Rattray-street and Mac-laggan-street were startled about eleven o’clock on Saturday night by the loud sounding of a policeman’s rattle, and many persons ran to the Arcade, fearing that a fire had occurred. Fortunately this was not so. The officer only wanted help to secure a fellow who had insulted and assaulted him. The William Miles, with the remaining portion of the first, thousand Nonconformist settlers, -was expected to leave London on the 26th July.

THE NOKOMAI DIGGINGS. RETURN OF THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF POLICE. By the return of Mr. Branigan we are placed in possession of later intelligence from the Nokomai, and which we are glad to see is of an entirely favourable nature. . , . The new diggings are ,180 .miles from Dunedin, and 120 from Invercargill. From the Molyneux Ferry they are 110, and good road all the way. So that going round by sea to the Ferry the road is shorter, and equally, if not more, available than the ' road from Invercargill, Miners who make up their mind to go, cannot too strictly keep in mind, that there is likely to be the same scarcity of food as at the Dunstan, and that they should take a few weeks’ supply with them. We have seen a sample of the gold—it is large, coarse, and darkish in colour, apparently of excellent quality. Mr. Branigan said “ that if the same fortune experienced by the miners whom I saw at work attends the remainder, the field will prove rich, permanent, and extensive.” ...