THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1862. Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22102, 4 November 1933, Page 7

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1862. Shipping Intelligence.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS. — November 3. His Honor the Superintendent, with Mr. Logie, of the Customs, visited Port Chalmers on Saturday, and were engaged during the day in an inspection of the town and the bay. It is hoped that the visit may be productive of the commencement of some improvements at the Port, which is not advancing at the rate which ita natural situation, and the number of shipping resorting to it, would warrant people to expect. There is a feeling prevalent that much of the labor concentrated on particular w-orks in Dunedin, might, very reasonably and appropriately, be transferred to Port Chalmers, and that, were a good plan of harbour improvement at once resolved upon by a competent engineering authority, improvement would be carried out which would not only be locally beneficial, but would afford considerable facilities for the accommodatiou of the whole trade of the province.

' At an early hour yesterday morning (about half-past five) the door of Duncan’s store, in Rattray-street, was discovered to be open, and it was shortly found that the iron safe had been bodily carried away. The safe, we understood, contained all the books of the business.

We were pleased to observe last evening that a piece of fencing had at last been erected alongside the path left for pedestrians, in High-street, so as to keep them off the dangerous precipice occasioned by the progress of the work in the cutting. The Money-order Office at Wetherstone’s will be closed on and after the 10th inst.