THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1863.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22205, 7 March 1934, Page 3

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1863.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

The report of a special meeting of the Town Board, which we published yesterday, contained a resolution adopting the design for the new gas pillars, prepared by Mr Millar, the City Engineer, and ordering that 100 pillars, according to that, design, should be procured as speedily as possible. The design. was very, warmlyapproved by the Board; and the pillars promise to be a real ornament to the streets, instead of being unsightly almost to ugliness, as are niost of the ordinary lamp-p6sts. The shaft is-.'classic in outline and proportions,, and. it terminates with a lotus-shaped cusp, from which spring, right and left, the ladder rests. These are of scroll; work, ■ the principal form in.which is derived from the fern frond, conventionally, treated; and each terminates 'with., a hand, one bearinir the letter r 'K" arid , the other " S." The street name will be'! cast" beneath the cusp, in ; raised letters : Which can easily be painted, and so kept always, conspicuous. . . . Mr Millar deserves freat credit for his production. [The esign of the pillars was varied in some particulars. The street name. was ' not placed on them, the question of the cost of casting a number of different street names being probably found to be too heavy. The letters " N." and "• »/'< were likewise dropped,- and the pillars were manufactured bearing near the base a crytic expression in dog-Latin,.;'•" Curo. secundo," which has to this day mystified those who would have a literal translation. The words, "Millar, City Engineer," were also prominent on them. The last reminder of\a distant day is,now one of the pillars standing in the northern; portion of the Otago Early Settlers' Museum O.D.T.].

NEW ZEALAND CHAMPION AND OTAGO JOCKEY- CLUB EACES. . THIRD DAY: ' ti those who thronged the Rsice Course yesterday had even had the choice of weather they could not have selected a more lovely clay. The number of persons on the racecourse was almost. as great as on the, first day, and considerably more thap on thesecond. '-i' . ...' ' , The Town Plate-was; perhaps; the best race of the meetings Mormon, reversed hisprevious defeat; Ladyßird, with her slbs extra, only -succeeding in securing third place. . ■. -; : •■>."

PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION. FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ' otago. •■.: ■. v "/:? •;■} '■.,.'':; Otago has been hitherto considerably behind the other Provinces in regard to local associations having for their object the encouragement of agricultural and pastoral pursuits, and improving, by inducing competitive exhibitions, the breed of sheep and stock.' We are glad to find that an association of this, character is in course of being established in the Northern District of the Province, and from the spirit with which the subject ha s been taken up, - and the influential support promised, we 'have ho doubt the efforts of its prdmoters>will be'crowned with success. A subscription list has been opened-in furtherance of the objects of the Association, which is to be entitled " The Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association of Otago " and over £3OO has been already subscribed. The exhibitois at the shows of the Association may comprise residents in the whole of Otago and Canterbury.