THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciem." DUNEDIN, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1863.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22285, 11 June 1934, Page 3

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciem." DUNEDIN, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1863.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

The public will-learn with satisfaction that his Honor the Superintendent has notified in the Gazette that Thursday, the 30th instant, will be observed as a public holiday in commemoration of the Royal Marriage. . . All tlie available troops in the colonies are leaving, ordered to Taranaki. Brigadier General Chute has arrived in Tasmania, for the purpose, it is supposed, of directing the removal of the detachment of soldiers stationed there, and the dispatch of military stores which He in large quantities in Hobart Town. We learn from pur Sydney tiles that an order lias been received for the immediate departure of the detachment of the 12th Regiment, and that 150 men were to leave for Taranaki on Wednesday last. Colonel Hamilton was to accompany them, and H.M.S. Harrier was under orders to convey them. Yesterday's Gazette contains an-adver-tisement calling for tenders for the erection of a monument to the late Captain Cargill, the first Superintendent of the Province. ...

Further news has been received _by private advices in' Sydney of piratical movements in the South Seas, showing that man-stealing operations arc .being carried out on a much more gigantic scale than hitherto discovered or supposed. The Melbourne Herald recommends that efforts should be made to retain in Victoria the whole of the valuable tlock of alpacas, numbering over 500, now daily expected to arrive from South America. In the course of its remarks the Herald states that Mr Herbert, the Chief Secretary of Queensland, is prepared to recommend his Government to grant a considerable bounty for every alnaca landed in that colony, and that the Government of this Province, have! offered the importer an - extensive and very valuable district of country if he will bring the animals here. , , The newspapers in Victoria and New South Wales, are continuing the game of publishing stupid fictions with respect to Dunedin and the Otago gold fields. Here is a nice sample, which occurs in what is Stated to be a letter from a New South Wales digger, and which the Argus reproduces from the Sydney Morning Herald; —“ people are . sleeping out in every place which affords shelter from the cold winds at night, the favpfiteresort of the houseless being the Arcade, a sort of partly covered, narrow, dirty thoroughfare, full of old clothes and apple shops.”

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS. MATAU. The' nomination for this district took place at the Schoolhouse, Inch Clutha, on Monday last, and resulted in. the return of Win. H. Mansford, Esq., without opposition. Mr Mansford represented Port Chalmers in the first Council elected after the passing of the Constitution Act. , MEMBERS ELECTED. The following, in addition to those previously published, have been elected members of the Provincial Council; those who were members of the late Council being distinguished by an asterisk: — Taieri . . . W. Stevenson D. Reid Arthur J. Burns *A. Rennie.