THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam” DUNEDIN, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1863. Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22325, 27 July 1934, Page 2

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam” DUNEDIN, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1863. Intelligence.

SEVENTY-ONE TEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS—Jew 26tb. The fine new barque, the Prospector, with freight from the port* of Leith and lOverkeighing, was to be despatched early this month for Southland and Otago. She is advertised as the property of the Forth and New Zealand Shipping Company! a new and well-connected company whose intention it is to despatch to Otago and the adjoining Province a succession of suitable vessels with freights derived from the east-coast ports Of Scotland, from which there has ag yet been little direct communication. The apparatus for the pew lighthouse at the Heads having arrived by the Wave Bueen, the Provincial Engineer, with aptains Robertson and Thomson, visited the Heads on Friday for. the purpose of selecting a site and making arrangements for the early erection of the building. .

A beautiful service of communion plate has been presented to St. Paul's Church by Mr Henry Reynolds, and is now at the shop of. Mr Beverley, silversmith, &c. It consists of a chalice, two gob’eis, and two salvers; the plating being upon copper, according to the old and more serviceable mode. The chalice bears the inscription:—“Presented by Mr Henry Reynolds to St. Paul's Church, Dunedin, July, 1863.” Our Dunstan correspondent inform# us that the Escort left there on the morning of the 24th with 23620 z sdwt of gold, ot which 15620 z sdwt was from the Dunetan, and 800 ounces from the Teviot. Distressing accounts of loss of life and property have been received from the ShotovCr and the Lake districts, the floods having put a complete stagnation to business for the present. A number of people are leaving the Shotover in disgust, at seeing the labor of months being ruthlessly swept away; tools and stores aro being sold at a great sacrifice to enable them to do so; flour is said, to be unsaleable at 6d per lb, although it costs considerably -more for packing alone. At Bracken’s Beach the water rose two-and-a-half feet higher than the counter in Stewarfs store, the contents of the building all being swept out and destroyed. At Arthur’s Point the Victoria Hotel and Rowley’s Express office were completely submerged, and the buildings, together with their contents, carried away altogether, neither party saving anything whatever. The damage by land slips has been fearful. A hut and six men were washed into the river from Butcher’s point, and they. all perished. ... THE LAKE - JSSCORT. Tbs Escort from, the Lake, which was due on Tuesday last, arrived in town on Saturday afternoon, bringing the following quantities:— oz. ’ Queenstown . t'fiO Arrow .......... 218 Woolshed . . . . . . . . .. 250 142$ The floods and the absence of any gold from the Banks at the Lake will account for the emallness of the quantity brought down.