THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1863. Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22326, 28 July 1934, Page 2

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1863. Shipping Intelligence.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS— July 27tJI. It is understood that, on examination Dy surveyors, the steamer Pride of Urn Yarra, has been condemned as unworthy of repairs. From the point at which she was struck, her bow is bent right round towards the starboard side, her keel is severed, and for a considerable distance along both sides her plates are started and shaken more severely than was expected. At present she lies, with her boiler in her, on the beach a short distance from the scene of the accident. It is expected that the new steamer Tuapeka will make a trial trip to-morrow, Tuesday morning, as far as the Heads, and at mid-day it is probable she will proceed to Dunedin, where she will, no doubt, by the peculiarity of her construction, attract considerable attention. In the event of the trial proving to be to the satisfaction of Capt. Murray, it is arranged that she will in a few days proceed to the Molyneux, in the waters of which she will be the pioneer of steamer traffic on the rivers of New Zealand.

It is understood that it was arranged during Mr Reader Wood’s Stay in the Province to erect a new Post Office at Port Chalmers; Mr Basire continuing to act as post-master. The site of the new Post Office is on or near the present site of the telegraph office, which will be all the better of being conveniently adjacent. The next, and a very necessary improvement may be the daily delivery of letters in the port. ... The New Zealand Advertiser of the 18th inst. says:—“We are informed by Captain Mundie that a native schooner, on leaving the xvharf at Auckland last Saturday, hoisted the King flag and beat about the harbor in front of Government House for a considerable period, the rebel colors flying in the breeze. The vessel afterwards came quietly to an anchor.” We are informed by the Daily Southern Cross that the celebrated flock of merino sheep, known as the “Mount Eden flock,” having recently changed hands, Mr Wm. Buckland having purchased them from their former owner, Mr T. D. Rich. Sheep from this flock have successfully competed in the neighboring colonics with the beat of those imported from Europe, and the prices obtained for them have, we are informed, been 100 per cent, above those obtained for any other flocks in the colonies. The Government of Canterbury have taken measures for the construction of a line of electric telegraph to the West Coast. Nearly four hundred people, passengers from Glasgow by the ship Victory, remain in quarantine at the quarantine station in the vicinity of Port Chalmers, and for their provision arid accommodation it is understood that every arrangement is being made by the Government, and by what is known by courtesy as the Board of Health. . . . It is said that the quarantine buildings are at present not capable of accommodating comfortably as many as two hundred, vet it is the case that nearly four hundred persons are placed there, and that there is necessarily an overcrowding which has not a parallel in the most overcrowded low lodgings of London. And, what is a great deal worse, there are, mixing and sleeping among this crowd, several, if not many, patients suffering from small-pox, whose numbers, it is feared, are yet far from being on the decrease, the chances of the epidemic being thus spread four hundred-fold and a cruel injury inflicted upon the poor patients themselves. . . . So far as it hag gone the quarantine has only been the means of spreading among the people the very disease from which it is the object of quarantine to separate them, as well as the general public; and it is very much to be feared that the period of quarantine will now be extended greatly beyond the time expected, or what it might possibly have been had instant separation, and thorough isolation of the. patients, been the plan adopted from the first.