THE Otago Daily Times. ”Invenium viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1863. Shipping Intelligence

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22352, 28 August 1934, Page 2

THE Otago Daily Times. ”Invenium viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1863. Shipping Intelligence

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS— August 26 and 27The Glasgow correspondent "of . the Invercargill Times writes: —‘There is at present no lack of conveyance for intending emigrants to the golden antipodes. At Greenock, the Clyde-built Indiaman Bombay, 890 tons register, is tilling up for Invercargill and Dunedin, and is fitted up for carrying cabin passengers only. The Hclenslee is laid on at Glasgow for Otago with liberty to laud at Southland, and is to be despatched on the Ist July. The Robert Henderson is the succeeding clipper, and is fixed to leave upon the Ist August. The Queen of the Mersey leaves London on the 10th July for Auckland, and Willis, Gann and Co. despatch the Green Jacket for the same locality on the 25th July, A New Zealand paper states that in one week 3000 persons lauded at Dunedin on their way to the diggings, but with the growing passenger trade between our ports and your distant shores this human deluge promises increase rather than abatement. Mr Archibald Denny, of ..Dumbarton, has launched a paddle steamer of 468 tons, jiamed the City of Dunedin, and which is intended for the. New Zealand coasting trade. In connection with our Clyde traffic the place of the lona, sunk in the river after being purchased to run the blockade, has been filled up with .a new lona, which, notwithstanding an increased' beam, and the top hamper, of a deck saloon running nearly the whole length of the boat, runs at the tremendous pace of. 21 miles per hour—reckoned to be the greatest speed attained by any steam vessel of British build. Among departures for New Zealand it may be as well to name the Mataura, clipper ship, 1353 tons register, which left the Clyde for Dunedin with a full complement of passengers. _ The ship City of Dunedin when off Fairhead, on the 6tb, lost a frantic passenger who leapt overboard. In three minutes the ship rounded to, $ boat lowered, and the passenger rescued, a feat which not only evinced able seamanship, but showed that gear and tackle were all in the best condition.”

The Wellington Independent of the 20th inst. says;—“ Very recently we published a report from the Wanganui Chronicle of a case in which a native was charged with forgery and ultimately released on bail bOing given for a sum of L3OO. Considerable discussion ensued at the time, and it was questioned if it werG strictly legal to release a man on bail who had been charged with felony. However, the accused was set at liberty, and immediately thereafter one of his securities absconded. Nobody expected under these circumstances ever to hear anything more of the late prisoner, but singular to relate he gave himself up, and requested that he might be sent for trial to Wellington. He was therefore brought down in the Storm Bird in charge of Sergt. Atkinsons, and is now lodged in gaol here. Such an instance of respect for law is worthy of record.”