THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN, MONDAY, OCTOBER l2, 1863. Shipping Intelligent.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22391, 12 October 1934, Page 4

THE Otago Daily Times. " Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1863. Shipping Intelligent.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS— October 11th. The ship Phoebe Dunbar, which arrived in port in the afternoon, brings from London a large general cargo and about fifty passengers. She has made a fair passage of about 98 days from Land’s End. . . .

Messrs Hoyt and Co. having found it necessary to discontinue running their coaches from Dunedin to Lake Wakatip, the inhabitants of these two places arc now almost cut off from communication with each other, and the circumstance will result, unless immediate steps are taken to prevent it, in driving the trade of the Lake district into the hands of the Invercargill merchants. The Southland Government is using every available means to improve the communication between Invercargil and the Lake, and private enterprise appears to find opportunities of assisting in that object, which do not obtain here. We notice that on and after the 20th iust., Cobb and Co. will run a line of coaches regularly from Invercargill to the Lake. The Invercargill Times of the 7th inst. says:—“ We understand that the Helcnslee has brought out for the Provincial Government some birds and game for acclimatisation purposes. Amongst them are a goldfinch, a blackbird, a hare, and half a dozen rabbits. These will no doubt be handed over to the Acclimatisation Society, on proper application being made.” Mr Cameron, who left this Province a few days ago to recruit men in Southland for the Highland Brigade of volunteers for service in Auckland; is reported by the Southland journals as having met with considerable success.' THE NEW GOLD FIELD. In our Saturday’s issue we briefly announced the reported discovery of a new gold field in the Taieri district. On Saturday the prospectors, ten in number, applied to the Government for, and obtained, an extended claim. We now publish the particulars obtained' from the Gold Fields Department. . . . “The rush is situated on Boyd's run, between three and four miles from Fraser’s, on the west bank of the Taieri River, and on the plains on a branch of the creek running north, and between ‘Fortifications’ and river. “The prospectors tried between seventy and eighty holes, sinking from one to two feet, and washdirt from nine inches to a foot, and obtained a prospect of Idwt to to the dish, and found gold in every hole for three miles up the gully. “ The gold is rough, heavy, and solid — no fine gold. . . . “ The country is something like Waitahuna, and full of made hills, as at Wetherstone’s. ...” The publication on Saturday of the particulars given by the prospectors speedily produced all the concomitants of a rush. During the evening knots of men were earnestly conversing on the subject, and the increased business transacted ,at the stores in shovels, tin dishes, and other mining appliances showed that a considerable move of people to the new diggings was in preparation. From daylight yesterday morning parties of miners, duly equipped with the inevitable “swag” and armed with pick and shovel/left the town, and during the day it is estimated by the police that some 800 or 900 persons had started for the Taieri diggings. Strings of pack horses, followed by swarthy self-confident experienced miners, followed each other in rapid succession, and even at a late hour in the evening we noticed gangs of men setting out. Messrs Hoyt and Co., with the usual promptitude which characterises the movements of King Cobb, announce the despatch of a Coach at 10 o’clock this morning for the scene of the new discovery. . . .