THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN IN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1864. Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22476, 22 January 1935, Page 5

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN IN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1864. Shipping Intelligence.

f SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS— January 21st. ' The ship Aboukir, which only arrived on Sunday last, has already obtained a wool freight for London, and is already loading, Tieing capable of receiving a considerable quantity of wool in the parts of the ship occupied by passengers on . her outward passage. She proceeds at the same time to discharge with all despatch her cargb of general goods from Glasgow. Atter considerable delay, a flagstaff is now in course of erection at Observation Point, Port Chalmers. The purpose of its erection is understood to be to get more ready communication with the Heads than is at present obtainable; and with this view a house will be erected on the contiguous reserve, so as to ensure the constant presence of a signal master. .',_••

The- dust yesterday was almost intolerable; in the streets it was blinding, and even closed doors and ■ windows proved ineffectual to keep it out. It would be curious to ascertain what extent of actual damage to the goods of drapers, &c, is done in a single day, and all for the want of a little water. Why should not a pump be fixed on the wharf and carts supplied from the harbor ? The expense would be trifling compared with the benefits to be derived. . . .

From the following paragraph in the " Hawke's Bay Herald " it would appear that travelling in that district is attended with considerable danger from the disaffected natives. Our contemporary says:—"Mr D. Munn, Jr., and Mr Smith returned yesterday by the overland route from Poverty Bay. In travelling through " the upper Wairoa country, _ in company with two chiefs of this district, their lives were threatened by the King natives who occupy that part of the country, and they were finally imprisoned for the offence of passing over the King's land. They were released after the expiry of the fifth day, upon a promise to pay a fine. They believe, from the violent demeanour of the people, that but for the presence of the two native chiefs they would have been tomahawked."

We are informed that the General Government have issued an order that Tuesday, the 16th February proximo, will be observed as a general holiday in all the offices under their control, on the occasion of laying the first stone of the New Zealand Exhibition Building.

A well-attended meeting of the residents and cricketers of Port Chalmers was held' on Tuesday evening at the Port Chalmers Hotel to make arrangements for a grand reception to the All England Eleven on the occasion of their landing in Otago. ... It is understood to be arranged that the members of the different clubs are to -wear distinctive colours in the form of rosettes; the principal buildings in the Port are to be decorated; the shipping will fly all their bunting andvfire salutes, of artillery; and should the weather prove favorable the reception accorded to the ' Eleven ought to be equal to any yet given to them in the colonies, and will be the grandest sight yet witnessed in Port Chalmers. . ,