THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1864. Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22479, 25 January 1935, Page 2

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1864. Shipping Intelligence.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS—January 24th. The ship Brechin Castle, from Glasgow, sailed as far as the lower end of the cross-channel this (Sunday) morning. . . . She sailed from Gourock Bay on the Ist of October. . . . The Brechin Castle brings 42 passengers, all well, with no deaths and one birth during the passage. . s. To-day being the 104th anniversary of the greatest of Scottish poets, Robert Burns, we are glad to learn that the occasion is to be commemorated by the admirers of the Ayrshire Bard, assembling at dinner at Halliday’s Rainbow Hotel. Melbourne is to have a 'dog show—a thing which has never been)tried at home, under good management, without being greatly successful. We learn from 3 Bell’s Life in Victoria” that “At a meeting of the council of the Acclimatisation Society, on Tuesday last, after a vote of thanks to Mr C. W. Ligar for his services in procuring for the society a barrel of living oysters from New Zealand, of a variety superior to the ‘ Sydney rocks,’ the subject of the contemplated show was considered. It was ultimately resolved ‘ That the first rule of the Acclimatisation Society embracing the perfection of domesticated animals, it is desirable that an exhibition of dogs be held in this city 4t an early opportunity, with a view to the recognition and improvement of the various breeds.’ A sub-committee was appointed to report on the best means of forwarding the object.” We are glad to be able to contradict the rumor in reference to the appearance of pleuro-pneumonia in Tokomairiro. During the present state of alarm there are likely to be many false reports of the kind.

At the conclusion of the Canterbury Race meeting, which came off last week, it was resolved to get up an Intercolonial' Champion Race next year, on the same conditions as elsewhere, viz., LIOO stakes with LIOOO added. Another LIOOO will he given away for other races, so that a most successful affair may be anticipated. It will come off in January. . . . The demolition of a considerable portion of Bell Hill by means of three shots was most successfully accomplished. There were three borings, the holes being respectively of the following dimensions:— 40ft. deep, Sin. diameter; 46ft. deep, Sin. diameter; and 46ft. deep, 4in. diameter. More powder was required than was calculated, 4251 b. having been actually used, instead of something under 3J cwt. The estimate of the quantity of stuff that would be dislodged was 'SOOO tons. A large number of persons assembled to witness the explosions and their effects. The Rattray street pier was the favourite spot; for from it, the most timid could get to a satisfactory distance as regarded safety, while a full or a side view of the particular portion of the hill to be dislodged could be obtained. But those who went upon the pier were subjected to the most abominable nuisance created by the fishdealers who lately occupied it. Anything more nauseating can scarcely be suggested than the stench from the remains of barracoota and other fish, or their offal, with which the shore end of the pier is bestrewed. . . . The quantity dislodged by the explosions was 3555 cubic yards, equal to 5052 tons, the cost being L 146 5s 9d, equal to 3 l-10d per cubic yard. . . . The estimated cost per yard of the stuff dislodged has never before been brought below a trifle less than 6d.