THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1864.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22504, 23 February 1935, Page 6

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1864.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

Mr Justice Richmond held a sitting under the Debtors and Creditors’ Ordinance yesterday.. There was a good deal of business done, and some of the cases were of more than usual interest. George Lumley, late of Christchurch, who was captured on board a ship bound for Manilla, and who has been in gaol since the 4th August, was declared by his Honor to be not entitled to relief until the expiration of twelve months from the commencement of bis imprisonment. The ground was that there has been “ fraud with reference ■ to the management and disposition of his estate”; and his Honor, who commented strongly on the petitioner’s conduct, said the punishment was the extreme one allowed by the Ordinance. . . . This is the first record which has come within our knowledge of a lady in the Australias availing herself of the privileges accorded to her sex by Father Time in Leap Year 1864:—“A most interesting affair has amused the residents of Smeaton during the past few days. A damsel in the employment of one of the farmers thdught it no sin to fall desperately in love with one of the reapers, and, being leap year, she was determined to avail herself of the privilege she possessed. Accordingly, in plain language, she made the delicate proposition. The youthful swain saw nothing for it. but to be off; so he made tracks immediately for Creswick. The love-smitten damsel gave chase, with a firm determination not to be done out of a husband she had set her heart upon. She pulled him up near Birch’s Creek. He remonstrated with her on the impropriety of such a proceeding; but it was all to no purpose—she had her ground firm, and never flinched in her determination, although the shades of night were coming on. The persecuted youth, being tired of a chase in which he got the worst, saw nothing for it but to take her back again, and so he did.”

Tenders are invited at the office of the Marine Board, Port Chalmers, until noon of Tuesday, the 22nd March, for the erection of light-house towers and dwellinghouses on Dog Island, Foveaux Straits, and on Taiaroa’s Head, Otago Harbor. The two turtles brought from the Fiji Islands by the Jeanie Dove have been purchased by Mr Riordan, of the Cafe de Paris. They are both lively and well. One weighs 240 lbs. and the other 182 lbs.

C HI CKET.

A match came off on the North Dunedin Cricket Ground on Saturday, 20th inst., between a picked Eleven and Twenty-two of the Club. ... The Eleven won wtih seven wickets to spare.