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

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22505, 25 February 1935, Page 2

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

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS—February 24th. A new iron steamer, the Moa, the parts of which were brought out by the Zealandia, was launched at Lyttelton on Saturday. She is Bl£t long, can carry 250 bales of wool, and hag on deck a patent steam winch for loading and discharging. At Melbourne, on the 18th", a meeting of shipowners and others interested in the formation of a Shipowners/ Insurance Association was held at Scott's Hotel, Collins street. ...

Captain John Lowden, Chief Pilot, nas proceeded to the Molyneux to take soundings in the bay, and superintend the laying down of moorings. The ship Mermaid, from London, has arrived at Lyttelton. Some passengers by her, bound for Otago, came on to this port by the Queen steamer.

The ship Indiana, at present lyiqg at Port Chalmers, is now being stripped, and is expected to be sold soon. Will, no doubt, be ultimately added to the number of hulks now stationed in the harbor.

Mr James Smith, cattle inspector at the West Taieri, reports that the mob of cattle that, were overtaken and stopped when proceeding beyond the boundaries of the new proclaimed West Taieri diseased district, nave been "examined and found to be extensively diseased. . . . From the report of the inspector, the disease does not seem to be spreading in the West Taieri district, and the report from Waikouaiti is, we are glad to say, to the same purport. At Teviot, Mount Benger district, on the other hand, it is reported to have broken out at Moa Flat, on Cargill's run, and also on Anderson's and Chaimer's runs.

The "bearded lady," with her equally hirsute. son, exhibited yesterday in a room opposite the Theatre Royal, in the Cutting. A large number of persons visited her, and were fully satisfied as to the genuineness of her beard. . . . Additions to the list of nominations for the coming Dunedin Races have now been furnished. These make sixteen entries each for two of the Handicaps and eighteen for the other, a total which is something quite novel in New Zealand.