THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam" DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1861. Shipping Intelligence.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22563, 6 May 1935, Page 29

THE Otago Daily Times. " Inveniam viam aut faciam" DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1861. Shipping Intelligence.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS—May stji

The Swedish barque Oscar, which arrived off the Heads on Saturday, sailed up in the afternoon. She left London on December 6, and, having lost her anchor and chains in a heavy gale in Margate Roads, when about sixty vessels had similar losses, she did not leave Cowes till January Ist. . . . The Oscar is very deeply laden, having upwards of 1100 tons of cargo on board, including a quantity of railway material to be landed at the Bluff or Invercargill. ... ' The inaugural address of the Educational Institute of Otago will be delivered by Mr Hislop, Inspector of Schoolsand Secretary of the Board of Education. ~ . ■ We have to notice the establishment of, an evening paper in Christchurch under the title of " The Evening Post." It gives a concise synopsis of the various local, political, and social events of, the day. With reference to the recently imported salmon ova the "Argus" says:— " While the successful introduction of the salmon ova to the prepared ponds adjoining the Derwent River in Tasmania gives ground for the highest hopes, the portion left in this colony is in an equally prosperous condition, excepting that *t present no definite arrangements have been made for placing the embryos in a position to completely fulfil their destiny. The "Argus" says:—"We observe from the Tasmanian papers that the Rev. J. Storie, a minister of the Church of Scotland in Hobart Town, ha s been deposed by the Presbytery of Tasmania. His main offence seemed to be that he was not disposed to bow down to the authority of his brethren—for whom, indeed, he appears to have both shown and expressed something like contempt. The Mercury asserts that the reverend gentleman was afforded only the mockery of a trial, and attacks the Presbytery in somewhat stroug language." THE CLASSICAL LAMP PILLARS. (To the Editor of the Dailt Times.) Sir, —Can any of your readers inform me who is responsible for the mismanagement of these pretty pieces of ironwork ? ' Several weeks since, some were fixed from the Octagon to Knox Church, connected with the mains, and so forth, but from the greater part of them no ray of light-has yet shown. Why does not. some public benefactor stick a rushlight in each of them, and so make them of some use ? At present they are only handy to run against. I am, &c., F. S. A.