THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1864. SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22710, 24 October 1935, Page 3

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1864. SHIPPING.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS.—Oct. 23.

The three-masted schooner, John Bullock, is the vessel whose launch at Stewart's Island we recently reported. She arrived at the Heads on Friday evening after a run of 26 hours, and on Saturday beat up as far as the anchorage. She is the largest vessel yet built at any one of the southern ports of New Zealand, and is a very creditable specimen of the naval architecture of the colony. She is about 90 feet long, with a beam of 26 feet, and is so built as to suit, in draught of water, most of the harbors on the New Zealand coast. In her construction Stewart's Island timber has, of course, been r almost exclusively employed, and finer timber for shipbuilding purposes could not be desired. . . . She is calculated to carry upwards of 200 tons, and in her house on deck there is good accommodation for a number of passengers. In every part she is a credit to her builder, Mr M'Fie. . . . We are exceedingly glad to notice that the Volunteer movement is at length taking a firm hold in Otago, and that something more than merely playing with it is evidently designed. The Provincial Council has it under consideration to devote a large sum towards its encouragement; fresh companies are being formed all over the Province, and the ranks of those already in existence_ are being filled up. In short, volunteering has become the mode; in a very short time those who are not Volunteers will be looked down upon as civilians —the Volunteers will regard themselves as the " regular service." One hears a great deal of the unpopularity of the late Militia movement, but if, as there can be no question, it has been the means of giving the present stimulus to volunteering, even those least favorable to it will not be disposed to deplore it. . . . We are in receipt of our Auckland files to the 13th instant. The General Assembly is to meet at Wellington on the 15th November. The proposed Tara-naki-Wanganui campaign is said to have been abandoned for the present. The escaped Maori prisoners have been committing great excesses, robbing settlers, and otherwise misbehaving themselves. . . The steamer City of Hobart brought. on her last passage from Melbourne, some very fine sheep stock both to Southland and to this Province. At the Bluff she landed 120 very superior rams for Mr Christopher Baestian and Mr Harvey, and at this port Capt. Darby has landed five very fine picked specimens of De Graves Ramboullies, which are accompanied with the usual certificates of pedigree. They are now in Mr Martin's yard for inspection, and are intended to be sold on an early day. A correspondent of the Southern Cross states that a force of about 300 rebel natives is in the vicinity of the new township of Alexandra, in the Waikato district, and that they are building a strong pah within a few miles of the camp. SPORTING. The Grand Sweep, at (lie Provincial Hotel, on the Melbourne Cup, could not be drawn on Saturday evening, although the larger portion of the Subscribers were present and paid up their shares; and it is now positively announced to come off next Saturday. . . .