THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1864. SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22714, 29 October 1935, Page 2

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1864. SHIPPING.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

PORT CHALMERS.— Oct. 28. The ship Gala, reported as having arrived off the Heads on Wednesday evening, has been unable to make the harbor, in consequence of the prevalence of dense fog for the greater part of the day in the neighborhood of the Heads. As she does not appear to have anchored, there is no certainty as to the hour of her arrival, though it will probably not be sooner than the mid-day tide on Saturday. She brings, under charter of the Provincial Government, a number of assisted immigrants, a considerable proportion being assisted females. She sailed from the Clyde on July 14th. At 5.50 p.m. the' Gala was towed in by the Favorite, but, it being low water, she did not get further than the lower anchorage, opposite the Maori Kaik. She will be up at daybreak. . . . The allusions to Separation made at the meeting at Christchurch cannot be considered of much importance. No doubt the inhabitants would gladly now welcome Separation—the effects of tha crippling and uncongenial union between the two islands has been sufficiently literally brought home to them. But the time for Separation has gone by. When we took up the cry three years ago the means were not wanting to give it effect. Perhaps it is not too much to say that the feare of the Canterbury people that in case of Separation their town would not be made the Seat of Government lai’gely contributed to paralyse the movement that wanted their aid to attain to success. Be that as it may, neither the North nor the South Island is in a position now to ask for Separation, simply because they are under obligations _to third parties, who would not be willing to relieve either from its joint liabilities. A full and highly respectable meeting was held last night at the Provincial Hotel for the purpose of forming a cavalry corps. At least sixty of our leading citizens were present, and Mr M'Landress was called to the chair. The first business of the meeting was a motion from Mr S. James that it was expedient to establish a local cavalry, which w4*s unanimously carried. . . . After considerable discussion, the meeting decided, on the motion of Mr Driver, that the adopted name should be the “ Otago Light Horse,” both Victoria and India (as British Colonies) having approved of this title for “ irregular horse.” . . . A good start has thus been made for a mounted Troop, and we wish every success to its promoters. The new Congregational Church at Port Chalmers will be opened on Sunday next. In the Provincial Council yesterday the Secretary for Public Works stated that the Government had now accepted a tender for a steamer to run regularly between Dunedin and the Molyneux. . . . From Mount Benger our correspondent, writing on the 20th, says, “No one would imagine this is the election day. No life, no stir, no anything to indicate such to be the case. . .