THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1865.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23033, 9 November 1936, Page 11

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1865.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO

The second general meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society oi Otago'was held yesterday. . . .The Council laid before the meeting a set of rules which they had drawn up for the guidance of the Society. After some discussion the rules were adopted, and in accordance with one of these the meeting proceeded to fill, up- the vacancies in the Council. . .' . Trie Council has now Ml power to act; and we believe the business of the Society will s be • proceeded With without delay. ' The! "Provincial, Government Gazette" republished a return of. the approximate increase and decrease of the-population of New Zealand ot European descent for the half year ending June 30th. The gross increase by immigration during the past quarter Was 3516 males and 2533 females, and during the second quarter 2124 males and 1332 females, making together a total of 9505.: After enumerating the fluctuations caused by emigration and births and deaths, the Registrar General adds: '' The above numbers, added to the population of the as shown by the late census, amounts to—males;' 110,288; females, 69,659: to|al, 179,947. . The removal ,of part of the Waste Land-Board Offices, which is in the way,.of the contractor for the netProvincial Government Buildings, was commenced yesterday and we pre- ( sume that a slice will also have to . be taken from the Treasury. The engine house of the Volunteer Fire Brigade has been about half taken down by the Contractor with the City Council for its removal to the triangular plot of the reclaimed land which is bounded by High street. Rattray street, and Crawford street. The whole site for the Provincial Government Buildings should now soon be in the possession of the con- ; tractor. Mr G Cornwell, who has, we hear, been already a good deal delayed by the buildings on the southwesterly angle of the site.. The return of the Sale of' Town Lands in the Province for the month of October, published in the " Provincial Government Gazette,' shows that four sections, comprising together 32 perches, were sold at Pembroke, and realised L 29; and at Newcastle f,' sections were sold, the united ares of . which was 32 perches, whicn fetched L2O. During'the same period 33 sections of agricultural land were sold, the acreage of which measured 1827 acres 2 roods and 6 perches The amount realised was L 1827 2s 6d

THE EXPEDITION TO THE AUCKLAND ISLANDS. H. M. Colonial war-steamer Victoria, Commander Norman, arrivea here yesterday morning from her expedition to the Auckland Islands in search of shipwrecked persons who it was supposed might be upon those islands! The result of the voyage is that no person has been found on theAuckland group or upon any of the others visited by Commander Norman ; nor was any trace of shipwreck discovered beyond what has already been reported by Captain Musgrave, who commanded the Grafton at the time of her wreck. That gentleman accompanied the expedition ;, and we heai that he thoroughly agrees in the conclusion that there can be no living person on the groups of islands visited or skirted during the Victoria'r. cruise. The' Victoria left Melbourne on the 4th October, and arrived at the Auckland Islands on the 10th. A searcn of . the north-western shores of the main island was commenced on the 11th, and was continued until the 14tH, when the ship was anchored in Ross or Lowry Harbor, the site of the once Enderby settlement. There th° search was vigorously continued; and the remains of the man found and buried by Captain Musgrave were exhumed. The object was to ascertain by an examination of the skull, &c, whether there were any signs of the deceased's death having been caused by violence; but no such sign was found. . . .