THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. 1866.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23081, 6 January 1937, Page 2

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. 1866.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO

The Provincial Council met yesterday at 2 o’clock. ... Mr. Haughton’s motion for a dissolution of the Council at the close of the present session, was carried by 12 to 7, after an animated discussion. . . . A discussion ensued in the evening on a question by Mr. Haughton, as to the course the Government proposed taking with regard to the vote recommending the dissolution of the House. No result was arrived at. . . . A message from the Superintendent was read, explaining why he could not support the resolutions for a dissolution of the House. ... Mr. Vogel’s motion, proposing a reply to the Superintendent’s message, was negatived. ... Mr Brodie moved the adjournment of the House to this day, and a discussion ensued, in the midst of which the Superintendent entered, and, after reading the speech, he prorogued the House to Thursday, the 13th of September next. . . .

With other returns of the Board of Trade, the Wreck Register for 1864, was published shortly before the departure of the last English Mail. This document, to a mercantile people, is of great importance. It contains an account of the. loss or accident to every vessel in, the British Seas or on the shores of Britain as well as the number of lives lost in consequence. As might naturally be expected, the catalogue is long. It is inevitable that with a commercial navy, measuring in the aggregate seventy millions of tons, worth, most probably, five hundred million pounds sterling, there must be annually a great number of casualties. .

To us, who live so far away, and to whom safety of vessels engaged in long voyages is of the greatest interest, it is satisfactory to learn that of the 1741 casualties, only 454 were trading with foreign ports; and, of the 246 foreign vessels, 179 were making the voyage to or from the United Kingdom; while 13 were employed in the British coasting trade. The remaining 1095 ships were employed in the coasting trade. Of the number of accidents, 351 were caused by collisions, and 1390 arose from other causes. . .

Messrs. Driver, Maclean and Co., held their opening Wool Sale for the Season, at their warehouses, High Street, yesterday. There was a numerous attendance of merchants, wool scourers and others, evincing the considerable interest felt in the establishment of such sales in the Province. The catalogue comprised 500 bales of greasy, washed and scoured wool, the greater part of which found buyers at prices which cannot be considered other than very satisfactory. Much care had evidently been bestowed on the preparation of several of the lots offered for sale, both as regards the classification of the fleeces, and the separation from them of the pieces and locks. This must necessarily tend to raise the character of Otago wools in the home market, where fault has not unfrequently been found, on account of proper classification being much neglected. On the whole. Messrs. Driver, Maclean and Co. may be congratulated on the success which has attended the resumption of their wool sales. They are to be continued at intervals, as occasion may require, during the season; and the comparative success of the first suggests that they will become as muen a feature of local commerce as similar sales are in Melbourne and elsewhere. The tolls authorised to be taken at the Wakari Road Tollgato, the Water of Leith, and Saddle Hill, will be let by public auction, on Monday, the 29th January, at noon.

SHIPPING. The following vessels arrived at Hokitika on December 28:—Meteor, from Manukau; Buscarn. from Melbourne; Leonidas, from Melbourne: Isabella and Atlantic, from Sydney; Dove, from Melbourne; Tiger from the Grey: Charlotte, from Lyttelton. And on December 29—Hector, from Melbourne; Rangitoto, from Melbourne: South Australian, from Dunedin; Barwon, from Melbourne. There sailed on December 28—Wonga Wonga, for Nelson; Dispatch, for Dunedin: Cosmopolite. for Hobart Town. December 29—Spray, for the Grey; 10, for Melbourne; Agnes, for Okarita; John Bullock, for Dunedin; Keera s..s, for Chalky Inlet.