THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1866.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 7

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1866.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO

The Colonies, however distant from Home, feel an interest in what passes there. The events passing in other countries excite curiosity. The amount of their revenues, the prospects f trade, of peace or war, their social and political conditions, even when no immediate interests are affected, cannot be altogether matters of indifference. The inhabitants have the common attributes of humanity, and no man can be entirely indifferent to the fortunes, the conduct, the trials, or the triumphs of a fellow man. But no length of absence can sever that more intimate bond that attaches one who has left his fatherland to it. It is not a mere matter of sentiment, but a conscious reality, in the experience of every colonist, that the events passing at Honie engage equal if not more attention than they excited in his mind when they formed part of his every day experience. An alteration has been made in the times of the starting of Messrs Cobb and Co.’s Telegraph Line of Mail Coaches. The Northern Branch for Blueskin Waikouaiti. Oamaru. Timaru. Christchurch, and the intermediate places, will leave Stafford street on Mondays Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 6 in (he morning The North-Western Branch from Waikouaiti, from Dunedin to the Dunstan. will leave Dunedin on Monday? and Fridays, at 6 in the mornim’ . and the Southern Branch to (lie Molyncux. bv way of East Taieri Tokomairiro, and intermediate places leaves Dunedin daily, at halfpast 5 o'clock in the morning There will also bo an extra coach ’ospatchod to Tokomairiro at 3 o’clock in the afternoon Passengers for Glcnoro, Waitahuna. and Tuapeka will have to go on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays Those who read the accounts ol the proceedings of the City Council must have been startled by a sentence in the report of the Bve-laws Committee, which we published yesterday—"the Council have no newer to alter the bye-laws.” This was reported in answer to a very numerously-signed memorial praying that instead of firewood being hereafter sold by weight, as provided by one of the bye-laws, sale by the cord might be allowed to be continued: and the declaration must hav been startling because the Council did. as was understood. recently make alterations in the bye-law as to hackney carriages Yet it is the fact that the Council luive not the power to make any alteration in the bye-laws as printed ; or. rather, no alteration that the* have resolved to make can. as (he bye-law stands be arried into effect until some lime after the next assembling of the Provincial Council. Under the bye-law as fo hackney carriages, an offending driver must be fined L 5 or he cannot be fined at all. at present For, the bye-law which makes that astounding enactment has gone through all the forms prescribed by the Municipal Corporations Empowering Act. passed by the Assembly last session : and no bye-laws can be legal that have not gone through those forms The " Bruce Herald ” says:—“ We arc informed that the Catholic residents of this district will be deprived of the services of the Rcvd. Father Williams, who purposes leaving for Victoria.

From the small number of British priests now in this Province, we trust his absence will not be prolonged for any lengthened period.”

SHIPPING. PORT CHALMERS.—May 31. As an instance of the extraordinary despatch that can be given to vessels arriving at Port Chalmers the following may be noticed: —The barque Collingwood, from Newcastle, with 667 tons of coal, arrived on Saturday afternoon, commenced discharging with the aid of lumpers on Monday morning. and finished at noon yesterday (Wednesday), the ballasting being finished about 5 p.m., the whole work occupying less than four days; the vessel sailed again for Newcastle in the evening.—The above is the quickest despatch since the arrival of the Aldinga mail steamer one day after her contract time for sailing, when she discharged 150 tons and took in 230 tons of coal in the short space of seven and a-half hours, sailing same evening with the English mails.