THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 1867

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23649, 5 November 1938, Page 4

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 1867

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO

By the arrival o:( the Wild Wave from Port Louis, we have Mauritius pipers to September 21st. It was then still uncertain whether the Duke of Edinburgh would visit the island. The "'weight of evidence" favors the idea that he would sail direct for Australia. . ;.. The correspondent writes:— " I predict that you will like the Royal Duke as" much as any body else does. He is immensely popular here, not merely because he is a prince, but owing to his own frank, urbane, agreeable qualities."

The Regatta Committee met la3t evening at the London Hotel, when the Secretary was instructed to issue to all nominated members of the Committee the subscription lists agreed upon. A hope was expressed that, as the regatta was the first proposed event in connection with the anticipated visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, the public would liberally subscribe, and, by enabling the Committee to offer prizes worth trying for, induce such an amount of competition as to make the regatta in every respect a success. On the 13th, 14th, and 15th of this month, a Bazaar will be held for the purpose of paying off the debt still remaining on All Saints' Church

Hokitika has been visited by another flood, which, although not of a destructive character, was productive of serious inconvenience to many of the inhabitants, by. flooding their dwellings, and in some cases for a time completely isolating them The Southland pilot cutter, with the Goldfields Warden and the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands as passengers, returned to the Bluff, from Stewart's Island, on Friday last. The " Southland News " states that mining news from that quarter is favorable, and that, in expectation of an increase of population at the diggings near Smoky Beach, it is intended to send over Sergt. Morton. The Barque Bengal, which arrived at the Bluff on the 30th ult. with a cargo of cattle from Newcastle, had also on board' a miscellaneous collection of birds, comprising pheasants, New South Wales pigeons, magpies, and quails. The other stock comprised 240 heifers, bulls, and steers, 8 horses, and 130 sheep, which were landed without loss. .

The schooner Ann, on a recent trip from Riverton to Greymouth, put in for shelter to various harbors on the west coast of Otago. Amongst other places which she visited was Martin's River, where she remained for some time. The master of the schooner has informed the "Grey River Argus that there are a number of miners working in that neighborhood, and doing so well that they would not leave. They had no provosions, and their clothes art- almost entirely made of seal-skin. They live on fish—seal being the staple: but they are said to have plenty of liquor which was all that was left in a store after the provisions had been consumed. The workings are on the beach, and the men are getting gold in sufficient auantities to induce them to put up with such hardships as they must endure. Martin's is being described as a very fine river, about the size of the Grey but vessels of a moderate draught can go up for ten miles into a large lake.

The "New Zealand Celt" is the name of a new journal published at Hokitika, and intended to represent "Irish interests at Home and abroad.