THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1968.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23829, 8 June 1939, Page 14

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1968.

SEVENTY-ONE YIEARS AGO

The attention of pur" readers has been already called to the Report of the ■ Select Committee of the Provincial Council bn. t,he establishment of a College, and it Is matter for congratulation that the recommendations of the Committee have so far been-accepted. . . . : . We sincerely hope the Council will adopt the recommendations--of the Committee, in the main—matters of detail must be elaborated afterwards, after careful and painstaking inquiry. ... If, through their action,, a College is founded on a liberal" and enlightened basis, it needs no prophetic vision to predict that their memory will live, in the annals of their adopted country; and when we and our children shall have passed away, and much, if not all of the legislation for practical benefits, which now appear so- important to us, will have b.een superseded and entirely forgotten in the advancing tide of civilisation, the results of this one act of. theirs will shed a halo around their doingp that will go far to obliterate the remembrance of their political trifling; arid the Session of 1868, and the names of the men composing it, will be enrolled in the history of Otago as amongst her truest benefactors. •

It could scarcely have been anticipated, says one of the local journals in Geelong, “that within sp short time of the introduction of game into this country, the old England farmers’ cry of damage to standing crops would have been a matter to chronicle. Such, however, is now the case, and Mr Andrew Love informs us that almost incalculable injury is now ' accruing to his fruit trees and other ■ produce on the Moorabool from the ravages of hares. . . f I '■ '■

The “ West Coast Times ” of the Ist inst. says:—“ On Saturday afternoon last, the Westland Light Horse--for the first time in uniform, and fully armed and accoutred—fell in'.Cfor mounted drill, Captain Carey commanding. 4 . ' " , ' • • . tl. ..•>

In view of the, introduction. ..of Chinese to the West, Coast Diggings, the “Westland Observer” says:—“;We noticed yesterday some seven or eight Chinamen strolling about town, looking at shop-windows, and stolidly gazing at the curious crowd .’that surrounded them wherever they .went.. We have-not been able to ascertain where these men came from, but from their general appearance think that Otago was their lost location, and that they have . travelled . overland from there. ...” ’