THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1868.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23925, 28 September 1939, Page 3

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1868.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO

We are glad to And so influential a body as the Auckland Institute turning their attention to the question of the best method of treating flax fibre. We listened with much pleasure to the remarks of Dr Purchas, explanatory of his process for dressing the phormium tenax, and have little doubt that the supply of the dressed material will soon become larger and more regular. Prices for well-prepared samples are from L2O to L 25 per ton. There is little sale or demand for inferior. Some time ago a suggestion was made in our columns of the necessity for a regular conveyance to the Halfway Bush and the surrounding districts. That suggestion has been acted upon and a cab now leaves the Criterion Hotel four or five times a day, for the Halfway Bush, and carries passengers to and fro at a moderate fare. A gentleman who was present at the late attack upon Te Ngutu o te Manu, in which Major Von Tempsky was killed, has furnished the Wellington Independent with additional particulars regarding the conduct of the troops engaged:—After the officers fell," the greater part of the men. including nearly all the fresh levies, became panic stricken and fled. Half of the force at least bolted without firing a shot. The whole of the new levies are now completely demoralised, and the men nearly all intend leaving when their three months’ tenure of service has expired. The truth semes to be that the officers and the few men who had seen service before, fought bravely, but the raw levies, with a few exceptions, showed the most arrant cowardice.