EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS ADO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26530, 4 August 1947, Page 4

EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS ADO

FROM THE FILES OF THE ©tago Bailie {Times DUNEDIN, AUGUST 4, 1862 “The tameness which has characterised the Bruce election from the commencement continued to the close. The poll was declared on Saturday. The total numbers were 74 for Cargill and 54 for Baldwin. In Dunedin Mr Cargill had a majority of 45, but in the country districts Captain Baldwin i had a majority of 25 thus reducing the absolute majority for Mr Cargill to 20.’’ The Daily Times gives the voting at the various booths as follows: Dunedin, Cargill 55, Baldwin 19; Taieri 11 and 32; Tokomairiro, 7 and 11; Warepa 1 and 1. “The people of Victoria are nobly responding to the appeal made to them on behalf of the distressed operatives in Lancashire and the honorary secretary to the committee in Melbourne. . . . states that they were in a position to remit at least £5500 to Mahchester. ... Nor are the contributions to the fund looked upon as final.’’ “The Auckland Chamber of Commerce affords a contrast to the apathy manifested by the Dunedin Chamber. At a recent meeting the Auckland Chamber of Commerce resolved: ‘That' a special committee of the chamber be appointed to consider the propriety of having clauses prepared to be added to the Imprisonment for Debt Act, 1862, having chiefly in view the enabling of the principal creditors, as regards amount of/debts due, to take the management of insolvent debtors’ affairs in their hands as trustees, making their acts binding on the remaining creditors in any such insolvent estate.’ ’’ “ Cochran McDowell, the driver of the Express wagon which was upset on Saddle Hill, was on Saturday brought before the resident magistrate charged with the manslaughter of the two women whose lives were sacrificed on that occasion. He was remanded until the result of the inquest should be known.” McDowell was granted bail, himself for £IOO and two sureties of £SO each. “The districts of Tokomairiro and ■ Waihola are soon, it appears, to have "'' the advantage of the presence of a clergyman of the Church of England. A meeting was held at Tokomairiro on Wednesday last, at which it was decided to raise the sum of £IOO for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the passage of a clergyman. Mr W C. Young was present as a deputation from the Rural Deanery Board and stated that there were two clergymen willing to come over from Australia; so that there was no absolute necessity for sending to England.” “The late frosty weather has been followed by a succession of very heavy rains which have converted the streets of Dunedin into perfect rivers of liquid mud. Landslips have have occurred in various places.” The Daily Times publishes an article from the Otago Witness, regarding the floating of a company to supply Dunedin with a water service. Says the article: “With regard to the source from which a company might derive its supplies we are able, from Mr Thompson’s report, to state that he, f’-om * careful observation of the streamlets running through Maclaggan street, London street, and Regent road the North-East Valley stream, the Kaikorai, and the Water of Leith, calculated that the minimum supply of water from these different streams was eaual to 4,968,936 gallons per day, or sufficient to supply 30 gallons a head to 165.629 persons daily.” Mr • Thompson proposed to carry the water to reservoirs distributed in convenient situations.