EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26719, 13 March 1948, Page 6

EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

from the files of the |©tago Sail? Utmea DUNEDIN, MARCH 13, 1863. Dunedin butchers and graziers would to-day probably welcome the following advertisement by Wright, Robertson and Co., which appeared in the Daily Times 85 years to-dav: — 250 head of provincial-bred mixed _ cattle, consisting of 50 fat bullocks ana cows, 3 years and upwards, 100 head bullocks, 2 years and upwards, 100 cows, 2| to 3 years old. The above cattle, which are from the runs of Messrs Walker and Wilmer, have arrived at Waikouaiti in splendid condition, where they can be seen by intending purchasers.”

••“ Information reached us yesterday of the perpetration of two most violent and unprovoked outrages at the East Taieri on the previous day. We learn that some time on Tuesday four Irishmen, said to rejoice in the name of ‘Tipperary Boys/ entered the store of Messrs McLeod and Gibson at East Taieri, and after making some purchases which included, we are told, some whisky, they made a sudden and unprovoked onslaught on Mr Dick, the storekeeper, striking him severely with pannikins, billies, and anything they could lay their hands on They then went to the store of Mr Goodfellow and repeated their violent conduct on a person there. Ultimately a constable, after some clever practice, succeeded in securing two of the scoundrels, and the others were also afterwards taken by the’ police. The prisoners will appear before the magistrate to-day and will probably be remanded to Dunedin.”

“The New Zealander in its summary of mining intelligence for the month, says: ‘The attractions of the Otago diggings are making a clear out at Coromandel. The ease and quickness with which the gold is obtained in Otago may well draw our miners away from a field where gold can be obtained only by a tedious process and with the aid of a large outlay: An attempt has been made by many of the • miners now at _ Coromandel to register their claims in order to proceed to the Dunstan and work at those alluvial diggings. Anything of this kind we must on behalf of the province and .the bona fide miners most earnestly protest against. By such a course the development of Coromandel would be obsiructed. There are two fields before the miners If they elect to proceed to Otago, let them go, but let them clearly understand that, in doing so, thev cannot be allowed to lock up the available working ground at Coromandel.’ ”