EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26959, 20 December 1948, Page 4

EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

y FROM THE FILES OF THE ;©tago ©ail'? Himes DUNEDIN, DECEMBER 20, 1863 •v The quantity of gold exported from ■ the province of Otago during the '’current year to this date is 558,0690 z. The quantity previously exported is as follows: —1861, 187,6950 z; 1862, i585,2970z; making a grand total since the discovery of the goldfields of The escorts have brought mown for the current year from January 10 to December 15 a total pf ;546,8260z.

’• On the night before the steamer -left Napier, a man was arrested who, .'according to his own confession, made -Whilst under the influence of liquor, was a deserter from the 65th Regiment, and a Maori spy. He alleged that he had made his way overland from the Waikato to Napier.

■u The gold escort arrived in town on -Tuesday afternoon, bringing gold as 'follows:—Queenstown, 42870 z; Arrow’Hiver, £2015; Dunstan. 62100 z l£dwt: •Mount Benger. 5050 z 7dwt: Mount Ida, 32290 z sdwt; Tuapeka. 2150 oz; Waitahuna, 3860 z lOdwt; Woolshed, 3030 z 13dwt; West Taieri, 5470 z 15dwt; — total, 19,6350 z sdwt.

The ship Bratterls Pride, which arrived at Lyttelton with a mortality -of 44, has been intruded into the harbour against the port regulations, and steps are about to be taken against the ..jgaptain. In the meantime the vessel 'Kas been placed in quarantine. The of the passengers is improving, -and no fresh deaths have occurred. A •■rigid inquiry into the whole case is, . eixpected to be made, this being the -third ship within the month which -has arrived at Lyttelton with disease <£n board.

2* On the Upper Shotover prospecting ‘paddocks have been sunk on the beaches which are now rendered workable by the diversion of the river, and E’ith perhaps one o r two exceptions the ground i* found to, be, as exDected r very rich. The gullies and hills adjacent to the camp at Maori Poipt i&re being either worked or prospected band as the river claims become worked lout most probably payable, if not al“fuvial, diggings will be developed on ]■the terraces and hillsides. -o