EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27241, 18 November 1949, Page 6

EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

FROM THE FILES OF THE ©tacjo Dailie Cimes

DUNEDIN, NOVEMBER 18, 1864. Mr Warden Shaw, in his official report from Cardrona, dated November 5 remarks: “Thomas and party have struck very good gold in a terrace - about one mile from the camp. They • are actively' engaged in erecting a ,1 wheel and a pump, and intend to as the ground appears firm. '•’Several parties have arrived during • the week and have taken up ground, •’‘while a few have left for Dunstan Creek. The estimated population is •200.”

•*' The City of Hobart has brought to •.the Province another selection of .’Rambouilet rams, similar to those recently imported by the same vessel. The present lot are imported by Mr , Gleeson, under the charge of Captain v Darby, who is entrusted with their transmission by the breeders, Messrs de Graves and Company, of Cobban -Park, and who is empowered, with Messrs Driver, • McLean and Co., to '! receive orders for the few remaining ’' "lots. Already this breed of merinos has been imported, from the same soufce, by Mr Basstian and Mr Harl:.vey, of Southland, and from the fact ''of their being admirably adapted to improve in fleece and carcass the New Zealand flocks, there is -little •'• doubt of still more extensive impor- “ tations being made.

The Argus of November 7 informs us that “a man named. John Trew, who has just returned from New Zea- , land while under the influence of liquor on Saturday night, was robbed ' of a silver watch apd 'gold chain, three gold nuggets weighing about '''l3dwt, 20 sovereigns, a cheque '• for £7O on the English, Scottish and Australian Bank, and a pasj i ‘ senger ticket to England by the ship s,i ; v Lincolnshire. He could give no account >/>' of the matter except that he came to himself on Sunday morning when ’picked up by a constable in the street, ■ '‘" when he found that his trousers and ; ‘pocket had been cut open, and the sovereigns cut from a handkerchief tied round his waist.”

, u In 1048-49 the total revenue of gen- * eral Government and Ideal authorities combined in New Zealand was £151,000,000. of which-65 per cent, was accounted for by direct taxation, 27 per cent, by indirect taxation and 8 11,l 1 , ’per cent, profits of trading undertak‘.V. ings.