EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27581, 26 December 1950, Page 4

EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

FROM THE FILES OF THE Otago Sail? TEimes DUNEDIN. DECEMBER 26, 1865. A cricket match took place on Saturday afternoon between the High School first eleven and a second eleven from the Dunedin Club. The latter batted first and compiled 77 (M. Creagh 10, Cuff 13, A. Creagh 10 not out). High School’s total was 40, none of the batsmen reaching double figures. The brig Julia, with a cargo of flour from Chile, arrived off the Heads on Saturday last, and on Sunday morning reached her anchorage. She comes to this port for orders from her agents, Messrs Bright, Bros, and Co. She has made a passage of 78 days, successfully gassing the Spanish blockading fleet; ut she was compelled to leave her port of departure at such short notice that she came away without coal, wood or any other supply of fuel, and only very inadequately furnished with provisions. The steam vessel which has for several months past been in course of construction at Port Chalmers, was successfully launched on Wednesday afternoon. The vessel was built on the reclaimed ground in front of the old Port Chalmers Hotel, and being built broadside on to the beach, she, of course, went broadside into the water, but she did so with ease and smoothness. Her timbers were drawn from the once extensive supply in the district of Sawyers’ Bay. Her planking is of Oregon pine and her deck of superior kauri pine. She has been named the Taiaroa, in commemoration of the old chief of the Otago tribe of the Maori race.