VANCOUVER'S ISLAND.
Victoria, V.1., dates are to the 10th January. From the Chronicle, we condense the following items : — Government has extended the time for receiving tenders for the direct steam service, from the 12th to the 31st instant. This extension is granted because it has been ascertained that the time required for communicating with parties in San Francisco anxious to tender for the service, was too short. It is probable that a tender will be received from the steamship company just organised ia San Francisco.
The runaway schooner Onward, fitted out at Victoria, for a prospecting cruise to Queen Charlotte Island, had arrived at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands.
H.M. s. Scout, 52 days from Valparaiso,, arrived in Esqutmault harbour on the evening of the 9th. The war- vessel Alert, from Panama, arrived at the same time.
Donald Fraser, correspondent of the London Times, and late member of theLegislative Council of the Colony, had. arrived at Victoria.
Mr Koblbcrg, late a citizen in Portland, Or., -was frozen to death in the Cascades,, while returning from Owyhee. Dates from Williams's Creek, Cariboo, were to the 4th December. The thermometer was down to 40 below zero ; Enow very deep; and mining nearly suspended.
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Otago Witness, Issue 748, 31 March 1866, Page 14
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199VANCOUVER'S ISLAND. Otago Witness, Issue 748, 31 March 1866, Page 14
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