LATEST FROM OTAGO.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1815, 10 January 1863, Page 5

LATEST FROM OTAGO.

By 'the arrival of the 'brig Gazelle.; yesterday from Otago, we have dates to the .st]_JpsJtan\* Captain Stafford hasJundly supplied us with files of the Daily Times and ..ColonisA ftyßKu;. which we glean the folio wing' summary -ioT ' intelligence. : „; ' '.'■'.,-■. : ■.:..'<■. j The Alhambra, with the English mail oh . • j board, arrived' at Dunedin on the 3rd instant^ i The news from the gohl-fiel dsi -is si\\lqt^.i gratifying character, as at the Dunstan si" 08 the escort closed, on the 23rd, a. very. large amount of gold has beeu deposited at the Gold Office; the amount totting up to 2,400 ounces. The country in the Lake District presents!' serious difficulty to prospecting parties,- but the accounts are of a very tempting' nature. • 7_toe Otago Colonist of 30th December quotes a letter from Sergeant Turnbull stationed the^re, in which he says :— u Things . look . well, .diggings going rapidly ahead. Ono. party of foiir brought in one hundred pounds-wight of gojld. They were afraid of being/< stuck.up,' so I ,top}c charge of it for safe keeping. You. would bd astonished to see the' amount of goJdJlhat is gathering here. I have, no doubt bufctbeie are 20,003 ozs.j on . the" field.-' *" I&rturies ■ aire miking fast. Everything is very'deaiv - It will take all our pay to support us here.* About 4,000 miners are on'the field. ",". : ' " ' The Colonist with the close of 1 862 has made its bow to the public,, as.a daily.. paper. ( Jt "gives place to another- journal published in the . sitme]office; called the Daily Telegraph, and is itself, to be for the future. issued weekly.- On this subject, it sajs :—«•' With .- tbe • new year, we commence a fresh career. In: company with a young aud sprightly candidate fur-public paliouage, we shall again start for the winning post, and we hope that the Colonist, in harness with'theZ)rt% Telegraph will run a longhand well-sustained race, and carry off the pms". r The Caledonian Society held its first annual gathering on New Year's Day. The sports which consisted of running, 7 leaping, quojtiag, &c., .lusted three days, and were highly successful.'. '• '." " : ' '• As will be seen from our commercial column, tbe fat cattle sent from Wellington in., the Gazelle realised high prices, viz :— £20 pec' head, and Wright, Robertson & : , Co report in the Daily Times ofthe sth instant, that they have disposed ol two, teams of working ''bullocks at from £50 to £57 per Head. ( " ' ; ' ;. ;.