EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26623, 20 November 1947, Page 6

EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

FROM THE FILES OF THE ©tago Ball? crimes DUNEDIN, NOVEMBER 20, 1862. The Daily Times publishes a ratepayers’ roll. It occupies nine and a-half columns of the paper. The Provincial Government Gazette announces that it has been decided to allow the importation of cattle from Gipps Land.. “The Government of Victoria, having declared Gipps Land a clean district, undertakes to appoint an inspector to preserve it from the approach of infected cattle.” “Jones and Another v. Wilson and Another, which occupied yesterday’s sitting of the Supreme Court, was a claim for £44, the wholesale value of 16 cases of brandy, which it was alleged were, in December last, de« .livered to one of the department’s carters, for conveyance to the plaintiff’s store, but never delivered there.” Judgment was entered for the amount claimed. J. Daniels and Co., advertise the sale of 140 freehold’ sections in the Pelichet Bay district, the property of John Hyre Harris. The “substantial buildings and improvements ” are estimated to be *worth £ 10,000. “The ship reported as at the Heads proves to fce the Chili from London. She is now in the channel and will tow up to port in the morning. She brings about 160 passengers; all well on board. The Chili has made a rapid passage, having left London on August 20.” Advice from Hobart states that “ the large quantities of fresh butter coming forward have again depreciated this article’s value and it cannot now be quoted higher than Is to Is 2d per lb.” “Destitution is increasing fearfully amongst the cotton operatives in Lancashire.” according to advice received by mail by the Daily Times, “ 13,000 -persons being in receipt of relief in Preston alone. Large subscriptions to the Lancashire relief fund have been received from abroad.”