EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26625, 22 November 1947, Page 6

EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

FROM THE FILES OF THE ©tacjo 2>aU£ Himes DUNEDIN, NOVEMBER 22, 1862 The Daily Times reports the arrival of 90 head of cattle from Gipps Lgnd by the barque H. S. Page. “ They are altogether a very superior lot of stock,” says the paper. This was the first cargo of cattle imported from Gipps Land under the recent proclamation of the Superintendent. “We observe that, by an advertisement in another column,” says the Daily Times, “ a meeting is to be held at Moir’s Hotel, Manse street, on the evening of the 27th of a committee to prepare resolutions to be submitted to a public meeting ‘to consider the manner in which justice is administered in the Supreme Court at Dunedin.’ ” “A number of high-bred Leicester rams, imported into Auckland by the Indian Empire, and shipped by J. Bevan, Esq.,- of Tavistock, Devon, were sold by auction recently at prices varying from £2l to £25 each.” An account of moneys received and paid on account of the Tamar Fund shows that £167 was distributed amongst the passengers of the wrecked vessel, and that there was £39 4s in hand. Says the Daily Times: “It appears that the crew, however unfortunate in losing their clothes, etc., were hardly objects of charity, all having money to draw.” The crew received no portion of the money subscribed. The jury, in the action brought by Robert Borthwick, painter, against Alexander Hay, draper, for damages amounting to £SOO for false imprisonment, awarded Borthwick £ls. The false imprisonment consisted of the taking of Borthwick into custody on a charge of having stolen goods in his possession and locking him up for two or three hours. He was released on bail, and the next morning Mr A. C. Strode, S.M., dismissed the charge against him in the Police Court. “ Judge Gresson,” says the Daily Times, “read over the whole evidence to the jury, his comments on it being strongly in favour of the defendant Hay.” The. jury were away for about a quarter of an hour.

“ Dangers of the Clutha exploded. To the editor of the Otago Daily Tfines. Sir,—l alluded in my last letter to the dangers of the Clutha bar and .river being over-rated by parties to suit their own purposes, but what will be the astonishment of those who have believed such to be the case when they hear that two whaleboats, the Alert and the Eclipse—entered the river yesterday morning, taking the bank in gallant ptyle, like tr.ue British tars. Both boats were manned by able seamen. . . .. They had been a. fortnight out from Dunedin.”