LATEST FROM OTAGO.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 419, 29 October 1861, Page 2

LATEST FROM OTAGO.

[We take the following extract from a private letter, dated Dunedini October 21.j You can scarcely conceive what Dunedin is like—hundreds, sometimes thousands, of men crowd the streets so that you have to elbow your way through them; at the corners of the thoroughfares are numerous tea-and coffee booths, with significant.signs, such as •Live and let live.' Up Stafford street and Walker street, and on the space of ground between them which is not built on are innumerable tents; some of the fenced-in allotments are literally surrounded with them. r At the jetty: and far off in the bay are about 50 vessels, including some 8 or 10 steamers and barques of 300 tons—-the largest size that come up; while at Port Chalmers, and from thence to the Heads, the harbor is covered with vessels of large tonnage. , We cannot had less than 10,000 men from Australia, and still the cry is, 'they come'; a very small proportion are returning. We are surprised to find them a remarkably orderly set of men—crime is almost unknown either in town or on the diggings. There was, however, an extensive case of sticking up last week, out in the West Taieri; some fellows: with their faces veiled planted themselves at a place on the road where it passes between two bushes on a range of hills, and there during the day captured 15 men coming in from the diggings, tied them to trees and took their goH, or what else they possessed, and at the close of the day, after having bagged something considerable, gave .each of them a glass oi grog, filled and lit their pipes for them, and then left them to recover their liberty as best they could. About 8 o'clock at night one of the unfortunate fellows succeeded in liberating himself and then released his brothers in distress, Several