With few exceptions Boxing Day was observed as a holiday. There were some very good sports of an athletic character got up by mine host of the Victorian Hotel, including wrestling, foot racing, climbing the greasy pole, sack jumping, etc.
With reference to Free Schools for poor or neglected children, Mr Hislop, the Secretary of the Education Board, in his annual report, says - "About four months ago, Mrs O'Rafferty, a lady resident in this city, pitying the sad case of those children whom she noticed running idle in the streets altogether uneducated, untrained, and uncared for, rented a small apartment in St Andrew street, secured the services of a very competent female teacher, and on her own responsibility at her own charge, opened a Free School for those children.
On Saturday evening there happened, in the vicinity of Port Chalmers, a catastrophe more lamentable and appalling in its character than any that has ever occurred in the Province of Otago.
On Saturday evening there happened, in the vicinity of Port Chalmers, a catastrophe more lamentable and appalling in its character than any that has ever occurred in the Province of Otago.
(From our own correspondent: Dunstan, August 19): Monday's coach from Dunedin arrived all safe yesterday evening, about half-past nine, p.m.
Yesterday afternoon two men went to the Treasury in Dunedin and deposited a bag of gold weighing eighty-seven pounds.
Port Chalmers road
March 7: The Port Chalmers and Dunedin road is being rapidly completed by the gangs of men who have for several months past been employed on its construction, and, except for a distance of a few yards, the track is now open the whole way through.
On Saturday night last there was a tremendous flood at Gabriel's Gully.
We have seldom had a more gratifying task than the present.
The following report from the Chief Commissioner of Police, to his Honor, the Superintendent, on the Waipori gold-field, has been placed at our disposal for publication.
The citizens will have the opportunity today of expressing by their votes for the Town Board whether they still desire Dunedin to be the worst managed, worst paved, worst lighted, worst drained, least cared for, most neglected town of its size that boasts a British origin.
As we do not believe in professions, but prefer to be rather judged by practice, we shall be extremely brief in our opening remarks.
APR 23: WELLINGTON: The $9.1 million profit of meat company Fortex in 1992 would have been almost wiped out by an $8.7 million apparent income "overstatement" being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office, receiver Alan Isaac said last night.
February 17, WELLINGTON (PA): Hundreds of passengers rescued from a Russian cruise ship which sank in the Marlborough Sounds late last night have been ferried to Wellington aboard a flotilla of vessels.
APR 5: BUENOS AIRES: Argentine military forces have occupied the Falkland (Malvinas) islands in an operation which began with the landing of marines near the capital of Port Stanley at 1 p.m. (New Zealand time) yesterday, the official Argentine news agency Telam reported.
OCT 20: The main proposed Energy Plan for the next 15 years, outline by the Government only two months ago, will now have to be abandoned as a result of the confirmation yesterday that the Aramoana aluminium smelter will not be built.
JUL 5: Tel Aviv - An Israeli commando force landed at Entebbe airport in Uganda on Saturday night and, in a daring raid, rescued 101 hostages who had been held for nearly a week by a group of pro-Palestinian terrorists.
MAR 9: Four land development projects now under way or being planned for the Housing Corporation of New Zealand should make available up to 600 sections for new houses in Dunedin and Mosgiel in the next two years.
OCT 27: Eighty years of dreams, schemes and abortive plans for a Maniototo irrigation scheme finally took shape on a windswept paddock near the Gimmerburn Hall yesterday afternoon, as the Minister of Works and Development, the Hon W. L. Young cut a swathe of topsoil with a huge motor-scraper.
MAY 15: The fight by Otago people to have railcars retained in service is almost over.
