WEST COAST GOLD-FIELDS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 2, 6 March 1866, Page 3

WEST COAST GOLD-FIELDS.

We continue our extracts from the West Coast papers. The favorable intelligence lately received from Okaritahas created immense excitement amongst the miners, scores of whom daily reach town en-route for the new field, and although accounts have been published not confirmatory of those first received, they apparently have not been heeded at the different outlying diggings. Every one of our available sea-going steamers have been laid on during the week, and yet the supply has fallen short of the demand made by eager adventurers for the Southern G-old-field. The latest reports from thence, should tend to shake a too implicit faith in the industriously circulated rumours that are at present current amongst us, for the different localities which in our last week's resume, we informed our readers, had been prospected and found payable, one has since proved worthless; and although the other two have to some extent realised the anticipations formed of them, they are not only fully taken up, but completely over rushed. — West Coast Times, March 2. Kanieri. — Another engine arrived from Melbourne in the 'Lady Darling' reached its destination, on Commissioners Flat, the beginning of the week, and will be ready to commence pumping in a few days. Messrs. Rankin, Harvey, and their respective parties who are the proprietors, have no intention at present of resolving themselves into a joint stock company uuder the Act, as the engine was procured to work their own ground, which is merely two claims of the ordinary size. A large overshot wheel, .20 feet in diameter, ' is being erected close beside them,

and promises to be a splendid piece of machinery ; it will be driven by alead of water, from the Pioneer race, to convey whicE a r large sluice has been constructed 150 feet long, and 45 feet high in the centre. Only a small portion of gold'is being" extracted from the Kanieri at present, work being generally suspended, pending the completion of the various undertakings in hand. An improvement will, however, be effected in a month or six weeks. — Ibid. Hau Hau. — At this place there are a considerable number of miners located, who appear to be well satisfied with their returns. This locality promises to be both a permanent and important one. — Ibid.