THE KAUERANGA GOLDFIELD.

Press, Volume XII, Issue 1485, 13 August 1867, Page 3

THE KAUERANGA GOLDFIELD.

A correspondent of the " New Zealand Heralu," of the 3rd instant, gives the latest, .intelligence respecting the rush to : these diggings. He says:— " By the Enterprise"No*. % which came in at ; six i 6 v clocK last evening, we have an additiok of Bixty-four to bur popuincluding Mr Mackay, the Commissioner; Mr Baily, assistants one of the "Water Police, and two of the Armed Police Torce.

Hie prospecting party left here by Mr Mackay and Br. Pollen have been wartied off by Moananui and his Mfives, and have come in.

There are now seventy-five persons on the field. All who come must bring tents, tools, and food. There is a store here, but their twelTemoiitha' Buppfly'Would, only find us one day's food. We are also in want of sawn stuff for sluice boxes. A fatal accident occurred a day or tWiP- since; in the Thames, to a man

aamerl Prince. The body has not yet fc beea femtid. • Prnlce was going up the Thames"%ilb two men who had come overfandito tbe f .diggings, and by some mismanagement of the canoe they were npsefc' The other men were saved. Tbe Commissioner has given notice that be will not issue the licenses until Monday. The meeting of the; diggers is about being held, but as the steamer must leave with the flood tide I am obliged to close. The same .paper adds that intending diggers,must•jpTpyide themselves with provisions, and with the timber necessary for making sluice-boxes orstoms. With regard to the party spoken of as being warned off by TMoananui, we may that, the .licenses, had not been issued," and that the Natives looked,uppn all unlicensed miners as trespassers!. 1 -The licenses will not be issued until Monday, so that those who are.bnly now smarting have lost nothing hy the delay. icbbut fifty or sixty prospectors left town; yesterday for the Thames, the most of thetn in the Cornstalk and Sevierriv The, Enterprise will leave again for the, Thames on Monday next.

Yesterday morning a party of seven experienced miners, one or two of whom are carpenters also* left Freeman Bay in it ten ton cutter of their own; for the Eaueranga goldfield. They took with them stores, timber* and : '-tools, and intend giving the; field a thorough trial. Upon their report iwill" depend ivery muchj the action of several in that] quarter of the town who are anxious to follow. Prospecting parties of bona fide diggers; such as these are now leaving for the Thames daily, and there is a certainty that the gold- j field will have a thorough proving.