THAMES GOLDFIED.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3133, 1 August 1867, Page 4

THAMES GOLDFIED.

To th» Editor of ttw Dah»t sojrnmßH Gjaoss. Sir, — Many people bating Miked my opinion on the goldfiold at Kauaeranga, I beg you will iniert the following : — I believe that the alluvial working of the creeks , will thru out something like what it did in Coro* mandel. While people confined themselves to oreek- ' washing, the great majority made good wages, on the Driving Greek, Paul's Greek, and on a branch of the Waihao. The prooeeds of thin was mbiequently dissipated in promiscuous quartz-reefing, and profits stopped altogether through the exhaustion of the creeks in so limited a goldfield as that of Kapanga ; but, while the creeks lasted, nearly two hundred men did well. As the Kauaeranga gold is already heavier and of better Quality than the Coromandel gold, better returns may possibly result. The further south, or rather the higher up the Thames, one goes, the gold increases in weight and value ; and therefore, as a step to the more southern digging!", the Kauaeranga goldtield is invaluable to us. • One thing, however, people will have to guard against. The present season is the worst in which to carry on oreek was-hings. As the top stuff contains gold it is possible that people perhaps may make a Sttle by severe labour ; but a thorough test of the creek-beds is impossible in August. The constant breaking of dams and races, and fi liug up of tail* races, very soon reduces the best profits got on bottoming, not counting the simple loss of time by j days of unmerciful weather. The consequence , of this will bei that much energy and money will be exhausted just about tbe time that the work would begin to pay ; giving also, in the meantime, a bad name to the goldfleid. -To avoid all this, people' should not rush away blindly, trusting to the wont of all things— chance. By the end of August the oreeks will be in a /reasonable condition to work, and the more carefully we, begin our work the more will be our chances of success, and the less our chances of llor.s r . Before concluding I have but one more word of advice to give. Our chances of success will rest j mainly on the larger goldfields south of the Kauae* ranga being opened to us ; this oannotbe obtained by intimidation ; and I can assure my fellow-diggers that digging and fighting carried on simultaneously "doe 3 not pty." I tried that in the Sierra Nevada in 1849; aud, though we beat the Indians, watch and watch, of work and fight, beat us. — I am, 4c, (J, P. Yon Tsmpsky. Brighton, July 30, 1867,