THE KENNEDY'S, BAY GOLDFIELD.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3394, 2 June 1868, Page 7

THE KENNEDY'S, BAY GOLDFIELD.

We are glad to be able to state that Mr. Mackays .negotiation*; to open up the Kennedy's Bay district have been attended with success, the natives having agreed to open up the country to minfers on the same terms as those on • which the ' TH»mes i« now being worked. Indeed, the whole of the intelligence that has' come to hand respecting the new goldfield is of the most j oheering and satisfactory character, and those who hare^viiited it' are Sanguine as to the existence of allarial gold in payable quantities. Hitherto our gold, discoveries have been confined almost wholly to quartz reefs ; and the outlay attendant upon opening these, and procuring the 'requisite 'machinery for working them, has rendered their development a matter ot tine, while it has in many cases altogether deterred those who i were unable to maintain themselves through the . long period that must generally elapse , before payable gold is discovered, from em- [ barking in the pursuit. ' That a- payable alluvial goldfield exists at Kenne- ' •dy's Bay seems so highly probable that it amounts Umoat to a certainty, as may be gathered from the ', jfacta we give below. Already a sample, consisting ' of > some' '7oz. of i alluvial gold, from McLeods pro- • ■pecfing claim, has been brought to town. Already a rush has set in from Shortland to the -new goldneld, the first batch of 120 men having left • on the 13th May in the ' Clyde.' The party landed I at Cbrdmandel and 'walked overland to Kennedy's Baj. The ' Tauranga'^lso conveyed 30 more miners i from Shortland on the 15th, and a large number of • others ate preparing toleave for the same destina- j ,tion., A township, named St. > Andrew's, has beenj marked off, and leased to Mr. J. Smart, of the firm j of Crnickahank, Smart, . ' and Go. Mr. j Macready has already, made preparations fort ,the erection of- * large hotel on the ground. I At present four tributaries of the Uauratonga have ; been found to be auriferous — two on each side, i We may add .that' another township, /to be, called Grant, Town,- 'is .to be surveyed above St.! Andrew'?, and a fereyboat has been laid onto run up ' the mouth of the Uauratonga Creek. , '

' The, rieWi brought by the steamer 'Tauranga,' which: 'arrived from Kennedy's Buy on May 17, is . ■imply corroborative of that which w» had previously received. We' learn that between 300 and 400 1 people are now on the ground, 1 and that the number j is rapidly increasing, both by means of land and •water. Good gold is' being got from all the creeks ; , Bat it appears that no one has as yet attempted reefing. A><orin*ghVs protection has been granted to claim- i bolder*. ' '- " i• i . i. >i I '■ i'i'he main creek is not accessible for- toe present to ' 'Steamboats except at' spring tides. The bay, hovr'erer, affords good anchorage and shelter for Teasels ! in all weathers, and is only exposed to south-east < winds. >j . The gold — 7oz. — which has been brought to ' town by Mr. J. ■ftmart, of the firm of Cruioltshank, , §anarig and Co., ,1s nnggetty, of a deep coppery colour; ' jeyi^intj^ m^oh/ w»jter -j^om; and is accompanied with ; a slight mff Jpre^of ironsand. Several of the nuggets [ exceed an Ameribui dollar.in size. ;