KARAKA GOLDFIELD. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Shortland, June 4.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3399, 8 June 1868, Page 3

KARAKA GOLDFIELD. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Shortland, June 4.

It is not yet known whether ShortUnd will be selected as a polling-place for the Frauklin district, or not. The proper authorities have been corresponded with on the matter, and ib Ts hoped that a reply in the affirmative will be received. A popular West Coast miner, residing at Waiotahi, has informed me that he has received letters from Hokitika, the Grey, and other places on the coast, from his friends, that we may look for a thousand men here shortly. Among thepwsengers from Auckland during the last fortnight I have observed several new face", having all the appearanoe of men who have been engaged in gold-miniug. Though they are arriving during the winter, the weather is not so severe that they cannot take up new ground and settle on it. They will find that the climate of the Thames is much wore bearable in the winter than that of the West Coast. At Gibbons's machine, on the Karaka Creek, the Lord Nelson Claim hat crushed quartz which yielded 7oz. to the ton. There is al«o news in town this morning that Mclsaac's claim it turning out good stone. I have also to report that ground has been taken up beyond the Mata Creek by a party who mean to prospect it. Men are returning every day from Kennedy's Bay, who advise their friends to lemain where they are. It is expected the crushing-machine now being erected on the Shotorer Claim will be ready for work on the Ist of July. During the excavation of the ground for building purposes, indications of an auriferous nature have been met — one leader ho rich that a shareholder is reported to have said that the amount of gold that will be obtained from the claim during the first month after the machinery is in operation will exceed the total that baa been hitherto sent away.