KENNEDY'S BAY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3405, 15 June 1868, Page 3

KENNEDY'S BAY.

Our latett intelligence respecting the new goldfield at Kennedy's Bay is of * more satisfactory character than we have been able to publish of late. Mr. Mucready, who came up from that place on Saturday last, was the bearer of a small parcel consisting of about loz. of gold from Blackmore's Claim. The quality of the gold is apparently superior to any that we have yet seen from the Thames, and resembles very much the pure metal. It is rough and comparatively little waterworn, and in the parcel brought up by Mr. Macready there are several nuggets as large as a common pea. Mr. Macready informs us that there are now some fifty men working on the Haoratonga Creek, some, of whom are earning' at the rate of £4 a week, while others continue to make "tucker." He also states that on Wednesday last a nugget; weighing 18dwt. 'was found by a Mr. MeCrae, above the Prospectors' Claim, and sold to Mr.' Buchanan for £4. Mr. Macready whilst at Kennedy's Bay saw some quartz which had been obtained from the Driving Creek, and which ■was impregnated with gold of a dull pale colour" resembling silver. Blackmore and party, > out informant says,' are making about loz. a day. This speaks well for the prospects of the new field. Another small nugget is also said to hare been found above McLeods Claim. Reefs are »aidto abound in all directions, but as yet they have not been found to be auriferous.' ' There is a considerable extent of bush land. It is not likely that much progress will be made throughout the winter months, the flooded state of the creek preventing sluicing being carried on with profit. Our Coromandel correspondent, alluding ,to Kennedy's Bay, says,:—" I have to report that diggers are constantly passing through here, back again to the Thames I have conversed with several 'of them, and find them to be chiefly well-to-do shareholders *t Shottland, who do not care -to commence prospecting at Kennedy's Bay during the winter. They ■eem to speak favourably of! the indications there, and some of them have come across 1 good specimens. It is certainly very ,unf ortunate that the plaoe was'not opened sooner, as this is evidently the wrong time of year to proclaim a new diggings."