NELSON

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3892, 11 February 1870, Page 4

NELSON

Dr. Tatton has received a sample of Whangapeka quartz from Mr. Morris 0 Brien, winch, on beincr te&te 1 b; v him, yielded gold at the iote_, >f 00/ fldv t 17 pp. to tho ton. 1 The first great and pre&sing necessity of the new diggings is the fonnxtion of a «ood road from the edge of the bus.li to the township. Tho disiisieu is about thhteen miles, practically all level country. There will be a few bridges required o'vov some • small creeks, and the cost, it has been roughly estimated, would be about £2,000. This sum would make a good dray road, well metalled, and durable ; and tins, with the addition of some repairs and lmpiovements ia a few places, between Fawcetl's and tho bush, would provide a good dray road from Kelson to the new diggings, a most desirable object that cannot too soon be obtained. Mr. Culhford, who is at present at Canterbury, has called upon Sir. Haast for tho purpose of obtamiug from him some information relative to the mountain named by him Mount Owen, and the lesult of his interview is contained in the following telegram which has been kindly placed at our disposal by Mr. Everett, to whom it was sent : — "Mount Owen, named by Mr. Haast, ia situated three miles northwest of the junction of the liiver Owen with the Buller.— (Signed) A. Cclliford." This, we are informed, would be some fifteen miles to the westward of the diggers' Mount Owen, and would consequently, if accepted as the terminus of the "straight line from Mount Arthur," make a material difference in the relative position of the disputed land to the boundary of the South-west Goldfields. A rich lode of copper ore has been found on the Collingwood Pioneer Company's ground, The ore is very like the ore of the Burra Barra mine. On being 1 tested it yielded 20£ per cent, of copper. There have been several uarrow escapes from destruction of property by fire?, owing to mischievous lads setting fire to the gorse hedges,