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Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 799, 27 November 1865, Page 2

Our latest files of Hokitikg. papers contain little mining intelligence of importance. Referring to the rumored discovery of a rich field of gold in the ’streets of Hokitika, the West Coast Times says :—“ Preposterous rumours have, during the past two days, been going the round of the town, concerning an extensive find of gold on the flat at the rear of the hospital, and every second person we met seized its by the buttonhole and in a solemn whisper, with a face drawn out to an extraordinary length with importance, asked us if we had heard of the new rush up Revel-street, gravely adding that the town was built on a huge gold mine, and the Government were much to blame for choosing such a site, &c, Wishing as far as we could to discover the truth we walked up to the locality in question yesterday afternoon, and on arriving there found to our intense astonishment not the sign of a rush. Before us was the flat, a considerable portion of which has been cleared ; but instead of its being covered with heaps of dirt, indicative of shafts sinking, or already sunk, nothing met our view but the usual stumps, supplejacks, and grass-tree roots. Seeing a respectable looking individual industriously striving to boil a billy of water with green wood, we asked him where the rush was ? When, giving us a sly look out of the corner of his eye, he said, * ‘ Sure and its all a hoax, the devil a rush is there, barring the color that was got in thim holes, and they are filled up again.” We implicitly believed in his statement, for, save a peg or two sticking oitt of the ground, not the sign of a rush could ba seen.

Visitors to the Masonic Fete at Vauxhall on the last day of this month, St Andrew’s Day, will not be subjected to the inconvenience which was felt on the Prince of Wales’ Birthday, through the tide being too low to permit the steamers to get off the shore. We are informed by Capt. Dickie that it will be high water at 2.12 p.m., and that with fair weather, there will be sufficient water from 9 a.m. ti11.5 p.m to allow the steamers to come alongside the jetty. We are informed that every share in the Blue Spur Sluicing Company has been taken up. As this company was launched only two or three days ago, the rapidity with which the capital has been subscribed is a striking proof of the confidence felt in the remunerative nature of the undertaking. The shares will be allotted to•morrow.

The Nelson Examiner states that Mr Prendergast was not the author of the measure introduced during the late session for placing restrictions on the press, the credit or discredit attaching to which belongs to Mr Sewell.