NEW GOLD DISCOVERY.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 807, 6 December 1865, Page 2

NEW GOLD DISCOVERY.

The Timaru Herald , reports that a discovery which may turn out of the utmost importance to that district was made last week by a man named Doherty, at present employed at the Waitaki Ferry:—A short time since Doherty, who was at one time on the Otago diggings, sent to Timaru for a tin dish, pick, and shovel, and shortly afterwards started off alone to prospect the country, which he believed, from its appearance, to be auriferous. For some time he met with no success, and he was becoming short of provisions, when he succeeded not only in finding the “ colour,” but also in striking a quantity which proved highly encouraging. He sunk two or three holes moreafter obtaining the first prospect, from all of which he washed a little gold ; but his provisions beirfg exhausted he was compelled to return to the Waitaki, without having bottomed any of the holes.

We believe that Doherty has returned to his employment for a short time in order to obtain the necessary funds to again fit himself out with provisions, when he proposes to start again, in company with a mite. The exact locality of the find is of course a secret, but we have reason to believe that it is

not more than twenty miles distant from Timaru, in a southwest direction.

The gold is of a fine scaly character, and the quantity obtained weighs from three to four pennyweights; and having been left in our care we shall be glad to show it to practical miners or others who may be desirous of inspecting it.