EIGHT POUNDS OF GOLD IN TEN DAYS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1226, 23 April 1864, Page 5

EIGHT POUNDS OF GOLD IN TEN DAYS.

The Wellington Advertiser, April 20, says : By the cutter Mosquito, which has just ariivec from the Sound, we learn that the Pelorus Golc Fields are no myth, but an unmistakeable reality, There has been quite a rush from Picton, Blenheim, and Nelson to the New Gold Fields, and it was estimated that there were more than 200 diggers actively engaged on the ground. We are indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Haybittle, the owners of the Mosquito, for a copy of a Marlborough Press Extra, from which we take the following under date Sunday, 2 p.m.:— By the arrival of Messrs. Mears and Austen about noon this (Sunday) morning, at Blenheim, from the diggings direct, which they left on Saturday at noon, we have received the following reliable intelligence from the Whakamarina :— Messrs. Wilson's party have obtained eight pounds weight of gold in ten days. Newport's party had obtained in the space of four hours ten ounces, whilst a part of four got five ounces in six hours. Gold was being obtained in almost all parts of the river bed. There were fully three hundred persons on the diggings, among whom were a number of Nelson people. The above news had been dispatched to Nelson. Mr. Mears had been more than thirteen miles up the river, and gold was being found there, and the ground was mostly taken up to that distance. A small portion of gold was this morning brought into Blenhein, amongst which was a small nugget, weigliing about 4 dwts, obtained by a boy with a knife. Messrs. Mears and Austen return to the diggings on Tuesday next. Some parties were leaving to get provisions. As our reporter was met with by the parties above-named between Havelock and Wilson's, we may shortly expect to receive further intelligence, which will be published forthwith.