THE NELSON GOLDFIELDS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 21, 11 July 1863, Page 8

THE NELSON GOLDFIELDS.

The " Nelson Examiner" of the 6th June says" A large number of the diggers who arrived by the Ladybird, have turned I o under the Provincial Government on the Buller roads. No one who has applied for work has been refused. The wages allowed are eight shillings per working day; the men find their own tools, each man being required to take at least one axe, shovel, or pick with his swag, but all others can be bought on the works from the Government stores. The Government undertake to cart up provisions, the men paying Nelson prices. The work is now going on in the immediate neighourhood of auriferous ground, whether rich enough to pay the ordinary digger we cannot say. The end of the dray track is about sixty-five miles from Nelson. The working parties are about five to ten miles in advance of this point." The correspondent to the "Nelson Examiner" writing from the Buller river, says :—" Since my last, things have taken a change. Wet weather has eventually set in, and this has driven away several diggers from the Lyell, although those who are at work there are doing very well, yet others are afraid to set in, in the present advanced state of the season; all, therefore, are anxiously looking forward to spring. Take my word for it, whenever spring shall come, you will hear of the opening of an extensive goldfield here. Several diggers have settled down on those claims which are workable only during the wet winter months. Waimangaroha has, from this reason, attracted several to its banks.

A party of Maoris are about starting to prospect the Maruia and the northern part of the Buller above the Lyell. I will send you the result of their trip as soon as they return.