SWING INTELLIGENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 30, 27 August 1869, Page 3

SWING INTELLIGENCE.

iarden Eobinson and Mr. Ash>.C, left for the Marewhenua • Our special reporter would mpanied them, but that it' was 3d to us that possibly the prei reporter might operate to e miners fully disclosing their &c, and we therefore forbore re in any way. We have irst been careful to raise no ry, because we do not wish to ticipations which might end )intment, but we may now say iave reasonable grounds ' for that in a short time we shall ► announce the opening of an ; G-oldiield. bertain it is that !*eef, 15 miles in length, has avered, and that a portion of r n to be 'auriferous. Whether s of it is so or not, .we are not ion to say ; but when we are ion to give the facts, backed tughly reliable evidence, we r be too happy to do so.— Times.' LTjCKLjOO) GoiiDEIELDS. The extract from a letter written leman in Auckland to a friend 3hurch, on the subject of the l G-oldfields, will be read with —"The excitement here is in-

three-fourths of the claims, jfhich shares are selling at fabulous fes are nothing but swindles, perpend by the directors of the . . . I are going in and selling out in l*ly- every claim.. There will no ml be a great crisis yet in the share ■ret. Of course there are : several Klid claims, but the prices obtained pftogether fictitious. The fact of ta regular gambling mania has on the public. E- —s and S—e Christchureh are here, and are g bitten by the sharebrokers, if I >t mistaken, Hunt's people , are

Hunt's people, are

•elling out. I fancy the cream of the inn has been already obtained. A rge s amount of capital was expected em Melbourne, but very little came, |ch to the annoyance of the shareIkers. The Melbourneites are too fy.V of the .Aucklanders little game. Ist caution any of your friends from Resting here, unless they can be on spot to sell out should a profitable tort-unity occur, as if they hold for idends they will find it impossible get their money back from- that tree. Of course it was different 3 tntbs ago, as shares were then selling • 3*few pounds that are now put into npanies, and the scrip is selling for many thousands." —' Press.' If half the reports of the discovery sevv Goldfields are true, New Zea(l will soon be an infinitely prosperI colony. The ' Wangaiaui Times ' he 7th reports : —" Some months a prospecting party was sent up [iver, under the command of Capt.

Ifcnnell.. The party returned, and [ported that they had discovered gold. nee then the natives have prospected jifoe same locality, and we can assure if readers that a payable goldfield I been discovered up the Wanganui K party of Chinese diggers to the Her of 20 passed through Oamaru, Tuesday, on their way to the Marelenua. —' Oamaru Times.' [The Gtold. Discovert est Timaru.ting the last four or five days a JL number of, specimens ofquartzr—pfeen; we believe from the Opuha frge or its vicinity —have been .exited in Timaru, and have caused;

Bit public excitement, from what is eved to be, by the best judges, the ry promising character of the quartz, eports of-all kinds have of course been fe and it is positively asserted that e re are one or two parties at work on hivial ground near the Opuha, who •£ making wages, but that they have Sided to keep the discovery a secret ML they hit upon really good ground. known that a party of gentlemen, Lasting of Mr. Gr. Healey, Mr. R. It. Ljor, and others, left Tirnaru on fltlay morning for the purpose of feting the locality; but beyond this fact no.thing is known of their K»ments. Since the above was in ■Lye learn that, Mr. Taylor has reMt[ to TimarUj arriving last evening, r reports the • prospects as very fw and states that the three men

on the ground are exceedingly sanguine of opening out alluvial digging as well as payable quartz reefs. They are very desirous of keeping the locality a secret, , but ..it is now "very generally known to be on!therun of Mr. and the reef is believed to be a continuation of the one at which Thew and party are at work near the Opuha. A fine ; specimen of washdirt, containing gold, was shown to us last evening, and is really the right sort of stuff. If it can be obtained in sufficient quantities there need no longer be doubt as to a payable field being opened.. No doubt in a few days we shall have further and more definite information. —' Timaru Herald.'