WEST COAST GOLD-FIELDS.
By the Keera steamer we have Hokitika papers to Saturday evening last, from which we extract the following items. Eeported New Rush. — During the day various rumors have been flying over the town with reference to extensive gold discoveries about to be made public. The information vwe have received, although sufficiently precise, is yet so far unsubstantiated as to justify us in withholding it for the present. The prospector Fox is reported to have accompanied one of the wardens to the spot. The new field is said to be both extensive and rich. Without more explicit information no one, we hope, will take any steps to compromise themselves by what may prove one of the will-o'-the-wisp delusions that only unsettle the minds of all engaged on a good field. — Dispatch, May, 12. The s.B. Keera arrived yesterday morning from Bruce Bay. She brings with her what may be regarded as the last relics of that mad about thirty passengers, five drays, and three boats. With the exception of a party who are at work past the Bluff earning from £6 to £9 per man per week, the place is deserted. JSo word yet of Hunt or his whereabouts. The men were living principally on shellfish when the Keera went down. There is no butcher's meat in the place. This morning several diggers from the Kanieri, brought into town a block of stone, weighing about fifty pounds, which they avowed was greenstone. While showing it in front of the Camp to some passers by, a gentleman offered them £5 for the specimen which they readily accepted and walked off. Whether or not the purchaser has made a hit we cannot say. The stone, certainly has .not the dark greenness nor transparency pertaining to the real greenstone. A facetious bystander remarked, that the greatest depth of color was visible, not in the stone, but in its new owner. By the Gothenburg, which is expected to leave for Melbourne to-morrow morning, a mail for Europe will be despatched, carrying a lav^e number of newspapers, both for the old country and the neighboring colonies. These papers will tell a startling story of the development of the mining interests of the West Coast. The Gothenburg carries to Melbourne a large quantity of gold, viz., 15,548 ozs. from this port, and 7,000 ozs. from the Grey — in all, 22,548 ozs.— West Coast Times, 12th May.
WEST COAST GOLD-FIELDS.
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 61, 15 May 1866, Page 3
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