OKARITA.
We have latest dates of Okatita papers. The Westland Observer remarks at the Five Mile at the present moment the average of wages is, perhaps, higher than at any time previously, there being few men on the ground who are not settled in substantial claims. Those who were prospecting or working inferior ground have, in the majority of instances, betaken themselves to Gillespie's Beach, which is temporarily the centre of attraction, and a considerable population is now assembled there, and meeting with increasing, although varied success. At present there is every prospect of Gillespie's proving to be an extensively populated winter diggings. From the Lake District there is little news. The three parties who have continued their operations'in the creek which flows into the lake at the point nearest the source of the Okarita — Macdonald's, Reid's, and Neill's — still evince their faith in their prospects by regularly working their original claims.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 82, 9 June 1866, Page 2
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152OKARITA. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 82, 9 June 1866, Page 2
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