THE KARAMEA GOLD-FIELDS.
To the Editor or the Nelson Evening Mail. I Sir — I was sorry to hear that yesterday a number of diggers had started off for the Karamea. Their going at present, before a bridle-track is cut, so that provisions might be carried over for them, will only entail upon them disappointment and loss. I would give a kindly caution to diggers not to be too hasty at present. I have no doubt that there is a rich gold-field in stoie for them there, but they cannot live on air. The Baton diggers have tried it since they found out my route, and they have told me that it is utterly useless to attempt doing anything until the Government shall have made a bridle-track from the Baton to the Karamea gorge. This will be the central point, both for the upper and lower parts of the valley, and that, provisions once brought to that point, will lay open to them the whole of the valley from top to bottom. I am, &c, W. Hough. June 22, 1856.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 144, 22 June 1867, Page 3
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179THE KARAMEA GOLD-FIELDS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 144, 22 June 1867, Page 3
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