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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 289, 7 December 1868, Page 2

A recent General Government Gazette ■publishes tlie articles of agreement be»fcw.eeiaoht3; directors of the Panama Company and the Postmaster* \Geiieral, iir reference to the conveyance ',©7 "the mails. - • The Auckland Herald says that it is -very probable that before long a gold-field ..will be proclaimed at the Bay of Island*. The prospectors have applied for protection, "and. satisfactory results have been obtained. The natives nre-williug to permit gold ra.iu in g on their lands on the same . :ier.nis as" rht>se agreed to at the Thames, *nd theie is reasou to believe tiiat the • Resident Magistrate will be able to comY plete preliminnry arrangements without delay. ; The auriferous ground: is^said to . extend from Cape Bi ett to Rusipi-kftpeka. " experiments have just beeavmade V at JKpuigsberg wUlW^apw^arra called the "' -itd^elspritze or •b i nU^^^t.y ; ;'Jt bus 37 '' 'j 7 barrels; ; ali of which c^7iie v fired from. 6 to A Y&lhin^^ ■-'V.fifpjg'W^^ -,