KARAKA GOLD-FIELD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1310, 28 January 1868, Page 2

KARAKA GOLD-FIELD.

(FBOM OtFB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Shortland, January 27,1868,

The crushing of Hunt's stuff still continues at Stone's machine. About 60 lbs. of amalgam is taken out of the boxes every twelve hours, and up to Saturday morning the yield was 800 ozs. of retorted gold. Should there be time to crush the stuff now ready, there will be about 2000 ozs. for the mail from this claim alone. Barry's claim has sent up a small lot out of some specimens, I believe. The Star of the South, one of the new claims up the Moanataira Creek, of which I sent you a favourable report a few days ago, has crushed 50 lbs. of specimen stone which yielded 45 ozs of gold.. Twenty pounds of stone from the same claim, inferior stuff, gave 5£ ozs. of gold. The Young Canadian claim, on the same creek, Mr. Wilson of Freeman's Bay, and Mr. Morgan of Napier-street, has some veryfine stone—indeed the whole of the claims on this part of the Moanataira gully fully warrant my recent favourable report. From the Tapu we have a one pound nugget, which, as I believe it will be in Auckland before this can reach you, ought to be seen to be appreciated. A. claim near Goodall's machine, The Poverty Reef, has shown some first-class stone within the last few days. Amongst our visitors on Saturday last were Mr. Corbett, Chief Postmaster; Mr. Grey, Inspector of Post Offices,, and Major Cadell. [The remaining portion of our correspondent's letter will appear in our next.]