THE NEW RUSH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1, 15 November 1861, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE NEW RUSH.

Mr. Editor—l am informed that numbers of people are quitting the Waitahuna and Tuapeka gold fields for some region across the Molyneux— further than rumour hath it, " that on my return to town. I had communicated with some of my party with a view of placing them in a position to be the first to avail themselves of the advantage offered by somr great gold discovery in that vicinity." It may perhaps be the means of saving some trouble and disappointment to many, if lam permitted to inform those who are interested in.digging affairs, that since the Ist. of September, I have neither directly nor indirectly been connected with any individual or party in any enterprise either mining on commercial—that although to the southwest of the Molyneux I found a large area of auriferou^country, yet I was not successfal in striking on anything which would justify me in pronouncing authoritatively that I had found a gold field in the commercial paying sense of the term. Between the junctions ef the Speelaw and the Lethin with the Pomahawk my prospects would justify" me in saying men might make from ten to fifteen shillings a day—but this locality is remote from water-carriage and the road for the last four miles beset with extraordinary difficulties.

Very little can be done in the way of prospecting this country without a pump, which I unfortunately omitted to provide myself with. I remain,,yours &c, Thos. Gabriel Read.