OUR GOLD FIELDS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19, 6 December 1861, Page 2

OUR GOLD FIELDS

[From our oivn Correspondent.}

The escort will take from Tuapeka ten thousand one hundred and ninety-seven ounces, five convicted prisoners and one lunatic. The miners at Wetherston's Gully did not. bring in their gold ; I believe the impression is abroad thnt the price of gold will rise, and the miners sell only as little as suffices to satisfy their wants. From Wetherston's Gully a great deal of gold is being obtained. Four Cornishmtm during the last four weeks got £1000 each out of their claim which is only twelve feet square and situated on one of the spurs at Waita-r huna Gully; another party are getting £90 each per weeks. Four Tarengower men with whom I am well acquainted have cleared £400 per man dnring the last four or five week. .Another Tarengower man informed me that next week he intends returning to Tarengowcr to dispose of some pro?perty, and immediately lie has done so he will sail again for the country where he has met with such signal success, "Four of the men alluded to are good practical miners. There was a paragraph about them copied into the Argus from the Tarengower Times relating to their departure from Maldon (Tarengowcr). A great number of miners' are getting plenty of gold at Wetherston's Gully but they are keeping the matter secret except from their friends whom they lay on to a claim by giving information as to the run of lead, &c.

I have been informed that shepherdng is carried on at some diggings near Murray's station. I hope this practice will not be permitted in this country as the leads take a great many turns on the side of the spurs, &c. This is the opinion of all good miners, A few miners are leaving for the Lachlan taking with them the gold they found

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