THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Daily Times' Correspondent.)

Otago Witness, Issue 523, 7 December 1861, Page 3

THE GOLD FIELDS. (From the Daily Times' Correspondent.)

v -, _, r _, _jnic_CSCOTt \vill take C:<virevT«apeVa ton t.hcni>nn(l ( ~onc~hundred aud ninety-seven ounces, five con- - victed prisoners .and one Inns tic. The miners at t. Wetherston's Gully did not bring in their gold ; I believe the impression is abroad that the price of gold -mil rise, nnd the miners sell only as little ns suffices to satisfy their want*. From Wetherston's Gully a great deal of gold is "being obtained. Four CornisbTn<*n during the last four weeks got £1000 each out of their claim which is only twelve feet square and situated- ©n one of -the *pnrs atWaitahuna "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 intend? returning to Tarengower to dispose of some propert}', and immediately he lias done so Tie will sail again for the country where he has nipt 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 Tnrenpowrr Times relating to their cle^arture from Maldon (Tarengower). A great number of miners' Ire 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 ran of lead. Ike. I have been informed that f=hc]>herdng 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 pood miners. A few miners "are leaving for the Lachlan taking with "them the gold they found here.