DUNEDIN.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 12, 19 December 1862, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

Tuesday, 16th Dec. Ie City of Hobart, with the Victorian Euglish mails, leaves here at 2 o'clock afternoon. She will call in at the Bluff, I presume, have acquainted your e r,<. that. letters and newspapers -will he ired to b^ ready one day sooner than tofore. The Aldinga arrived on Sunday •noon, after one of her usual rapid runs, he great disappointment of every one she 10 t bring with her the English mails so ously looked for. Up to the latest hour >r departure the mail had not been telehed, and the Oineo has been left behind ing it forward. Ie usual fortnightly escort arrived in edin on Friday afternoon, with the folng quantities of .gold-:— a ozs. dwts. mstan „.....— ... 12,803 0 SSSna:::: M>?g> j oolshed - s '° ° aipori ■...•■•<• °" x

k ■ 18,094 19 return is about 1000 02s. less than what brought down by the previous escort, rpason for the falling off is not that less is getting, but that the diggers are so ered over an immense area of ground it is difficult for them to go to the Re-ng-office to deposit the amount of their is." Individual cases of great success cry frequent, and I may state, upon the undoubted authority, that many parties ao-ers are clearing their thirty to forty Is per man a week. The Arrow and over diggings are turning out surprisrrich, and 1 should not be astonished to l that a larger rush has taken place here any other, or all other, of the neAV fields a together. Here is the intelligence h reached Dunedin on Friday last by of the Dunstan : —

from the Lake country has just ied here. One party of two on the Arrow r seven miles above the spot Fox was in" at washed out with one tin dish, in 1 dW, four pounds weight of gold. They ■t that a party who were fortunate enough issess a cradle were, from a claim next to „ washing out fifty ounces a day. The gold Mother party of three arrived almost at the ■ time. • They state they have discovered itirelv new j»old-field. Having no dish they to use an old blanket, and by this means ceded in getting sixty ounces in one day cold is also nuggetty. The last party wi 1 mply for a prospecting claim as they think uld afford them no protection. They bring er nine pounds weight, the result of two The first parry on the Arrow River were si None of the gold obtained by the blanching was of less size than a small horse It is impossible to say where this kind of ris to end. The Arrow River party report \ .reneral success. Sergeant-Major Bracken u°st informed me, from information he has ved that a very large quantity of gold awaits t on the "Wakatip gold field."

it think you of this for a new field of lise? ith regard to the Nokomai, I had a conttion last Saturday with Mr. Duncan, Government storekeeper, in Dunedin. ad been on the ground in an official cay for several weeks, and he assures me although the Nokomai gold-field proper lot turned out anything like what was taated. There are men in gullies five li miles away making their "piles" most istakeably.

ta Provincial Council still continues in ion. For five days last week the members int'il late hours, earnestly engaged in the

ness of legislation. There were net so v important measures introduced as were lined in my previous letter, but I give an accurate condensed report of all was done which is likely to be of any est to your readers at Invercargill :—

Hoxdat, Bth December,

ssa"e No 9 on the Panama Mail Service, was rht up, in which the Superintendent objected [scheme, on the grounds that it was inexkt to divert the large sum required, and that was no evidence that the other colonies I contribute. Also, because arrangements being made for a bi-montlily mail via Suez, he Home Government was opposed to the Pai'routc The liability of the colony in respect tive affairs, aud the early dissolution of the c, were also adduced as reasons for the oil not dealing with so important and ex-

re a measure. » Provincial Solicitor laid the Panama Mail :e Subsidy Ordinance on the table, which 3ad a first time, and the second reading was

t j.Sfor Wednesday. iff Superintendent's Message No 9 was ordered rHprintcd, and to be considered in the second ~iß>£ of the Panama Service Ordinance. Improvement Ordinance Amendthe Otago Harbor Improvement Bill, »?ißxecutive Council Bill, the Licensed Carriages :alj|and Sunday Observance Bill were read a veffltime and passed. ; liM House went into Committee on the Town W/Br° untr y Police -Bill, and the Provincial t r{|Sor, after further consideration of some of the , n J|&, would strike out the whole of clause 16 ; Ilffi respect to clause 21, which imposed a fine l "n§sons being licensed victuallers who should l ?||by intoxicating liquor to any boy or girl Tgsntly under fourteen years, or to any intoxihe proposed to insert the words " or isSfiSf c *