OTAGO.

Colonist, Volume VI, Issue 554, 13 February 1863, Page 3

OTAGO.

(From the Daily Times.) ESCORTS. The Escort from the Deinstall and older fields arrived in town yesterday afternoon, Feb. 6, with the following quantities of gold:— ozs. dwt. Dunstan ... 8,386 5. Tuapeka ... 2,579 10 Waitahuna ... ... 579 10 Woolshed ... ...... 630 0 12,075 5 This it about the same amount as was brought by the last escort; an increase of 500 ounces from the Dunstan being accompanied by a decrease from Tuapeka.- . The escort carti have been very unfor■lunate* The axle of oue» whioh ihould have, <

arrived yesterday, snapped when about nine miles from town, and a spring cart had to be borrowed to bring on the gold. The Wakatipu Escott has been delayed by a similar mishap. The off wheel of the cart broke on the 30th ult., in Southland, daring the last day's stage to the Lake, in consequence of the fearful state of the creeks. Mr St. John Branigan, the Commissioner of Police, happened to be in the neighborhood with his Honor the Superintendent, making a reconnaisance of the road between the Mataura and the Molyneux, and he arranged to send on a fresh cart without delay. The escort may be expected in town to-rday, or on Monday at farthest. It will be remembered that onr Lake Correspondent states that the quantity of gold to be sent by this Escort was over 22,000 ozs., so that the fortnight's receipts will exceed 34,000 ozß.

THE DUNSTAN." The latest report from the Warden at the Dunstan, dated January Ist, It at follows: A slight increase is perceptible on the preceding weeks' estimates.

In Meredith's Gullj the prospectors an still doing well, the other; remote workings at the Carrick are but rarely heard of now. Prospecting claims have been granted to Adam, Sharpies and Bruce, for discovery O&paf able gold at the Nevis; prospects obtained averaging from 3 gn. to 1$ dwt. to the dish, washdirt from 6 to 18 inches in depth. The prospects were obtained from a creek claim, of which class the future workings will consist. The prospector does not speak very sanguinely as to its future, and I have not noticed that the discovery has attracted any notice.