GOOD GOLD "FIND" ON THE BATON.

Colonist, Volume VI, Issue 582, 22 May 1863, Page 3

GOOD GOLD "FIND" ON THE BATON.

A PA.HTT of three diggers on the Baton river, G. Jarratt and others, who have been working a claim since January last, brought to Nelson a large specimen weighing within a few grains of 18 ounces. It is an irregular piece of gold, considerably larger than alien's egg, and slightly impregnated with quartz. The gold was bought by Mr. Marks, Trafal-gar-street, at 735. per ounce, and was yesterday exhibited in his window. It was found about seven miles from "Wangapeka, and about a like distance from the ground mentioned in our last, where M'Diarmid's party made a successful prospecting, towards which there has since been a considerable rush of diggers. The place where Jarratt's party took the specimen is about four miles from the point where Mr. Eochfort started the track to the Lyell, which he has just desisted from following as impracticable. There is a store kept by Mr. Sutcliffe about three miles distant from the diggings, which distance provisions have to be " humped," but the route is not difficult. There are at present only fourteen diggers on the Baton, besides the wife and family of one of the number, who have been there for some time, and the diggers are understood to be " in a quiet way,", doing a moderately fair stroke of business, and are inclined to stick to the locality.