ARRIVAL OF 1,375 OUNCES FROM THE OKITIKI.

Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 770, 10 March 1865, Page 7

ARRIVAL OF 1,375 OUNCES FROM THE OKITIKI.

{From The Colonist, February 21.)

The steamer Wallaby arrived from Okitiki yesterday morning at one o'clock. She brought 1,375 ounces of gold, being 800 for the Bank of New South Wales and 575 for the Bank of New Zealand. The Nelson which is now due, is expected to bring nearly an equal amount. The news from the Six Mile Creek and neighborhood continues good j all the diggers are represented as doing well and being satisfied with the prospects.

* # * Further and later intelligence from the abovementioned " Diggings, will be found by referring to another page. On Wednesday, Mr. Whittaker, who arrived by the Petrel, from Coromandel, brought up 322 ounces of gold, the produce of the Kapanga Company's claim. This makes 1163 ounces which this claim has produced within three months. What will Dr. Hector say to this ? — Weekly News, 18th Feb.

With the greatest regret (saya the Wellington Spectator) we include in our retrospect the loss that Nelson has sustained in the melancholy death of its Superintendent, and also the loss to our community by the death of Dr. Kebbel [a much respected and popular medical man in Wellington, who died of scarlet fever, which he caught while attending his patients with great assiduity]. The private sorrows which both these events have caused, are too sacred to be intruded on, and too deep to be much alleviated by public sympathy, yet we are but echoing the general voice in expressing the feeling that such men could be ill spared. Each filled a large space in the public regard, and each has left a blank that will be long unfilled ; but they have gone to their rest, and their memories will be long cherished by those whom they so faithfully served.—" The memory of the just is blessed."

Eably Feosts in Otago.—The Daily Times of Ist February says: —"The Tuapeka district was visited with a touch of frost on Friday morning (27th January),'which gave the coup de grace to melons, pumpkins, and other warmth-loving plants. The potatoes were also slightly touched."