LATEST FROM THE HOKITIKA.

Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 793, 2 June 1865, Page 3

LATEST FROM THE HOKITIKA.

ARRIVAL OF H,OOO OUNCES OF GOLD,

.Notwithstanding bad weather the yield of gold continues to increase at Hokitika and other places on the West Coast. The William Miskin, which arrived here on Wednesday, brought 11,000 ounces, and had she waited a few hours more she would have had, we are informed, 5000 ounces additional. The news continues good and improving. The Five Mile Bush, which is up the Hokitika Eiver, is attracting large numbers. Last week there were at least 1200 diggers located there, and a great many were going up. The gold here is represented as being heavier, " shotty," and more abundant. Provisions are now, or were at the date of our advices (Saturday last), as cheap at the Five Mile as at the township itself.

News from the southern rivers is also, good. The Maoris from the Grey, who went down to what our informant terms a river 90 miles off, (probably the Hokarita, to which frequent reference has been made in our columns), sent intelligence to their friends, with specimens of gold, and the Maoris, almost to a man, are said to have gone down there. Some white men had also gone down, and sent up accounts of their prospects, and they report that in washing they were getting 3 dwts. to the dish.

All accounts concur as to the richness of the field, and from the results of prospecting parties, well paying gold diggings will be found to oxtend hundreds of miles along the West Coast. Up the rivers the ground is still untried, and if the satisfactory deposits on the upper reaches of the Hokitika be a sample, the returns will far exceed the original expectations.