DISCOVERY OF A GOOD GOLD FIELD IN AUCKLAND.

Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 794, 6 June 1865, Page 2

DISCOVERY OF A GOOD GOLD FIELD IN AUCKLAND.

Our readers will observe from our latest Auckland news that a valuable discovery has occurred in the Thames district, in that Province, nothing less than what promises to be a highly payable gold field. Details are wanting as to the exact locality, as the natives, who produced two pounds weightof gold, withhold that information until certified that they would be entitled to the £2000 reward offered by the , Provincial Government to the discoverers of a workable and payable gold field. There seems no mistake in the matter, for the gold was shown to responsible gentlemen in Auckland. Gold has long been known to exist in Coromandel, about half the distance from Auckland that the mouth of the Thames river is, and lying near to the opening of the Frith of the Thames. It is not many months since some adventurous prospectors

visited the Thames, attracted by the goldbearing appearance m any parts of its banks presented; but they Swere obliged to give over their exploration. } through fear of the natives, who were the a exceedingly hostile, ( and whom it was unsa jfe to face in the dieturbed condition of the country. These prospectors, however, were satisfied that the district had all the in< lications of gold, and this production of !such an undoubted cample, is evidence of i their accurate judgment. The satisfactor f appearance of more peaceful and submissiv* > desires on the part of the natives in Auckland (will tend to make this discovery immediately faluable intrinsically, and the discovery itsel. \ will also favorably react for a permanent ] }eace, as none knows betterthantheMaoriwb fatistohis advantage j and the growth and aq jansion of a gold field population, will do mo re to allay for ever the war spirit than m pnths of diplomacy, and thousands of British bayonets. Goed Expoet—The Tai jarua shipped at Nelson for Sydney 19,183 ounces of gold; of the value of £74 320 which is the accurr julation in Nelson since 3rd May. The Tararua had al BO on board, about 20,000 ounces from Otttgo. Thkft fbom the Teat algab Hotel.—Before Mr Poynter, the Eesident i Magistrate, yesterday,. Charles Brennan, a writing j clerk, was brought up charged with stealing various I articles from the bar ol the Trafalgar Hotel, earl y yesterday morning. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. . The evidence adduced showed that Constable Mvr P hy heard some noise at the back of the hotel a li .; jtfle after three o clock yesterday morning, and tiwn i heard the sound of a match being struck inside the bar. Looking through a chink of the blind he saw p , nsoner afterwards come in with a candle; and he s. ?t Constable Kitson to watch the two front doors of the house, while he went to the back. Constable Kitson saw some of the movements of the prisoner, si : ich as opening the till, &c Constable Murphy after ) waiting a short time at the back door found it openec J I by prisoner, whom he apprehended just as he was \ stepping into the back court. He had in his possess! .on a bottle of brandy, another of champagne, a box of cigars, a few loose ones, a meerschaum pipe, abu j nch of keys, which were identified as belonging to Mr. j Disher. At the request of the prisoner, who said J 31s lawyer was m the country, the case was adjourn, j jd till to-day, at eleven

° Body Fottnd <m the G < &ey.—Captain Holmes, the master of the schooner N. j lutilus, found the body of a man stranded on the beac j ,h on the 7th of May. It was in the last stages of de .' imposition, and could by no possibility be identified , . It was evenly the body of a digger, probably a I , man past middle age, M his teeth were greatly dec ayed It was that of a person about 5 feet 10 inches j high. In the pockets were found one sovereign an d gold dust to the value of £4 2s 6d., tied up in asm all bag, a wooden match box, and a pipe. It is supr .osed that deceased had been prospecting in the G, ey, and been drowned. He hod been some considera. j ole time in the water, for the flax with which the boo I ts were laced was quite white from the action of tb j a water. The body was buried by the police. j Thb Paddms Steamers Sahotly and Prince AXTRED TOE SAME BY THE GOVERNMENT.—Our old friend The Tasmanian Ma j id, with the new name Sandfiy is we observe offere. j 1 for sale by the Colonial Government, as she has dor | le her work spiritedly and vte\\ The Southern Croi jit says:—"The Defence Minister invites tenders to / be sent m, on or before the 15th instant, for the , purchase of the colonial paddle steamers Sandfly r |,nd Prince Alfred The tenders .re to be addressed , to the Superintendent of Steam Transports, Superir j ;tendent's Office, Nelson, and the vessels will be dcliv \ tred to the accepted tenderer or tenderers free of eh i orge. Od»-Feixows in Atistra ■ HA.—Sir Francis Murphy at a recent lecture iii Mcl ibourne "on the Origin, "Rise and Progress of the In dependent Order of OddFellows, Manchester Unity ."stated the number of lodges in connection with th ; c Order was-in Victoria, 109 • New South Wales, 46 , j South Australia, 64; or a total for the three colonies of 219; the aggregate number of members being over 20,000 Tender tob the Atjs'j kalian Mail Service Via Suez—ln January the Postmaster-General issued advertisements for te ; aden for the conveyance of the mails between Ceylon and Sydney, the steamers to call at King George's i lound, Kangaroo Island, and Melbourne on the pas .age, both outwards and homewards, to land the mail .«. An amended form has iust been printed, but the alt : stations are not shown m italics, and are only to be dis. covered by a careful comprison of the two document, \. In tender No. 1 the Service was fixed by the calendar month, or bimonthly, which gave 12 or .24 trips yearly. The second tender gives the parhc i« tendering the option to put in for a fortnightly < >r four-weekly service. Every 14 days giving 26 voy. >ges yearly, and every four weeks 13 completed voya ?es. The penalties for delay on the voyages, instead < >f being absolute, may be compounded for, in the fire t instance, by reducing the amount of subsidy, when i t is proved to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-Gen srol that the delay has arisen from causes beyond the ;' control of the owners of the packets; that is to say, .the tenderer may agree to the clause making the ] >enalties absolute from ■whatever cause arising, or a ccept a lesser sum per annum if the exceptions ar. i allowed. All tenders must be sent in on or before the 10th of April, and the contract service is to < jommence m February, 1868, though a later day may be named if the parties are unable to begin so early . — MilchelVs Maritime Register, March 25. _