MOKIHINUI.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 232, 29 April 1868, Page 2

MOKIHINUI.

Some excitement has been occasioned by exaggerated accounts of new finds at Mokihinui, and we therefore hasten to contradict them, and warn people not to rush away as there is little or no ground for the rumors that have lately become prevalent. "We are informed by a gentleman whose direct interest it is to create a rush as he has a store there, were he an unprincipled man, that the whole affair has been occasioned by a few parties who have recently worked out their claims on the Southern Terrace setting in a few miles north, in order to prospect some likely-looking places. "Dp to mid-day yesterday nothing of any kind had had been struck, though it is quite possible that those at present at work, having means at their command, may be successful in their enterprise. Should this be the case we shall too gladly publish the fullest and earliest particulars. At Mokihinui there are at present a cutter—the Dart, and a steamer —the Lioness waiting for coal. The Lioness has come to grief, we are sorry to say, for somehow, either on a snag or something else, she has managed to punch a hole in her bottom, and when our informant left, was beached opposite the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, in order to have the aperture patched up. The extent of the injury, or in fact, any further particulars, we could not learn, but we hope that the damage done is not of a serious nature.