LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GOLD DISCOVERY AT THE KAITUNA. FURTHER SURRENDER OP URIWERAS. (Prom the Nelson Colonist.) News of a good discovery in the Kaituna Valley, in Marlborough Province, was telegpaphed to Nelson on Saturday night, and occasioned some little excitement. Several persons who were in the district telegraphed for some of their friends in Nelson, and a number left town on Sunday and yesterday, attracted by good accounts. The following telegram we received yesterday afternoon: — " Blenheim, Monday, 4.40 p.m. 'A new goldfield has been discovered in the Kaituna Valley. Goldfield of Wairau proclaimed on Saturday afternoon, the regulations the same as those of Nelson South-west Gpldfields. Mr "Wemyss issues miners' rights. ". The prospectors are, Cawtes, Ragg, and Cooper, The prospect was 8 ozs. of large shotty gold. One piece weighed, 18 pennyweights. The gold was obtained by sluicing in Bartlett's Creek. Many are gone to the district, but the ground is very limited." "Wellington, Monday. Hapurona and forty more TJriweras nave come in and surrendered to Captain Main.
The following telegram appears in the Wellington Independant :— • '• Napier, May 15. On the 6th, 27 men and 38 women, who had been hiding since Eopata's success in '"Wioeka Gorge, came in and surrendered at Opotiki. They say that J-e Kooti has not been seen lately, and is either at Waimana or Waikareffloana.
An expedition under Colonel St. John left Opotiki on the 12th for Waimana, to search for Te Kooti.
Eopata's progress has been stopped by rains and floods. On the first day out he captured one woman and two children, who have been hiding in the bush since the Ngatapa affair.
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 664, 28 May 1870, Page 3
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