INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1122, 7 November 1873, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the last selling of the "Westland Waste Lands Board, suburban sections around Greymouth of ten acres area fetched from £2O to £105; seven acres, £2l to £43; sis acres, £25 to to £26; three acres, £ls to £SO; and tvo acres, £ll. The latest reliable news from the Haast reports that nothing has been found to induce a rush. Numbers are prospecting. Some parties are working in the m<in creek into which the smaller ones worked by the prospectors converge. The County Chairman and Chief Surveyor have returned. The prospectors are still getting gold, and two parties near them ; but otherwise, scarcely anything has been done. The gold is very patchy, and the wash very thin, a kind of light gravel, so a large quantity is quickly got through. Some payable ground was reported to have been found to the southward, near Jackson's Bay, and some parties went in search, but failed to discover it. Bill Fox, with three other men, started up the Waita, some eight or nine miles north of the Haast, about ten days ago. They were provisioned for a month, some very likely and pretty extensive country is said to be found where they have gone, and they were sanguine of success when they started.

The miners at Okarito have combinved to establish a co-operative store in consequence of the local storekeepers having refused to give any i credit to men since the Haast rush. The prospectors show a proposed capital of £ISOO, in £1 shares, no person to hold less than five, the shareholders to have the privilege of credit up to one-half the amount of their paid-up shares. The demand for shares has not been pressing. The hairless horse having made the overland trip from NelsoD, via Keefton to Greymouth, is now attracting large numbers of visitors at Hokitika.