WEST COAST.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1689, 29 November 1861, Page 3

WEST COAST.

Buller River, Nov. 16. The Waimangaroa, spito of its neglect and snubbing by our Provincial authorities, still holds its way triumphantly as a gold bearing region. By the boat vow leaving, you wili receive in Nelson some 176 ounces of as nice gold as you could wish to see. One nugget obtained here weighs slightly over two ounces, and several in the parcel now forwarded to Nelson exceed. one ounce each. All the claims on the Waimangaroa are turning out exceedingly well, though the weather has been wretchedly bad. I said you would receive 176 ounces by this trip, but I should also mention that there are, at the least,. 400 ounces in the hands of diggers, consequent on the fact of there not being money here to purchase it. This gold has nearly all been got within the last month by twenty-three Europeans and about eighty natives. Tho newly worked branch of the Inongahua has yielded first-rate to the prospectors, and three parties have set in who are getting coarse gold in quantity. The higher parties go up the river the coarser the gold becomes j and the gold in Inongahua differs muoh iv appearance from that obtained in the Waimangaroa. One great convenience we have here .is, that parties can have their goods conveyed by the River Buller for a distance of some thirty miles by canoe. — Examiner's Correspondent. Adelaide Flour. — On Saturday last Messrs. N. Edwards and Co. sold a few tons of Adelaide flour, not of the best brands we have seen from that colony ; two tons realized £17 per ton, and eight tons were sold at £16 16s. per ton. .Land Revenue. — The Land Revenue for the quarter ended the 30th of September last, was £3,064 17s. Id., of whioh £2,317 15s. was for land sales, £572 2s. ld. surplus revenue from gdld fields, £140 deposits for rubs, and £36 Crown Grants. Customs Revenue.— The Customs Revenue of this province for the quarter ended the 30th of September last, was £6,149 17s. The Mokatapu. — The Government has at length set to work to cut a new line over the Moktapu, whioh, by following up the north branch of the Maitai instead of asoending the Bare Spur, can be crossed at au elevation eof 500 feet below the present track; and it is to be hoped, tbat the frightful bog which has now to be waded through, may also be avoided. If this is accomplished, and the Marlborough Government carries out the improvements which it contemplates making in the Kaitqna and Pelorus valleys, the road between Nelson and Marlborough will be always open (the more formidable of the rivers being bridged or having ferryboats upon them), and, in fine weather, the journey between Nelson and Blenheim, or Nelson and Picton, will be reduoed to one day.