OTAGO.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1982, 12 November 1863, Page 7

OTAGO.

By the Phoebe we have our files from this Province to the 7th inst.

The first escort from the new digging* ;it Taieri arrived at Dunedin on the 4th inst. The Times says " that the quantity brought down was ODly 500 ounces, an amount by tu> means commensurate with the yield during the week. This is to be attributed U> the policy of the gold buying agents of the Bunks, who have fixed the price at one shilling an ounce less than can be obtained for the same gold in Danedin. The same journal of the 7th says : — We are in receipt of later intelligence from the Taieri g«i<l field. Yesterday morning an extensive rush took place to a locality situated near the junction of the Lee Stream with the Taieri Biver. The yield oF the prospectors' claim was not reported, but was understood to be good. The spur abo^e Blacksmith's gully bas been taken up, 2nd is being actively worked. An application has been made to the Commissioner for an rxtended quartz claim on a reef at the head of Sailor's Gully. A gully .situated near Sailors'; the third gully distant from it in which some hundreds of holes had been sunk and abandoned, was «'» Thursday last, tried hy a party of Tnapeka miners. On txatnining what had been taken for the bottmn they decided upon sinking into it. After go in;; down two feet through very hard cement, the pick struck through into a soft reef, the first prospect from which yielded half a pennyweight of coarse gold. They found six inches of this suit reef when they came upon the real bottom. They took nearly two ounces nut of the wash dirt at the bottom of the shaft. Many cullies in which holes have been sunk have not really beeu tried.