THE RUSH TO THE HAAST.

Dunstan Times, Issue 600, 17 October 1873, Page 3

THE RUSH TO THE HAAST.

(Grey River Argus). The merits of the recently reported discoveries at the Haast are stiT a mystery, but such rumors as have been reci ived indicate that the rush has been’unjustified. In consequence of the extraordinary weather which has prevailed since the pioneers of the rush took passage by the Titan and the Waipara, communication from the south by sea has-been—impossible, and the difficulties of;tiaVel by the beach have been almost equally -great. Thus we are up to the present without reliable information of the fortune , of those who proceeded to the Haast, although there is every reason to suppose that they encountered more adventure and discomfort than they had anticipated. Up to the hour of the telegraph office closing here last night, no information was received of the return to Hokitika of either the Titan nr the Waipara, but the probabilities-are that they arrived last night; itnd4o‘d»y.'there should be some

more knowledge of ths prospect? of the place than at present prevail. The Titan, it is said, had to put into the Peringa River, from which the reported diggings am almost as accessible as from the but it would not be convenient or profitable for the present to laud cargo there, and she subsequen ly proceeded to the Haast, wnere, it is said “ on reliable authority,” she lauded her cargo and passengers *• all well ”on Wednesday last. The only other information as yet to hand is hearsay, and is is unfavorable. It was brou.ht to Ross by the Okarito mail-man. According to his account, and that of the correspondent ul the Xitfaa paper, uu further iulclhgcuce from the Haast lias reached Okarito direct, but it was said that a number of men who had started ovcrlaud for the Haast were dissuaded from proceeding by the description given by a man named Murphy, who was making his way back to Gillespie’s Beach. According to his account, as reported, not a man of the first batch of sixty or seventy who had gone south from Okarito by sea had remained on the ground, but had returned to the port to re-ship. It is also stated that he and others had triad the creek near the prospector's claim, but that none of them had procured anything payable. The presumption from his account generally must be that the rush has, so far, been a wild goose chase, but a few hours more should place us in possession of something like reliable information. Birring accident, both the Titan an I the Waipara shoal! have been able to have left on Saturday or yesterday, and so should Mr. Tizad have been able, in the interval of tlpnr detention, to visit the ground and confirm or contra lict the repressntati ms of the prospectors.—“ Grey River Argus’ October 6.