THE BUSH TO THE HAAST.

Dunstan Times, Volume 601, Issue 601, 24 October 1873, Page 3

THE BUSH TO THE HAAST.

—o (“West Coast Times.) Whatever blame ‘here may lie in the mutter res's with the persons themselves who were so hasty to rush to the new El- j dorado, It is a pity that this has happen- | el, because there are good grounds for be- ; Hoeing that, with patience and some little ! enterprise in prospectin'?, many other c’aims as good as that of Marks and party would he discovered, The Warden himself states that be considers that the discovery will he the means of opening a permanent gold-field, and suggests, to facilita‘o i‘s development, that a pick track should be formed from the beach to the diggings so as to lay down provisions on the spot atm ideate pric's, and that some bush tracks should be out inland, from the rv-’ge where Marks and party have their cliim, so as to enable prospectors to travel farther iu. 3 his stampede back of a host o ’ persons who perhaps’should never have gone to the Haast at all, may act’ it is to be feared, as a dete went to those better suited for the ki-d of work ’hat is required, although there is really no sufficient reason for discouragement. Many of those tha' went down evidently expected to get “pile ' hums,” and their disappointment avag pro-portionat-ly great when they found they had to -c-k for themselves places where payable claims were to be bad. This they might have done wi hj good prospect of success is indicated by the fact tint while the prospectors’ claim is to the eastern side of the range, the or-ek from which they took •nos- of the gold which was exhibited here i< situated on the western side. Probably soma of the miners who stayed behind have by this time found creeks equally auriferous as those discovered by the prospectors an 1 we may have tidings of their good fortune on the return of the Waipara. We should be sorry to bo understood as desiring that the rush which has ended so unpleasantly, should be renews 1. Such an occurrence wo would deprecate altogether, but we are fully impressed with a belief that the prospectors have opened up some goo i auriferous c-mntry. and that with such Government aid as is recommended by the Warden, we muy yetse.i the “Haast Rush” become the locality of a payable goldfield.