THE OKITIKI RUSH.

Evening Post, Issue 54, 11 April 1865, Page 2

THE OKITIKI RUSH.

The probable extent of the return rush from ukitiki, is indicated by the steamship Alhambra arriving yesterday evening with two hundred passengers, after landing seventy who had booked for Lyttelton. Of those who have returned a considerable number had anived at the West Coast by the overland route, and they give most doleful accounts of the hardships to be endured during the journey, an i of the utter want of inducement to stay in the vicinity of the present known diggings. All went by the bed of the rivers Hurunui and Teremakau, the j journey occupying from seven to twelve days, | but in many instances, even with the late fine weather, parties were obliged to return, or to camp for the purpose of recruiting themselves while m.my only narrowly escaped starvation, or being lost in the bu;h or in the streams. The digging township and the township at the nvmth of the Okitilci were crowded with men, without employment, and with no prospect of new ground heing I opened. AH that was known to be auriferous was being worked witho it any extraordinary restiih, and pro.-peetimr was almost an absolute iwipo^sibi ity, the impenetrable charactir of the hush exceeding anything yet seen in New Zealand Without some fresh and valuable discoveries, un imnH'di ne exo us is ! untiliputud, and already huivlrels are rerosMnij the country in the direction of { Chrlstchuroh. We s all be able, in next piiblie.ition, to nivo more minute mt'innrarida ot the different approaches to tliir rligyinvs, and of the character of the workings from our correspondent who wa< a pisseiger by the Alhambr.i on her Inst passage.

Coromandel The Kapanga Gold Mining Company (limited), received on Saturday evening,' at 8 o'clock, per Petrel from Coromandel, 75') oz of gold in ingots, the proceeds of ahoul 50 tons of quartz crushed during the last six weeks. This makes an average of ub nt 450 oz per inomh for this company since its commencement in November last. The above was deposited in the Uni n Bank on Sat unlay evening. If anything was wanting to afford a stisfaotory proof of the wealth in Coromandel, which only requires deve opmpnt, it is the above interesting detail of the workinsr of the company. It is only by the applicition of capital and machinery that the claims in Coromandel can be worked, and to induce the expenditure of capital proper protection must be uffmk-d. It is one on which capitalists only can successfully' engage, nnd the laws and regulations affecttnj it must be made accordingly. —New Zealand Herald, April 3. Mind what you say before children.—A boy once asked his father who it was lived next door to him, and when he heard the name, inquired if he was not a fool. "No, my little friend, he is not a fool, but a very sensible man. But why did you ask the question ?" "Because,"' replied the boy, " mother said the other day that you were next door to a fool—and I wanted to know who lived next door to you."