LATEST FROM HOKITIKA.

Evening Post, Issue 94, 29 May 1865, Page 3

LATEST FROM HOKITIKA.

By the steamer New Zealand we have received a letter from a correspondent at Hokltika, from which we subjoin the following extracts. The letter is dated, May 15 :—: — There is nothing now to report unless that a large township is going up five miles from here up the Hokitika river. I should have gone there to-ddy, but it was too wut. It is stated that it will soon be as large as tin's place, and if this piece goes on as it has during the last few weeks it will leave Christchurch in the shade. Gold has been obtained there in payable quantities, and deep sinking is spoken of aa having been discovered. Provisions are getting cheaper every day j the 4lb loaf was sold as low ti.i la., at present it is Is. 6d ; fresh meat from 9d. to is. per lb. Hotels and other buildings are going up here in a style not to be equalled (in some cases) in Christchurch. The weather has been very changeable this last three weeks, hardly a day without rain, but as winter is near at hand some good dry weather i) looked for, that being the dry season here. The gold escort return for the last seven weeks has been 34,0000z. Dr. Haast has returned from a trip to the Three and Six-mile, and speaks in the highest terms of the auriferous nature of the ground ; he fays that the Canterbury gold fields are only in their infancy. He is now on a trip to the south. Since writing the above I have heard from a party just leturned from the Five*mile that it is us rich as the the Six-mile, with a larger extent of ground. — Canterbury Press.