RUSH TO MAORI GULLY.

Evening Post, Issue 147, 28 July 1865, Page 2

RUSH TO MAORI GULLY.

A correspondent writing from Maori Gully on the Grey says : Grey River, July 10, 1865. I take this, the earliest, opportunity of giving you an account of this new r in the Province of Nelson. Last week 1 reached Hokitika of very rich finds a} he Maoris, on the Nelson side of the H?^?y

River. I made one"amongst the hundreds that started off to see for ourselves the truth of ;the report. Leaving the different diggings about Ilokitiku the first inconvenience felt was the want of roads ; they ore in si frightml state, and the Canterbury Government is held very low in the estimation of the digging community. Then again, the first thing that took the eye of the diggers on entering the Province of Xcl«on was the new road or track up the banks of the Grey, under the management of Mr. George Winter, to whom great praise if. clue for the creditable and rapid manner with which the work is progressing, tiling into consideration the vciy na«ty and disagreeable weather that ha.s prevailed since the commencement of that work. We reached the goal of our search after travelling the banks of the north side of the Grey for ten or eleven miles, till we passed thu junction of the Arnold ; we then crossed the Grey, and followed up Maori Creek for about eight miles, until we came to Maori Gully, where we found the Maoris at work, and doing remarkably well ; making from one to three ounces per man per day. The Gully was taken up for miles by parties that were out prospecting up the Grey, but there is ground opened now capable of supporting from two to three thousand persons, and if not the ricliest, most undoubtedly the largest diggings ever opened in the Province of Nelson. But there is one thing I would call immediate attention to,— the great inconvenience as regards the postal regulations. We are here with a very large proportion of Government officials, business men, and working classes, and cm neither send nor receive a single letter without walking or sending to Hokitika.