HOKITIKA.
A private letter, just received by a gentleman in VVanganui, has been placed at our (Time's) disposal, from which we make the following extracts :—": — " I intend starting to the head of the Gi'ey and Buller Rivers for the purpose of prospecting. My mate went down to Hokitika a few days ago to purchase a horse and provisions. Flour, 30 miles up the Grey, is I'rora £10 to £12 per lOOlbs ; and to carry provisions on jour back in this country is no joke. You can have no idea of what people here, on the West Coast hare to undergo. There have been some enormous finds of gold lately — they exceed anything ever found in Otago. There are such things as a " pile" claims here in reality. The number of people arrived on the West Coast is enormous during the past two months, but, with the rushes now opened and the yield i of gold, I do not believe it can be overdone in a hurry. Tlokitika still maintains its name for wrecks ; not a week passes but there is one or more to chronicle, and many unfortunates are swept to eternity
by the treacherous streams. Fever and ague is very prevalent, which is making considerable havoc on the diggings'"
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Evening Post, Issue 207, 6 October 1865, Page 2
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210HOKITIKA. Evening Post, Issue 207, 6 October 1865, Page 2
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