LATEST TELEGRAMS. (By West Coast Telegraph.) Bealey, Wednesday, 1.30 p.m.
Gold Escort arrived here at 10.40 this morning from West Coast without any gold and left for Christchurch at 1.24 p.m. Wednesday, 4 p.m. Hokitika news has arrived to the Bth instant. Arrived —On the 7th, Souchays steamer, from Nelson; on the 6th, Prince Consort, schooner, from Lyttelton; Apparina, schooner, from Invercargill; Aurora schooner, from Dunedin. Sailed —On the 6th Gothenburgh* steamer, for Melbourne; on the 7th John M'Donell, Sturt, Ann Moore, and Willing Lass for Melbourne. , A great rush has taken place to Okarita
where a large township is springing!?^ and large quantities of gold discovered. The steamer Bruce -has been laid on to carry passengers from Hokitika. A great number of miners are working at Port Elizabeth, and are doing well. At the North Beach diggings miners are making their piles. One party of three are making £100 per week. Another party sold a one-fifth share for £180, the purchaser afterwards finding prospects of five dwts. to the dish. A great many miners are off from Hokitika to the north between the Grey and Buller rivers, where a Maori has found three dwts. to the dish. Bealkt, December 14, 10 a.m. A loaded dray passed all right through Otira yesterday to the Taipa.
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Evening Post, Issue 269, 18 December 1865, Page 2
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215LATEST TELEGRAMS. (By West Coast Telegraph.) Bealey, Wednesday, 1.30 p.m. Evening Post, Issue 269, 18 December 1865, Page 2
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