LATEST NEWS FROM AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1965, 23 August 1869, Page 2

LATEST NEWS FROM AUCKLAND.

The Rangatira arrived from Auckland on Saturday. Her dates are to the 13th inst., from which we extract as follows:

The tenor of our Waikato correspondent’s letters, published to-day, conveys the idea that very little apprehension is entertained of an attack by Te Kooti or any other man, on Waikato. There is a very general discontent that the men are taken away from their farm occupations at seed time, which may result in the loss of many crops in th,e Waikato, next summer, except in the officers' gardens, which, as one of our correspondents states, are being wrought by militiamen on public pay.— Herald. We are informed by Mr Thorpe, who arrived yesterday from Ohinenmri, that the emissaries of Te Kooti had left that place for Mataora, on the East Coast, to confer with the Ngatiporou, who reside there. Te Hira had some confidential communications with these men before they left, but the nature of them has not transpired. It is supposed that the emissaries did not get any ammunition, but that also is not certain. The resident Hauhau natives have been boasting within the lust few days that if the diggers rush Ohinemuri they will have the assistance of Te Kooti to drive them back. This, however, is a nonsensical boast, and events are surely tending to the opening of the country. Te Kooti’s men told wonderful stories about the prowess of their chief, and

his miraculous gifts, but stated that he had never called in question the authority of the King.— Advertiser , 12th August. There has been little of interest done in mining matters on the Karaka for the last few weeks, but now a reaction seems taking place, and affairs present a brighter aspect. The state of the roads—rendered almost impassable by the late rains—has prevented most of the claims from sending down stuff to the machine; but this difficulty will be obviated in three weeks or a month’s time, when it is expected that the tramway will be completed. A notorious offender was appre--1 tended at the Thames a short time since. Most people will remember the horror and consternation Avhich pervaded the whole Colony on the publicytion of the accounts of the Maungatapu murders, in which Burgess, Levy, Sullivan, and others were concerned. A person calling himself Moore, alias De Lacy, has been practising as a thief at the Thames Goldfield. This man has been recognised as one of those implicated in the murder of Mr Dobson. He was one of the above-named gang, and has been committed for four months for larceny. He was fortunate enough to escape the fate of Levy, but received two years' imprisonment at the same session of the Criminal

Court. Messers Hurrell and Collins sold this morning a quarter share in the Golden Yem claim, adjoining the Golden Crown and Long Drive Extended, for L3OO. Some splendid specimens were taken yesterday morning from the Pride of Karaka reef. Some of the quartz was covered with thick flaky gold, while other specimens were impregnated through and through. A retorting took place at the Prince Alfred battery for the Golden Crown Company, the amalgam being from the plates, which yielded 133 ounces of gold. The second retort for the week took place this morning, and resulted in 168 ounces, making a total for the week already of 301 ounces of gold.— Evening Star, 12th August. Another parcel of specimens, about forty pounds weight, were taken out of the Pride of Karaka claim. They arc even superior to those previously taken out.

The result of the crushing of All Nations specimens was retorted yesterday, and yielded the handsome return of 360 ounces of retorted gold. This was obtained from 947 ounces of amalgam, the result of a crushing of 3001bs of stone at the Kuranui Co.’s onestamper, and was yesterday deposited in the Union Bank of Australia, Grahamstown.

Rich specimens were taken out of the Armstrong claim, Murphy’s Hill, within the last few clays. The specimens which were shown to us were very rich, and were from a leader SU{> posed to be a continuation of the Excelsior leader. A crushing for this claim a few months ago gave a return of five ounces to the ton. A parcel will be crushed in few days. Rich gold has been taken out of the Dawn of Hope within the last few days, and the leader or reef looks well for a continuance of the same. We are informed that a large quantity of stone now on the claim will be crushed at the Victoria machine as soon as the tramway is ready to convey the quartz. A leader was opened at a low level of the Inverness claim, from which some excellent specimens were taken. This leader is the third cut in a drive from a shaft, and is believed to be either the All Nations or the City of Glasgow. It is at present about 18 inches thick, but much broken.

We learn by the arrival of the p.s. Lady Bowen yesterday from Coromandel that another goldbeariug leader was struck in the prospector’s claim on Wednesday last, from which good specimens had been taken out. A drive is being put in for the purpose of cutting the main reef, which they expect to do at a distance of about 100 feet; they are already in about 70 feet.