LATEST FROM THE HAAST.
We have been favored by Mr Robert M'Dougall with the perusal of a letter from Mr Marks, storekeeper at the Haast, which does not give much inducement to parties to go there The writer say nothing fresh ba> yet been discovered, and the men who go there are merelv fossicking the old gnllie s that were formerly worked by the pr sp- c tors. The prospecting claim is not turning out so well as was expected, his share of tlo proceeds scarcely doing more than paying the wages men representing hia interest Besides bis own there is one other store, and the miners are about 70 in number ; and there is sufficient ground to employ them for a long time He says further that the total amount of gold purchased by him in the store does not much exceed 100 ozs , but the gold is mostly very coarse, aud a nice sample, and the men scarcely like to part with it. The Government are doing a great deal in the way of track cutting ; so that there is no telling how soon something fresh may be struck ; but as it is, very little prospecting is being done. —* Arrow Observer.’
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Evening Star, Issue 3384, 24 December 1873, Page 3
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203LATEST FROM THE HAAST. Evening Star, Issue 3384, 24 December 1873, Page 3
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