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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1108, 15 February 1872, Page 2

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The East Coast Rush. ' Reliable information of the reported new rush.oathe; East .Gqaat was brought to , Shortland the other bight by a party of-men, old West Coast diggers, who had just returned from the locality, . y They say that gold has been found, but in a formation never before met ; with in the Province. It appears that a man named Nees, who has been, some: time engaged in wood-cutting at Deadr Man's Creek, a small stream situated between Tairua and Mercury Bay, and so named from i the " fact of a seaman belonging to one" of H.M; vesselsfiaving been drowned there sbme~years ago, "disco vereU r asi^rterraw en the beach, and, being struck with a similarity between it and the beach-ter-races of the West Coast, he proceeded., to prospect about: it for gold. • tJponife? moving an inch or two of the common sand he found; a stratum of < black sand beneath, and, having applied the usual dish tests, obtained gold in small quantU ties— enough, however, to induce him to erect a black sand sluicing apparatus, and by the; aid of /that Sis party have ' been enabled to earn small wages, say L 2 - 'per week, . or thereabout. The deposit of this auriferous sand is very limited in : extent, not greatervthan . one, acres. • No othergold has been found in the locality, but large quarto cieefs have been met! with, one of them being 40 feet thick. Between Dead Man's Creek and Mercury Bay we occasional patches of blaipk sand 1 on'the beach, but, so far. as they have yet been tested, are wanting in gold. Perhajia, however, the discoyeiy at. Dead/ Man's,, trifling although it may be, may'ijaduce a close prpspecting.of the beach, and veiy possibly lead to further finds of greater moment. It is far from likely that i Dead Man's is the only patch of auriferous black sand pn the beach from CapeGclville to the southward. ■■' ■ '■'■'■ CoROMANDEI. The mines both on the ranges and the beach are being worked vigorously, and prospecting parties are pushing, their researches in every direction, more especially towards Kennedy's Bay, where there are fourteen different batches employed. - —There is 1 to be a cleaning up for the Tokatea Gold Mining Company at the Neir Zealand Company's battery to-day, and a retorting on Monday. The yield will be about the averagel The Nil Desperandum battery will also have a cleaning up of * fortnight's run of stuff from its own claim in the early part of the week ; the amah

gam is showing well on the plates, and is likely to Rive a handsome return.— The Pride of Totakea is st" 1 addng to itsl paddock and specimen-box, and its neighbor the Two Georges in brin&'ug Bomei good stone to grr-a.— The shareholders of the Victory have dissolved p* -tiership and tbee'aim is to be sold at Auckland, : on the 16th inst, and the proceeds divided. I —Murphy's Hill hrn pushed the main 1 tunnel almost through the h" l ,, and has i commenced a new d-'.ve at a low level on j the leader from wl 'eh ii has already got such good returns.— The Golden Point isj getting ont good stone, and w"l have a crushing when maoh'ieey h available. — TheGolconda has cut the leader in the low-level tunnel ; the stone is more com- ■ pact than above, and is equally auriferous. ; The reef is making ai sunk upon, and is now upwards of two feet thick.— The Green Harp still continues to stope out splendid stuff, the gold being freely scattered through it. The specimens are very rich and weigh iy for the ; r size.— The Golden Pah has also a good future in store,- and is stoping out preparatory to a crushing — There is a rumor that the Whakaroa battery is to be removed from its present site, halfway up the range, to the Neptune's ground on the beach ; also, that the Golconda is in treaty for a battery to be erected in its neighborhood. The machinery and everything is ready for Thomas's battery on the Gr en Harp ground, but some hitch or other about a Crown title keeps it back, and the wet weather will have Bet in before any of the parties have come to any definite decision. —A new company has just been formed, and named the Trig Gold Mining Company. The ground is situated on Ring's Hill, and takes in aU the old Misaaca's workings. ■