Untitled

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 28, 9 January 1862, Page 3

By the Albntross, which arrived yesterday, there is do very important news from the digging - Considerable numbers were continuing to arrive, 2,400 people having entered the Port the week before Captain Clarke sailed, and two large ships were outside the heads, with a large number more. The accounts from the diggings are unfavorable notwithstanding, and although a few were prosperous, we have been informed that men at Tuapeka could be had at the rate of ss. per day. This seems an exceedingly small sum to pay for labor at the gold regions, and, without being able to confirm this statement, we think it only fair to give it as reported to us. The fact of the Albatross bringing 52 passengers away, must be a sufficient proof that more people have arrived than can prove to be successful. The quantity of gold brought down by the last escort is reported to be 14,700 ounces, and arrived at Dunedin on the 29th ult. Scantling would seem to be scarce, selling, we believe, as high as 625, per hundred feet.