LATEST FROM THE WAKAMARINA GOLD-FIELD.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 177, 3 June 1864, Page 3

LATEST FROM THE WAKAMARINA GOLD-FIELD.

We have news from Marlborough to the 25th inst. The special correspondent of the Marlborough Press, in a letter dated the 22nd inst., says : —The intelligence I have to forward you in this communication is certainly not of the most cheering or encouraging character. The late rains having flooded the river all the good claims are under the water and quite unworkable. In abort I may say that every mining operation is at a complete standstill. There have been numbers out prospecting new ground, but without having been successful. All the diggers are idle with very few exceptions. Fortunately the weather has sot in fine again, and should it hold, the river will probably fall sufficiently low to allow some of the claims being worked. The Escort did not arrive this week, I believe the reason assigned is that some of the members composing the escort have gone to Nelson to attend at the Supreme Court. We have no police protection, which I can assure you is greatly needed. There is a good deal of fi hting ami disorder among the.“ rowdies” who have lately come on to the field, to the great annoyance of the peaceably disposed. At Canvass Town several most disgraceful disturbances have occured. Midnight shrieks are beard, people rush out from their tents half naked to ascertain the cause, when their ears' are assailed with the most disgusting epithets. And all this arises from the location of a few disorderly charaters, most of whom are well-known to the police.” Apparently the exodus of disappointed diggers is increasing. The Press says:—The ‘ Gothenburg' steamed out on Monday morn-' ing, crowded to excess with miners returning back to Dunedin. On the same day the ‘ Hero’ left for Victoria via Havelock to land the passengers she brought on from Otago. Soon, other large sea-going steamers will arrive at our wharf to carry away further instalments of as valuable a class of men as a young province could have desired to develop its resources. A new daily paper is being started at Havelock.