THE WEST COAST GOLD-FIELDS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 366, 9 April 1866, Page 2

THE WEST COAST GOLD-FIELDS.

NEW GOLD-FIELD *y |jE G|Ey. THE intelligence was pub? lish'ed in a second edition of the Grey Eiver Argus on the 29th ultimo.For several days past there have been rumours to the effect that a very important discovery had and that a number of .good proßEecta.--4Ve- lmve taken pains-to-tain such and we have gathered; from various sources what ■ we believe to be reliablcinformation. The short repprt we gave the-.other day is substantially true, and there is every reason to believe .that one ofthefrichest gold fields ever opened on the West Coast has been ;discovered. The locale of the new discoyqry is the cQUDtry-'at the.head of the Little Grey Eiver, gold having-bnenifouhd on ■ both the Duller and Grey sides’ of the Saddle, as well as'mu the top of the saddle I 'itself * Tayabla • gold has also been found in the beds of the ,tributary creeks of the Little Grey, and in low teifraces and old rivpr flafa t : '; v /An , tilg.lfaoflg' worked on the Grey are:there, ahd: already“ i somo “ pile claims ” have d>eeh opened. At present only the beds of two creeks are being worked, altlmugh payable gold hae in many other places, as before stated. ♦ There is TeiyT^faS: of wash-dirt varies >from two to ten 1 feet, and a-very largo quantity ofthe claims are yielding frbm two dwts. tbe.dish. The terraces hove not yet been commenced upon, but where prospected have been found payable. In one instance-one of pur informants saw.t.wp, dwts. to the .shovelful. All provisions are packed. Tor about six miles from the diggings.- JTbere h| pp available,traek;from the Duller, nor.oaifeanoes go up the Little Grey to the diggings-now opened... About 600-meh were there threeaaysSfo.' The'counfry is Tpr the most part open, with manaSaU scrub and'inafshy plains. The diggings- can only be-reached by theLittlo The-prosp'ecfpr’splaith ft, giving froni’.threeto fhree-and-a-half dwts. to. the dish,-and-the ground has been proved to Re payable for fifteen miles on the Duller side of thceaddle,' apd six miles, on the Gl P? “de. .THeMaoris declare it tb be the riehestc ana most extensive gold field over; diaco vered. on pe West Coast; > ; f ~ ul •