LATEST FROM THE WEST COAST GOLD-FIELDS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 381, 31 May 1866, Page 2

LATEST FROM THE WEST COAST GOLD-FIELDS.

(From the Nelson Colonist, Isth May.) By the s.s. Koera, which arrived from Hokitika yesterday afternoon, we have intelligence from Hokitika and also from Bruce Bay. ■ The Gothenburg was to leave Hokitika on Sunday, for Melbourne, with 22,548 ounces of gold, of which 15,518 ounc;s were from Hokitika, and 7,C00 ounces from the Grey. The Keera had been as far South as Bruce Bay, and brought back to Hokitika the last few men who had joined in the late abortive rush to that quarter; with the exception of a small number, who had remained a little to the south of the Blutf ami who are reported to be making from £6 to £9 a week. There appears to be considerable excitement in Hokitika respecting a new rush north of the Grey, called Foie’s Hush, of which we had Intel!gence by a private letter received by the Kennedy from Cobden. The Hokitika papers merely mention the.rumor and the - growing excitement which it was creating in that town, without indicating the locality j but say that current report speaks of “ extensive gold discoveries having been made, and at the same deprecate any sudden rush when so little is yet known.

According to our private advices, the precise locality of the new rush is a hitherto untried river about thirty miles on the north side of the Grey River, and about half-way between the Grey and Buller, and of course in Nelson Province. It appears that prospecting report spoke of there being rich ground there; and a large prospectin'* party waited upon Mr Kennersley, the Chief Warden ; and the result is that the Warden along with this large party, chartered the smart litttle steamer Woodpecker, and left the Grey last Wednesday to visit this river, regarding which high expectations appear to have been raised; but of which nothing definite, beyond what we ’have stated is at yet known. There is very little news to report from the Grey, except that men are still arriving there from the south, and that the large numbers scattered up the river and on its tributaries continue to find employment. The Government officials are working well. Mr Eynnersley, on some days, sitting in Court hearing cases for a period of ten hours. Nor are they neglecting the road work. A party has been sent from Cobden up to the Twelve-Mile, for the purpose of repairing the worst portions of the. road between TwelvtT-Milo and Nelson Creek, and one of the party lias <*ona prospecting in order to find the best line for a packing track from No Town to Red Jack’s Gully. This misson ihas been promptly undertaken, by order of Mr Eynnersley, who received a deputation of packers and storekeepers at Twelve-Mile, who reported that a track by No Town would bo better than one up Red Jack’s Creek. A capital road has been made over Point Elizabeth, a well known bluff on the beach about five miles north of Cobden, and another has been purchased by the Government from a private person, who made it at the Seventeen-Mile Bluff, which is, as its name imports, seventeen miles north of Cobden, also along the beach. A packer’s track is to be cut up the Little Grey, as far up as the saddle, which divides the Little Grey from the the Inangahua, which is a tributary of the Buller ; and this will be of great service to a very large evtent of gold country. A railway between Hokitika and the Grey isprojected, and hopefully spoken of by the Hokitika papers.