NEW RUSH TO THE HAAST RIVER.
DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW COUNTRY. [Nelson Colonist.] Last week a rush of miners began to set in to the Haast River, situated about 120 to 130 miles south of the Hokitika. The paddle steamer Bruce was the first which left for the rush carrying only a few passengers, some score or so from Hokitika; but the excitement grew apace, and on Tuesday morning, as we learn by telegraphic advices, the large steamer Alhambra took 400 passengers from Hokitika for the same destination. On Wednesday, Messrs N. Edwards & Co.’s s.s. Kennedy was despatched with passengers and stores for the Haast, and later despatches inform us that there is a growing fervor tor this new locality. The Haast River is one of the largest on the West Coast of New Zealand, and by details of the most recent surveys-, by Canterbury officers, it appears to run for a distance of many miles through a belt of dense level forest land which separates the rauges from the coast.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 455, 21 February 1867, Page 2
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171NEW RUSH TO THE HAAST RIVER. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 455, 21 February 1867, Page 2
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