LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 514, 3 October 1867, Page 3

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

IMPORTANT FROM THE THAMES!

The favorite screw steamer ‘ Star of the South ’ brought up in the roads at a late hour last night. We have to thank her courteous commander. Captain Bendall, with furnishing us with files of Auckland papers up to Monday last. In the Daily Southern Cross of that date we find some important news from the Thames gold-fields, which we hasten to place before the public. Our contemporary says:— The 8.8. Midge arrived at 2 o’clock this morning from the Thames, with 208 ounces of gold from B i rry’s Reef. She also brings five bags of very rich quartz from a new reef, to be crushed and assayed. The reports from the field are very encouraging, y quartz reefs being daily discovered b prospectors, and nine claims are now producing valuable quartz. Barry’s party have 70 tons of quartz stacked up, taken Irom the leader which yields the above re turn. The gold is found to be distributed more largely than was ever seen in Victo ria and its intrinsic value is a little over half that of the Jfiddie Island gold. Several other parties are stacking quartz, and more may be expected in Aucli'land by the next steamer. Tile blue Bidl, which arrived yesterday from Coromandel, reports that the quartz irom hookey s Claim, at the Thames, had arrived there, and a portion had been crushed, yielding very satifactoril. It is expecied tiiat it will, when finished, turn out some 250 ounces to the ton. It appears that the new roef or auriferous leader found at Karaka is turning out uncommonly rieli specimens.