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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 569, 16 April 1868, Page 2

The Quee>-sla>’d Ersir.—’The follow-j ing important telegrams, from the Colonial) Secretary of Queensland to the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, and dated respectively March 21 and March 23, are published in a Sydney contemporary of March 24: —1. “ The rush now taking place from Sydney and other places to the Gympie and Kolan diggings is a very senseless one. So far as this Government are aware, Gympie is a good permanent diggings for a limited number, but it is more than fully occupied. The Actingcommissioner reports most unfavorably of the Kolan, and predicts great want and destitution among the hundreds now rushing there.” 2. tt XbG rush to the diggings recently reported in the vicinity ofGavn-! dah is quite unwarranted, and I would ask you to give publicity to the fact that neither at Gympie Creek, nor elsewhere in this colony, are the yields such as to justify the expectation of certain success. No doubt, much gold has been taken out. Some few have made money, but an immensely large proportion of the people have been losers, by throwing up certain employment to swell the number of diggers. The thing lias been greatly overdone, and I would wish to caution people not to be too sanguine of success at any of our gold-kelds. Time and enterprise may develop richer fields. There is already a larger population than the gold-field? can