KENNEDY'S BAY GOLD-FIELD.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 579, 21 May 1868, Page 4

KENNEDY'S BAY GOLD-FIELD.

The Mew Zealand Herald, of the lltli May, contains the folk;wing;—• The steamer Tnuranga returned f-otn tlie new gold-held at IvenuedykBry last evening shortly after seven ■ I elude. Sim left S!iua’aud at twelve o’-d 'i-k on Monday night, and. ani.ed it Kennedy's Bay 0:1 die following moruing, at l:r.h-pa<t eight o’ cl mk ■Mr Cummissoiicr Mackey, tie Ckiei Hubert, Mr \V. Jiurkiand, Mr. Smart. Captain Mazer, Mr. Macrea lv, a large stall of st;rve\-.r?, end Several other gouibmum Irani Auckland an.i S-iortlau I were landed, pint rli« steamer! ’ U. a.Mu at 1:! ovk-ck, Iviuwug up live pa:;,•■': ■■■■. <. A 1 in., ml m m {T••iggers at Sihiiila;.a were anxious t>* proceed by the Taurauga to Kennedy's ij.iy, but us the ground bud not been surveyed limy were nit permitted to go. To day, however, the land will be surveyed, and Kennedy's Iky prod.»icit’d a g./id-lie Id, go that by tu-uicx-ruev we m-.y expert a rusk from Auckland! and the Tuames. Several small u--selsi 'iavo nh'e .dy been laid on for the now ->old ikid vviiu pimvism us, and one or' two pentlemcu have go no d*».vn for the purpose oi seleci :i;o suitable sites for building purpuras. The ramr- journal, iu its issue of ike 15ih Ma\, says:— kmc sample of alluvial gold trough* from Kennedy's Buy, bus beer, tested and ] ■ 1 to be Jar supmbi;; in quality to the usual rim of tho Tuanics gold. It is of £0 carat fineness.