NELSON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 501, 22 August 1857, Page 4

NELSON.

(From the Wellington Independent, Aug. 6.) The schooner Gypsey. arrived in port yesterday afternoon, from Collingweod via Nelson and Wairau. She has brought six return diggers as passengers. They represent the diggings as being very quiet, the weather most severe, and little business doing. Captain Williams reports the arrival of the ship Lord Hardinge at Nelson, after a passage of 134 days from Londone; and the ship Melbourne, from London, after a passage of 130 days. Both vessels are bound for Wellington. The following extracts from the 'Examiner' of the Ist instant, contains tht latest information relative to the Aorere gold fields :-?— • "The opinion we have on previous occasions, expressed, that. gold in increased quantities would probably be found at the Aorere diggings as the search for it was prosecuted back towards the Quartz Kanges, has been fully realized, for the accounts .which have reached Nelson for several week's past hayS shown that the diggings were steadily becoming more and more productive ; and the success which has latterly attended the workings of several parties leaves it no longer improbable that the diggings may become as productive as any which have been worked in Australia. Instead of talking of the number of ounces of gold which they obtain by a week's work, the successful diggers now spenk of their gains by the pound weight. "' The quantity of gold which has made its appearance of late bears tlie most-substantial; of all testimony to the favourable progress of the diggings. The steamer on her last trip from the Aorere, on Wednesday, brought over a few of those diggers who have /been most favoured by fortune, and we are safe in estimating the

quantity of gold actually sold by them in the | town on Thursday, at no less than 800 ounces.. If to this we add nearly 300 ounces, brought across in the Tasmanian Maid on her preceding trip, and some small parcels by sailing crafts, the known arrivals of gold in town within the last ten days exceed 1,200 ounces. There is some talk of a rush to a spot some miles beyond the Slate River, but nothing authentic has yet reached us on this head."