ENGLISH SHIPPING.

Marlborough Press, Volume I, Issue 44, 3 November 1860, Page 3

ENGLISH SHIPPING.

SHIPS LOADING FOR NEW ZEALAND. At London. —For Auckland, tho Zealandia, Tawera, and Bosworth; for Nelson, the Dona Anita; for Wellington, the Catherine Pemberton, Strathallan, and Wild Duck ; for Canterbury, the Harwood and Cashmere; for Otago, the Chile.

DEPARTURES FOR NEW ZEALAND. j u ly.—The Evening Star, Kohinoor, and Thames City, from London; the Robert Henderson and Silistria, from the Clyde. August 9, the Rob Roy from the Downs, for Auckland. CLEARED OUTWARDS. August 28.—The Boanerges, for Auckland. ARRIVALS IN ENGLAND. At Plymouth, August 10, H.M.S. Elk, from Auckland, April 26; in the Downs, August 11, the Bosworth, from Otago, April 30; at Dartmouth, August 17, the Wild Duck, from Wellington, May.

NEW .SOUTH WALES GOLD FIELDS. [From the Sydney Morning Herald.'] The old established diggings still yield a fair average amount of gold, and every now and then nuggets turn up which give a ' fillip to excitement, and animate the hopes of the miners. In the south at Braidwood, it is proved by the escort returns that the various fields in that district are as productive as ever. Unfortunately continuous floods have caused great damage to the miners, and much labour has been altogether thrown away. But as according to the immortal Will, there is “a soul of goodness in things evil,” so here, the flood which devastated the country, sweeping mining apparatus and houses away, washed down at the same time into the valleys large quantities of alluvial gold. Thus the losses sustained were in some degree compensated by the treasure unexpectedly brought to light. Last year, Braidwood produced 66,000 ounces of gold, and ordinarily about twelve hundred men are employed daily. At Murrumburrah, further south, towards Yass, some new ground has been opened, but the result is not sufficient to warrant a rush of population. The gold found is rough and nuggetty, and the sinking is about twenty feet. In the north-west, at Murrindee, about 200 ounces a week is produced. At the Carcoar and Bunda fields there are some two hundred Chinamen, who are working steadily, and making fair wages. At Carcoar on the flat land, the gold is fine —in .-- the hilly country, nuggetty. At Maitland sjar, near Mudgee, a forty-five ounce nugget was lately unearthed, but these diggings are not much thought of at present. The Bathurst diggings are increasing their yield, and great hopes are entertained of a quartz reef there, which, having been tested, showed a very good average of gold to the ton. At Spring Creek diggings, in the south, a large number of Chinamen are at work, and some of them average three ounces a-day. Gold is reported to be plentiful for miles around, but none was found by sinking—as surface diggings, therefore, they will soon be worked out. At Adelong, a recently-diseovered quartz reef is highly spoken of, and is said to go far to prove the theory that a lai’ge hill in that locality is traversed by a succession of auriferous veins. The remainder of the diggings are not worthy of extended notice. The diggings at Kiandra have already yielded some 50,000 ounces of gold. If not another ounce were to be procured, they would still have had a most beneficial effect upon the Southern country in particular. They have already given a stimulus to trade in the metropolis aud the inland towns lying on the route to the Snowy, and further, have tended to create ports on the seacoast which before were almost deserted. Eden, for instance, a port nearly midway between Sydney and Melbourne, where diggers land coming from Victoria bound for the Snowy, has grown into quite a bustling place since Kiandra has become famous. Buildings are springing up in every direction, and something of the activity is observable there which caused San Francisco to rise out of the j lain almost in a day. In addition to this the country about the Alps will be taken up for agriculture and squatting, and thereby the general prosperity of the colony will be augmented. Our readers will be able to comprehend how these new diggings have attracted the people, when we inform them that from the 16th July to the 20th July there crossed the border into New South Wales, from Victoria alone, 14 wagons, 110 drays, 230 horsemen, and 500 pedestrians. And this is only a portion of the migration which has been setting in towards the Snowy. Lately, it has suffered a check; but next month, will probably sec a stampede unequalled in this colony at all events.