RUSH TO BRUCE BAY.
By the Claude Hamilton we have some / account of this rush, concerning which we { published a telegram last Wednesday. Above ? 2,000 miners were on the ground, at the \period of our advices. The excitement at Hokitika is great. The West Coast Times of the 28th March says: — the excitement in town occasioned by the reports of the rush to Bruce Bay continued throughout yesterday, aud large numbers of miners are preparing to leave town for the new field, whilst Okarita has become almost deserted. No specific intelligence has beeu received, justifying this great movement southward ; but we are informed by Captain? Turnbull, who came up yesterday by the William Miskin, that the beach for miles to the south of Bruce Bay, from Peringa Bluff to the Onimeka River swarmed with diggers, who formed a black lino on the coast, and who had followed the track of Hunt, the explorer.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 24, 2 April 1866, Page 3
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