WESTLAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 81, 8 June 1866, Page 3

WESTLAND.

By the Wallaby we have Greymouth papers to the 2nd instant, they contain no news of much interest. At a meeting of the promoters of the Lake Brunner trunk race the capital of the Company was fixed at £8,000 in £5 shares, and instructions were given to take immediate steps for the registration of the company under the Act : as soon as 100 shares are taken up, the works will be commenced. Numerous applications for shares have already been received. The Argus says, we have reason for believing that jireat necessity exists for increasing the police-force of the district. It is well known that several desperate characters have recently arrived in this part of the province, and it is almost impossible to exercise that surveillance over their actions that is necessary with the limited number of men at Mr. Inspector James's disposal. The necessity for Municipal Institutions in Westland is proved by the following extract from the same paper : — The condition of the streets is now something frightful, for, with the exception of the footpath, formed at the cost of the inhabitants, there is hardly a yard of fairly passable road in the whole town. Mining matters are in a healthy state, the several districts yielding no a. satisfactorily. The Argus's Twelve-mile correspondent sends the following :— Mr. Warden Lightband has granted a prospecting claim to Messrs. Moore, Barter, Purkis, and Patten this morning. Prospect averages two grains to the dish, with two feet of wash-dirt (on sandstone bottom). No stripping. The name of the creek will be the Caledonia. It is about 14 miles in length, averaging in width 14 feet, and during the late dry weather contained two to three sluice heads of water. To reach the claim you follow the Government track from Moonlight for about one mile, crossing two creeks, then turn into the bush to the left hand. There is a beaten track for about one mile, then following the main track about six miles up you arrive at the forks, take the left hand branch, three miles above which the prospecting claim is situated. The prospectors consider that the ground at present opened will not support a population of more than 200 men. On the celebrated "Darkie's Terrace" the claims are still paying admirably, and on the

"Darkie's " claim itself the ground has proved exceedingly rich. On most of the claims in the neighborhood they are getting from one to three ounces of gold per day per man, which fact is sufficient to speak for itself. Some of the successful diggers on the terrace have lately been giving away their old "tailings" aud in an instance of this kind, a party managed to get a pound weight of amalgam a man the first day they commenced working.