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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 104, 4 May 1868, Page 2

The Westport Times remarks tbat it is not at all surprising that the most experienced Victorian diggers have of teu times found all their mining kuowledge acquired in Viotoria or JN T ew South Wales perfectly valueless in New Zealand, for the more receut volcanic age acies iv these islands in many cases completely upset all previous theory or practice. A singular instance of eccentricity on the part of the New Zealand gold producing powers has been m.ide manifest up the Buller. At Grange's Pniiit, just above wiiai are called tha old diggbig-*, about 28 mibs from Westport, the road, or track rather, runs

alongside and under a cliff or peak of the range that rises straight up some hundreds of feet at that point iv a perpendicular face. On the top of such a place as this would, surely, under ordinary circumstances, be the last place in the world that gold would be looked for, but Henry Watson and party did seek, and what is more found, the precious metal there in good payable quantities in surfacing depth. The gold is described as weatber, rai her than water worn, coarse, and of g« od quality, aod some of it ws:s sold in tbis town. The prospectors are now getting in wuter for sluic'ms: the spur, and when their work is finished, they expect to be handsomely rewarded for tbeir iahor. After this, prospectors need never despair of meeting wilh success io the most unpromising places. Tbe Grey River Argus, in an article laudatory ol -Mr Commissi mer Kyuuersley's Report, given as an illustration of tin; value which may be put upon the stage luvally of the YVe^f Const Tim-s, a f;et th.it Ims leak-'d out through a squabble between that journal und the Hokitika Evening Star. The editor of the former journal and its proprietor, in their several capacities of ;>u:dic writer and Miyo- of Hukitika, hate vehemently denonnee i the weakness of the authorities it: aM- ■■■.■■■ in-r the Celt io cany on hs b-ug as it di-.! ; but now the pretty scand.d lias transpired that the machinery of the West Coast. Times was on one occasion placed at < Itdisposal of the proprietors of the Cell., for the purpose of printing lhe latter paper; aud further, that the plant by which the Celt was subsequently printed was sold directly to its proprietors by the proprietors of (he West Const Times.