THE AUCKLAND GOLD FIELD.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 704, 12 January 1853, Page 2

THE AUCKLAND GOLD FIELD.

By the latest intelligence from Coromandel we learn that the work Ims boon comparatively at a stand still for want of diggers during the holiday season. But the few who remained were obtaining good specimens. We have seen some forwarded to Mr. Hansard for sale, of the following weights: —a quartz specimen, 11 dwts., 23 grs.; a fine ".button" of Gold, 12 dwts. 2 grs.; and uncleaned dust, t oz. -i dwts. io grs.. We arc informed that Messrs. Cook and Crieghton have sold their diggings to Mr Bryan and his party for 10/., and that this party look up in a week 20 oz, of dust and specimens. Thus it appears that some of the localities at the diggings-are beginning to assume the character of property. Si ill we hear from all quarters complaints of the narrowness of the limits within which not merely digging but even prospecting is circumscribed. We have before adverted to this subject, and would again call alienlion to the fact, which is now admitted by those most competent to judge, that, if the discovery of Gold is to have a fair chance of development, it is indispensable that a wider —(if possible, it should be an unlimited) —field for prospecting should be made available; and we will add, that it should be opened for prospecting, without the imposition of License Fees, until localities had been ascertained in which such a measure of success was likely to be realised as would afford the labourers wages in some degree adequate to their toils and privations. This of course would involve further negocialions with the Native proprietors, but the object, is worth the effort and outlay that may be found necessary.