SYDNEY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 612, 14 June 1851, Page 4

SYDNEY.

[From the Sydney Morning Herald May 26.] The news from Bathurst on Saturday was fully confirmatory of what had previously been received. Every day fresh discoveries are being made. Mr. Wentworth’s Bathurst property is said to be a rich gold field. As usual the accounts are most conflicting and contradictory ; one set of men are unable to procure gold, and write most discouraging accounts ; another set are fortunate, and make their £3 or £4 a day, and they naturally write letters to their friends which add to the excitement; but amidst all these accounts, there is one fact which cannot be denied, that large quantities of gold are daily arriving at Bathurst, and are waiting a safe escort to Sydney, which will, we are informed, be provided within a few days. One party of four is said to have taken out thirty ounces in one day, and a piece of one pound weight has been found. A letter from a gentleman of unquestionable veracity states that one man with whom he is acquainted has within three weeks accumulated gold worth £l6OO. The Diggings.—“ Batburst, 22nd May. 1851. It is no longer matter of speculation as to whether there is gold in this district. We have seen quite enough to convince us that not only there is gold, but that it exists in great abundance and of the purest quality. This town is literally deserted; servants, tradesmen, and all having gone to the mines, save only those who cannot afford to leave their homes and their property. But the evils attendant on this state of things have been greatly exaggerated in Sydney, for as yet none of the flockmasters in this quarter have suffered from the shepherds leaving for the mines. We heard on the way up that there were three distinct cases of men having left their flocks and gone to the diggings, but we find no such thing has happened. On the contrary, Mr. Reid, the innkeeper here, tells us that he could have hired ten shepherds yesterday in Bathurst at the usual rate of wages. We are off this moment for the mines, and purpose being back here on Saturday, and will starton Monday for Sydney.” —Extract from a letter by a Sydney merchant. ■ Our readers will be glad to hear that a gentleman of great intelligence left Sydney for Batburst on Tuesday last, for the purpose of writing, for the Herald, a series of communications on the actual state and prospects of the gold-seekers and gold-fields. We hope to receive the first of his letters either tomorrow or Thursday, and as they will appear about twice a week until completed we would advise our readers to preserve them, as the set will comprise the first authentic and connected description of the gold-field that will appear.