NARRATIVE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 211, 23 August 1862, Page 5

NARRATIVE

CUR II EXT EVENTS

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TRANSMISSION TO MELBOURNE

Our last Melbourne narnUive was published on the 7th August, but on the 18th, we published an elaborate summary for Europe, which will very probably have reached the hands of our Melbourne readers. We shall therefore commence at the latter date, on the present occasion.

The great subject of interest has been the discovery of new and exceedingly rich diggings, on the Clutha or Molyneux Itivex, at a distance of about a hundred and ten miles from Dunedin. We publish elsewhere an account of these diggings and the extraordinary rush that has set towards them.

Another matter of some interest has been the putting in of an application for a prospecting claim for the sea beach v-t Moeraki. -It appears that it has been found that gold exists in the sand, and the prospector is very sanguine about it, and intends working ou an extensive scale. A sample of sand forwarded to Dunedin, and which we have examined, is certainly rich in gold, Somelittleexckement lias been caused by the statement that pearls are to be obtained in plenty some where on the coast. Enough small pearls to fil a small teacup were taken the other day to a jeweller in this town, by a man who said that he could procure plenty of them, but who was silent as to where they had been obtained. Some of them were large enough to be worth seven shillings apiece.—A case of death by drowning became known on the 19th, the body of a man being found floating in the bay. It appeared, from the evidence at the inquest, that the doceased had been drinking in Dunedin the previous evening, and is presumed to have fallen into the water, trom the jetty, which is quite unprotected.

The news from the other gold-fields is very satisfactory, the cessation of the inclement weather having had the effect of inducing the miners to resume their wonted activity. The escorts have increased, the last escort having brought down 7,283 oz. The reports from Tuapeka, Waitahuna, and the Woolshed are all very assuring, and in spite of the existing ferment about the new discovery, the prospects of these fields are very cheering. The management of the Theatre Royal gave a special performance on tho 20th, for the benefit of the Lancashire Relief Fund, when £40 was handed over to the fund. The Aldinga with the English mail arrived on the evening of the 22nd. Considerable disappointment was occisioned to this community in not being able to send replies per the return mail There is nothing else of importancfi to mention' the new diggings seeming to absorb the attention of everyone.

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