TWO DAYS LATER FROM AUCKLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 266, 27 October 1862, Page 5

TWO DAYS LATER FROM AUCKLAND.

By the schooner Surprise, we have Auckland papers to October 8. The news is not of much importance. We make a few extracts :— Coromaxj>i-x.—Turner'.*; party have struck a reef four feet thick on Priece'a Point. Gold has been found in some of the stone where it crops out on the beach ; and I understand they will take out about twenty tons of the stone :it once, to be ready for testing ifc when Keven's machinery has. been erected. Quariz can be got out here fast enough. The surveyors are getting on with Kingston—Sir Preecc's township, It is"enlarged by sixty acres from the original proposal, as it was thought to be too narrow for its length. The plans will soon be ready. Several capitalists are about commencing operations in the Mahiwai, above Messrs Firth, Roe and Co.'s mill. A splendid .3 cz specimen was got there lately. The gold is much purer and heavier tlnvn that found in the Driving Creek. This specimen comes from a leader, but lias travelled much farther than any of the Driving Creek specimens, as it is well water worn. Two large reefs have been discovered lately in the same district, and I have no doubt that before the summer is over we shall have a great many claims taken up there.— Correspondent of Southern Cross.

Gold at Mongonui.—Some satisfactory specimens of gold in quartz have just arrived,obtained in this district within thirty miics of the township. Confidence in the future is entertained. One experienced party is to go to the spot to prospect, which is not far from the place described by Dr Dieflfenbach as auriferous. — Correspondent of Southern Cross.

The Alijehtlant) Settlement.—We perceive by advertisement inserted elsewhere, that the last party of the Albertland settlers, recently arrived here by the Matilda Wattenbaeh and Hanover, will take their departure from the Queen-street wharf, at 9 o'clock this morning. The schooner Salcombe Castle has been brought round from the Manakau for this purpose, and will depart, should the weather be favorable, at the time above-men-tioned, for Kaipara.— Southern Cross, Oct. 7.