THE GOLDFIELDS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 3, 18 November 1862, Page 2

THE GOLDFIELDS.

Ue news from the diggings is of (factory character. , The diners jnstan are generally doing welJ ■fey are making "piles." '&c £& f as the JNokoniai, we are infj ai turning out well, and a large {p is working in them. We * excellent accounts trom the Be'ai undesstand that two men went" *f£" r y yesterday, with fire hundred c X 7 « ld *]"* Poured at the nfa, and offered to thegqld receive T increase from the older fi< afe most satisfactory, and Whether^ dinnstances of good fortune be cons of n account be taken of the -"tor Uptity of gold obtained; and di irnagst those engaged- in proenring i| Johiction renjahis that the Otago -Sfi W'urPtng out spiendidly&remunerat^ j|teally good, specimen 'of gold wag 'f£7 rda £ &ftem<)o n out of a sinking int {fL WeU behmd the Scandinavian i Uafclaggan-street. As vre are inforn» sinkers after getting sixteen feetdeep'ps "rough the top soil and a thick bed of x J ay, liave struck a drift the top of i of bouldors, with shale and mong which there is a good deal ■ of c. smaU-tins "(not "xijre ' tin dish) of dirty -frqnv nft, which was got out by some m laying at the Scandinavian^ the men wj ully half a pennyweight o.f shotty gold rally small, but includiug one dccii leasant looking piece, rougli and wateri l great deal of interest is naturally felt ie result of bottoming the- drift, seem» ot loim ago the line o f Maclaggan-s mst have been a by no means an unli ully for gold getting; i\