NELSON.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 52, 8 May 1863, Page 3

NELSON.

(From the Nelson Examiner, 28th April.) The schooner Nautilus, from the Buller river, arrived in port, bringing with her six hundred ounces of remarkably fine nuggety gold. A few passengers came up in the Nautilus, and report very favorably of tbe success and prospects of the diggers on the Buller and its tributaries, in nearly every one of -which, where prospecting has been tried, gold has been found. Several men from Canterbury have found their way to the Buller by way of the Teramakau and Ohanagana, some of whom suffered great privations on the road, as, for a very 'considerable distance, no supplies of food are obtainable, and the want of shelter in the passes, where snow is already lying, is severely felt by men destitute of everything in respect of food or covering, except what they carry on their backs. A party of twenty men, who left Nelson and followed down the Buller from the Lakes had arrived at the Lyell after being out sixteen days, four of which they were without provisions. These men, we believe, ran some risk of life in fording the Buller on their journey down, and some of the party were carried off their legs, and lost their packs. The bridle road from the mouth of the Buller to the Lyell is progressing rapidly, forty-six men being at present engaged upon it. As Mr. Brunner has a much stronger body of men under his charge on the Upper Buller, we hope to hear speedily that he has opened a line down to the Lyell, and a thorough track will then be established between Nelson and the mouth of the Buller. Independently, however, of Mr. Brunner's line, a track to the Buller will be opened by Mr. Rochfort, in a very short time, by the Wangapeka and Lyell valjey.