SWITZERS.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 89, 11 September 1863, Page 2

SWITZERS.

GOOD PROSPECTS. §|j

(FROM OtTB OWN CORBBSPO2?»BHT.) pp I have but time, as the mail, like tide x^jjm Chronos, waits for not even special vwM respondents, to send you a very brief cMiraj munication. This diggings continues to M&| up to, nay above, the anticipated mark, three new rushes announced in my lasthaig| deprived our township' of almost all its nj i Dll ™| inhabitants; but on Sundays they s Varmi§i| in crowds to purchase provisions and o®mffl necessaries. Ail look and. are 6bntent«w^ Some of them tell of wonderful finds, cially at the Waikia ; and I have been she«Hg nuggets that would make the mouths of-gows smiths and Bank managers water. ®WM weighing half an ounce was particularly &fflm and pure. I have not seen a single * nsta ?S^B of distress— tucker at any rate being P oß .^^^ for everyone, who is disposed; to work ww!Hffi will. It is difficult to ascertain the es^»| yield of the field and its contingent ™ shi lw | as the miners for the most part preserttJH| . silence quite unpumpable. This may lm| taken as a good symptom ; it is only times are bad that diggers grow eloquent. J|| cannbf give you any idea of our populaU«|g| as it is so scattered. This much I can ®fflm it is far more numerous than could be nat^^ ally supposed. We expect to have agmi proportion of the spring rush from Inv^ J cargill and from Dunedin. It will be¥f ,£ fault of the Invercargill people if they do "? keep the ttade with Switzera in their e|^'- f hands. . <■>*•'. Township, Bth September,/ 1863; ' p^