NELSON.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 108, 30 October 1863, Page 7

NELSON.

- Aolaim has been sent into mement for >the gold bonus by Alexander Campbell & Co., who claim to have discoverea a payable. goldfield on the banks of the Matiri, one of the tributaries of the Buller. This river is the "next of any size above the Lyell,and may be reached either by the road through Black-valley, or by crossing the range at -the head of the Tadmor. Information as regards 'these diggings has been in Nelson for some weeks, but the diggers to whom the intelligence was communicated refrained from going until: the weather should settle. Several, we believe, leave this day. We are informed that there is plenty of ground, and, should it all turn out what is said — " three pennyweights to a tin dish "—~we do not doubt tff a 'large -rush of miners. — Examiner, 10th inst. The correspondent of the Colonist, writing on the 23rd ultimo, says : — I promised you in -leaving Nelson I would give you any information I could gather respecting this district. I am happy to inform you.fromintelligenoe obtained from the various diggers passing to and from the Mangles district, all agree in the same opinion, that there is a -good ■available , : gold field — one that will yield from £7 to X8 per man per week. The diggers who are up here are very sanguine ot success. and are waiting only for the rivers to fall so as to enable them fairly to set in one great drawback is the distance they have" to carry -provisions, but all agree that when ' the road is open T to the grassy plains, that' obstacle will be removed ; they will then be able to pack up all the requisites on horses. I may state here the road will be open to the plains in two or three wetks ; many of the men have horses ready, but at present there is no flat ready to place horses on to feed neai-er than the Howard.