THE NOKOMAI RUSH.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 34, 25 January 1864, Page 3

THE NOKOMAI RUSH.

In our issue. ■of . Monday last,* wo gave a. somewhat discouraging report of, the recent rush to the /Nokomai,. having received the information through a" gentleman who came down from there. We are glad now to be able io contradiefcj that , report, and to state. ■ from the following particulars communicated by a gentleman connected with one of the T>bahlcs here, we believe that a good payable : goldfield either was, or will be opened up at -the Nokomai. Our informant, who' was the purchaser of 30 ounce's. of gold from a party . .of men, at work on the rush— one of the niost convincing proofs of its genuineness — states that the ground is situated at the back of Cameron's Homestead. The sinking Is £from twenty to thirty feet, and is principally V; V)f a dry character. There were only about forty men at work there when he left, most of whom had already been rewarded by fair finds. In the flat, just behind the house, and .where the ground w<is of a more wet character, ' and required slabbing, there were about a dozen holes going down, the owners having every prospect of being Ruccesst'ul from the indications of the soil they were going through. ' The .news of the finds obtained, and the prospects of those already on the ground had reached Queenstown, and a good number had started, or were*, making preparations to do so, provisions and tools being packed from thence to the new ground: Our informant . believes that drays might reach it, by turning off at Rogers' Woolshed ; drays, he believes, did take that route at first. It will be recollected when the first rush took place to the Nokomai. some time ago, it had barely a chance of being properly prospected as just at that time, the discovery of tlu rich finds in the Lake district, soon drew tiff the mining population from the Nokomai. We fully believe that the Nokomai and the Nevis districts will soon be thoroughly, and we may add, successfully prospected. There the miners will not have the wet ground, and the fiequent and heavy floods, characteristic of the Lake district, to contend with. In a short time we will be able to ascertain further particulars of the new field.