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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 29, 6 August 1864, Page 3

THE PROVINCES.

Wo. are in possession of later intelligence from..! the NovtU, pv*v William Miskin. From ' Canterbury we hear of the discovery of a new goldfield, which it seems probable will prove remunerative. We must caution our readers, however, to take the report " cum grano satis." AUCKLAND. The Hokianga correspondent of the I>aily Southern Cro.-.s, relates the following outrage which took place on the 6fch ultimo :— " Last night a fine young fellow of the Earawa tribe, died from the effect of a beating another native, belonging to a different tribe, administered to him at Herd's Point, the resident magistrate's station, on the sth inst., at a time when all the assessors, karere, and wardens of the district were assemb-ed there to receive their quarterly pay. The man was punished to death, within two hundred yards of the resident magistrate's house, in the presence of several witnesses, one of whom was I hear, a karere, but who did not think it his business to go and inform the mob of assessors or the European A. M. of what was going on, seeing that the assessors came there to take their pay, and moreover that it was no business of theirs if a couple of fellows chose to kill one another. As for the resident magistrate interfering in such a matter, no one here would imagine him capable of such an exploit. " The fight began about who should carry home a pot, which they had borrowed from a pakeha, and which had to be carried good sixty yards to be returned, and both parties preferred a mortal combat a'loirfrance to taking the pot home. " I believe the tribe of the victor is willing to i give him up to justice. They are assembling, messengers having been sent all over the country where they are. scattered gathering gum, to summon them. What turn affairs may take it is difficult to say.- The Earawas may insist on personal satisfaction, and then, in all probability, there will be a collision of the tribes. The death of the young man is only kuown to a few persons, and I believe the resident magistrate is ignorant of the circumstance." A rumor was current in Auckland that gold had been discovered near the Waikato heads. The report had not been confirmed. Of Coromandel, the Daily Southern Cross says: — "We learn that on the reefe at Coromandel there are two ten-stamper batteries in full work, and one fifteen-stamper battery in course of erection. The reels in work are paying good returns, and it is proposed at once to resume the working of the Union Claim, which was interrupted by the war. The shaft in the claim is now 120 feet deep, and the reef is from two to three feet wide ; the ordinary stone (mullock and all being passed under the 6tamper3) yields about two ounces of gold to fho ton, but there have been instances where sorted stone yielded twenty-one ounces to the 100 Ib.ofatono. " The claims are 300 feet by 400 feet, for eiyhfc men's ground, and an old Victorian reefer, from Sailor's Gully, Bendigo, states to us that the ground is as likely looking, and the claims pay as well, as any around Bendigo. Should this be really the case, there will be a profitable occupation for many men who may probably not care at once to settle down to agricultural pursuits." The correspondent of the Southern, Cross, at the camp, Pukerimu, writing on the 16th ultimo, has the following : — "lt is rumored, in camp boday that on General Galloway's visit to Maungatautari, the militia stationed there refused to turn outonparaie. Their alleged grievance, I have heard, is the bad quality of their rations. The ringleaders of this unsoldier-like proceeding have, I believe, been arrested and placed in confinement."