NELSON.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 August 1864, Page 3

NELSON.

News from Ohonu, or the G-rey Diggings, speak encouragingly of this newly discovered gold district. The Colonist, of the 26th, says : — " Yesterday afternoon, the steamer Nelson returned from her last trip as a passenger boat. Having left Nelson on Monday last, for the West Coast, it appears that she took in about twenty passenger! at the Buller, and, arriving at thb Grey found that thoee who had. reached there previously had gone up to the Teremakau, so that all who remained at the pah -were three Maori women, who said that two Maoris had' gone through to Canterbury, to claim the bohu§_ offered, by that- Government, having two pounds weight of gold with them. ' The place where .the gold was found was stated to be about fourteen* miles up the Teremakau river, the 1 mouth of which is about eight miles to the southward r.of -the Grey. It was reported that the: Maoris who had left for the purpose of claiming the bonus had procured the gold at the rate- o£ s ozs. a day with a tin dish. It is also stated that the foregoing account was corroborated jby a similar relation from the the ; Canterbury Govißrnment storekeeper at the Ghrey, and Gapt Heffer Btat^s that he saw; sonae of the gold -found on the hew^diggingß^ arid that r it was a fine bright gold: ' '-All" the nien (about 70) who arrived there iby" the Nelson ; ; .left ; her'jtithout delay, and not ; dn|e- has returned by^her, havhig all v made ;their 'way to the new digging^ with • saiiguino hopes frbm accounts*- they received on' arrival." i ;',-0 ~' : '- ■■■ ■■■ : " :; ' : '