NELSON.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 1 September 1864, Page 3

NELSON.

The Colonist of the 19th August contains two .columns of abuse of ? its contemporary. ike Examiner. The accounts from the " Grey " diggings are conflicting.. The Examiner. reports as follows : — '•The Hoh'onu, the locale of the rush, r is a tributary; of the Teramakau (not of the Arahura, as we stated a few days since), and partly drains Lake Brunner, at its westernmost point, The diggings are fifteen miles distant from the mouth of the Teramakau, which is seven miles to the southward of the Grey, so that there is a distance of twenty-two miles' to be travelled after leaving the steamer. Mr. James Kpchfort, who has been surveying on the West Coast for the Canterbury Government, was a passenger by the Nelson, and brought up with him from 250z. to 3Qoz. of gold obtained at these diggings. Mr.Roehfort reports that some of the Buller diggers who had resorted thither wero well satisfied with their prospects. The gold is very coarse and nuggetty, and of a rich bright color. There are about 200 men in the neighborhood ; but many of those who went down from Nelson have never visited the diggings, but have remaiued at the Grey. Thirty-five of these men returned in the steamer. Stores were plentiful at the Grey, with the exception of Hour, which was becoming scarce. Mr. Rochfort has surveyed a township for the Canterbury Government* on the southern side of the Grey, to consist of 200 quarter-acre allotments, and has laid oil', in addition, a number of five-acre allotments. The elte of the township is very good, having a frontage to the long lagoons, which will some day form natural docks. Air. Rochfort has surveyed the coast as far down as Jackson's Bay."