NELSON.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 75, 21 November 1864, Page 3

NELSON.

David Henderson: Murdoch, charged with ing abstracted notes to the value of £3,700 from the Picton Branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has, after ,a lengthened examination,, been again remanded". The Lyster Company are achieving, a great success in Nelson. •--■•■•■ • l The Ifehon ISxaminer, of the 15th inst., give3 the following intelligence o£ a rush on the West Coast : — " A parjsr-.pi diggers, arrived injto-wn on Saturday last, 'bringing with 'them from Lyell Creek, a tributary o£the Buller,,a splendid lot of nuggets and other g'blcl, weighing" altogether 212 ounces, : which. they disposed, of. yesterday to the Union Bank "of Australia. "We give the weights of the ten principal-nuggets in the lo%:-r- v '

The Lyellf ife -wilt-- T»e remembered) • has furnished the heaviest gold yet found in New Zealand j nuggets of the respective weights' of ninety, fifty, and"twentT-six ounces, having been found^ there last Year, besides v variouslesser ones from seventeen* ounces , downwards.; :It,~ is rclear, : from the gold just brought in, that a rich goldfield exists there, and cthe ".'"'same may. Jbe :.said',ofYtha, whole watershed of the Buller, as we saw on Friday last above eighty Vurices of fine the upper part of'that valley^ which disposed of by two < jnen to : the-BankVof«New, Zealand. • The one, obstecle"" 7 tb'- ; opening- ■ out the -Buller-^the: largest. Et 'and we believe the -goldfield; vet known in New Zealand— is the difficulty of living in r the dlsjfcricfc, consequent on the nature of the ; co«n&7"> ite-leDgtivJof carriage, and the impossibility of securing a regular supply, of provisions there: "Nearly the whole • country iswooded, and although^ aobridle , road 7 has. made, horses cannot, rtravel it. unless they, carry, their own'prorender with them, as there' is really nothing for animals to eat, after entering these wooded.-y.alley.Bj but twigs ,of, trees.,, If^thalarge,. capabilities ;-.; of ihejßullerare^ever to ; be developed,, the G-overnment must find some way of further^, improving the communication with it. The news broughVfrom'theiWeit Qoast oh Saturday, by ;ther ateamei-Nekbn,- was! also moit . encouraging., .; "We. have seen letters iftom j two;' gentlemen, on whose statements wo caii'place the utmost reliance, who concur in- saying ; tbatta' gdldfield of undoubted richne^slfas Ijeetfdiscovered^ about' forty- miles be-: low tb»*€breT,,and I a i general-jrushix)it:Was. accordr, inelv taidng^placevti-iAp both thew.Bank/pf New, : Zealandtandithe»Banlt,of Ne^Souih^Wal^s.haTe de»pat«hecl; agenteHtppthiß^e;BfcCpa«| for,ihe pur^ v pose of purchasing gold r we may now hope tog^; reliabli *cqount« <?f the cpw&tj <$ goW obt«4ned t3x?xe," . ■■■■.-■ '■;'■ ■;.;;.■■■-";....■■ ■■ ;:' \ : .

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