THE LITTLE GREY RUSH.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 241, 13 April 1866, Page 2

THE LITTLE GREY RUSH.

(From the Grey River Argus, March 31.) The following was published as an extra on Thursday evening. For several days past there have been, rumors to the effect that a very important discovery. had been made up the Little Grey (Mawhera — iti), and that a ' number of miners had set in with very excellent prospects. The short report we gave the other day is substantially true, and there is every reason to believe that one of the richest goldfields ever opened on the West Coast has been discovered. The locale of the new discovery is the country at the head of the Little Grey river, gold having been found on both the Buller and Grey sides of the Saddle, as well as on the top of the Saddle itself. Payable gold has also been found in the beds of the tributary creeks of the Little Grey, and in low terraces and old river flats. There is very little stripping, and the depth of washdirt varies from two to ten feet, and ft very large proportion of tflo olsmz we y jeloing £ro» two dwts.

upwards to the dish. The terraces have not yet been commenced upon, but where prospected have been found payable ; in one instance, one of our informants's saw two dwts. to the shovelful! All provisions are packed from about six miles from the diggings. There is no available track from the Buller nor can canoes go up the Little Grey to the diggings now opened. About 600 men were there three days ago. The prospector's claim is giving from three to three and a-half dwts to the dish, and the ground has been proved to be payable for fifteen miles on the Buller side of the saddle, and six miles on the Grey side. The Maoris declare it to be the richest and most extensive goldfield ever discovered on the West Coast.