IMPORTANT NEWS FROM COLLINGWOOD.

Southland Times, Issue 738, 18 October 1867, Page 4

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM COLLINGWOOD.

(From the Nelson Examiner Extra.) Saturday morning. The following communication from a correspondent at Collingwood, who is perfectly reliable, should have reached us last evening: — In consequence of some very rich ground having been struck by Messrs. Washbourne and Toms, in Appo's Gully, their application* for a lease has been refused by the Warden. Five experienced miners from Ballarat, Australia, have commenced sinking a double shaft, bo as %q taWQ -to* overcome tbe water j tbey

having full confidence' of meeting with a deep lead of gold in thia gully, such asjhas not been previously met with in New Zealand. This party of men were on the eve of leaving Collingwood, by the steamer Lady Barkly, for the Thames district, but on visiting Appo's Gully, were at once struck with the many peculiar 'features it presents similar to many of the richest diggings in Victoria. Gold has Hlfii 0 ' struck in the shaft now being sunk^at 'Appo's Flat, but the party fearing a rush, will not allow a prospect to be taken. The gravel is treated in the shaft before it is sent up so that nothing certain as to the richness of the seam of old gravel is known. Another eight-ounce nugget has been found at Eocky Eiver, the lucky parties are Messrs. Samuel Berry and John Turner, who divided 72 ounces the other' day, being the proceeds of a fortnight's work. Berry and Turner have a lease, taken up when the Eocky was deserted.