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Southland Times, Issue 1085, 6 January 1869, Page 3

(From the ' Transvaal Argus,' July 24.) Mr Solomon, who has just come down from Secheli's, informs us that the diggers, now about sixty strong, had struck a vein of gold in the quartz, and that a small piece of quartz about an inch and a half long contained gold valued at £3. We trust that on the Rev M % Kenzie's arrival this statement may be confirmed. Routes to the G-oldfields. — The following table of ditances between the port aud different stages on the two routes to the goldfields through Natal are authentcated by Mr John Gray, who recently visited Pretoria, gives a detailed statement of the two routes in use to the diggings — the one 760 miles between Harrismith and Heidelberg is, we believe, well supplied with grass, and herds of game are to be found all along in abundance. Between Heidelberg and the Tatin, on the first route, there is a few hours trek through the " fly," which is ridden at night without injury to the cattle.