NELSON.

Southland Times, Issue 1336, 18 November 1870, Page 3

NELSON.

A person just down from the Wairau goldfield, assures us that he saw and weighed a nugget of unusual size a few days ago, found in Bartlett's Creek. The weight named was 16ozs Bdwts, and the finder was a man named Welsh alias the " Flower of Wheat." We hare also been shown a quantity of shotty gold found at Mount Patriarch. — Marlborough Express. The total disbursements on the Goldfields, for the half-year ending the 30th of September, amounted to the sum of £17,594 123 9d, less the defalcations of the Sab-Treasurer, which may amount to about £2,000. The total disbursements in other parts of the province for the same period, including Government establishments, amounted to £17,278. The public works expenditure on the Weat Coast for the last half year amounted to £11,541 7s sd; for the same period, the expenditure on public works for all the rest of the province, was £3,796 5s 7d. According to the Marlborough Express, flax shipped from Blenheim fetched the highest prices at recent sales of any sent from the colony. Forty bales, brought ; £31, and eight £22 16s a ton. The highest prices obtained for shipments from Wellington, was £25 ; from Cani terbury, £28 10s ; from Dunedin, £18 10s ; from Auckland, £28. The bulk of the flax sold however at very much lower prices — the largest portion under -£20 a ton. Most glowing accounts have reached us of discoveries of gold bearing quartz near the head of the Inangahua, one of the lower tributaries of the Buller. For some time past, the existence of what was believed to be good payable reefs was known to exist at a place named Murray's Creek, and machinery on its way to the ground is stopped, owing to the want of a road, and the great difficulties of the country. Eecent discoveries, however, show that stone of wonderful quality exists there, and has caused great excitement on the Coast. A public meeting was held at Weatport, for the purpose of inducing the Government to improve the communication between the Buller and Murray's Creek, so that the field may be supplied from the Buller instead of the Grey. ' A new clipper barque, the Eiver Jumna, which visited Melbourne on her first voyage about a year ago, and sailed from Newcastle (N.S.W.) for San Francisco with coals on the 2nd of Feb. last, has not since been heard of,