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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 61, 10 April 1869, Page 6

GtOld c* Sutherland. — A great many individuals from Helmsdale andneighbourhood, and some from Caithness, have been at Kildonan " prospecting," and all have brought home quantities varying from a- pennyweight to an ounce. Nearly an ounce was collected by two persons in a couple of days, by simply washing the sand on the banks of a burn. A good many people were inclined to be sceptical about the existence of gold in any quantity at Kildonan, but the fact of so many persons finding it almost on the surface has convinced the most unbelieving.. Finding gold to the amount of from ss. to 20s. a-day is certainly a convincing argument. But the existence of gold in the North is not confined to Kildonan alone. It has been ascertained that it is to be found on the slopes of the Scarabens and osher hills in .that neighbourhood, and permission to search for and work it is all that is needed. And by all accounts the hills in the Reay district are equally auriferous. — "Northern Ensign." The System of Bahtee. — A correspondent sends the following to the Auckland " Herald " :— " The very novelty of a proposal I have just received in all seriousness struck me as being so uuique of its kind that I send tit you. During my business career in Auckland, it has been a common practice with me to deal with -those who patronise my' otvii shop. Thus my grocer's, baker's, butcher's, and Bhoemaker's bills, &c, have been usually settled by contras. I thought, however, I waa going far enough when I found myself obliged to become the unwilling owner of a cumbrous piece of furniture, for which I had no use ; but would you believe it, that a man has -just had the coolness to propose the liquidation of his debt by ' supplying myself or any of my friends with coffins ! l This appears to me like dying to win with a vengeance." Messrs. Bradbury and' Evans have paid £1000 for the right of translating Victor Hugo's new novel. Authorship does sometimes pay.