THE REPORTED RUSH AT WAKAMARINA.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 471, 27 February 1869, Page 2

THE REPORTED RUSH AT WAKAMARINA.

A telegram similar to that received by us, with regard to the reported rush in Marlborough, was received in Hokitika, but, as we anticipated, there does not appear to have been cause sufficient for the desertion of even deserted Havelock. By the Nelson papers received by the Kennedy it is apparent that there has been but a patch or a "pot-hole" found. The Mail says : "A letter has been received from a

gentleman resident in Havelock, stating that great excitement has been caused in the place by the arrival of a man from the Wakamarina river, about halfway between Canvas Town and Deep Creek, with a small quantity of gold. He states that he has obtained 7ozs. to the dish, but this is believed to be an exaggeration, although it is thought that very possibly that quantity might have been obtained in one dish, the lucky finder having probably come across what is known in digger's parlance as a ' pot-hole.' However this may be, there has been a rush on a small scale to the spot in question, and some very fair finds have been made, one party having been seen to wash out 3dwts from one dish and 15dwts. from another." In reporting the same circumstances, the Colonist says:— " We have made inquiry since the receipt of our telegram, and have also seen Mr Morgan, a store-keeper on the Wakamarina, who arrived at Nelson last night, overland. Mr Morgan states that the spot is about twelve miles distant from the township. He says:—Two men, James Dunfoy and his mate, in two days took sixteen ounces of gold out of a " pot-hole " at Camp Creek on the Wakamarina. The spot is one and a-half miles below • Deep Creek, and is on the opposite side of the river. The gold is coarse ' and fine mixed. We give the fact sas told to us, with the reminder ' pot-hole diggings are sometimes precarious, but certainly this find is a \ good one."