A NEW GOLD FIELD.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1276, 2 September 1880, Page 2

A NEW GOLD FIELD.

A telhurvm from Australia, recounting that nearly 10,000 people are already assembled at the Temoia rush recalls the days of Gabriel's (lully and the Thames, the days when JEI Dorado* wore as common as creeks, and the whole world of Australasia was consumed with raging yellow fever. Since those days ot f iu ious excitement, when foi tunes, reputations, lives \yere staked and lost in a brief houi, thttio lias been nothing like this Temora rush mXew South Wales. Small linds Iki\ c been made, have attracted a few lmudied miner*, ha\e had their heyday, and sunk luck into their fonnei obln ion without ha\ ing attiactcd much notice; but Temoia, with its 10,000 people m a few weuks, eehpses nil such .spurious excitements. We are told ol 500 diggers only ; but who cannot pictuie to himself the othei !),">OO .' The stoiekeepui •> by dozens, with tents, O' coirug t )tcd iron shops, or bod huts inn up as it by magiu, and tilled with the products of the loin cornej's* of the earth i\s by a touch of. Alvumn's lamp j the hotels (save the mark ), bars, sly,grog, and beer shops put up m hantic haste, oocapying fhosixths of the frontage of the hastily improvised street, with flaming signs : "El Dorado Palace,"' " Temora't, Pride," "The Miner's. -Rest," t ind .so on. Their bar.s crowded with a restless, excited crowd ; tho babel of tongues ; the splashing of the " drinks''; the &udden quar- [ rels, and the inevitable row ail lound. Then, the clatter of the detachment of mounted police, aud the cheers thrice renewed as the fir&L escort goes down, and the next; return shows a new name : " Temora, ozs." Everyone, however, knows the picture presented by tho 9500. A word as to the SQO who bring them there. We believe the Temora, reefs to be a real discovery. They extend for quite two or three miles in length, and there is no doubt they are auriferous, but whether richly so or not there has not yet been time to prove. A recent pas^en^er from Sydney tolls us that no doubt ib entertained there of the soundness of the place and the genuineness of the discoveiy ; but it would be rash for Now Zealand minors to msli over to Temora without further reliable information, which we hope *oon to be able to give in t eso column. We are inclined even to warn thorn against "'o fining. They ivill arrive anyhow hccand in the field ; and we still hold to our belief, frequently aud emphatically expressed in these columns that there are in this proviuce just as good fiolds a^ Temora is likely to prove, awaiting only an intelligent and imlushiouk clovelajia^etifc and affording a means oi real competence to our discontented working classes, who<e iuditference to the treasures that lie at their feet argues a want of enterpi ise aud a dislike to hard work that together are the parents of many of the evils of w r hich they so bitterly complain. —Qt»rjo W'tuca,