THE WELLINGTON GOLDFIELDS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1089, 1 November 1883, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON GOLDFIELDS.

A Serious Charge.

[bt telegraph]. Wellington, To-day.-^ J. W. Walker, a Thames mining expert, well known as “Long Drive Walker" who came down to inspect the Makara reef, from'which ten tons of stone were!; t recently crushed at the Thames, yielding some sixteen ounces of gold, write as follows to the New Zealand Times : “ Sir, —I yesterday mads a careful examination of two reefs in the Queen of Beauty mine, North Makara. In the brown vein I found faint colors of gold, probably sufficient to warrant further prospecting. In the clay course ! found no gold, and 1 have no hesitaton in asserting that the bar of gold now on exhibition and represented as being the product of ten tons recently conveyed to and crushed at the Thames, wherever obtained, certainly was not got .at the Qneen of , t Beauty, Makara.—Yours, etc., J. Walker. ” r

Latbb.;,. • • The Directors of the Queen of Beauty. . Gold Mining Co, Makara, have instructed.. Messrs Buffer and Gully to take I ings against Mr Walker for his letter in . the N.Z. Times published this morning. . /