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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 470, 13 July 1871, Page 2

"G.B.'s" LETTKE ON TOOKEY'S. Last week wo g;ivo an extract from a private letter from a friend in Ballarat, referring to a puff stupendous transmitted to a Victorian journal from Auckland and intended to affect the market in Tookey's. We have unearthed the letter, and give it with the comments of the Melbourne Argus. " G-. 8.," whoever he may be, has his light hid under a bushel. He could make his mark on literature. He should disclose himself. As a writer, say of prospectuses for morning papers, he would make a fortune :-»-

A shareholder in Tookey's (says the Melbourne Argus of tho 15lh), who records his impression on a visit to the Caledonian mine, and his consequent expectations from Tookey's, writes to the mauager in Ballarat in n, style of enthusiasm which almost attains the highest poetry, and, in fact, is only prevented from doing bo by a faint flavor of a business-like deaire to bull the market. He says :—Fancy, if you can, having your attention drawn to a small aperture on one side of a main drive, accompamied by the announcement that from it £172,000 sterling was taken in a few days, and after advancing a few feet to find the run going out on the other side, where a somewhat similar amount of blocking had been done, with a return of £218,000 sterling for a fortnight. If you can fancy this, and believe it true, you may realise, as I did, an indescribablo feeling bounding from the innermoat recess of your heart, and heaving through your bosom, then bursting with emotion at the conviction that in Tookey's you may yet redeem the toil of years, and luxuriate in affluence alter having passed but little beyond the meridian of life. Long before this mine is worked out present appearances amply justify tho belief that the least of its shareholders wiJl in substance possess a Golden Crown. I then introduced myself to the Cnledoniau mine. I can defy the most careless, prejudiced, or tho least animated nature to investigate the workings of this claim without fooling impressed by something grand, glorious, and sublime. It is yielding ils treasures with a lavishness that knows no limit, and creates in the beholders a (ire that pervades and vivifies his whole being; the solidity of the mass of gold causes it to appear gigantic, cumbrous, and appalling, rather than harmonious and beau: tiful. J L is a. Colossus in treasure, and in this Cyclopean workshop imagination conceives the possibility of tho gnome's presence, who, in calm an<i silent majesty, radiant with Biniles, and standing erect, with her right arm pointing towards Tookey's," &c. He concludes by emphatically but ungrammatically assuring his " personal friends and associates that' England, home, and beautj' is looming in tho distance, and that the corporation will undoubtedly possess a mmo of untold wealth and unparalleled splendour." After all this, the only question is, how much " A Shareholder" will take for his Tookey's ?