WHANGAMATA.-THE NEW EL DORADO.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 54, 8 March 1873, Page 3

WHANGAMATA.- THE NEW EL DORADO.

We give quotations from two different papers referring to the “ Whangamata goldfield.” Ono from the Sot* Mi .'•> Crons speaks moit encouragingly of the new Hold, whilst the second (froai the Thame a AdeerlLst-r) distinctly tends to show it is a *" duster/ 3 \V e are not in a position to give a decisive opinion the subject, and therefore publish the latest from our contemporaries : “ Whangamata news received on Tuesday is of a very encouraging character, and the hopes cherished by prospectors aud other adventurous pioneers arc now giving promise of a more speedy fulfilment than numerous doubters were disposed to belie.ve. The latest arrival at the nearest telegraph station from Whangarnatu, Mr Eyre, reports that gold is visible in the lode bearing*his name; and that another miner Inis fouaJ gold bowvvccn lirognn's reef and the Tuirou, w hich in an old European settlement ’ , at- is now iha Whangamata block. This m news, which wo hope will not only be confirmed. but mu do much bettor by later reports.*' —Sotnhrru Cross. The Lai la Hookli returned to * j-raliamstown on Wednesday evening with Mr Warden Fraser and about seventy minors, who have solemnly pronounced Whangamata aud ilUiutata •* a duffer.” 1 he Thames .1 d rorlist.r says ; —Our readers will perceive from the narrative given by our own reporter m another column t hut events for the last few days have boon rapidly tending in this way, and apparent-iy the repi at >*d disappointment a they had suffered, the ‘ sells ’ which had been attempted, and the fact that no man had got a payable prospect from any part of the ground, decided the bulk of the men. At Whangfurmda, on Wednesday morning, they struck their tents humped their swags, and straggled over the mountains in the rain and mud to lukatuia. in their hard and dreary journey the men were cheered by the inspiring strains of the bagpipes, p'aycd at the head of the irregular column by Mr Kobe rtf on. Arrived there, they found the* rr.cn in a similar rau-,-d, and between sixty and seventy men determined to come off m the Jmila Rookh to Gruhamstowa. Mr Warden Fraser, probably redccMug tfiitt there was uo o s e in keeping a \V a.den’s establishment in solitude, caoio'oiT’* in Uso vessel, and wo understand that he goes to Auckland to rep e&ert?, the posit ion of ulfdra. line men who have been on she new around deserve credit for the order they Imvc observed, and for the good humour aud gu , i temper with widen 1 hey have borne their disappointment. 1 here are not now thirty me:- ut W hangrmata, and to fill appearance the place will soon be abac cloned to those hlm havu oi employed in cm digging. As might have been expected the -i-orekeepers at Hikutaia looker! rather diaap-

pointed at Ja-uij. the cxodvr- fear that those who lu|o gone to gn-.t ' wi! 1 fUd t.u>\ itavt> h ; »il sptvni.-mi.iiis, i.,- IV y Ht pn'Motit nl a native ‘wtticu.. : ,r a tr w uu.es Com .h.: ;u ;r u ;‘ :j * t Th, r n,ui turned M, ; a , ” V- U ‘- V ’. m V* h, ’ :m{ u ‘ ,th,n « about. kuKI ls:*vif,» loun ‘‘ ln Rvres reef. ,- U i mie i.e.ir liG tM .,H the Wham- * u.,ta and Uikutai* JU.m.ter the present, s » t u ns a„v extensive rtn,g i- e-meerned. To-w-. wdi be a Jhm l\ 1 i U utE - x lv?r | t m ;u a rc-erumnnt ion pn ;; u> ot “ wi “> 1* «•» hlanm ter the exjuvta.luiis taat were raised:'* Hm we do not desire mU> . thi ‘ f fhere an re however or despair, und f.r cm... ■ • r e -o-vffv | re is no golu on the block. it w very ex h>„. l* v fog-hd, nr i piesi- v : ; e\i‘i-.-diii dy slaw proeess, wad there my t, m-h dnuHi/uV ad i.mu hits oeeti dune on it us present. * But nil nutni.i .ale t.-xju*etlulion* must lie abandoned, find we onn oniy hope that thus.. who go out, prospecting will nave better nearer home/’