THE RUAHINE PROSPECTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3020, 1 March 1881, Page 2

THE RUAHINE PROSPECTS.

[To the Editor, of the Daii? Telegraph.] Sib,—flaying read Mr Alleen's letter ia last night's paper stating that he had great faith in the country we have prospected, I have to say that I have as little faith in Mr Allen's mining knowledge as I have in the country we prospected.

Of the nature of the country lower down I can form no opinion, not having seen it. Mr Allen is in error about our being only three days afc the Porangina river; we arrived there early on Saturday, and left the following Thursday, and I was prospecting from the first day to the last. He was fosicking in the river for three days, and never left it, but I was three miles up all the creeks in the neighborhood, and had a far better opportunity of examining the formation of the hills and sptlrs than he had» It was quite easy to get at the bottom of the creeks, and we found terraces and flats with a hungry wash or drift, and I panned quite enough to raise the colour if it had been there, but didn't suceed it getting that much. Mr Allen himself has given it up and gone to prospect another river. With regard to my pluck and determination, I think I showed quite enough of that in the struggle I had to" find and cut the track over the range.—l am, &c, John Hunter. Napier, March 1, 1881.