MEETING OF DIAMOND COMPANIES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3808, 28 September 1883, Page 3

MEETING OF DIAMOND COMPANIES.

CitniSTCiiUßCif, This day. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Pioneer and Koh-i-noor Diamond Companies last night the chairman said much larger stones liud been obtained from. Aifoi-d Forest and sent to England. Prospecting had now ceased for want of funds. Mr H. G. Harris, an experienced Kimberly diamond miner, who has spent a week at Alford Forest, expressed a strong opinion as to the desirability of further prelecting. He said diamonds would not bo found on the surface, but the present crystals bore the same relationship to diamonds as lignite did to coal. The indications of the Alford Forest more resembled the Kimberly mines than anything else ho had seen. Thcv had not found diamonds, but they had" the right soil for them, and a country where, if diamonds were not there, they ought to bo. These Alford Forest crystals were as near diamonds as anything could be till they found tho real thing. Their presence went to prove to his mind that diamonds Avere there. At Kimberly the crystals were not found in the clay tho diamonds were found in, but in the surface. A resolution was adopted recommending the two companies to amalgamate for the purpose of raising more funds for thoroughly prospecting their joint ground.