NEW GOLDFIELD AT WAIAU.
The Riverton correspondent of the ‘ Southland Times,’ writing under date the 23rd ipst., says; “Some eight weeks ago a party, consisting of five men, left this port in order to prospect for gold in the line of country between this and the South-West Cape, and, after several weeksl research, hit upon what appears to be a payable goldfield. The sample of gold which they brought back to Riverton (having had to return through their boat with provisions capsizing on entering the river) is of a coarse and npggett.y character, not much waterworn, with small interspersions of quartz amongst some of the larger pieces. The sample consists of, as near as possible, some 2Jozs, which was obtained in four days’ working. So well did they think of their find that it was their intention (previous to the occurrence of the untoward accident above related) to give it a six months’ trial, which must have proved highly remunerative, had the yield continued in the same ratio. So satisfactory is it that soine of them intend organising another party without delay; and little doubt exists but that ere long news of great importance to many wfil be forthcoming from that quarter.
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Evening Star, Issue 3697, 28 December 1874, Page 3
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202NEW GOLDFIELD AT WAIAU. Evening Star, Issue 3697, 28 December 1874, Page 3
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