The Makara Goldfields
♦ ACTION FOE LIBHL. (p£B nKITBDMEM ABSOCtATIOK.) Wkllingtok, This Day. J. W. Walker, a Thames miner and expert, well-known as Long Drive Walker, who came down to inspect the Makara reef, from which ten, tons of stone were recently crushed at the Thames, yielding some 16 ounces of gold, writes as Follows to the ew Zealand Times : — ir. I yesterday made a careful examination of two reefs in tbe Queen of Beauty mine, North Makara. In the brown vein I found faint colors of gold, probably sufficient to warrant further prospecting. In the clay of course I found no gold, and I have no hesitation in asserting that the bar of gold now on exhibition and represented as being the productt of ten tons recently conveyed to and crushed at the Thames, wherever obtained, certainly was not got at the Queen of Beauty, Makara. Yonrs, Ac, J . W. Walxeb. Later. The directors of the Queen of Beauty Gold Mining Company, Makara, have instructed. Messrs Buller, and Gitlly to take proceedings against Mr Walker for his '. tetter in New Zealand 'J'inaep po,b}ieped this morning.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 64, 1 November 1883, Page 2
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185The Makara Goldfields Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 64, 1 November 1883, Page 2
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