A Prospector

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 36, 27 March 1884, Page 3

A Prospector

We hare a certain amount of sympathy for Barry, the prospector, in the disap pointment he must feel at the despatch of a party to explore the Tuhua country in search of gold, of which he is neither "the guiding spirit," nor yet '• an earthly part." Upwards of ten years Barry has been making fruitless efforts to "get into the Tuhua," and these few years of his life may now he considered as wasted. That his attempts to obtain, first the permission of Native chiefs, and secondly the support and countenance of the Government, have failed does nut prove that Barry is -undeserving of some credit for hi 3 pluck. When he first tried to get to Tuhua, the Natives were yet' in a very unfriendly frame of mind towards Europeans; and an uninvited entrance on their land was a very risky thing. It is very hard, for Barry, that at the last m unent all obstacles should have been suddenly cleared away, and persons who had never interested themselves at all, should have the prize almost thrust Into their hands. If a good gold field is opened we have every confidence that Barry will be "to the fore" nnd will fl jurish a pick as gaily as erer he did on the West Coast in the old days, and have as good luck.