Pohangina

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 55, 17 October 1885, Page 2

Pohangina

No very reliable information has yet been obtained as to the existence of gold and silver ore, in payable quantities, in the Pohangina. A number of experienced miners have been out prospecting, but we have not heard of any of them having been fortunate enough to come upon good stone. Such specimens as we have seen do not give us the impression that they come from rich ground. Be that as it may, we have now every confidence in the men who are ont prospecting. Many of them are experienced reefers, whose decision may be accepted with the utmost faith. Several of them have been sent up from the West Coast diggings and whatever may be the results of their labors, they will not be made publio until their mates, yet on the Coast, have been communicated with. When miners begin to arrive from other diggings in the colony, then we may feel assured that either payable ground has been discovered or that good prospects have been unearthed. But if the men now out quietly fold up their tents and like the Arabs steal silently away, it may be accepted as an established fact that payable ore does not exist. Good will be done in another direction by a splendid class of men being made acquainted with the inducements this part of the colony holds out for them to settle down as farmers.