The Pohangina Goldfield

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 67, 14 November 1885, Page 2

The Pohangina Goldfield

;• ME MAECHANT'S EEPOET. On, the sth October I risited the locality of the Pohangina reefs, and found that the wording* were filled in, so thai co face -ot the reef could be seen. Owing to this, Mr Anderson, the prospector, ; could not pick; up attj stone similar to that which he had got out for crushing ■ and teating, and. which is, said to have .contained both gold -and '■ilTel, "^ThV ; appeared tq be slale, andf sim- ; liar to that in the goree. Two oTd miners' with whom I discusfied „ th« \',iniKt&er, staf td that tl»e reel has not beea opened for jtjieir Mspection, 'and, v^at uatfl jthej, t see it they cannot giteapositire^pjuHoiu . But ther had been quite mnable to/ find; gol4, either in the gully or adiaclsnt , country, with this exception . thai .*„ ie'irelUr in J Wanganui . had 'found gold «i » inece of stene which they hat); 1 pioked up in,the stream. The reel wn» ' which the atone had issued was unlnown to them. - Until Aia iir done, and tile " reeF' exposed fftjrinspeqHon, it woolddritft be adfitable to give a dvnmte opinion a« to the aunferoms oharacter of the ground •f which, at present, the proofs are aot eonelvsire to outsiders.— W. A. Max*, otast, Chief Surfeyor. " ; * ' '