Pohangina Stone

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 80, 15 December 1885, Page 2

Pohangina Stone

DISCOVERY OF GOLD. The following letter from Mr Wolff of the Thames has been handed to us for publication : — Mr W. Carthew Sir, — I herewith, beg to furnish you j with the result of assays of stone left | with me last week : — No. 1. Decimal 003 ; bullion 9dwt. 19gr. No. 2. Decimal 007 ; bullion loz. 4dwfr. 20gr. per ton of ore. No. 1. I did not part for it would require more than the above all gold |to be payable, as it is not, no further trouble is necessary. No. 2. On parting gave ldwt. 12gr. of gold at £4 per ounce, and lOdwt. Bgr. at 4s per pound to the ton ; total value, £l 9s Id. You will perceive by this that No. 2 is not good enough. Trusting that some samples you intend forwarding to me may give results of a more promising nature than the above have done. — I am, &c, B. Wolff. Thames, December Bth 1885. The following telegram has also been handed to us for publication : — D. H. Maoarthub, M.H.E., Feilding, Sib, — Stone has been assayed and analysed. No. 1. — Contains a small trace of gold unweightable. No. 2. — Seventeen grains of gold per ton. I am disappointed with the stone. — I am &c, J. A. Black. Coromandel, December 15, 1885. The above telegram shows conclusively, if further proof were needed, that there is gold in the Pohanguaa stone. It must be remembered that the Btone submitted is from no defined reef, but merely stuff picked up some years ago by men who were prospecting, not for gold but fer coal. It would be too much to expect that the best stone in the district had been thus selected, and further search will, I have no doubt, result in getting a payable reef or reefs. The stone referred to above as running 17gr. to the ton was taken from the same heap as that tested by Mr Wolff, with a result of loz. 4dwt. 20gr. of bullion, that is mixed gold and silver. D. H. Maoabthub.