Gold in Auckland

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 50, 7 October 1886, Page 4

Gold in Auckland

There is no district in New Zealand more tempting than toe long rugged peninsula from Coromandel onward to Cape Colville. Aa showing the rich character of various auriferous quartz specimens found in sections of this district, there is the recent case of two Maoris who were about to prospect the Wtiaieroa Creek, on the Coromandel Peninsula. Mr Rhodes advised them to try the Waikoromiko Creek, and their search was rewarded by finding a single stone which yielded £70 worth of gold. There is an instance on record of a man who gave Saturday jafternoon to a search up the Matowai; Creek, getting a specimen which. the Bank of New Zealand bought from him for £54. Nuggets of this'valuei found at Kimberley by Auckland prospectors would turn the heads of half the able-bodied men in the place* and yet between Tapu Creek and Cape O'ilville the surface of the ground 1 tar many square miles has not been disturbed, while the sea shores are washed daily with waves whose ripples, gild the black sand with the precious metal in suoh quantities that many a man, by working it, has proTided bin witt " tucker" when every other means of livelihood had failed. —Star.