THE GOLD DISCOVERIES AT TADMOR AND TEREMAKAU.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 852, 17 March 1877, Page 3

THE GOLD DISCOVERIES AT TADMOR AND TEREMAKAU.

(Nelson Times, March IS )

Our last advices from the Taclmor confirm previous reports, but add nothing to warrant any excitement am-nt the new gold discovery. On Saturday there were fifty men upon the ground, and our informant passed some forty men upon the road, so the present population may be estimated at 100. Six claims are upon gold, and the men are thoroughly satisfied that their ground will pay good wages. W. Gardner and party struck what they consider payable ground on Friday, and Boyd—one of the original claim holders sold his interest to T. Beil for £9O on the same day. The principal reason for this sale being that the seller owns a block of freehold land in the immediate neighborhood which he fancies will prove auriferous. Several men have visited the field and immediately returned. One party, upon their arrival in Nelson on Saturday, gave tho place a bad name, but our reporter ascertained upon undoubted authority that of the grumblers only ono had reached the scene, and his stay was limited to fifteen minutes, at the end of which period he returned to rejoin his companions, who were refreshing themselves at a roadside public house, so that any information from this party can be taken for what it is worth. Two things only in connection with this subject seam certain : The first is, that at present the field offers no inducements to any save experienced miners furnished with sufficient means to prospect; the second is, that until a number of such men are located upon the spot nothing definite or reliable will be known of the extent and value of this latest gold discovery, concerning which rumor is at present altogether too busy.

([Kumara Times, March 10th.) The report of another new rush on the north side of the Teremakau caused no little excitement in town during the past few days. The ground is situated on the top of a terrace, directly above the puntman’s house, and withiu 200 yards of the ferry, and what extent of payable ground the, place will afford is a matter of conjecture >t present. Between sfix’y and seventy people were were on the ground yesterday, and from twenty to thirty new ejaima wore pegged out, many of the coca piers “shepherding,” or, in other word a, waiting to know he result of their neighbor’s prospect before selling in.” There are only about fou: claims that can show any actual results for labor done. The firth- one, Gill and party, hold six men’s ground. They Tavo been prospecting for the pus fix d tys, during which time they to k two shafts and were d offered out; but still sanguine that they wore 1 right," they put down a third hole, at a depth of about 15ft, aud were rewarded for

their perseverance by obtaining the very excellent prospect of half an ounce of coarse gold from about half a load of washdirl They have not yet bottomed, bat are sa’isfie-i with their '• show,” and purpose driving a tunnel from the face of the terrace to the shaft, a distance of 60ft or 70ft, so as to p o perly open out their claim. The next claim, adjacent to Gill’s, is held by a party of Austrians, who have been working for three or four months past, and appear to be well satisfied with their periodical returns. One of the party produced about an ounce of coarse pieces of gold, weighing from Idwt to 3 Iwteach, which had been obtained from time to time, and go to show the quality and kind of gold obtained. The same party hold the present sole water supply, having a race cut about one and a half miles in length, from a gully at the back of the terrace. They are of opinion they will be able to supply most of the claims to the west of them with sufficient water. Of two other claims near Gill’s, it was reported that they had obtained prospects of from 2 to 4 grains to the dish. The same obstacles met with in the Kumara claims—namely, “ big boulders,” are also experienced at the new ground, but possibly this is a good fault, at this particular place, as without the boulders the probability is there would be no finding of " nice little nuggets,” Some experienced miners at the rush seem to be under the impression the present run is a continuation of the old Greenstone lead, and that it will ultimately be traced for some distance on the other aide of the Greenstone crrek.

(Tlhsf Coast Times , March 12th.)

The report that one ounce and seventeen pennyweights of gold was obtained from the bottom of a hole at the new rush on the north bank of the Teremakau, Hayes Terrace—is, we are reliably informed, entirely unfounded. A hole bottomed on Saturday, near the ,hill, further bick on the terrace, proved a duffer, but those who are sinking in front of the terrace are in good hopes of striking gold. During next week there will be a large number of holes bottomed. There are about one hundred men on Hayes’ Terrace, and another hundred scattered about higher up the river. The miners are in great hopes of striking gold in the high terraces at the back, and believe the present discoveries are iuns proceeding from the main lead at he back.