THE WAIRARAPA QUARTZ BEEF.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1758, 8 October 1879, Page 3

THE WAIRARAPA QUARTZ BEEF.

The "Wairarapa Daily” publishes an account of a trip by its special reporter for the purpose of inspecting the reef lately opened up on the western side of the Wairarapa Lake, and from which the trial crushing of 2lcwt, of stone yielded loz. Sdwts. of gold. The place was opened some eight or ten years ago, when a trial sample of stone was sent to Melbourne. It appears, however, it was so long on the road before the prospectors got any reply, and the Thames rush breaking out about the same time, the place was abandoned. When the result, became known some time afterwards, of 14dwts. of gold and 2ozs. of silver, it was taken no notice of and left untouched until the present prospectors, Messrs Brandon, Qeorge, and Williams, went into the old workings and commenced afresh, with the result already known. The present workings consist of a tunnel about 60ft deep into the hill, nearly north and south, ot the end of which a shaft has been sunk, and a drive put in about 10ft to the westward. It is the spot where the trial stone came from. The quartz appears to be of a rubbly character, of a greyish white color, with ironstone veins Tuning through the stone (a good indication of gold). If the whole stone turns out anything like the trial crushing (adds the writer), 1 have no hesitation in declaring it a splendid find, as the whole hill appears to be one mass of quartz.