THE WEST COAST GOLD DISCOVERY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1979, 28 June 1880, Page 3

THE WEST COAST GOLD DISCOVERY.

[By Telegraph.]

[from oub own correspondent, j WELLINGTON, June 26. The information which has been officially obtained about the rumored gold discovery between the Paringa and the Haast Eivers confirms the suggestions that have been made as to the possible value of the new field, but it aiso makes certain that the nature of the country is such that anything like a “ rush ” would result in very great suffering. It is said that two men named Kinnard and Maher were out prospecting seven months. During the first throe months they got but little gold, chiefly from creek beds ; then they chanced to find rough gold on the top of a high spur, and following up certain indications they succeeded during seven weeks in getting something over 41b. weight of gold. They strove for more than two months to bring water to the terrace where the “find” was chiefly made, but failing they returned to the Paringa. The gold is nuggetty, and one piece of it weights about soz, Traces of quartz can be seen adhering to several of the bits. The part of the country in which Kinnasd and Maher worked is described as between Abbey Bocks and the Moeraki Lake, It, as well as another large tract from the Abbey Bocks to the Waita, was before known to be auriferous, and a road which is in course of construction will run within five or six miles of the former, and will practically open up the latter, but all authorities agree that the difficulties in the way of getting provisions to the terrace or its neighborhood are very great indeed, and that they should deter from the attempt all who cannot incur considerable expense and endure great hardships.