TIMARU.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 635, 12 February 1870, Page 4

TIMARU.

■■■■•■ : "—■ — ~r - : „;. [tIMABUHEEAI*, 29m JAN.] One of the party (Strong) sent into Waiho cuntryundor the auspices of the Timarn Gold Prospecting Association re^iyrhed to town yesterday.- Since leaving Tijftaru, now about a uiorith: ago, the paifty of four, have been engaged in thoroughly prospecting , the country, iihiefly with the view of discovering a qu.aHa rebf tnipjwn to exist in a certain locality. On the sth instant a shaft was Commenced to be sunk in the neighbor hood of the supposed reef, jand after many days' of hard labor the depth of forty Feiet wjw reached, In this shaft iron stone and quartz boulders were met with, and the nien purpose) -after having the picks and : miniug tools put in order at Waimate, where they were taken to— to drive for the reef, which is supposed to be but a few feet either way of the shaft, Strong brought with him into TimarU some quartz which is though D to come from the main reef they are in search o|.~This quartz, in mining parlance termedf #esliy:q-^a;rtz," is highly thought of bys^oaag.raild his mates. As far as can be j.ltaged r it ilooks well, and what appear like}ip^6^ioifi gold can be discerned in it. Wii^iih^aßatfcer' at rest. Borne of the (ftti|^i^m -iliionri posHession will be forw<^»ft>.^&ntr iftbjtlys'iis ; to Wellington. In a ore^fi^iieani-ayhailf ; miles from where the shaft is sunk the men found some; very colored gold, and the assumption is that the reef which they are in : search 'ai runs down to this creek. The reef is supposed to run north and south. In the river irito-whlcli the : creek flows alluvial gold was found in many placeß. Tlie Bpecimens of gold brought in are u.uggetty, or, perhaps they

are better described as heavy shotty gold. The further the river bed was gone into, the more gold was found, and the men seem sanguine that if the river were turned there would be considerable results. They think that with the discoveries they have made up to the present time there is a fair prospeot of finding a field for which the Government reward might be claimed. We learn from Strong that Howard, who for some time past has been working at a reef over which there is a reserve from sale, has recently heard that the quartz sent by him for analysis is devoid of gold. The quarts is described as orystallised, and such quartz is rarely ever gold bearing.