COLLINGWOOD.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1131, 13 March 1872, Page 2

COLLINGWOOD.

The Collingwood correspondent of the Nelson Examhier writes on March 6 : — A discovery that may prove' of importance to this district, though of ho interest to the majority of your readers, as it is of that prosiest of all prosy materials — goldhas been made in a locality that maybe called a new field. The prospectors — Messrs Ryan, Higgin, and party-— have lodged an application for an extended claim, and I have heard that a number of diggers from other parts of the district have started for this new field, which is under the ranges at the rear of Mr Walker's, Purumakaho. I have heard... sufficient to hope this may prove a payable field, but the scarcity of water will no doubt limit the number it will employ. A considerable number of diggers— between one and two hundred lam told — are now scattered about the creeks finding their way into and south of West Wanganui. As very few have returned of late they must be doing pretty well, though the break up of the weather must do much to . break \ip these diggings, owing to the great amount of rainfall during the winter. The old-standing claims, the names of which are well known, are nearly all doing well. Of course I use the -term t( well " in its Collingwood acceptation ; and as I anticipated some months ago, this summer has been a pretty successf ul one with the ground-sluicing claims. The Perseverance drive has hit upon a better sample of quartz than it came across first — some of tho same appearance as that which proved the richest before. About forty feet of the drive has been through quartz of varying thickness. The reef is at present five feet thick. It is pleasing to hear that the Decimal Company's drive has at last hit upon good-looking quartz, but I can give no particulars.