TAURANGA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 561, 19 March 1868, Page 3

TAURANGA.

On Monday last Messrs. Gundry, Dean, and Potterton, with their parties, returned to town from the Kati Kati, having completed the surveys of their respective blocks in that district. The natives have throughout maintained a very friendly bearing towards them, suffering the survey to proceed without molestation, and even exhibiting a degree of interest in the successful termination of the undertaking that bespoke a feeling anything but hostile. This intelligence is gratifying, and gives us reason to hope that since the surveys have been thus initiated without any serious opposition on the part of the natives, they will become more extended, till at length, not a part only, but the whole of the Kati Kati will be thrown open to the enterpri«e of the European portion of the population. Binco the land has been drawn for, it has naturally become an object of great interest, and numbers have visited it, by far the greater portion of whom speak in the highest terms of the quality of the soil and natural qualifications of the country generally, thus bearing out the character it has always borne as being a district admirably adapted for the purpose of settlement. — Tauranga Record. We have been shown some very good specimens of quartz containing gold by Captain Goldsmith, who found it on the Kati Kati block.—Ibid.