Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1869.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 736, 18 November 1869, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1869.

Gold-bearing quaitz reefs are reported as having been recently discovered in various parts of the Provinces of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago. The reports published in our exchange files just to hand of some of these are of a highly promising character—in fact, it would seem as if we are as yet but on the threshold of the history of New Zealand as a gold-producing country. The question of working the Wangapeka reefs in Nelson Province, where a large portion of the auriferous country had been purchased by the public on the discovery being made known, before the land was pto claimed a gold-field and withdrawn from sale, is in a fair way of being settled. The rights of purchasers will be protected, a survey will be made, and the district proclaimed. The stone from the reefs is reported as being exceedingly rich in gold. Other reefs have also been discovered at Collingwood, at the head of the Matai, and in tho Dun Mountain ranges. From the Grey district, on the West Coast, reports of the discovery of new and rich, reefs are received, and in Canterbury specimens have been brought in from the Peninsula, in which patches of gold were plainly visible. In Southland also, a likely reef has been struck, and a nugget of 7oz k 13dwts. picked up, which was of so pure a quality as to sell at the rate of £4 per oz. to the manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Riverton. In view of tl;ese discoveries, it is unfortunate that no better success has yet attended the efforts of the prospectors at Kaimanawa, in which direction it is that the Hawke's Bay public look for the gold-bearing district of this part of I he Colony. Dr. Ilector'.s report respecting the result of his analysis of certain specimens

forwarded to him from —that they contained no trace of gold—although obtained from the same reef which was said to have yielded those rich specimens that first caused the excitement here and at Wanganni, has cast a damper over the too bright anticipations of many. Still we do not despair, but believe that the geologic formation which has yielded gold at so many places from north to south will be found to exist there also—or at all events tha' ( a payable gold-field will be discovered in the neighborhood of Taupo, where the precious metal is well known to exist, only awaiting the enterprise of the European digger.