Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1108, 31 August 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1871.

Travelling by Cobb's coach is now a pheaper luxury than ever in this Province. By an advertisement in another column we see that the fares to Waipawa and Waipukurau (41 and 45 miles respectively) are now reduced to a shilling ! We have been requested to direct attention to the fact that the favorite s.s. Bangatira leaver for Wellington at 6 o'clock this evening —not to morrow, as erroneously adyertisec} in the PTerald this morning. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a second batch of Parliamentary Papers. They relate to the Government railway scheme, the San Francisco mail service, the late census, gold fields water supply, and the Armed Constabujaryi "Vfe have to apknowledge the receipt, from the Canterbury Flax Association, pf a pamphlet on the subject of the flax Industry, containing a large amount of information.

REMARKABLE DISCOVERY AT THE JNANGAHUA, frESTLAND. Eeefton correspondent of the Charleston Herald writes:—Some two years ago Shields, the prospector of the reef bearing his name, and another miner, a Frenchman, found some rich specimens of quartz in a gully, a little to the north of what is now designated as Kelly's line of reef, but, as ree#ng was not then, as it now is, the sole dream-of the miner, Shields did not trouble himself with the matter, beyond bearing the locality in mind for a future trial. Since, however, a purchaser would now bav,e to pay not Jess than a thousand pounds for a full share in Shields' prospecting claim, Shields thought that the scene of his former discovery might produce something as good as what had been brought to light, and accordingly he, with eleven others, applied at the last sittings of tho Warden's Court at Eeefton, for a frontage claim, which of course, was granted. In a day or two after obtaining the grant, a small leader, with gold visible in the stone, was found, and it was determined by the party to follow this, in expectation of striking the main reef, which was accordingly done. Near to the spot where the party camped, and within a few yards of the claim, the rock rises nearly perpendicular to a heighjt of about a hundred feet, but being covered with moss, the growth of centuries, gave to the casual observer no indication of what lay beneath the surface. One of the party, however, named Reilley, being of an inquisitive turn of mind, commenced on last Thursday, to scrape away the moss from the rock, when to his astonishment, he beheld nothing but solid quartz. Running back to the party and informing them of what he had found, was the work of a minute, when they coming there, and fol lowing Reilly's example of laying bare the stone, found what they had before taken to be a huge wall of granite rock, to be nothing but one complete face of a quartz reef; the reef was soon traced to a height of sixty feet, by a length of more than three hundred feet, where it enters the hill side. Several pieces of stone were knocked off, everyone of which contained gold visible to the n-ked eye ; and the fortunate discoverers at once scattered themselves to hunt up old mates, and as the saying is, "lay them on." Perhaps in the varied incidents of quartz mining, no parallel can be found to the singularity of this incident, and it must now convince even the most unbelieving that the Inangahua is destined soon to be acknowledged as one of the richest mining districts on the West Coast.