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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1232, 26 January 1872, Page 3

REPORTED DISCOVERY OF GOLD AT WANGAREI. [NEW ZEALAND HERALD, JAN. 22.] An excellent specimen of gold-bearing quartz was brought to town, on Saturday morning, from Wangarei, and by the p.s. Duke of Edinburgh. For some time past it has been thought that gold exited at Wangarei, and some ten or a dozen men have been trying their Juck with pick and shovel at the most likely looking places. Several of these have been for the last few days employed in putting in a drive at the back of Mi Rust's property and on .Friday last the specimen in question .was taken out. It was thought by some of the diggers —not practical mind's —that the metal contained in the stone vas not gold, but on being tested it was found to be the pure metal. The specimen will be analysed ,at one of the banks to-day, and, although it is not a very rich one, it will, doubtless, be found sufficiently s,o to prove that gold exists at Wangarei in sufficient quantities to prove payable if the ground is systematically worked. The stone brought to town is stringy, surface quart:-:. No doubt the quartz will be found much better at a greater depth.

[daily southern cross.] Mt Rust and party have been .en,gaged prospecting for some time on the quartz ridges at the back of the township of Wangarei. Our correspondent sa y S: —Mundic has been found, aud there is a determination on the part of the leading merchants to .have the quartz-hills thoroughly prospected, and the quartz tested at the Thames. It was reported on Saturday that the Maoris have found gold-bearing quartz at Maungakaran.ea, and that some specimens were sent to Auckland by .Captain Anderson, of the .-Clyde, last trip. Ah the workmen were engaged metalling the road from Mr Johnston's to Melu>um% Hill, they.cut \hrough a bed of chalk and clay, some of which has been tried, and it forms an excellent substitute for whiting. One peculiarity about it is that, when a lump is dropped into water, it causes a slight effervescence. This may explain or help to explain, the cause of the famous Whangarei "Soda Springs" .that are in the immediate vicinity, though at a much .lower level.