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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 41, 7 October 1867, Page 245

PiATiinxAt oy the West Coast.—W® take the following; from the, West C<>a?k l'imes, of the 11th instant::—“The esisi/’* ence of platinum on the West Coast, ahid in payable quantities, is now. placed beypud all doubt, a; miner,having arrived.in tbtfVd, some few days since, with two ouuces <?? j metal, which lie disposed of to Mr Prostor, Keveil-street. The man .stated thi»fc he procured, it: oiit of the beach at son’s hay, where it abounded, aud that b® knew of, anotuer locality further on wbe£® it was yet more plentiful, as working with alia dish only lie, could wash out froth 602. to 7oz. per day. We hope to het*?. mire of this platinum question, as lb® establishment of anotuer mineral resou*?® would be of great' benefit to the distriPt/* The 18th ilor ai. iEiah.—The VVawgf** nui "Times of the 2ist 'says,:— ; k.#'cellency the Goyeruorproposed to ters that 200 men of tbw Kegiment should, be stationed ,at;Tauranga; ZdO at T*W» uakil fOO in .AucklandV, and the remainder left at Whngauitw, Ho was f to irheih®! headrquarteVs; should not idWellington. •Miiasters’x.decUnedf.tq tion the proposed ’mqvemeiitßj but wottld; jnoloppose of ; hißvExceUe»p/» ohtheunderatandiugthatheaasumedlb® fespphsibilityv ; i ; will asaume fhe responsibility, .or noi y® caunot say'; but it is likely that despatch^ 1 * by the predent maii';-wiil causo the Co;be, left to too tibn of-Sur Gkbrge *