GOLD-FIELDS NEWS

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 85, 17 August 1868, Page 198

GOLD-FIELDS NEWS

THE THAMES,GOLD^ILELDS. We extract; as jfrqin thAletters of the cbrredjpondent bf : the^Eyening Nfeyirs;-7T r /,/:/- ///;./!/V’ ; ./ s ... v .;. ./ , August .3. - / ‘Witjioufc even excepting Hunt’s, the Manukau, the Middle Star, or the All Nations, th«' ! n<^egt'.li9iadSrvyeC;.fdnn4;p~hJthy field has; been, struck by the Anglo-Saxon Claim, adjoining the Bed* Jacket, oVLeaningVon the is to say, if. we can place any reliance on the specimens exhibited in town this morning. The leader was hit/whilst bpehihgl aface on the Anglo-Saxon,., within;, twelve;inches of the Red Jacket boundary. Shares in each of these claims,; which have' beennominal hitherto, have run - up to large prices during the afternoon.. A: great rush was anticipated to Puriri this morning, in consequence of news received on Saturday that alluvial gold had been found; ; Eew of theold hands!believed it,-and it is in some respects consolatory to know that the report originated, from the fact of a rather rich mulloick leader being found. ■/-

August 5. There has been a'rush to Tararu. ' Mr Warden Baillie, or rather Mr not Warden Baillie (for he has resigned) declines to act in a judicial capacity—that is to say, he will not sign any more summonses j and there are very conflicting rumors as to the leader struck by the Anglo-Saxon party. That is all the news/ as one might say, in a heap. Permit;me to amplify. A gentleman, who at one period, of his life, pursued, I believe* the useful and necessary calling of a “tinker,” has found gold in : a gully beyond Tararu Point, and as a result some 400 persons rushed there yesterday j whether they : have got the tin without the care of looking, I-cannot at present say.—Mr Baill;e, as every one is now aware, sent in an application some time since for. an increase of salary—that hitherto paid being, as we ail know, -most insignificant for. such a position as Warden of an extensive gold-field j the application was not granted, and Mr Baillie therefore resigned; his resignation was accepted, and a polite intimation at the same time sent to him that he would continue to hold office until the appointment of his successor, for which appointment no period was fixed. Mr Baillie having had quite enough of official delays, and also of semi-official newspaper reports as to the reason for his leaving, has now taken the coarse indicated previously.—lt is said that the specimens exhibited by the Anglo-Saxon people, though from their claim, are not from a distinct leader, but are merely surface boulders. As it has now become the fashion,to say this of nearly all rich claims, we must wait for a day or two to know the exact circumstances: that they are the richest specimens exhibited ; here hitherto there can, however, be ho doubt." The Prince Patrick, two claims 1 from Nolan’s, on the Waiotahi, struck two " fine goldbearing leaders on Friday last, and the usual' specimens have been taken out—l say usual as specimens are how always produced, and I shall not be surprised to hear next that some have -been found whilst excavating for the new wharf, which is as near completion as it ever was;

August 6. The ITobsoh Claim is owned -partly by Maoris and partly by Europeans, and it yesterday hit on a leader fromwhich sevoveral specimens were brought to town this morning; one especially, in the possession of Mr Morton Jones; is—well the "old phrase is bound to cbmein—quite equal to anything yet discovered on the Thames. It is scarcely necessary to Say that the native shareholders have been knocking about town all-day, and* influenced by waipb'a, have in most instances parted "with their, shares. -•- "• - •' ■ - KENNEDY’S BAY. The Evening News, August; 3, . thus records the discovery of alluvial gold on the above field

We'were shown: to-day,- by Mr Smart, of the firm of Cruikshank, Smart and Go., 18 ounces of aUuvial nuggetty gold, of very rich color, and said to , be-: worth £3 I7s or £3 ISs . per ounce, which came up this morning. from Kennedy’s Bay. This apparently settles theimportant question in the affirmative of the existence of alluvial, gold in payable quantities at Kennedy’s Bay, concerning which many people have been very sceptical.! The gold shown to us is really a splendid specimen, and Mr Smart assures us that, it is.. the.produce of a claim pegged off. by. himself, hear the creek some weeks.-ago. ..