Terawhiti.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 218, 18 August 1883, Page 2

Terawhiti.

THE. FIKsT CRUSHING.

It may be as well to mention that tbe gold iroui the Golden crown crushing — the produce of me Terawhiti field — was brought iu by Mr W. P, Parsons^ a director of the Golden Crown mine; Mr I Giles, battery manager ; and Mr W. Tinn y ihe exact weight of the cake is 750z8 siiwts, and that of the amalgam was 2210zs 15dwts, The gold was [found to be wotth exactly £4 per ounce. The retorted cake of gold, the result of the crushing of (he Go/den Crown stone, was at the pomniencenient of the sitting of the Legislative Council, placed upon the table of the Coun* oil, under a glass shade, and wa9 viewed by hon members with a considerable amount pf interest. After prayers had been read, the Hon. Mr Chambeilin rose for the purpose of asking 1 ■ the {Speaker jf the gold on (be table of the Council liad not become foe property ot th<i Council from t}je n>ere fact thbt everything placed upon the table de facto became the property of the Coun~

3i'. Sir (A. 8. Whitnioie thought tint the gold might bd devoted to the benefr. •f boa. members, As a kind of solatium in ?i«w of the probability of tho honoraria of hou. niembura being abolished. Tho Speaker did not give lm ruling upon the snbject, and the gold was almost immediately afterwards removed by a messenger from the chamber. [Wellington Pap?r.] ! There seems to be a feeling ;of disappointment abroad relative to the result of . the Golden Crown crushing. Rumors and surmises are rife, but are not worth s rious attention ; but even assuming that the Golden Crown vein stuff was oaly worth one oz ol gold to the ton, that a goo 1 mine had been opened could not be gainsaid. But when quantity and quality are combined, the position is unassailable. With their gold at, say £4 per ounce, :ihe Tera»» wbiti lodes are nearly twice as valuable as those of the Thames groldfield, where the metal seldom exceeds in value '£2 12s and £2 14s per ounce, and has fetched as little as 30s. The Thames golti was what the miners termed "A. mighty poor sample," just as they will reverse that verdict in the case of lerawhi'ci.