The Pohangina Reefs.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1492, 28 October 1885, Page 4

The Pohangina Reefs.

i( M „- /; '-v [Herald.], . ... , A . , , From enquiries made today we find there is still the same reticence're'garding the 1 Pohangina >esults as ; \yas prevalent yesterday. What the real reason for this may be we cannotHnagine. It appears^iovf the original cable was so unihtelligibW , that it had to be . repeated both from Wakapuakaf and from Melbourne, an<J even now there is doubt as to its real meaning. : Under these circumstances the directors prefer to wait a full report ■from the bank, but m the' present state of public anxiety they might as well allow the contents to, Jbe made known at once, as jkeep them secret for a } week .oivWq.. Wie were told tins morning ithat' ah exceptionally rich specimen had been received m town from the creek,; showing gojd to naked eye. • i j ;[Feiiding Star. J We gather from our exchanges, that the stone sent to Ballarat, has not turned ..jjuT so well as was expected. However, the gentlemen interested are not daunted* and will probably send away a still larger quantity m order thai" all doubts may be setatre|j:._-J[n-this-connftfttm^-we may mention that \th@. B.ankof r Aevr Zealand m. Auckland, h as the best plant fot the assay of gold and .testing . stone for metals m the southern Hemisphere, We believe* it ' woula T oe art easy hia tter to arrange with that institution to undertake the wort of trying samples of the stone taken from different parts ot the reef and giving .a reliable report "din' each.-' ' The oxpense would be less and the bdtia, fld& undoubted-