Pohangina Reefs.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1561, 20 November 1885, Page 4

Pohangina Reefs.

Some samples of stone brought from a spot'ab'out 2' miles i ,boyon'd the Pohan-' gina ;i reef j and left 1 iri' r Mr 'Mabarthur's yard!; i.a. ■jtwelvemonthj' c as'O--' 'we're sent into town a few days back by Mr Bartholomew, Mr W.Aiken 1 bringing the parceL'This was taken.to Mr Forbes' ; shop, arid^ in Iwlr Aiken's preßnce apiece; weighing 4ozs waU smelted. ' The result of the test was a button weighing nearly half a gram. Mr Aiken was perfectly satisfied a^ to the manner m whicli the test was carried out,; and he has com-, municajiecL ; .the result, : to Mr Bartholomew!. understand that, Mri'prbe^/ has determined . on erecting . . a furnace m which tb' carry on testing operations, ' m fact we may'saythe turnaee is now built.' With regard to the work going on at the ' reefs •■= word haS been received' to the effect ( t|iat the slip -will probably be cleared, put by the 30fcb, and the stone then taken. _ A lar^e party, of gentlemen will, bn' J th'at date, probably go. from Wanganui, Falmerston/ and other places to witch' this part of the proceedings and satisfy: themselves as to the existence- of the reef.^ — Herald. : .;