The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1870. THE WANGAPEKA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 12, 14 January 1870, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1870.

THE WANGAPEKA.

v Important news was brought into town last night to the effect that Mr. Marchant and Mr. Wakefield, together with several others, had ascended Mount Owen on Wednesday, and on their return in the afternoou had informed the miners that the disputed laud was from four to five miles withia the boundary lino of the South West Goldfields. Of course no survey has yet been made, but this opinion has been based merely on a bird's eye view of the country from the summit of Mount Owen; there can be no doubt however that Mr. Marchant would have not expressed himself so decidedly on this important subject unless he felt assured that there was no possibility of mistake, so that we may reasonably conclude that the survey will bear him out in the statement he is said to have made. Should the G-eneral Government, as in all probability they will do, concur with Mr. Domett in his opinion that the diggers' Mount Owen is the terminus of the line from Mount Arthur as described in the proclamation, the question will be virtually settled, and we trust that uo further delay will take place in throwing open to the public a country, of the richness of which as a mineral district there would appear tp be no doubt, and tbat ere long the hills and gullies of Wangapeka will resound with the busy clatter of machinery, and one step be thus taken towards proviug the truth of the prediction, that Nelson will one day become, by the development of the vast mineral wealth that is yet hidden in her back country, the most important -town in New Zealand.