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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 37, 14 February 1870, Page 3

Something Like a REEF.-In a telegram received from Dunedin on Friday last by the Wellington Post, we find the followiug : _« 12.35 p.m/ At a crushing of the Aurora Company, Cromwell, last night, three pounds of stone yielded one pound of gold. It is reported that a ledge of gold like a jeweller's shop has been struck. The excitement is immense.*' The Alexandra correspondent of the Southern Cross says : — " Soldiering, to the settlers of the Waikato, means ruin, and if the Government cannot keep up a standing force on their frontier settlements, the Waikato will soon be depopulated. There will be panic after panic as long as such men as Te Kooti, Kereopa, and Co. are allowed to roam at large ; the settlers have not yet forgotten the Bay of Plenty massacres (the very name of Te Kooti brings it fresh to their memories,) and if it be°true that Rewi said, " Let'Te Kooti alone, do not stop him or interfere with him," then we must consider that he is playing a double game which must sooner or later come to an end."