IHOW TO FIND QUARTZ REEFS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIIL, Issue 270, 21 November 1878, Page 5

IHOW TO FIND QUARTZ REEFS.

j A humorous f CQrreapbnde|i6 of tH# jgtikitifcaVt^^^ jsharebrokers is -worthy haqdcedieofafoffr jgetting up a rush:, j was in the shared broking^business myself in a weighbdtar^V iin ■> province.; f A^harebrplie^ wh L o "<iie& ;'. in Bendigo, b^ueathed/.m^ five speei-. mens .stating in his iwill that,' put t6 honest use, they were* woath ihore* than . the Kohinoor. As' soon as Tgdfc. the specimens I came to New Zealand: and showed them to some parties on a goldfield, and got up a tnania iu no time: Ot course, sharehrokers came up to see what was to be done. One of these gentlemen, whose name I don't know, asked one day if I had got any stone out of my reef. 1 said I had knocked off a few .pieces from a leader, and: showed him the specimens. He im-? mediately grasped my haud, arid fairly shaking With excitement, said " My boy*'* tha best' pieces of quartz in the Aiis-., tralian colonies.. To my knowledge, with their aid. thirty-seven companies in Yictoria, fourteen in New South. Wales, and seventeen in Queensland,- 1 besides others I may not have heard of,have been got up. It is just fifteen years since I saw them first in BendigoV What will you take for them •?'•_.. I re 7 plied that I did'nfc care about parting with them. My friend sighed deeply-, and as he turned away to hide a falling tear,? remarked in broken acceois,, "I ' have been looking after these specimens? for five years ; the last 1 heard of themo was near Port Curtis." A few weeksafter this I deemed it advisable toleaste 1 tbe p'ace, not on account ofthe reef, dipping considerably, and the inability^ of the miners working in the shaft; where it commenced to dip, but because I wished to visit a friend in Victoria..; I then sold the specimens to fche gentle-,: man who coveted tbem He remarked, as we parted, "I atn going to make a pile up; North.''. .He went to Auckland. Three weeks after he landed there a rush set in.