THE RUMORED TARANAKI GOLD DISCOVERY.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 83, 29 January 1876, Page 2

THE RUMORED TARANAKI GOLD DISCOVERY.

As 'vo antleipated, there is not the slightest foundalien for ■ the-hope that/ tin; ■ ’•nhleii quart;'., recently crushed hy Mr ('asey al the Thames, had been obtained in Taranaki. As wo stated previously,., our reporter interviewed MrCas *y onTlmrsday last, ami heard as nine!) as ho had to toll. He denies all that the Taranaki papers have stated— first, that ho over was mysterious with his bag .of specimens ; next, that he over gave any reporter an idea tint the stone was yet in the province, and lastly 'h * ntt s-ly d si’ as Unit he over led any o:ie to behove that y was obtain'd in the district at all. lie declines to say where- it erne IV.m. an I in doiny so is eni.Dely justified. If he chooses to say, wei! a:id good, hut the public have no riylit to <pi 'stioa him as to any,matter he thinks lit to keep score.. All the varns about mates, &c., he declares to be completely false, iU ul states that In* had no two mates wheat ho left Auckland, on the contrary, ho was aceomp.aiii d merely hy his si.srer-ind.aw. Miss Qninl ivan. It must lie. obvious that the storie< told are utterly Unfounded.- II the quarts was not in land within the province, he does not can; to disclose the spot, and at present the locality from w.ii'di (o'* sn mens camcAmnst remain a mystery. Sergi Dolan glves.a liulc extra information dm tiic subject. Id-’ states that. he saw Cas“y relative to the find.' and dial the latter told him then that ho had got the stone from Maori land, that the land owivd by Titokowarau was really ti.io -spot . from, which the gold was taken, an 1 tliat (he only, reason for his reticence was 1 had lie feared to niak ;•. a useless rush, and hrblamed accordingly. Thouyli tin; sloii'* was so good,Tuglbought it might only b • a.patdij.aud the re tore w is afraid, to can«e a stampede, esphe-i ally: its it was on Mama .ground,- and .the- Maoris would prevent the -Idiirojwans from working it. Altogether, we rcyn'-i to say, nothing profitable - has- b*-en learnt, and what iias come to light an. ls vaw liit.c t > our prvioils stock' of in lornn! inn, if is improbable. apparently.- 'that the stone has been‘got in the Vrovine *, but M-r Cas-w, either declines or hair-' to t-d! the place ftdm which;it.A\o]s taken, whether it he, Ibdtbib-'thediniitsdd' ■ TaVandki. -Auek'and; or elsewhere. We have done, all -wm can to solyfc the mystery, and eonfesSourse!'. ■ s b**aten. iAH tlie informatiohjw.; poind gather has Item placed at thcali.s.msay of civ readers ; tln-v must i/mky t:iv best or the' Worst of it ad tfu-y test can'; *' hj