The Tiki District.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 926, 16 March 1881, Page 3

The Tiki District.

[From the Coromandel Mail], The continued output of rich specimens from the few mines opened on this new goldfield must now go far to conviuce the most sceptical that the present finds are of more than ordinary importance. Out of the twelve claims now being worked on nine have been discovered quartz veins of a rich gold bearing character, and the ground as yet has scarcely been opened. Two of the reefs, which are all distinct from one another have been formed on Government ground, and the fact of a large area adjoining being unoccupied should attract a number of prospectors. At the present time on the Tiki diggings there are not more than seventy miners—a very small number indeed considering that the same show in any other part of the world would have drawn thousands to the spot. It is something like the old story of the wolf which when it at last came no one would credit it. All who have visited the Tiki will admit that never before in Coromandel has anything been like it. On the Tokatea there was only one reef that was rich discovered for some time. At the Lowber Township the Union Beach lod# was the only one of value, and yet it caused a great rush. The visitor to the Tiki can see thirteen different lodes, each of which are carrying rich gold, and further development will undoubtedly bring to light new goldbearing veins now lying perdu on the ranges, amongst the moss and tangled scrub that runs through the dense forest.