GOLD AT KAIMAI.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 932, 6 April 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

GOLD AT KAIMAI.

The Bay of Plenty Times says ’ — <Messrs. Moon and Jones’s perseverance in prospecting for gold in the Kaimai District has at length been rewarded by the discovery of stone yielding 5| ozs. to the ton, a yield which it is confidently expected will be greatly exceeded when once the reef itself is reached. The exact locality of the find has very prudently been kept a secret by the fortunate discoverers, and we are sure that no one here will grudge them the reward of their three months’ arduous labour. We are in a position to state that the sample of stone which was sent for analysis was not picked by the prospeetars, and even to the most «xperience±eye it presented not the slightest. trace of the precious metal. In

fact, it was forwarded almost as a forlorn hope to ascertain whether there was any use in continuing the search further. The prospectors are confident that a payable reef will be found on tunnelling, and should it prove as rich as the analysis of the sample already sent would seem to warrant, the Kaimai goldfields will turn out much more satisfactorily than the far-famed ones at Te Aroha. The find, we understand, is well inside the Tauranga County, and not more than thirty miles; we are told, from the town. The news of the result of the crushing has caused considerable excitement, and no doubt should the field be opened it cannot fail to be very beneficial to the district. However, we should deprecate undue excitement about the goldfield until a further crushing is made, when the character of the stone will be placed beyond dispute. In the meantime Messrs. Moon and Jones deserve to be encouraged in prosecuting their search.