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INTERPROVINCIAL.

-m> The Auckland news is of the usual description, in so far as it relates to the goldfields, and in other respects it is unimportant. The only re illy new item is the following : — A gentleman residing at Ng;iruawahia, when going over the ranges at Ngaruawahia, was struck with the similarity of some of the stone that he had seen at the Tba-nes. Though no gold was visible, we learn that the result of the test is at the rate of __• ounces to the ton. A Wellington paper learns bhnb matters in Auckland are not so brilliant as is generally supposed. As might naturally have b^eu exp -cted, the rush which set in to the goldfields has been overdone, and though these aro undoubtedly very prolific, and increasing in thp ; r yield, yet there are numerous blanks dr.iwn in the lottery; people of small means who have crowded to the Thames to make their fortunes, find the -n selves disappointed, and many of them would be glad to return whence they cam i. Applicants for employment of all sort are numerous, and it would be well for those who are thinking of giving up a certainty here with the hope of finding something better, there, to consider how very doubtful their prospects are. The Taranaki news is very encouraging. The settlers are rapidly regaining confidence, and are once more going back to their farms both on the north and south of New Plymouth. The Bank assay of the specimens of quirtz taken from the Kaitake ranges, shows a return of 2£ozs of superior quality of gold to the ton. The specimens were taken from a laro-e boulder which had become detached from the reef, and was lying in a water course at a considerable elevation, on the south side of the hills looking towards the Tataraimaka district. It is generally believed that the whole of the ranges are auriferous. The Kaitake ranges are distant about eleven miles south of the town of New Plymouth, rising to a height of 1500 feet above the level of the sea. They consist of a series of high peaks and ridges, and are intersected by numerous gorges, some of which are very deep, and are covered, with the exception of a small portion of their base, with heavy timber. They have an area of about 8000 acres. Should gold be found in the Pouakai hills lying on the north-east of Kaitake, and from which their nearest point is distant only a few miles, we may expect to hear of an extensive goldfield being i opened at Taranaki before long. A ship-

ment of flax manufactured iv Taranaki, consisting of forty-five bales, has been made at Waitara in the Willie Winkie. The flax mills also on the south of the province are actively at work. A deputation of two natives of the Taranaki, tribe, men, who it is said, had not previously held any com nuuication with the pakeha since the commencement of the wir in 1860, arrived in the town of New Plymouth with an iuvitation to the settlers to go down to W" ;i rea and dress flax, to go down, they said, and deal with thpm for flax as they did in the old tim^s for wheat — (in the good old times both theTar;.n;xld and Ngatiruanui tribes were lar«?e growers of wheat). This is very significant, for it must be rememb red that it is only a few weeks since the Ngatiporou under Captain Blake killed some rebels in the neighborhood .of Waihi, and some uneasiness was felt in consequence. Tli is last act of ithe Taranakis shows that they are determined to maintain the position they have held throughout the late disturbances on tho "West Coast, and remain independent of the rebels who joined Titokowaru. The steel works ore busy completing a large number of orders for stampers lor the Thames, and which it is expected will be very superior to those already ia use. From Nelson we learn that although the excitement which attended the discovery of the gold-bearing reef at Wangapeki has somewhat subsided, it becomes evey day more certain that the discovery will work a great clianjei'i the province of Nelson, and particularly in this portion of it. In addition to the reef met with by Oulliford and his party, two or three other distinct reefs have since been found in the same district, while Culliford's reef has been traced for nearly three miles beyond the prospector's claim. Specimens of stone, procured from various spots, although revealing no gold to the eye, yield numerous specks when crushed, indicating its general auriferous character ; and although some time must elapse before the reef -am be opened, and results arrived at fro n properly-conducted crushings, no person who has seen the stone, and is conversant with the subject, entertains the slightest doubt of its paying quality. Persons who have travelled in the line of the Wangapeka country, and have seen the stone exhibited in Nelson, have had recalled to their memory quartz reefs of the same character which they have encountered, but never evamined for gold ; and parties of men have gone ou*, both north and south of Waugapeka, to look up those reefs, and ascertain their real nature. The same thing is being done in the district of Collingwood, where a great deal of gold, embedded in quartz, was formerly found in the beds of many of the streams ; but the miners of that period were content with suoh gold as they could obtain in this way, without looking for the reefs from which the pieces of quartz must have been detached. A Wanganui paper says that many complaints are made in that district regarding the irregular way in which the Armed Constabulary are paid. The Cone>tabularly stationed on that part of the West Coast have, according to this authority, been upwards of three months without pay, and great dissatisfaction is consequently felt and expressed by them. ____________________

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Southland Times, Issue 1171, 26 November 1869, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
998

INTERPROVINCIAL. Southland Times, Issue 1171, 26 November 1869, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL. Southland Times, Issue 1171, 26 November 1869, Page 3

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