EXTRAORDINARY GOLD DISCOVERY. Willington, April 18

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 257, 21 April 1888, Page 6

EXTRAORDINARY GOLD DISCOVERY. Willi ng ton, April 18

An intci eating di->oo\eiy of iiliu\ial fiold has been made in an unexpected lotaliU - namely on what is known ab (lo\iMnor'-< Farm at. the western side ot the Kaion Koad, leaded b^ Jonathan Hidmcad tiom Mi ('. .1. IMifu.i/) n. The locality i^ within 300 01 400 jairt-. of the Botanical (iaidcn--. In ilini^in^ a <^ra\e in which to bury a dead cou sonic months auo, JUdmcau came acioss wa&hdiit about a toot dec)) leMinjj; on a slate bed ioek and coveied by t-e\eial feet of Mufaee mii! on an extensive r-lope ovei looking one of (he eliH-. on hie- faun. The alhmal btuil %\ a> tested and piovcd to contain and abandoning liis agricultural pui^uits foi (hoe of mining he lias within the last thiee months prospected the locality for some distance, with the le'-ull that lias been found over an aiea ot about tens chain in length. \Yheic\or it iiab been piobed tlie vash dirt has yielded payable pold, and one dish of stud panned oil by a casual \i»itor }C!-teHh\ yielded ldut 15f> - r> s of coarsf j^old, of which one little nupuet weiuhed Q^rrs, while every di-h tested had piven capital prospect?. The outcrops oi two lodes stiikmp 1 across the gullj' ha\e been disco\ered, but little jxold lias been found \i t. Bidniead hat. earned food and wa^ for sc\cral weeks past, the j^old leahsin^; I' 3 18.s per o/. Opeiations Hie bcinn; earned on in the piimitivc fashion by mean-* of di--li and cradle, and until vintci .-ot.^ in w.iti'i will be insulheionb for nioie c\tensi\e w ork&.