PROSPECTING FOR GOLD AT WHANGAREI.
It is known here fchab sevetal parties are working gold-bearing roofs in Ihe Kaitaia a iew miles distant from the township, for a length of timcv past. Air William Dent and Mr Saunders may be mentioned amongst them as the principal ones. Hiiey work under great diead vantage?, not «the least of which is want of capital. There .have be§n several analyses made an Auckland which showed that the .<precious ,ni«tals weie in the stone, both gold -and silver (i&e correct figures were then but ,«ot in payablo quantities. iLately Mv Saunder£,,jvlio.has been pegging dogged perseverance and pluck, •driving on their reef, •'ha.- r b,i:quKht in some ■of the finest .ifch^fc ,have as yet' 'cotne out of the locality, and &k'i£ proposed *fco a parrel to bavo it crufehe/l/ihrQugh •the Bank of Nexv- Zealand. Hopes are en'tertained that it iu;iy chow the metal in payable quantities.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 337, 26 January 1889, Page 6
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151PROSPECTING FOR GOLD AT WHANGAREI. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 337, 26 January 1889, Page 6
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