THE KUAOTUNU GOLDFIELD.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 455, 19 March 1890, Page 4

THE KUAOTUNU GOLDFIELD.

Auckland, March 15. Tms morning a meeting of Auckland shareholders in the “ Surplus" goldmining claim, situated in tho Kuaobunu district, was held. The claim has only recently been taken up, but already the prospects of the mine are very favourable. It lies to the west of the Great Mercury Claim, and comprises a portion of the ground pegged off by the original prospectors of the Held, but afterwards abandoned by them in order to reduce their area to the limits prescribed by the warden.

At the meeting the mine manager submitted the following report:—“The mine is well situated, being in close proximity to the new county road, and also to the creek which supplies the only available water for batteries on the west or Try Fluke side of the spur. Only a little work has been done as yet on the ground, but some very promising-looting reefs have been discovered, and good prospects are obtained. The Try Fluke reef should, I think, from previous observations of my own, run through this ground in a N. \V. and S.E. direction, bub at present I cannot say that I have been able to identify it with any certainty, though it is very possible that the reef showinginthccofnerofthe Bed Mercury claim may be it. If so you should get a good portion of it, as its general course runs about parallel with your western boundary. I feel certain that many reefs nob yet discovered intersect your property.” As a result of the satisfactory nature of the report received, the shareholders unanimously decided to put more men on the ground at once, and send a trial parcel of quartz to the Thames for treatment.