GOLD-PROSPECTING

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 86, 18 January 1872, Page 3

GOLD-PROSPECTING

For many months past we have announced the formation of gold-prospecting parties organised in various portions of the province for better testingindications of gold finds in different localities, and we arc glad to give a few particulars respecting another well-equipped party, which has just started for the Tairua District, under the leadership of Air Matthew Barry. Various reports of a favourable character have reached Auckland from this locality for a considerable time past, and it is pretty generally known that several parties working there have obtained strong indications of a payable character, which induced them to continue working. Mr Barry, well known in connection with the early history of the Thames goldfields, hearing of these reports, determined to give a few months’ trial to the district in question, and with four experienced miners, has just started, furnished with supplies, tools, &c. Air Barry has also taken with him recommendatory letters from various persons here to the principal native chiefs and settlers, and we have no doubt that, if by any chance this portion of the province is likely to prove really gold-bearing, it will soon be known. During the last sittings at the Provincial Council a resolution was agreed to sanctioning an expenditure of £250 for gold-prospecting parties this we consider was a judicious proposition, and we have no doubt that parties who go to the expense of doing so much for the collective good, will in case of a desire to continue prospecting, receive some assistance at the hands of the Provincial authorities in the event of their means getting exhausted. We wisli Air Barry and his party every success. — Cross.