THE WAITEKAURI.
A great many miners hold a higher opinion of this district than of the prospectors' spur, and a large number wended their way after getting their rights to peg out ground there. Mr C. F. Mitchell applied at once after the proclamation to the Warden for a prospecting claim in the Waitekauri, and handed a copy of the following letter, which he had forwarded over 12 months ago to the late Superintendent : — , " Auckland, December 18,1873.—His Honor, John Williamson, Esq., Superintendant Province of Au,ckland.—-Sir— We, the undersigned, Charles Feather-
stone Mitchell and Daniel Leahy, of the Thames Goldfield, have the honor to report to you, for public information, that we have discovered gold in payable quantity, in the Okinemuri country, at a place in the Waitekauri Block, Thames district, on a leading spur pff the dividing range, running due north-east by southwest. There is a defined body of quartz, varying from six to nine feet in width, and, so far as ascertained, a mile in length. We have the honor to request protection for the discovery, and for the first right to water to work the said reef.—We have, <&c, C. F. Mitchell, Dan. Leahy."
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1924, 4 March 1875, Page 2
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196THE WAITEKAURI. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1924, 4 March 1875, Page 2
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