PROCLAMATION

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1955, 10 April 1875, Page 2

PROCLAMATION

. #. Goldbearing Stone Produced. The Evening Stab Opficb, Friday Evening. Information has been furnished to us to the effect that a New Zealand Gasttte hai been issued to-day containing a proclamation extending the boundaries of the Hauraki Goldfield. The new portion of the field has been brongbt under the operation of the Goldmining Districts Act. It comprises about 90,000 acres situated on the East Coast watershed, and includes the Tairua and other adjacent blocks. - • Ihe discovery reported to the Government, which has induced them to bring the land into the goldfield boundary, is on one of the tributaries of the Tairua River, over the dividing range from the head of the Puriri.We understand that a number of persons have left for the district during the last few days, and are now in the neighborhood of the find. For some time past rumours of a dii* covery in this locality hare been current, and about a month ago we published information from one of our oorresponrlents that a discovery of importance had been made en one of the tributaries of the Tairua Biver. In confir • ation of the belief that* the find is one of value we may state that the forty pounds of stone crushed recently, yielding some 5 ounces of gold—and which was supposed to have come from Ohinemuri—was obtained from the "reef discovered by the Tairua prospectors' in the locality now proclaimed within the goldfield boundary. The following are the blocks comprised in the portion of the goldfield added to the Hauraki District:—Tairua, Banga* hau Kapowai, Puletui, Wharekawa East, No. 3, Tautahanga and the portions of Taparatu, Koronga, Takatakaia, Pakirarahi, not before included within the Hauraki District; Whennakiti, Purangi, Te Puhia, Te Hoho, Te Xaro No. 1, Te Karo No. 2, and comprising about 90,000 acres. The district lies between the Whangamata block and Mercury Bay.