Tairua.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1989, 20 May 1875, Page 2

Tairua.

The following extract from a private letter just received may be relied upon as genuine. It refers to the discovery known as Garland's:— " • The Brothers' Claim, Tairua, . Brotherstown, May 17, 1875. Dear ——,—As Mr G—— is going down in the morning I will drop you a few lines by him. We are both well and just getting things as comfortable as we can make them around us in this out-of-the-way wet place, where it is nearly always raining. One of our mates has gone down again for saws, Ac, for making sluice boxes for sluicing, at which we shall make a start as soon as all is ready. Gold abounds all around us, but no one but our own party knows of it as yet. I think we have the top of the reef from which it comes. G——- opened it up while I was away last Tuesday, but since that nothing more has been done at it, because we have all been so busy putting up our winter quarters, which we must finish before we can buckle .to and work the ground. One of bur absent share? holders has sent up a man to work his share. All our mates are now camped on the ground; one of them has : his young wife and child here in the next place to us, so we shall not want for music. Poor child! I wonder it has not caught its death of cold. I shall try and come ! down on Saturday,