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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3391, 4 November 1879, Page 2

The special reporter of the Wnirarapa Paily thus describes the Wairaropa reef: —"The place was opened Rome eight or (en years a#o, when trial samples of I stone were sent to Melbourne. It appears, however, it was so long on the road before the prospectors got any reply, and the Thames rush breaking out about the sanie tirpOj the place was abandoned. When the results" which became known some time afterwards, of lddvrts of gold and 2ozs of gold, it was taktn no notice of, and left untouched until the present prospectors, Messrs Jirandon, George, and Williams, went into the old workings and eotjiuienced afresh, with the result already known. The present wordings eonpjsfc of ■ a tunnel about 60 feet deep into tho; hill; | nearly north and south, at the end of which a shaft has been sunk, and a drire put in about 10 feot to the westward. It j is" the spot where the trial stone came from. The quartz appears to be of a rubbly character, of a grej ish white colour with ironestone reps running through the stone/(a good indication of Rold). If the wljole stone turns out like the trial crushing, I have no hesitation in declaring it a splendid find, as the whole hill appears to be one mass of quartz. In stating the difficulties the prospectors had to encounter, the whole ton of stone was humped by them a distance of half a mile before they could pack iv on a horse down to the ieFel/