Te Aroha Goldfleld.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3687, 19 October 1880, Page 2

Te Aroha Goldfleld.

Claims Pegged Oat.

Some few Particulars not

Generally Known.

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Te Aboha, Saturday. Mr C. P. MitchelU who is the accredited " own correspondent" of your morning contemporary, and. who has for some time past, in, his communications, "pooh-poohed" the idea of the ex. istence of gold at Te Aroha—in his own words, ,;'! within twenty/ miles of Te Aroha " —has seen fit to peg off a claim in the supposed vicinity of the prospectors' claim. I say " supposed/ because I don't,; think any outsider really knows where it is. Mr Mitchell's application is on behalf of himself and eleven others, principally natives. - Messrs Molntyre and Ferguson have seen some; loose gold in the creeks, and with others; have pegged out claims at various points, and are vigorously prospecting. If any discovery of importance has been made, all are keeping very dark about it. I hardly think so, however, as something would have been bound to leak out. The country in the immediate vicinity of the Te Aroha is exceedingly hard, and time and money will be required to remuneratively : develop the mineral resources of the district. ■'■ !'. *>

I may say that the country* for miles abounds in quartz, 1 tad so far back as 1870, Messrs A. Porter and the late Thomas Baird, along with Mr James Mackay, junr., had a claim surveyed 'on which they found a little gold f but, «o far as I have been able to ascertain,; nothing has been done on it. Forobvious reasons they kept their discovery secret. 1 should not be surprised to bear that the discovery recently so much spoken and written about is in the vicinity I refer to, and which I may state is some distance from where the claims have lately been pegged out. --/J -. ;■'■}>. -•■-■■.■- ':l :M\i:^~, ■■-■" ;