Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3704, 8 November 1880, Page 2

Correspondence.

(To the Editor of the Erening Star.)

Sib, —Hearing the boys continually talking in reference to the gold find up the big mountain, I thought to myself if I start now I will be the first petticoat that t has managed to go up in that part of the world. Judge, then, my surprise last Thursday when I started, as I thought, by myself to astonish the pro* prietors, and if possible to get some of them lumps of gold, that Mr More Fork i has been writing about that he found in quarts. Says I, if I only get a pint for my trouble, my time will .not be lost. Away I started, and to my astonishment I found two ladies up before me; both of them young and beautiful, while I, as my old man says, am getting "rather ancient." " Good morning, boys,- aays I. "Good morning, Bridget," says they; "and where are you going?" "^Jp Mount Buster, where all the gold is getting." So up I went to the ground pegged out by the Prospectors, and a good turnip field they hare pegged out. Boys, saya I, hare you got any gold ? At this one of them—the hero of the find —at once showed me a piece of stone as big as my head, and that is not over small* in which gold was to be seen all through it. I looked at the stone, and at once came to the conclusion that it was an old stone, and in all probability was one used by Noah at the time of the flood for ballasting his big ship. I sat down on the spot where the special of the Advertiser had squatted, and from where he saw the wonderful things. I beheld on this occasion, one wonderful thing to relate. < I saw the two prospectors from Hamilton that hare come over to thoroughly try the 200oz reef, and I heard that the first dish they tried contained one flax bush and one brass button, which had been used by a Pollen street grocer ia making' specimens to show that he had not been idle, as he always starts at 4 a.m. I saw from where I gat sereral townships that are being laid out,' the one furthest off .' being that of Stanley, the streets of which are all under clover, the proprietor having decided that he would have an original town. There were also several others, and the amount of building going up is startling to behold. From my exalted. ' station the future pleasant homes of Grant and Foster may be picked out, and where the enormous herds of cattle may yet be found running over the vast plains of the Upper Thames.—l am, &0., Brxdobt. ' Te Aroha, sth November.