Ohinemuri Goldfields.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4504, 12 June 1883, Page 2

Ohinemuri Goldfields.

(FEOM OUB OWN COBEEBPONDENT.) Paeboa, Saturday. The latest and what is generally pronounced the richest discovery made up to the present in the Karaogahake district, was disclosed to view in the Ivanboe claim during the week just past. I had heard a great deal about it, and with a view to ascertaining the truth or otherwise of the reports that were in circulation, I visited the scene of the '* new find" yesterday in company with J. Liddle, who has been prospecting the ground ou behalf of himself and the other shareholders. The reef in which the disco?ery was made has a general north and south course, with an easterly underlie, and will average about four feet in thickness. It is partly composed of solid stone, and of friable quartz, in both of which gold is plainly visible. In order to arrive at, any-' thing like a correct estimate of its value, however, it is necessary to have recourse to the crushing process, and then the results obtainable are simply astounding. The Ivanhoe is situated on the Taukaneto hill,, which forms the delta at the confluence of the Ohinemuri and Waitawhete Elvers. It was marked off 10 as to embrace the northern continuation of the principals reefs that are now being worked on the southern banks of the last mentioned stream. It covers an area of 23 acres, and is located within a few chains of the Hatiraki' Company's battery, with which it can be connected at a comparitively trifling cost. r