Ohinemuri Goldfields

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4514, 23 June 1883, Page 3

Ohinemuri Goldfields

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Paehoa, Friday.

WAITEKAUBI. la this district of late " new 'pnd* " are of doily orcurrence .the latcsff berne that made at. Waitrknuri hy Knntly and Skeene, who have been for sorernl yen™ prospecting in that locality, and if all I hear be true, they are ,now about to be .rewarded for their faithnndpersovf-vanRP. Some month's ago this party marked off a claim near to tho old Just in Tims'company's groand. and after doihe a considerable amount: of" prospecting, 'they'raopeedi'd in opening put upon » belt of sandstone intersected by innumeriible quartz striojters. in which goldl was freely | risible. In following up thpse stringers they came upon two well defined leaders, ' varying in thickness, from which during the past few days they bare brolieij out 4001bs of specimens. These are now being treated at the Waitekanri battery, and th* .result will be made.known to the public -; generally.hefore the end of the week. -S Hollis and party, Iribut^rs in tbe^aiteksnri mine, have just finished a crushinp of 3001b« of specimens, which yielded'over dOOozs of hard squeezed amslgam. L ■' ', 'Latbb. Therois great excitement at Win'tekauri, where pegging put is the ordt*r of the day. -The atone broken out from( the new find.isreported to berery rich. "■ \