REMARKABLE DISCOVERY AT THE INANGAHUA, WESTLAND.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 184, 17 August 1871, Page 7

REMARKABLE DISCOVERY AT THE INANGAHUA, WESTLAND.

The Reefton correspondent of the " Charleston Herald " writes : — Some two years ago Shields, the prospector of the reef bearing his name, and another miner, a Frenchman, found some rich specimens of quartz in a gully, a little to the north of what is now* designated as Kelly's line of reef, but, as reeling was not then, as ifc now is, the sole dream of the. miner, Shields did not trouble himself further with the matfcpr, beyond bearing the locality in mind for a future trial." Since, however a purchaser would now have to pay not less than a thousand pounds for a full sh »re in Shield's prospecting claim. Shields thought that the scene of his former discovery rni;hb produce something as good as svhat hid been brought to light, and accordingly hp, with eleven others, applied at the" la.st sittings of the Wardens Court at JAeefcon, for a frontage claim, which of cour.se, was granted. In a day or two after obtaining the grant, a small leader, with gold visible in the stone, was found, and it was determined by the party to follow this in, in expect 1 tion of striking tha rrain reef, whi< h was accordingly done. Near to the spot we're the party camped, and within a few yards of the claim, a rock riass nearly p >rpendicular to a height of about a hundred feet, but being covered with moss, the growth of centuries, gave to the casual observer no indication of what; lay beneath the surfac?. One of the pirty, however, named Reilly, being of an inquisitive turn of mind, com nenced on 1-isfc Thursday, to acrapa away tha mos-i from the; ro-'k, wheu to his astonishment h« hpheld nothing but solid quartz Huuning bick to the pirty anil informing them of what he had found, was the work of a minute, wh=m th-y coming th'srs, and f blowing j ReiUy's ex-iinp!e of laving bare tV stone., found wh itth^y hid before tiken J to be a hrn;* 3 wall of granite rook, to be nothing but one complete ftue of a quivtz reef; (he reof was soon traced to a height of sixty-feet, by a length of more thin three hundred feet, where it enters the hill side. Several pieces of stone were knocked off, everyone of which cont lined gold visible to the n-ik^d eye ; sind the fortunate discoverers at once scattered themselves to hunt up old mates, and as thesiying is, " lay thotn on." Perh.ips in thri varied incidents of quartz mining, no p-milM can be found to the singularity of this incident, and it mu-t now convince even the mosi unbjlitivin^ tint the Tningahua is de.stive.l to be acknowledged as one of the riebpst raining districts on the West Coast.

The transport of Communists to New Cubdonia is lint <Jefinit<»!y decided, as M. Gr.unbetta disapproves of it, and recommends clemency.