A ROMANTIC STORY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4949, 12 February 1895, Page 2

A ROMANTIC STORY.

i A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD. ! W HOLES AI j H SLAUGHTER OF NATIVES. | (Received February 12,11 a.m.) ton, February 12. An astonishing story combining . all the elements of a iirsfc-class rol mance, including the discovery of a mountain of gold andgrcatshuglitor of natives lias been published. The - sccno is laid somewhere beyond the Ninety Mile,two prospectors, Michael Fitzgerald and William Parry lmvo been arrested since the story ciune out. The story told by their mates is that a syndicate of eight was formed jj for the purpose of prospecting. Six I of whom went out in December last, and camped at Fresh Water Hotel on the road to Mount Margaret. Fitzgerald,while engaged in tracking their camels, which had wandered away, entered a patch of dense forest, in which ho caught sight of r an immense outcrop of quartz, every ut boulder showed gold, and the hill e which is 15 feet wide at the summit, J is 250 feet long and 70 feetin height it is described as fall of gold. r In another outcrop tliecasing conp tains rich gold. Later information, e however, tones down these glowing I accounts and says the quartz is a I nice battery stone, but is not sensae tionally rich. During the absence of the pross pcctors at the find, blacks raided the n camp. A man named llobertsou, t who joined them in the pursuit of ® the Natives states that the latter were slaughtered wholesale, without! 0 regard to age or sex, that infants were taken from their mothers and f their brains dashed out on rocks and that unnanieable outrages were 5 perpetrated on the women.