RICH GOLDFIELDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4957, 21 February 1895, Page 3

RICH GOLDFIELDS.

£20,000 FROM 100 TONS OF , STONE. ( After his meeting with the Uri- \ wera natives, Mr (.'adman returned , to Auckland, and Mr Gordon, Chief \ Inspector of Mines, and Mr Jlackay, , Government Geologist, set out with s a party of the Natives to inspect the place (some four day's travel into , their mountain fastnesses) where the ' auriferous deposits were alleged to exist. After they had gone about half the distance (two days' journey) the Natives began to raise some difficulties on the ground that the place for which they were hound t was f apu, and they did not wish it to i bo desecrated. Messrs Gordon and I McKay therefore decided to return, 1 and did so after making an arrange- r ment with the chief to send out a t sample parcel of the alleged gold- c bearing stone to Whakatano, whence the Government will cither forward f it to the Thames or to Wellington 1 for treatment and analysis, c Mr Cadman thinks the reports as :i to gold in the Uri wera country are 1 greatly exaggerated. Atßoforiiaho 1 was shown by a gentleman recently \ returned from Coolgardie, some rich 1 gold specimens from that place, but j he considers that far richer finds i have been made at Coroiuandel, than i any he has heard of at Coolgardie. \ Within the last year, £22,000 worth c of gold has been obtained from 100 a tons of stuff in the old Union Beach 1 ground at Coromandel. This is at t the rate of £2OO to the toil. Aud s yet the Press Association agents at i Auckland, have never thought the t matter worth a telegram, Verily 1 the people up North are singularly ( modest, says the N.'/,. Times. \