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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 555, 16 September 1869, Page 2

The project of prospecting the terraces to the northward of the Waimongoroa, to which we referred on Tuesday, has already taken some practical shape. Its execution will depend upon the amount of interest which the inhabitants exhibit in their own prosperity,and in the advancement of the district; and at the present moment there is very great reason for lively interest in the one subject, however indifferent people may afford to be as to the other. The project has taken this shape. A party of seven men—Nicholls and party —are prepared to prospect one or other of the terraces to the northward, as to the auriferous character of which very justifiable suspicions exist. All that they desire at the han&a of the inhabitants of Wcstport is a joinfc-stock interest in their work to the extent of enabling them to purchase tents, too 1?, and provisions—the latter calculated to last for a period of, say, two months Thus encouraged and aided, they will set to work—not to scatter their energies over the country, but to drive in a tunnel at such level and angle as may bethought best calculated to reach the golden sand with which the terraces in this neighborhood are literally pregnant. The " prospectus " of the little project—if we may call it so—sets forth that persons acquainted with the district are sanguine that success will crown the efforts of the prospectors, and the public, by their subscriptions,

are invited to second the laudable attempt of the party to open up new, and, it is to be hoped, also payable ground. With this object subscriptions to some amount have already been received. Let us hope that they will be supplemented, and that the most sanguine anticipations will fall short:of the real results which, directly and indirectly, shall be achieved. It is well in these days of local degeneracy to cultivate, in connection with even such humble subjects, the cardinal virtue of Faith.