TE AROHA GOLDFIELD.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1606, 19 October 1882, Page 2

TE AROHA GOLDFIELD.

Splendid stone is still being obtained from the No. I Golden Hill. Messrs Madden and Purvis, the prospectors, have been driving on the reef at a few f eetdeeper level ;and they have come across three more leaders running into the main reef, all carrying rich gold. They have shut tip tin's drive for the present, and last week commenced a drive about 40 feet lower with the assistance of two men from the Bonanza Company. They have now got the gold in the lower drive, and as rich, if not richer than above, and the reef is much thicker. The same reef has been found about 50 feet lower than this drive, cropping out in the Bonanza gorge, which makes it about 100 feet in all from the surface. It is supposed to run through the bonanza ground and into No. 3, were some very nice stone has already been picked up, with gold showing through it. This is not the same leader which the old prospectois were working about eighteen months' ago it is supposed, but it is expected that their leader will run into this one. Their is every indication of this turning out a very rich reef, for the country in which it is imbeded is a sandstone, as was the richest deposits at the Thames.— (A Correspondent, yesterday.) !Soipe specimens from the Golden Hill claim can be seen at this office.