THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOLDFIELDS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2237, 9 November 1886, Page 2

THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOLDFIELDS.

From the draff Reinet Advertiser of Sept. 23, we clip the following e\tiaut regarding the new written by a former rfident of Reinet : — '• Kny>na Uoldfield, Sept. 14, l,ssr».— l promised to drop you a few lines from the goldht'ld-, a promise I find \ery haul to fulfil. IluMMinH been heie a month and cannot helps iy m ~ my fir-t imprt mi-ms of them aie be,i. o ' stieiuthenej tveiydav. Tl)e nllmial diggings ha\e been almost iibandoned in the. exciting quest after payable ruef-*, as they .11 c considered more \alu.ible ; and the quest in many case.-, has been most A yoiintr fellow, named Berry, and myself ha\e found and opened a splendid looking reef. The quai Uw c have crushed ga\ c .iit'sult rf -4,./ ounce*) to the ton, 11-is vas from the ont-ide. It promises to hecMne much richer the deeper it is worked. W e have named the leef " The Port Elizabeth, " Twenty-thtee sfold-beai ing reefs ha\e be^n found, some of which have been j>ro\ed very rich. In another year I )^lie\e the-e helds w ill pro\e themselves the richest in South Afuca. I know of another reef which is K ( 'ld-boaiin^, an( j [ believe will be wiv nch. When 1 I^l-ter it I -hall call it " The Graatf-Reinet Reef/ r Xho Ij. 1. Independent •uya :— We are informed that the iepiesentati\e of .1 Kimboiley Syndicate just misled by a t-troke of what he will no d<»ubt consider bad luck one of the bigt?e>t things on the gold Heidi. A reer, which is said to be one of the 1 idlest m the Trans\aal, was opened up under his direction, but subsequently abandoned as non-payable. The reef was afteiwaids pros[>ectod by another party, and found to bo \eiy \aluable, the lucky s^c >nd prospector leeemng i.'2"),t»OQ froJn a Company for hi^ shaie. A lettei fioin C'hu^tiana (on the mad between Ki.nbeiley and Pietoria) in a Pretoria paper .->a>> — " It the mfiiu continueat this rate, befme twelve months ha\e eKpsed the. p ipul.iti->n of this kepubl'd will bo tiiplt-d, and I am informed this does not iepie-ent one tenth of the number who aiiuc by other ingre— e-<."

Thk London Times remarks :— The cliniite of New Zealand is almost notorious for its salubiity Its avei^gc death late, about 10 per \ OOO, is pioLubly the lowest in the world, while its average birth-rate, about 3S per 1000, indicates that the colony must soou be independent of immigration ; there is one town, indeed, sud to bi- so extravagantly healthy that when a man wants to die ho has to move elsew here,