The Tairua Goldfield.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1627, 4 May 1875, Page 3

The Tairua Goldfield.

(PER STAR CARRIER PIGEON.)

[FROM THE " ADVERTISER " REPORTER.] Monday.

The weather still continues unsettled, and the dense bush all over the country debars prospecting to advantage. The consequence is that many will leave shortly until spring sets in, when prospecting will be resumed with vigour. All appear satisfied at the indications that can be found here, and are willing to give it a fair trial as soon as the weather will allow them to go out prospecting. Many rumours are current as to the discoveries of gold, but as there is so much reticence amongst those who are said to have made the discoveries, I refrain from disclosing their names or the localities until such time as I can substantiate them by actual observation. The manager of the Prospectors Claim, or that henceforth to be known as the Tairua G.M. Co., is about to send 2 tons of No. 1 reef down to the Thames. This will be a fair test of the lode at a depth of from 10 to 15 feet; and judging from what I saw on Thursday and Friday last, it will prove exceedingly rich. It will be a rather expensive crushing, inasmuch as the cost of delivering

it at Grahamstown will be £8 per ton. The 2 tone are expected to produce about lOOozs of gold. In ScaDlan's claim, eight men's ground, situated on the S.E. peg of the prospectors', a very nice leader, about 6 inches" wide has been uncovered in the drive recently started, and the prospects that can be washed from the casing and the pounded stone are very encouraging indeed, —in some cases as much as three or four grains of gold to the dish. Pegging off still continues at Cornes's rush, a little way south of the track, about midway between here and the Puriri, and late last night Nolan and party took up the ground N.E. of Cornes's.

Newdick and Goldsworthy are S.W. of the Cornes's, and in their ground a large reef can be traced through its entirety. The men took down on Saturday twelve pounds of stone from the cap of it, which yielded 18 grains of gold.