ALLUVIAL GOLD.
FIND NEAR OXFORD.
'SATISFACTORY TESTS REPORTED,
HAMILTON, July 4
It was currently reported here yesterday an important find of alluvial gold had been made between Tirau and Putaruru. Trial samples have been tested, and the results, it is stated, are mostly satisfactory.
The distance between Tirau (forineriy known as Oxford) and Putaruru station by the railway line is six miles. The country is comparatively level, and is in many parts of a gravelly nature. Several streams run through this district draining into the ,Waitoa River, which eventually joins the Waihou, and it is no douot in or near the beds of these creeks that the find "vvas made. The auriferous mountain line, of which Te Aroha Mountain is a portion, runs parallel to the railway line about fourteen miles distant. Putaruru station, where the line to Lichfield branches off, is 140 miles south of Auckland.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 158, 6 July 1899, Page 7
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