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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 6, 15 December 1869, Page 5

The Wellington quartz has tunic! out auriferous after all. The following letter in reference to it has been received from Auckland “I have had, in accordance with my promise, the three samples of puartz from Makara tested by Mr Spencer, analytical chemist, Grahamstown. 1 was informed by parties conversant with such matters that to have the samples crushed at any battery would be no test at all, as sufficient care is not taken to remove all remains of previous ernshings, and that there is always some gold remaining. 1 can vouch for the care and skill used in this case. Mr Spencer informs me that gold is found in oacli sample, hut not in payable quantities. The following is the result of the analysis Upper drive, Idwt 4grs per ton; lower drive, 2dwts Bgrs per ton ; lower shaft, 3dwt 13grs. per ton. The following i(->m of gold news is also from Wellington A,, nng the many parties burrowing for gold at Terawiti we learn to-day, on what we believe to be indisputable authority, that gold in quartz has been struck by the Berkshire claimholders, at a depth of seventy foot. ’ Specimens have been brought up to town containing gold, and the proprietors of the claim are sanguine as to the auriferous character o! the rdef on whioh they have struck.